PostgreSQL Contracts in Reading

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring PostgreSQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PostgreSQL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 39 58
Rank change year-on-year -4 +19 +28
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 17 56 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.85% 4.70% 2.79%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 22.97% 30.11% 16.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 38 20
10th Percentile - £412 £450
25th Percentile £409 £428 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £625 £461
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +35.50% -10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £513
90th Percentile £674 - £576
Berkshire median daily rate £483 £600 £460
% change year-on-year -19.58% +30.43% -4.17%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 74 186 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 12.40% 15.60% 16.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 98 116
10th Percentile £407 £353 £379
25th Percentile £500 £425 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £595
90th Percentile £678 £688 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £510 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -0.49% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 7
10th Percentile - - £53.10
25th Percentile - £61.60 £61.75
Median hourly rate - £64.55 £75.50
Median % change year-on-year - -14.50% +235.56%
75th Percentile - £67.50 £79.19
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £47.90 £61.00 £72.75
% change year-on-year -21.48% -16.15% +223.33%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in Reading

PostgreSQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in Reading.

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL in Reading

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in Reading

PostgreSQL
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 10 (58.82%) AWS
2 8 (47.06%) Serverless
3 6 (35.29%) Azure
3 6 (35.29%) Azure AKS
4 4 (23.53%) Azure Functions
5 3 (17.65%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (11.76%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
7 1 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (5.88%) AWS KMS
7 1 (5.88%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) Oracle Database
1 6 (35.29%) Oracle Database 11g
2 4 (23.53%) Redis
3 2 (11.76%) RDBMS
3 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
1 3 (17.65%) JUnit
1 3 (17.65%) Mockito
2 2 (11.76%) JMeter
3 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (5.88%) DbUnit
3 1 (5.88%) Git
3 1 (5.88%) jMock
3 1 (5.88%) Maven
3 1 (5.88%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (29.41%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Software Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Azure Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Backend Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Java Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Node.js Developer
4 2 (11.76%) React Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) DBA
5 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) RESTful
2 4 (23.53%) GraphQL
2 4 (23.53%) Node.js
2 4 (23.53%) Prisma
3 3 (17.65%) ActiveMQ
3 3 (17.65%) Hibernate
3 3 (17.65%) React
3 3 (17.65%) REST
3 3 (17.65%) Spring
3 3 (17.65%) Spring Boot
3 3 (17.65%) Web Services
4 2 (11.76%) Apache Camel
4 2 (11.76%) HTML
4 2 (11.76%) jQuery
4 2 (11.76%) JSON
4 2 (11.76%) WireMock
4 2 (11.76%) XML
5 1 (5.88%) JPA
5 1 (5.88%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (5.88%) TanStack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) DevOps
2 7 (41.18%) Data Migration
2 7 (41.18%) Microservices
2 7 (41.18%) Migration
2 7 (41.18%) Performance Tuning
3 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
3 6 (35.29%) Clean Code
3 6 (35.29%) CRUD
3 6 (35.29%) Prototyping
3 6 (35.29%) Secure Coding
3 6 (35.29%) Software Testing
3 6 (35.29%) Unit Testing
4 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
5 4 (23.53%) API Design
5 4 (23.53%) Code Quality
5 4 (23.53%) Cost Management
5 4 (23.53%) Cost Optimisation
5 4 (23.53%) Design Patterns
5 4 (23.53%) Event-Driven
5 4 (23.53%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) SQL
2 7 (41.18%) PL/SQL
3 4 (23.53%) TypeScript
4 3 (17.65%) Java
5 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 2 (11.76%) Python
5 2 (11.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) SC Cleared
1 8 (47.06%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Kibana
3 1 (5.88%) Grafana
3 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Oracle
2 2 (11.76%) Dynatrace
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Splunk
2 2 (11.76%) Spotify
3 1 (5.88%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.88%) Jaspersoft