The first table below looks at the demand for PostgreSQL skills in IT jobs advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Reading region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PostgreSQL (Postgres)
Rank 129 121 114
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -7
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 6 14 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 0.278% 0.602% 0.534%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.271% 2.035% 1.890%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 9
Average salary £57,500 - £23,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
472 688 529
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 21.83% 29.60% 28.27%
Number of salaries quoted 417 603 436
Average salary £45,000 £44,000 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.27% +7.31%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £31,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £60,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
PostgreSQL
Berkshire

PostgreSQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading PostgreSQL Salary Trend

PostgreSQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 11 (100.00%) Java
1 11 (100.00%) MySQL
2 10 (90.91%) Ruby
3 9 (81.82%) SQL
3 9 (81.82%) Tomcat
4 8 (72.73%) Python
4 8 (72.73%) SLA
4 8 (72.73%) Microsoft
4 8 (72.73%) ITIL Certification
4 8 (72.73%) SAN
4 8 (72.73%) Red Hat
4 8 (72.73%) JBoss
4 8 (72.73%) Apache
4 8 (72.73%) Service Delivery
4 8 (72.73%) Firewall
4 8 (72.73%) Debian
4 8 (72.73%) SQL Server
4 8 (72.73%) Perl
4 8 (72.73%) PHP
4 8 (72.73%) ITIL
4 8 (72.73%) Windows
4 8 (72.73%) Linux
4 8 (72.73%) Ubuntu
4 8 (72.73%) VMware
4 8 (72.73%) VMware ESX
4 8 (72.73%) Clustering
4 8 (72.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (72.73%) CentOS
4 8 (72.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (72.73%) VMware ESXi

PostgreSQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 5 (45.45%) COM
2 2 (18.18%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (18.18%) JSON
2 2 (18.18%) Django
2 2 (18.18%) Ajax
2 2 (18.18%) HTML5
2 2 (18.18%) REST
2 2 (18.18%) CSS3
2 2 (18.18%) CSS
2 2 (18.18%) Web Services
2 2 (18.18%) J2EE
3 1 (9.091%) XML
3 1 (9.091%) Hibernate
3 1 (9.091%) GWT
3 1 (9.091%) HTML
3 1 (9.091%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 9 (81.82%) Tomcat
2 8 (72.73%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) SAN
1 8 (72.73%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) MySQL
2 8 (72.73%) SQL Server
3 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
3 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Systems Administrator
1 8 (72.73%) Administrator
1 8 (72.73%) Senior Linux Administrator
1 8 (72.73%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
1 8 (72.73%) Senior Systems Administrator
1 8 (72.73%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 8 (72.73%) Linux Administrator
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Web Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Clustering
2 2 (18.18%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Debian
1 8 (72.73%) Windows
1 8 (72.73%) Linux
1 8 (72.73%) Ubuntu
1 8 (72.73%) CentOS
1 8 (72.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Service Delivery
1 8 (72.73%) ITIL
2 3 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (27.27%) TDD
3 2 (18.18%) Scrum
3 2 (18.18%) Kanban
4 1 (9.091%) OO
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (90.91%) Ruby
3 9 (81.82%) SQL
4 8 (72.73%) Python
4 8 (72.73%) Perl
4 8 (72.73%) PHP
4 8 (72.73%) Bash shell
5 2 (18.18%) Scala
6 1 (9.091%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (72.73%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) VMware ESX
1 8 (72.73%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (72.73%) VMware ESXi
1 8 (72.73%) vSphere
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft
1 8 (72.73%) Red Hat
1 8 (72.73%) JBoss
1 8 (72.73%) VMware
Reading, Berkshire
Experience with Agile methodologies ( TDD, SCRUM, Kanban etc ) Building and scaling high-traffic websites and/or high volume transaction processing and analysis platforms Caching, security and database (document,...
Vertical IT
Salary: £45000 - £70000 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 20 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Key skills - Java / J2EE - Web servers (WebSphere, Weblogic, Apache, Tomcat, IIS) - Databases (SQL Server / Oracle / Postgres / MySQL) Successful and growing, this company have recently floated on the stock...
Connections Recruitment Ltd.
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Selenium, QTP, TestComplete) Experience of working within an Agile environment... Strong SQL knowledge and experience (Postgresql an advantage) Experience of Server OS (Linux, Windows Server, Suse and Ubuntu)...
Experis IT
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013