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 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 82 90
Rank change year-on-year -36 +8 +17
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 51 41 18
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.46% 2.26% 0.95%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.07% 12.85% 5.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 26 7
10th Percentile £357 £401 £448
25th Percentile £423 £450 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% -11.36% -18.52%
75th Percentile £478 £598 £588
90th Percentile £513 £634 £625
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
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 £30.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +62.50% -62.50% +22.00%

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 632 319 320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.12% 17.61% 16.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 205 210
10th Percentile £359 £314 £312
25th Percentile £413 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £633 £714
England median daily rate £505 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -1.46% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 2
10th Percentile £20.65 £30.70 £34.04
25th Percentile £21.25 £32.74 £34.20
Median hourly rate £24.40 £34.43 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year -29.13% -0.10% +22.46%
75th Percentile £58.75 £35.24 £34.73
90th Percentile £74.88 £35.69 £34.89
England median hourly rate £38.50 £42.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.32% +19.99% -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 14 September 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 14 September 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
Solihull -9 21 £475 -5.00% 2
Shropshire -43 9 £447 +27.71% 2
Birmingham -20 8 £425 -10.53% 18
Warwickshire -9 5 £450 -10.00% 6
Coventry - 4 £531 - 2
Worcestershire +4 2 £700 +7.69% 1
Herefordshire -1 1 £700 +7.69% 1
Dudley - 1 £375 - 1
Staffordshire - 1 £313 -
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 16 (31.37%) Confluence
2 1 (1.96%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.96%) IIS
2 1 (1.96%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 30 (58.82%) AWS
2 18 (35.29%) Azure
3 10 (19.61%) Amazon S3
3 10 (19.61%) Amazon SQS
4 9 (17.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (15.69%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (15.69%) AWS KMS
5 8 (15.69%) GitHub
5 8 (15.69%) Route 53
6 7 (13.73%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (11.76%) GCP
8 4 (7.84%) PaaS
8 4 (7.84%) Serverless
9 3 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (5.88%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (3.92%) ChatGPT
10 2 (3.92%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (3.92%) Vercel
11 1 (1.96%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (35.29%) SQL Server
2 14 (27.45%) Relational Database
3 11 (21.57%) MySQL
4 9 (17.65%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (15.69%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (15.69%) DynamoDB
6 5 (9.80%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (3.92%) MongoDB
7 2 (3.92%) RDBMS
7 2 (3.92%) Redis
7 2 (3.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.96%) Db2
8 1 (1.96%) GIS
8 1 (1.96%) OLAP
8 1 (1.96%) OLTP
8 1 (1.96%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (1.96%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.96%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 26 (50.98%) Git
2 25 (49.02%) Jenkins
3 24 (47.06%) JUnit
4 19 (37.25%) Maven
5 18 (35.29%) Mockito
5 18 (35.29%) SonarQube
6 15 (29.41%) JIRA
7 6 (11.76%) Bitbucket Server
7 6 (11.76%) DbUnit
7 6 (11.76%) jMock
8 5 (9.80%) Cucumber
8 5 (9.80%) GitLab
8 5 (9.80%) JMeter
8 5 (9.80%) Selenium
8 5 (9.80%) WebDriver
9 1 (1.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (1.96%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.96%) Gatling
9 1 (1.96%) PetaLinux
General
1 25 (49.02%) Social Skills
2 19 (37.25%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (35.29%) Public Sector
4 8 (15.69%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (7.84%) Finance
6 2 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.96%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 25 (49.02%) Developer
2 21 (41.18%) Java Developer
3 17 (33.33%) Senior
4 13 (25.49%) Senior Developer
5 12 (23.53%) Senior Java Developer
6 11 (21.57%) DBA
7 10 (19.61%) Administrator
8 5 (9.80%) Lead
8 5 (9.80%) Lead Developer
8 5 (9.80%) Lead Java Developer
9 4 (7.84%) Database Engineer
9 4 (7.84%) Oracle Database Engineer
9 4 (7.84%) SC Cleared DBA
10 3 (5.88%) Senior Tester
10 3 (5.88%) Tester
11 2 (3.92%) Oracle DBA
11 2 (3.92%) Senior Systems Tester
11 2 (3.92%) SQL DBA
11 2 (3.92%) Systems Tester
12 1 (1.96%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (49.02%) Spring
2 24 (47.06%) REST
3 21 (41.18%) Spring Boot
4 20 (39.22%) Hibernate
4 20 (39.22%) JPA
5 19 (37.25%) AngularJS
5 19 (37.25%) SOAP
5 19 (37.25%) Web Services
6 18 (35.29%) ActiveMQ
7 17 (33.33%) Spring Cloud
8 16 (31.37%) RESTful
9 9 (17.65%) Spring Batch
9 9 (17.65%) Spring Integration
10 7 (13.73%) Node.js
11 6 (11.76%) Bootstrap
11 6 (11.76%) PowerMock
11 6 (11.76%) React
12 5 (9.80%) WireMock
13 2 (3.92%) GraphQL
13 2 (3.92%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 11 (21.57%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (9.80%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (3.92%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.92%) Replication
6 1 (1.96%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.96%) FPGA
6 1 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.96%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.96%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.96%) Verilog
6 1 (1.96%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.69%) Linux
2 1 (1.96%) AIX
2 1 (1.96%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (1.96%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (54.90%) Microservices
2 26 (50.98%) Agile
3 24 (47.06%) CI/CD
4 23 (45.10%) TDD
5 20 (39.22%) Scrum
6 19 (37.25%) Containerisation
6 19 (37.25%) Kanban
6 19 (37.25%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (31.37%) Performance Tuning
8 15 (29.41%) Test Automation
9 14 (27.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (25.49%) Translating Business Requirements
11 11 (21.57%) Database Security
11 11 (21.57%) DevOps
12 10 (19.61%) API Development
12 10 (19.61%) API Integration
12 10 (19.61%) Code Quality
12 10 (19.61%) Sprint Planning
13 9 (17.65%) Backlog Refinement
13 9 (17.65%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 22 (43.14%) Java
2 20 (39.22%) SQL
3 15 (29.41%) TypeScript
4 4 (7.84%) Python
5 2 (3.92%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.96%) C
6 1 (1.96%) C++
6 1 (1.96%) Go
6 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.96%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.96%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.96%) SystemVerilog
6 1 (1.96%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 29 (56.86%) Security Cleared
2 28 (54.90%) SC Cleared
3 9 (17.65%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (17.65%) OCP
3 9 (17.65%) Oracle Certification
4 3 (5.88%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.92%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.96%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) QA
2 1 (1.96%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.96%) GDPR
2 1 (1.96%) ISO 22301
2 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 28 (54.90%) Docker
2 5 (9.80%) Postfix
3 1 (1.96%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 20 (39.22%) Grafana
2 16 (31.37%) Prometheus
3 7 (13.73%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.92%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.96%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.96%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 17 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 16 (31.37%) Oracle
3 8 (15.69%) Jaspersoft
4 6 (11.76%) Atlassian
5 2 (3.92%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.96%) Google
6 1 (1.96%) IBM
6 1 (1.96%) Informatica
6 1 (1.96%) JD Edwards
6 1 (1.96%) QAD
6 1 (1.96%) SAP
6 1 (1.96%) Xilinx