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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 127 126
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 -8
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 10 27 45
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.24% 1.07% 1.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.15% 7.89% 7.29%
Number of salaries quoted 7 12 26
10th Percentile £43,320 £60,000 £36,875
25th Percentile £50,000 £61,875 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +31.71% -14.58%
75th Percentile £103,750 £79,188 £57,875
90th Percentile £137,500 £93,925 £68,949
UK median annual salary £68,403 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.80% +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 194 342 617
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.71% 13.53% 16.62%
Number of salaries quoted 114 103 243
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,000 £32,300
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -12.14%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,250 £64,750
90th Percentile £104,250 £77,500 £73,886
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +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 29 September 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 29 September 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 +6 5 £65,000 -3.70% 9
Glasgow -2 5 £82,900 +10.90% 27
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) GCP
2 2 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (10.00%) Datadog
3 1 (10.00%) IaaS
3 1 (10.00%) OCI
3 1 (10.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) DuckDB
1 3 (30.00%) Parquet
1 3 (30.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (10.00%) MariaDB
3 1 (10.00%) MySQL
3 1 (10.00%) Neo4j
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (10.00%) Pinecone
3 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (10.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (20.00%) IntelliJ
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (20.00%) JUnit
1 2 (20.00%) Maven
1 2 (20.00%) Mockito
1 2 (20.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (10.00%) Flyway
2 1 (10.00%) Liquibase
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Automotive
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Health Technology
2 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (10.00%) Law
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing
2 1 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Java Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Database Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Database Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Principal Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Principal Data Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) React
2 3 (30.00%) Next.js
2 3 (30.00%) Spring
2 3 (30.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (30.00%) Svelte
2 3 (30.00%) SvelteKit
3 2 (20.00%) RESTful
3 2 (20.00%) Spring Batch
3 2 (20.00%) Spring Cloud
3 2 (20.00%) WireMock
4 1 (10.00%) CSS
4 1 (10.00%) FastAPI
4 1 (10.00%) HTML
4 1 (10.00%) Kafka
4 1 (10.00%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) AI Agents
1 3 (30.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (10.00%) IoT
3 1 (10.00%) Robotics
3 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) AIX
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Solaris
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Clean Code
1 5 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (40.00%) AI
2 4 (40.00%) SDLC
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Front End Development
3 3 (30.00%) Generative AI
3 3 (30.00%) LLM
3 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Customer Experience
4 2 (20.00%) Data Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) High Availability
4 2 (20.00%) Observability
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (20.00%) User Experience
5 1 (10.00%) Database Tuning
5 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Data Guard
2 1 (10.00%) Grafana
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Flashback
2 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Meraki
2 2 (20.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (10.00%) New Relic
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow