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The table below looks at the demand for PostgreSQL skills across the UK with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited PostgreSQL over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkPostgreSQL
Location
3 months to
10 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank542614
Rank change on same period last yearUp+72
Matching contract IT job ads1752
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.024 %0.053 %
As % of the category below0.123 %0.261 %
Daily rates quoted411
Average minimum daily rate£200£269
Average daily rate£213£286
% change on same period last year-25.67 %
Average maximum daily rate£225£303
UK excluding London average daily rate£208£222
% change on same period last year-6.15 %
Hourly rates quoted24
Average minimum hourly rate£37.50£23.75
Average hourly rate£37.50£27.50
% change on same period last year+36.36 %
Average maximum hourly rate£37.50£31.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.00£27.50
% change on same period last year-9.09 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
UK
Matching contract IT job ads1385419953
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled19.51 %20.16 %
Daily rates quoted42945798
Average minimum daily rate£353£369
Average daily rate£376£393
% change on same period last year-4.32 %
Average maximum daily rate£399£416
UK excluding London average daily rate£341£350
% change on same period last year-2.64 %
Hourly rates quoted9361471
Average minimum hourly rate£28.21£28.91
Average hourly rate£30.17£30.84
% change on same period last year-2.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate£32.13£32.77
UK excluding London average hourly rate£30.04£31.90
% change on same period last year-5.83 %

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

PostgreSQL
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing PostgreSQL within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

PostgreSQL Demand Trend

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing PostgreSQL within the UK.

PostgreSQL Daily Rate Trend

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the UK over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

PostgreSQL Daily Rate Histogram

PostgreSQL
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing PostgreSQL within the UK.

PostgreSQL Hourly Rate Trend

PostgreSQL
Top 19 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 UK over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+5316£213-35.27 %
LondonUp+637£225-33.66 %
South EastUp+446£208-30.55 %
Thames ValleyNew entry-3£208-
East of EnglandNew entry-2--
YorkshireUp+151--
BerkshireUp+301--
BuckinghamshireUp+171--
Northern IrelandNew entry-1--
CambridgeshireNew entry-1--
NorfolkNew entry-1--
Docklands, LondonNew entry-1£225-
WindsorNew entry-1--
AylesburyNew entry-1--
NorwichNew entry-1--
HarrogateNew entry-1--
OxfordNew entry-1--
North YorkshireNew entry-1--
OxfordshireDown-41--

PostgreSQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

127 (65.85 %)Apache
225 (60.98 %)Linux
322 (53.66 %)XML
421 (51.22 %)MySQL
520 (48.78 %)Java
619 (46.34 %)JavaScript
716 (39.02 %)AJAX
814 (34.15 %)UNIX
913 (31.71 %)J2EE
1011 (26.83 %)SQL Server
1011 (26.83 %)PHP
1110 (24.39 %)OO
129 (21.95 %)SQL
129 (21.95 %)SOAP
129 (21.95 %)PHP5
138 (19.51 %)CSS
138 (19.51 %)C++
138 (19.51 %)Oracle
138 (19.51 %)Windows
138 (19.51 %)Shell Script
147 (17.07 %)Subversion
147 (17.07 %)Tomcat
147 (17.07 %)XHTML
147 (17.07 %)E-Commerce
147 (17.07 %)DHTML
147 (17.07 %)PHP4
147 (17.07 %)Software Engineering
156 (14.63 %)Degree
156 (14.63 %)HTML
156 (14.63 %).NET

PostgreSQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
122 (53.66 %)XML
216 (39.02 %)AJAX
313 (31.71 %)J2EE
49 (21.95 %)SOAP
58 (19.51 %)CSS
67 (17.07 %)XHTML
76 (14.63 %)HTML
76 (14.63 %).NET
85 (12.20 %)ASP.NET
85 (12.20 %)Hibernate
85 (12.20 %)Symfony
94 (9.756 %)jQuery
94 (9.756 %)MVC
103 (7.317 %)LAMP
103 (7.317 %)Spring
103 (7.317 %)JMS
103 (7.317 %)Swing
103 (7.317 %)JDBC
103 (7.317 %)JSP
103 (7.317 %)Servlets
IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
127 (65.85 %)Apache
27 (17.07 %)Tomcat
34 (9.756 %)JBoss
43 (7.317 %)WebLogic
52 (4.878 %)IIS
52 (4.878 %)GlassFish
61 (2.439 %)MS Exchange
61 (2.439 %)ColdFusion
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
13 (7.317 %)SMTP
13 (7.317 %)Firewall
22 (4.878 %)TCP/IP
22 (4.878 %)VPN
22 (4.878 %)BIG-IP
22 (4.878 %)VLAN
22 (4.878 %)VoIP
22 (4.878 %)SAN
22 (4.878 %)Internet
22 (4.878 %)OSPF
22 (4.878 %)BGP
31 (2.439 %)POP3
31 (2.439 %)Kerberos
31 (2.439 %)SNMP
31 (2.439 %)IMAP
31 (2.439 %)Cisco PIX
31 (2.439 %)DNS
31 (2.439 %)IPsec
31 (2.439 %)SDH
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
121 (51.22 %)MySQL
211 (26.83 %)SQL Server
33 (7.317 %)RDBMS
41 (2.439 %)SQL Server 7
41 (2.439 %)SQL Server 2000
41 (2.439 %)SQL Server 2005
41 (2.439 %)SQL Server 2008
41 (2.439 %)DTS
IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
17 (17.07 %)Subversion
24 (9.756 %)JUnit
24 (9.756 %)Eclipse
32 (4.878 %)Flash
32 (4.878 %)Ant
32 (4.878 %)Log4j
41 (2.439 %)StarTeam
41 (2.439 %)ProC
IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
15 (12.20 %)Finance
23 (7.317 %)Marketing
32 (4.878 %)Games
32 (4.878 %)Telecoms
41 (2.439 %)Pharmaceutical
41 (2.439 %)Auditing
IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
127 (65.85 %)Developer
210 (24.39 %)Java Developer
37 (17.07 %)PHP Developer
45 (12.20 %)Java/J2EE Developer
53 (7.317 %)Administrator
53 (7.317 %)Analyst
53 (7.317 %)Senior Developer
62 (4.878 %)Analyst Programmer
62 (4.878 %)Programmer
62 (4.878 %)Software Engineer
62 (4.878 %)J2EE Developer
62 (4.878 %)MySQL Developer
62 (4.878 %)Java Analyst Programmer
62 (4.878 %)Java Programmer
62 (4.878 %)Infrastructure Manager
62 (4.878 %)LAMP Developer
71 (2.439 %)HTML Developer
71 (2.439 %)Software Development Engineer
71 (2.439 %)Linux Administrator
71 (2.439 %)Senior PHP Developer
IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
15 (12.20 %)Web 2.0
24 (9.756 %)Clustering
33 (7.317 %)Computer Science
42 (4.878 %)Social Network
42 (4.878 %)Client/Server
42 (4.878 %)Replication
51 (2.439 %)Tandem
51 (2.439 %)Biology
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
125 (60.98 %)Linux
214 (34.15 %)UNIX
38 (19.51 %)Windows
43 (7.317 %)Solaris
43 (7.317 %)Windows Server 2003
52 (4.878 %)Red Hat Linux
61 (2.439 %)HPUX
61 (2.439 %)Debian
61 (2.439 %)Ubuntu
61 (2.439 %)CentOS
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
110 (24.39 %)OO
27 (17.07 %)E-Commerce
27 (17.07 %)Software Engineering
33 (7.317 %)Unit Testing
33 (7.317 %)Scrum
42 (4.878 %)UML
42 (4.878 %)OOP
42 (4.878 %)Time Management
42 (4.878 %)Algorithmic Trading
42 (4.878 %)Use Case
51 (2.439 %)Load Balancing
51 (2.439 %)ITIL
51 (2.439 %)OOA/OOD
51 (2.439 %)Bioinformatics
51 (2.439 %)Risk Management
51 (2.439 %)Migration
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
120 (48.78 %)Java
219 (46.34 %)JavaScript
311 (26.83 %)PHP
49 (21.95 %)SQL
49 (21.95 %)PHP5
58 (19.51 %)C++
58 (19.51 %)Shell Script
67 (17.07 %)DHTML
67 (17.07 %)PHP4
74 (9.756 %)C#
74 (9.756 %)XQuery
74 (9.756 %)XPath
83 (7.317 %)Perl
83 (7.317 %)ActionScript
83 (7.317 %)Python
83 (7.317 %)C
91 (2.439 %)Transact-SQL
91 (2.439 %)VBScript
91 (2.439 %)Ruby
IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
16 (14.63 %)Degree
IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
13 (7.317 %)Samba
21 (2.439 %)NFS
21 (2.439 %)Active Directory
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
11 (2.439 %)Nagios
IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
18 (19.51 %)Oracle
25 (12.20 %)Cisco
34 (9.756 %)Zend
42 (4.878 %)Red Hat
42 (4.878 %)Juniper
42 (4.878 %)Sybase
51 (2.439 %)Lotus
51 (2.439 %)Reuters
51 (2.439 %)GUPTA