PostgreSQL Contracts in the West Midlands

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring PostgreSQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PostgreSQL over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 97 122
Rank change year-on-year +19 +25 +25
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 29 17 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.88% 0.82% 0.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.03% 5.65% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 11 4
10th Percentile £410 £300 £443
25th Percentile £443 £444 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -7.11% +13.64%
75th Percentile £595 £625 £619
90th Percentile £602 £650 £653
England median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%

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 263 301 366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 17.03% 14.60% 16.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 221 241
10th Percentile £293 £308 £313
25th Percentile £408 £358 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -10.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £594
90th Percentile £638 £706 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £16.67 £34.59 £24.13
25th Percentile £18.74 £35.57 £24.31
Median hourly rate £29.33 £37.22 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.19% +47.39% -
75th Percentile £33.88 £38.86 £30.48
90th Percentile £34.54 £39.84 £33.24
England median hourly rate £34.00 £39.25 £58.05
% change year-on-year -13.38% -32.38% +53.56%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in the West Midlands

PostgreSQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL in the West Midlands

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the West Midlands

PostgreSQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for PostgreSQL in the West Midlands

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 5 July 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
Solihull - 15 £450 -
Birmingham +12 9 £500 -16.67% 15
Shropshire 0 3 £350 -32.20% 7
Warwickshire - 1 £600 - 2
PostgreSQL
England

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (10.34%) Confluence
2 2 (6.90%) nginx
3 1 (3.45%) Apache
3 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.45%) JBoss
3 1 (3.45%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Mozilla Thunderbird
1 2 (6.90%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 19 (65.52%) AWS
2 16 (55.17%) Amazon S3
3 15 (51.72%) Amazon EC2
4 13 (44.83%) Amazon SQS
5 11 (37.93%) AWS KMS
5 11 (37.93%) Route 53
6 9 (31.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (13.79%) Azure
8 3 (10.34%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (6.90%) Amazon ELB
9 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (6.90%) PaaS
9 2 (6.90%) Serverless
9 2 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (3.45%) AWS CodeBuild
10 1 (3.45%) Azure Functions
10 1 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (3.45%) GitHub
10 1 (3.45%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) IMAP
1 2 (6.90%) OpenLDAP
1 2 (6.90%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (58.62%) Amazon Aurora
2 15 (51.72%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (37.93%) DynamoDB
4 6 (20.69%) SQL Server
5 4 (13.79%) MySQL
6 3 (10.34%) NoSQL
7 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
8 1 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (3.45%) Flink
Development Applications
1 19 (65.52%) Jenkins
2 17 (58.62%) Git
3 16 (55.17%) Maven
4 14 (48.28%) JUnit
5 11 (37.93%) SonarQube
6 10 (34.48%) Mockito
7 7 (24.14%) Bitbucket Server
7 7 (24.14%) DbUnit
7 7 (24.14%) jMock
8 4 (13.79%) JIRA
9 2 (6.90%) Vagrant
10 1 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (48.28%) Public Sector
2 5 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Finance
4 2 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Legal
5 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (58.62%) Developer
2 16 (55.17%) Java Developer
3 6 (20.69%) Lead
3 6 (20.69%) Lead Developer
3 6 (20.69%) Lead Java Developer
3 6 (20.69%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 5 (17.24%) Architect
5 4 (13.79%) Senior
5 4 (13.79%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (10.34%) AWS Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Enterprise Architect
6 3 (10.34%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
6 3 (10.34%) Senior Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Administrator
7 2 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Data Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) DBA
7 2 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (62.07%) REST
2 17 (58.62%) Spring
2 17 (58.62%) Spring Boot
3 15 (51.72%) ActiveMQ
3 15 (51.72%) SOAP
3 15 (51.72%) Web Services
4 14 (48.28%) JPA
5 12 (41.38%) Hibernate
6 11 (37.93%) AngularJS
6 11 (37.93%) Bootstrap
6 11 (37.93%) Spring Batch
6 11 (37.93%) Spring Integration
7 10 (34.48%) Spring Cloud
8 9 (31.03%) RESTful
9 7 (24.14%) PowerMock
10 5 (17.24%) .NET
11 3 (10.34%) .NET Framework
12 2 (6.90%) Kafka
12 2 (6.90%) LDAP
13 1 (3.45%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (31.03%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (37.93%) Linux
2 2 (6.90%) Amazon Linux
2 2 (6.90%) VMS
3 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (72.41%) Agile
2 18 (62.07%) Microservices
3 16 (55.17%) DevOps
3 16 (55.17%) Scrum
3 16 (55.17%) TDD
4 11 (37.93%) Containerisation
5 10 (34.48%) CI/CD
6 9 (31.03%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (27.59%) BDD
8 7 (24.14%) Kanban
8 7 (24.14%) Open Source
8 7 (24.14%) Risk Management
8 7 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (13.79%) Decision-Making
9 4 (13.79%) Performance Tuning
9 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (10.34%) Architecture Governance
10 3 (10.34%) ITIL
10 3 (10.34%) Test Automation
10 3 (10.34%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 17 (58.62%) Java
2 16 (55.17%) SQL
3 3 (10.34%) PowerShell
3 3 (10.34%) Python
4 2 (6.90%) Bicep
4 2 (6.90%) Groovy
5 1 (3.45%) Bash
5 1 (3.45%) C#
5 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 17 (58.62%) Security Cleared
2 14 (48.28%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) Degree
3 2 (6.90%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (6.90%) OCP
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.45%) GDPR
System Software
1 21 (72.41%) Docker
2 10 (34.48%) Postfix
3 2 (6.90%) Dovecot
3 2 (6.90%) Squid
Systems Management
1 12 (41.38%) Grafana
1 12 (41.38%) Prometheus
2 7 (24.14%) Kubernetes
3 4 (13.79%) Terraform
4 2 (6.90%) Nessus
Vendors
1 11 (37.93%) Jaspersoft
2 7 (24.14%) Atlassian
3 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
4 4 (13.79%) Oracle
5 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.45%) Qualys