PostgreSQL Contract Job Trends in Solihull

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
West Midlands > Solihull

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Solihull requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 7 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 13 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in Solihull 18.31% 17.86% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 68.42% 83.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £410 - -
25th Percentile £444 £410 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £420 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.81% - -
75th Percentile £489 £430 -
90th Percentile £491 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £487 £484 £418
% change year-on-year +0.62% +15.81% -20.48%

All Database & BI Skills
Solihull

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 Solihull.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 19 6 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Solihull 26.76% 21.43% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 5
10th Percentile £440 - -
25th Percentile £476 £410 £259
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £420 £775
Median % change year-on-year +18.10% -45.81% +67.57%
75th Percentile £503 £534 £813
90th Percentile £560 £596 -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -14.29%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Solihull

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

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in Solihull

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Trend in Solihull

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Solihull citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Solihull 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 4 (30.77%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) AWS
2 7 (53.85%) Amazon S3
2 7 (53.85%) Amazon SQS
3 6 (46.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (46.15%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (46.15%) AWS KMS
3 6 (46.15%) Route 53
4 4 (30.77%) Azure
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (7.69%) GCP
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub
5 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Amazon Aurora
1 6 (46.15%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (46.15%) DynamoDB
2 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (69.23%) Git
2 8 (61.54%) Jenkins
2 8 (61.54%) JUnit
3 6 (46.15%) DbUnit
3 6 (46.15%) jMock
3 6 (46.15%) Maven
3 6 (46.15%) Mockito
3 6 (46.15%) SonarQube
4 4 (30.77%) Bitbucket Server
4 4 (30.77%) JIRA
5 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
5 2 (15.38%) JMeter
5 2 (15.38%) Selenium
5 2 (15.38%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (53.85%) Public Sector
2 5 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Finance
5 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Developer
1 9 (69.23%) Java Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Test Leader
4 1 (7.69%) .NET Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Automation Test Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Automation Tester
4 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Tester
4 1 (7.69%) Selenium Automation Tester
4 1 (7.69%) Selenium Tester
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Systems Tester
4 1 (7.69%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (84.62%) Spring
2 9 (69.23%) REST
2 9 (69.23%) Spring Boot
2 9 (69.23%) Web Services
3 8 (61.54%) Hibernate
3 8 (61.54%) JPA
3 8 (61.54%) SOAP
3 8 (61.54%) Spring Batch
3 8 (61.54%) Spring Integration
4 6 (46.15%) ActiveMQ
4 6 (46.15%) AngularJS
4 6 (46.15%) PowerMock
4 6 (46.15%) Spring Cloud
5 5 (38.46%) Node.js
6 4 (30.77%) Bootstrap
6 4 (30.77%) RESTful
7 2 (15.38%) .NET
7 2 (15.38%) .NET Framework
7 2 (15.38%) WireMock
8 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Microservices
2 10 (76.92%) Agile
3 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
3 8 (61.54%) TDD
4 7 (53.85%) BDD
4 7 (53.85%) Containerisation
4 7 (53.85%) DevOps
4 7 (53.85%) Scrum
5 6 (46.15%) Kanban
5 6 (46.15%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (38.46%) Biometrics
7 4 (30.77%) BPMN
7 4 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (30.77%) Decision-Making
7 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
7 4 (30.77%) Open Source
7 4 (30.77%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
8 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 2 (15.38%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Java
2 7 (53.85%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
3 3 (23.08%) AWS Certification
3 3 (23.08%) Azure Certification
4 2 (15.38%) Degree
4 2 (15.38%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) Docker
2 5 (38.46%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Grafana
2 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
3 3 (23.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Atlassian
1 6 (46.15%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft