PostgreSQL Contracts in Leeds

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 56 81
Rank change year-on-year +17 +25 +4
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 21 7 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 4.52% 0.88% 1.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 20.79% 5.43% 8.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 14
10th Percentile £435 £560 £425
25th Percentile £450 £575 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £530
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -7.42%
75th Percentile £775 £650 £638
90th Percentile £784 £673 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% -0.44%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 101 129 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 21.72% 16.15% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 104 127
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £438 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £575 £596 £600
90th Percentile £738 £625 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £31.50 - -
25th Percentile £31.54 - -
Median hourly rate £32.96 - -
75th Percentile £34.38 - -
90th Percentile £34.43 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £32.96 - -

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in Leeds

PostgreSQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in Leeds.

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL in Leeds

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in Leeds

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 8 (38.10%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) Slack
2 6 (28.57%) AWS
3 5 (23.81%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (19.05%) OpenShift
5 2 (9.52%) GCP
6 1 (4.76%) Azure
6 1 (4.76%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 5 (23.81%) HTTP
2 4 (19.05%) NAS
2 4 (19.05%) SAN
2 4 (19.05%) SSL
3 1 (4.76%) Firewall
3 1 (4.76%) LAN
3 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.76%) VLAN
3 1 (4.76%) VPN
3 1 (4.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (52.38%) MySQL
2 10 (47.62%) Apache Cassandra
2 10 (47.62%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (47.62%) Git
2 9 (42.86%) JIRA
3 8 (38.10%) Cucumber
3 8 (38.10%) Jasmine
3 8 (38.10%) JUnit
4 2 (9.52%) Postman
4 2 (9.52%) Selenium
5 1 (4.76%) DBeaver
5 1 (4.76%) GitLab
General
1 5 (23.81%) Public Sector
2 3 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Developer
2 9 (42.86%) Java Developer
2 9 (42.86%) Senior
3 8 (38.10%) Senior Developer
3 8 (38.10%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Consultant
4 2 (9.52%) Java Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Lead
4 2 (9.52%) QA Automation Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) QA Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) React Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Engineering Specialist
5 1 (4.76%) Lead Java Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Java Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior SQL Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (52.38%) Spring Boot
2 10 (47.62%) RESTful
2 10 (47.62%) Spring
3 9 (42.86%) Spring Security
4 8 (38.10%) Spring Batch
5 7 (33.33%) Swagger
6 6 (28.57%) OpenAPI
7 4 (19.05%) Kafka
7 4 (19.05%) LDAP
7 4 (19.05%) Middleware
7 4 (19.05%) REST
8 2 (9.52%) CSS
8 2 (9.52%) React
8 2 (9.52%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 4 (19.05%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 12 (57.14%) Linux
2 11 (52.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.76%) CentOS
3 1 (4.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) Containerisation
2 11 (52.38%) High Availability
2 11 (52.38%) TDD
3 10 (47.62%) BDD
4 9 (42.86%) Microservices
4 9 (42.86%) Software Engineering
4 9 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
4 9 (42.86%) Test Automation
5 8 (38.10%) Continuous Delivery
5 8 (38.10%) Mentoring
6 7 (33.33%) API Design
6 7 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 7 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (33.33%) Kernel Tuning
6 7 (33.33%) OWASP
7 6 (28.57%) Coaching
7 6 (28.57%) Operational Stability
8 5 (23.81%) Integration Testing
9 4 (19.05%) Disaster Recovery
9 4 (19.05%) Key Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (71.43%) SQL
2 13 (61.90%) Java
3 11 (52.38%) Bash
4 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 7 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) QA
System Software
1 9 (42.86%) Docker
2 4 (19.05%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 14 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (19.05%) Grafana
2 4 (19.05%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.76%) Ansible
3 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Oracle
2 4 (19.05%) Confluent
2 4 (19.05%) Splunk
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco
3 1 (4.76%) Google
3 1 (4.76%) Red Hat