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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 77 92
Rank change year-on-year -6 +15 +38
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 73 21 17
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.38% 1.54% 0.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.87% 9.50% 5.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 11 13
10th Percentile £325 £410 £243
25th Percentile £425 £477 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% +3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £597 £625
90th Percentile - £600 £645
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.28% -3.00% -
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 £67.50 £54.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -22.86% +211.32%

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 615 221 285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.07% 16.23% 14.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 148 222
10th Percentile £358 £300 £308
25th Percentile £415 £413 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £560 £600 £575
90th Percentile £645 £666 £684
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile - £15.80 -
25th Percentile £42.50 £16.57 -
Median hourly rate £48.75 £18.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +170.83% -55.56% +60.40%
75th Percentile £59.69 £19.00 -
90th Percentile £70.38 - -
England median hourly rate £51.00 £33.11 £40.00
% change year-on-year +54.03% -17.23% -30.43%

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 April 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 April 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 +1 27 £425 - 7
Solihull -5 16 £478 -18.91%
Worcestershire - 14 £550 - 1
Herefordshire - 13 £550 -
Shropshire -50 7 £450 -5.66%
Warwickshire -14 3 £450 -
Coventry - 3 £275 - 1
Staffordshire -1 2 £388 -29.55%
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 22 (30.14%) Confluence
2 3 (4.11%) SAS
3 1 (1.37%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.37%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (2.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 41 (56.16%) Azure
2 37 (50.68%) AWS
3 25 (34.25%) GitHub
4 19 (26.03%) Amazon S3
5 16 (21.92%) Amazon SQS
5 16 (21.92%) GCP
6 15 (20.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 15 (20.55%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (20.55%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (20.55%) Route 53
7 14 (19.18%) AWS KMS
8 10 (13.70%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (10.96%) Serverless
10 7 (9.59%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (6.85%) Power Platform
12 4 (5.48%) Azure Key Vault
13 3 (4.11%) PaaS
14 2 (2.74%) Amazon EKS
14 2 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
14 2 (2.74%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.37%) Kerberos
1 1 (1.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (24.66%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (19.18%) Amazon Aurora
2 14 (19.18%) DynamoDB
3 13 (17.81%) MySQL
4 9 (12.33%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (12.33%) SQL Server
5 5 (6.85%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (5.48%) Apache Hive
6 4 (5.48%) Hadoop
6 4 (5.48%) Impala
6 4 (5.48%) Power BI
6 4 (5.48%) Redis
7 3 (4.11%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (4.11%) NoSQL
7 3 (4.11%) Pentaho
7 3 (4.11%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.37%) Big Data
8 1 (1.37%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.37%) GIS
8 1 (1.37%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 32 (43.84%) Git
2 30 (41.10%) Jenkins
3 29 (39.73%) JUnit
4 24 (32.88%) JIRA
5 15 (20.55%) Cucumber
5 15 (20.55%) JMeter
5 15 (20.55%) Selenium
5 15 (20.55%) WebDriver
6 14 (19.18%) Maven
6 14 (19.18%) Mockito
6 14 (19.18%) SonarQube
7 11 (15.07%) DbUnit
7 11 (15.07%) GitLab
7 11 (15.07%) jMock
8 9 (12.33%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (4.11%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (1.37%) PetaLinux
General
1 27 (36.99%) Social Skills
2 19 (26.03%) Public Sector
3 16 (21.92%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.96%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (8.22%) Finance
