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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 50 56
Rank change year-on-year -50 +6 +27
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 9 53 69
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.61% 3.87% 4.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.57% 22.94% 31.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 40 47
10th Percentile £374 £409 £420
25th Percentile £409 £456 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £640 £625
Median % change year-on-year -30.47% +2.40% +35.14%
75th Percentile £488 £663 £688
90th Percentile £510 £675 £725
South East median daily rate £433 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -24.78% - +17.35%

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 197 231 219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.31% 16.87% 13.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 137 146
10th Percentile £410 £385 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +1.74% +16.46%
75th Percentile £602 £656 £675
90th Percentile £664 £680 £691
South East median daily rate £471 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.80% -4.76% +4.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 14
10th Percentile - £34.67 £29.50
25th Percentile - £41.25 £56.87
Median hourly rate - £63.15 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year - +0.24% -18.55%
75th Percentile - £64.95 £70.88
90th Percentile - £65.62 £79.78
South East median hourly rate £40.00 £63.15 £55.91
% change year-on-year -36.66% +12.95% +28.53%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 -31 5 £445 -31.01% 3
Windsor - 3 £413 -
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 (11.11%) Gunicorn
1 1 (11.11%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) GitHub
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon Cognito
3 3 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (33.33%) Azure
4 2 (22.22%) GCP
5 1 (11.11%) Datadog
5 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (11.11%) iPaaS
5 1 (11.11%) Serverless
5 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
5 1 (11.11%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) HTTP
1 1 (11.11%) SSL
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) MongoDB
1 5 (55.56%) MySQL
1 5 (55.56%) Relational Database
2 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
3 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
3 2 (22.22%) Redis
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (11.11%) Parquet
4 1 (11.11%) PowerCenter
4 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Mocha
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Developer
1 4 (44.44%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (33.33%) AWS Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Database Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Delphi Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Django Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Python Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Informatica Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
3 1 (11.11%) React Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) OAuth
1 5 (55.56%) REST
2 4 (44.44%) GraphQL
2 4 (44.44%) Node.js
3 3 (33.33%) React
3 3 (33.33%) SOAP
4 2 (22.22%) OAuth2
5 1 (11.11%) .NET
5 1 (11.11%) Bootstrap
5 1 (11.11%) Django
5 1 (11.11%) Fastify
5 1 (11.11%) Jest
5 1 (11.11%) jQuery
5 1 (11.11%) Middleware
5 1 (11.11%) OpenAPI
5 1 (11.11%) OpenID
5 1 (11.11%) RESTful
5 1 (11.11%) Swagger
5 1 (11.11%) WebSockets
5 1 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Clustering
1 1 (11.11%) Legacy Code
1 1 (11.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Windows
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
1 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (33.33%) API Integration
3 3 (33.33%) API Management
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) High Availability
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Agile
5 1 (11.11%) Application Security
5 1 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
5 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (11.11%) Refactoring
5 1 (11.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
1 6 (66.67%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) Java
3 2 (22.22%) Bash
4 1 (11.11%) C#
4 1 (11.11%) Delphi
4 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 1 (11.11%) PHP
4 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (11.11%) OCP
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 17025
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) NDS
2 1 (11.11%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Grafana
2 1 (11.11%) Puppet
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Informatica
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) NetIQ
2 1 (11.11%) OpenText
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk