PostgreSQL Job Trends in Glasgow

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 126 69
Rank change year-on-year +59 -57 +18
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 17 23 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 2.27% 1.27% 0.89%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.83% 4.95% 3.32%
Number of salaries quoted 4 19 7
10th Percentile £63,175 £37,500 £48,600
25th Percentile £64,188 £43,750 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,750 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +57.37% -20.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £79,188 £53,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,225 £57,000 £73,000
Scotland median annual salary £67,500 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +35.00% -16.67% +9.09%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 157 465 211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 20.99% 25.62% 26.81%
Number of salaries quoted 43 93 181
10th Percentile £36,350 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,125 £41,250 £44,796
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -13.04% +14.46%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,750 £71,175 £73,750
Scotland median annual salary £51,250 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.50% -13.04% +4.55%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL in Glasgow

PostgreSQL
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing PostgreSQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 14 (82.35%) AWS
2 6 (35.29%) Azure
3 4 (23.53%) GCP
3 4 (23.53%) GitHub
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (5.88%) Datadog
4 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) MySQL
2 6 (35.29%) NoSQL
2 6 (35.29%) Relational Database
3 5 (29.41%) MongoDB
4 4 (23.53%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (23.53%) KDB
4 4 (23.53%) Kdb+
5 2 (11.76%) DB2
5 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (5.88%) CockroachDB
6 1 (5.88%) Couchbase
6 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
6 1 (5.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Jenkins
2 4 (23.53%) Git
3 3 (17.65%) GitLab
3 3 (17.65%) Gradle
3 3 (17.65%) Maven
4 2 (11.76%) JUnit
4 2 (11.76%) Mockito
5 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
5 1 (5.88%) Snyk
General
1 13 (76.47%) Finance
2 10 (58.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 10 (58.82%) Law
3 8 (47.06%) Banking
4 4 (23.53%) Front Office
4 4 (23.53%) Private Banking
5 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
6 2 (11.76%) Games
6 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
7 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
7 1 (5.88%) Legal
7 1 (5.88%) Marketing
7 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Software Engineer
2 9 (52.94%) Developer
2 9 (52.94%) Java Developer
2 9 (52.94%) Lead
3 8 (47.06%) Lead Software Engineer
4 7 (41.18%) Senior
5 6 (35.29%) Senior Developer
5 6 (35.29%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (29.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 5 (29.41%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (23.53%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 4 (23.53%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (23.53%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 4 (23.53%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 4 (23.53%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (23.53%) Python Engineer
7 4 (23.53%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (23.53%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 4 (23.53%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 4 (23.53%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) RESTful
1 9 (52.94%) Spring
1 9 (52.94%) Spring Boot
2 7 (41.18%) Kafka
3 3 (17.65%) Hibernate
3 3 (17.65%) JPA
4 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
4 2 (11.76%) JWT
4 2 (11.76%) OAuth
4 2 (11.76%) OAuth2
4 2 (11.76%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (11.76%) React
4 2 (11.76%) Spring MVC
5 1 (5.88%) Blazor
5 1 (5.88%) FIDO
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (5.88%) REST
5 1 (5.88%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (5.88%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (5.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Cloud Native
2 4 (23.53%) Derivative
2 4 (23.53%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (17.65%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) CI/CD
1 10 (58.82%) Problem-Solving
1 10 (58.82%) Software Engineering
2 9 (52.94%) Microservices
2 9 (52.94%) Operational Stability
3 8 (47.06%) Agile
3 8 (47.06%) Computer Science
3 8 (47.06%) Decision-Making
3 8 (47.06%) Mathematics
4 7 (41.18%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (35.29%) SDLC
6 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
6 5 (29.41%) Data Engineering
7 4 (23.53%) Creative Thinking
7 4 (23.53%) DevOps
7 4 (23.53%) Functional Programming
7 4 (23.53%) Functional Testing
7 4 (23.53%) Product Management
7 4 (23.53%) Quantitative Research
7 4 (23.53%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) Java
2 10 (58.82%) SQL
3 6 (35.29%) Python
4 1 (5.88%) C
4 1 (5.88%) C#
4 1 (5.88%) C++
4 1 (5.88%) PHP
4 1 (5.88%) Rust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) Kubernetes
2 5 (29.41%) Terraform
3 1 (5.88%) Ansible
3 1 (5.88%) Grafana
3 1 (5.88%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) ForgeRock
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Ping Identity
2 1 (5.88%) Splunk
2 1 (5.88%) Sybase