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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 154 183
Rank change year-on-year -31 +29 +22
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 12 20 69
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.15% 0.60% 0.98%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.13% 4.61% 5.97%
Number of salaries quoted 12 18 58
10th Percentile £35,750 £50,100 £29,950
25th Percentile £36,125 £61,845 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £65,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -28.85% +26.83% -6.82%
75th Percentile £70,309 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,999 £73,385 £75,250
England median annual salary £69,310 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -13.33%

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 563 434 1,156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.15% 13.00% 16.37%
Number of salaries quoted 393 315 968
10th Percentile £32,700 £39,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,125 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,300 £79,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.61% +11.74% -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 18 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 18 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
Coventry -16 5 £67,500 - 1
Birmingham -14 3 £47,500 -29.63% 7
Worcestershire -27 3 £36,500 -43.85% 1
Staffordshire - 1 £37,500 -
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 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) Azure
3 3 (25.00%) GitHub
3 3 (25.00%) Serverless
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (16.67%) OpenShift
5 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (8.33%) dbt
5 1 (8.33%) Firebase
5 1 (8.33%) GCP
5 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (8.33%) SaaS
5 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Redis
1 3 (25.00%) Relational Database
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (25.00%) TimescaleDB
2 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (8.33%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (8.33%) InfluxDB
2 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (8.33%) MySQL
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) RDBMS
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Git
2 4 (33.33%) GitLab
3 2 (16.67%) Cucumber
3 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (16.67%) JIRA
3 2 (16.67%) JUnit
3 2 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Junior
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) DBA
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Junior Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Junior Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Junior Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) React
2 5 (41.67%) Node.js
2 5 (41.67%) Spring
2 5 (41.67%) Spring Boot
3 3 (25.00%) GraphQL
3 3 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 3 (25.00%) JPA
4 2 (16.67%) Django
4 2 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (16.67%) Flask
4 2 (16.67%) pytest
4 2 (16.67%) REST
5 1 (8.33%) CSS
5 1 (8.33%) HTML
5 1 (8.33%) Laravel
5 1 (8.33%) Next.js
5 1 (8.33%) React Native
5 1 (8.33%) RESTful
5 1 (8.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (50.00%) DevOps
2 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (41.67%) Agile
3 5 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (41.67%) Microservices
4 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) API Design
5 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (25.00%) Software Architecture
5 3 (25.00%) User Experience
6 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
6 2 (16.67%) ETL
6 2 (16.67%) Secure Coding
6 2 (16.67%) TDD
6 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Java
2 5 (41.67%) Python
3 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 3 (25.00%) C
4 3 (25.00%) C++
4 3 (25.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (16.67%) Delphi
5 2 (16.67%) SQL
6 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (8.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) ISO 22301
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (25.00%) Nagios
2 3 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (16.67%) Grafana
4 1 (8.33%) Argo
4 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft