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

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 72 97
Rank change year-on-year -13 +25 +40
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 75 21 16
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.47% 1.54% 0.83%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.52% 9.50% 5.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 11 12
10th Percentile £330 £410 £240
25th Percentile £425 £477 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £515 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% +8.42% -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £597 £569
90th Percentile £664 £600 £648
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.28% -3.00% -
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 £68.00 £54.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +25.93% -22.86% +211.32%

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 599 221 285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 19.76% 16.15% 14.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 467 149 220
10th Percentile £358 £310 £307
25th Percentile £425 £413 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £565 £600 £575
90th Percentile £645 £665 £689
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile - £15.80 -
25th Percentile £42.50 £16.57 -
Median hourly rate £48.75 £18.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +170.83% -55.56% +64.47%
75th Percentile £59.69 £19.00 -
90th Percentile £70.38 - -
England median hourly rate £51.00 £32.96 £40.00
% change year-on-year +54.73% -17.60% -29.76%

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 13 April 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 13 April 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 +4 27 £425 - 4
Worcestershire - 16 £550 - 1
Herefordshire - 15 £550 -
Solihull -5 14 £478 -18.91%
Shropshire -48 7 £450 -5.66%
Warwickshire -14 5 £450 -
Coventry - 3 £275 -
Staffordshire +2 2 £388 -29.55%
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 22 (29.33%) Confluence
2 3 (4.00%) SAS
3 2 (2.67%) Drupal
4 1 (1.33%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (2.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 44 (58.67%) Azure
2 37 (49.33%) AWS
3 27 (36.00%) GitHub
4 18 (24.00%) GCP
5 17 (22.67%) Amazon S3
6 16 (21.33%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (18.67%) Amazon SQS
8 13 (17.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (17.33%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (17.33%) Route 53
9 12 (16.00%) AWS KMS
10 11 (14.67%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (12.00%) Serverless
12 8 (10.67%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
13 5 (6.67%) Power Platform
14 3 (4.00%) PaaS
15 2 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
15 2 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
15 2 (2.67%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.33%) Kerberos
1 1 (1.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (21.33%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (20.00%) MySQL
3 12 (16.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 12 (16.00%) DynamoDB
4 10 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (12.00%) SQL Server
6 5 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (6.67%) Redis
7 4 (5.33%) Apache Hive
7 4 (5.33%) Hadoop
7 4 (5.33%) Impala
7 4 (5.33%) Power BI
8 3 (4.00%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (4.00%) MongoDB
8 3 (4.00%) NoSQL
8 3 (4.00%) Pentaho
8 3 (4.00%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.33%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (1.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 32 (42.67%) Git
2 28 (37.33%) Jenkins
3 27 (36.00%) JUnit
4 26 (34.67%) JIRA
5 15 (20.00%) Cucumber
5 15 (20.00%) JMeter
5 15 (20.00%) Selenium
5 15 (20.00%) WebDriver
6 12 (16.00%) Maven
6 12 (16.00%) Mockito
6 12 (16.00%) SonarQube
7 11 (14.67%) GitLab
8 9 (12.00%) DbUnit
8 9 (12.00%) jMock
9 7 (9.33%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (4.00%) Bitbucket
11 1 (1.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (1.33%) PetaLinux
General
1 28 (37.33%) Social Skills
2 17 (22.67%) Public Sector
3 14 (18.67%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.67%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (9.33%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (8.00%) Finance
7 2 (2.67%) Legal
8 1 (1.33%) Advertising
8 1 (1.33%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 28 (37.33%) Developer
2 23 (30.67%) Senior
3 16 (21.33%) Java Developer
4 14 (18.67%) Data Engineer
5 11 (14.67%) Tester
6 10 (13.33%) Senior Data Engineer
7 9 (12.00%) Automation Tester
8 8 (10.67%) Lead
8 8 (10.67%) Python Developer
9 7 (9.33%) Backend Developer
9 7 (9.33%) Senior Automation Tester
9 7 (9.33%) Senior Tester
10 6 (8.00%) DBA
10 6 (8.00%) Senior Developer
11 5 (6.67%) Administrator
11 5 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
11 5 (6.67%) Test Leader
12 4 (5.33%) Automation Test Lead
12 4 (5.33%) Software Engineer
12 4 (5.33%) Systems Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (44.00%) Spring
2 22 (29.33%) REST
3 18 (24.00%) Spring Boot
4 17 (22.67%) Web Services
5 15 (20.00%) WireMock
6 14 (18.67%) AngularJS
6 14 (18.67%) Hibernate
6 14 (18.67%) JPA
6 14 (18.67%) Node.js
6 14 (18.67%) RESTful
6 14 (18.67%) SOAP
6 14 (18.67%) Spring Batch
6 14 (18.67%) Spring Integration
7 12 (16.00%) ActiveMQ
7 12 (16.00%) Spring Cloud
8 11 (14.67%) Kafka
9 10 (13.33%) Keycloak
10 9 (12.00%) PowerMock
11 8 (10.67%) FastAPI
12 7 (9.33%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 22 (29.33%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (14.67%) Distributed Architecture
3 8 (10.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (9.33%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.00%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.33%) FPGA
7 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.33%) Verilog
7 1 (1.33%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 13 (17.33%) Linux
2 3 (4.00%) Unix
3 1 (1.33%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (1.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (56.00%) Agile
2 41 (54.67%) CI/CD
3 40 (53.33%) Microservices
4 36 (48.00%) Containerisation
4 36 (48.00%) DevOps
5 28 (37.33%) TDD
6 22 (29.33%) BDD
7 19 (25.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (25.33%) Observability
7 19 (25.33%) Test Automation
8 18 (24.00%) Scrum
9 16 (21.33%) ETL
10 15 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
10 15 (20.00%) Load Testing
10 15 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
10 15 (20.00%) Test Strategy
10 15 (20.00%) Validation
11 14 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (17.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 13 (17.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (38.67%) Python
1 29 (38.67%) SQL
2 23 (30.67%) Java
3 15 (20.00%) Go
4 4 (5.33%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.00%) HiveQL
5 3 (4.00%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.67%) Kotlin
6 2 (2.67%) PHP
6 2 (2.67%) Ruby
6 2 (2.67%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.33%) Bash
7 1 (1.33%) Bicep
7 1 (1.33%) C
7 1 (1.33%) C#
7 1 (1.33%) C++
7 1 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.33%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.33%) SystemVerilog
7 1 (1.33%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 52 (69.33%) Security Cleared
2 48 (64.00%) SC Cleared
3 14 (18.67%) Azure Certification
4 5 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 5 (6.67%) DV Cleared
5 4 (5.33%) Degree
5 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (5.33%) OCP
5 4 (5.33%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (2.67%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.33%) GDPR
1 1 (1.33%) ISO 22301
1 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.33%) QA
System Software
1 51 (68.00%) Docker
2 8 (10.67%) Postfix
3 4 (5.33%) HDFS
4 1 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 39 (52.00%) Kubernetes
2 37 (49.33%) Grafana
3 25 (33.33%) Prometheus
4 3 (4.00%) Ansible
4 3 (4.00%) Control-M
4 3 (4.00%) IBM Guardium
4 3 (4.00%) Nessus
5 2 (2.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (16.00%) Jaspersoft
3 10 (13.33%) Oracle
4 9 (12.00%) Atlassian
5 3 (4.00%) Denodo
5 3 (4.00%) Informatica
5 3 (4.00%) Talend
5 3 (4.00%) Tenable
6 2 (2.67%) Google
7 1 (1.33%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.33%) Qualys
7 1 (1.33%) Xilinx