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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 94 101
Rank change year-on-year +28 +7 +63
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 66 17 16
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 3.36% 0.91% 0.80%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.98% 5.63% 5.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 4 11
10th Percentile £407 £477 -
25th Percentile £459 £498 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £624
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -15.00% +24.70%
75th Percentile £614 £569 £700
90th Percentile £675 £603 -
England median daily rate £529 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.82% -4.35% +0.88%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 413 302 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 21.04% 16.16% 15.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 190 214
10th Percentile £368 £324 £313
25th Percentile £447 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +2.56% -5.71%
75th Percentile £581 £625 £647
90th Percentile £650 £725 £688
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £30.70 £34.04 -
25th Percentile £32.74 £34.20 -
Median hourly rate £34.43 £34.47 £31.04
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +11.03% +158.67%
75th Percentile £35.24 £34.73 -
90th Percentile £35.69 £34.89 -
England median hourly rate £43.50 £33.93 £50.50
% change year-on-year +28.21% -32.81% +1.00%

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 21 October 2025.

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 21 October 2025. 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 +29 34 £500 -6.98% 4
Warwickshire +7 10 £500 - 4
Herefordshire +6 10 £650 +18.18%
Worcestershire - 10 £650 -
Solihull - 8 £450 -
Shropshire -31 2 £350 -31.37%
Coventry -7 1 £275 - 5
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 14 (21.21%) Confluence
2 12 (18.18%) nginx
3 2 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.03%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.03%) Drupal
4 1 (1.52%) JBoss
4 1 (1.52%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (18.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 40 (60.61%) AWS
2 33 (50.00%) Azure
3 26 (39.39%) Amazon S3
3 26 (39.39%) Serverless
4 24 (36.36%) AWS KMS
5 23 (34.85%) Amazon EC2
6 22 (33.33%) GCP
7 19 (28.79%) Route 53
8 17 (25.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 15 (22.73%) GitHub
10 14 (21.21%) Amazon ECS
10 14 (21.21%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (18.18%) Amazon ELB
11 12 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 10 (15.15%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (15.15%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (13.64%) Azure Key Vault
14 7 (10.61%) Apigee
14 7 (10.61%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (18.18%) IMAP
1 12 (18.18%) OpenLDAP
1 12 (18.18%) SMTP
1 12 (18.18%) SSH
2 11 (16.67%) DNS
3 10 (15.15%) Firewall
3 10 (15.15%) FTP
3 10 (15.15%) HTTP
4 2 (3.03%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.52%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (36.36%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 12 (18.18%) MySQL
4 10 (15.15%) NoSQL
5 9 (13.64%) Relational Database
6 8 (12.12%) DynamoDB
6 8 (12.12%) Redis
7 3 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (3.03%) Big Data
8 2 (3.03%) Delta Lake
8 2 (3.03%) Hadoop
8 2 (3.03%) MongoDB
8 2 (3.03%) Parquet
8 2 (3.03%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.52%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 38 (57.58%) Jenkins
2 34 (51.52%) Git
3 16 (24.24%) JIRA
4 13 (19.70%) GitLab
5 12 (18.18%) SonarQube
5 12 (18.18%) Vagrant
6 11 (16.67%) Maven
7 9 (13.64%) JUnit
8 7 (10.61%) Mockito
9 5 (7.58%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (7.58%) DbUnit
9 5 (7.58%) jMock
10 4 (6.06%) Liquibase
11 3 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (3.03%) MLflow
13 1 (1.52%) Deequ
