The first table below looks at the demand for PostgreSQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East 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 South East 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 193 224 219
Rank change year-on-year
+31 -5
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 36 22 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.454% 0.213% 0.224%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.403% 1.235% 1.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 7
Average daily rate £325 £313 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% +13.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £295 £275 £273
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £374 £355
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
- +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
Average hourly rate - - £34.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.00 £41.25 £34.50
% change year-on-year
-44.24% +19.56%
All Database & Business Intelligence
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
1498 1781 2150
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 18.91% 17.22% 20.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 779 892 1025
Average daily rate £358 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £263 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 52 116
Average hourly rate £27.50 £26.00 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.76% -30.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £16.50 £18.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-0.90% -14.61%
PostgreSQL
England

PostgreSQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 22 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
Hampshire - 18 £300 -
Berkshire +19 14 £325 +18.18%
Surrey +19 3 £400 +12.67%
Buckinghamshire - 1 £385 -
PostgreSQL
England

PostgreSQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 49 (75.38%) SQL
2 46 (70.77%) Linux
3 33 (50.77%) Perl
4 29 (44.62%) Oracle
5 25 (38.46%) XML
5 25 (38.46%) Greenplum
6 24 (36.92%) UNIX
7 23 (35.38%) MySQL
8 18 (27.69%) Telecoms
9 17 (26.15%) OO
9 17 (26.15%) Java
9 17 (26.15%) Ingres
10 16 (24.62%) Python
10 16 (24.62%) Red Hat
10 16 (24.62%) Subversion
11 15 (23.08%) C
12 14 (21.54%) Ant
12 14 (21.54%) UML
12 14 (21.54%) Windows
12 14 (21.54%) ClearCase
12 14 (21.54%) OOD
12 14 (21.54%) CruiseControl
12 14 (21.54%) Continuous Integration
13 12 (18.46%) Shell Script
13 12 (18.46%) C++
14 11 (16.92%) Data Warehouse
14 11 (16.92%) Motif
14 11 (16.92%) NUnit
14 11 (16.92%) wxWidgets
14 11 (16.92%) CppUnit

PostgreSQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 25 (38.46%) XML
2 11 (16.92%) Motif
2 11 (16.92%) wxWidgets
3 8 (12.31%) JDBC
4 6 (9.231%) .NET
5 5 (7.692%) HTML
5 5 (7.692%) CSS
6 4 (6.154%) Ruby on Rails
6 4 (6.154%) Spring
6 4 (6.154%) Swing
6 4 (6.154%) ASP.NET
7 2 (3.077%) Ajax
7 2 (3.077%) JSON
7 2 (3.077%) jQuery
7 2 (3.077%) Mason
7 2 (3.077%) Sinatra
7 2 (3.077%) HTML5
7 2 (3.077%) CGI
7 2 (3.077%) J2EE
7 2 (3.077%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 6 (9.231%) Apache
2 4 (6.154%) Liferay
2 4 (6.154%) Tomcat
3 2 (3.077%) Facebook Platform
4 1 (1.538%) TeamSite
4 1 (1.538%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (1.538%) Apache Pig
4 1 (1.538%) Moodle
4 1 (1.538%) Magento
Applications
1 4 (6.154%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.538%) Doxygen
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.231%) LTE
1 6 (9.231%) Radio Access Network
1 6 (9.231%) 2G
1 6 (9.231%) 3G
1 6 (9.231%) IPv4
1 6 (9.231%) ATM
2 5 (7.692%) TCP/IP
2 5 (7.692%) Nokia NetAct
2 5 (7.692%) tcpdump
3 4 (6.154%) iSCSI
3 4 (6.154%) NAS
3 4 (6.154%) TELNET
3 4 (6.154%) SSL
3 4 (6.154%) DNS
3 4 (6.154%) SAN
3 4 (6.154%) SMTP
3 4 (6.154%) DHCP
3 4 (6.154%) HTTP
3 4 (6.154%) SNMP
3 4 (6.154%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (35.38%) MySQL
2 17 (26.15%) Ingres
3 11 (16.92%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (7.692%) NoSQL
5 4 (6.154%) Big Data
6 3 (4.615%) SQL Server
6 3 (4.615%) BusinessObjects XI
7 2 (3.077%) SQLite
7 2 (3.077%) Hadoop
7 2 (3.077%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (3.077%) Redis
7 2 (3.077%) GIS
7 2 (3.077%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.538%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.538%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.538%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (24.62%) Subversion
2 14 (21.54%) Ant
2 14 (21.54%) ClearCase
2 14 (21.54%) CruiseControl
3 11 (16.92%) NUnit
3 11 (16.92%) CppUnit
3 11 (16.92%) GoogleTest
4 10 (15.38%) ClearQuest
5 9 (13.85%) Jenkins
5 9 (13.85%) Hudson
6 5 (7.692%) Git (software)
7 4 (6.154%) Rational Rose
7 4 (6.154%) JUnit
8 3 (4.615%) Eclipse
8 3 (4.615%) NetBeans
8 3 (4.615%) FindBugs
8 3 (4.615%) Mockito
9 1 (1.538%) QuickTest Pro
9 1 (1.538%) Jasmine
9 1 (1.538%) RSpec
General
1 18 (27.69%) Telecoms
2 5 (7.692%) Back Office
3 4 (6.154%) Banking
4 1 (1.538%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 34 (52.31%) Developer
2 9 (13.85%) Administrator
2 9 (13.85%) Perl Developer
3 8 (12.31%) Software Developer
4 7 (10.77%) C++ Developer
5 6 (9.231%) DBA
5 6 (9.231%) Senior Developer
6 5 (7.692%) Software Engineer
6 5 (7.692%) Back Office Engineer
6 5 (7.692%) OSS Engineer
7 4 (6.154%) Senior Software Developer
7 4 (6.154%) Linux Administrator
8 3 (4.615%) Database Developer
8 3 (4.615%) Technical Leader
9 2 (3.077%) Ruby Developer
9 2 (3.077%) Java Engineer
9 2 (3.077%) C++ Software Engineer
9 2 (3.077%) Web Developer
10 1 (1.538%) Systems Administrator
10 1 (1.538%) Software Architect
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.85%) Open Source
2 7 (10.77%) Wiki
3 4 (6.154%) Derivative
3 4 (6.154%) Clustering
3 4 (6.154%) Cryptography
4 2 (3.077%) Social Network
4 2 (3.077%) iPhone
4 2 (3.077%) iPad
4 2 (3.077%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.538%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.538%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.538%) Data Integration
5 1 (1.538%) Ontologies
5 1 (1.538%) Computer Science
5 1 (1.538%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 46 (70.77%) Linux
2 24 (36.92%) UNIX
3 14 (21.54%) Windows
4 4 (6.154%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.077%) Android
5 2 (3.077%) Apple iOS
5 2 (3.077%) Debian
5 2 (3.077%) AIX
6 1 (1.538%) SUSE
6 1 (1.538%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (26.15%) OO
2 14 (21.54%) UML
2 14 (21.54%) OOD
2 14 (21.54%) Continuous Integration
3 9 (13.85%) Unit Testing
4 8 (12.31%) Software Engineering
4 8 (12.31%) Multithreading
4 8 (12.31%) Memory Management
4 8 (12.31%) Configuration Management
5 7 (10.77%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (10.77%) Refactoring
6 6 (9.231%) Use Case
6 6 (9.231%) Web Development
6 6 (9.231%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (7.692%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (7.692%) Network Management
7 5 (7.692%) Analytics
7 5 (7.692%) Performance Management
7 5 (7.692%) Fault Management
8 4 (6.154%) eTOM
Programming Languages
1 49 (75.38%) SQL
2 33 (50.77%) Perl
3 17 (26.15%) Java
4 16 (24.62%) Python
5 15 (23.08%) C
6 12 (18.46%) Shell Script
6 12 (18.46%) C++
7 9 (13.85%) Bash shell
8 6 (9.231%) JavaScript
9 5 (7.692%) Korn
9 5 (7.692%) Ruby
10 4 (6.154%) sed
10 4 (6.154%) AWK
11 3 (4.615%) PHP
12 2 (3.077%) XPath
12 2 (3.077%) XQuery
13 1 (1.538%) C#
13 1 (1.538%) Scala
13 1 (1.538%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (13.85%) Degree
2 7 (10.77%) SC Cleared
2 7 (10.77%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.615%) SLA
2 1 (1.538%) QA
System Software
1 4 (6.154%) Squid
1 4 (6.154%) Postfix
1 4 (6.154%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (6.154%) Nmap
1 4 (6.154%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (6.154%) Puppet
1 4 (6.154%) Nagios
2 1 (1.538%) Splunk
Vendors
1 29 (44.62%) Oracle
2 25 (38.46%) Greenplum
3 16 (24.62%) Red Hat
4 10 (15.38%) JBoss
5 9 (13.85%) Business Objects
6 8 (12.31%) Huawei
6 8 (12.31%) Nokia Siemens Networks
6 8 (12.31%) Ericsson
7 6 (9.231%) Citrix
8 5 (7.692%) Microsoft
8 5 (7.692%) Nokia
9 4 (6.154%) EMC
9 4 (6.154%) NetApp
9 4 (6.154%) VMware
9 4 (6.154%) NEC
9 4 (6.154%) SAP
10 3 (4.615%) Cognizant
11 2 (3.077%) Coverity
11 2 (3.077%) Facebook
11 2 (3.077%) Twitter
Guildford, South East
The role will be a part of a larger development team working on the next generation of our client's market leading advanced targeted attack monitoring solution. This...
JAM
Rate: negotiable
Posted: 8 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Experience with SQL (Postgres, Mysql), NOSQL, Hadoop, Hive, Pig, MapReduce, or other similar tools - Databases and/or data models (Graph databases, Hippocratic databases, ontologies, semantic frameworks) - Data security...
Greythorn
Rate: £0.00 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013