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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 142 185
Rank change year-on-year -38 +43 -7
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 22 36 40
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.26% 1.04% 0.62%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.03% 7.38% 5.74%
Number of salaries quoted 20 23 27
10th Percentile £44,500 £51,750 £48,250
25th Percentile £55,313 £64,315 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,887 £70,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +16.98% +6.93% +19.03%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £88,148 £79,500 £84,964
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £65,233
% change year-on-year -6.67% +14.97% -6.81%

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 546 488 697
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.39% 14.16% 10.83%
Number of salaries quoted 415 351 526
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £43,497 £45,199 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £54,825
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.88% +4.43%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £79,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -0.83% -3.20% -3.85%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -44 9 £75,000 +7.14% 8
Worcestershire -14 8 £85,000 +51.11% 3
Herefordshire - 7 £85,000 -
Warwickshire - 2 £53,750 -
Coventry -19 1 £80,000 - 1
Shropshire - 1 £50,000 - 3
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 (4.55%) Documentum
Cloud Services
1 14 (63.64%) Azure
2 12 (54.55%) AWS
3 8 (36.36%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon S3
4 3 (13.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (4.55%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (4.55%) dbt
6 1 (4.55%) PaaS
6 1 (4.55%) Serverless
6 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) MySQL
2 7 (31.82%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (18.18%) MongoDB
4 3 (13.64%) NoSQL
4 3 (13.64%) Relational Database
4 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (9.09%) Redis
6 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
6 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (4.55%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) GitLab
General
1 6 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Senior
2 9 (40.91%) Data Engineer
2 9 (40.91%) Senior Data Engineer
3 7 (31.82%) Azure Data Engineer
3 7 (31.82%) Azure Engineer
3 7 (31.82%) Elasticsearch Engineer
3 7 (31.82%) Kafka Engineer
3 7 (31.82%) Python Data Engineer
3 7 (31.82%) Python Engineer
4 5 (22.73%) Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Lead
5 3 (13.64%) Lead Software Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Software Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) CloudOps Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Operations Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Django Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) Kafka
1 7 (31.82%) Keycloak
1 7 (31.82%) Node.js
1 7 (31.82%) RESTful
2 6 (27.27%) REST
3 3 (13.64%) React
4 1 (4.55%) .NET
4 1 (4.55%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.55%) ASP.NET
4 1 (4.55%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (4.55%) CSS
4 1 (4.55%) CSS3
4 1 (4.55%) Django
4 1 (4.55%) Express.js
4 1 (4.55%) GraphQL
4 1 (4.55%) HTML
4 1 (4.55%) HTML5
4 1 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (4.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (18.18%) Cloud Native
3 2 (9.09%) Data Structures
3 2 (9.09%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.55%) Client/Server
4 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.55%) IoT
4 1 (4.55%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Unix
2 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Analytics
1 10 (45.45%) DevOps
1 10 (45.45%) ETL
2 8 (36.36%) Agile
2 8 (36.36%) Workflow
3 7 (31.82%) Data Pipeline
3 7 (31.82%) Data Security
3 7 (31.82%) Decision-Making
3 7 (31.82%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 7 (31.82%) ETL Development
3 7 (31.82%) Microservices
4 5 (22.73%) CI/CD
4 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (22.73%) Software Engineering
5 4 (18.18%) Coaching
5 4 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (18.18%) Data Modelling
5 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (18.18%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) Python
2 8 (36.36%) Java
2 8 (36.36%) SQL
3 7 (31.82%) Go
4 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.55%) C
6 1 (4.55%) C++
Qualifications
1 10 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 8 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 7 (31.82%) Azure Certification
3 7 (31.82%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
2 1 (4.55%) ISO 22301
2 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 5 (22.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Terraform
2 4 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.55%) Ansible
3 1 (4.55%) Argo
3 1 (4.55%) Nagios
3 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.55%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.55%) OpenText