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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 77 95
Rank change year-on-year +10 +18 +46
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 88 18 19
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 3.05% 1.35% 0.96%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.04% 8.41% 6.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 8 13
10th Percentile £373 £410 £243
25th Percentile £437 £460 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £484 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% +7.44% -14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £529 £625
90th Percentile £705 £588 £650
England median daily rate £505 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -5.34% -3.00% -
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 £68.00 £54.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year +25.93% -19.40% +197.98%

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 585 214 293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.25% 16.09% 14.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 143 226
10th Percentile £358 £356 £309
25th Percentile £425 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £572 £600 £587
90th Percentile £645 £685 £693
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 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 £62.50 £19.00 -
90th Percentile £71.50 - -
England median hourly rate £49.36 £33.81 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.01% -15.49% -31.91%

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 30 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 30 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 +17 38 £475 - 3
Worcestershire - 20 £650 - 1
Herefordshire - 19 £650 -
Solihull -2 13 £478 +13.81% 1
Shropshire -41 7 £450 -5.66% 1
Warwickshire -8 5 £450 -
Coventry - 3 £275 -
Staffordshire -5 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 22 (25.00%) Confluence
2 3 (3.41%) SAS
3 2 (2.27%) Drupal
4 1 (1.14%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (2.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 47 (53.41%) Azure
2 45 (51.14%) AWS
3 30 (34.09%) GitHub
4 29 (32.95%) GCP
5 18 (20.45%) GitHub Actions
5 18 (20.45%) Serverless
6 15 (17.05%) AWS KMS
7 14 (15.91%) Amazon S3
8 12 (13.64%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
9 11 (12.50%) Route 53
10 10 (11.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (11.36%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (7.95%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (5.68%) Power Platform
13 3 (3.41%) PaaS
14 2 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
14 2 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
14 2 (2.27%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.14%) Kerberos
1 1 (1.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (17.05%) MySQL
2 13 (14.77%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (13.64%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (12.50%) NoSQL
5 10 (11.36%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (11.36%) DynamoDB
6 8 (9.09%) SQL Server
7 7 (7.95%) Redis
8 5 (5.68%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (4.55%) Apache Hive
9 4 (4.55%) Hadoop
9 4 (4.55%) Impala
9 4 (4.55%) Power BI
10 3 (3.41%) BusinessObjects
10 3 (3.41%) MongoDB
10 3 (3.41%) Pentaho
11 1 (1.14%) Big Data
11 1 (1.14%) GIS
11 1 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 38 (43.18%) Jenkins
2 29 (32.95%) Git
3 26 (29.55%) JIRA
4 25 (28.41%) JUnit
5 23 (26.14%) GitLab
6 15 (17.05%) Cucumber
6 15 (17.05%) JMeter
6 15 (17.05%) Selenium
6 15 (17.05%) WebDriver
7 10 (11.36%) Maven
7 10 (11.36%) Mockito
7 10 (11.36%) SonarQube
8 8 (9.09%) DbUnit
8 8 (9.09%) jMock
9 6 (6.82%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (4.55%) Liquibase
11 3 (3.41%) Bitbucket
12 1 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (1.14%) Deequ
12 1 (1.14%) PetaLinux
General
1 36 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 17 (19.32%) Finance
3 16 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 12 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (10.23%) Banking
