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 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 121 111
Rank change year-on-year -10 -10 +40
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 25 37 47
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.95% 1.10% 1.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.33% 7.10% 8.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11 21 42
10th Percentile £60,000 £36,250 £48,525
25th Percentile £61,250 £37,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £55,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +34.18% -10.20% +16.67%
75th Percentile £81,520 £60,000 £80,313
90th Percentile £95,000 £70,399 £90,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £68,404 £70,000
% change year-on-year +9.64% -2.28% -

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 341 521 558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 13.01% 15.44% 22.28%
Number of salaries quoted 103 226 465
10th Percentile £26,200 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,500 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £63,125 £64,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £76,750 £75,000 £83,934
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +4.17%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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
Glasgow +12 16 £74,750 +35.91% 4
Edinburgh +2 9 £67,500 +25.58% 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 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 20 (80.00%) AWS
2 8 (32.00%) Azure
3 5 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 5 (20.00%) GCP
3 5 (20.00%) GitHub
4 4 (16.00%) Amazon SageMaker
4 4 (16.00%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (16.00%) Serverless
4 4 (16.00%) Snowflake
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (4.00%) dbt
6 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (4.00%) Pulumi
6 1 (4.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) MySQL
1 6 (24.00%) Relational Database
2 5 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 4 (16.00%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (16.00%) KDB
3 4 (16.00%) Kdb+
3 4 (16.00%) MongoDB
3 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (8.00%) DB2
4 2 (8.00%) Oracle ODI
4 2 (8.00%) Power BI
4 2 (8.00%) Redis
4 2 (8.00%) Star Schema
5 1 (4.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (4.00%) CockroachDB
5 1 (4.00%) Couchbase
5 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
5 1 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (12.00%) Git
3 2 (8.00%) GitLab
3 2 (8.00%) Gradle
3 2 (8.00%) Maven
4 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (4.00%) JUnit
4 1 (4.00%) Mockito
4 1 (4.00%) Snyk
General
1 14 (56.00%) Finance
2 11 (44.00%) Law
3 10 (40.00%) Banking
3 10 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (16.00%) Front Office
4 4 (16.00%) Private Banking
5 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
6 2 (8.00%) Games
6 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
7 1 (4.00%) Legal
7 1 (4.00%) Marketing
7 1 (4.00%) Retail
7 1 (4.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) Software Engineer
2 10 (40.00%) Developer
2 10 (40.00%) Lead
3 8 (32.00%) Java Developer
3 8 (32.00%) Lead Software Engineer
4 7 (28.00%) Senior
5 5 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 5 (20.00%) Senior Developer
5 5 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 5 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (16.00%) Java Software Developer
6 4 (16.00%) Java Software Engineer
6 4 (16.00%) Lead Developer
6 4 (16.00%) Lead Java Developer
6 4 (16.00%) Lead Software Developer
6 4 (16.00%) Python Software Engineer
6 4 (16.00%) Senior Java Software Developer
6 4 (16.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 4 (16.00%) Senior Software Developer
6 4 (16.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (36.00%) Spring Boot
2 8 (32.00%) RESTful
2 8 (32.00%) Spring
3 7 (28.00%) Kafka
4 3 (12.00%) HTML
4 3 (12.00%) React
5 2 (8.00%) .NET
5 2 (8.00%) CSS
5 2 (8.00%) Hibernate
5 2 (8.00%) JPA
5 2 (8.00%) JWT
5 2 (8.00%) OAuth
5 2 (8.00%) OAuth2
6 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
6 1 (4.00%) Blazor
6 1 (4.00%) FIDO
6 1 (4.00%) Flask
6 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (4.00%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (4.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (32.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (16.00%) Derivative
2 4 (16.00%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (12.00%) Algorithms
4 2 (8.00%) Replication
5 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
5 1 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Linux
2 1 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) CI/CD
2 12 (48.00%) Agile
2 12 (48.00%) Software Engineering
3 11 (44.00%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (40.00%) Decision-Making
4 10 (40.00%) Microservices
5 9 (36.00%) Computer Science
5 9 (36.00%) Operational Stability
6 8 (32.00%) Mathematics
7 7 (28.00%) Data Engineering
7 7 (28.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (24.00%) SDLC
9 5 (20.00%) DevOps
10 4 (16.00%) Analytics
10 4 (16.00%) Containerisation
10 4 (16.00%) Creative Thinking
10 4 (16.00%) Functional Programming
10 4 (16.00%) Mentoring
10 4 (16.00%) Quantitative Research
10 4 (16.00%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 13 (52.00%) SQL
2 12 (48.00%) Java
3 10 (40.00%) Python
4 1 (4.00%) C
4 1 (4.00%) C#
4 1 (4.00%) C++
4 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.00%) PHP
4 1 (4.00%) Rust
4 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) Degree
1 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) QA
2 2 (8.00%) GDPR
2 2 (8.00%) NIST
3 1 (4.00%) GRC
3 1 (4.00%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (32.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (24.00%) Terraform
3 1 (4.00%) Ansible
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (4.00%) Grafana
3 1 (4.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (48.00%) Oracle
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.00%) ForgeRock
3 1 (4.00%) Google
3 1 (4.00%) Ping Identity
3 1 (4.00%) Splunk
3 1 (4.00%) Sybase