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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 62 79
Rank change year-on-year -18 +17 +9
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 12 46 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.04% 2.74% 2.02%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.49% 16.85% 16.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 32 26
10th Percentile £393 £417 £459
25th Percentile £413 £490 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £639 £575
Median % change year-on-year -29.94% +11.09% +19.79%
75th Percentile £494 £663 £647
90th Percentile £533 - £794
South East median daily rate £435 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -13.00% -9.09% +10.00%

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 185 273 224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 15.98% 16.27% 12.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 167 156
10th Percentile £406 £384 £350
25th Percentile £425 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +5.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £664 £663 £719
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £536
% change year-on-year -10.00% -6.67% +7.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 4
10th Percentile - £26.24 £54.70
25th Percentile - £48.18 £56.50
Median hourly rate £32.05 £61.60 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.97% -6.67% +57.14%
75th Percentile - - £73.80
90th Percentile - £64.10 £77.03
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £51.59 £54.50
% change year-on-year -53.48% -5.34% +144.94%

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
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 22 September 2025.

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 22 September 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 +7 10 £434 -33.23% 3
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 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (8.33%) Gunicorn
1 1 (8.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Serverless
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (8.33%) Datadog
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) Route 53
4 1 (8.33%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) HTTP
1 1 (8.33%) SSL
1 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) MySQL
1 4 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 2 (16.67%) Redis
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
4 1 (8.33%) Data Vault
4 1 (8.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Git
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (25.00%) JUnit
1 3 (25.00%) Mockito
2 2 (16.67%) GitLab
2 2 (16.67%) JMeter
3 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (8.33%) Cypress.io
3 1 (8.33%) DbUnit
3 1 (8.33%) jMock
3 1 (8.33%) Maven
3 1 (8.33%) Mocha
3 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Aerospace
3 1 (8.33%) Automotive
3 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) .NET Developer
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Developer
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Database Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) DBA
4 1 (8.33%) Django Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 1 (8.33%) Product Owner
4 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Product Owner
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Web Services
2 3 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (25.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (25.00%) jQuery
2 3 (25.00%) REST
2 3 (25.00%) RESTful
2 3 (25.00%) Spring
2 3 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (16.67%) Apache Camel
3 2 (16.67%) Bootstrap
3 2 (16.67%) HTML
3 2 (16.67%) JSON
3 2 (16.67%) WireMock
3 2 (16.67%) XML
4 1 (8.33%) Fastify
4 1 (8.33%) Jest
4 1 (8.33%) Middleware
4 1 (8.33%) OpenAPI
4 1 (8.33%) OpenID
4 1 (8.33%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Clustering
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
1 5 (41.67%) DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 4 (33.33%) Microservices
2 4 (33.33%) TDD
3 3 (25.00%) BDD
3 3 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 2 (16.67%) Data Security
4 2 (16.67%) High Availability
4 2 (16.67%) Migration
4 2 (16.67%) Process Management
4 2 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (16.67%) SDLC
4 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) SQL
2 5 (41.67%) Java
2 5 (41.67%) Python
3 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (16.67%) Bash
4 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
5 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (8.33%) OCP
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 17025
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) NDS
2 1 (8.33%) NetIQ eDirectory
2 1 (8.33%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Grafana
2 2 (16.67%) Kibana
2 2 (16.67%) Terraform
3 1 (8.33%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (8.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle
1 3 (25.00%) Splunk
2 2 (16.67%) Dynatrace
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Atlassian
3 1 (8.33%) Databricks
3 1 (8.33%) Google
3 1 (8.33%) IBM
3 1 (8.33%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (8.33%) NetIQ
3 1 (8.33%) OpenText