PostgreSQL Job Trends in Edinburgh

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 67 76
Rank change year-on-year +5 +9 -9
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 10 10 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.87% 1.31% 1.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.35% 8.40% 7.54%
Number of salaries quoted 10 7 6
10th Percentile £51,250 £60,000 £41,866
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,875 £47,799
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +22.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,125 £67,799
90th Percentile £82,000 £95,000 £72,272
Scotland median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +35.00% -13.04%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Edinburgh

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 81 119 199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 7.06% 15.58% 15.73%
Number of salaries quoted 57 52 100
10th Percentile £31,550 £25,300 £34,875
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,167
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £53,250 £57,725
Median % change year-on-year +22.07% -7.75% -7.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £70,100
90th Percentile £111,000 £84,874 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -13.04%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PostgreSQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

PostgreSQL
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PostgreSQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Salary histogram for PostgreSQL in Edinburgh

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) GCP
2 4 (40.00%) Cloud Run
3 3 (30.00%) Apigee
4 2 (20.00%) GitHub
5 1 (10.00%) AWS
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (10.00%) Dataform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) DuckDB
1 3 (30.00%) Parquet
2 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (10.00%) Metadata
2 1 (10.00%) Redis
General
1 6 (60.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
1 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Pega Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) Next.js
2 3 (30.00%) React
2 3 (30.00%) Svelte
2 3 (30.00%) SvelteKit
3 1 (10.00%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) AI Agents
1 3 (30.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
1 6 (60.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 4 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (40.00%) Observability
3 3 (30.00%) AI
3 3 (30.00%) Clean Code
3 3 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (30.00%) Generative AI
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (30.00%) LLM
4 2 (20.00%) API Integration
4 2 (20.00%) API Management
4 2 (20.00%) SDLC
4 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (10.00%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) NCSC
2 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Google
2 3 (30.00%) Meraki
2 3 (30.00%) Pega