The first table below looks at the demand for PostgreSQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PostgreSQL over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Reading 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PostgreSQL (Postgres)
Rank 66 77 -
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 7 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.795% 0.348% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.375% 3.333% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £310 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
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
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
160 120 174
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 18.18% 10.43% 17.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 44 91
Average daily rate £375 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £223 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £513 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £330
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 5 4
Average hourly rate £30.50 £35.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.85% +84.21%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.55 £11.00 £11.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.00 £35.00 £29.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -19.35%
PostgreSQL
Berkshire

PostgreSQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading PostgreSQL Daily Rate Trend

PostgreSQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 19 (95.00%) SQL
2 16 (80.00%) Linux
3 15 (75.00%) Perl
3 15 (75.00%) Greenplum
4 13 (65.00%) Oracle
4 13 (65.00%) Telecoms
5 10 (50.00%) MySQL
6 7 (35.00%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (35.00%) Ericsson
6 7 (35.00%) Nokia Siemens Networks
6 7 (35.00%) Huawei
6 7 (35.00%) Degree
7 6 (30.00%) NoSQL
7 6 (30.00%) Java
7 6 (30.00%) Business Objects
7 6 (30.00%) XML
7 6 (30.00%) UNIX
7 6 (30.00%) Windows
7 6 (30.00%) Subversion
7 6 (30.00%) Red Hat
8 5 (25.00%) Shell Script
8 5 (25.00%) .NET
8 5 (25.00%) OO
8 5 (25.00%) Big Data
9 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (20.00%) Radio Access Network
9 4 (20.00%) Open Source
9 4 (20.00%) LTE
9 4 (20.00%) Performance Management
9 4 (20.00%) Python

PostgreSQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 6 (30.00%) XML
2 5 (25.00%) .NET
3 4 (20.00%) ASP.NET
4 2 (10.00%) MapReduce
5 1 (5.000%) Ajax
5 1 (5.000%) CSS
5 1 (5.000%) Web Services
5 1 (5.000%) HTML
5 1 (5.000%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (5.000%) JSON
5 1 (5.000%) Django
5 1 (5.000%) REST
Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) Apache Pig
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) Radio Access Network
1 4 (20.00%) LTE
1 4 (20.00%) IPv4
1 4 (20.00%) ATM
1 4 (20.00%) 3G
1 4 (20.00%) 2G
2 1 (5.000%) Nokia NetAct
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (50.00%) MySQL
2 7 (35.00%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (30.00%) NoSQL
4 5 (25.00%) Big Data
5 2 (10.00%) Apache Hive
5 2 (10.00%) BusinessObjects XI
5 2 (10.00%) Hadoop
5 2 (10.00%) Data Mining
6 1 (5.000%) SQL Server
6 1 (5.000%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Subversion
2 2 (10.00%) Selenium
2 2 (10.00%) TestComplete
2 2 (10.00%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 13 (65.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.000%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Developer
2 6 (30.00%) Senior Developer
3 5 (25.00%) Software Developer
4 4 (20.00%) Senior Software Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Perl Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Technical Leader
6 2 (10.00%) Data Scientist
6 2 (10.00%) Web Developer
7 1 (5.000%) Analyst
7 1 (5.000%) QA Engineer
7 1 (5.000%) Senior QA Engineer
7 1 (5.000%) Data Analyst
7 1 (5.000%) Senior Web Developer
7 1 (5.000%) Database Developer
7 1 (5.000%) Team Leader
7 1 (5.000%) Tester
7 1 (5.000%) Back Office Engineer
7 1 (5.000%) Automation Tester
7 1 (5.000%) OSS Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Open Source
2 3 (15.00%) Wiki
3 2 (10.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (10.00%) Statistics
3 2 (10.00%) Ontologies
3 2 (10.00%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 16 (80.00%) Linux
2 6 (30.00%) UNIX
2 6 (30.00%) Windows
3 2 (10.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (10.00%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) OO
2 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (20.00%) Performance Management
2 4 (20.00%) ITIL
2 4 (20.00%) eTOM
3 3 (15.00%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (15.00%) ETL
3 3 (15.00%) Fault Management
3 3 (15.00%) Network Management
4 2 (10.00%) Regression Analysis
4 2 (10.00%) Analytics
4 2 (10.00%) Cluster Analysis
4 2 (10.00%) Data Management
4 2 (10.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (10.00%) E-Commerce
4 2 (10.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (10.00%) Data Security
4 2 (10.00%) Automated Testing
5 1 (5.000%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 19 (95.00%) SQL
2 15 (75.00%) Perl
3 6 (30.00%) Java
4 5 (25.00%) Shell Script
5 4 (20.00%) Python
5 4 (20.00%) C
6 2 (10.00%) R
7 1 (5.000%) Ruby
7 1 (5.000%) C#
7 1 (5.000%) Scala
7 1 (5.000%) Korn
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) SLA
2 2 (10.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Splunk
Vendors
1 15 (75.00%) Greenplum
2 13 (65.00%) Oracle
3 7 (35.00%) Ericsson
3 7 (35.00%) Nokia Siemens Networks
3 7 (35.00%) Huawei
4 6 (30.00%) Business Objects
4 6 (30.00%) Red Hat
5 4 (20.00%) Citrix
5 4 (20.00%) NEC
6 1 (5.000%) Nokia
6 1 (5.000%) Microsoft
Reading, Berkshire
Selenium, QTP, TestComplete) Experience of working within an Agile environment... Strong SQL knowledge and experience (Postgresql an advantage) Experience of Server OS (Linux, Windows Server, Suse and Ubuntu)...
Experis IT
Rate: £300 - £375 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013