PostgreSQL Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 66 55
Rank change year-on-year +18 -11 +16
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 26 2 10
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.55% 0.29% 1.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.25% 1.38% 7.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 1 6
10th Percentile £401 - £250
25th Percentile £468 £575 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £525 £625 £700
90th Percentile £538 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £520 £459
% change year-on-year +0.96% +13.35% -12.62%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Birmingham

PostgreSQL falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 160 145 134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 21.86% 21.04% 18.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 105 100
10th Percentile £344 £368 £299
25th Percentile £450 £425 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -6.86%
75th Percentile £600 £648 £652
90th Percentile £640 £725 £698
West Midlands median daily rate £519 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -1.24% +10.53% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £31.04
West Midlands median hourly rate £36.00 £18.00 £31.04
% change year-on-year +100.00% -42.01% +158.67%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PostgreSQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in Birmingham

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing PostgreSQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in Birmingham over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in Birmingham

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 9 (34.62%) Confluence
1 9 (34.62%) nginx
2 2 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (34.62%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 22 (84.62%) AWS
2 14 (53.85%) AWS KMS
3 13 (50.00%) GCP
4 12 (46.15%) Amazon S3
5 10 (38.46%) Amazon ECS
5 10 (38.46%) Azure
6 9 (34.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (34.62%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (34.62%) Amazon ELB
6 9 (34.62%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (34.62%) Route 53
6 9 (34.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 8 (30.77%) Serverless
8 3 (11.54%) GitHub
9 2 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (42.31%) SSH
2 10 (38.46%) DNS
3 9 (34.62%) Firewall
3 9 (34.62%) FTP
3 9 (34.62%) HTTP
3 9 (34.62%) IMAP
3 9 (34.62%) OpenLDAP
3 9 (34.62%) SMTP
4 2 (7.69%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (38.46%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (38.46%) NoSQL
2 9 (34.62%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (7.69%) Big Data
3 2 (7.69%) Delta Lake
3 2 (7.69%) Hadoop
3 2 (7.69%) Parquet
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (3.85%) MySQL
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 23 (88.46%) Jenkins
2 13 (50.00%) GitLab
3 10 (38.46%) Git
4 9 (34.62%) JIRA
4 9 (34.62%) Vagrant
5 4 (15.38%) Liquibase
6 2 (7.69%) MLflow
6 2 (7.69%) SonarQube
6 2 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (3.85%) Deequ
7 1 (3.85%) Poetry
7 1 (3.85%) PyCharm
7 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 19 (73.08%) Social Skills
2 12 (46.15%) Finance
3 11 (42.31%) Public Sector
4 9 (34.62%) Banking
4 9 (34.62%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (23.08%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.85%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 15 (57.69%) AWS Engineer
2 10 (38.46%) Cloud Engineer
2 10 (38.46%) GCP Engineer
3 9 (34.62%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 9 (34.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 9 (34.62%) Platform Engineer
4 8 (30.77%) AWS DevOps
4 8 (30.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 8 (30.77%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (30.77%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) AWS Software Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Data Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Software Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) GCP Software Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Python Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
7 1 (3.85%) PHP Laravel Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (38.46%) Elastic Stack
1 10 (38.46%) REST
2 9 (34.62%) LDAP
2 9 (34.62%) RESTful
3 2 (7.69%) Apache Avro
3 2 (7.69%) Flask
3 2 (7.69%) NumPy
3 2 (7.69%) Pandas
4 1 (3.85%) CSS
4 1 (3.85%) Laravel
4 1 (3.85%) React
4 1 (3.85%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (3.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (46.15%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (34.62%) Replication
3 8 (30.77%) Public Cloud
4 5 (19.23%) Cloud Native
5 2 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 19 (73.08%) Linux
2 9 (34.62%) Amazon Linux
2 9 (34.62%) Ubuntu
2 9 (34.62%) VMS
2 9 (34.62%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (92.31%) CI/CD
1 24 (92.31%) DevOps
2 15 (57.69%) Containerisation
3 13 (50.00%) Change Management
3 13 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (38.46%) Computer Science
4 10 (38.46%) Root Cause Analysis
5 9 (34.62%) Cloud Security
5 9 (34.62%) Configuration Management
5 9 (34.62%) Patch Management
5 9 (34.62%) Performance Tuning
5 9 (34.62%) Platform Engineering
6 8 (30.77%) Agile
6 8 (30.77%) Cryptography
7 7 (26.92%) Cost Optimisation
8 6 (23.08%) High Availability
8 6 (23.08%) Microservices
8 6 (23.08%) Non-Functional Testing
9 5 (19.23%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (19.23%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 21 (80.77%) Python
2 12 (46.15%) SQL
3 11 (42.31%) Groovy
4 10 (38.46%) Go
5 9 (34.62%) PowerShell
6 2 (7.69%) Bash
7 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.85%) PHP
7 1 (3.85%) Scala
7 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (73.08%) Degree
2 10 (38.46%) AWS Certification
2 10 (38.46%) Computer Science Degree
2 10 (38.46%) Security Cleared
3 9 (34.62%) Azure Certification
3 9 (34.62%) Master's Degree
3 9 (34.62%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
System Software
1 18 (69.23%) Docker
2 9 (34.62%) DFS Replication
2 9 (34.62%) Dovecot
2 9 (34.62%) Postfix
2 9 (34.62%) Squid
Systems Management
1 22 (84.62%) Terraform
2 17 (65.38%) Grafana
2 17 (65.38%) Prometheus
3 10 (38.46%) Kubernetes
4 9 (34.62%) Nessus
4 9 (34.62%) Proxmox
5 7 (26.92%) Ansible
6 2 (7.69%) Argo
6 2 (7.69%) Istio
Vendors
1 9 (34.62%) Jaspersoft
1 9 (34.62%) ServiceNow
2 8 (30.77%) Splunk
3 5 (19.23%) Google
4 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
5 2 (7.69%) Cloudera
6 1 (3.85%) IBM
6 1 (3.85%) Oracle
6 1 (3.85%) Red Hat