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 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 75 96
Rank change year-on-year +4 +21 +42
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 86 23 19
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 3.11% 1.68% 1.00%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.98% 9.96% 6.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 9 11
10th Percentile £365 £410 £238
25th Percentile £450 £477 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £418
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +17.37% -20.48%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £517
90th Percentile £675 £635 £650
England median daily rate £515 £541 £550
% change year-on-year -4.85% -1.59% -

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 574 231 279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.73% 16.92% 14.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 154 212
10th Percentile £357 £361 £307
25th Percentile £425 £419 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £627
90th Percentile £650 £684 £700
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile - £15.80 -
25th Percentile £42.50 £16.57 -
Median hourly rate £45.00 £18.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -55.56% +237.50%
75th Percentile £47.50 £19.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £38.11 £42.50
% change year-on-year +31.20% -10.33% -24.95%

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 4 March 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 4 March 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 +11 35 £475 -20.83% 9
Herefordshire - 21 £650 -
Worcestershire - 21 £650 - 3
Solihull -2 10 £481 +14.52% 6
Warwickshire -12 9 £463 -
Shropshire -44 7 £450 -5.66% 5
Coventry - 2 £273 - 4
Staffordshire -1 1 £463 -15.91% 2
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 18 (20.93%) Confluence
2 3 (3.49%) SAS
3 2 (2.33%) Drupal
4 1 (1.16%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.16%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 50 (58.14%) Azure
2 40 (46.51%) AWS
3 29 (33.72%) GCP
4 28 (32.56%) GitHub
5 23 (26.74%) Serverless
6 16 (18.60%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (18.60%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (17.44%) AWS KMS
8 13 (15.12%) Amazon S3
9 12 (13.95%) Azure Data Factory
10 11 (12.79%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (12.79%) Route 53
11 10 (11.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (10.47%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (10.47%) Azure Key Vault
13 5 (5.81%) Power Platform
14 4 (4.65%) Apigee
14 4 (4.65%) Cloud Functions
15 3 (3.49%) PaaS
16 2 (2.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.16%) DNS
1 1 (1.16%) Firewall
1 1 (1.16%) FTP
1 1 (1.16%) HTTP
1 1 (1.16%) IMAP
1 1 (1.16%) Kerberos
1 1 (1.16%) OpenLDAP
1 1 (1.16%) SMTP
1 1 (1.16%) SSH
1 1 (1.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (22.09%) MySQL
2 13 (15.12%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (13.95%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (12.79%) NoSQL
5 10 (11.63%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (10.47%) DynamoDB
6 9 (10.47%) Redis
7 8 (9.30%) SQL Server
8 5 (5.81%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (4.65%) Apache Hive
9 4 (4.65%) Hadoop
9 4 (4.65%) Impala
9 4 (4.65%) Power BI
9 4 (4.65%) Relational Database
10 3 (3.49%) BusinessObjects
10 3 (3.49%) MongoDB
10 3 (3.49%) Pentaho
11 1 (1.16%) Big Data
11 1 (1.16%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 33 (38.37%) Jenkins
2 27 (31.40%) Git
3 23 (26.74%) JIRA
4 20 (23.26%) JUnit
5 19 (22.09%) GitLab
6 11 (12.79%) Cucumber
6 11 (12.79%) JMeter
6 11 (12.79%) Selenium
6 11 (12.79%) WebDriver
7 9 (10.47%) Maven
7 9 (10.47%) Mockito
7 9 (10.47%) SonarQube
8 7 (8.14%) DbUnit
8 7 (8.14%) jMock
9 5 (5.81%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (4.65%) Liquibase
11 3 (3.49%) Bitbucket
12 1 (1.16%) Deequ
12 1 (1.16%) Vagrant
General
1 34 (39.53%) Social Skills
2 17 (19.77%) Finance
3 16 (18.60%) Public Sector
4 14 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (10.47%) Banking
6 8 (9.30%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (8.14%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (6.98%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.33%) Legal
10 1 (1.16%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 29 (33.72%) Developer
2 18 (20.93%) Senior
3 17 (19.77%) Data Engineer
4 12 (13.95%) Python Developer
4 12 (13.95%) Senior Data Engineer
5 11 (12.79%) Backend Developer
5 11 (12.79%) Java Developer
6 10 (11.63%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (11.63%) GCP Engineer
7 7 (8.14%) Lead
7 7 (8.14%) Tester
8 6 (6.98%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (6.98%) Software Engineer
9 5 (5.81%) Automation Tester
9 5 (5.81%) DBA
9 5 (5.81%) Test Leader
10 4 (4.65%) Administrator
10 4 (4.65%) Cloud Developer
10 4 (4.65%) GCP Developer
10 4 (4.65%) Systems Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (34.88%) REST
2 24 (27.91%) Spring
3 20 (23.26%) RESTful
4 14 (16.28%) Node.js
5 13 (15.12%) Spring Boot
6 12 (13.95%) FastAPI
6 12 (13.95%) Kafka
6 12 (13.95%) Keycloak
6 12 (13.95%) Web Services
7 11 (12.79%) AngularJS
7 11 (12.79%) WireMock
8 10 (11.63%) Hibernate
8 10 (11.63%) JPA
8 10 (11.63%) SOAP
8 10 (11.63%) Spring Batch
8 10 (11.63%) Spring Integration
9 9 (10.47%) ActiveMQ
9 9 (10.47%) Flask
9 9 (10.47%) Spring Cloud
9 9 (10.47%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 26 (30.23%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (22.09%) Cloud Native
3 10 (11.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (9.30%) Public Cloud
5 7 (8.14%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (3.49%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.16%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.16%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (22.09%) Linux
2 3 (3.49%) Unix
3 2 (2.33%) Windows
4 1 (1.16%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (1.16%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (63.95%) CI/CD
1 55 (63.95%) DevOps
2 51 (59.30%) Containerisation
3 42 (48.84%) Agile
4 41 (47.67%) Microservices
5 21 (24.42%) ETL
6 20 (23.26%) TDD
7 17 (19.77%) Data Pipeline
8 16 (18.60%) BDD
8 16 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (18.60%) Test Automation
9 15 (17.44%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (17.44%) Performance Tuning
10 14 (16.28%) Observability
10 14 (16.28%) Scrum
11 13 (15.12%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (15.12%) Data Engineering
11 13 (15.12%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (13.95%) Batch Processing
12 12 (13.95%) DataOps
Programming Languages
1 49 (56.98%) Python
2 34 (39.53%) SQL
3 31 (36.05%) Go
4 18 (20.93%) Java
5 4 (4.65%) VBA
6 3 (3.49%) HiveQL
6 3 (3.49%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.49%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.33%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.33%) PHP
7 2 (2.33%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.33%) Ruby
8 1 (1.16%) Bash
8 1 (1.16%) Bicep
8 1 (1.16%) C#
8 1 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.16%) Groovy
8 1 (1.16%) Scala
8 1 (1.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 50 (58.14%) Security Cleared
2 46 (53.49%) SC Cleared
3 19 (22.09%) Azure Certification
4 14 (16.28%) Degree
5 10 (11.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (10.47%) DV Cleared
6 9 (10.47%) Master's Degree
7 6 (6.98%) AWS Certification
8 4 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (4.65%) OCP
8 4 (4.65%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (2.33%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.16%) Data Quality
System Software
1 55 (63.95%) Docker
2 7 (8.14%) Postfix
3 4 (4.65%) HDFS
4 1 (1.16%) DFS Replication
4 1 (1.16%) Dovecot
4 1 (1.16%) Squid
4 1 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (55.81%) Kubernetes
2 43 (50.00%) Grafana
3 32 (37.21%) Prometheus
4 15 (17.44%) Terraform
5 10 (11.63%) Ansible
6 4 (4.65%) Nessus
7 3 (3.49%) Control-M
7 3 (3.49%) IBM Guardium
8 1 (1.16%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 21 (24.42%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.79%) Google
3 10 (11.63%) Jaspersoft
3 10 (11.63%) Oracle
4 8 (9.30%) Splunk
5 7 (8.14%) Atlassian
6 3 (3.49%) Denodo
6 3 (3.49%) Informatica
6 3 (3.49%) Talend
6 3 (3.49%) Tenable
7 1 (1.16%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.16%) Qualys
7 1 (1.16%) ServiceNow