PostgreSQL Contracts in Scotland

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring PostgreSQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PostgreSQL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 57 44
Rank change year-on-year -23 -13 +77
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 37 75 157
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.28% 3.38% 5.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.34% 18.84% 25.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 62 137
10th Percentile £356 £414 £415
25th Percentile £413 £433 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £472 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% -0.58% -3.06%
75th Percentile £494 £506 £503
90th Percentile £547 £532 £538
UK median daily rate £530 £525 £508
% change year-on-year +0.95% +3.35% -7.64%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

PostgreSQL falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 358 398 610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 22.03% 17.95% 21.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 295 486
10th Percentile £300 £325 £400
25th Percentile £408 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £538 £558 £550
90th Percentile £589 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 7
10th Percentile £20.72 £24.60 £19.83
25th Percentile £22.42 £29.04 £27.94
Median hourly rate £26.50 £37.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.51% +5.91% +34.62%
75th Percentile £28.07 £45.72 £67.66
90th Percentile £28.25 £50.54 £69.25
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for PostgreSQL in Scotland

PostgreSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PostgreSQL in Scotland

PostgreSQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for PostgreSQL in Scotland

PostgreSQL
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh -4 27 £470 +2.17% 9
Glasgow -14 5 £392 -21.31% 9
Aberdeen - 1 £500 - 1
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 3 (8.11%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.41%) CMS
2 2 (5.41%) GeoServer
2 2 (5.41%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 27 (72.97%) AWS
2 19 (51.35%) Amazon S3
3 18 (48.65%) AWS Lambda
4 16 (43.24%) AWS CloudFormation
4 16 (43.24%) Serverless
5 9 (24.32%) AWS CodePipeline
6 8 (21.62%) OpenShift
7 5 (13.51%) AWS Step Functions
8 4 (10.81%) Azure
9 3 (8.11%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (8.11%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (8.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 3 (8.11%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (8.11%) Snowflake
10 2 (5.41%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 2 (5.41%) AWS CodeBuild
10 2 (5.41%) AWS CodeDeploy
10 2 (5.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (29.73%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (24.32%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (16.22%) MongoDB
4 5 (13.51%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (10.81%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (10.81%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (10.81%) GIS
5 4 (10.81%) SQL Server
6 3 (8.11%) DB2
6 3 (8.11%) DynamoDB
6 3 (8.11%) MySQL
7 2 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (5.41%) MariaDB
7 2 (5.41%) Oracle Database
7 2 (5.41%) Power Query
7 2 (5.41%) PowerCenter
7 2 (5.41%) Redis
8 1 (2.70%) Hadoop
8 1 (2.70%) InfluxDB
8 1 (2.70%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 11 (29.73%) GitLab
2 6 (16.22%) Jenkins
3 4 (10.81%) Cypress.io
3 4 (10.81%) Git
3 4 (10.81%) JIRA
4 1 (2.70%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.70%) Selenium
4 1 (2.70%) Zephyr
General
1 15 (40.54%) Public Sector
2 8 (21.62%) Finance
2 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.51%) Banking
4 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Games
Job Titles
1 17 (45.95%) Developer
2 10 (27.03%) Data Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Java Developer
4 4 (10.81%) AWS Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Software Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Lead
6 2 (5.41%) Lead Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Senior
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Developer
7 1 (2.70%) Administrator
7 1 (2.70%) Analyst
7 1 (2.70%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Database Consultant
7 1 (2.70%) Database Specialist
7 1 (2.70%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (2.70%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (45.95%) AWS CDK
2 11 (29.73%) REST
3 10 (27.03%) Spring Boot
4 7 (18.92%) React
4 7 (18.92%) Spring
5 6 (16.22%) PostGIS
6 5 (13.51%) Kafka
6 5 (13.51%) Next.js
7 4 (10.81%) Middleware
8 3 (8.11%) J2EE
8 3 (8.11%) Node.js
8 3 (8.11%) SOAP
9 2 (5.41%) CSS
9 2 (5.41%) Hibernate
9 2 (5.41%) HTML5 Canvas
9 2 (5.41%) JSON
9 2 (5.41%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (5.41%) RESTful
9 2 (5.41%) Spring Security
9 2 (5.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (10.81%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.41%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.41%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.41%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (5.41%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.70%) e-Learning
4 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.81%) Linux
2 3 (8.11%) Unix
3 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (54.05%) Agile
2 15 (40.54%) CI/CD
3 14 (37.84%) Kanban
4 12 (32.43%) DevOps
4 12 (32.43%) Microservices
4 12 (32.43%) Scrum
5 11 (29.73%) Human-Centred Design
5 11 (29.73%) Inclusive Design
5 11 (29.73%) Migration
6 10 (27.03%) Data Migration
7 9 (24.32%) TDD
7 9 (24.32%) Unit Testing
8 8 (21.62%) Data Integration
8 8 (21.62%) Data Transformation
8 8 (21.62%) Test Automation
9 7 (18.92%) Code Quality
9 7 (18.92%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (13.51%) Analytics
11 5 (13.51%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 18 (48.65%) Java
1 18 (48.65%) SQL
2 16 (43.24%) Python
3 9 (24.32%) TypeScript
4 8 (21.62%) JavaScript
5 5 (13.51%) Bash
6 4 (10.81%) Shell Script
7 3 (8.11%) PL/SQL
7 3 (8.11%) T-SQL
8 2 (5.41%) Bicep
8 2 (5.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
9 1 (2.70%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) Accessibility
1 5 (13.51%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 11 (29.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (24.32%) Grafana
2 5 (13.51%) Ansible
2 5 (13.51%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.41%) Progress Chef
3 2 (5.41%) Prometheus
3 2 (5.41%) Terraform
4 1 (2.70%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (10.81%) ServiceNow
2 3 (8.11%) DocuSign
2 3 (8.11%) Informatica
2 3 (8.11%) Oracle
2 3 (8.11%) Teradata
3 2 (5.41%) ForgeRock
3 2 (5.41%) Imperva
3 2 (5.41%) Ping Identity
4 1 (2.70%) Google
4 1 (2.70%) IBM
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.70%) StreamSets
4 1 (2.70%) TSYS