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 11 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 91 99
Rank change year-on-year +16 +8 +64
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 62 19 18
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.81% 1.05% 0.95%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.69% 6.25% 5.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 7 11
10th Percentile £426 £471 -
25th Percentile £469 £477 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £490 £624
Median % change year-on-year +8.37% -21.41% +18.76%
75th Percentile £607 £550 £700
90th Percentile £675 £580 -
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 422 304 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 19.10% 16.81% 15.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 192 216
10th Percentile £368 £341 £316
25th Percentile £450 £413 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £504 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% +6.05% -6.86%
75th Percentile £575 £620 £589
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
Median hourly rate £36.00 £18.00 £31.04
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -42.01% +158.67%
England median hourly rate £45.00 £38.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +18.42% -17.71% -7.73%

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 11 December 2025.

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 11 December 2025. 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 +17 27 £500 -6.98% 5
Herefordshire +3 18 £650 +18.18%
Worcestershire - 18 £650 - 4
Warwickshire -4 9 £481 - 7
Coventry -15 2 £273 - 8
Solihull - 2 £450 -
Shropshire -40 1 - - 7
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 13 (20.97%) Confluence
2 11 (17.74%) nginx
3 2 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.23%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.23%) Drupal
Applications
1 11 (17.74%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 39 (62.90%) Azure
2 31 (50.00%) AWS
3 24 (38.71%) Serverless
4 22 (35.48%) GCP
4 22 (35.48%) GitHub
5 16 (25.81%) Amazon S3
5 16 (25.81%) AWS KMS
6 14 (22.58%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (19.35%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (19.35%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (17.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (17.74%) Amazon ELB
8 11 (17.74%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (17.74%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (17.74%) Route 53
8 11 (17.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 10 (16.13%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (12.90%) Azure Key Vault
11 7 (11.29%) Apigee
11 7 (11.29%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (19.35%) SSH
2 11 (17.74%) DNS
2 11 (17.74%) IMAP
2 11 (17.74%) OpenLDAP
2 11 (17.74%) SMTP
3 10 (16.13%) Firewall
3 10 (16.13%) FTP
3 10 (16.13%) HTTP
4 2 (3.23%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.61%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (24.19%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (22.58%) MySQL
3 11 (17.74%) Amazon Aurora
3 11 (17.74%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (16.13%) NoSQL
5 8 (12.90%) Redis
5 8 (12.90%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (3.23%) Big Data
6 2 (3.23%) Delta Lake
6 2 (3.23%) Hadoop
6 2 (3.23%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.23%) Parquet
7 1 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.61%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (40.32%) Jenkins
2 21 (33.87%) Git
3 15 (24.19%) JIRA
4 13 (20.97%) GitLab
5 11 (17.74%) Vagrant
6 4 (6.45%) Liquibase
7 3 (4.84%) SonarQube
8 2 (3.23%) MLflow
8 2 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.61%) Deequ
9 1 (1.61%) Poetry
9 1 (1.61%) PyCharm
9 1 (1.61%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 28 (45.16%) Social Skills
2 14 (22.58%) Presentation Skills
3 12 (19.35%) Finance
3 12 (19.35%) Public Sector
4 9 (14.52%) Banking
5 6 (9.68%) Financial Institution
6 5 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.23%) Legal
8 1 (1.61%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 19 (30.65%) Developer
2 17 (27.42%) AWS Engineer
3 15 (24.19%) Data Engineer
4 12 (19.35%) Senior
5 11 (17.74%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 11 (17.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 11 (17.74%) Platform Engineer
5 11 (17.74%) Senior Data Engineer
6 10 (16.13%) Backend Developer
6 10 (16.13%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (16.13%) GCP Engineer
7 9 (14.52%) AWS DevOps
7 9 (14.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 9 (14.52%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (14.52%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 8 (12.90%) Python Developer
9 7 (11.29%) Cloud Developer
9 7 (11.29%) GCP Developer
10 4 (6.45%) Software Engineer
11 3 (4.84%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (29.03%) REST
2 17 (27.42%) RESTful
3 12 (19.35%) Keycloak
4 11 (17.74%) Kafka
4 11 (17.74%) LDAP
5 10 (16.13%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (16.13%) Flask
6 9 (14.52%) Node.js
7 8 (12.90%) FastAPI
7 8 (12.90%) GraphQL
7 8 (12.90%) WebSockets
8 7 (11.29%) gRPC
9 3 (4.84%) AngularJS
9 3 (4.84%) Spring
9 3 (4.84%) Spring Boot
10 2 (3.23%) Apache Avro
10 2 (3.23%) Drush
10 2 (3.23%) NumPy
10 2 (3.23%) Pandas
10 2 (3.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (30.65%) Cloud Native
2 13 (20.97%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (16.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (16.13%) Replication
4 8 (12.90%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 24 (38.71%) Linux
2 11 (17.74%) Amazon Linux
2 11 (17.74%) VMS
2 11 (17.74%) Windows
3 10 (16.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (83.87%) DevOps
2 43 (69.35%) CI/CD
3 37 (59.68%) Containerisation
4 21 (33.87%) ETL
5 20 (32.26%) Agile
6 19 (30.65%) Data Pipeline
7 18 (29.03%) Microservices
8 15 (24.19%) Change Management
9 14 (22.58%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (20.97%) Data Engineering
10 13 (20.97%) Performance Tuning
10 13 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (19.35%) DataOps
12 11 (17.74%) Batch Processing
12 11 (17.74%) Cloud Security
12 11 (17.74%) Computer Science
12 11 (17.74%) Configuration Management
12 11 (17.74%) Platform Engineering
13 10 (16.13%) Data Architecture
13 10 (16.13%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 53 (85.48%) Python
2 35 (56.45%) SQL
3 28 (45.16%) Go
4 13 (20.97%) Groovy
5 12 (19.35%) PowerShell
6 6 (9.68%) VBA
7 5 (8.06%) Java
8 3 (4.84%) Bash
8 3 (4.84%) PHP
9 2 (3.23%) JavaScript
9 2 (3.23%) Kotlin
9 2 (3.23%) Ruby
10 1 (1.61%) Bicep
10 1 (1.61%) Scala
10 1 (1.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 30 (48.39%) SC Cleared
3 23 (37.10%) Azure Certification
4 21 (33.87%) Degree
5 13 (20.97%) AWS Certification
6 11 (17.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (14.52%) Master's Degree
8 7 (11.29%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.61%) Data Quality
System Software
1 44 (70.97%) Docker
2 11 (17.74%) Dovecot
2 11 (17.74%) Postfix
2 11 (17.74%) Squid
3 10 (16.13%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 33 (53.23%) Kubernetes
2 27 (43.55%) Grafana
2 27 (43.55%) Prometheus
3 25 (40.32%) Terraform
4 11 (17.74%) Nessus
5 10 (16.13%) Proxmox
6 7 (11.29%) Ansible
7 2 (3.23%) Argo
7 2 (3.23%) Istio
Vendors
1 14 (22.58%) Google
2 11 (17.74%) Jaspersoft
2 11 (17.74%) Microsoft
2 11 (17.74%) ServiceNow
3 8 (12.90%) Splunk
4 2 (3.23%) Cloudera
4 2 (3.23%) Oracle
5 1 (1.61%) IBM
5 1 (1.61%) Red Hat