The first table below looks at the demand for PostgreSQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PostgreSQL over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Database & Business Intelligence category for the Berkshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PostgreSQL (Postgres)
Rank 111 126 -
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 14 9 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.567% 0.288% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.211% 2.839% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
Average daily rate £325 £275 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.18% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £288
% change year-on-year
- +4.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.00 £41.25 £34.50
% change year-on-year
-44.24% +19.56%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
436 317 558
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 17.65% 10.16% 19.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 139 254
Average daily rate £375 £350 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +6.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £263 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £425 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 5 51
Average hourly rate £33.75 £45.00 £42.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +5.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £11.50 £34.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £26.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.77% -18.46%
PostgreSQL
South East

PostgreSQL
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing PostgreSQL across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Berkshire PostgreSQL Jobs Demand Trend

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing PostgreSQL across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire PostgreSQL Daily Rate Trend

PostgreSQL
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing PostgreSQL across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire PostgreSQL Hourly Rate Trend

PostgreSQL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Reading +14 10 £325 -
PostgreSQL
South East

PostgreSQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing PostgreSQL also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited PostgreSQL.

1 25 (86.21%) SQL
2 24 (82.76%) Greenplum
3 23 (79.31%) Perl
4 21 (72.41%) Oracle
4 21 (72.41%) Linux
5 17 (58.62%) Telecoms
6 14 (48.28%) MySQL
7 10 (34.48%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (31.03%) Business Objects
9 8 (27.59%) XML
9 8 (27.59%) Shell Script
10 7 (24.14%) Ericsson
10 7 (24.14%) Red Hat
10 7 (24.14%) Subversion
10 7 (24.14%) UNIX
10 7 (24.14%) Windows
10 7 (24.14%) Nokia Siemens Networks
10 7 (24.14%) Huawei
11 6 (20.69%) Degree
11 6 (20.69%) LTE
11 6 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (20.69%) Radio Access Network
11 6 (20.69%) OO
11 6 (20.69%) IPv4
11 6 (20.69%) Citrix
11 6 (20.69%) ATM
11 6 (20.69%) Java
11 6 (20.69%) 2G
11 6 (20.69%) 3G
12 5 (17.24%) Back Office

PostgreSQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing PostgreSQL also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited PostgreSQL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (27.59%) XML
2 5 (17.24%) .NET
3 4 (13.79%) ASP.NET
4 2 (6.897%) Ajax
4 2 (6.897%) JSON
4 2 (6.897%) HTML
5 1 (3.448%) CSS
5 1 (3.448%) JSP
5 1 (3.448%) Web Services
5 1 (3.448%) J2EE
5 1 (3.448%) REST
5 1 (3.448%) MapReduce
5 1 (3.448%) HTML5
5 1 (3.448%) Django
5 1 (3.448%) jQuery
5 1 (3.448%) Ruby on Rails
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.448%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (3.448%) Apache Pig
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.69%) LTE
1 6 (20.69%) Radio Access Network
1 6 (20.69%) IPv4
1 6 (20.69%) ATM
1 6 (20.69%) 2G
1 6 (20.69%) 3G
2 5 (17.24%) Nokia NetAct
3 1 (3.448%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (48.28%) MySQL
2 10 (34.48%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (17.24%) NoSQL
4 4 (13.79%) Big Data
5 3 (10.34%) BusinessObjects XI
6 1 (3.448%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.448%) Data Mining
6 1 (3.448%) Apache Hive
6 1 (3.448%) MongoDB
6 1 (3.448%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) Subversion
2 1 (3.448%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (3.448%) TestComplete
2 1 (3.448%) Selenium
General
1 17 (58.62%) Telecoms
2 5 (17.24%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 16 (55.17%) Developer
2 6 (20.69%) Software Developer
2 6 (20.69%) Senior Developer
3 5 (17.24%) Perl Developer
3 5 (17.24%) OSS Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Back Office Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Senior Software Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Technical Leader
6 2 (6.897%) Web Developer
7 1 (3.448%) Test Engineer
7 1 (3.448%) Senior Web Developer
7 1 (3.448%) Database Developer
7 1 (3.448%) Team Leader
7 1 (3.448%) Programmer
7 1 (3.448%) Tester
7 1 (3.448%) Data Scientist
7 1 (3.448%) Automated Test Engineer
7 1 (3.448%) Automation Tester
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Wiki
1 4 (13.79%) Open Source
2 1 (3.448%) N-Tier
2 1 (3.448%) Data Integration
2 1 (3.448%) Computer Science
2 1 (3.448%) Statistics
2 1 (3.448%) Ontologies
Operating Systems
1 21 (72.41%) Linux
2 7 (24.14%) UNIX
2 7 (24.14%) Windows
3 1 (3.448%) SUSE
3 1 (3.448%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
1 6 (20.69%) OO
2 5 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (17.24%) Network Management
2 5 (17.24%) Fault Management
3 4 (13.79%) eTOM
3 4 (13.79%) Performance Management
3 4 (13.79%) ITIL
4 3 (10.34%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (10.34%) ETL
5 2 (6.897%) Use Case
5 2 (6.897%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (3.448%) TDD
6 1 (3.448%) Data Management
6 1 (3.448%) Automated Testing
6 1 (3.448%) Scrum
6 1 (3.448%) Information Security
6 1 (3.448%) Data Security
6 1 (3.448%) E-Commerce
6 1 (3.448%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 25 (86.21%) SQL
2 23 (79.31%) Perl
3 8 (27.59%) Shell Script
4 6 (20.69%) Java
5 5 (17.24%) Python
5 5 (17.24%) Korn
6 4 (13.79%) C
7 2 (6.897%) Ruby
7 2 (6.897%) Bash shell
8 1 (3.448%) C#
8 1 (3.448%) JavaScript
8 1 (3.448%) PHP
8 1 (3.448%) R
8 1 (3.448%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) SLA
2 1 (3.448%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.448%) Splunk
Vendors
1 24 (82.76%) Greenplum
2 21 (72.41%) Oracle
3 9 (31.03%) Business Objects
4 7 (24.14%) Ericsson
4 7 (24.14%) Red Hat
4 7 (24.14%) Nokia Siemens Networks
4 7 (24.14%) Huawei
5 6 (20.69%) Citrix
6 5 (17.24%) Nokia
7 4 (13.79%) NEC
8 1 (3.448%) Microsoft
Reading, Berkshire
Experience with SQL (Postgres, Mysql), NOSQL, Hadoop, Hive, Pig, MapReduce, or other similar tools - Databases and/or data models (Graph databases, Hippocratic databases, ontologies, semantic frameworks) - Data security...
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Posted: 15 May 2013