PostgreSQL Contracts in the Midlands

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring PostgreSQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PostgreSQL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 113 154
Rank change year-on-year +28 +41 +4
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 26 20 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.36% 0.73% 0.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.19% 4.81% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 15 7
10th Percentile £416 £248 £328
25th Percentile £450 £281 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £569
90th Percentile £599 £710 £585
England median daily rate £548 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -0.45% +2.33% -4.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.50 -
England median hourly rate £54.00 £75.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year -28.00% +233.56% -61.16%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 283 416 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.79% 15.09% 17.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 308 412
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £655 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 6
10th Percentile £16.31 - £21.53
25th Percentile £17.00 - £24.16
Median hourly rate £18.20 £14.00 £25.87
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -45.87% -26.10%
75th Percentile £19.25 £27.49 £32.93
90th Percentile £20.90 £40.50 £47.54
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in the Midlands

PostgreSQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL in the Midlands

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the Midlands

PostgreSQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for PostgreSQL in the Midlands

PostgreSQL
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +16 18 £550 +13.11% 33
East Midlands +14 8 £500 -33.33% 23
PostgreSQL
England

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.85%) Apache
1 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 16 (61.54%) AWS
2 8 (30.77%) Amazon S3
3 7 (26.92%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (26.92%) Amazon SQS
4 6 (23.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (23.08%) AWS KMS
4 6 (23.08%) Route 53
5 5 (19.23%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (3.85%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (3.85%) Azure
6 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (30.77%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (30.77%) MySQL
1 8 (30.77%) Relational Database
2 7 (26.92%) DynamoDB
2 7 (26.92%) SQL Server
3 6 (23.08%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (11.54%) NoSQL
4 3 (11.54%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (3.85%) Flink
5 1 (3.85%) MariaDB
5 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (34.62%) Jenkins
1 9 (34.62%) JUnit
2 8 (30.77%) Git
3 7 (26.92%) Mockito
4 6 (23.08%) Maven
5 5 (19.23%) JIRA
6 3 (11.54%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (11.54%) DbUnit
6 3 (11.54%) jMock
6 3 (11.54%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (23.08%) Finance
1 6 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Law
4 2 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (46.15%) Developer
2 9 (34.62%) Java Developer
3 5 (19.23%) Lead
3 5 (19.23%) Senior
4 3 (11.54%) Architect
4 3 (11.54%) DBA
4 3 (11.54%) Enterprise Architect
4 3 (11.54%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
4 3 (11.54%) Lead Developer
4 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Software Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Administrator
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Lead Java Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (53.85%) REST
2 12 (46.15%) .NET
3 9 (34.62%) AngularJS
3 9 (34.62%) Hibernate
3 9 (34.62%) Spring
3 9 (34.62%) Spring Boot
3 9 (34.62%) Web Services
4 6 (23.08%) .NET Core
4 6 (23.08%) ActiveMQ
4 6 (23.08%) JPA
4 6 (23.08%) SOAP
5 5 (19.23%) .NET Framework
5 5 (19.23%) Bootstrap
5 5 (19.23%) RESTful
5 5 (19.23%) Spring Batch
5 5 (19.23%) Spring Integration
6 4 (15.38%) React
6 4 (15.38%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (11.54%) PowerMock
7 3 (11.54%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (84.62%) Agile
2 14 (53.85%) Microservices
3 12 (46.15%) CI/CD
4 10 (38.46%) Scrum
5 9 (34.62%) TDD
6 8 (30.77%) DevOps
7 6 (23.08%) BDD
7 6 (23.08%) Kanban
8 5 (19.23%) Containerisation
8 5 (19.23%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (19.23%) Software Engineering
9 4 (15.38%) Architectural Design
9 4 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (15.38%) ITIL
9 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (15.38%) Risk Management
9 4 (15.38%) SDLC
9 4 (15.38%) Test Automation
10 3 (11.54%) Open Source
10 3 (11.54%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 10 (38.46%) Java
2 9 (34.62%) SQL
3 8 (30.77%) JavaScript
4 6 (23.08%) C#
5 4 (15.38%) TypeScript
6 3 (11.54%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 9 (34.62%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.54%) Degree
4 2 (7.69%) DV Cleared
4 2 (7.69%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (7.69%) OCP
4 2 (7.69%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 11 (42.31%) Docker
2 4 (15.38%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 7 (26.92%) Kubernetes
2 4 (15.38%) Grafana
2 4 (15.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Oracle
2 5 (19.23%) Jaspersoft
2 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
3 3 (11.54%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.85%) Siemens