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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 67 126
Rank change year-on-year 0 +59 -57
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 8 17 23
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 0.57% 2.27% 1.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.70% 10.83% 4.95%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 19
10th Percentile £56,140 £63,175 £37,500
25th Percentile £79,150 £64,188 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £125,000 £74,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +67.22% +57.37% -20.83%
75th Percentile £132,500 £79,188 £53,750
90th Percentile - £82,225 £57,000
Scotland median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +35.00% -16.67%

All Database & 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 92 157 465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 6.59% 20.99% 25.62%
Number of salaries quoted 49 43 93
10th Percentile £27,000 £36,350 £37,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +6.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,750 £71,175
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £51,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.32% +2.50% -13.04%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend 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
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in Glasgow over the 6 months to 19 September 2026.

Salary histogram for PostgreSQL in Glasgow

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (12.50%) Datadog
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) IaaS
3 1 (12.50%) OCI
3 1 (12.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (37.50%) Relational Database
2 2 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (25.00%) Neo4j
2 2 (25.00%) Pinecone
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (12.50%) MariaDB
3 1 (12.50%) MySQL
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (25.00%) IntelliJ
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (25.00%) JUnit
1 2 (25.00%) Maven
1 2 (25.00%) Mockito
1 2 (25.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (12.50%) Flyway
2 1 (12.50%) Liquibase
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Aerospace
2 2 (25.00%) Automotive
2 2 (25.00%) Health Technology
2 2 (25.00%) Legal
2 2 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (12.50%) Law
3 1 (12.50%) Marketing
3 1 (12.50%) Retail
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Architect
2 4 (50.00%) Data Architect
2 4 (50.00%) Principal Architect
2 4 (50.00%) Principal Data Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Java Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Database Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Database Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) pgvector
1 2 (25.00%) RESTful
1 2 (25.00%) Spring
1 2 (25.00%) Spring Batch
1 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (25.00%) Spring Cloud
1 2 (25.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (25.00%) IoT
2 2 (25.00%) Replication
2 2 (25.00%) Robotics
3 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) AIX
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Solaris
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) AI
1 4 (50.00%) Lakehouse
1 4 (50.00%) SDLC
2 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (37.50%) Data Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Clean Code
3 2 (25.00%) Customer Experience
3 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (25.00%) Data Sharing
3 2 (25.00%) Data Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Data Guard
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Flashback
2 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (25.00%) Meraki
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) New Relic
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow