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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 85 88
Rank change year-on-year +11 +3 +55
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 63 18 24
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.63% 1.16% 1.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.00% 6.64% 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 6 16
10th Percentile £454 £477 £250
25th Percentile £494 £480 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £520 £418
Median % change year-on-year +3.56% +24.55% -20.48%
75th Percentile £626 £550 £670
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 450 271 282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.76% 17.48% 15.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 170 213
10th Percentile £400 £392 £301
25th Percentile £458 £438 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £638
90th Percentile £650 £713 £700
England median daily rate £500 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -1.82%
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 £45.75 £38.11 £42.35
% change year-on-year +20.05% -10.00% -28.23%

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 27 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 27 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 +12 25 £500 -16.67% 10
Herefordshire -4 20 £650 +18.18%
Worcestershire - 20 £650 - 2
Warwickshire -4 11 £463 -
Coventry -13 2 £273 - 1
Staffordshire 0 1 £463 -15.91%
Solihull -2 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 10 (15.87%) Confluence
2 8 (12.70%) nginx
3 2 (3.17%) Drupal
Applications
1 8 (12.70%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 44 (69.84%) Azure
2 28 (44.44%) AWS
3 26 (41.27%) Serverless
4 22 (34.92%) GCP
5 21 (33.33%) GitHub
6 16 (25.40%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (20.63%) AWS KMS
8 12 (19.05%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (17.46%) Amazon S3
10 10 (15.87%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (14.29%) Amazon ELB
11 9 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
11 9 (14.29%) Route 53
11 9 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (12.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (12.70%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (12.70%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (11.11%) Apigee
13 7 (11.11%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.70%) DNS
1 8 (12.70%) Firewall
1 8 (12.70%) FTP
1 8 (12.70%) HTTP
1 8 (12.70%) IMAP
1 8 (12.70%) OpenLDAP
1 8 (12.70%) SMTP
1 8 (12.70%) SSH
2 1 (1.59%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.59%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (22.22%) MySQL
2 12 (19.05%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (17.46%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 9 (14.29%) Redis
5 8 (12.70%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (11.11%) Relational Database
7 3 (4.76%) MongoDB
8 2 (3.17%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.59%) Apache Hive
9 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.59%) Big Data
9 1 (1.59%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.59%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.59%) Impala
9 1 (1.59%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 17 (26.98%) Git
3 13 (20.63%) GitLab
3 13 (20.63%) JIRA
4 8 (12.70%) Vagrant
5 4 (6.35%) Liquibase
6 1 (1.59%) Deequ
6 1 (1.59%) SonarQube
General
1 25 (39.68%) Social Skills
2 13 (20.63%) Finance
3 12 (19.05%) Presentation Skills
3 12 (19.05%) Public Sector
4 9 (14.29%) Banking
5 6 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (9.52%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.17%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (33.33%) Developer
2 15 (23.81%) Data Engineer
3 14 (22.22%) Senior
4 13 (20.63%) AWS Engineer
5 12 (19.05%) Senior Data Engineer
6 11 (17.46%) Backend Developer
7 10 (15.87%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (15.87%) GCP Engineer
7 10 (15.87%) Python Developer
8 8 (12.70%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 8 (12.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 8 (12.70%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (11.11%) Cloud Developer
9 7 (11.11%) GCP Developer
10 6 (9.52%) AWS DevOps
10 6 (9.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 6 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (9.52%) DevOps Platform Engineer
11 4 (6.35%) Software Engineer
12 3 (4.76%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (30.16%) REST
2 17 (26.98%) RESTful
3 13 (20.63%) Keycloak
4 12 (19.05%) Kafka
5 10 (15.87%) FastAPI
6 9 (14.29%) Flask
6 9 (14.29%) GraphQL
6 9 (14.29%) Node.js
6 9 (14.29%) WebSockets
7 8 (12.70%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (12.70%) gRPC
7 8 (12.70%) LDAP
8 3 (4.76%) Spring
8 3 (4.76%) Spring Boot
9 2 (3.17%) .NET
9 2 (3.17%) AngularJS
9 2 (3.17%) Drush
9 2 (3.17%) MACH
9 2 (3.17%) Web Services
9 2 (3.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 12 (19.05%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (15.87%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (12.70%) Public Cloud
4 8 (12.70%) Replication
5 2 (3.17%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 19 (30.16%) Linux
2 9 (14.29%) Windows
3 8 (12.70%) Amazon Linux
3 8 (12.70%) Ubuntu
3 8 (12.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (80.95%) DevOps
2 40 (63.49%) CI/CD
3 36 (57.14%) Containerisation
4 22 (34.92%) Agile
5 20 (31.75%) Data Pipeline
5 20 (31.75%) ETL
6 19 (30.16%) Microservices
7 15 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (20.63%) Data Engineering
9 12 (19.05%) Batch Processing
9 12 (19.05%) Change Management
9 12 (19.05%) DataOps
10 11 (17.46%) Performance Tuning
10 11 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (15.87%) Computer Science
11 10 (15.87%) Data Architecture
11 10 (15.87%) Root Cause Analysis
12 9 (14.29%) Cloud Security
13 8 (12.70%) Cost Optimisation
13 8 (12.70%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 53 (84.13%) Python
2 32 (50.79%) SQL
3 30 (47.62%) Go
4 9 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 8 (12.70%) Groovy
6 6 (9.52%) VBA
7 5 (7.94%) Java
8 4 (6.35%) JavaScript
9 3 (4.76%) PHP
10 2 (3.17%) Kotlin
10 2 (3.17%) Ruby
10 2 (3.17%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.59%) Bash
11 1 (1.59%) Bicep
11 1 (1.59%) C#
11 1 (1.59%) Scala
Qualifications
1 31 (49.21%) Security Cleared
2 29 (46.03%) SC Cleared
3 23 (36.51%) Azure Certification
4 18 (28.57%) Degree
5 10 (15.87%) AWS Certification
5 10 (15.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (14.29%) Master's Degree
7 8 (12.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
System Software
1 41 (65.08%) Docker
2 8 (12.70%) DFS Replication
2 8 (12.70%) Dovecot
2 8 (12.70%) Postfix
2 8 (12.70%) Squid
3 1 (1.59%) HDFS
3 1 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (53.97%) Kubernetes
2 26 (41.27%) Grafana
2 26 (41.27%) Prometheus
3 22 (34.92%) Terraform
4 9 (14.29%) Nessus
5 8 (12.70%) Proxmox
6 7 (11.11%) Ansible
7 1 (1.59%) Control-M
7 1 (1.59%) IBM Guardium
Vendors
1 14 (22.22%) Google
2 13 (20.63%) Microsoft
3 8 (12.70%) Jaspersoft
3 8 (12.70%) ServiceNow
3 8 (12.70%) Splunk
4 1 (1.59%) Cloudera
4 1 (1.59%) Oracle
4 1 (1.59%) Qualys
4 1 (1.59%) Tenable