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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 77 98
Rank change year-on-year -19 +21 +25
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 69 29 17
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.04% 1.88% 0.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.96% 11.03% 5.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 20 11
10th Percentile £325 £410 £300
25th Percentile £416 £443 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year -10.30% -4.31% -7.11%
75th Percentile £488 £595 £625
90th Percentile £579 £602 £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 £72.22 £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +3.17% -12.50% +255.79%

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 693 263 302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.44% 17.01% 14.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 536 170 221
10th Percentile £351 £293 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +7.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £573 £588 £588
90th Percentile £668 £638 £706
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 2
10th Percentile £34.90 £16.67 £34.59
25th Percentile £42.50 £18.74 £35.57
Median hourly rate £48.75 £29.33 £37.22
Median % change year-on-year +66.21% -21.19% +47.39%
75th Percentile £68.75 £33.88 £38.86
90th Percentile £75.63 £34.54 £39.84
England median hourly rate £38.25 £34.00 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.69% -34.29%

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 6 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 6 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 -5 30 £425 -15.00% 8
Solihull -7 21 £478 +6.22%
Shropshire -45 7 £450 +28.57% 4
Worcestershire - 5 £700 - 1
Warwickshire -14 4 £450 -25.00% 4
Herefordshire - 4 £700 -
Coventry - 2 £488 -
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 (34.78%) Confluence
2 3 (4.35%) SAS
3 1 (1.45%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.45%) IIS
3 1 (1.45%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (2.90%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 40 (57.97%) AWS
2 35 (50.72%) Azure
3 20 (28.99%) GitHub
4 19 (27.54%) Amazon S3
4 19 (27.54%) Amazon SQS
5 18 (26.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 18 (26.09%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (24.64%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (24.64%) AWS KMS
6 17 (24.64%) GCP
6 17 (24.64%) Route 53
7 7 (10.14%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (8.70%) Serverless
9 4 (5.80%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (5.80%) Power Platform
10 2 (2.90%) PaaS
11 1 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (1.45%) dbt
11 1 (1.45%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (26.09%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (24.64%) Amazon Aurora
2 17 (24.64%) DynamoDB
3 13 (18.84%) SQL Server
4 10 (14.49%) MySQL
5 5 (7.25%) Relational Database
6 4 (5.80%) Power BI
6 4 (5.80%) Redis
7 3 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (4.35%) Apache Hive
7 3 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (4.35%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (4.35%) Hadoop
7 3 (4.35%) Impala
7 3 (4.35%) NoSQL
7 3 (4.35%) Pentaho
8 2 (2.90%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.45%) OLTP
9 1 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 38 (55.07%) Git
2 36 (52.17%) Jenkins
2 36 (52.17%) JUnit
3 26 (37.68%) JIRA
4 19 (27.54%) Cucumber
4 19 (27.54%) JMeter
4 19 (27.54%) Selenium
4 19 (27.54%) WebDriver
5 17 (24.64%) Maven
5 17 (24.64%) Mockito
5 17 (24.64%) SonarQube
6 14 (20.29%) GitLab
7 13 (18.84%) DbUnit
7 13 (18.84%) jMock
8 11 (15.94%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (4.35%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (1.45%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.45%) Gatling
10 1 (1.45%) PetaLinux
General
1 29 (42.03%) Social Skills
2 22 (31.88%) Public Sector
3 17 (24.64%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (13.04%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (11.59%) Finance
6 5 (7.25%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Advertising
7 1 (1.45%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 32 (46.38%) Developer
2 21 (30.43%) Java Developer
3 17 (24.64%) Senior
4 13 (18.84%) Tester
5 9 (13.04%) Automation Tester
5 9 (13.04%) Senior Tester
6 8 (11.59%) Lead
6 8 (11.59%) Senior Developer
7 7 (10.14%) DBA
7 7 (10.14%) Python Developer
7 7 (10.14%) Senior Automation Tester
7 7 (10.14%) Senior Java Developer
8 6 (8.70%) Systems Tester
9 5 (7.25%) Test Leader
10 4 (5.80%) Administrator
10 4 (5.80%) Automation Test Lead
10 4 (5.80%) Backend Developer
11 3 (4.35%) Data Engineer
11 3 (4.35%) SC Cleared DBA
11 3 (4.35%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (55.07%) Spring
2 26 (37.68%) REST
3 20 (28.99%) Spring Boot
3 20 (28.99%) Web Services
4 19 (27.54%) Hibernate
4 19 (27.54%) JPA
4 19 (27.54%) SOAP
4 19 (27.54%) Spring Batch
4 19 (27.54%) Spring Integration
4 19 (27.54%) WireMock
5 17 (24.64%) ActiveMQ
5 17 (24.64%) AngularJS
6 16 (23.19%) Spring Cloud
7 15 (21.74%) Node.js
8 13 (18.84%) PowerMock
9 12 (17.39%) RESTful
10 11 (15.94%) Bootstrap
11 7 (10.14%) FastAPI
12 4 (5.80%) GraphQL
12 4 (5.80%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 28 (40.58%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (21.74%) Distributed Architecture
3 5 (7.25%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.35%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.45%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.45%) FPGA
5 1 (1.45%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.45%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.45%) Verilog
5 1 (1.45%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 15 (21.74%) Linux
2 3 (4.35%) Unix
3 1 (1.45%) AIX
3 1 (1.45%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (1.45%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (63.77%) CI/CD
1 44 (63.77%) Microservices
2 43 (62.32%) Agile
3 35 (50.72%) TDD
4 30 (43.48%) Containerisation
5 28 (40.58%) BDD
6 26 (37.68%) DevOps
7 23 (33.33%) Observability
7 23 (33.33%) Test Automation
8 21 (30.43%) Scrum
9 20 (28.99%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (28.99%) Validation
10 18 (26.09%) End-to-End Testing
10 18 (26.09%) Performance Tuning
10 18 (26.09%) Test Strategy
11 17 (24.64%) Load Testing
11 17 (24.64%) Stakeholder Management
12 16 (23.19%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 15 (21.74%) Kanban
14 13 (18.84%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 33 (47.83%) SQL
2 25 (36.23%) Java
3 14 (20.29%) Python
4 4 (5.80%) Go
5 3 (4.35%) HiveQL
5 3 (4.35%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.90%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.90%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.45%) C
7 1 (1.45%) C++
7 1 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.45%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.45%) SystemVerilog
7 1 (1.45%) Tcl
7 1 (1.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (69.57%) Security Cleared
2 45 (65.22%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.25%) AWS Certification
3 5 (7.25%) Azure Certification
4 4 (5.80%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (5.80%) OCP
4 4 (5.80%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (4.35%) Degree
6 2 (2.90%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.35%) QA
2 1 (1.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.45%) GDPR
2 1 (1.45%) ISO 22301
2 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 44 (63.77%) Docker
2 11 (15.94%) Postfix
3 3 (4.35%) HDFS
4 1 (1.45%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 42 (60.87%) Grafana
2 28 (40.58%) Kubernetes
3 27 (39.13%) Prometheus
4 3 (4.35%) Ansible
4 3 (4.35%) Control-M
4 3 (4.35%) IBM Guardium
4 3 (4.35%) Nessus
5 1 (1.45%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 17 (24.64%) Jaspersoft
2 16 (23.19%) Microsoft
3 13 (18.84%) Atlassian
3 13 (18.84%) Oracle
4 3 (4.35%) Denodo
4 3 (4.35%) Informatica
4 3 (4.35%) Talend
4 3 (4.35%) Tenable
5 1 (1.45%) Google
5 1 (1.45%) IBM
5 1 (1.45%) Xilinx