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 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 78 90
Rank change year-on-year -18 +12 +26
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 64 20 19
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.03% 1.45% 1.00%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.79% 8.51% 6.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 11 13
10th Percentile £350 £410 £243
25th Percentile £425 £460 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% +7.84% -2.86%
75th Percentile £498 £600 £625
90th Percentile £614 £600 £645
England median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - +4.76%
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 £68.22 £65.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +4.95% -13.33% +233.56%

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 593 235 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.80% 16.98% 15.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 153 228
10th Percentile £350 £277 £293
25th Percentile £413 £410 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £560 £600 £584
90th Percentile £645 £648 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile £33.38 £15.63 -
25th Percentile £42.50 £16.14 -
Median hourly rate £45.00 £18.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -55.56% +60.40%
75th Percentile £53.75 £18.87 -
90th Percentile £68.00 £18.95 -
England median hourly rate £45.00 £32.05 £40.25
% change year-on-year +40.41% -20.37% -31.30%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 +1 27 £425 - 2
Solihull -5 16 £478 -4.40%
Worcestershire - 9 £625 -
Herefordshire - 8 £625 -
Shropshire -42 7 £450 -
Warwickshire -21 3 £450 -25.00%
Staffordshire -1 2 £388 -29.55% 1
Coventry - 1 £488 - 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 22 (34.38%) Confluence
2 3 (4.69%) SAS
3 1 (1.56%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.56%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (3.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 36 (56.25%) Azure
2 33 (51.56%) AWS
3 20 (31.25%) GitHub
4 17 (26.56%) Amazon S3
5 16 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
5 16 (25.00%) GCP
6 15 (23.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 15 (23.44%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (23.44%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (23.44%) Route 53
7 14 (21.88%) AWS KMS
8 8 (12.50%) Serverless
9 7 (10.94%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (7.81%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (7.81%) Power Platform
11 4 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (4.69%) PaaS
13 2 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (3.13%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.56%) Kerberos
1 1 (1.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (21.88%) Amazon Aurora
2 14 (21.88%) DynamoDB
3 9 (14.06%) MySQL
3 9 (14.06%) SQL Server
4 4 (6.25%) Apache Hive
4 4 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (6.25%) Hadoop
4 4 (6.25%) Impala
4 4 (6.25%) Power BI
4 4 (6.25%) Redis
5 3 (4.69%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (4.69%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (4.69%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.69%) Pentaho
5 3 (4.69%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.56%) Big Data
6 1 (1.56%) GIS
6 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 32 (50.00%) Git
2 30 (46.88%) Jenkins
3 29 (45.31%) JUnit
4 24 (37.50%) JIRA
5 15 (23.44%) Cucumber
5 15 (23.44%) JMeter
5 15 (23.44%) Selenium
5 15 (23.44%) WebDriver
6 14 (21.88%) Maven
6 14 (21.88%) Mockito
6 14 (21.88%) SonarQube
7 11 (17.19%) DbUnit
7 11 (17.19%) GitLab
7 11 (17.19%) jMock
8 9 (14.06%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (4.69%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (1.56%) PetaLinux
General
1 25 (39.06%) Social Skills
2 19 (29.69%) Public Sector
3 16 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (9.38%) Finance
6 4 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Advertising
7 1 (1.56%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 27 (42.19%) Developer
2 18 (28.13%) Java Developer
3 17 (26.56%) Senior
4 11 (17.19%) Tester
5 9 (14.06%) Automation Tester
6 8 (12.50%) Lead
7 7 (10.94%) Data Engineer
7 7 (10.94%) Python Developer
7 7 (10.94%) Senior Automation Tester
7 7 (10.94%) Senior Tester
8 6 (9.38%) DBA
8 6 (9.38%) Senior Developer
9 5 (7.81%) Administrator
9 5 (7.81%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (7.81%) Test Leader
10 4 (6.25%) Automation Test Lead
10 4 (6.25%) Backend Developer
10 4 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
10 4 (6.25%) Systems Tester
11 3 (4.69%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (51.56%) Spring
2 22 (34.38%) REST
3 18 (28.13%) Spring Boot
4 17 (26.56%) Web Services
5 16 (25.00%) Hibernate
5 16 (25.00%) JPA
5 16 (25.00%) SOAP
5 16 (25.00%) Spring Batch
5 16 (25.00%) Spring Integration
6 15 (23.44%) WireMock
7 14 (21.88%) ActiveMQ
7 14 (21.88%) AngularJS
7 14 (21.88%) Spring Cloud
8 13 (20.31%) Node.js
9 11 (17.19%) PowerMock
10 10 (15.63%) RESTful
11 9 (14.06%) Bootstrap
12 7 (10.94%) FastAPI
13 5 (7.81%) Kafka
14 4 (6.25%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 24 (37.50%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (17.19%) Distributed Architecture
3 6 (9.38%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.69%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.56%) FPGA
6 1 (1.56%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.56%) Verilog
6 1 (1.56%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 13 (20.31%) Linux
2 3 (4.69%) Unix
3 1 (1.56%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (1.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (60.94%) CI/CD
2 38 (59.38%) Agile
3 37 (57.81%) Microservices
4 31 (48.44%) DevOps
5 30 (46.88%) TDD
6 29 (45.31%) Containerisation
7 24 (37.50%) BDD
8 19 (29.69%) Observability
8 19 (29.69%) Test Automation
9 18 (28.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (28.13%) Scrum
10 15 (23.44%) End-to-End Testing
10 15 (23.44%) Load Testing
10 15 (23.44%) Stakeholder Management
10 15 (23.44%) Test Strategy
10 15 (23.44%) Validation
11 14 (21.88%) Performance Tuning
12 13 (20.31%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 12 (18.75%) Kanban
13 12 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 26 (40.63%) SQL
2 21 (32.81%) Java
3 18 (28.13%) Python
4 8 (12.50%) Go
5 3 (4.69%) HiveQL
5 3 (4.69%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.69%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.13%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.56%) Bash
7 1 (1.56%) Bicep
7 1 (1.56%) C
7 1 (1.56%) C#
7 1 (1.56%) C++
7 1 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.56%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.56%) SystemVerilog
7 1 (1.56%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 47 (73.44%) Security Cleared
2 43 (67.19%) SC Cleared
3 9 (14.06%) Azure Certification
4 4 (6.25%) AWS Certification
4 4 (6.25%) Degree
4 4 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (6.25%) OCP
4 4 (6.25%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.56%) GDPR
1 1 (1.56%) ISO 22301
1 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 42 (65.63%) Docker
2 10 (15.63%) Postfix
3 4 (6.25%) HDFS
4 1 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (59.38%) Grafana
2 28 (43.75%) Kubernetes
3 25 (39.06%) Prometheus
4 3 (4.69%) Ansible
4 3 (4.69%) Control-M
4 3 (4.69%) IBM Guardium
4 3 (4.69%) Nessus
5 2 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (21.88%) Jaspersoft
1 14 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 11 (17.19%) Atlassian
3 10 (15.63%) Oracle
4 3 (4.69%) Denodo
4 3 (4.69%) Informatica
4 3 (4.69%) Talend
4 3 (4.69%) Tenable
5 1 (1.56%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.56%) Qualys
5 1 (1.56%) Xilinx