The first table below looks at the demand for PostgreSQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PostgreSQL over the 3 months to 20 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 Southampton 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PostgreSQL (Postgres)
Rank 35 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 0.882% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.412% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £300 - -
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
Southampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
68 44 52
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 20.00% 17.53% 27.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 19 24
Average daily rate £413 £300 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+37.50% +50.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £213 £130
10% offered a daily rate of more than £513 £375 £478
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £338
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 4
Average hourly rate £20.00 £23.75 £33.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.78% -29.10%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.88 £9.75 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.00 £31.50 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -20.63%
PostgreSQL
Hampshire

PostgreSQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton PostgreSQL Daily Rate Trend

PostgreSQL
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 2 (66.67%) JBoss
1 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) J2EE
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Magento
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) TeamSite
2 1 (33.33%) Intranet
2 1 (33.33%) Internet

PostgreSQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Magento
1 1 (33.33%) TeamSite
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Intranet
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DBA
1 2 (66.67%) Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Technical Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Software Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Open Source
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Scrum
1 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) PHP
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) JBoss