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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 80 93
Rank change year-on-year -42 +13 +19
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 50 47 19
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.40% 2.56% 1.00%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.72% 13.47% 6.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 30 6
10th Percentile £357 £402 £486
25th Percentile £423 £450 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% -9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £509 £600 £606
90th Percentile £700 £650 £625
England median daily rate £513 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -

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 648 349 316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.18% 19.02% 16.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 226 202
10th Percentile £359 £350 £314
25th Percentile £413 £421 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £600 £593 £625
90th Percentile £675 £645 £724
England median daily rate £509 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -0.73% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 2
10th Percentile £20.45 £30.70 £34.04
25th Percentile £21.25 £32.74 £34.20
Median hourly rate £21.50 £34.43 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year -37.55% -0.10% +11.03%
75th Percentile £40.53 £35.24 £34.73
90th Percentile £61.75 £35.69 £34.89
England median hourly rate £39.00 £43.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.34% +24.29% -34.58%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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
Solihull -5 19 - - 3
Shropshire -36 9 £447 +27.71% 1
Birmingham -27 7 £425 -10.53% 10
Warwickshire -17 5 £450 -10.00% 6
Coventry - 4 £575 -
Worcestershire +4 3 £700 +7.69% 2
Herefordshire 0 3 £700 +7.69% 1
Staffordshire - 2 £519 - 3
Dudley - 1 £375 - 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 14 (28.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.00%) IIS
2 1 (2.00%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 29 (58.00%) AWS
2 21 (42.00%) Azure
3 9 (18.00%) Amazon S3
3 9 (18.00%) Amazon SQS
4 8 (16.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (14.00%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (14.00%) AWS KMS
5 7 (14.00%) GitHub
5 7 (14.00%) Route 53
6 6 (12.00%) GCP
6 6 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (8.00%) PaaS
8 4 (8.00%) Serverless
9 3 (6.00%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (4.00%) ChatGPT
10 2 (4.00%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (4.00%) Vercel
11 1 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (38.00%) SQL Server
2 15 (30.00%) Relational Database
3 12 (24.00%) MySQL
4 8 (16.00%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (14.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (14.00%) DynamoDB
6 5 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (8.00%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (6.00%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (6.00%) MongoDB
9 2 (4.00%) Db2
9 2 (4.00%) RDBMS
9 2 (4.00%) Redis
9 2 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (2.00%) DataStage
10 1 (2.00%) IBM InfoSphere
10 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
10 1 (2.00%) Oracle Database
10 1 (2.00%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (2.00%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 24 (48.00%) Git
2 23 (46.00%) Jenkins
3 22 (44.00%) JUnit
4 18 (36.00%) Maven
5 17 (34.00%) Mockito
5 17 (34.00%) SonarQube
6 14 (28.00%) JIRA
7 5 (10.00%) Bitbucket Server
7 5 (10.00%) DbUnit
7 5 (10.00%) jMock
8 4 (8.00%) Cucumber
8 4 (8.00%) GitLab
8 4 (8.00%) JMeter
8 4 (8.00%) Selenium
8 4 (8.00%) WebDriver
9 1 (2.00%) Cypress.io
9 1 (2.00%) Gatling
General
1 24 (48.00%) Social Skills
2 18 (36.00%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (34.00%) Public Sector
4 8 (16.00%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (8.00%) Finance
6 2 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 24 (48.00%) Developer
2 19 (38.00%) Java Developer
3 17 (34.00%) Senior
4 12 (24.00%) Senior Developer
5 11 (22.00%) DBA
5 11 (22.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 10 (20.00%) Administrator
7 4 (8.00%) Database Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Lead
7 4 (8.00%) Lead Developer
7 4 (8.00%) Lead Java Developer
7 4 (8.00%) Oracle Database Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared DBA
8 3 (6.00%) Data Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Python Data Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Python Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Senior Data Engineer
9 2 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (4.00%) Senior Systems Tester
9 2 (4.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (44.00%) REST
1 22 (44.00%) Spring
2 19 (38.00%) AngularJS
2 19 (38.00%) Spring Boot
3 18 (36.00%) Hibernate
3 18 (36.00%) JPA
4 17 (34.00%) ActiveMQ
4 17 (34.00%) SOAP
4 17 (34.00%) Web Services
5 16 (32.00%) Spring Cloud
6 15 (30.00%) RESTful
7 7 (14.00%) Node.js
7 7 (14.00%) Spring Batch
7 7 (14.00%) Spring Integration
8 6 (12.00%) React
9 5 (10.00%) Bootstrap
9 5 (10.00%) PowerMock
10 4 (8.00%) Kafka
10 4 (8.00%) WireMock
11 3 (6.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 12 (24.00%) Cloud Native
2 9 (18.00%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (12.00%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (8.00%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (6.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (4.00%) AI Agents
6 2 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (4.00%) Replication
7 1 (2.00%) Data Structures
7 1 (2.00%) Legacy Code
7 1 (2.00%) Mobile App
7 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.00%) AIX
2 1 (2.00%) Solaris
2 1 (2.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (50.00%) Agile
1 25 (50.00%) Microservices
2 23 (46.00%) CI/CD
3 21 (42.00%) TDD
4 19 (38.00%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (38.00%) Scrum
5 18 (36.00%) Containerisation
5 18 (36.00%) Kanban
6 17 (34.00%) Performance Tuning
7 14 (28.00%) Test Automation
8 13 (26.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (26.00%) DevOps
8 13 (26.00%) Translating Business Requirements
9 11 (22.00%) Database Security
10 10 (20.00%) API Development
10 10 (20.00%) API Integration
10 10 (20.00%) Code Quality
10 10 (20.00%) SDLC
10 10 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
11 9 (18.00%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 21 (42.00%) Java
2 19 (38.00%) SQL
3 15 (30.00%) TypeScript
4 6 (12.00%) Python
5 3 (6.00%) Go
6 2 (4.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.00%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.00%) Bash
7 1 (2.00%) C++
7 1 (2.00%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.00%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 27 (54.00%) SC Cleared
1 27 (54.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (18.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (18.00%) OCP
2 9 (18.00%) Oracle Certification
3 5 (10.00%) Azure Certification
4 3 (6.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) QA
2 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.00%) GDPR
2 1 (2.00%) ISO 22301
2 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 26 (52.00%) Docker
2 4 (8.00%) Postfix
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 18 (36.00%) Grafana
2 14 (28.00%) Prometheus
3 7 (14.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.00%) Data Guard
5 1 (2.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 18 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (34.00%) Oracle
3 7 (14.00%) Jaspersoft
4 5 (10.00%) Atlassian
5 2 (4.00%) Google
5 2 (4.00%) IBM
5 2 (4.00%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.00%) Informatica
6 1 (2.00%) JD Edwards
6 1 (2.00%) QAD
6 1 (2.00%) SAP