Database Specialist Contract Job Trends in Reading

Database Specialist
Berkshire > Reading

The median Database Specialist daily rate in Reading is £445, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Database Specialist 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.18% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £443 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 - -
75th Percentile £448 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £445 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Reading. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Reading with a recognized job title 520 969 1,058
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.39% 88.74% 93.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 535 707
10th Percentile £350 £337 £299
25th Percentile £423 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £580 £542
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +7.01% +8.40%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £630
90th Percentile £650 £712 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £508 £541 £525
% change year-on-year -6.24% +3.10% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 35 17
10th Percentile - £48.51 £35.90
25th Percentile £14.75 £56.88 £58.75
Median hourly rate £24.13 £63.15 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.80% -4.32% +89.17%
75th Percentile £53.13 £92.50 £74.79
90th Percentile £68.75 £100.00 £75.95
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.05 £61.60 £56.89
% change year-on-year -47.97% +8.29% +38.09%

Database Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings that featured Database Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Database Specialist in Reading

Database Specialist
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Database Specialist job vacancies in Reading.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Database Specialist job vacancies in Reading

Database Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 22 September 2025, Database Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Reading region featuring Database Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) OCP
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Database Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability

Database Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) Database Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) OCP
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle