PostgreSQL Job Trends in Reading

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 26 52
Rank change year-on-year -2 +26 +38
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 24 65 46
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 4.18% 7.46% 4.79%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 35.29% 40.12% 24.47%
Number of salaries quoted 2 28 22
10th Percentile £44,375 £61,250 -
25th Percentile £47,188 £72,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £90,000 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year -40.28% +18.03% +1.67%
75th Percentile £59,688 £112,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £62,125 £113,250 £89,750
Berkshire median annual salary £53,750 £85,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year -36.76% +42.86% -20.67%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 68 162 188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 11.85% 18.60% 19.58%
Number of salaries quoted 32 78 100
10th Percentile £42,750 £45,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £66,250 £55,050
Median % change year-on-year -4.15% +20.35% -15.31%
75th Percentile £72,188 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £112,500 £87,750
Berkshire median annual salary £62,750 £70,000 £55,050
% change year-on-year -10.36% +27.16% -15.31%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PostgreSQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Reading.

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in Reading

PostgreSQL
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing PostgreSQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in Reading over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Salary histogram for PostgreSQL in Reading

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 6 (25.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 24 (100.00%) AWS
2 21 (87.50%) Amazon ECS
2 21 (87.50%) Amazon EKS
2 21 (87.50%) Serverless
3 15 (62.50%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 6 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (8.33%) Azure
5 2 (8.33%) GCP
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (4.17%) dbt
6 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (95.83%) Relational Database
2 15 (62.50%) RDBMS
3 2 (8.33%) MySQL
4 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.17%) Looker
4 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.17%) Power BI
4 1 (4.17%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (87.50%) Jenkins
2 16 (66.67%) JUnit
3 15 (62.50%) JMeter
3 15 (62.50%) Mockito
4 8 (33.33%) Git
General
1 16 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (100.00%) Developer
2 21 (87.50%) Java Developer
3 19 (79.17%) Full-Stack Developer
4 17 (70.83%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 14 (58.33%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 1 (4.17%) AWS Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 1 (4.17%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (87.50%) REST
1 21 (87.50%) Spring
1 21 (87.50%) Spring Boot
2 20 (83.33%) Web Services
3 15 (62.50%) ActiveMQ
3 15 (62.50%) Apache Camel
3 15 (62.50%) Hibernate
3 15 (62.50%) HTML
3 15 (62.50%) jQuery
3 15 (62.50%) JSON
3 15 (62.50%) WireMock
3 15 (62.50%) XML
4 8 (33.33%) Node.js
4 8 (33.33%) React
5 6 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (25.00%) Kafka
5 6 (25.00%) Mustache
6 2 (8.33%) Next.js
6 2 (8.33%) RESTful
7 1 (4.17%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 21 (87.50%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.33%) Virtual Team
3 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) Agile
2 23 (95.83%) CI/CD
3 22 (91.67%) Microservices
4 21 (87.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 21 (87.50%) TDD
5 18 (75.00%) SDLC
6 15 (62.50%) BDD
6 15 (62.50%) Process Management
6 15 (62.50%) Workflow
7 6 (25.00%) Scrum
8 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (8.33%) Containerisation
9 2 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 2 (8.33%) Decision-Making
9 2 (8.33%) DevOps
9 2 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
10 1 (4.17%) Analytics
10 1 (4.17%) Data Analytics
10 1 (4.17%) Process Improvement
10 1 (4.17%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 22 (91.67%) JavaScript
2 21 (87.50%) Java
3 16 (66.67%) Python
4 15 (62.50%) Shell Script
5 2 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.17%) R
6 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 22 (91.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (87.50%) Kubernetes
2 15 (62.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (62.50%) Dynatrace
1 15 (62.50%) Splunk
2 1 (4.17%) Informatica