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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 96 140
Rank change year-on-year -35 +44 -19
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 10 45 45
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.37% 1.68% 1.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.73% 8.98% 5.65%
Number of salaries quoted 7 29 37
10th Percentile £43,100 £44,500 £45,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £58,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.24% -10.77% +30.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 £68,114 £84,056
90th Percentile - £74,144 £91,934
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +15.38% -7.14%

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 268 501 797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.84% 18.71% 26.66%
Number of salaries quoted 98 221 409
10th Percentile £25,925 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,250 £56,318
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -7.22% +2.40%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £76,137 £74,145 £89,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%

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 2 January 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 2 January 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 -23 10 £73,801 +18.08% 3
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 2 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (10.00%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) GCP
3 5 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (40.00%) Amazon ECR
4 4 (40.00%) dbt
4 4 (40.00%) Pulumi
5 3 (30.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 3 (30.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 3 (30.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (30.00%) PaaS
5 3 (30.00%) Sentry
5 3 (30.00%) Serverless
6 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (20.00%) OpenShift
6 2 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (40.00%) Redis
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) IntelliJ
2 1 (10.00%) jMock
2 1 (10.00%) JUnit
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Tech for Good
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Informatica Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Junior
4 1 (10.00%) Junior Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Junior Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Site Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Django
2 3 (30.00%) React
3 2 (20.00%) CSS
3 2 (20.00%) HTML
3 2 (20.00%) Kafka
3 2 (20.00%) REST
3 2 (20.00%) SOAP
3 2 (20.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CDK
4 1 (10.00%) Java EE
4 1 (10.00%) Java SE
4 1 (10.00%) NestJS
4 1 (10.00%) Node.js
4 1 (10.00%) Quarkus
4 1 (10.00%) RESTful
4 1 (10.00%) Swing
4 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Linux
2 6 (60.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (60.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (40.00%) Clean Code
3 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (40.00%) Migration
3 4 (40.00%) Observability
3 4 (40.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 4 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) Microservices
4 3 (30.00%) Open Source
4 3 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) Prototyping
4 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) API Integration
5 2 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (20.00%) Front End Development
5 2 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (10.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) AWS Copilot
2 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (20.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Google
2 2 (20.00%) Informatica
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle