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 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 70 64
Rank change year-on-year -37 -6 +8
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 12 21 59
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.65% 1.80% 3.09%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.36% 12.28% 24.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 38
10th Percentile £322 £409 £375
25th Percentile £349 £456 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -32.17% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £538 £658 £688
90th Percentile £580 £663 -
South East median daily rate £450 £465 £490
% change year-on-year -3.23% -5.10% +4.26%

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 224 171 245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 12.12% 14.69% 12.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 112 132
10th Percentile £269 £407 £308
25th Percentile £392 £466 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +2.89% +2.05%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £650
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 12
10th Percentile £24.49 - £19.15
25th Percentile £29.44 £32.05 £47.24
Median hourly rate £79.15 £47.90 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +65.25% -22.24% -18.41%
75th Percentile £82.25 £65.62 -
90th Percentile £83.60 - £66.91
South East median hourly rate £36.71 £32.05 £58.91
% change year-on-year +14.54% -45.59% +2.44%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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
Wokingham - 6 £358 -
Reading -34 5 £475 -25.49% 2
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 (8.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (41.67%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
1 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) NoSQL
1 7 (58.33%) Relational Database
2 5 (41.67%) MongoDB
3 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (16.67%) Big Data
4 2 (16.67%) Data Lake
4 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (16.67%) DynamoDB
5 1 (8.33%) MySQL
5 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
5 1 (8.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Git
2 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 3 (25.00%) GitLab
4 1 (8.33%) JUnit
4 1 (8.33%) Liquibase
4 1 (8.33%) Mockito
General
1 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Python Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Delphi Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) Kafka
2 6 (50.00%) FastAPI
2 6 (50.00%) Flask
2 6 (50.00%) RESTful
3 5 (41.67%) Django
3 5 (41.67%) NumPy
3 5 (41.67%) OpenAPI
3 5 (41.67%) Pandas
3 5 (41.67%) Swagger
4 4 (33.33%) pytest
4 4 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (16.67%) Jinja
5 2 (16.67%) PySpark
5 2 (16.67%) React
5 2 (16.67%) REST
6 1 (8.33%) JWT
6 1 (8.33%) Mustache
6 1 (8.33%) Node.js
6 1 (8.33%) OAuth2
6 1 (8.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Algorithms
1 5 (41.67%) Data Structures
2 4 (33.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (8.33%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (8.33%) Legacy Code
4 1 (8.33%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) OpenVMS
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 6 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (50.00%) TDD
3 5 (41.67%) Analytics
3 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 5 (41.67%) DevOps
3 5 (41.67%) Mathematics
3 5 (41.67%) OOP
3 5 (41.67%) Performance Optimisation
4 4 (33.33%) Data Analytics
4 4 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (25.00%) AI
5 3 (25.00%) API Development
5 3 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (25.00%) Microservices
6 2 (16.67%) Data Security
6 2 (16.67%) ETL
6 2 (16.67%) Migration
6 2 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (25.00%) Java
4 2 (16.67%) Bash
4 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 2 (16.67%) Scala
5 1 (8.33%) C#
5 1 (8.33%) Delphi
5 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (8.33%) Korn
5 1 (8.33%) PHP
5 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
5 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 8 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat