PostgreSQL Contracts in the West Midlands

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring PostgreSQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PostgreSQL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 95 128
Rank change year-on-year +16 +33 +6
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 18 16 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.34% 0.82% 0.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.53% 5.30% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 6
10th Percentile £410 £240 £334
25th Percentile £500 £263 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £486 £525
Median % change year-on-year +13.11% -7.38% +6.06%
75th Percentile £599 £625 £572
90th Percentile £615 £648 £588
England median daily rate £548 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -0.45% +2.33% -4.87%

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 211 302 414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.69% 15.51% 17.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 232 283
10th Percentile £295 £301 £350
25th Percentile £410 £358 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +13.51%
75th Percentile £600 £577 £588
90th Percentile £690 £700 £698
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £15.80 - £24.13
25th Percentile £16.57 - £24.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £40.50 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -55.56% +60.40% -
75th Percentile £19.00 - £30.48
90th Percentile - - £33.24
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in the West Midlands

PostgreSQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL in the West Midlands

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in the West Midlands

PostgreSQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for PostgreSQL in the West Midlands

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 1 May 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
Solihull - 9 £545 - 1
Shropshire -2 2 - - 2
Birmingham +5 1 - - 11
Staffordshire - 1 £550 - 10
Warwickshire - 1 - - 4
PostgreSQL
England

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) Apache
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (66.67%) AWS
2 8 (44.44%) Amazon S3
3 7 (38.89%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (38.89%) Amazon SQS
4 6 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (33.33%) AWS KMS
4 6 (33.33%) Route 53
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (5.56%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (5.56%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (5.56%) Azure
5 1 (5.56%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (38.89%) DynamoDB
3 6 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 4 (22.22%) MySQL
4 4 (22.22%) Relational Database
5 3 (16.67%) NoSQL
5 3 (16.67%) RDBMS
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (5.56%) Flink
Development Applications
1 9 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 9 (50.00%) JUnit
2 7 (38.89%) Mockito
3 6 (33.33%) Maven
4 4 (22.22%) Git
5 3 (16.67%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (16.67%) DbUnit
5 3 (16.67%) jMock
5 3 (16.67%) SonarQube
6 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 6 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Finance
4 2 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Developer
2 9 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Enterprise Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Lead
3 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Senior
3 3 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Administrator
4 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) DBA
4 2 (11.11%) Lead Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Lead Java Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (5.56%) .NET Architect
5 1 (5.56%) .NET Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (55.56%) REST
2 9 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 9 (50.00%) Spring
2 9 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 9 (50.00%) Web Services
3 6 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
3 6 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 6 (33.33%) JPA
3 6 (33.33%) SOAP
4 5 (27.78%) .NET
4 5 (27.78%) Bootstrap
4 5 (27.78%) RESTful
4 5 (27.78%) Spring Batch
4 5 (27.78%) Spring Integration
5 4 (22.22%) .NET Framework
5 4 (22.22%) Spring Cloud
6 3 (16.67%) HTML
6 3 (16.67%) jQuery
6 3 (16.67%) PowerMock
6 3 (16.67%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) Agile
2 10 (55.56%) Microservices
2 10 (55.56%) Scrum
3 9 (50.00%) TDD
4 8 (44.44%) CI/CD
4 8 (44.44%) DevOps
5 6 (33.33%) BDD
5 6 (33.33%) Kanban
6 5 (27.78%) Containerisation
7 4 (22.22%) Architectural Design
7 4 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (22.22%) Risk Management
7 4 (22.22%) Test Automation
8 3 (16.67%) Data Management
8 3 (16.67%) ITIL
8 3 (16.67%) Open Source
8 3 (16.67%) SDLC
8 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (16.67%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) Java
2 7 (38.89%) SQL
3 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 3 (16.67%) Python
5 2 (11.11%) C#
Qualifications
1 11 (61.11%) Security Cleared
2 8 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 3 (16.67%) Degree
4 2 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (11.11%) OCP
4 2 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
5 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 11 (61.11%) Docker
2 4 (22.22%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Kubernetes
2 4 (22.22%) Grafana
2 4 (22.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Jaspersoft
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) Atlassian
2 3 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) Siemens