PostgreSQL Contract Job Trends in Leeds

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 62 62
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 +45
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 12 3 17
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 1.76% 0.45% 1.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.02% 2.91% 13.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 14
10th Percentile £479 - £483
25th Percentile £495 £325 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £350 £563
Median % change year-on-year +46.43% -37.78% -4.78%
75th Percentile £547 £513 £650
90th Percentile £613 £595 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £350 £600
% change year-on-year +50.00% -41.67% +1.57%

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 133 103 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 19.56% 15.35% 11.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 61 101
10th Percentile £375 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £638 £567 £643
90th Percentile £700 £648 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £500 £523
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.31% -0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Median hourly rate - £23.25 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - +9.10% +35.30%
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £27.50 £21.31
% change year-on-year - +29.05% +15.44%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PostgreSQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in Leeds

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing PostgreSQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in Leeds over the 6 months to 26 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in Leeds

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) Azure
3 4 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (33.33%) Serverless
4 3 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (25.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (8.33%) GCP
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) MongoDB
2 7 (58.33%) MySQL
3 3 (25.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (16.67%) Big Data
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (8.33%) DynamoDB
5 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
5 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (8.33%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Git
2 6 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (41.67%) GitLab
4 4 (33.33%) SonarQube
5 3 (25.00%) Artifactory
5 3 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (8.33%) JIRA
6 1 (8.33%) Maven
General
1 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Health Technology
4 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Software Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior
4 2 (16.67%) Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Data Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Java Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Lead Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Lead Software Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Node.js Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Python Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Security Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) Node.js
2 4 (33.33%) RESTful
3 3 (25.00%) Spring
3 3 (25.00%) Spring Boot
4 2 (16.67%) J2EE
4 2 (16.67%) JPA
4 2 (16.67%) PySpark
4 2 (16.67%) React
4 2 (16.67%) REST
5 1 (8.33%) .NET
5 1 (8.33%) Apache CXF
5 1 (8.33%) Dropwizard
5 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (8.33%) Hibernate
5 1 (8.33%) JAX-RS
5 1 (8.33%) JWT
5 1 (8.33%) Micronaut
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (16.67%) NHS
1 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Unix
2 1 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
1 7 (58.33%) Microservices
2 6 (50.00%) DevOps
3 5 (41.67%) Test Automation
4 4 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
4 4 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
5 3 (25.00%) Agile
5 3 (25.00%) Clean Code
5 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (25.00%) Design Patterns
5 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (25.00%) OWASP
5 3 (25.00%) Scrum
6 2 (16.67%) Code Quality
6 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
6 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis
6 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
6 2 (16.67%) Iteration Planning
6 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Java
2 6 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (33.33%) Python
3 4 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 1 (8.33%) Bash
5 1 (8.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (8.33%) CISSP
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (8.33%) Puppet
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Brio
2 1 (8.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle