The first table below looks at the demand for Couchbase skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Couchbase over the 3 months to 24 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 Leeds 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Couchbase Server (formerly Membase)
Rank 58 60 -
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -
Contract jobs citing Couchbase 16 7 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 2.165% 0.806% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.921% 3.318% -
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 0
Average daily rate £325 £280 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.07% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £280 -
% change year-on-year
+16.07% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
202 211 152
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 27.33% 24.28% 23.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 143 65
Average daily rate £300 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £423 £392
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 4
Average hourly rate £11.00 £17.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.29% -47.69%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
Couchbase
West Yorkshire

Couchbase
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds Couchbase Jobs Demand Trend

Couchbase
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Couchbase across the Leeds region.

Leeds Couchbase Daily Rate Trend

Couchbase
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Couchbase 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 Couchbase.

1 16 (100.00%) C++
1 16 (100.00%) PHP
1 16 (100.00%) MySQL
1 16 (100.00%) Web Services
1 16 (100.00%) Linux
1 16 (100.00%) Apache
1 16 (100.00%) Python
1 16 (100.00%) POSIX
1 16 (100.00%) HTTP
1 16 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 16 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 16 (100.00%) TDD
1 16 (100.00%) Ruby
1 16 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 16 (100.00%) Kanban
1 16 (100.00%) Bash shell
1 16 (100.00%) Puppet
1 16 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 16 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 16 (100.00%) Node.js
1 16 (100.00%) Redis
1 16 (100.00%) Route 53
1 16 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 16 (100.00%) nginx
1 16 (100.00%) SimpleDB
1 16 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 16 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 16 (100.00%) Amazon AWS
2 15 (93.75%) DNS
2 15 (93.75%) Internet

Couchbase
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Couchbase 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 Couchbase. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 16 (100.00%) Web Services
1 16 (100.00%) POSIX
1 16 (100.00%) Node.js
2 4 (25.00%) LAMP
3 2 (12.50%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 16 (100.00%) Apache
1 16 (100.00%) Route 53
1 16 (100.00%) nginx
1 16 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 16 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 16 (100.00%) Amazon AWS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (100.00%) HTTP
2 15 (93.75%) DNS
2 15 (93.75%) Internet
3 2 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (6.250%) SSL
4 1 (6.250%) TCP/IP
4 1 (6.250%) DHCP
4 1 (6.250%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (100.00%) MySQL
1 16 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 16 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 16 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 16 (100.00%) Redis
1 16 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 16 (100.00%) SimpleDB
General
1 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (6.250%) Python Developer
2 1 (6.250%) Developer
2 1 (6.250%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Client/Server
2 1 (6.250%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 16 (100.00%) TDD
1 16 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 16 (100.00%) Kanban
2 14 (87.50%) Scrum
3 2 (12.50%) Security Testing
3 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
3 2 (12.50%) Network Design
4 1 (6.250%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) C++
1 16 (100.00%) PHP
1 16 (100.00%) Python
1 16 (100.00%) Ruby
1 16 (100.00%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
Systems Management
1 16 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle