PostgreSQL Job Trends in the West Midlands

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 168 166
Rank change year-on-year +30 -2 +38
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 30 44 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.94% 0.78% 0.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.68% 7.10% 3.30%
Number of salaries quoted 17 25 22
10th Percentile £47,550 £46,750 £45,125
25th Percentile £67,500 £52,500 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,500 £61,875
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,636 £69,095
England median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% - -3.45%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
West Midlands

PostgreSQL falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 449 620 698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.04% 11.01% 19.62%
Number of salaries quoted 317 351 622
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,254 £40,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -1.86%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,450 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,978 £77,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PostgreSQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

PostgreSQL
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing PostgreSQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

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 6 months to 15 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham +23 20 £72,500 +20.83% 4
Solihull - 8 £75,000 -
Warwickshire +52 1 - - 2
Coventry - 1 £70,000 - 4
PostgreSQL
England

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 12 (40.00%) Confluence
2 8 (26.67%) nginx
3 1 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.33%) CMS
3 1 (3.33%) Headless CMS
3 1 (3.33%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (26.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 28 (93.33%) AWS
2 18 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
3 16 (53.33%) Amazon S3
4 14 (46.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 14 (46.67%) AWS KMS
4 14 (46.67%) Route 53
5 13 (43.33%) Amazon ECS
5 13 (43.33%) Azure
6 8 (26.67%) Amazon ELB
6 8 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (26.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 7 (23.33%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (20.00%) GCP
9 5 (16.67%) SaaS
9 5 (16.67%) Serverless
10 3 (10.00%) GitHub
11 2 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (3.33%) Figma
12 1 (3.33%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 8 (26.67%) DNS
1 8 (26.67%) Firewall
1 8 (26.67%) FTP
1 8 (26.67%) HTTP
1 8 (26.67%) IMAP
1 8 (26.67%) OpenLDAP
1 8 (26.67%) SMTP
1 8 (26.67%) SSH
2 1 (3.33%) PuTTY
2 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (56.67%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (53.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (23.33%) DynamoDB
4 6 (20.00%) Relational Database
5 5 (16.67%) MySQL
6 3 (10.00%) NoSQL
7 2 (6.67%) MongoDB
7 2 (6.67%) RDBMS
7 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
8 1 (3.33%) Apache Hive
8 1 (3.33%) BigQuery
8 1 (3.33%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (3.33%) Hadoop
8 1 (3.33%) Impala
8 1 (3.33%) Neo4j
8 1 (3.33%) QlikView
8 1 (3.33%) SQLite
8 1 (3.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (63.33%) Jenkins
2 18 (60.00%) Git
3 13 (43.33%) JIRA
4 10 (33.33%) JUnit
4 10 (33.33%) Mockito
5 8 (26.67%) Maven
5 8 (26.67%) Vagrant
6 7 (23.33%) SonarQube
7 6 (20.00%) Bitbucket Server
7 6 (20.00%) DbUnit
7 6 (20.00%) jMock
8 2 (6.67%) JMeter
9 1 (3.33%) Storybook
General
1 18 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 13 (43.33%) Social Skills
3 8 (26.67%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Finance
5 2 (6.67%) Retail
6 1 (3.33%) Banking
6 1 (3.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (50.00%) Developer
2 12 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 9 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (23.33%) Lead
4 7 (23.33%) Lead Developer
4 7 (23.33%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
5 6 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 6 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (20.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 6 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 6 (20.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 6 (20.00%) Lead Java Developer
6 4 (13.33%) Senior
7 3 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (6.67%) AWS Developer
8 2 (6.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (6.67%) Python Developer
8 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 2 (6.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (40.00%) Spring
2 11 (36.67%) Spring Boot
3 10 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
4 9 (30.00%) Hibernate
4 9 (30.00%) Web Services
5 8 (26.67%) AngularJS
5 8 (26.67%) LDAP
5 8 (26.67%) RESTful
5 8 (26.67%) SOAP
6 7 (23.33%) Bootstrap
6 7 (23.33%) JPA
6 7 (23.33%) REST
7 6 (20.00%) HTML
7 6 (20.00%) PowerMock
7 6 (20.00%) Spring Batch
7 6 (20.00%) Spring Integration
8 5 (16.67%) React
9 3 (10.00%) CSS
9 3 (10.00%) JSON
9 3 (10.00%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Replication
2 5 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (13.33%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (6.67%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.33%) Derivative
5 1 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (3.33%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (3.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 16 (53.33%) Linux
2 8 (26.67%) Amazon Linux
2 8 (26.67%) Ubuntu
2 8 (26.67%) VMS
2 8 (26.67%) Windows
3 2 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 17 (56.67%) DevOps
3 13 (43.33%) Agile
3 13 (43.33%) Microservices
4 10 (33.33%) BDD
4 10 (33.33%) TDD
5 9 (30.00%) Containerisation
6 8 (26.67%) Change Management
6 8 (26.67%) Cloud Security
6 8 (26.67%) Configuration Management
6 8 (26.67%) Patch Management
6 8 (26.67%) Performance Tuning
6 8 (26.67%) Scrum
7 7 (23.33%) Open Source
7 7 (23.33%) Platform Engineering
8 6 (20.00%) Clean Code
8 6 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (20.00%) Kanban
8 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (16.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 15 (50.00%) Python
2 14 (46.67%) Java
2 14 (46.67%) SQL
3 8 (26.67%) Groovy
3 8 (26.67%) PowerShell
4 4 (13.33%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.67%) Go
5 2 (6.67%) Shell Script
5 2 (6.67%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.33%) Bash
6 1 (3.33%) C#
6 1 (3.33%) PHP
6 1 (3.33%) PROC SQL
6 1 (3.33%) R
Qualifications
1 18 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 18 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (30.00%) AWS Certification
2 9 (30.00%) Azure Certification
2 9 (30.00%) Degree
3 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 22 (73.33%) Docker
2 10 (33.33%) Postfix
3 8 (26.67%) DFS Replication
3 8 (26.67%) Dovecot
3 8 (26.67%) Squid
4 1 (3.33%) Apache Flume
4 1 (3.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 12 (40.00%) Terraform
2 11 (36.67%) Grafana
2 11 (36.67%) Prometheus
3 8 (26.67%) Nessus
3 8 (26.67%) Proxmox
4 5 (16.67%) Kubernetes
5 3 (10.00%) Kibana
6 1 (3.33%) Ansible
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (3.33%) logstash
6 1 (3.33%) Oozie
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) Jaspersoft
2 8 (26.67%) ServiceNow
3 6 (20.00%) Atlassian
4 3 (10.00%) Google
5 2 (6.67%) Dynatrace
5 2 (6.67%) Splunk
6 1 (3.33%) Databricks
6 1 (3.33%) Informatica
6 1 (3.33%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (3.33%) Oracle
6 1 (3.33%) SAP