The first table below looks at the demand for PostgreSQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PostgreSQL over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Chester 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PostgreSQL (Postgres)
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 0.775% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.941% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £300 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
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
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
34 24 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 26.36% 21.24% 25.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 11 10
Average daily rate £388 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.71% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £294 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £378 £412
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £330
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Average hourly rate £40.00 - £46.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -19.35%
PostgreSQL
Cheshire

PostgreSQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester PostgreSQL Daily Rate Trend

PostgreSQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) J2EE
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Flash
1 2 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 2 (100.00%) SNMP
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) Adobe
1 2 (100.00%) TELNET
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Flex
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Android
1 2 (100.00%) TestNG
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (50.00%) MyEclipse
2 1 (50.00%) Mercurial
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development

PostgreSQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) J2EE
1 2 (100.00%) Flash
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Flex
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) SNMP
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) TELNET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) TestNG
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) MyEclipse
2 1 (50.00%) Mercurial
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Android
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Adobe