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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 74 91
Rank change year-on-year 0 +17 +48
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 87 19 19
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 3.02% 1.41% 0.97%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.97% 8.88% 6.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 8 12
10th Percentile £373 £410 £240
25th Percentile £437 £460 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £484 £418
Median % change year-on-year +1.76% +15.81% -20.48%
75th Percentile £575 £529 £563
90th Percentile £705 £588 £650
England median daily rate £508 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -4.87% -3.00% -

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 581 214 293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.19% 15.89% 14.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 141 224
10th Percentile £358 £355 £300
25th Percentile £425 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £588
90th Percentile £645 £688 £699
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -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% +64.47%
75th Percentile £47.50 £19.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £49.36 £33.81 £40.25
% change year-on-year +46.01% -16.01% -29.32%

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 22 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 22 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 +15 38 £475 - 4
Herefordshire - 20 £650 -
Worcestershire - 20 £650 - 1
Solihull -2 12 £478 +13.81% 1
Shropshire -41 7 £450 -5.66% 1
Warwickshire -11 6 £450 -
Coventry - 2 £273 -
Staffordshire -3 1 £463 -15.91%
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 21 (24.14%) Confluence
2 3 (3.45%) SAS
3 2 (2.30%) Drupal
4 1 (1.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 49 (56.32%) Azure
2 44 (50.57%) AWS
3 31 (35.63%) GitHub
4 30 (34.48%) GCP
5 20 (22.99%) Serverless
6 19 (21.84%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (16.09%) AWS KMS
8 13 (14.94%) Amazon S3
9 12 (13.79%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (11.49%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (11.49%) Amazon SQS
10 10 (11.49%) Route 53
11 9 (10.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (9.20%) Azure Key Vault
13 5 (5.75%) Power Platform
14 3 (3.45%) PaaS
15 2 (2.30%) Amazon EKS
15 2 (2.30%) Azure Logic Apps
15 2 (2.30%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.15%) Kerberos
1 1 (1.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (18.39%) MySQL
2 12 (13.79%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (13.79%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (12.64%) NoSQL
4 9 (10.34%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (10.34%) DynamoDB
5 8 (9.20%) Redis
5 8 (9.20%) SQL Server
6 5 (5.75%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (4.60%) Apache Hive
7 4 (4.60%) Hadoop
7 4 (4.60%) Impala
7 4 (4.60%) Power BI
8 3 (3.45%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (3.45%) MongoDB
8 3 (3.45%) Pentaho
9 2 (2.30%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.15%) Big Data
10 1 (1.15%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 37 (42.53%) Jenkins
2 28 (32.18%) Git
3 26 (29.89%) JIRA
4 24 (27.59%) JUnit
5 23 (26.44%) GitLab
6 15 (17.24%) Cucumber
6 15 (17.24%) JMeter
6 15 (17.24%) Selenium
6 15 (17.24%) WebDriver
7 9 (10.34%) Maven
7 9 (10.34%) Mockito
7 9 (10.34%) SonarQube
8 7 (8.05%) DbUnit
8 7 (8.05%) jMock
9 5 (5.75%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (4.60%) Liquibase
11 3 (3.45%) Bitbucket
12 1 (1.15%) Deequ
General
1 36 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 17 (19.54%) Finance
3 15 (17.24%) Public Sector
4 12 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (10.34%) Banking
6 7 (8.05%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (8.05%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (6.90%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.30%) Legal
9 1 (1.15%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 27 (31.03%) Developer
2 22 (25.29%) Senior
3 17 (19.54%) Data Engineer
4 13 (14.94%) Java Developer
5 12 (13.79%) Senior Data Engineer
6 11 (12.64%) Python Developer
6 11 (12.64%) Tester
7 10 (11.49%) Backend Developer
7 10 (11.49%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (11.49%) GCP Engineer
8 9 (10.34%) Automation Tester
9 8 (9.20%) Lead
10 7 (8.05%) Senior Automation Tester
10 7 (8.05%) Senior Tester
11 6 (6.90%) Software Engineer
12 5 (5.75%) AWS Engineer
12 5 (5.75%) DBA
12 5 (5.75%) Test Leader
13 4 (4.60%) Administrator
13 4 (4.60%) Automation Test Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (35.63%) REST
2 30 (34.48%) Spring
3 20 (22.99%) RESTful
4 15 (17.24%) Spring Boot
4 15 (17.24%) WireMock
5 14 (16.09%) Web Services
6 13 (14.94%) Kafka
7 12 (13.79%) Keycloak
7 12 (13.79%) Node.js
8 11 (12.64%) AngularJS
8 11 (12.64%) FastAPI
8 11 (12.64%) Hibernate
8 11 (12.64%) JPA
8 11 (12.64%) SOAP
8 11 (12.64%) Spring Batch
8 11 (12.64%) Spring Integration
9 9 (10.34%) ActiveMQ
9 9 (10.34%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (10.34%) Spring Cloud
10 8 (9.20%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 31 (35.63%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (17.24%) Cloud Native
3 11 (12.64%) Distributed Architecture
4 10 (11.49%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (9.20%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.45%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (2.30%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 18 (20.69%) Linux
2 3 (3.45%) Unix
3 1 (1.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (63.22%) CI/CD
2 50 (57.47%) Containerisation
2 50 (57.47%) DevOps
3 46 (52.87%) Agile
3 46 (52.87%) Microservices
4 25 (28.74%) TDD
5 20 (22.99%) BDD
5 20 (22.99%) Test Automation
6 18 (20.69%) ETL
6 18 (20.69%) Observability
7 17 (19.54%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (17.24%) End-to-End Testing
8 15 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (17.24%) Load Testing
8 15 (17.24%) Scrum
8 15 (17.24%) Test Strategy
8 15 (17.24%) Validation
9 14 (16.09%) Data Pipeline
9 14 (16.09%) Performance Tuning
10 13 (14.94%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 44 (50.57%) Python
2 30 (34.48%) Go
2 30 (34.48%) SQL
3 20 (22.99%) Java
4 4 (4.60%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.45%) HiveQL
5 3 (3.45%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.30%) Kotlin
6 2 (2.30%) PHP
6 2 (2.30%) Ruby
7 1 (1.15%) Bash
7 1 (1.15%) Bicep
7 1 (1.15%) C#
7 1 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.15%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.15%) Scala
7 1 (1.15%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 52 (59.77%) Security Cleared
2 48 (55.17%) SC Cleared
3 17 (19.54%) Azure Certification
4 13 (14.94%) Degree
5 10 (11.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (10.34%) Master's Degree
7 8 (9.20%) DV Cleared
8 5 (5.75%) AWS Certification
9 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (4.60%) OCP
9 4 (4.60%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (2.30%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.15%) Data Quality
System Software
1 58 (66.67%) Docker
2 6 (6.90%) Postfix
3 4 (4.60%) HDFS
4 1 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 52 (59.77%) Kubernetes
2 45 (51.72%) Grafana
3 34 (39.08%) Prometheus
4 14 (16.09%) Terraform
5 10 (11.49%) Ansible
6 3 (3.45%) Control-M
6 3 (3.45%) IBM Guardium
6 3 (3.45%) Nessus
Vendors
1 20 (22.99%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.49%) Oracle
3 9 (10.34%) Jaspersoft
4 8 (9.20%) Google
4 8 (9.20%) Splunk
5 7 (8.05%) Atlassian
6 3 (3.45%) Denodo
6 3 (3.45%) Informatica
6 3 (3.45%) Talend
6 3 (3.45%) Tenable
7 1 (1.15%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.15%) Qualys