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 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 76 90
Rank change year-on-year -3 +14 +44
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 66 21 20
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.55% 1.46% 1.05%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.39% 8.86% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 8 12
10th Percentile £393 £457 £240
25th Percentile £468 £477 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £503 £418
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% +20.36% -20.48%
75th Percentile £607 £569 £565
90th Percentile £675 £640 £696
England median daily rate £520 £550 £558
% change year-on-year -5.45% -1.35% +1.36%

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 493 237 280
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 19.03% 16.47% 14.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 150 211
10th Percentile £364 £362 £300
25th Percentile £450 £425 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £597 £636
90th Percentile £650 £676 £700
England median daily rate £500 £538 £538
% change year-on-year -6.98% - -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £18.00 -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £41.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +21.95% -3.53% -25.26%

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 17 February 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 17 February 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 +7 27 £500 -16.67% 11
Herefordshire - 20 £650 -
Worcestershire - 20 £650 - 1
Warwickshire -7 11 £463 -
Solihull -3 4 - - 7
Coventry -17 2 £273 -
Staffordshire -2 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 8 (12.12%) Confluence
2 4 (6.06%) nginx
3 2 (3.03%) Drupal
Applications
1 6 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.06%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 43 (65.15%) Azure
2 28 (42.42%) AWS
3 26 (39.39%) Serverless
4 22 (33.33%) GCP
5 21 (31.82%) GitHub
6 17 (25.76%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (19.70%) AWS KMS
8 12 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (16.67%) Amazon S3
10 10 (15.15%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (13.64%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (13.64%) Azure Key Vault
11 9 (13.64%) Route 53
12 8 (12.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (10.61%) Apigee
13 7 (10.61%) Cloud Functions
14 5 (7.58%) Amazon ELB
14 5 (7.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 4 (6.06%) Amazon SQS
15 4 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.06%) DNS
1 4 (6.06%) Firewall
1 4 (6.06%) FTP
1 4 (6.06%) HTTP
1 4 (6.06%) IMAP
1 4 (6.06%) OpenLDAP
1 4 (6.06%) SMTP
1 4 (6.06%) SSH
2 1 (1.52%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (21.21%) MySQL
2 12 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (13.64%) NoSQL
4 9 (13.64%) Redis
5 8 (12.12%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (10.61%) Relational Database
7 4 (6.06%) DynamoDB
8 3 (4.55%) MongoDB
9 2 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.52%) Apache Hive
10 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.52%) Big Data
10 1 (1.52%) Data Lake
10 1 (1.52%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.52%) Impala
10 1 (1.52%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (31.82%) Jenkins
2 17 (25.76%) Git
3 13 (19.70%) GitLab
3 13 (19.70%) JIRA
4 5 (7.58%) SonarQube
5 4 (6.06%) JUnit
5 4 (6.06%) Liquibase
5 4 (6.06%) Maven
5 4 (6.06%) Mockito
5 4 (6.06%) Vagrant
6 3 (4.55%) DbUnit
6 3 (4.55%) jMock
7 1 (1.52%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (1.52%) Deequ
General
1 23 (34.85%) Social Skills
2 15 (22.73%) Finance
3 12 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 9 (13.64%) Banking
5 8 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (12.12%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (9.09%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.03%) Legal
Job Titles
1 28 (42.42%) Developer
2 15 (22.73%) Data Engineer
3 14 (21.21%) Senior
4 12 (18.18%) Python Developer
4 12 (18.18%) Senior Data Engineer
5 11 (16.67%) Backend Developer
6 10 (15.15%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (15.15%) GCP Engineer
7 9 (13.64%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (10.61%) Cloud Developer
8 7 (10.61%) GCP Developer
9 6 (9.09%) Java Developer
10 4 (6.06%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 4 (6.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 4 (6.06%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (6.06%) Software Engineer
11 3 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
11 3 (4.55%) AWS Software Engineer
11 3 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (4.55%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (36.36%) REST
2 18 (27.27%) RESTful
3 13 (19.70%) Keycloak
3 13 (19.70%) Node.js
4 12 (18.18%) FastAPI
4 12 (18.18%) Kafka
5 9 (13.64%) Flask
5 9 (13.64%) GraphQL
5 9 (13.64%) WebSockets
6 8 (12.12%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (12.12%) gRPC
6 8 (12.12%) Spring
6 8 (12.12%) Spring Boot
7 7 (10.61%) Web Services
8 6 (9.09%) AngularJS
9 5 (7.58%) Hibernate
9 5 (7.58%) JPA
9 5 (7.58%) SOAP
9 5 (7.58%) Spring Batch
9 5 (7.58%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 21 (31.82%) Cloud Native
2 15 (22.73%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (15.15%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (12.12%) Public Cloud
5 4 (6.06%) Replication
6 2 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 18 (27.27%) Linux
2 5 (7.58%) Windows
3 4 (6.06%) Amazon Linux
3 4 (6.06%) Ubuntu
3 4 (6.06%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (77.27%) DevOps
2 42 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 42 (63.64%) Containerisation
3 28 (42.42%) Agile
4 24 (36.36%) Microservices
5 20 (30.30%) Data Pipeline
5 20 (30.30%) ETL
6 15 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (19.70%) Data Engineering
7 13 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (18.18%) Batch Processing
8 12 (18.18%) DataOps
9 10 (15.15%) Computer Science
9 10 (15.15%) Data Architecture
9 10 (15.15%) Performance Tuning
9 10 (15.15%) Root Cause Analysis
10 8 (12.12%) Change Management
10 8 (12.12%) Cost Optimisation
10 8 (12.12%) Cryptography
11 7 (10.61%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (77.27%) Python
2 31 (46.97%) SQL
3 30 (45.45%) Go
4 10 (15.15%) Java
5 6 (9.09%) VBA
6 5 (7.58%) PowerShell
7 4 (6.06%) Groovy
7 4 (6.06%) JavaScript
8 3 (4.55%) PHP
9 2 (3.03%) Kotlin
9 2 (3.03%) Ruby
9 2 (3.03%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.52%) Bash
10 1 (1.52%) Bicep
10 1 (1.52%) C#
10 1 (1.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 31 (46.97%) Security Cleared
2 29 (43.94%) SC Cleared
3 21 (31.82%) Azure Certification
4 14 (21.21%) Degree
5 10 (15.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (13.64%) Master's Degree
7 8 (12.12%) AWS Certification
7 8 (12.12%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.52%) Data Quality
System Software
1 43 (65.15%) Docker
2 7 (10.61%) Postfix
3 4 (6.06%) DFS Replication
3 4 (6.06%) Dovecot
3 4 (6.06%) Squid
4 1 (1.52%) HDFS
4 1 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (54.55%) Kubernetes
2 28 (42.42%) Grafana
3 24 (36.36%) Prometheus
4 18 (27.27%) Terraform
5 7 (10.61%) Ansible
5 7 (10.61%) Nessus
6 4 (6.06%) Proxmox
7 3 (4.55%) Control-M
7 3 (4.55%) IBM Guardium
Vendors
1 15 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 14 (21.21%) Google
3 8 (12.12%) Jaspersoft
3 8 (12.12%) Splunk
4 4 (6.06%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.55%) Atlassian
5 3 (4.55%) Tenable
6 1 (1.52%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.52%) Oracle
6 1 (1.52%) Qualys