PostgreSQL Job Trends in Scotland

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 116 201
Rank change year-on-year 0 +85 -78
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 16 35 39
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.48% 1.40% 0.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.25% 9.28% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 13 17 30
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,150 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +42.11% -17.39%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £60,313
90th Percentile £132,500 £92,000 £65,250
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +20.00% -10.71%

All Database & 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 194 377 1,363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.77% 15.05% 23.30%
Number of salaries quoted 98 131 401
10th Percentile £27,125 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,067
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +10.44% -9.69%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,170 £64,750
90th Percentile £91,500 £98,474 £74,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,743 £59,063
% change year-on-year -1.22% +2.85% -5.50%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in Scotland

PostgreSQL
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing PostgreSQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in Scotland over the 6 months to 19 July 2026.

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 19 July 2026. 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 +7 10 £65,000 -3.70% 5
Glasgow +6 6 £125,000 +67.22% 8
PostgreSQL
UK

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (6.25%) Apache
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) GCP
2 5 (31.25%) AWS
3 4 (25.00%) Cloud Run
4 3 (18.75%) Apigee
4 3 (18.75%) GitHub
5 1 (6.25%) Azure
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (6.25%) Dataform
5 1 (6.25%) IaaS
5 1 (6.25%) OCI
5 1 (6.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Parquet
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 2 (12.50%) Neo4j
2 2 (12.50%) Pinecone
3 1 (6.25%) BigQuery
3 1 (6.25%) Metadata
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (6.25%) Redis
3 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
1 1 (6.25%) IntelliJ
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.25%) JUnit
1 1 (6.25%) Maven
1 1 (6.25%) Mockito
1 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (31.25%) Public Sector
3 2 (12.50%) Aerospace
3 2 (12.50%) Automotive
3 2 (12.50%) Health Technology
3 2 (12.50%) Legal
3 2 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Retail
4 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Architect
2 5 (31.25%) Data Architect
2 5 (31.25%) Senior
3 4 (25.00%) Principal Architect
3 4 (25.00%) Principal Data Architect
4 3 (18.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Database Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Java Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Pega Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Python Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Database Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Next.js
1 3 (18.75%) React
1 3 (18.75%) Svelte
1 3 (18.75%) SvelteKit
2 2 (12.50%) pgvector
3 1 (6.25%) FastAPI
3 1 (6.25%) RESTful
3 1 (6.25%) Spring
3 1 (6.25%) Spring Batch
3 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.25%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (18.75%) AI Agents
2 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 3 (18.75%) Public Cloud
3 2 (12.50%) IoT
3 2 (12.50%) Replication
3 2 (12.50%) Robotics
4 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) AIX
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Solaris
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Agile
1 7 (43.75%) AI
2 6 (37.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
3 5 (31.25%) DevOps
4 4 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 4 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 4 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 4 (25.00%) Observability
4 4 (25.00%) SDLC
5 3 (18.75%) Data Architecture
5 3 (18.75%) Data Governance
5 3 (18.75%) Data Modelling
5 3 (18.75%) Generative AI
5 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (18.75%) LLM
6 2 (12.50%) Machine Learning
6 2 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) SQL
3 1 (6.25%) Bash
3 1 (6.25%) Java
3 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) NCSC
2 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
1 5 (31.25%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Data Guard
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Google
2 5 (31.25%) Meraki
3 3 (18.75%) Pega
4 1 (6.25%) Dynatrace
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle
4 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow