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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 71 61
Rank change year-on-year -7 -10 +20
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 13 10 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 1.60% 1.02% 1.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.50% 6.67% 5.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3 9 9
10th Percentile £64,500 £37,200 £46,550
25th Percentile £67,500 £37,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -15.38% +23.81%
75th Percentile £77,500 £58,000 £70,000
90th Percentile - £60,650 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £73,801 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +34.18% -15.38% +23.81%

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 153 150 165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 18.80% 15.37% 25.46%
Number of salaries quoted 39 62 137
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,275 £34,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £37,733
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -11.90% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £63,438 £62,500
90th Percentile £74,500 £72,375 £68,500
Scotland median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -13.04% +4.55%

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
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) GitHub
3 2 (15.38%) Azure
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (7.69%) Datadog
4 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Relational Database
2 4 (30.77%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (30.77%) KDB
2 4 (30.77%) Kdb+
2 4 (30.77%) MySQL
3 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
4 2 (15.38%) DB2
4 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
4 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
5 1 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (7.69%) CockroachDB
5 1 (7.69%) Couchbase
5 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
5 1 (7.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
2 1 (7.69%) Snyk
General
1 13 (100.00%) Finance
2 10 (76.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 10 (76.92%) Law
3 8 (61.54%) Banking
4 4 (30.77%) Front Office
4 4 (30.77%) Private Banking
5 2 (15.38%) Games
5 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
6 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
6 1 (7.69%) Legal
6 1 (7.69%) Marketing
6 1 (7.69%) Retail
6 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Lead
1 9 (69.23%) Software Engineer
2 8 (61.54%) Lead Software Engineer
3 6 (46.15%) Developer
3 6 (46.15%) Java Developer
4 5 (38.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (30.77%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 4 (30.77%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 4 (30.77%) Java Software Engineer
5 4 (30.77%) Kafka Developer
5 4 (30.77%) Kafka Engineer
5 4 (30.77%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (30.77%) Lead Java Developer
5 4 (30.77%) Lead Java Engineer
5 4 (30.77%) Senior
5 4 (30.77%) Senior Developer
5 4 (30.77%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (30.77%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 4 (30.77%) Senior Software Developer
5 4 (30.77%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) RESTful
1 6 (46.15%) Spring
1 6 (46.15%) Spring Boot
2 5 (38.46%) Kafka
3 1 (7.69%) .NET
3 1 (7.69%) Blazor
3 1 (7.69%) CSS
3 1 (7.69%) HTML
3 1 (7.69%) Memcached
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (7.69%) Middleware
3 1 (7.69%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (7.69%) Vue
3 1 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Cloud Native
2 4 (30.77%) Derivative
2 4 (30.77%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (15.38%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Operational Stability
1 9 (69.23%) Software Engineering
2 8 (61.54%) Computer Science
2 8 (61.54%) Decision-Making
2 8 (61.54%) Mathematics
2 8 (61.54%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (46.15%) Agile
3 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
3 6 (46.15%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (46.15%) SDLC
4 5 (38.46%) Data Engineering
4 5 (38.46%) Microservices
5 4 (30.77%) Asset Management
5 4 (30.77%) Creative Thinking
5 4 (30.77%) Functional Programming
5 4 (30.77%) Functional Testing
5 4 (30.77%) Quantitative Research
5 4 (30.77%) Tech Ops
5 4 (30.77%) Test Strategy
5 4 (30.77%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) Java
2 7 (53.85%) SQL
3 6 (46.15%) Python
4 1 (7.69%) C
4 1 (7.69%) C#
4 1 (7.69%) C++
4 1 (7.69%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) GRC
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
1 4 (30.77%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Splunk
2 1 (7.69%) Sybase