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 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 154 171
Rank change year-on-year -23 +17 +35
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 16 24 69
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.22% 0.72% 1.02%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.93% 5.49% 6.06%
Number of salaries quoted 15 22 58
10th Percentile £26,250 £52,325 £29,950
25th Percentile £35,750 £61,845 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £65,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +26.83% -9.26%
75th Percentile £73,770 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,516 £73,892 £75,250
England median annual salary £70,250 £75,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year -6.33% +14.57% -12.71%

All Database & 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 546 437 1,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.53% 13.02% 16.76%
Number of salaries quoted 381 306 957
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,563 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,500 £76,875 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

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 4 April 2026.

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 4 April 2026. 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 -3 6 £37,500 -44.44% 3
Coventry -13 5 £67,500 -
Worcestershire -25 3 £36,500 -43.85% 1
Staffordshire - 1 £37,500 -
Warwickshire - 1 - -
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:

Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) AWS
2 7 (43.75%) Azure
3 4 (25.00%) GCP
4 3 (18.75%) dbt
4 3 (18.75%) Firebase
4 3 (18.75%) GitHub
4 3 (18.75%) SaaS
4 3 (18.75%) Serverless
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (12.50%) OpenShift
5 2 (12.50%) Pulumi
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (6.25%) PaaS
6 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
6 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) Relational Database
2 5 (31.25%) Redis
3 4 (25.00%) MySQL
4 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
4 3 (18.75%) TimescaleDB
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (6.25%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (6.25%) InfluxDB
6 1 (6.25%) Power BI
6 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
6 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (56.25%) Git
2 4 (25.00%) JIRA
3 3 (18.75%) GitLab
3 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
3 3 (18.75%) JUnit
4 2 (12.50%) Cucumber
4 2 (12.50%) Selenium
5 1 (6.25%) Mockito
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Junior
2 4 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Junior Software Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Backend Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) DBA
4 1 (6.25%) Junior Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Junior Java Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Site Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (56.25%) React
2 6 (37.50%) Node.js
2 6 (37.50%) Spring
2 6 (37.50%) Spring Boot
3 4 (25.00%) Django
4 3 (18.75%) CSS
4 3 (18.75%) GraphQL
4 3 (18.75%) Hibernate
4 3 (18.75%) HTML
4 3 (18.75%) JPA
4 3 (18.75%) Laravel
4 3 (18.75%) Next.js
4 3 (18.75%) React Native
4 3 (18.75%) Vue
5 2 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (12.50%) Flask
5 2 (12.50%) pytest
5 2 (12.50%) REST
5 2 (12.50%) RESTful
6 1 (6.25%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Mobile App
2 2 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
1 2 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Full-Stack Development
1 9 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (50.00%) DevOps
3 6 (37.50%) Software Engineering
4 5 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (31.25%) Microservices
5 4 (25.00%) Agile
5 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (18.75%) API Design
6 3 (18.75%) Computer Science
6 3 (18.75%) E-Commerce
6 3 (18.75%) Mobile Application Development
6 3 (18.75%) Software Architecture
6 3 (18.75%) User Experience
7 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
7 2 (12.50%) Observability
7 2 (12.50%) Secure Coding
7 2 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) Java
2 7 (43.75%) Python
3 6 (37.50%) JavaScript
4 3 (18.75%) C
4 3 (18.75%) C++
4 3 (18.75%) PHP
4 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
5 2 (12.50%) Delphi
5 2 (12.50%) SQL
6 1 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
1 1 (6.25%) ISO 22301
1 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
2 3 (18.75%) Nagios
2 3 (18.75%) Prometheus
3 2 (12.50%) Grafana
3 2 (12.50%) Terraform
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle
2 2 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft