The first table below looks at the demand for PostgreSQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PostgreSQL over the 3 months to 17 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 East of England 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PostgreSQL (Postgres)
Rank - 121 -
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 0 8 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England - 0.271% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category - 1.223% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Average daily rate - £238 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £288
% change year-on-year
- +4.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £41.25 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £41.25 £34.50
% change year-on-year
-57.57% +19.56%
All Database & Business Intelligence
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
412 654 553
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 19.13% 22.19% 21.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 354 254
Average daily rate £300 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 31 45
Average hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% +16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.50 £21.50 £27.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £36.00 £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
PostgreSQL
England

PostgreSQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England PostgreSQL Hourly Rate Trend

PostgreSQL
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Hadoop
2 2 (66.67%) CouchDB
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Hive
2 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Pig
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Client/Server
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
2 2 (66.67%) Spring
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Android
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) Apache
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) iPad
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) GIS

PostgreSQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 (66.67%) Hibernate
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Apache Pig
2 1 (33.33%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Hadoop
1 2 (66.67%) CouchDB
1 2 (66.67%) Apache Hive
1 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
1 2 (66.67%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (33.33%) GIS
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Database Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Database Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Database Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Database Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Client/Server
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree