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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 72 95
Rank change year-on-year -20 +23 +25
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 75 33 15
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.19% 2.03% 0.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.50% 11.96% 5.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 23 8
10th Percentile £325 £404 £451
25th Percentile £425 £416 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% -17.39% -4.17%
75th Percentile £488 £558 £631
90th Percentile £506 £600 £650
England median daily rate £521 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.36% - +4.76%
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 £69.44 £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -0.80% -12.50% +261.01%

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 714 276 299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.90% 16.96% 14.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 546 177 213
10th Percentile £352 £275 £311
25th Percentile £413 £400 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.84% +5.56% -13.46%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £600
90th Percentile £670 £631 £721
England median daily rate £500 £520 £528
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.52% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 2
10th Percentile £21.25 £16.67 £34.59
25th Percentile £25.79 £18.74 £35.57
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.33 £37.22
Median % change year-on-year +53.43% -21.19% +47.39%
75th Percentile £58.75 £33.88 £38.86
90th Percentile £74.88 £34.54 £39.84
England median hourly rate £40.25 £34.58 £40.00
% change year-on-year +16.41% -13.56% -27.27%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -4 30 £425 -10.53% 2
Solihull -9 21 £478 +6.22% 1
Shropshire -44 11 £448 +27.86% 3
Warwickshire -13 6 £450 -25.00% 1
Worcestershire - 5 £700 -
Herefordshire - 4 £700 -
Coventry - 2 £488 - 1
Staffordshire - 1 £313 -
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 24 (32.00%) Confluence
2 3 (4.00%) SAS
3 2 (2.67%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.33%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.33%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (2.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 42 (56.00%) AWS
2 37 (49.33%) Azure
3 20 (26.67%) Amazon S3
3 20 (26.67%) Amazon SQS
3 20 (26.67%) GitHub
4 18 (24.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 18 (24.00%) GCP
4 18 (24.00%) GitHub Actions
5 17 (22.67%) Amazon EC2
5 17 (22.67%) AWS KMS
5 17 (22.67%) Route 53
6 7 (9.33%) Serverless
7 6 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (5.33%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (5.33%) PaaS
8 4 (5.33%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.67%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.33%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.33%) IBM Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (25.33%) SQL Server
2 18 (24.00%) Amazon RDS
3 17 (22.67%) Amazon Aurora
3 17 (22.67%) DynamoDB
4 14 (18.67%) MySQL
5 6 (8.00%) Relational Database
6 5 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (5.33%) Power BI
7 4 (5.33%) Redis
8 3 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (4.00%) Apache Hive
8 3 (4.00%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (4.00%) Hadoop
8 3 (4.00%) Impala
8 3 (4.00%) NoSQL
8 3 (4.00%) Pentaho
9 2 (2.67%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.33%) OLTP
10 1 (1.33%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 39 (52.00%) Git
2 37 (49.33%) Jenkins
3 36 (48.00%) JUnit
4 26 (34.67%) JIRA
5 19 (25.33%) Cucumber
5 19 (25.33%) JMeter
5 19 (25.33%) Selenium
5 19 (25.33%) WebDriver
6 17 (22.67%) Maven
6 17 (22.67%) Mockito
6 17 (22.67%) SonarQube
7 14 (18.67%) GitLab
8 13 (17.33%) DbUnit
8 13 (17.33%) jMock
9 11 (14.67%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (4.00%) Bitbucket
11 1 (1.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (1.33%) Cypress.io
11 1 (1.33%) Gatling
11 1 (1.33%) PetaLinux
General
1 33 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 22 (29.33%) Public Sector
