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 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 60 75
Rank change year-on-year -30 +15 +11
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 9 49 42
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.69% 3.07% 2.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.33% 17.88% 18.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 36 31
10th Percentile £385 £401 £435
25th Percentile £423 £458 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £638 £600
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% +6.25% +25.00%
75th Percentile £500 £663 £663
90th Percentile £540 - £725
South East median daily rate £435 £497 £575
% change year-on-year -12.39% -13.65% +15.00%

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 208 274 224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 16.02% 17.16% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 166 162
10th Percentile £410 £385 £350
25th Percentile £425 £451 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £578 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.17% +0.43% +19.79%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £650 £663 £725
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -10.00% -7.32% +7.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 8
10th Percentile - £24.85 £55.41
25th Percentile - £41.25 £60.50
Median hourly rate - £58.30 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year - -13.63% +9.76%
75th Percentile - £61.60 £79.78
90th Percentile - £64.73 £82.92
South East median hourly rate £18.75 £48.18 £49.50
% change year-on-year -61.08% -2.67% +132.39%

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 31 October 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 31 October 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 £445 -30.47% 4
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%) Apache Spark
1 1 (11.11%) Gunicorn
1 1 (11.11%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Azure
3 2 (22.22%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Functions
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Datadog
4 1 (11.11%) iPaaS
4 1 (11.11%) Serverless
4 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
4 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 4 (44.44%) MySQL
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
2 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (22.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
3 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
3 2 (22.22%) Redis
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
4 1 (11.11%) Data Vault
4 1 (11.11%) Parquet
4 1 (11.11%) PowerCenter
4 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
1 2 (22.22%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
2 1 (11.11%) Mocha
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Aerospace
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Automotive
2 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Database Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) Django Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Informatica Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Product Owner
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Product Owner
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) OAuth
1 2 (22.22%) OAuth2
1 2 (22.22%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) Bootstrap
2 1 (11.11%) Django
2 1 (11.11%) Fastify
2 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
2 1 (11.11%) Jest
2 1 (11.11%) jQuery
2 1 (11.11%) Kafka
2 1 (11.11%) Middleware
2 1 (11.11%) Node.js
2 1 (11.11%) OpenAPI
2 1 (11.11%) OpenID
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) Swagger
2 1 (11.11%) Web Services
2 1 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Clustering
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
1 1 (11.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 3 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
3 2 (22.22%) Data Governance
3 2 (22.22%) Data Integration
3 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
3 2 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (22.22%) Data Security
3 2 (22.22%) ETL
3 2 (22.22%) ETL Development
3 2 (22.22%) High Availability
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (11.11%) Data Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (22.22%) Bash
3 2 (22.22%) Java
4 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
1 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (11.11%) OCP
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 17025
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) NDS
2 1 (11.11%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Grafana
2 1 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Oracle
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Databricks
3 1 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (11.11%) IBM
3 1 (11.11%) Informatica
3 1 (11.11%) NetIQ
3 1 (11.11%) OpenText
3 1 (11.11%) Splunk