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

6 months to
20 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 130 167
Rank change year-on-year -57 +37 -8
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 32 32 45
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.35% 1.00% 0.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.25% 7.14% 7.40%
Number of salaries quoted 24 19 26
10th Percentile £47,250 £38,250 £46,875
25th Percentile £68,438 £66,875 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% +11.54% +18.18%
75th Percentile - £78,145 £69,125
90th Percentile £87,204 £80,000 £79,554
England median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% +14.29% -

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.

6 months to
20 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 609 448 608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.72% 14.06% 11.13%
Number of salaries quoted 438 316 339
10th Percentile £38,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,188 £44,750 £41,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,075
90th Percentile £86,625 £76,023 £77,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% 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 20 October 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 20 October 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
Worcestershire - 14 £85,000 - 3
Herefordshire - 13 £85,000 - 1
Birmingham -55 10 £79,387 +9.50% 14
Warwickshire -13 5 £53,750 - 3
Solihull 0 1 - - 2
Shropshire - 1 £50,000 - 1
PostgreSQL
England

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

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Database & Business Intelligence

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Elasticsearch40.6%13
2MySQL31.3%10
3SQL Server18.8%6
4Amazon RDS12.5%4
4MongoDB12.5%4
4NoSQL12.5%4
4Relational Database12.5%4
8Azure SQL Database9.4%3
9Amazon Athena6.3%2
9Amazon Aurora6.3%2
9Amazon Redshift6.3%2
9Redis6.3%2
13Oracle Database3.1%1
32 PostgreSQL jobs in the West Midlands