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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 77 90
Rank change year-on-year -3 +13 +47
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 79 21 19
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.94% 1.50% 1.00%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.68% 8.97% 6.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 8 11
10th Percentile £376 £457 £238
25th Percentile £452 £477 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £503 £418
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% +20.36% -20.48%
75th Percentile £575 £569 £517
90th Percentile £675 £640 £660
England median daily rate £515 £545 £558
% change year-on-year -5.50% -2.24% +1.36%

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 538 234 278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.03% 16.76% 14.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 407 155 210
10th Percentile £358 £363 £300
25th Percentile £429 £425 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -14.33%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £645 £683 £700
England median daily rate £500 £538 £534
% change year-on-year -6.98% +0.66% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £18.00 -
England median hourly rate £54.50 £41.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +32.93% -3.53% -22.73%

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 24 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 24 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 +13 34 £475 -20.83% 10
Herefordshire - 21 £650 -
Worcestershire - 21 £650 -
Solihull -1 8 £425 +1.19% 7
Warwickshire -14 8 £463 -
Shropshire -45 4 £449 -5.97% 4
Coventry -19 2 £273 - 2
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 15 (18.99%) Confluence
2 3 (3.80%) nginx
3 2 (2.53%) Drupal
4 1 (1.27%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.80%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 49 (62.03%) Azure
2 38 (48.10%) AWS
3 26 (32.91%) GCP
3 26 (32.91%) GitHub
4 23 (29.11%) Serverless
5 16 (20.25%) AWS KMS
5 16 (20.25%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (17.72%) Amazon S3
6 14 (17.72%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (15.19%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (15.19%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (15.19%) Route 53
8 11 (13.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (11.39%) Azure Key Vault
10 8 (10.13%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (5.06%) Amazon ELB
11 4 (5.06%) Apigee
11 4 (5.06%) Cloud Functions
11 4 (5.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (3.80%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.80%) DNS
1 3 (3.80%) Firewall
1 3 (3.80%) FTP
1 3 (3.80%) HTTP
1 3 (3.80%) IMAP
1 3 (3.80%) OpenLDAP
1 3 (3.80%) SMTP
1 3 (3.80%) SSH
2 1 (1.27%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (20.25%) MySQL
2 14 (17.72%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (15.19%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (13.92%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (11.39%) NoSQL
5 9 (11.39%) Redis
6 8 (10.13%) DynamoDB
7 4 (5.06%) Relational Database
7 4 (5.06%) SQL Server
8 3 (3.80%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (3.80%) MongoDB
9 2 (2.53%) Apache Hive
9 2 (2.53%) Hadoop
9 2 (2.53%) Impala
10 1 (1.27%) Big Data
10 1 (1.27%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (1.27%) Data Lake
10 1 (1.27%) Pentaho
10 1 (1.27%) Power BI
10 1 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 30 (37.97%) Jenkins
2 25 (31.65%) Git
3 20 (25.32%) JIRA
4 16 (20.25%) GitLab
4 16 (20.25%) JUnit
5 8 (10.13%) Cucumber
5 8 (10.13%) JMeter
5 8 (10.13%) Maven
5 8 (10.13%) Mockito
5 8 (10.13%) Selenium
5 8 (10.13%) SonarQube
5 8 (10.13%) WebDriver
6 6 (7.59%) DbUnit
6 6 (7.59%) jMock
7 4 (5.06%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (5.06%) Liquibase
8 3 (3.80%) Vagrant
9 1 (1.27%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.27%) Deequ
General
1 30 (37.97%) Social Skills
2 16 (20.25%) Public Sector
3 15 (18.99%) Finance
4 12 (15.19%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (11.39%) Banking
