PostgreSQL Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 37 73
Rank change year-on-year -36 +36 +20
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 11 22 6
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 1.13% 4.35% 0.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.53% 22.45% 4.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 5
10th Percentile £413 £435 -
25th Percentile £438 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.82% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £493 £775 £650
90th Percentile £530 £784 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £478 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -13.18% -8.33% +5.26%

All Database & BI Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 146 98 127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 15.02% 19.37% 11.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 61 106
10th Percentile £400 £385 £319
25th Percentile £450 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £490
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% -10.91%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £550
90th Percentile £697 £738 £625
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £29.60 £26.77 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £27.56 £19.44
Median hourly rate £74.00 £30.16 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year +145.40% +45.64% -
75th Percentile - £32.80 £21.97
90th Percentile - £33.61 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £74.00 £30.16 £13.50
% change year-on-year +145.40% +123.37% -

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing PostgreSQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 12 March 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
Leeds -32 11 £458 -16.82% 9
PostgreSQL
Yorkshire

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 1 (9.09%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) AWS
2 6 (54.55%) Serverless
3 5 (45.45%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (36.36%) Amazon S3
4 4 (36.36%) GitHub
5 3 (27.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (27.27%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (27.27%) Amazon EventBridge
5 3 (27.27%) AWS Direct Connect
5 3 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (27.27%) Route 53
5 3 (27.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (18.18%) GCP
7 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (9.09%) AWS KMS
7 1 (9.09%) Azure
7 1 (9.09%) Cloud Run
7 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) DNS
1 4 (36.36%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) NAS
2 1 (9.09%) SAN
2 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Relational Database
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (27.27%) DynamoDB
2 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
3 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Jenkins
2 4 (36.36%) Git
3 1 (9.09%) CircleCI
3 1 (9.09%) GitLab
3 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Law
2 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) AWS Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Developer
1 3 (27.27%) Platform Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Software Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Delphi Software Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Backend Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) PHP Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Python Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Backend Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) REST
2 3 (27.27%) .NET
2 3 (27.27%) Kafka
2 3 (27.27%) Lambda Expressions
2 3 (27.27%) WebSockets
3 2 (18.18%) Node.js
3 2 (18.18%) Spring
3 2 (18.18%) Spring Boot
4 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
4 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (9.09%) Middleware
4 1 (9.09%) Mustache
4 1 (9.09%) React
4 1 (9.09%) RESTful
4 1 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Clustering
1 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Legacy Code
1 1 (9.09%) NHS
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Linux
2 4 (36.36%) Windows
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (9.09%) Unix
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (27.27%) Auto-Scaling
2 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
2 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
2 3 (27.27%) Load Balancing
2 3 (27.27%) Microservices
2 3 (27.27%) Open Source
2 3 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Agile
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (18.18%) Migration
3 2 (18.18%) Scrum
4 1 (9.09%) Clean Code
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (9.09%) Key Management
4 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
4 1 (9.09%) Observability
4 1 (9.09%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Python
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) C#
2 3 (27.27%) Delphi
2 3 (27.27%) Java
2 3 (27.27%) PHP
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) Bash
4 1 (9.09%) Go
4 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (81.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
2 3 (27.27%) Packer
3 2 (18.18%) Ansible
4 1 (9.09%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Splunk
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle
3 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow