PostgreSQL Contract Job Trends in Reading

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 59 63
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 +5
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 10 33 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.74% 3.02% 2.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.62% 16.26% 18.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 23 21
10th Percentile £378 £433 £463
25th Percentile £407 £619 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -33.23% +13.04% +19.79%
75th Percentile £456 £663 £625
90th Percentile £483 - £650
Berkshire median daily rate £448 £639 £588
% change year-on-year -29.94% +8.72% +22.40%

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 104 203 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 18.06% 18.56% 14.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 125 111
10th Percentile £414 £385 £425
25th Percentile £475 £510 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +6.52% +20.42%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £663 £663 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £580 £550
% change year-on-year -9.48% +5.45% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 2
10th Percentile - £39.95 £56.07
25th Percentile - £48.18 £59.92
Median hourly rate - £61.60 £67.10
Median % change year-on-year - -8.19% +198.20%
75th Percentile - - £73.52
90th Percentile - £62.54 £76.92
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.05 £61.60 £66.00
% change year-on-year -47.97% -6.67% +20.00%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing PostgreSQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in Reading over the 6 months to 24 September 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Gunicorn
1 1 (10.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub
3 2 (20.00%) Serverless
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (10.00%) AWS KMS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure
4 1 (10.00%) Datadog
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) Route 53
4 1 (10.00%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (30.00%) MySQL
1 3 (30.00%) RDBMS
1 3 (30.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (20.00%) Redis
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (30.00%) JUnit
1 3 (30.00%) Mockito
2 2 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) GitLab
2 2 (20.00%) JMeter
3 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (10.00%) DbUnit
3 1 (10.00%) jMock
3 1 (10.00%) Maven
3 1 (10.00%) Mocha
3 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Developer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Database Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) DBA
4 1 (10.00%) Django Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 1 (10.00%) Product Owner
4 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Product Owner
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Web Services
2 3 (30.00%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (30.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (30.00%) jQuery
2 3 (30.00%) REST
2 3 (30.00%) RESTful
2 3 (30.00%) Spring
2 3 (30.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (20.00%) Apache Camel
3 2 (20.00%) Bootstrap
3 2 (20.00%) HTML
3 2 (20.00%) JSON
3 2 (20.00%) WireMock
3 2 (20.00%) XML
4 1 (10.00%) .NET
4 1 (10.00%) Fastify
4 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
4 1 (10.00%) Jest
4 1 (10.00%) OpenAPI
4 1 (10.00%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Agile
1 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (40.00%) DevOps
1 4 (40.00%) Microservices
1 4 (40.00%) TDD
2 3 (30.00%) BDD
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (20.00%) High Availability
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Process Management
3 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) SDLC
3 2 (20.00%) Workflow
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (10.00%) Data Security
4 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Java
1 4 (40.00%) Python
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) Bash
3 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (10.00%) OCP
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 17025
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) Grafana
2 2 (20.00%) Kibana
2 2 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Splunk
2 2 (20.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (10.00%) IBM
3 1 (10.00%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft