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 7 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 138 193
Rank change year-on-year -38 +55 -3
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 16 32 65
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.20% 0.99% 0.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.78% 6.56% 5.78%
Number of salaries quoted 15 23 48
10th Percentile £43,500 £51,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £62,440 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +22.73% +6.80%
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,148 £77,000 £71,991
England median annual salary £69,310 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -7.14%

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 576 488 1,125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.28% 15.08% 13.52%
Number of salaries quoted 440 346 894
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +3.96%
75th Percentile £68,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 7 July 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 7 July 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 -30 8 £75,000 +10.90% 5
Worcestershire -19 3 £85,000 +30.77% 2
Coventry -16 2 £80,000 - 2
Herefordshire - 2 £85,000 -
Warwickshire - 2 £53,750 - 1
Shropshire - 1 £50,000 - 8
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 1 (6.25%) Documentum
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) AWS
2 8 (50.00%) Azure
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon S3
3 3 (18.75%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon MSK
4 2 (12.50%) Serverless
4 2 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (6.25%) Azure AKS
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (6.25%) dbt
5 1 (6.25%) PaaS
5 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) MySQL
2 4 (25.00%) MongoDB
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (18.75%) NoSQL
3 3 (18.75%) Redis
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
4 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 2 (12.50%) TimescaleDB
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
5 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
General
1 5 (31.25%) Public Sector
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Senior
2 5 (31.25%) Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Lead
4 3 (18.75%) Lead Software Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Software Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Data Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Elasticsearch Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Kafka Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Python Data Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Python Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Database Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Node.js Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) Node.js
2 6 (37.50%) REST
2 6 (37.50%) RESTful
3 4 (25.00%) React
4 2 (12.50%) GraphQL
4 2 (12.50%) Kafka
4 2 (12.50%) Keycloak
5 1 (6.25%) Express.js
5 1 (6.25%) Fastify
5 1 (6.25%) Hibernate
5 1 (6.25%) JPA
5 1 (6.25%) Spring
5 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 2 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Unix
2 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Agile
1 8 (50.00%) Microservices
2 6 (37.50%) DevOps
3 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
3 5 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (31.25%) ETL
4 4 (25.00%) Analytics
4 4 (25.00%) Coaching
4 4 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (18.75%) Data Modelling
5 3 (18.75%) Open Source
5 3 (18.75%) TDD
5 3 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
6 2 (12.50%) Software Architecture
6 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Java
2 7 (43.75%) SQL
3 6 (37.50%) Python
4 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
6 2 (12.50%) C
6 2 (12.50%) C++
6 2 (12.50%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) ISO 22301
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) Nagios
2 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.25%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) Argo
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Dynatrace
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) OpenText