13 1 (1.52%) Poetry
13 1 (1.52%) PyCharm
13 1 (1.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 28 (42.42%) Social Skills
2 20 (30.30%) Public Sector
3 13 (19.70%) Finance
3 13 (19.70%) Presentation Skills
4 9 (13.64%) Banking
5 7 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (9.09%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.52%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (45.45%) Developer
2 18 (27.27%) AWS Engineer
3 12 (18.18%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 12 (18.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 12 (18.18%) Java Developer
3 12 (18.18%) Platform Engineer
4 10 (15.15%) AWS DevOps
4 10 (15.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 10 (15.15%) Backend Developer
4 10 (15.15%) Cloud Engineer
4 10 (15.15%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (15.15%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 10 (15.15%) GCP Engineer
5 8 (12.12%) Python Developer
6 7 (10.61%) Cloud Developer
6 7 (10.61%) Data Engineer
6 7 (10.61%) GCP Developer
7 5 (7.58%) Senior
8 4 (6.06%) Lead
8 4 (6.06%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (43.94%) REST
2 21 (31.82%) RESTful
3 14 (21.21%) Spring
3 14 (21.21%) Spring Boot
4 12 (18.18%) LDAP
4 12 (18.18%) Web Services
5 11 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (15.15%) ActiveMQ
6 10 (15.15%) Flask
6 10 (15.15%) Node.js
6 10 (15.15%) SOAP
7 9 (13.64%) AngularJS
7 9 (13.64%) JPA
8 8 (12.12%) FastAPI
8 8 (12.12%) GraphQL
8 8 (12.12%) WebSockets
9 7 (10.61%) Bootstrap
9 7 (10.61%) gRPC
9 7 (10.61%) Hibernate
9 7 (10.61%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 20 (30.30%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (28.79%) Cloud Native
3 10 (15.15%) Replication
4 8 (12.12%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 31 (46.97%) Linux
2 12 (18.18%) Amazon Linux
2 12 (18.18%) VMS
3 11 (16.67%) Windows
4 10 (15.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (78.79%) DevOps
2 47 (71.21%) CI/CD
3 37 (56.06%) Containerisation
4 29 (43.94%) Agile
4 29 (43.94%) Microservices
5 16 (24.24%) Change Management
6 15 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (21.21%) Scrum
8 12 (18.18%) Cloud Security
8 12 (18.18%) Configuration Management
8 12 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
8 12 (18.18%) ETL
8 12 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
8 12 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
8 12 (18.18%) TDD
9 11 (16.67%) Computer Science
9 11 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
10 10 (15.15%) Patch Management
10 10 (15.15%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 44 (66.67%) Python
2 41 (62.12%) SQL
3 20 (30.30%) Go
4 15 (22.73%) Java
5 14 (21.21%) Groovy
6 13 (19.70%) PowerShell
7 6 (9.09%) VBA
8 3 (4.55%) Bash
8 3 (4.55%) PHP
9 2 (3.03%) Bicep
9 2 (3.03%) JavaScript
9 2 (3.03%) Ruby
10 1 (1.52%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.52%) Scala
10 1 (1.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (46.97%) Security Cleared
2 30 (45.45%) SC Cleared
3 21 (31.82%) Degree
4 15 (22.73%) Azure Certification
5 11 (16.67%) AWS Certification
5 11 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (13.64%) Master's Degree
7 7 (10.61%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.03%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.52%) GDPR
System Software
1 49 (74.24%) Docker
2 17 (25.76%) Postfix
3 12 (18.18%) Dovecot
3 12 (18.18%) Squid
4 10 (15.15%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 35 (53.03%) Grafana
1 35 (53.03%) Prometheus
2 27 (40.91%) Kubernetes
2 27 (40.91%) Terraform
3 12 (18.18%) Nessus
4 10 (15.15%) Proxmox
5 7 (10.61%) Ansible
6 2 (3.03%) Argo
6 2 (3.03%) Istio
Vendors
1 17 (25.76%) Jaspersoft
2 14 (21.21%) Google
3 12 (18.18%) ServiceNow
4 11 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 8 (12.12%) Splunk
6 5 (7.58%) Atlassian
7 3 (4.55%) Oracle
8 2 (3.03%) Cloudera
9 1 (1.52%) IBM
9 1 (1.52%) Qualys
9 1 (1.52%) Red Hat