6 8 (10.13%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (7.59%) Financial Institution
8 5 (6.33%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.53%) Legal
10 1 (1.27%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 29 (36.71%) Developer
2 17 (21.52%) Senior
3 15 (18.99%) Data Engineer
4 12 (15.19%) Python Developer
4 12 (15.19%) Senior Data Engineer
5 11 (13.92%) Backend Developer
6 10 (12.66%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (12.66%) GCP Engineer
6 10 (12.66%) Java Developer
7 8 (10.13%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Lead
8 5 (6.33%) Software Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Tester
9 4 (5.06%) Administrator
9 4 (5.06%) Automation Tester
9 4 (5.06%) Cloud Developer
9 4 (5.06%) DBA
9 4 (5.06%) GCP Developer
9 4 (5.06%) Test Leader
10 3 (3.80%) Systems Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (36.71%) REST
2 20 (25.32%) RESTful
2 20 (25.32%) Spring
3 14 (17.72%) Node.js
4 12 (15.19%) FastAPI
4 12 (15.19%) Kafka
4 12 (15.19%) Keycloak
4 12 (15.19%) Spring Boot
5 11 (13.92%) Web Services
6 10 (12.66%) AngularJS
7 9 (11.39%) Flask
7 9 (11.39%) GraphQL
7 9 (11.39%) gRPC
7 9 (11.39%) Hibernate
7 9 (11.39%) JPA
7 9 (11.39%) SOAP
7 9 (11.39%) Spring Batch
7 9 (11.39%) Spring Integration
7 9 (11.39%) WebSockets
8 8 (10.13%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 23 (29.11%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (24.05%) Cloud Native
3 10 (12.66%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (10.13%) Public Cloud
5 5 (6.33%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (3.80%) Replication
7 2 (2.53%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (2.53%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.27%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (25.32%) Linux
2 4 (5.06%) Windows
3 3 (3.80%) Amazon Linux
3 3 (3.80%) Ubuntu
3 3 (3.80%) VMS
4 1 (1.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (65.82%) DevOps
2 51 (64.56%) CI/CD
3 49 (62.03%) Containerisation
4 37 (46.84%) Microservices
5 36 (45.57%) Agile
6 19 (24.05%) ETL
7 17 (21.52%) Data Pipeline
8 16 (20.25%) Performance Tuning
8 16 (20.25%) TDD
9 15 (18.99%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (16.46%) Data Engineering
12 12 (15.19%) Batch Processing
12 12 (15.19%) BDD
12 12 (15.19%) DataOps
13 11 (13.92%) Observability
13 11 (13.92%) Scrum
13 11 (13.92%) Test Automation
14 10 (12.66%) Computer Science
14 10 (12.66%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 48 (60.76%) Python
2 32 (40.51%) SQL
3 31 (39.24%) Go
4 15 (18.99%) Java
5 4 (5.06%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.06%) PowerShell
5 4 (5.06%) VBA
6 3 (3.80%) Groovy
6 3 (3.80%) PHP
7 2 (2.53%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.53%) Ruby
7 2 (2.53%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.27%) Bash
8 1 (1.27%) Bicep
8 1 (1.27%) C#
8 1 (1.27%) HiveQL
8 1 (1.27%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 44 (55.70%) Security Cleared
2 42 (53.16%) SC Cleared
3 21 (26.58%) Azure Certification
4 13 (16.46%) Degree
5 10 (12.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (11.39%) DV Cleared
6 9 (11.39%) Master's Degree
7 8 (10.13%) AWS Certification
8 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (3.80%) OCP
8 3 (3.80%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 53 (67.09%) Docker
2 8 (10.13%) Postfix
3 3 (3.80%) DFS Replication
3 3 (3.80%) Dovecot
3 3 (3.80%) Squid
4 2 (2.53%) HDFS
5 1 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (54.43%) Kubernetes
2 39 (49.37%) Grafana
3 30 (37.97%) Prometheus
4 17 (21.52%) Terraform
5 8 (10.13%) Ansible
6 6 (7.59%) Nessus
7 3 (3.80%) Control-M
7 3 (3.80%) IBM Guardium
7 3 (3.80%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 18 (22.78%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.92%) Google
2 11 (13.92%) Jaspersoft
3 8 (10.13%) Splunk
4 6 (7.59%) Atlassian
4 6 (7.59%) Oracle
5 3 (3.80%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.80%) Tenable
6 1 (1.27%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.27%) Denodo
6 1 (1.27%) Informatica
6 1 (1.27%) Qualys
6 1 (1.27%) Talend