The first table below looks at the demand for PostgreSQL skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PostgreSQL over the 3 months to 23 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 Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PostgreSQL (Postgres)
Rank 106 95 115
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +20
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 16 35 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.886% 1.733% 0.550%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.662% 5.952% 2.564%
Number of salaries quoted 16 28 9
Average salary £34,000 £45,000 £40,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-24.44% +10.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £40,000 £30,400
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £53,250 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
601 588 468
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 33.30% 29.11% 21.47%
Number of salaries quoted 561 538 423
Average salary £40,000 £38,500 £35,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.89% +8.45%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £30,000 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
PostgreSQL
Cambridgeshire

PostgreSQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge PostgreSQL Jobs Demand Trend

PostgreSQL
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing PostgreSQL across the Cambridge region.

Cambridge PostgreSQL Salary Trend

PostgreSQL
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing PostgreSQL across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Cambridge PostgreSQL Salary Histogram

PostgreSQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 IT job ads sampled that cited PostgreSQL.

1 20 (100.00%) MySQL
2 18 (90.00%) Linux
3 12 (60.00%) UNIX
4 10 (50.00%) Subversion
4 10 (50.00%) Ajax
4 10 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 10 (50.00%) OOP
4 10 (50.00%) CSS
4 10 (50.00%) HTML
4 10 (50.00%) jQuery
4 10 (50.00%) Git (software)
4 10 (50.00%) RESTful
5 8 (40.00%) Java
6 7 (35.00%) C++
7 6 (30.00%) Apache
8 4 (20.00%) Python
9 3 (15.00%) SVG
9 3 (15.00%) Cisco
9 3 (15.00%) Juniper
9 3 (15.00%) Nagios
9 3 (15.00%) Tomcat
9 3 (15.00%) Perl
9 3 (15.00%) Windows
9 3 (15.00%) Oracle
9 3 (15.00%) MVC
9 3 (15.00%) Information Management
9 3 (15.00%) Ruby
9 3 (15.00%) ZABBIX
9 3 (15.00%) Ruby on Rails
9 3 (15.00%) Xen

PostgreSQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 IT job ads sampled that cited PostgreSQL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (50.00%) Ajax
1 10 (50.00%) CSS
1 10 (50.00%) HTML
1 10 (50.00%) jQuery
1 10 (50.00%) RESTful
2 3 (15.00%) SVG
2 3 (15.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 3 (15.00%) Node.js
2 3 (15.00%) D3.js
2 3 (15.00%) Sass
3 1 (5.000%) J2SE
3 1 (5.000%) .NET
3 1 (5.000%) J2EE
3 1 (5.000%) JDBC
3 1 (5.000%) Hibernate
3 1 (5.000%) JPA
Application Platforms
1 6 (30.00%) Apache
2 3 (15.00%) Tomcat
3 1 (5.000%) Jetty
3 1 (5.000%) OpenStack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.000%) HTTP
1 1 (5.000%) Kerberos
1 1 (5.000%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (100.00%) MySQL
2 3 (15.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.000%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.000%) DB2
3 1 (5.000%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (5.000%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 10 (50.00%) Subversion
1 10 (50.00%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (5.000%) Telecoms
1 1 (5.000%) Finance
1 1 (5.000%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Developer
2 7 (35.00%) Software Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (15.00%) Administrator
3 3 (15.00%) Linux Administrator
3 3 (15.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 3 (15.00%) JavaScript Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Operations Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Operations Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) IT Manager
5 1 (5.000%) Graduate
5 1 (5.000%) Junior
5 1 (5.000%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) DBA
5 1 (5.000%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.000%) SQL Server DBA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (10.00%) Clustering
2 1 (5.000%) Client/Server
2 1 (5.000%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (90.00%) Linux
2 12 (60.00%) UNIX
3 3 (15.00%) Windows
4 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (10.00%) Debian
4 2 (10.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) OOP
2 3 (15.00%) MVC
2 3 (15.00%) Information Management
2 3 (15.00%) Web Application Development
3 1 (5.000%) E-Commerce
3 1 (5.000%) ITIL
3 1 (5.000%) Service Management
3 1 (5.000%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (5.000%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (5.000%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (40.00%) Java
3 7 (35.00%) C++
4 4 (20.00%) Python
5 3 (15.00%) Perl
5 3 (15.00%) Ruby
6 2 (10.00%) SQL
7 1 (5.000%) PHP
7 1 (5.000%) T-SQL
7 1 (5.000%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (5.000%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Xen
2 2 (10.00%) Postfix
3 1 (5.000%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Nagios
1 3 (15.00%) ZABBIX
2 1 (5.000%) Puppet
2 1 (5.000%) CFEngine
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Cisco
1 3 (15.00%) Juniper
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle
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