The first table below looks at the demand for PostgreSQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the 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 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 404 459 506
Rank change year-on-year
+55 +47
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 106 99 66
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.255% 0.186% 0.117%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.225% 0.971% 0.573%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 57 31
Average daily rate £350 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £296 £250 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £448 £550 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £288
% change year-on-year
- +4.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 12
Average hourly rate £17.50 £41.25 £34.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-57.57% +19.56%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £41.25 £34.50
% change year-on-year
-57.57% +19.56%
All Database & Business Intelligence
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
8655 10196 11513
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 20.82% 19.11% 20.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5316 6003 6538
Average daily rate £400 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £260 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £529 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 225 379
Average hourly rate £25.00 £28.50 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.28% -9.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.31 £12.50 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
PostgreSQL
UK

PostgreSQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 England region.

England PostgreSQL Daily Rate Trend

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PostgreSQL across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England PostgreSQL Daily Rate Histogram

PostgreSQL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 17 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
London +28 51 £375 -3.22%
South East +38 34 £325 +13.04%
East Midlands - 9 £300 -
North West +14 6 £325 -
West Midlands +2 3 - -
Yorkshire -1 3 £500 +185.71%
PostgreSQL
UK

PostgreSQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

1 113 (54.07%) Linux
2 99 (47.37%) MySQL
3 91 (43.54%) SQL
4 71 (33.97%) Oracle
5 55 (26.32%) CSS
6 54 (25.84%) Python
7 53 (25.36%) JavaScript
8 49 (23.44%) Perl
9 45 (21.53%) HTML
9 45 (21.53%) Java
10 43 (20.57%) Agile Software Development
11 39 (18.66%) XML
12 38 (18.18%) OO
12 38 (18.18%) Ruby
13 37 (17.70%) UNIX
14 36 (17.22%) Open Source
15 34 (16.27%) Git (software)
15 34 (16.27%) jQuery
16 33 (15.79%) Scrum
17 31 (14.83%) Windows
17 31 (14.83%) HTML5
17 31 (14.83%) MongoDB
18 30 (14.35%) CSS3
18 30 (14.35%) Ruby on Rails
19 28 (13.40%) SQL Server
20 27 (12.92%) Red Hat
20 27 (12.92%) Continuous Integration
20 27 (12.92%) Django
21 26 (12.44%) Greenplum
21 26 (12.44%) TDD

PostgreSQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 55 (26.32%) CSS
2 45 (21.53%) HTML
3 39 (18.66%) XML
4 34 (16.27%) jQuery
5 31 (14.83%) HTML5
6 30 (14.35%) CSS3
6 30 (14.35%) Ruby on Rails
7 27 (12.92%) Django
8 25 (11.96%) .NET
9 22 (10.53%) Web Services
10 21 (10.05%) Ajax
11 20 (9.569%) REST
12 18 (8.612%) ASP.NET
13 16 (7.656%) Spring
14 14 (6.699%) XSLT
15 13 (6.220%) Hibernate
16 12 (5.742%) JSON
17 10 (4.785%) wxWidgets
17 10 (4.785%) Motif
17 10 (4.785%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 20 (9.569%) Apache
2 10 (4.785%) Tomcat
3 9 (4.306%) WordPress
4 8 (3.828%) nginx
4 8 (3.828%) Liferay
5 7 (3.349%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (2.871%) Amazon AWS
6 6 (2.871%) CMS
7 5 (2.392%) Umbraco
7 5 (2.392%) Gunicorn
8 4 (1.914%) Magento
8 4 (1.914%) Apache Solr
9 3 (1.435%) Oracle Coherence
9 3 (1.435%) IIS
9 3 (1.435%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (1.435%) Facebook Platform
10 2 (0.957%) Apache Pig
10 2 (0.957%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.957%) GlassFish
10 2 (0.957%) TeamSite
Applications
1 8 (3.828%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.478%) Doxygen
Business Applications
1 2 (0.957%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.478%) Dynamics GP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.742%) HTTP
2 11 (5.263%) SNMP
3 10 (4.785%) TCP/IP
4 8 (3.828%) DNS
4 8 (3.828%) LDAP
4 8 (3.828%) SMTP
4 8 (3.828%) DHCP
4 8 (3.828%) SAN
4 8 (3.828%) TELNET
4 8 (3.828%) NAS
4 8 (3.828%) iSCSI
5 6 (2.871%) LTE
5 6 (2.871%) Nokia NetAct
5 6 (2.871%) tcpdump
5 6 (2.871%) Radio Access Network
5 6 (2.871%) 3G
5 6 (2.871%) 2G
5 6 (2.871%) IPv4
5 6 (2.871%) ATM
6 5 (2.392%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (47.37%) MySQL
2 31 (14.83%) MongoDB
3 28 (13.40%) SQL Server
4 24 (11.48%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (10.05%) NoSQL
6 16 (7.656%) Ingres
7 13 (6.220%) Oracle 11g
8 12 (5.742%) Redis
9 10 (4.785%) Apache Cassandra
10 8 (3.828%) Big Data
10 8 (3.828%) Oracle BI EE
11 7 (3.349%) RDBMS
11 7 (3.349%) Hadoop
12 6 (2.871%) GIS
12 6 (2.871%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (2.392%) CouchDB
14 4 (1.914%) Oracle 8/8i
15 3 (1.435%) Amazon DynamoDB
15 3 (1.435%) Amazon RDS
15 3 (1.435%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 34 (16.27%) Git (software)
2 24 (11.48%) Subversion
2 24 (11.48%) Jenkins
3 20 (9.569%) Hudson
4 16 (7.656%) CruiseControl
5 15 (7.177%) Ant
6 14 (6.699%) Cucumber
7 13 (6.220%) ClearCase
8 10 (4.785%) NUnit
8 10 (4.785%) RSpec
8 10 (4.785%) CppUnit
8 10 (4.785%) GoogleTest
9 9 (4.306%) Selenium
9 9 (4.306%) ClearQuest
10 8 (3.828%) JUnit
10 8 (3.828%) NetBeans
11 7 (3.349%) Eclipse
12 6 (2.871%) Capistrano
13 5 (2.392%) Mercurial
13 5 (2.392%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (9.569%) Telecoms
2 16 (7.656%) Finance
3 6 (2.871%) Back Office
4 5 (2.392%) Banking
5 4 (1.914%) Publishing
6 2 (0.957%) Games
6 2 (0.957%) Electronics
6 2 (0.957%) Manufacturing
6 2 (0.957%) Multimedia
6 2 (0.957%) Music
6 2 (0.957%) Marketing
7 1 (0.478%) French Language
7 1 (0.478%) Retail
Job Titles
1 125 (59.81%) Developer
2 24 (11.48%) Administrator
3 21 (10.05%) Senior Developer
4 19 (9.091%) DBA
5 16 (7.656%) Ruby on Rails Developer
6 15 (7.177%) Python Developer
6 15 (7.177%) Architect
7 14 (6.699%) Database Developer
7 14 (6.699%) Linux Administrator
8 13 (6.220%) Perl Developer
9 10 (4.785%) Front-End Developer
9 10 (4.785%) ASP.NET Developer
9 10 (4.785%) .NET Developer
9 10 (4.785%) Systems Administrator
