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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 86 91
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 +55
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 61 19 23
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.60% 1.20% 1.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.09% 6.88% 7.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 6 15
10th Percentile £456 £477 £248
25th Percentile £500 £480 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £520 £418
Median % change year-on-year +3.56% +24.55% -20.48%
75th Percentile £607 £550 £680
90th Percentile £675 £588 £700
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -

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 433 276 290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.44% 17.48% 16.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 175 215
10th Percentile £400 £363 £300
25th Percentile £456 £426 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +10.53% -9.00%
75th Percentile £575 £624 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £694
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 £43.50 £39.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +11.54% -13.33% -18.18%

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 January 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 January 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 +9 24 £513 -14.58% 9
Herefordshire -2 19 £650 +18.18%
Worcestershire - 19 £650 - 4
Warwickshire -6 11 £463 - 1
Coventry -13 2 £273 - 2
Staffordshire +3 1 £463 -15.91% 1
Solihull +1 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 11 (18.03%) Confluence
2 9 (14.75%) nginx
3 2 (3.28%) Drupal
Applications
1 9 (14.75%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (9.84%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 43 (70.49%) Azure
2 28 (45.90%) AWS
3 25 (40.98%) Serverless
4 22 (36.07%) GCP
5 20 (32.79%) GitHub
6 15 (24.59%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (22.95%) AWS KMS
8 12 (19.67%) Amazon S3
8 12 (19.67%) Azure Data Factory
9 10 (16.39%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (16.39%) Amazon ELB
9 10 (16.39%) Route 53
9 10 (16.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 9 (14.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (14.75%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (14.75%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (14.75%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (13.11%) Azure Key Vault
12 7 (11.48%) Apigee
12 7 (11.48%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (14.75%) DNS
1 9 (14.75%) Firewall
1 9 (14.75%) FTP
1 9 (14.75%) HTTP
1 9 (14.75%) IMAP
1 9 (14.75%) OpenLDAP
1 9 (14.75%) SMTP
1 9 (14.75%) SSH
2 1 (1.64%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (22.95%) MySQL
2 12 (19.67%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (19.67%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (14.75%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (13.11%) NoSQL
4 8 (13.11%) Redis
5 7 (11.48%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (3.28%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.64%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.64%) Big Data
7 1 (1.64%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.64%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.64%) Impala
7 1 (1.64%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (36.07%) Jenkins
2 18 (29.51%) Git
3 13 (21.31%) GitLab
3 13 (21.31%) JIRA
4 9 (14.75%) Vagrant
5 4 (6.56%) Liquibase
6 1 (1.64%) Deequ
6 1 (1.64%) SonarQube
General
1 26 (42.62%) Social Skills
2 13 (21.31%) Presentation Skills
3 12 (19.67%) Finance
3 12 (19.67%) Public Sector
4 9 (14.75%) Banking
5 6 (9.84%) Financial Institution
6 5 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.28%) Legal
Job Titles
1 18 (29.51%) Developer
2 15 (24.59%) Data Engineer
3 14 (22.95%) AWS Engineer
4 13 (21.31%) Senior
5 12 (19.67%) Senior Data Engineer
6 10 (16.39%) Backend Developer
6 10 (16.39%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (16.39%) GCP Engineer
7 9 (14.75%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 9 (14.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 9 (14.75%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (13.11%) Python Developer
9 7 (11.48%) AWS DevOps
9 7 (11.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 7 (11.48%) Cloud Developer
9 7 (11.48%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (11.48%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 7 (11.48%) GCP Developer
10 4 (6.56%) Software Engineer
11 3 (4.92%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (29.51%) REST
2 16 (26.23%) RESTful
3 13 (21.31%) Keycloak
4 12 (19.67%) Kafka
5 9 (14.75%) LDAP
5 9 (14.75%) Node.js
6 8 (13.11%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (13.11%) FastAPI
6 8 (13.11%) Flask
6 8 (13.11%) GraphQL
6 8 (13.11%) WebSockets
7 7 (11.48%) gRPC
8 3 (4.92%) Spring
8 3 (4.92%) Spring Boot
9 2 (3.28%) .NET
9 2 (3.28%) AngularJS
9 2 (3.28%) Drush
9 2 (3.28%) MACH
9 2 (3.28%) Web Services
9 2 (3.28%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (32.79%) Cloud Native
2 12 (19.67%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (16.39%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (14.75%) Replication
5 8 (13.11%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.28%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (32.79%) Linux
2 10 (16.39%) Windows
3 9 (14.75%) Amazon Linux
3 9 (14.75%) Ubuntu
3 9 (14.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (83.61%) DevOps
2 39 (63.93%) CI/CD
3 34 (55.74%) Containerisation
4 21 (34.43%) Agile
5 20 (32.79%) Data Pipeline
5 20 (32.79%) ETL
6 17 (27.87%) Microservices
7 15 (24.59%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (21.31%) Change Management
8 13 (21.31%) Data Engineering
9 12 (19.67%) Batch Processing
9 12 (19.67%) DataOps
9 12 (19.67%) Performance Tuning
10 10 (16.39%) Cloud Security
10 10 (16.39%) Computer Science
10 10 (16.39%) Data Architecture
10 10 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (16.39%) Root Cause Analysis
11 9 (14.75%) Configuration Management
11 9 (14.75%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (85.25%) Python
2 31 (50.82%) SQL
3 29 (47.54%) Go
4 10 (16.39%) PowerShell
5 9 (14.75%) Groovy
6 6 (9.84%) VBA
7 4 (6.56%) Java
8 3 (4.92%) JavaScript
8 3 (4.92%) PHP
9 2 (3.28%) Kotlin
9 2 (3.28%) Ruby
9 2 (3.28%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.64%) Bash
10 1 (1.64%) Bicep
10 1 (1.64%) C#
10 1 (1.64%) Scala
Qualifications
1 31 (50.82%) Security Cleared
2 29 (47.54%) SC Cleared
3 24 (39.34%) Azure Certification
4 19 (31.15%) Degree
5 11 (18.03%) AWS Certification
6 10 (16.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (14.75%) Master's Degree
8 7 (11.48%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.64%) Data Quality
System Software
1 40 (65.57%) Docker
2 9 (14.75%) DFS Replication
2 9 (14.75%) Dovecot
2 9 (14.75%) Postfix
2 9 (14.75%) Squid
3 1 (1.64%) HDFS
3 1 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (52.46%) Kubernetes
2 25 (40.98%) Grafana
2 25 (40.98%) Prometheus
3 23 (37.70%) Terraform
4 9 (14.75%) Nessus
4 9 (14.75%) Proxmox
5 7 (11.48%) Ansible
Vendors
1 14 (22.95%) Google
2 11 (18.03%) Microsoft
3 9 (14.75%) Jaspersoft
3 9 (14.75%) ServiceNow
4 8 (13.11%) Splunk
5 1 (1.64%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.64%) Oracle
5 1 (1.64%) Qualys