PostgreSQL Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 81 92
Rank change year-on-year -15 +11 +23
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 70 33 17
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.02% 1.92% 0.91%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.90% 11.07% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 21 9
10th Percentile £360 £402 £455
25th Percentile £425 £420 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.79% -13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £484 £500 £625
90th Percentile £495 £600 £650
England median daily rate £500 £544 £550
% change year-on-year -8.05% -1.14% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £48.75 £47.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year +2.63% -40.63% +28.93%

All Database & BI Skills
West 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 707 298 316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.36% 17.33% 16.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 194 217
10th Percentile £356 £288 £313
25th Percentile £413 £408 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% +3.09% -6.05%
75th Percentile £575 £548 £625
90th Percentile £671 £620 £725
England median daily rate £500 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 3
10th Percentile - £17.01 £34.14
25th Percentile £21.25 £21.39 £34.47
Median hourly rate £45.00 £31.61 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.38% -9.70% +24.36%
75th Percentile £53.75 £34.71 £37.75
90th Percentile £74.50 £35.49 £39.40
England median hourly rate £38.25 £34.82 £35.00
% change year-on-year +9.87% -0.53% -36.36%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the West Midlands

PostgreSQL
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

PostgreSQL
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 August 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
Birmingham -14 22 £425 -10.53% 5
Solihull -8 20 £478 +0.63% 2
Shropshire -37 13 £448 +27.86%
Warwickshire -7 6 £450 -25.00%
Worcestershire - 4 £700 - 3
Herefordshire - 3 £700 -
Coventry - 2 £488 - 1
Dudley - 1 £375 -
Staffordshire - 1 £313 - 1
PostgreSQL
England

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 24 (34.29%) Confluence
2 3 (4.29%) SAS
3 2 (2.86%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.43%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.43%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (2.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 40 (57.14%) AWS
2 34 (48.57%) Azure
3 19 (27.14%) GCP
3 19 (27.14%) GitHub
4 17 (24.29%) GitHub Actions
5 16 (22.86%) Amazon S3
5 16 (22.86%) Amazon SQS
6 14 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 13 (18.57%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (18.57%) AWS KMS
7 13 (18.57%) Route 53
8 6 (8.57%) Serverless
9 4 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (5.71%) PaaS
9 4 (5.71%) Power Platform
10 3 (4.29%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 17 (24.29%) MySQL
3 14 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (18.57%) Amazon Aurora
4 13 (18.57%) DynamoDB
5 6 (8.57%) Relational Database
6 5 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (5.71%) Power BI
8 3 (4.29%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (4.29%) Apache Hive
8 3 (4.29%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (4.29%) Hadoop
8 3 (4.29%) Impala
8 3 (4.29%) Pentaho
8 3 (4.29%) Redis
9 2 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (2.86%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.86%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (2.86%) RDBMS
9 2 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 37 (52.86%) Git
2 35 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 34 (48.57%) JUnit
4 23 (32.86%) JIRA
5 19 (27.14%) Cucumber
5 19 (27.14%) JMeter
5 19 (27.14%) Selenium
5 19 (27.14%) WebDriver
6 15 (21.43%) Maven
6 15 (21.43%) Mockito
6 15 (21.43%) SonarQube
7 14 (20.00%) GitLab
8 10 (14.29%) Bitbucket Server
8 10 (14.29%) DbUnit
8 10 (14.29%) jMock
9 3 (4.29%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (1.43%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.43%) Gatling
10 1 (1.43%) PetaLinux
General
1 35 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 19 (27.14%) Public Sector
3 17 (24.29%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (12.86%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (8.57%) Finance
6 5 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Advertising
7 1 (1.43%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 25 (35.71%) Developer
2 18 (25.71%) Java Developer
2 18 (25.71%) Senior
3 13 (18.57%) DBA
3 13 (18.57%) Tester
4 10 (14.29%) Administrator
5 9 (12.86%) Automation Tester
5 9 (12.86%) Senior Developer
5 9 (12.86%) Senior Tester
6 8 (11.43%) Senior Java Developer
7 7 (10.00%) Lead
7 7 (10.00%) Senior Automation Tester
8 6 (8.57%) SC Cleared DBA
8 6 (8.57%) Systems Tester
9 5 (7.14%) Database Engineer
9 5 (7.14%) Test Leader
10 4 (5.71%) Automation Test Lead
10 4 (5.71%) Oracle Database Engineer
11 3 (4.29%) Oracle DBA
11 3 (4.29%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (51.43%) Spring
2 22 (31.43%) REST
3 19 (27.14%) WireMock
4 18 (25.71%) Spring Boot
5 17 (24.29%) Web Services
6 16 (22.86%) Hibernate
6 16 (22.86%) JPA
6 16 (22.86%) SOAP
7 15 (21.43%) ActiveMQ
7 15 (21.43%) AngularJS
8 14 (20.00%) Spring Batch
8 14 (20.00%) Spring Cloud
8 14 (20.00%) Spring Integration
9 12 (17.14%) Node.js
10 11 (15.71%) RESTful
11 10 (14.29%) Bootstrap
11 10 (14.29%) PowerMock
12 5 (7.14%) React
13 3 (4.29%) GraphQL
13 3 (4.29%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 26 (37.14%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (21.43%) Distributed Architecture
3 5 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.29%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.86%) Replication
6 1 (1.43%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.43%) FPGA
6 1 (1.43%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.43%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.43%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.43%) Verilog
6 1 (1.43%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 12 (17.14%) Linux
2 3 (4.29%) Unix
3 1 (1.43%) AIX
3 1 (1.43%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (1.43%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (57.14%) Microservices
2 39 (55.71%) CI/CD
3 38 (54.29%) Agile
4 33 (47.14%) TDD
5 25 (35.71%) BDD
6 22 (31.43%) Containerisation
6 22 (31.43%) Observability
6 22 (31.43%) Test Automation
7 21 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
8 20 (28.57%) DevOps
8 20 (28.57%) Scrum
8 20 (28.57%) Validation
9 18 (25.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (25.71%) End-to-End Testing
9 18 (25.71%) Stakeholder Management
9 18 (25.71%) Test Strategy
10 17 (24.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 17 (24.29%) Load Testing
11 14 (20.00%) Kanban
11 14 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 32 (45.71%) SQL
2 22 (31.43%) Java
3 10 (14.29%) Python
4 4 (5.71%) PL/SQL
4 4 (5.71%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.29%) Go
5 3 (4.29%) HiveQL
6 2 (2.86%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.86%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.43%) C
7 1 (1.43%) C++
7 1 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.43%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.43%) SystemVerilog
7 1 (1.43%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 50 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 47 (67.14%) SC Cleared
3 10 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (14.29%) OCP
3 10 (14.29%) Oracle Certification
4 3 (4.29%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.29%) Azure Certification
4 3 (4.29%) Degree
4 3 (4.29%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.86%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.29%) QA
2 1 (1.43%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.43%) GDPR
2 1 (1.43%) ISO 22301
2 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 39 (55.71%) Docker
2 8 (11.43%) Postfix
3 3 (4.29%) HDFS
4 1 (1.43%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 36 (51.43%) Grafana
2 25 (35.71%) Prometheus
3 24 (34.29%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.29%) Ansible
5 1 (1.43%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.43%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 22 (31.43%) Oracle
2 21 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 13 (18.57%) Jaspersoft
4 10 (14.29%) Atlassian
5 4 (5.71%) Informatica
6 3 (4.29%) Denodo
6 3 (4.29%) Talend
7 1 (1.43%) Google
7 1 (1.43%) IBM
7 1 (1.43%) JD Edwards
7 1 (1.43%) QAD
7 1 (1.43%) SAP
7 1 (1.43%) Xilinx