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 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 176 143
Rank change year-on-year +46 -33 +23
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 38 108 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.24% 1.58% 1.72%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.36% 6.20% 9.09%
Number of salaries quoted 18 32 50
10th Percentile £49,750 £37,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £51,563 £43,750 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,938 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,975 £67,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -10.71% -

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 406 1,741 814
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 13.22% 25.46% 18.97%
Number of salaries quoted 157 454 468
10th Percentile £34,500 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,750 £40,000 £44,785
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £74,063
90th Percentile £98,474 £75,000 £84,339
UK median annual salary £60,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.22% -11.54% +8.33%

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 13 June 2025.

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 13 June 2025. 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
Edinburgh +5 19 £60,000 +1.80% 18
Glasgow +96 17 £74,750 +49.50% 19
Lanarkshire - 1 £48,343 - 1
North Lanarkshire - 1 £51,000 -
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 1 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 25 (65.79%) AWS
2 14 (36.84%) Azure
3 7 (18.42%) GitHub
4 6 (15.79%) GCP
5 4 (10.53%) Amazon S3
6 3 (7.89%) Amazon SageMaker
6 3 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (7.89%) Serverless
6 3 (7.89%) Snowflake
7 2 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.26%) AWS CodeCommit
7 2 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (5.26%) Power Platform
7 2 (5.26%) Sentry
8 1 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.63%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.63%) Datadog
8 1 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (36.84%) SQL Server
2 11 (28.95%) MySQL
3 9 (23.68%) NoSQL
4 8 (21.05%) MongoDB
4 8 (21.05%) Relational Database
5 4 (10.53%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (10.53%) KDB
5 4 (10.53%) Kdb+
6 2 (5.26%) Data Mining
6 2 (5.26%) DB2
6 2 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (5.26%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (5.26%) Power BI
6 2 (5.26%) Star Schema
7 1 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.63%) CockroachDB
7 1 (2.63%) Couchbase
7 1 (2.63%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (31.58%) Jenkins
2 8 (21.05%) Git
3 7 (18.42%) GitLab
4 3 (7.89%) Gradle
4 3 (7.89%) Maven
5 2 (5.26%) Checkstyle
5 2 (5.26%) Fiddler
5 2 (5.26%) JUnit
5 2 (5.26%) Mockito
5 2 (5.26%) Postman
5 2 (5.26%) SonarQube
5 2 (5.26%) TeamCity
5 2 (5.26%) Visual Studio
6 1 (2.63%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.63%) Snyk
General
1 16 (42.11%) Finance
2 13 (34.21%) Law
3 12 (31.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (26.32%) Banking
5 7 (18.42%) Social Skills
6 4 (10.53%) Front Office
6 4 (10.53%) Private Banking
7 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (5.26%) Games
7 2 (5.26%) Local Government
7 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.63%) Agriculture
8 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.63%) Legal
8 1 (2.63%) Marketing
8 1 (2.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (42.11%) Developer
2 15 (39.47%) Lead
3 12 (31.58%) Software Engineer
4 11 (28.95%) Senior
5 9 (23.68%) Java Developer
6 8 (21.05%) Lead Software Engineer
7 7 (18.42%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (15.79%) Senior Developer
8 6 (15.79%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (13.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (13.16%) Lead Developer
10 4 (10.53%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 4 (10.53%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 4 (10.53%) Java Software Engineer
10 4 (10.53%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (10.53%) Lead Java Engineer
10 4 (10.53%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
10 4 (10.53%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 4 (10.53%) Senior Software Developer
10 4 (10.53%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (36.84%) RESTful
2 10 (26.32%) Spring Boot
3 9 (23.68%) Spring
4 7 (18.42%) Kafka
4 7 (18.42%) React
5 6 (15.79%) .NET
5 6 (15.79%) HTML
5 6 (15.79%) REST
5 6 (15.79%) Web Services
6 5 (13.16%) CSS
7 4 (10.53%) .NET Core
7 4 (10.53%) .NET Framework
7 4 (10.53%) ASP.NET
8 3 (7.89%) Hibernate
8 3 (7.89%) JPA
8 3 (7.89%) JSON
9 2 (5.26%) ADO.NET
9 2 (5.26%) EJB
9 2 (5.26%) jQuery
9 2 (5.26%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.53%) Derivative
2 4 (10.53%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (7.89%) Algorithms
4 2 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.26%) Mobile App
4 2 (5.26%) Replication
5 1 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.63%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.63%) IoT
5 1 (2.63%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.16%) Linux
2 2 (5.26%) VMS
2 2 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 18 (47.37%) Agile
3 17 (44.74%) Microservices
4 15 (39.47%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (36.84%) Software Engineering
6 10 (26.32%) Computer Science
6 10 (26.32%) Decision-Making
6 10 (26.32%) Test Automation
7 9 (23.68%) DevOps
7 9 (23.68%) Operational Stability
8 8 (21.05%) Containerisation
8 8 (21.05%) Mathematics
8 8 (21.05%) Mentoring
9 7 (18.42%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (18.42%) SDLC
10 6 (15.79%) Data Engineering
10 6 (15.79%) OOP
10 6 (15.79%) Scrum
10 6 (15.79%) Tech Ops
11 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 18 (47.37%) Java
1 18 (47.37%) SQL
2 11 (28.95%) Python
3 4 (10.53%) JavaScript
4 3 (7.89%) C#
4 3 (7.89%) C++
5 2 (5.26%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.63%) C
6 1 (2.63%) PHP
6 1 (2.63%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (5.26%) Degree
2 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (18.42%) QA
2 3 (7.89%) ISO 9001
3 2 (5.26%) GDPR
4 1 (2.63%) GRC
4 1 (2.63%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (23.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (44.74%) Kubernetes
2 7 (18.42%) Terraform
3 4 (10.53%) Grafana
4 3 (7.89%) Puppet
5 2 (5.26%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.63%) Ansible
6 1 (2.63%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (31.58%) Oracle
2 7 (18.42%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.26%) New Relic
4 1 (2.63%) ForgeRock
4 1 (2.63%) Ping Identity
4 1 (2.63%) Splunk
4 1 (2.63%) Sybase