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 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 31 31
Rank change year-on-year -46 0 -
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 7 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 1.04% 2.08% 1.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.95% 13.04% 4.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile £419 - £510
25th Percentile £437 - £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £350 £516
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -32.20% -
75th Percentile £457 - £528
90th Percentile £460 - £531
West Midlands median daily rate £449 £500 £523
% change year-on-year -10.30% -4.31% -7.11%

All Database & BI 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 237 23 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 35.11% 15.97% 31.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 18 33
10th Percentile £358 £350 £338
25th Percentile £413 £427 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £469 £358
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% +30.94% -33.70%
75th Percentile £527 £513 £450
90th Percentile £630 £524 £503
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £485 £450
% change year-on-year -2.06% +7.78% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £45.00 £29.33 £37.22
% change year-on-year +53.43% -21.19% +47.39%

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 2 July 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Telford -49 7 £450 +28.57% 4
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) Confluence
1 3 (42.86%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) MySQL
2 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (42.86%) Apache Hive
3 3 (42.86%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (42.86%) Hadoop
3 3 (42.86%) Impala
3 3 (42.86%) Pentaho
3 3 (42.86%) Power BI
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Bitbucket
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) DBA
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared DBA
3 2 (28.57%) Administrator
3 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Database Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) MySQL DBA
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle SQL Server DBA
4 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) SQL DBA
4 1 (14.29%) SQL Server DBA
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Capacity Planning
1 4 (57.14%) Database Security
1 4 (57.14%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Data Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) Data Management
2 3 (42.86%) Data Virtualisation
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) ETL
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Scrum
2 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) HiveQL
1 3 (42.86%) Java
1 3 (42.86%) PL/SQL
1 3 (42.86%) Python
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (42.86%) OCP
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
1 3 (42.86%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (42.86%) Denodo
2 3 (42.86%) Informatica
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Talend