PostgreSQL Jobs in Scotland

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for PostgreSQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PostgreSQL over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 171 132 131
Rank change year-on-year -39 -1 -7
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 117 93 118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.74% 1.96% 2.07%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.02% 10.84% 10.93%
Number of salaries quoted 33 53 49
10th Percentile £42,750 £39,050 £42,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,000 £110,000 £75,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

PostgreSQL is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,943 858 1,080
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 28.94% 18.11% 18.92%
Number of salaries quoted 488 478 580
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,833 £43,000 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,715 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £89,852 £73,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in Scotland

PostgreSQL
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in Scotland.

Salary trend for PostgreSQL in Scotland

PostgreSQL
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for PostgreSQL in Scotland

PostgreSQL
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -52 68 £50,000 -9.09% 5
Edinburgh +32 46 £83,577 +45.35% 11
Dundee - 2 £50,000 -
PostgreSQL
UK

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 60 (51.28%) ArcGIS
1 60 (51.28%) GeoServer
2 7 (5.98%) Apache
3 4 (3.42%) Confluence
4 3 (2.56%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 94 (80.34%) AWS
2 72 (61.54%) Azure
3 5 (4.27%) SaaS
4 4 (3.42%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (3.42%) GCP
5 3 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (2.56%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.71%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.71%) Fivetran
6 2 (1.71%) Serverless
7 1 (0.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.85%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.85%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (0.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (0.85%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (0.85%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (0.85%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (52.14%) GIS
2 60 (51.28%) QGIS
3 18 (15.38%) Oracle Database
4 15 (12.82%) Oracle Database 11g
5 11 (9.40%) SQL Server
6 9 (7.69%) MySQL
7 8 (6.84%) MongoDB
8 6 (5.13%) Relational Database
9 5 (4.27%) NoSQL
10 3 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (2.56%) Big Data
10 3 (2.56%) Data Lake
10 3 (2.56%) Power BI
11 2 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.85%) DB2
12 1 (0.85%) InfluxDB
12 1 (0.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (5.13%) Git
2 4 (3.42%) GitLab
2 4 (3.42%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.42%) JIRA
3 2 (1.71%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.85%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.85%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.85%) JUnit
4 1 (0.85%) Mockito
4 1 (0.85%) Travis CI
General
1 17 (14.53%) Social Skills
2 9 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (6.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (5.98%) Finance
5 6 (5.13%) Games
6 4 (3.42%) Banking
6 4 (3.42%) Law
7 3 (2.56%) Marketing
8 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 67 (57.26%) Software Engineer
2 65 (55.56%) Senior
3 42 (35.90%) Senior Software Engineer
4 34 (29.06%) Developer
5 20 (17.09%) Senior Developer
6 15 (12.82%) Database Developer
6 15 (12.82%) PostgreSQL Developer
7 13 (11.11%) Senior Database Developer
8 8 (6.84%) Full Stack Engineer
9 5 (4.27%) Backend Developer
9 5 (4.27%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.27%) Python Developer
9 5 (4.27%) Software Developer
10 4 (3.42%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 4 (3.42%) Java Engineer
10 4 (3.42%) Senior Software Developer
10 4 (3.42%) Software Support Engineer
10 4 (3.42%) Support Engineer
11 3 (2.56%) Lead
11 3 (2.56%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (61.54%) React
2 64 (54.70%) .NET
3 60 (51.28%) Leaflet
3 60 (51.28%) OpenLayers
3 60 (51.28%) PostGIS
4 56 (47.86%) CSS
5 53 (45.30%) .NET Core
6 12 (10.26%) Django
6 12 (10.26%) REST
7 9 (7.69%) RESTful
8 7 (5.98%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (5.13%) SOAP
10 5 (4.27%) AngularJS
10 5 (4.27%) Spring
10 5 (4.27%) Spring Boot
11 4 (3.42%) Express.js
11 4 (3.42%) JSON
11 4 (3.42%) MEAN Stack
11 4 (3.42%) MERN Stack
11 4 (3.42%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.27%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (3.42%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.85%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.85%) Client/Server
4 1 (0.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.82%) Linux
2 9 (7.69%) Ubuntu
3 4 (3.42%) AIX
4 3 (2.56%) Unix
5 1 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (73.50%) Agile
2 77 (65.81%) Actionable Insight
3 68 (58.12%) Software Engineering
4 65 (55.56%) Web Development
5 64 (54.70%) DevOps
6 22 (18.80%) Artificial Intelligence
7 19 (16.24%) Unit Testing
8 18 (15.38%) Migration
8 18 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (12.82%) Data Migration
9 15 (12.82%) Full Stack Development
9 15 (12.82%) Performance Tuning
9 15 (12.82%) Secure Coding
10 12 (10.26%) CI/CD
11 9 (7.69%) Microservices
11 9 (7.69%) Test Automation
12 8 (6.84%) Design Patterns
13 7 (5.98%) Containerisation
13 7 (5.98%) Machine Learning
14 5 (4.27%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 78 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 78 (66.67%) Python
2 50 (42.74%) C#
3 32 (27.35%) SQL
4 15 (12.82%) Java
4 15 (12.82%) PL/SQL
5 11 (9.40%) C++
6 7 (5.98%) Go
7 6 (5.13%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.27%) C
9 4 (3.42%) VB
10 3 (2.56%) VBA
11 2 (1.71%) Bash
11 2 (1.71%) PHP
11 2 (1.71%) R
12 1 (0.85%) Delphi
12 1 (0.85%) Groovy
12 1 (0.85%) Rust
Qualifications
1 62 (52.99%) Security Cleared
2 61 (52.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.85%) Degree
3 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.85%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.42%) QA
2 3 (2.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.85%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (5.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (9.40%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.13%) Ansible
3 2 (1.71%) Grafana
3 2 (1.71%) Terraform
4 1 (0.85%) Kibana
4 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 60 (51.28%) ESRI
2 24 (20.51%) Oracle
3 3 (2.56%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.56%) Google
3 3 (2.56%) Splunk