PostgreSQL Jobs in Scotland

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring PostgreSQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PostgreSQL over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 174 154 175
Rank change year-on-year -20 +21 -60
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 78 57 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.37% 1.50% 1.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.82% 7.40% 6.10%
Number of salaries quoted 28 44 40
10th Percentile £37,500 £45,375 £48,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £56,563 £70,000 £68,125
90th Percentile £64,125 £87,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £61,250 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% -6.67% +15.38%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,340 770 1,245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 23.52% 20.30% 20.44%
Number of salaries quoted 355 483 589
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £45,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £57,654 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% +4.83% +15.79%
75th Percentile £64,875 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £73,886 £82,548 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in Scotland.

Salary trend for PostgreSQL in Scotland

PostgreSQL
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for PostgreSQL in Scotland

PostgreSQL
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -39 48 £47,500 -19.15% 1
Edinburgh +20 27 £55,720 -3.10% 3
Stirling - 1 £47,500 -
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 38 (48.72%) ArcGIS
1 38 (48.72%) GeoServer
2 8 (10.26%) Apache
3 4 (5.13%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.28%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 62 (79.49%) AWS
2 50 (64.10%) Azure
3 5 (6.41%) GCP
4 4 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (5.13%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (5.13%) Power Platform
4 4 (5.13%) SaaS
5 3 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (2.56%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.56%) Fivetran
6 2 (2.56%) Serverless
7 1 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.28%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.28%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.28%) IaaS
7 1 (1.28%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.28%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (50.00%) GIS
2 38 (48.72%) QGIS
3 12 (15.38%) SQL Server
4 7 (8.97%) Oracle Database
5 6 (7.69%) Relational Database
6 5 (6.41%) Data Lake
7 4 (5.13%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (5.13%) Big Data
7 4 (5.13%) MongoDB
7 4 (5.13%) MySQL
7 4 (5.13%) Oracle Database 11g
7 4 (5.13%) Power BI
8 3 (3.85%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.56%) RDBMS
9 2 (2.56%) SQLite
10 1 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (1.28%) InfluxDB
10 1 (1.28%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (3.85%) Maven
2 2 (2.56%) Git
2 2 (2.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.28%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.28%) GitLab
3 1 (1.28%) JIRA
3 1 (1.28%) Postman
General
1 10 (12.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (8.97%) Social Skills
3 6 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (7.69%) Finance
4 4 (5.13%) Games
5 3 (3.85%) Law
5 3 (3.85%) Marketing
6 1 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (58.97%) Software Engineer
2 28 (35.90%) Senior
3 22 (28.21%) Senior Software Engineer
4 20 (25.64%) Developer
5 6 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 6 (7.69%) Senior Developer
6 4 (5.13%) Backend Developer
6 4 (5.13%) Database Developer
6 4 (5.13%) Java Developer
6 4 (5.13%) Lead
6 4 (5.13%) PostgreSQL Developer
6 4 (5.13%) Software Support Engineer
6 4 (5.13%) Support Engineer
7 3 (3.85%) Full Stack Engineer
7 3 (3.85%) Full Stack Software Engineer
7 3 (3.85%) Java Software Engineer
7 3 (3.85%) Lead Java Engineer
7 3 (3.85%) Lead Software Engineer
7 3 (3.85%) Python Developer
7 3 (3.85%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (60.26%) .NET
2 44 (56.41%) React
3 42 (53.85%) CSS
4 40 (51.28%) .NET Core
5 38 (48.72%) Leaflet
5 38 (48.72%) OpenLayers
5 38 (48.72%) PostGIS
6 11 (14.10%) REST
7 6 (7.69%) RESTful
7 6 (7.69%) SOAP
7 6 (7.69%) Spring
7 6 (7.69%) Spring Boot
7 6 (7.69%) Web Services
8 4 (5.13%) HTML
9 3 (3.85%) AngularJS
9 3 (3.85%) Django
9 3 (3.85%) Hibernate
9 3 (3.85%) JPA
9 3 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (2.56%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (3.85%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.56%) NHS
4 1 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.97%) Linux
2 4 (5.13%) AIX
2 4 (5.13%) Unix
3 1 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (67.95%) Agile
2 51 (65.38%) Software Engineering
3 44 (56.41%) Actionable Insight
4 41 (52.56%) DevOps
5 40 (51.28%) Web Development
6 9 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (10.26%) Artificial Intelligence
7 8 (10.26%) Test Automation
8 7 (8.97%) CI/CD
8 7 (8.97%) Microservices
8 7 (8.97%) Migration
9 6 (7.69%) Containerisation
9 6 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
9 6 (7.69%) ETL
9 6 (7.69%) Unit Testing
10 5 (6.41%) Design Patterns
10 5 (6.41%) Full Stack Development
10 5 (6.41%) SDLC
10 5 (6.41%) SQL Optimisation
11 4 (5.13%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 50 (64.10%) JavaScript
1 50 (64.10%) Python
2 44 (56.41%) C#
3 19 (24.36%) SQL
4 17 (21.79%) Java
5 11 (14.10%) C++
6 6 (7.69%) Go
6 6 (7.69%) TypeScript
7 5 (6.41%) C
7 5 (6.41%) VB
8 4 (5.13%) PL/SQL
8 4 (5.13%) R
9 1 (1.28%) Bash
9 1 (1.28%) Groovy
9 1 (1.28%) PHP
9 1 (1.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 38 (48.72%) SC Cleared
1 38 (48.72%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.13%) Degree
3 1 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.28%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.41%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.13%) QA
3 2 (2.56%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.28%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 13 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (8.97%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.56%) Ansible
3 1 (1.28%) Grafana
3 1 (1.28%) Kibana
3 1 (1.28%) Terraform
Vendors
1 38 (48.72%) ESRI
2 18 (23.08%) Oracle
3 4 (5.13%) Google
4 3 (3.85%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.85%) Splunk
5 1 (1.28%) Informatica