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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 80 93
Rank change year-on-year -2 +13 +44
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 64 19 21
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.53% 1.29% 1.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.59% 7.72% 7.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 6 13
10th Percentile £440 £477 £243
25th Percentile £475 £480 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £520 £418
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% +24.55% -20.48%
75th Percentile £618 £550 £534
90th Percentile £675 £588 £692
England median daily rate £519 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.68% - -

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 471 246 278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.65% 16.72% 14.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 151 210
10th Percentile £365 £363 £300
25th Percentile £450 £425 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £619
90th Percentile £650 £656 £700
England median daily rate £500 £538 £538
% change year-on-year -6.98% - -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £18.00 -
England median hourly rate £51.36 £41.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +25.27% -3.53% -25.26%

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 10 February 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 10 February 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 +8 26 £500 -16.67% 9
Herefordshire -6 20 £650 +18.18%
Worcestershire - 20 £650 - 1
Warwickshire -11 11 £463 -
Solihull -1 3 - - 4
Coventry -12 2 £273 - 1
Staffordshire +3 1 £463 -15.91%
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 (15.63%) Confluence
2 6 (9.38%) nginx
3 2 (3.13%) Drupal
Applications
1 6 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (9.38%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 44 (68.75%) Azure
2 28 (43.75%) AWS
3 26 (40.63%) Serverless
4 22 (34.38%) GCP
5 21 (32.81%) GitHub
6 16 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (20.31%) AWS KMS
8 12 (18.75%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (17.19%) Amazon S3
10 10 (15.63%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (14.06%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (14.06%) Azure Key Vault
11 9 (14.06%) Route 53
12 8 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (10.94%) Amazon ELB
13 7 (10.94%) Apigee
13 7 (10.94%) Cloud Functions
13 7 (10.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (9.38%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.38%) DNS
1 6 (9.38%) Firewall
1 6 (9.38%) FTP
1 6 (9.38%) HTTP
1 6 (9.38%) IMAP
1 6 (9.38%) OpenLDAP
1 6 (9.38%) SMTP
1 6 (9.38%) SSH
2 1 (1.56%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (21.88%) MySQL
2 12 (18.75%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (17.19%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (14.06%) NoSQL
4 9 (14.06%) Redis
5 8 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (10.94%) Relational Database
7 3 (4.69%) MongoDB
8 2 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (3.13%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.56%) Apache Hive
9 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.56%) Big Data
9 1 (1.56%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.56%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.56%) Impala
9 1 (1.56%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (32.81%) Jenkins
2 17 (26.56%) Git
3 14 (21.88%) JIRA
4 13 (20.31%) GitLab
5 6 (9.38%) Vagrant
6 4 (6.25%) Liquibase
7 3 (4.69%) SonarQube
8 2 (3.13%) DbUnit
8 2 (3.13%) jMock
8 2 (3.13%) JUnit
8 2 (3.13%) Maven
8 2 (3.13%) Mockito
9 1 (1.56%) Deequ
General
1 25 (39.06%) Social Skills
2 14 (21.88%) Finance
3 12 (18.75%) Public Sector
4 10 (15.63%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (14.06%) Banking
6 7 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (9.38%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.13%) Legal
Job Titles
1 24 (37.50%) Developer
2 15 (23.44%) Data Engineer
3 14 (21.88%) Senior
4 12 (18.75%) Senior Data Engineer
5 11 (17.19%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (17.19%) Backend Developer
5 11 (17.19%) Python Developer
6 10 (15.63%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (15.63%) GCP Engineer
7 7 (10.94%) Cloud Developer
7 7 (10.94%) GCP Developer
8 6 (9.38%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 6 (9.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 6 (9.38%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 4 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (6.25%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 4 (6.25%) Software Engineer
10 3 (4.69%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (32.81%) REST
2 17 (26.56%) RESTful
3 13 (20.31%) Keycloak
4 12 (18.75%) Kafka
5 11 (17.19%) FastAPI
5 11 (17.19%) Node.js
6 9 (14.06%) Flask
6 9 (14.06%) GraphQL
6 9 (14.06%) WebSockets
7 8 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (12.50%) gRPC
8 6 (9.38%) LDAP
9 5 (7.81%) Spring
9 5 (7.81%) Spring Boot
10 4 (6.25%) AngularJS
10 4 (6.25%) Web Services
11 2 (3.13%) .NET
11 2 (3.13%) ActiveMQ
11 2 (3.13%) Hibernate
11 2 (3.13%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (32.81%) Cloud Native
2 14 (21.88%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (15.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (12.50%) Public Cloud
5 6 (9.38%) Replication
6 2 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 19 (29.69%) Linux
2 7 (10.94%) Windows
3 6 (9.38%) Amazon Linux
3 6 (9.38%) Ubuntu
3 6 (9.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (79.69%) DevOps
2 41 (64.06%) CI/CD
3 39 (60.94%) Containerisation
4 25 (39.06%) Agile
5 21 (32.81%) Microservices
6 20 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
6 20 (31.25%) ETL
7 15 (23.44%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (20.31%) Data Engineering
9 12 (18.75%) Batch Processing
9 12 (18.75%) DataOps
9 12 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (17.19%) Performance Tuning
11 10 (15.63%) Change Management
11 10 (15.63%) Computer Science
11 10 (15.63%) Data Architecture
11 10 (15.63%) Root Cause Analysis
12 8 (12.50%) Cost Optimisation
12 8 (12.50%) Cryptography
13 7 (10.94%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (81.25%) Python
2 30 (46.88%) Go
2 30 (46.88%) SQL
3 7 (10.94%) Java
3 7 (10.94%) PowerShell
4 6 (9.38%) Groovy
4 6 (9.38%) VBA
5 4 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.69%) PHP
7 2 (3.13%) Kotlin
7 2 (3.13%) Ruby
7 2 (3.13%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.56%) Bash
8 1 (1.56%) Bicep
8 1 (1.56%) C#
8 1 (1.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 31 (48.44%) Security Cleared
2 29 (45.31%) SC Cleared
3 23 (35.94%) Azure Certification
4 16 (25.00%) Degree
5 10 (15.63%) AWS Certification
5 10 (15.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (14.06%) Master's Degree
7 8 (12.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 42 (65.63%) Docker
2 8 (12.50%) Postfix
3 6 (9.38%) DFS Replication
3 6 (9.38%) Dovecot
3 6 (9.38%) Squid
4 1 (1.56%) HDFS
4 1 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (54.69%) Kubernetes
2 27 (42.19%) Grafana
3 25 (39.06%) Prometheus
4 20 (31.25%) Terraform
5 8 (12.50%) Nessus
6 7 (10.94%) Ansible
7 6 (9.38%) Proxmox
8 2 (3.13%) Control-M
8 2 (3.13%) IBM Guardium
Vendors
1 14 (21.88%) Google
1 14 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.50%) Jaspersoft
2 8 (12.50%) Splunk
3 6 (9.38%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.13%) Atlassian
4 2 (3.13%) Tenable
5 1 (1.56%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.56%) Oracle
5 1 (1.56%) Qualys