5 6 (8.22%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.74%) Legal
7 1 (1.37%) Advertising
7 1 (1.37%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 27 (36.99%) Developer
2 22 (30.14%) Senior
3 18 (24.66%) Java Developer
4 13 (17.81%) Data Engineer
5 11 (15.07%) Tester
6 9 (12.33%) Automation Tester
6 9 (12.33%) Senior Data Engineer
7 8 (10.96%) Lead
8 7 (9.59%) Python Developer
8 7 (9.59%) Senior Automation Tester
8 7 (9.59%) Senior Tester
9 6 (8.22%) DBA
9 6 (8.22%) Senior Developer
10 5 (6.85%) Administrator
10 5 (6.85%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (6.85%) Test Leader
11 4 (5.48%) Automation Test Lead
11 4 (5.48%) Backend Developer
11 4 (5.48%) Software Engineer
11 4 (5.48%) Systems Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (47.95%) Spring
2 23 (31.51%) REST
3 20 (27.40%) Spring Boot
4 17 (23.29%) Web Services
5 16 (21.92%) AngularJS
5 16 (21.92%) Hibernate
5 16 (21.92%) JPA
5 16 (21.92%) SOAP
5 16 (21.92%) Spring Batch
5 16 (21.92%) Spring Integration
6 15 (20.55%) WireMock
7 14 (19.18%) ActiveMQ
7 14 (19.18%) RESTful
7 14 (19.18%) Spring Cloud
8 13 (17.81%) Node.js
9 11 (15.07%) PowerMock
10 10 (13.70%) Kafka
11 9 (12.33%) Bootstrap
11 9 (12.33%) Keycloak
12 7 (9.59%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 24 (32.88%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (15.07%) Distributed Architecture
3 7 (9.59%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (8.22%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.11%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.37%) FPGA
6 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.37%) Verilog
6 1 (1.37%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 13 (17.81%) Linux
2 3 (4.11%) Unix
3 1 (1.37%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (1.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (57.53%) Agile
2 41 (56.16%) CI/CD
3 39 (53.42%) Microservices
4 36 (49.32%) DevOps
5 34 (46.58%) Containerisation
6 30 (41.10%) TDD
7 24 (32.88%) BDD
8 19 (26.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (26.03%) Observability
8 19 (26.03%) Test Automation
9 18 (24.66%) Scrum
10 16 (21.92%) Performance Tuning
11 15 (20.55%) End-to-End Testing
11 15 (20.55%) ETL
11 15 (20.55%) Load Testing
11 15 (20.55%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (20.55%) Test Strategy
11 15 (20.55%) Validation
12 13 (17.81%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 12 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 30 (41.10%) SQL
2 25 (34.25%) Python
3 23 (31.51%) Java
4 13 (17.81%) Go
5 4 (5.48%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.11%) HiveQL
6 3 (4.11%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.74%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.74%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.37%) Bash
8 1 (1.37%) Bicep
8 1 (1.37%) C
8 1 (1.37%) C#
8 1 (1.37%) C++
8 1 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.37%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.37%) SystemVerilog
8 1 (1.37%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 52 (71.23%) Security Cleared
2 48 (65.75%) SC Cleared
3 14 (19.18%) Azure Certification
4 6 (8.22%) AWS Certification
5 4 (5.48%) Degree
5 4 (5.48%) DV Cleared
5 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (5.48%) OCP
5 4 (5.48%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (2.74%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.37%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.37%) GDPR
1 1 (1.37%) ISO 22301
1 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.37%) QA
System Software
1 49 (67.12%) Docker
2 10 (13.70%) Postfix
3 4 (5.48%) HDFS
4 1 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (52.05%) Grafana
2 35 (47.95%) Kubernetes
3 25 (34.25%) Prometheus
4 3 (4.11%) Ansible
4 3 (4.11%) Control-M
4 3 (4.11%) IBM Guardium
4 3 (4.11%) Nessus
5 2 (2.74%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (19.18%) Jaspersoft
1 14 (19.18%) Microsoft
2 11 (15.07%) Atlassian
3 10 (13.70%) Oracle
4 3 (4.11%) Denodo
4 3 (4.11%) Informatica
4 3 (4.11%) Talend
4 3 (4.11%) Tenable
5 1 (1.37%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.37%) Qualys
5 1 (1.37%) Xilinx