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 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 91 117
Rank change year-on-year +19 +26 +20
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 26 19 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.88% 1.00% 0.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.06% 6.38% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 13 5
10th Percentile £410 £243 £443
25th Percentile £416 £263 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £597 £625 £563
90th Percentile £600 £645 £585
England median daily rate £541 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -1.64% +4.76% -7.49%

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 235 298 361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.98% 15.68% 16.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 228 236
10th Percentile £279 £275 £350
25th Percentile £410 £358 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £600 £585 £603
90th Percentile £654 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £15.63 - £24.13
25th Percentile £16.15 - £24.31
Median hourly rate £17.59 £40.50 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -56.57% +60.40% -
75th Percentile £18.45 - £30.48
90th Percentile £18.62 - £33.24
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.00 £56.95
% change year-on-year -19.88% -29.76% +26.56%

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 24 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 24 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 - 12 £500 - 4
Birmingham -2 5 £475 +5.56% 61
Shropshire +1 3 £350 -32.20% 96
Staffordshire +4 1 £550 - 54
Warwickshire - 1 £600 -
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 (3.85%) Apache
1 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.85%) JBoss
1 1 (3.85%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (65.38%) AWS
2 14 (53.85%) Amazon S3
3 12 (46.15%) Amazon EC2
3 12 (46.15%) Amazon SQS
4 8 (30.77%) AWS KMS
4 8 (30.77%) Route 53
5 7 (26.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (11.54%) Azure
7 2 (7.69%) Serverless
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon MSK
8 1 (3.85%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (3.85%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (3.85%) Azure API Management
8 1 (3.85%) Azure Functions
8 1 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (3.85%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (42.31%) Amazon Aurora
3 10 (38.46%) DynamoDB
4 6 (23.08%) SQL Server
5 5 (19.23%) MySQL
5 5 (19.23%) Relational Database
6 3 (11.54%) NoSQL
6 3 (11.54%) RDBMS
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (3.85%) Flink
Development Applications
1 16 (61.54%) Jenkins
2 13 (50.00%) JUnit
3 12 (46.15%) Maven
4 11 (42.31%) Git
5 10 (38.46%) Mockito
6 7 (26.92%) SonarQube
7 4 (15.38%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (15.38%) DbUnit
7 4 (15.38%) jMock
8 1 (3.85%) JIRA
8 1 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (38.46%) Public Sector
2 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Finance
4 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.54%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Legal
5 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (61.54%) Developer
2 15 (57.69%) Java Developer
3 5 (19.23%) Architect
3 5 (19.23%) Lead
3 5 (19.23%) Lead Developer
3 5 (19.23%) Lead Java Developer
4 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 4 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Data Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Enterprise Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Senior
6 2 (7.69%) Administrator
6 2 (7.69%) AWS Developer
6 2 (7.69%) DBA
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (3.85%) .NET Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Applications Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (65.38%) REST
2 16 (61.54%) Spring
2 16 (61.54%) Spring Boot
3 14 (53.85%) Web Services
4 11 (42.31%) ActiveMQ
4 11 (42.31%) Hibernate
4 11 (42.31%) SOAP
5 10 (38.46%) JPA
6 8 (30.77%) AngularJS
6 8 (30.77%) Bootstrap
7 7 (26.92%) Spring Batch
7 7 (26.92%) Spring Cloud
7 7 (26.92%) Spring Integration
8 6 (23.08%) RESTful
9 4 (15.38%) .NET
9 4 (15.38%) PowerMock
10 3 (11.54%) .NET Framework
10 3 (11.54%) HTML
10 3 (11.54%) jQuery
10 3 (11.54%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (76.92%) Agile
2 17 (65.38%) Microservices
3 15 (57.69%) Scrum
3 15 (57.69%) TDD
4 11 (42.31%) CI/CD
5 10 (38.46%) DevOps
6 8 (30.77%) BDD
7 7 (26.92%) Containerisation
7 7 (26.92%) Kanban
8 6 (23.08%) Risk Management
8 6 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (19.23%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (15.38%) Open Source
10 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (15.38%) SDLC
11 3 (11.54%) Architectural Design
11 3 (11.54%) Architecture Governance
11 3 (11.54%) Collaborative Working
11 3 (11.54%) Decision-Making
11 3 (11.54%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (65.38%) Java
2 10 (38.46%) SQL
3 5 (19.23%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.69%) Python
5 1 (3.85%) Bicep
5 1 (3.85%) C#
Qualifications
1 15 (57.69%) Security Cleared
2 12 (46.15%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) Degree
3 2 (7.69%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (7.69%) OCP
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 17 (65.38%) Docker
2 5 (19.23%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 9 (34.62%) Kubernetes
2 7 (26.92%) Grafana
2 7 (26.92%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Jaspersoft
2 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
3 4 (15.38%) Atlassian
3 4 (15.38%) Oracle
4 1 (3.85%) Qualys