10 9 (4.306%) Java Developer
10 9 (4.306%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 8 (3.828%) Software Developer
11 8 (3.828%) Oracle Developer
11 8 (3.828%) Django Developer
12 7 (3.349%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 36 (17.22%) Open Source
2 12 (5.742%) Mobile App
3 8 (3.828%) Replication
4 7 (3.349%) Wiki
5 6 (2.871%) Clustering
5 6 (2.871%) Derivative
6 5 (2.392%) Client/Server
6 5 (2.392%) Social Network
6 5 (2.392%) Cryptography
7 4 (1.914%) iPad
8 3 (1.435%) Computer Science
9 2 (0.957%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.957%) Heroku
9 2 (0.957%) Digital Media
9 2 (0.957%) iPhone
9 2 (0.957%) DTV
9 2 (0.957%) Online Games
9 2 (0.957%) VLE
10 1 (0.478%) IVR
10 1 (0.478%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 113 (54.07%) Linux
2 37 (17.70%) UNIX
3 31 (14.83%) Windows
4 9 (4.306%) Debian
4 9 (4.306%) Ubuntu
4 9 (4.306%) Android
5 8 (3.828%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (3.349%) CentOS
7 6 (2.871%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.957%) AIX
9 1 (0.478%) SUSE
9 1 (0.478%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.478%) openSUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (20.57%) Agile Software Development
2 38 (18.18%) OO
3 33 (15.79%) Scrum
4 27 (12.92%) Continuous Integration
5 26 (12.44%) TDD
6 19 (9.091%) OOD
7 18 (8.612%) Web Development
8 17 (8.134%) Business Intelligence
8 17 (8.134%) Configuration Management
9 16 (7.656%) Test Scripting
10 14 (6.699%) Multithreading
10 14 (6.699%) Refactoring
10 14 (6.699%) UML
11 13 (6.220%) Project Management
11 13 (6.220%) ETL
11 13 (6.220%) Migration
11 13 (6.220%) Unit Testing
11 13 (6.220%) Software Engineering
12 12 (5.742%) Disaster Recovery
13 11 (5.263%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 91 (43.54%) SQL
2 54 (25.84%) Python
3 53 (25.36%) JavaScript
4 49 (23.44%) Perl
5 45 (21.53%) Java
6 38 (18.18%) Ruby
7 22 (10.53%) Bash shell
8 18 (8.612%) Shell Script
8 18 (8.612%) PHP
9 15 (7.177%) C
9 15 (7.177%) C#
10 14 (6.699%) C++
11 8 (3.828%) Scala
12 7 (3.349%) XPath
13 6 (2.871%) Erlang
13 6 (2.871%) T-SQL
13 6 (2.871%) Korn
14 5 (2.392%) AWK
14 5 (2.392%) sed
15 2 (0.957%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 18 (8.612%) Degree
2 8 (3.828%) Security Cleared
3 7 (3.349%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.478%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (0.478%) ISEB
4 1 (0.478%) RHCE
4 1 (0.478%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.349%) QA
2 3 (1.435%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (3.828%) NFS
1 8 (3.828%) Squid
1 8 (3.828%) Postfix
2 6 (2.871%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.392%) Nmap
4 4 (1.914%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.478%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.478%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 17 (8.134%) Puppet
2 13 (6.220%) Nagios
3 4 (1.914%) Data Guard
4 2 (0.957%) OpenView
4 2 (0.957%) Zenoss
5 1 (0.478%) ZABBIX
5 1 (0.478%) Cacti
Vendors
1 71 (33.97%) Oracle
2 27 (12.92%) Red Hat
3 26 (12.44%) Greenplum
4 15 (7.177%) JBoss
5 12 (5.742%) Facebook
5 12 (5.742%) Twitter
6 11 (5.263%) Microsoft
6 11 (5.263%) SAP
7 9 (4.306%) NetApp
7 9 (4.306%) EMC
7 9 (4.306%) Business Objects
7 9 (4.306%) VMware
8 8 (3.828%) Huawei
8 8 (3.828%) Nokia Siemens Networks
8 8 (3.828%) Ericsson
9 6 (2.871%) Nokia
9 6 (2.871%) Citrix
10 5 (2.392%) Cisco
10 5 (2.392%) Zend
10 5 (2.392%) Google
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