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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 79 91
Rank change year-on-year -19 +12 +28
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 75 34 16
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.17% 2.04% 0.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.65% 12.36% 5.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 23 8
10th Percentile £350 £404 £451
25th Percentile £425 £416 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.79% -17.39% -4.17%
75th Percentile £488 £558 £631
90th Percentile £493 £600 £650
England median daily rate £513 £541 £550
% change year-on-year -5.31% -1.59% +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 £67.00 £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -4.29% -12.50% +28.93%

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 704 275 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.34% 16.51% 16.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 528 174 216
10th Percentile £352 £275 £313
25th Percentile £413 £400 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £671 £625 £719
England median daily rate £500 £515 £538
% change year-on-year -2.91% -4.19% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 2
10th Percentile - £16.67 £34.59
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.74 £35.57
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.33 £37.22
Median % change year-on-year +53.43% -21.19% +32.23%
75th Percentile £53.75 £33.88 £38.86
90th Percentile £74.50 £34.54 £39.84
England median hourly rate £39.00 £34.65 £37.50
% change year-on-year +12.55% -7.60% -31.82%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -7 27 £425 -10.53% 5
Solihull -7 23 £478 +6.22% 2
Shropshire -38 13 £448 +27.86% 1
Warwickshire -10 6 £450 -25.00%
Worcestershire - 4 £700 - 3
Herefordshire - 3 £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 26 (34.67%) 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 44 (58.67%) AWS
2 36 (48.00%) Azure
3 20 (26.67%) Amazon S3
3 20 (26.67%) Amazon SQS
4 19 (25.33%) GCP
4 19 (25.33%) GitHub
5 18 (24.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 17 (22.67%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (22.67%) AWS KMS
6 17 (22.67%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (22.67%) Route 53
7 6 (8.00%) Serverless
8 5 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (5.33%) PaaS
9 4 (5.33%) Power Platform
10 3 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (2.67%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (1.33%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (1.33%) IBM Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (28.00%) SQL Server
2 18 (24.00%) Amazon RDS
3 17 (22.67%) Amazon Aurora
3 17 (22.67%) DynamoDB
4 16 (21.33%) MySQL
5 6 (8.00%) Relational Database
6 5 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (5.33%) Power BI
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%) Pentaho
8 3 (4.00%) Redis
9 2 (2.67%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.67%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (2.67%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.33%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.33%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 41 (54.67%) Git
2 39 (52.00%) Jenkins
3 38 (50.67%) JUnit
4 26 (34.67%) JIRA
5 19 (25.33%) Cucumber
5 19 (25.33%) JMeter
5 19 (25.33%) Maven
5 19 (25.33%) Mockito
5 19 (25.33%) Selenium
5 19 (25.33%) SonarQube
5 19 (25.33%) WebDriver
6 14 (18.67%) GitLab
7 13 (17.33%) DbUnit
7 13 (17.33%) jMock
8 11 (14.67%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (4.00%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (1.33%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.33%) Gatling
10 1 (1.33%) PetaLinux
General
1 37 (49.33%) Social Skills
2 23 (30.67%) Public Sector
3 17 (22.67%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (12.00%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (9.33%) Finance
6 5 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Advertising
7 1 (1.33%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 31 (41.33%) Developer
2 23 (30.67%) Java Developer
3 18 (24.00%) Senior
4 13 (17.33%) DBA
4 13 (17.33%) Tester
5 10 (13.33%) Administrator
6 9 (12.00%) Automation Tester
6 9 (12.00%) Senior Developer
6 9 (12.00%) Senior Tester
7 8 (10.67%) Lead
7 8 (10.67%) Senior Java Developer
8 7 (9.33%) Senior Automation Tester
9 6 (8.00%) SC Cleared DBA
9 6 (8.00%) Systems Tester
10 5 (6.67%) Database Engineer
10 5 (6.67%) Test Leader
11 4 (5.33%) Automation Test Lead
11 4 (5.33%) Oracle Database Engineer
11 4 (5.33%) Python Developer
12 3 (4.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (54.67%) Spring
2 27 (36.00%) REST
3 23 (30.67%) Spring Boot
4 22 (29.33%) Web Services
5 21 (28.00%) Hibernate
5 21 (28.00%) JPA
5 21 (28.00%) SOAP
6 19 (25.33%) ActiveMQ
6 19 (25.33%) AngularJS
6 19 (25.33%) Spring Batch
6 19 (25.33%) Spring Integration
6 19 (25.33%) WireMock
7 18 (24.00%) Spring Cloud
8 16 (21.33%) Node.js
9 13 (17.33%) PowerMock
10 12 (16.00%) RESTful
11 11 (14.67%) Bootstrap
12 5 (6.67%) React
13 4 (5.33%) FastAPI
14 3 (4.00%) gRPC
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 2 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.67%) Replication
6 1 (1.33%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.33%) FPGA
6 1 (1.33%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.33%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.33%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.33%) Verilog
6 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%) Microservices
2 44 (58.67%) CI/CD
3 43 (57.33%) Agile
4 37 (49.33%) TDD
5 27 (36.00%) BDD
5 27 (36.00%) Containerisation
6 24 (32.00%) DevOps
6 24 (32.00%) Performance Tuning
6 24 (32.00%) Scrum
7 23 (30.67%) Observability
8 22 (29.33%) Test Automation
9 20 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
9 20 (26.67%) Validation
10 18 (24.00%) End-to-End Testing
10 18 (24.00%) Test Strategy
11 17 (22.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 17 (22.67%) Kanban
11 17 (22.67%) Load Testing
12 15 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 34 (45.33%) SQL
2 27 (36.00%) Java
3 10 (13.33%) Python
4 4 (5.33%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.00%) Go
5 3 (4.00%) HiveQL
5 3 (4.00%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.67%) JavaScript
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 54 (72.00%) Security Cleared
2 51 (68.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (13.33%) OCP
3 10 (13.33%) Oracle Certification
4 5 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 5 (6.67%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.00%) Degree
5 3 (4.00%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.67%) ITIL Certification
7 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 44 (58.67%) Docker
2 11 (14.67%) Postfix
3 3 (4.00%) HDFS
4 1 (1.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 41 (54.67%) Grafana
2 26 (34.67%) Prometheus
3 25 (33.33%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.00%) Ansible
5 1 (1.33%) Control-M
5 1 (1.33%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.33%) IBM Guardium
5 1 (1.33%) Nessus
5 1 (1.33%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 21 (28.00%) Microsoft
1 21 (28.00%) Oracle
2 17 (22.67%) Jaspersoft
3 13 (17.33%) Atlassian
4 3 (4.00%) Denodo
4 3 (4.00%) Informatica
4 3 (4.00%) Talend
5 1 (1.33%) Google
5 1 (1.33%) IBM
5 1 (1.33%) Tenable
5 1 (1.33%) Xilinx