PostgreSQL Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 62 56
Rank change year-on-year -49 -6 +29
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 13 32 79
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.71% 2.74% 3.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.26% 19.05% 30.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 23 52
10th Percentile £335 £403 £414
25th Percentile £390 £409 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £463 £625
Median % change year-on-year -5.95% -26.00% +35.87%
75th Percentile £528 £658 £688
90th Percentile £578 £673 -
South East median daily rate £433 £429 £513
% change year-on-year +0.87% -16.34% +6.77%

All Database & BI Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 247 168 258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.47% 14.41% 12.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 109 142
10th Percentile £310 £366 £315
25th Percentile £413 £422 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £591 £630 £675
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 14
10th Percentile £39.00 - £19.45
25th Percentile £61.11 £41.25 £51.94
Median hourly rate £79.15 £63.15 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.34% +1.85% -14.78%
75th Percentile £82.63 £65.62 £67.50
90th Percentile £83.30 - £79.78
South East median hourly rate £37.00 £42.50 £58.91
% change year-on-year -12.94% -27.85% +7.10%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in Berkshire

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in Berkshire over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in Berkshire

PostgreSQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing PostgreSQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 17 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
Reading -32 7 £473 +15.53% 3
Windsor +2 3 £413 -5.98%
Wokingham - 3 £390 -
PostgreSQL
South East

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (7.69%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) GitHub
3 4 (30.77%) Azure
4 3 (23.08%) Amazon Cognito
4 3 (23.08%) Amazon S3
4 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Serverless
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (7.69%) GCP
6 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (7.69%) iPaaS
6 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (76.92%) Relational Database
2 6 (46.15%) MongoDB
2 6 (46.15%) SQL Server
3 5 (38.46%) NoSQL
4 4 (30.77%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (30.77%) MySQL
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (15.38%) Big Data
5 2 (15.38%) Data Lake
5 2 (15.38%) DynamoDB
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
6 1 (7.69%) Parquet
6 1 (7.69%) PowerCenter
6 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Git
2 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
3 2 (15.38%) GitLab
4 1 (7.69%) JUnit
4 1 (7.69%) Liquibase
4 1 (7.69%) Mockito
General
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 6 (46.15%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) AWS Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Python Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Data Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Database Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Delphi Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Informatica Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) React Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) REST
2 5 (38.46%) Kafka
2 5 (38.46%) React
3 4 (30.77%) Node.js
3 4 (30.77%) OAuth
4 3 (23.08%) GraphQL
4 3 (23.08%) SOAP
5 2 (15.38%) Django
5 2 (15.38%) FastAPI
5 2 (15.38%) Flask
5 2 (15.38%) NumPy
5 2 (15.38%) OpenAPI
5 2 (15.38%) Pandas
5 2 (15.38%) PySpark
5 2 (15.38%) pytest
5 2 (15.38%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (15.38%) RESTful
5 2 (15.38%) Swagger
6 1 (7.69%) Jinja
6 1 (7.69%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Algorithms
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
1 2 (15.38%) Data Structures
1 2 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Clustering
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Code
2 1 (7.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) OpenVMS
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
3 6 (46.15%) Software Engineering
4 4 (30.77%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (30.77%) TDD
5 3 (23.08%) AI
5 3 (23.08%) API Integration
5 3 (23.08%) API Management
5 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
5 3 (23.08%) Data Governance
5 3 (23.08%) Data Integration
5 3 (23.08%) Data Modelling
5 3 (23.08%) Data Security
5 3 (23.08%) ETL
5 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (23.08%) Microservices
5 3 (23.08%) Migration
5 3 (23.08%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (23.08%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) Python
2 6 (46.15%) Java
2 6 (46.15%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) Bash
3 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
4 2 (15.38%) Scala
5 1 (7.69%) C#
5 1 (7.69%) Delphi
5 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.69%) Korn
5 1 (7.69%) PHP
5 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
5 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.69%) OCP
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Databricks
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Informatica
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat