PostgreSQL Jobs in the West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for PostgreSQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PostgreSQL over the 3 months to 26 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

PostgreSQL (Postgres) England / West Midlands
Location	3 months to 26 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	204	181	179
Rank change year-on-year	-23	-2
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL	27	64	45
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands	0.52%	1.05%	0.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category	1.71%	4.01%	2.51%
Number of salaries quoted	22	37	44
Median salary	£48,500	£57,500	£47,500
Median salary % change year-on-year	-15.65%	+21.05%
90% offered a salary of more than	£40,000	£29,900	£27,000
10% offered a salary of more than	£50,000	£60,000	£59,250
UK excluding London median salary	£45,000	£45,000	£42,500
% change year-on-year	-	+5.88%

PostgreSQL is in the database and business intelligence skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for database and business intelligence skills.

Database & Business Intelligence Skills West Midlands
Permanent job vacancies with a requirement for database and business intelligence skills	1579	1595	1790
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands	30.46%	26.19%	31.11%
Number of salaries quoted	1385	1319	1560
Median salary	£41,500	£40,000	£39,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	+3.75%	+2.56%
90% offered a salary of more than	£30,000	£27,500	£25,000
10% offered a salary of more than	£55,000	£54,000	£60,000
UK excluding London median salary	£42,500	£42,500	£41,500
% change year-on-year	-	+2.40%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in the West Midlands citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all permanent or contract IT jobs with a match in the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in the West Midlands

PostgreSQL
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing PostgreSQL in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for PostgreSQL in the West Midlands

PostgreSQL
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing PostgreSQL in the West Midlands over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Salary histogram for PostgreSQL in the West Midlands

PostgreSQL
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 26 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Median Salary Last 3 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
Warwickshire	-25	11	£50,000	-16.66%	1
Shropshire	+12	5	£45,000	-	1
Worcestershire	+2	4	£40,000	+26.98%
Coventry	-2	4	£40,000	+45.45%	4
Staffordshire	+13	1	£40,000	-11.11%	2
PostgreSQL England

PostgreSQL
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 26 June 2017, IT jobs citing PostgreSQL also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads across the West Midlands region with a requirement for PostgreSQL.

1	46 (74.19%)	MySQL
2	39 (62.90%)	Agile Software Development
3	37 (59.68%)	Java
4	34 (54.84%)	Scrum
5	33 (53.23%)	TDD
6	32 (51.61%)	SQL
7	25 (40.32%)	Continuous Integration
8	24 (38.71%)	Microservices
8	24 (38.71%)	Spring
8	24 (38.71%)	Oracle
9	23 (37.10%)	JUnit
9	23 (37.10%)	JavaScript
9	23 (37.10%)	Software Engineering
9	23 (37.10%)	Hibernate
9	23 (37.10%)	RESTful

10	22 (35.48%)	JMS
11	21 (33.87%)	Ruby
12	20 (32.26%)	SOA
12	20 (32.26%)	Unit Testing
12	20 (32.26%)	Jenkins
13	19 (30.65%)	Linux
13	19 (30.65%)	JBoss
13	19 (30.65%)	Continuous Delivery
14	18 (29.03%)	Java EE
15	17 (27.42%)	GlassFish
15	17 (27.42%)	JBehave
15	17 (27.42%)	Dependency Injection
15	17 (27.42%)	Functional Testing
15	17 (27.42%)	Oracle SOA Suite
15	17 (27.42%)	JAX-RS

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring IT Skills in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	19 (30.65%)	JBoss
2	17 (27.42%)	GlassFish
2	17 (27.42%)	Oracle SOA Suite
2	17 (27.42%)	WildFly
3	7 (11.29%)	Tomcat
4	5 (8.06%)	SharePoint
5	4 (6.45%)	Apache
6	3 (4.84%)	Apache Spark
7	1 (1.61%)	Liferay
7	1 (1.61%)	MS Exchange
7	1 (1.61%)	nginx
7	1 (1.61%)	WebLogic

Applications
1	1 (1.61%)	Microsoft Excel

Cloud Services
1	8 (12.90%)	Amazon AWS
2	6 (9.68%)	Heroku
3	5 (8.06%)	AWS Elastic Beanstalk
3	5 (8.06%)	Google Cloud Platform
3	5 (8.06%)	Google Compute Engine
4	2 (3.23%)	GitHub
5	1 (1.61%)	Amazon EC2

Communications & Networking
1	3 (4.84%)	FTP
1	3 (4.84%)	Network Security
1	3 (4.84%)	SSH
2	1 (1.61%)	DHCP
2	1 (1.61%)	DNS
2	1 (1.61%)	Internet
2	1 (1.61%)	Intranet
2	1 (1.61%)	LAN
2	1 (1.61%)	TCP/IP
2	1 (1.61%)	VPN
2	1 (1.61%)	WAN
2	1 (1.61%)	Wi-Fi

Database & Business Intelligence
1	46 (74.19%)	MySQL
2	17 (27.42%)	MongoDB
3	10 (16.13%)	Relational Database
3	10 (16.13%)	SQL Server
4	8 (12.90%)	Big Data
4	8 (12.90%)	NoSQL
5	7 (11.29%)	RDBMS
6	6 (9.68%)	Apache Cassandra
6	6 (9.68%)	DB2
6	6 (9.68%)	Hadoop
6	6 (9.68%)	Redis
7	4 (6.45%)	Amazon DynamoDB
8	3 (4.84%)	Data Warehouse
8	3 (4.84%)	Pentaho
9	2 (3.23%)	BusinessObjects
9	2 (3.23%)	Crystal Reports
9	2 (3.23%)	Data Mining
9	2 (3.23%)	Enterprise Data Warehouse
10	1 (1.61%)	SQL Server Integration Services

Development Applications
1	23 (37.10%)	JUnit
2	20 (32.26%)	Jenkins
3	17 (27.42%)	Hudson
3	17 (27.42%)	JBehave
4	16 (25.81%)	Selenium
5	15 (24.19%)	Cucumber
6	14 (22.58%)	RSpec
6	14 (22.58%)	WATIR
7	6 (9.68%)	Maven
8	5 (8.06%)	DbUnit
8	5 (8.06%)	jMock
8	5 (8.06%)	Mockito
9	3 (4.84%)	Git (software)
9	3 (4.84%)	Grunt
9	3 (4.84%)	gulp
10	2 (3.23%)	Team Foundation Server
11	1 (1.61%)	Firebug
11	1 (1.61%)	Moq
11	1 (1.61%)	ReSharper
11	1 (1.61%)	SonarQube

General
1	14 (22.58%)	Billing
2	5 (8.06%)	Publishing
3	2 (3.23%)	Back Office
3	2 (3.23%)	Games
4	1 (1.61%)	Advertising
4	1 (1.61%)	Finance
4	1 (1.61%)	Manufacturing

Job Titles
1	30 (48.39%)	Developer
2	15 (24.19%)	Java Engineer
2	15 (24.19%)	Senior Java Engineer
3	12 (19.35%)	Senior Developer
4	8 (12.90%)	Java Developer
5	7 (11.29%)	JavaScript Developer
5	7 (11.29%)	PHP Developer
6	6 (9.68%)	.NET Developer
6	6 (9.68%)	Agile Developer
6	6 (9.68%)	Senior Software Engineer
6	6 (9.68%)	Software Engineer
7	5 (8.06%)	Full Stack Developer
7	5 (8.06%)	Ruby on Rails Developer
7	5 (8.06%)	Software Developer
7	5 (8.06%)	SQL Developer
8	4 (6.45%)	Agile .NET Developer
8	4 (6.45%)	Architect
8	4 (6.45%)	Cloud Developer
8	4 (6.45%)	Java Architect
8	4 (6.45%)	Java Software Architect

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	24 (38.71%)	Spring
2	23 (37.10%)	Hibernate
2	23 (37.10%)	RESTful
3	22 (35.48%)	JMS
4	18 (29.03%)	Java EE
5	17 (27.42%)	HornetQ
5	17 (27.42%)	JAX-RS
5	17 (27.42%)	RESTEasy
6	16 (25.81%)	HTML
7	11 (17.74%)	CSS
8	10 (16.13%)	Node.js
9	9 (14.52%)	XML
10	8 (12.90%)	.NET
10	8 (12.90%)	Sass
11	6 (9.68%)	ASP.NET
11	6 (9.68%)	ASP.NET MVC
11	6 (9.68%)	JPA
11	6 (9.68%)	jQuery
11	6 (9.68%)	React
12	5 (8.06%)	J2EE

Miscellaneous
1	5 (8.06%)	Enterprise Software
1	5 (8.06%)	Linux Command Line
1	5 (8.06%)	Replication
2	4 (6.45%)	User Experience
3	3 (4.84%)	Algorithms
3	3 (4.84%)	Computer Science
3	3 (4.84%)	Mobile App
4	2 (3.23%)	Data Structures
5	1 (1.61%)	Analytical Skills
5	1 (1.61%)	Client/Server
5	1 (1.61%)	Management Information System

Operating Systems
1	19 (30.65%)	Linux
2	5 (8.06%)	Ubuntu
2	5 (8.06%)	Unix
3	4 (6.45%)	CentOS
4	3 (4.84%)	Android
4	3 (4.84%)	Apple iOS
5	1 (1.61%)	Debian
5	1 (1.61%)	Fedora
5	1 (1.61%)	openSUSE
5	1 (1.61%)	Windows
5	1 (1.61%)	Windows 10
5	1 (1.61%)	Windows 7
5	1 (1.61%)	Windows Server

Processes & Methodologies
1	39 (62.90%)	Agile Software Development
2	34 (54.84%)	Scrum
3	33 (53.23%)	TDD
4	25 (40.32%)	Continuous Integration
5	24 (38.71%)	Microservices
6	23 (37.10%)	Software Engineering
7	20 (32.26%)	SOA
7	20 (32.26%)	Unit Testing
8	19 (30.65%)	Continuous Delivery
9	17 (27.42%)	Dependency Injection
9	17 (27.42%)	DSDM
9	17 (27.42%)	Functional Testing
9	17 (27.42%)	Software Delivery
10	14 (22.58%)	Single Customer View
10	14 (22.58%)	Workflow
11	13 (20.97%)	Analytics
12	10 (16.13%)	Kanban
13	8 (12.90%)	Front End Development
14	6 (9.68%)	MVC
14	6 (9.68%)	Web Development

Programming Languages
1	37 (59.68%)	Java
2	32 (51.61%)	SQL
3	23 (37.10%)	JavaScript
4	21 (33.87%)	Ruby
5	11 (17.74%)	PHP
6	9 (14.52%)	C#
7	6 (9.68%)	Python
8	4 (6.45%)	Scala
9	3 (4.84%)	Shell Script
10	1 (1.61%)	ANSI SQL
10	1 (1.61%)	Bash Shell
10	1 (1.61%)	VBA

Qualifications
1	6 (9.68%)	Degree
2	3 (4.84%)	RHCE
3	2 (3.23%)	Computer Science Degree
3	2 (3.23%)	SC Cleared
3	2 (3.23%)	Security Cleared
3	2 (3.23%)	Sun Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	2 (3.23%)	Data Quality

System Software
1	9 (14.52%)	Docker
2	5 (8.06%)	Microsoft App-V
3	3 (4.84%)	iptables
3	3 (4.84%)	Postfix
4	1 (1.61%)	Active Directory
4	1 (1.61%)	VMware Infrastructure
4	1 (1.61%)	vSphere

Systems Management
1	3 (4.84%)	Nagios
1	3 (4.84%)	Puppet
1	3 (4.84%)	Red Hat Spacewalk
1	3 (4.84%)	SELinux

Vendors
1	24 (38.71%)	Oracle
2	6 (9.68%)	Microsoft
3	5 (8.06%)	Google
4	3 (4.84%)	Red Hat
5	2 (3.23%)	Cognos
5	2 (3.23%)	Salesforce.com
5	2 (3.23%)	Sun
6	1 (1.61%)	Greenplum
6	1 (1.61%)	VMware