PostgreSQL Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 114 116
Rank change year-on-year +19 +2 +61
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 49 17 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.91% 0.64% 0.98%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.07% 3.88% 6.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 8 24
10th Percentile £403 £451 £456
25th Percentile £450 £498 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £564 £569 £613
90th Percentile £600 £625 £700
England median daily rate £544 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.14% - -3.51%

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 406 438 475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.83% 16.48% 16.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 294 331
10th Percentile £307 £311 £303
25th Percentile £400 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £614 £688 £688
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 6
10th Percentile £23.92 £25.05 £11.52
25th Percentile £30.47 £30.76 £14.87
Median hourly rate £34.43 £34.47 £24.63
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +39.96% -29.64%
75th Percentile £35.75 £39.23 £29.75
90th Percentile £37.48 £46.83 £33.06
England median hourly rate £40.25 £34.47 £55.00
% change year-on-year +16.77% -37.34% +22.22%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing PostgreSQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in the Midlands over the 6 months to 5 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the Midlands

PostgreSQL
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing PostgreSQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing PostgreSQL

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 5 September 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 +17 40 £475 -13.64% 5
East Midlands +4 9 £515 -6.36% 4
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 14 (28.57%) Confluence
2 12 (24.49%) nginx
3 2 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (4.08%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.04%) JBoss
4 1 (2.04%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (24.49%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.08%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 29 (59.18%) AWS
2 26 (53.06%) Amazon S3
3 23 (46.94%) Amazon EC2
4 19 (38.78%) AWS KMS
4 19 (38.78%) Azure
4 19 (38.78%) Route 53
5 17 (34.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 14 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
7 12 (24.49%) Amazon ELB
7 12 (24.49%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (24.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (20.41%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (16.33%) GitHub
9 8 (16.33%) Serverless
10 5 (10.20%) GCP
11 4 (8.16%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (8.16%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (6.12%) AWS CodeBuild
12 3 (6.12%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (6.12%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (24.49%) IMAP
1 12 (24.49%) OpenLDAP
1 12 (24.49%) SMTP
1 12 (24.49%) SSH
2 11 (22.45%) DNS
3 10 (20.41%) Firewall
3 10 (20.41%) FTP
3 10 (20.41%) HTTP
4 2 (4.08%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.04%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (48.98%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (44.90%) Amazon Aurora
3 10 (20.41%) MySQL
4 9 (18.37%) Relational Database
5 8 (16.33%) DynamoDB
6 5 (10.20%) NoSQL
6 5 (10.20%) SQL Server
7 2 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (4.08%) Big Data
7 2 (4.08%) Delta Lake
7 2 (4.08%) Hadoop
7 2 (4.08%) Parquet
7 2 (4.08%) Redis
8 1 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (2.04%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 31 (63.27%) Git
2 26 (53.06%) Jenkins
3 17 (34.69%) JIRA
4 12 (24.49%) SonarQube
4 12 (24.49%) Vagrant
5 11 (22.45%) Maven
6 9 (18.37%) JUnit
7 7 (14.29%) Mockito
8 5 (10.20%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (10.20%) DbUnit
8 5 (10.20%) jMock
9 3 (6.12%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (4.08%) MLflow
11 1 (2.04%) GitLab
11 1 (2.04%) Poetry
11 1 (2.04%) PyCharm
11 1 (2.04%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 21 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 19 (38.78%) Public Sector
3 12 (24.49%) Presentation Skills
4 7 (14.29%) Finance
5 4 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (51.02%) Developer
2 13 (26.53%) AWS Engineer
3 12 (24.49%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 12 (24.49%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 12 (24.49%) Java Developer
3 12 (24.49%) Platform Engineer
4 10 (20.41%) AWS DevOps
4 10 (20.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 10 (20.41%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (20.41%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Architect
6 4 (8.16%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (8.16%) Lead
6 4 (8.16%) Lead Developer
6 4 (8.16%) Lead Java Developer
6 4 (8.16%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 4 (8.16%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (6.12%) .NET Developer
7 3 (6.12%) Cloud Developer
7 3 (6.12%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (32.65%) REST
2 13 (26.53%) Spring
2 13 (26.53%) Spring Boot
3 12 (24.49%) LDAP
4 11 (22.45%) .NET
5 10 (20.41%) ActiveMQ
5 10 (20.41%) RESTful
5 10 (20.41%) SOAP
5 10 (20.41%) Web Services
6 9 (18.37%) JPA
7 8 (16.33%) AngularJS
8 7 (14.29%) Bootstrap
8 7 (14.29%) Hibernate
8 7 (14.29%) Spring Batch
8 7 (14.29%) Spring Cloud
8 7 (14.29%) Spring Integration
9 5 (10.20%) Node.js
9 5 (10.20%) PowerMock
9 5 (10.20%) React
10 4 (8.16%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.41%) Replication
2 8 (16.33%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (8.16%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 21 (42.86%) Linux
2 12 (24.49%) Amazon Linux
2 12 (24.49%) VMS
3 11 (22.45%) Windows
4 10 (20.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 33 (67.35%) DevOps
3 25 (51.02%) Agile
4 19 (38.78%) Microservices
5 16 (32.65%) Containerisation
6 14 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
7 13 (26.53%) Change Management
7 13 (26.53%) Cloud Security
8 12 (24.49%) Configuration Management
8 12 (24.49%) Platform Engineering
8 12 (24.49%) Scrum
8 12 (24.49%) TDD
9 10 (20.41%) Patch Management
9 10 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (14.29%) Migration
11 6 (12.24%) BDD
11 6 (12.24%) Full-Stack Development
12 5 (10.20%) Open Source
12 5 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (69.39%) SQL
2 20 (40.82%) Python
3 14 (28.57%) Groovy
3 14 (28.57%) PowerShell
4 13 (26.53%) Java
5 7 (14.29%) C#
6 5 (10.20%) JavaScript
6 5 (10.20%) PHP
6 5 (10.20%) TypeScript
7 3 (6.12%) Bash
7 3 (6.12%) PL/SQL
8 2 (4.08%) Bicep
8 2 (4.08%) VBA
9 1 (2.04%) Go
Qualifications
1 21 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 21 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 14 (28.57%) Degree
3 11 (22.45%) AWS Certification
4 10 (20.41%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.08%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.04%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.04%) GDPR
1 1 (2.04%) QA
System Software
1 32 (65.31%) Docker
2 17 (34.69%) Postfix
3 12 (24.49%) Dovecot
3 12 (24.49%) Squid
4 10 (20.41%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 21 (42.86%) Grafana
1 21 (42.86%) Prometheus
2 16 (32.65%) Terraform
3 12 (24.49%) Kubernetes
3 12 (24.49%) Nessus
4 10 (20.41%) Proxmox
5 2 (4.08%) Argo
5 2 (4.08%) Istio
Vendors
1 17 (34.69%) Jaspersoft
2 13 (26.53%) ServiceNow
3 9 (18.37%) Oracle
4 7 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 5 (10.20%) Atlassian
6 3 (6.12%) Google
7 2 (4.08%) Cloudera
8 1 (2.04%) IBM
8 1 (2.04%) Qualys
8 1 (2.04%) Red Hat