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 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 87 92
Rank change year-on-year +9 +5 +53
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 64 18 22
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.80% 1.14% 1.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.09% 6.55% 7.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 6 14
10th Percentile £431 £477 £245
25th Percentile £471 £480 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £520 £418
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% +24.55% -20.48%
75th Percentile £597 £550 £690
90th Percentile £675 £588 £700
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -

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 424 275 285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.58% 17.39% 16.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 173 210
10th Percentile £386 £363 £306
25th Percentile £456 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% +10.53% -7.32%
75th Percentile £575 £624 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
Median hourly rate £36.00 £18.00 £31.04
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -42.01% +158.67%
England median hourly rate £51.36 £42.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +22.29% -9.05% -16.04%

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 10 January 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 10 January 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 26 £500 -16.67% 5
Herefordshire -2 19 £650 +18.18%
Worcestershire - 19 £650 - 5
Warwickshire -4 11 £463 - 1
Coventry -12 2 £273 - 1
Staffordshire +3 1 £463 -15.91% 2
Shropshire -38 1 - - 6
Solihull - 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 12 (18.75%) Confluence
2 10 (15.63%) nginx
3 2 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.13%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.13%) Drupal
Applications
1 10 (15.63%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 43 (67.19%) Azure
2 30 (46.88%) AWS
3 26 (40.63%) Serverless
4 24 (37.50%) GCP
5 22 (34.38%) GitHub
6 15 (23.44%) Amazon S3
6 15 (23.44%) AWS KMS
7 14 (21.88%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (18.75%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (17.19%) Amazon ELB
9 11 (17.19%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (17.19%) Route 53
9 11 (17.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 10 (15.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (15.63%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (15.63%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
12 7 (10.94%) Apigee
12 7 (10.94%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (18.75%) SSH
2 11 (17.19%) DNS
3 10 (15.63%) Firewall
3 10 (15.63%) FTP
3 10 (15.63%) HTTP
3 10 (15.63%) IMAP
3 10 (15.63%) OpenLDAP
3 10 (15.63%) SMTP
4 2 (3.13%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.56%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.56%) SSL
5 1 (1.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (21.88%) Amazon RDS
1 14 (21.88%) MySQL
2 12 (18.75%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (15.63%) Amazon Aurora
3 10 (15.63%) NoSQL
4 8 (12.50%) Redis
4 8 (12.50%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.69%) Big Data
5 3 (4.69%) Hadoop
6 2 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (3.13%) Delta Lake
6 2 (3.13%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.13%) Parquet
7 1 (1.56%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.56%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.56%) Impala
7 1 (1.56%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 25 (39.06%) Jenkins
2 20 (31.25%) Git
3 14 (21.88%) JIRA
4 13 (20.31%) GitLab
5 10 (15.63%) Vagrant
6 4 (6.25%) Liquibase
7 3 (4.69%) SonarQube
8 2 (3.13%) MLflow
8 2 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.56%) Deequ
9 1 (1.56%) Poetry
9 1 (1.56%) PyCharm
9 1 (1.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 28 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 14 (21.88%) Presentation Skills
3 13 (20.31%) Public Sector
4 12 (18.75%) Finance
5 9 (14.06%) Banking
6 6 (9.38%) Financial Institution
7 5 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (3.13%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (29.69%) Developer
2 16 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 15 (23.44%) AWS Engineer
4 13 (20.31%) Senior
5 12 (18.75%) Senior Data Engineer
6 10 (15.63%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 10 (15.63%) Backend Developer
6 10 (15.63%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (15.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 10 (15.63%) GCP Engineer
6 10 (15.63%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
7 8 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 8 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (12.50%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 8 (12.50%) Python Developer
8 7 (10.94%) Cloud Developer
8 7 (10.94%) GCP Developer
9 4 (6.25%) Software Engineer
10 3 (4.69%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (28.13%) REST
2 17 (26.56%) RESTful
3 13 (20.31%) Keycloak
4 12 (18.75%) Kafka
5 10 (15.63%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (15.63%) Flask
5 10 (15.63%) LDAP
6 9 (14.06%) Node.js
7 8 (12.50%) FastAPI
7 8 (12.50%) GraphQL
7 8 (12.50%) WebSockets
8 7 (10.94%) gRPC
9 4 (6.25%) Spring
9 4 (6.25%) Spring Boot
10 3 (4.69%) AngularJS
11 2 (3.13%) .NET
11 2 (3.13%) Apache Avro
11 2 (3.13%) Drush
11 2 (3.13%) Pandas
11 2 (3.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (31.25%) Cloud Native
2 13 (20.31%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (15.63%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (15.63%) Replication
4 8 (12.50%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 23 (35.94%) Linux
2 11 (17.19%) Windows
3 10 (15.63%) Amazon Linux
3 10 (15.63%) Ubuntu
3 10 (15.63%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (82.81%) DevOps
2 43 (67.19%) CI/CD
3 37 (57.81%) Containerisation
4 22 (34.38%) ETL
5 21 (32.81%) Agile
5 21 (32.81%) Data Pipeline
6 18 (28.13%) Microservices
7 15 (23.44%) Data Engineering
7 15 (23.44%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (21.88%) Change Management
9 13 (20.31%) DataOps
9 13 (20.31%) Performance Tuning
10 12 (18.75%) Batch Processing
10 12 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (17.19%) Cloud Security
11 11 (17.19%) Computer Science
12 10 (15.63%) Configuration Management
12 10 (15.63%) Data Architecture
12 10 (15.63%) Patch Management
12 10 (15.63%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 54 (84.38%) Python
2 35 (54.69%) SQL
3 29 (45.31%) Go
4 12 (18.75%) Groovy
5 11 (17.19%) PowerShell
6 6 (9.38%) VBA
7 5 (7.81%) Java
8 3 (4.69%) Bash
8 3 (4.69%) JavaScript
8 3 (4.69%) PHP
9 2 (3.13%) Kotlin
9 2 (3.13%) Ruby
9 2 (3.13%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.56%) Bicep
10 1 (1.56%) C#
10 1 (1.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 32 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 30 (46.88%) SC Cleared
3 25 (39.06%) Azure Certification
4 21 (32.81%) Degree
5 12 (18.75%) AWS Certification
6 11 (17.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (14.06%) Master's Degree
8 7 (10.94%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 44 (68.75%) Docker
2 10 (15.63%) DFS Replication
2 10 (15.63%) Dovecot
2 10 (15.63%) Postfix
2 10 (15.63%) Squid
3 1 (1.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 33 (51.56%) Kubernetes
2 26 (40.63%) Grafana
2 26 (40.63%) Prometheus
3 24 (37.50%) Terraform
4 10 (15.63%) Nessus
4 10 (15.63%) Proxmox
5 7 (10.94%) Ansible
6 2 (3.13%) Argo
6 2 (3.13%) Istio
Vendors
1 14 (21.88%) Google
2 12 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 10 (15.63%) Jaspersoft
3 10 (15.63%) ServiceNow
4 8 (12.50%) Splunk
5 3 (4.69%) Cloudera
6 2 (3.13%) Oracle
7 1 (1.56%) Qualys
7 1 (1.56%) Red Hat