The first table below looks at the demand for PostgreSQL skills in IT jobs advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PostgreSQL over the 3 months to 24 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 Southampton region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PostgreSQL (Postgres)
Rank 70 64 41
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -23
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 16 25 30
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 1.918% 2.717% 4.808%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.195% 8.591% 13.57%
Number of salaries quoted 13 25 29
Average salary £32,500 £30,000 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.33% +20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,400 £27,500 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £34,500 £37,500 £30,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Southampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
308 291 221
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 36.93% 31.63% 35.42%
Number of salaries quoted 284 269 200
Average salary £37,500 £42,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.76% +30.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £29,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
PostgreSQL
Hampshire

PostgreSQL
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT 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
Salary Trend

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

Southampton PostgreSQL Salary Trend

PostgreSQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT 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 IT job ads sampled that cited PostgreSQL.

1 23 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 22 (95.65%) PHP
2 22 (95.65%) CSS
3 20 (86.96%) Subversion
3 20 (86.96%) Zend
4 19 (82.61%) Linux
5 18 (78.26%) SQL
6 17 (73.91%) OO
6 17 (73.91%) XHTML
6 17 (73.91%) PHP5
7 15 (65.22%) Git (software)
8 12 (52.17%) OOP
8 12 (52.17%) MVC
9 11 (47.83%) Zend Framework
10 10 (43.48%) HTML
11 6 (26.09%) LAMP
12 5 (21.74%) MySQL
12 5 (21.74%) Ajax
12 5 (21.74%) MooTools
12 5 (21.74%) Digital Media
13 4 (17.39%) CSS3
13 4 (17.39%) TDD
13 4 (17.39%) Market Research
13 4 (17.39%) HTML5
14 3 (13.04%) Python
14 3 (13.04%) VSS/SourceSafe
14 3 (13.04%) BDD
14 3 (13.04%) CodeIgniter
14 3 (13.04%) jQuery
14 3 (13.04%) Unit Testing

PostgreSQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT 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 IT job ads sampled that cited PostgreSQL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 22 (95.65%) CSS
2 17 (73.91%) XHTML
3 11 (47.83%) Zend Framework
4 10 (43.48%) HTML
5 6 (26.09%) LAMP
6 5 (21.74%) Ajax
6 5 (21.74%) MooTools
7 4 (17.39%) CSS3
7 4 (17.39%) HTML5
8 3 (13.04%) CodeIgniter
8 3 (13.04%) jQuery
8 3 (13.04%) Symfony
9 1 (4.348%) Spring
9 1 (4.348%) Hibernate
9 1 (4.348%) J2EE
9 1 (4.348%) soapUI
9 1 (4.348%) PostGIS
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.348%) Oracle Spatial
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 20 (86.96%) Subversion
2 15 (65.22%) Git (software)
3 3 (13.04%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 3 (13.04%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (4.348%) HttpUnit
4 1 (4.348%) FitNesse
4 1 (4.348%) JUnit
4 1 (4.348%) TestNG
General
1 2 (8.696%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (95.65%) Developer
2 18 (78.26%) PHP Developer
3 7 (30.43%) Software Engineer
4 6 (26.09%) Software Developer
5 4 (17.39%) Analyst Developer
5 4 (17.39%) Analyst
6 2 (8.696%) PHP Web Developer
6 2 (8.696%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 19 (82.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (73.91%) OO
2 12 (52.17%) OOP
2 12 (52.17%) MVC
3 4 (17.39%) TDD
3 4 (17.39%) Market Research
4 3 (13.04%) BDD
4 3 (13.04%) Unit Testing
5 2 (8.696%) Digital Marketing
6 1 (4.348%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (4.348%) Software Engineering
6 1 (4.348%) Scrum
6 1 (4.348%) Kanban
6 1 (4.348%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 23 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 22 (95.65%) PHP
3 18 (78.26%) SQL
4 17 (73.91%) PHP5
5 3 (13.04%) Python
6 1 (4.348%) C
6 1 (4.348%) Java
Vendors
1 20 (86.96%) Zend
2 1 (4.348%) Oracle
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