PostgreSQL Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 24 12
Rank change year-on-year -40 -12 +87
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 1 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.31% 3.23% 9.62%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.88% 10.00% 55.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £477 £313
Median % change year-on-year - +52.64% -17.76%
75th Percentile - £484 £319
90th Percentile - £487 -
West Midlands median daily rate £531 £490 £624
% change year-on-year +8.37% -21.41% +18.76%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 114 40 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 35.08% 32.26% 17.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 31 5
10th Percentile £429 £338 £309
25th Percentile £492 £383 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £325
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +53.85% -38.68%
75th Percentile £538 £540 £495
90th Percentile £562 £567 £528
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £504 £475
% change year-on-year +2.24% +6.05% -6.86%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in Shropshire

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Telford -40 1 - - 7
PostgreSQL
West Midlands

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle