The first table below looks at the demand for PostgreSQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PostgreSQL over the 3 months to 21 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 West Yorkshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PostgreSQL (Postgres)
Rank 89 92 -
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 3 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.234% 0.187% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.935% 0.815% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £500 £175 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+185.71% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £288
% change year-on-year
- +4.34%
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
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
321 368 255
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 25.00% 22.94% 23.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 213 107
Average daily rate £300 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £215 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £440 £406
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 6
Average hourly rate £23.75 £16.00 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+48.43% -25.58%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.40 £12.00 £20.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £32.50 £66.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £26.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.77% -18.46%
PostgreSQL
Yorkshire

PostgreSQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire PostgreSQL Daily Rate Trend

PostgreSQL
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing PostgreSQL across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Leeds -6 3 £500 +185.71%
PostgreSQL
Yorkshire

PostgreSQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 3 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (60.00%) ETL
1 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Data Architecture
1 3 (60.00%) Talend Open Studio
1 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (60.00%) Big Data
1 3 (60.00%) Talend
2 2 (40.00%) Git (software)
2 2 (40.00%) CouchDB
2 2 (40.00%) Heroku
2 2 (40.00%) Capistrano
2 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (40.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) Games
2 2 (40.00%) Ruby
2 2 (40.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (40.00%) BREW
2 2 (40.00%) Refactoring
2 2 (40.00%) jQuery
2 2 (40.00%) Online Games
2 2 (40.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (40.00%) RDF
2 2 (40.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) MySQL
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) Linux

PostgreSQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 2 (40.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 2 (40.00%) BREW
1 2 (40.00%) jQuery
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (60.00%) Big Data
2 2 (40.00%) CouchDB
2 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (40.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (40.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Talend Open Studio
2 2 (40.00%) Git (software)
2 2 (40.00%) Capistrano
General
1 2 (40.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Data Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Heroku
1 2 (40.00%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) ETL
1 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (40.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) Refactoring
2 2 (40.00%) RDF
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Ruby
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Talend
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) Informatica
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