6 7 (7.95%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (7.95%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (6.82%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.27%) Legal
9 1 (1.14%) Advertising
9 1 (1.14%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 27 (30.68%) Developer
2 23 (26.14%) Senior
3 17 (19.32%) Data Engineer
4 14 (15.91%) Java Developer
5 12 (13.64%) Senior Data Engineer
6 11 (12.50%) Tester
7 10 (11.36%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (11.36%) GCP Engineer
7 10 (11.36%) Python Developer
8 9 (10.23%) Automation Tester
8 9 (10.23%) Backend Developer
9 8 (9.09%) Lead
10 7 (7.95%) Senior Automation Tester
10 7 (7.95%) Senior Tester
10 7 (7.95%) Software Engineer
11 5 (5.68%) AWS Engineer
11 5 (5.68%) DBA
11 5 (5.68%) Test Leader
12 4 (4.55%) Administrator
12 4 (4.55%) Systems Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (35.23%) REST
1 31 (35.23%) Spring
2 21 (23.86%) RESTful
3 16 (18.18%) Spring Boot
4 15 (17.05%) Web Services
4 15 (17.05%) WireMock
5 13 (14.77%) Kafka
6 12 (13.64%) AngularJS
6 12 (13.64%) Hibernate
6 12 (13.64%) JPA
6 12 (13.64%) Keycloak
6 12 (13.64%) Node.js
6 12 (13.64%) SOAP
6 12 (13.64%) Spring Batch
6 12 (13.64%) Spring Integration
7 10 (11.36%) ActiveMQ
7 10 (11.36%) FastAPI
7 10 (11.36%) Spring Cloud
8 9 (10.23%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (9.09%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 32 (36.36%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (14.77%) Cloud Native
3 11 (12.50%) Distributed Architecture
4 10 (11.36%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (9.09%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.41%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.14%) FPGA
8 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.14%) Verilog
8 1 (1.14%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 20 (22.73%) Linux
2 3 (3.41%) Unix
3 1 (1.14%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (1.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (60.23%) CI/CD
2 50 (56.82%) Containerisation
3 49 (55.68%) DevOps
4 47 (53.41%) Agile
5 46 (52.27%) Microservices
6 26 (29.55%) TDD
7 21 (23.86%) BDD
8 20 (22.73%) Test Automation
9 18 (20.45%) Observability
10 17 (19.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (19.32%) ETL
11 16 (18.18%) Scrum
12 15 (17.05%) End-to-End Testing
12 15 (17.05%) Infrastructure as Code
12 15 (17.05%) Load Testing
12 15 (17.05%) Test Strategy
12 15 (17.05%) Validation
13 14 (15.91%) Performance Tuning
13 14 (15.91%) Stakeholder Management
14 13 (14.77%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 43 (48.86%) Python
2 29 (32.95%) Go
2 29 (32.95%) SQL
3 21 (23.86%) Java
4 4 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.41%) HiveQL
5 3 (3.41%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.27%) Kotlin
6 2 (2.27%) PHP
6 2 (2.27%) Ruby
7 1 (1.14%) Bash
7 1 (1.14%) Bicep
7 1 (1.14%) C
7 1 (1.14%) C#
7 1 (1.14%) C++
7 1 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.14%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.14%) Scala
7 1 (1.14%) Tcl
7 1 (1.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 54 (61.36%) Security Cleared
2 49 (55.68%) SC Cleared
3 16 (18.18%) Azure Certification
4 13 (14.77%) Degree
5 10 (11.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (10.23%) Master's Degree
7 7 (7.95%) DV Cleared
8 5 (5.68%) AWS Certification
9 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (4.55%) OCP
9 4 (4.55%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 59 (67.05%) Docker
2 7 (7.95%) Postfix
3 4 (4.55%) HDFS
4 1 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (57.95%) Kubernetes
2 45 (51.14%) Grafana
3 34 (38.64%) Prometheus
4 14 (15.91%) Terraform
5 10 (11.36%) Ansible
6 3 (3.41%) Control-M
6 3 (3.41%) IBM Guardium
6 3 (3.41%) Nessus
Vendors
1 19 (21.59%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.36%) Jaspersoft
2 10 (11.36%) Oracle
3 8 (9.09%) Atlassian
3 8 (9.09%) Splunk
4 7 (7.95%) Google
5 3 (3.41%) Denodo
5 3 (3.41%) Informatica
5 3 (3.41%) Talend
5 3 (3.41%) Tenable
6 1 (1.14%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.14%) Qualys
6 1 (1.14%) Xilinx