3 18 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (12.00%) Finance
4 9 (12.00%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.33%) Advertising
6 1 (1.33%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 33 (44.00%) Developer
2 22 (29.33%) Java Developer
3 17 (22.67%) Senior
4 13 (17.33%) Tester
5 11 (14.67%) DBA
6 9 (12.00%) Automation Tester
6 9 (12.00%) Senior Tester
7 8 (10.67%) Administrator
7 8 (10.67%) Lead
7 8 (10.67%) Senior Developer
8 7 (9.33%) Python Developer
8 7 (9.33%) Senior Automation Tester
8 7 (9.33%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (8.00%) Systems Tester
10 5 (6.67%) Database Engineer
10 5 (6.67%) SC Cleared DBA
10 5 (6.67%) Test Leader
11 4 (5.33%) Automation Test Lead
11 4 (5.33%) Backend Developer
11 4 (5.33%) Oracle Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (52.00%) Spring
2 27 (36.00%) REST
3 21 (28.00%) Spring Boot
3 21 (28.00%) Web Services
4 19 (25.33%) Hibernate
4 19 (25.33%) JPA
4 19 (25.33%) SOAP
4 19 (25.33%) Spring Batch
4 19 (25.33%) Spring Integration
4 19 (25.33%) WireMock
5 17 (22.67%) ActiveMQ
5 17 (22.67%) AngularJS
6 16 (21.33%) Node.js
6 16 (21.33%) Spring Cloud
7 13 (17.33%) PowerMock
8 12 (16.00%) RESTful
9 11 (14.67%) Bootstrap
10 7 (9.33%) FastAPI
11 5 (6.67%) React
12 4 (5.33%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 29 (38.67%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (20.00%) Distributed Architecture
3 5 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.00%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.33%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.33%) FPGA
5 1 (1.33%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.33%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.33%) Replication
5 1 (1.33%) Verilog
5 1 (1.33%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 15 (20.00%) Linux
2 3 (4.00%) Unix
3 1 (1.33%) AIX
3 1 (1.33%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (1.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 45 (60.00%) Microservices
2 43 (57.33%) Agile
3 36 (48.00%) TDD
4 30 (40.00%) Containerisation
5 28 (37.33%) BDD
6 25 (33.33%) DevOps
6 25 (33.33%) Observability
7 23 (30.67%) Test Automation
8 22 (29.33%) Performance Tuning
8 22 (29.33%) Scrum
9 20 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (26.67%) Validation
10 19 (25.33%) Stakeholder Management
11 18 (24.00%) End-to-End Testing
11 18 (24.00%) Test Strategy
12 17 (22.67%) Load Testing
13 16 (21.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 15 (20.00%) Kanban
15 14 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 36 (48.00%) SQL
2 26 (34.67%) Java
3 13 (17.33%) Python
4 4 (5.33%) Go
5 3 (4.00%) HiveQL
5 3 (4.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.00%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.67%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.33%) C
7 1 (1.33%) C++
7 1 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.33%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.33%) SystemVerilog
7 1 (1.33%) Tcl
7 1 (1.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (69.33%) Security Cleared
2 49 (65.33%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (10.67%) OCP
3 8 (10.67%) Oracle Certification
4 5 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 5 (6.67%) Azure Certification
5 4 (5.33%) DV Cleared
6 3 (4.00%) Degree
7 2 (2.67%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.00%) QA
2 1 (1.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.33%) GDPR
2 1 (1.33%) ISO 22301
2 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 45 (60.00%) Docker
2 11 (14.67%) Postfix
3 3 (4.00%) HDFS
4 1 (1.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 42 (56.00%) Grafana
2 28 (37.33%) Kubernetes
3 27 (36.00%) Prometheus
4 3 (4.00%) Ansible
4 3 (4.00%) Control-M
4 3 (4.00%) IBM Guardium
4 3 (4.00%) Nessus
5 1 (1.33%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.33%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 22 (29.33%) Microsoft
2 19 (25.33%) Oracle
3 17 (22.67%) Jaspersoft
4 13 (17.33%) Atlassian
5 3 (4.00%) Denodo
5 3 (4.00%) Informatica
5 3 (4.00%) Talend
5 3 (4.00%) Tenable
6 1 (1.33%) Google
6 1 (1.33%) IBM
6 1 (1.33%) Xilinx