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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 94 222
Rank change year-on-year -32 +128 -93
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 23 29 48
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.73% 1.50% 0.80%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.75% 9.86% 2.71%
Number of salaries quoted 13 22 34
10th Percentile £51,250 £49,750 £41,625
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,362 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +16.28% -2.27%
75th Percentile £78,790 £68,114 £67,500
90th Percentile - £74,144 £86,375
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +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 263 294 1,768
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 8.35% 15.18% 29.61%
Number of salaries quoted 79 178 497
10th Percentile £27,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,438 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,750 £98,474 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -8.00%

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 April 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 April 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 0 19 £67,500 +8.00% 3
Glasgow -16 4 £125,000 +115.52% 7
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 5 (21.74%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.35%) Apache
2 1 (4.35%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 13 (56.52%) AWS
2 11 (47.83%) GCP
3 5 (21.74%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (21.74%) Amazon S3
3 5 (21.74%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (21.74%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (21.74%) Azure
3 5 (21.74%) Serverless
4 4 (17.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (17.39%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (17.39%) Amazon ECR
4 4 (17.39%) AWS CodePipeline
4 4 (17.39%) AWS Step Functions
4 4 (17.39%) Cloud Run
4 4 (17.39%) dbt
4 4 (17.39%) