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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 85 92
Rank change year-on-year -36 +7 +18
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 47 39 17
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.36% 2.21% 0.89%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.31% 12.70% 5.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 25 8
10th Percentile £378 £401 £451
25th Percentile £425 £450 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% -13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £478 £594 £625
90th Percentile £502 £611 £633
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
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% +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 643 307 320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.66% 17.38% 16.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 475 198 210
10th Percentile £360 £291 £313
25th Percentile £413 £408 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £494
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.27% -3.19%
75th Percentile £583 £572 £625
90th Percentile £675 £625 £714
England median daily rate £500 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 2
10th Percentile - £30.70 £34.04
25th Percentile £21.25 £32.74 £34.20
Median hourly rate £27.30 £34.43 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% -0.10% +22.46%
75th Percentile £63.75 £35.24 £34.73
90th Percentile £75.25 £35.69 £34.89
England median hourly rate £38.25 £38.23 £33.93
% change year-on-year +0.05% +12.67% -38.31%

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 31 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 31 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
Solihull -9 14 £484 -3.30% 2
Birmingham -23 11 £425 -10.53% 6
Shropshire -36 9 £447 +27.71% 1
Warwickshire -6 5 £450 -10.00% 2
Coventry - 4 £531 - 1
Worcestershire +3 2 £700 +7.69% 3
Herefordshire -1 1 £700 +7.69%
Dudley - 1 £375 - 1
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 10 (21.28%) Confluence
2 2 (4.26%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.13%) ArcGIS
3 1 (2.13%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 25 (53.19%) AWS
2 21 (44.68%) Azure
3 12 (25.53%) GitHub
4 11 (23.40%) Amazon S3
4 11 (23.40%) Amazon SQS
4 11 (23.40%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (19.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (19.15%) GCP
6 8 (17.02%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (17.02%) AWS KMS
6 8 (17.02%) Route 53
7 6 (12.77%) Serverless
8 4 (8.51%) PaaS
9 3 (6.38%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (4.26%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (4.26%) ChatGPT
10 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (4.26%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (40.43%) SQL Server
2 11 (23.40%) MySQL
3 9 (19.15%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (17.02%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (17.02%) DynamoDB
5 6 (12.77%) Relational Database
6 5 (10.64%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (6.38%) Redis
8 2 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (4.26%) MongoDB
8 2 (4.26%) RDBMS
8 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (2.13%) Db2
9 1 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (2.13%) GIS
9 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
9 1 (2.13%) OLAP
9 1 (2.13%) OLTP
9 1 (2.13%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (2.13%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 21 (44.68%) Git
2 20 (42.55%) Jenkins
3 18 (38.30%) JUnit
4 10 (21.28%) Maven
4 10 (21.28%) Mockito
4 10 (21.28%) SonarQube
5 9 (19.15%) JIRA
6 8 (17.02%) Cucumber
6 8 (17.02%) GitLab
6 8 (17.02%) JMeter
6 8 (17.02%) Selenium
6 8 (17.02%) WebDriver
7 6 (12.77%) Bitbucket Server
7 6 (12.77%) DbUnit
7 6 (12.77%) jMock
8 1 (2.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (2.13%) Cypress.io
8 1 (2.13%) Gatling
8 1 (2.13%) PetaLinux
General
1 23 (48.94%) Social Skills
2 13 (27.66%) Public Sector
3 10 (21.28%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.64%) Finance
5 3 (6.38%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 18 (38.30%) Developer
2 14 (29.79%) Senior
3 13 (27.66%) Java Developer
4 11 (23.40%) DBA
5 10 (21.28%) Administrator
6 8 (17.02%) Senior Developer
7 7 (14.89%) Senior Java Developer
8 6 (12.77%) Senior Tester
8 6 (12.77%) Tester
9 4 (8.51%) Automation Tester
9 4 (8.51%) Database Engineer
9 4 (8.51%) Oracle Database Engineer
9 4 (8.51%) SC Cleared DBA
9 4 (8.51%) Senior Automation Tester
10 2 (4.26%) Oracle DBA
10 2 (4.26%) Senior Systems Tester
10 2 (4.26%) SQL DBA
10 2 (4.26%) Systems Tester
11 1 (2.13%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 1 (2.13%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (42.55%) Spring
2 17 (36.17%) REST
3 13 (27.66%) Spring Boot
4 12 (25.53%) Web Services
5 11 (23.40%) Hibernate
5 11 (23.40%) JPA
5 11 (23.40%) SOAP
6 10 (21.28%) ActiveMQ
6 10 (21.28%) AngularJS
7 9 (19.15%) Spring Batch
7 9 (19.15%) Spring Cloud
7 9 (19.15%) Spring Integration
8 8 (17.02%) Node.js
8 8 (17.02%) WireMock
9 7 (14.89%) React
9 7 (14.89%) RESTful
10 6 (12.77%) Bootstrap
10 6 (12.77%) PowerMock
11 3 (6.38%) GraphQL
12 2 (4.26%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 15 (31.91%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (17.02%) Distributed Architecture
3 5 (10.64%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.26%) AI Agents
4 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.26%) Replication
5 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.13%) FPGA
5 1 (2.13%) Legacy Code
5 1 (2.13%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.13%) Verilog
5 1 (2.13%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.02%) Linux
2 1 (2.13%) AIX
2 1 (2.13%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (2.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (51.06%) Microservices
2 22 (46.81%) Agile
3 21 (44.68%) CI/CD
4 18 (38.30%) TDD
5 16 (34.04%) Performance Tuning
6 12 (25.53%) BDD
6 12 (25.53%) DevOps
6 12 (25.53%) Observability
6 12 (25.53%) Scrum
7 11 (23.40%) Containerisation
7 11 (23.40%) Database Security
8 10 (21.28%) Kanban
8 10 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (21.28%) Test Automation
9 9 (19.15%) Capacity Planning
9 9 (19.15%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (19.15%) Validation
10 8 (17.02%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (17.02%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 7 (14.89%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 21 (44.68%) SQL
2 14 (29.79%) Java
3 6 (12.77%) TypeScript
4 4 (8.51%) Python
5 2 (4.26%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.26%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.13%) C
6 1 (2.13%) C++
6 1 (2.13%) Go
6 1 (2.13%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.13%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.13%) SystemVerilog
6 1 (2.13%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 31 (65.96%) Security Cleared
2 29 (61.70%) SC Cleared
3 9 (19.15%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (19.15%) OCP
3 9 (19.15%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (4.26%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.13%) Degree
5 1 (2.13%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.13%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) QA
2 1 (2.13%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.13%) GDPR
2 1 (2.13%) ISO 22301
2 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 24 (51.06%) Docker
2 5 (10.64%) Postfix
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 16 (34.04%) Grafana
2 13 (27.66%) Kubernetes
3 12 (25.53%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.26%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.13%) Data Guard
5 1 (2.13%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 19 (40.43%) Microsoft
2 16 (34.04%) Oracle
3 8 (17.02%) Jaspersoft
4 6 (12.77%) Atlassian
5 2 (4.26%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.13%) Google
6 1 (2.13%) IBM
6 1 (2.13%) Informatica
6 1 (2.13%) JD Edwards
6 1 (2.13%) QAD
6 1 (2.13%) SAP
6 1 (2.13%) Xilinx