The first table below looks at the demand for PostgreSQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PostgreSQL over the 3 months to 22 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 Glasgow 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PostgreSQL (Postgres)
Rank 76 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.104% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.383% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £450 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
- +9.09%
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
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
261 251 208
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 27.22% 31.97% 30.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 113 127
Average daily rate £338 £320 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.46% -1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 £248 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 7
Average hourly rate £9.25 £9.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% -76.25%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-0.90% -14.61%
PostgreSQL
Scotland

PostgreSQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow PostgreSQL Jobs Demand 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow PostgreSQL Hourly Rate Trend

PostgreSQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) DSDM
1 1 (100.00%) J2ME
1 1 (100.00%) JMS
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Extreme Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) CruiseControl
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) WATIR
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) GlassFish
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) RSpec
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Injection

PostgreSQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) J2ME
1 1 (100.00%) JMS
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) GlassFish
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) CruiseControl
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) WATIR
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) RSpec
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Hudson
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Build Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) DSDM
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Extreme Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat