The first table below looks at the demand for PostgreSQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Sussex 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 Sussex 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 - 42 26
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 0 1 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in East Sussex - 0.306% 2.105%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category - 1.111% 6.897%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £325 -
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 £17.50 £41.25 £34.50
% change year-on-year
-57.57% +19.56%
All Database & Business Intelligence
East Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
48 90 58
As % of all contract IT jobs located in East Sussex 20.96% 27.52% 30.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 46 28
Average daily rate £363 £475 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.68% +43.93%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £195 £325 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £525 £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £34.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
PostgreSQL
South East

PostgreSQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Sussex 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 Sussex region.

East Sussex 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 Sussex region.

East Sussex PostgreSQL Hourly Rate Trend

PostgreSQL
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) XQuery
1 2 (100.00%) Subversion
1 2 (100.00%) Web Development
1 2 (100.00%) XPath
1 2 (100.00%) SQLite
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Mason
2 1 (50.00%) Content Management
2 1 (50.00%) Publishing
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce

PostgreSQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
1 2 (100.00%) Mason
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (50.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Perl Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) Web Development
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) XQuery
1 2 (100.00%) XPath
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle