PostgreSQL Contracts in Berkshire

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 67 83
Rank change year-on-year -12 +16 +25
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 15 49 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.25% 2.49% 1.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.24% 18.70% 12.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 34 19
10th Percentile £408 £366 £412
25th Percentile £421 £431 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% -2.20% +1.01%
75th Percentile £493 £650 £581
90th Percentile £550 £688 £588
South East median daily rate £435 £482 £500
% change year-on-year -9.75% -3.60% -

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 182 262 272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 15.20% 13.30% 14.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 149 177
10th Percentile £404 £313 £340
25th Percentile £456 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.98% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £486 £525
% change year-on-year +2.83% -7.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 7
10th Percentile - £19.30 £41.90
25th Percentile - £20.75 £55.50
Median hourly rate £32.05 £58.30 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.03% -16.71% +211.11%
75th Percentile - £61.60 £79.19
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £43.34 £56.25
% change year-on-year -44.62% -22.95% +150.00%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in Berkshire

PostgreSQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL in Berkshire

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in Berkshire over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in Berkshire

PostgreSQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for PostgreSQL in Berkshire

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 5 July 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
Reading +10 7 £455 -29.46% 18
Windsor - 4 £439 - 1
Bracknell +7 3 - - 1
PostgreSQL
South East

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 3 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (13.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 6 (40.00%) Serverless
3 4 (26.67%) Azure
4 3 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (20.00%) Azure AKS
4 3 (20.00%) GCP
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon Cognito
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Functions
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Pipelines
5 2 (13.33%) Miro
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (6.67%) AWS KMS
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) Relational Database
2 6 (40.00%) MySQL
3 4 (26.67%) MongoDB
4 3 (20.00%) Oracle Database
5 2 (13.33%) Apache Hive
5 2 (13.33%) Big Data
5 2 (13.33%) Hadoop
5 2 (13.33%) RDBMS
5 2 (13.33%) Spark SQL
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
6 1 (6.67%) Data Vault
6 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
6 1 (6.67%) Redis
6 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (20.00%) JUnit
1 3 (20.00%) Mockito
2 2 (13.33%) DBeaver
2 2 (13.33%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) GitLab
2 2 (13.33%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) JMeter
3 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (6.67%) DbUnit
3 1 (6.67%) jMock
3 1 (6.67%) Maven
3 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Automotive
2 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Developer
2 5 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 4 (26.67%) DBA
4 3 (20.00%) AWS Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Azure Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 3 (20.00%) React Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Senior
4 3 (20.00%) Senior Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Big Data Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Hadoop Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Node.js Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Python Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Oracle DBA
6 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 1 (6.67%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) Node.js
1 5 (33.33%) React
1 5 (33.33%) REST
2 3 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (20.00%) GraphQL
2 3 (20.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (20.00%) Kafka
2 3 (20.00%) SOAP
2 3 (20.00%) Spring
2 3 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (20.00%) Web Services
3 2 (13.33%) Apache Camel
3 2 (13.33%) HTML
3 2 (13.33%) jQuery
3 2 (13.33%) JSON
3 2 (13.33%) OAuth
3 2 (13.33%) PySpark
3 2 (13.33%) RESTful
3 2 (13.33%) WireMock
3 2 (13.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 4 (26.67%) Microservices
3 3 (20.00%) Agile
3 3 (20.00%) BDD
3 3 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (20.00%) Data Validation
3 3 (20.00%) DevOps
3 3 (20.00%) ETL
3 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (20.00%) Migration
3 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (20.00%) TDD
3 3 (20.00%) Validation
4 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (13.33%) Data Collection
4 2 (13.33%) Data Migration
4 2 (13.33%) Database Migration
4 2 (13.33%) Event-Driven
4 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) SQL
2 6 (40.00%) Java
2 6 (40.00%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) Kibana
3 1 (6.67%) Grafana
3 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) Dynatrace
2 2 (13.33%) Google
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Splunk
2 2 (13.33%) Spotify
3 1 (6.67%) Atlassian
3 1 (6.67%) Databricks
3 1 (6.67%) Jaspersoft