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 29 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 62 58
Rank change year-on-year -16 -4 +15
Contract jobs citing PostgreSQL 40 58 127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.37% 2.81% 4.74%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.02% 16.20% 23.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 51 110
10th Percentile £356 £414 £417
25th Percentile £450 £430 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £460 £477
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -3.56% -8.27%
75th Percentile £525 £491 £504
90th Percentile £538 £506 £538
UK median daily rate £534 £525 £508
% change year-on-year +1.62% +3.35% -7.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £80.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year -18.75% +255.79% -59.12%

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 363 358 532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 21.48% 17.34% 19.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 261 407
10th Percentile £299 £313 £382
25th Percentile £407 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £450 £497
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% -9.40% -0.66%
75th Percentile £536 £525 £550
90th Percentile £589 £600 £638
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 6
10th Percentile £26.17 £20.00 £19.56
25th Percentile £36.05 £20.62 £24.41
Median hourly rate £55.00 £21.64 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +154.16% -38.17% +34.62%
75th Percentile £57.50 £37.70 £58.67
90th Percentile - £47.33 £67.66
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £40.00 £56.40
% change year-on-year -12.50% -29.08% +40.47%

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 29 June 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 29 June 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 -3 26 £484 +7.50% 19
Glasgow -21 9 £438 -11.03% 16
Argyll and Bute - 1 £475 -
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 (7.50%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.00%) GeoServer
3 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 29 (72.50%) AWS
2 16 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 15 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (32.50%) Serverless
5 11 (27.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (22.50%) Azure
7 4 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (10.00%) GCP
7 4 (10.00%) Snowflake
8 3 (7.50%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (7.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (7.50%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (7.50%) GitHub
8 3 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (7.50%) Power Automate
8 3 (7.50%) Power Platform
9 2 (5.00%) Apigee
9 2 (5.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) Kerberos
2 2 (5.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 8 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 7 (17.50%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (12.50%) MySQL
3 5 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 4 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (10.00%) GIS
5 3 (7.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (7.50%) CockroachDB
5 3 (7.50%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (7.50%) DynamoDB
5 3 (7.50%) MariaDB
5 3 (7.50%) NewSQL
5 3 (7.50%) OLTP
5 3 (7.50%) Power Query
5 3 (7.50%) Redis
5 3 (7.50%) Relational Database
6 2 (5.00%) NoSQL
6 2 (5.00%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 10 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 6 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (12.50%) GitLab
4 4 (10.00%) Git
5 3 (7.50%) Newman
6 2 (5.00%) Gradle
6 2 (5.00%) JIRA
6 2 (5.00%) JUnit
6 2 (5.00%) Maven
6 2 (5.00%) Mockito
7 1 (2.50%) Selenium
7 1 (2.50%) Zephyr
General
1 18 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 11 (27.50%) Finance
4 5 (12.50%) Banking
5 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (47.50%) Developer
2 6 (15.00%) Data Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 5 (12.50%) Lead
3 5 (12.50%) Senior
3 5 (12.50%) Software Developer
4 4 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 3 (7.50%) AWS Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Database Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Technical Leader
6 2 (5.00%) Lead Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Administrator
7 1 (2.50%) Data Administrator
7 1 (2.50%) Database Developer
7 1 (2.50%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) SQL Developer
7 1 (2.50%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (30.00%) AWS CDK
2 11 (27.50%) React
3 10 (25.00%) Spring
3 10 (25.00%) Spring Boot
4 6 (15.00%) Kafka
4 6 (15.00%) Node.js
5 5 (12.50%) HTML
5 5 (12.50%) Next.js
6 4 (10.00%) Hibernate
6 4 (10.00%) PostGIS
6 4 (10.00%) RESTful
7 3 (7.50%) ARM Templates
7 3 (7.50%) CSS
7 3 (7.50%) JSON
7 3 (7.50%) Nunjucks
7 3 (7.50%) OAuth
7 3 (7.50%) OpenID
7 3 (7.50%) REST
7 3 (7.50%) SAML
7 3 (7.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.50%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (7.50%) Low-Code
4 2 (5.00%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.50%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.50%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Linux
2 2 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (55.00%) Agile
2 16 (40.00%) DevOps
3 15 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 11 (27.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (27.50%) Microservices
5 10 (25.00%) Scrum
6 9 (22.50%) Kanban
7 8 (20.00%) Human-Centred Design
7 8 (20.00%) Inclusive Design
7 8 (20.00%) Unit Testing
8 7 (17.50%) Migration
8 7 (17.50%) Test Automation
9 6 (15.00%) Analytics
9 6 (15.00%) Architecture Roadmap
9 6 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (15.00%) Data Modelling
9 6 (15.00%) Mentoring
9 6 (15.00%) Roadmaps
10 5 (12.50%) Code Quality
10 5 (12.50%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 18 (45.00%) Java
2 17 (42.50%) Python
2 17 (42.50%) SQL
3 13 (32.50%) TypeScript
4 12 (30.00%) JavaScript
5 5 (12.50%) Bash
6 3 (7.50%) ANSI SQL
6 3 (7.50%) Bicep
6 3 (7.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (7.50%) PowerShell
6 3 (7.50%) Shell Script
6 3 (7.50%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.50%) Accessibility
2 5 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (7.50%) QA
4 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.50%) DICOM
4 1 (2.50%) HL7
4 1 (2.50%) ISO 13485
4 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (22.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (25.00%) Grafana
2 9 (22.50%) Kubernetes
3 6 (15.00%) Terraform
4 3 (7.50%) Ansible
4 3 (7.50%) Progress Chef
4 3 (7.50%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.50%) Kibana
5 1 (2.50%) logstash
Vendors
1 3 (7.50%) Informatica
1 3 (7.50%) ServiceNow
1 3 (7.50%) Teradata
2 2 (5.00%) Oracle
3 1 (2.50%) Databricks
3 1 (2.50%) DocuSign
3 1 (2.50%) Google
3 1 (2.50%) Greenplum
3 1 (2.50%) IBM
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.50%) StreamSets
3 1 (2.50%) TSYS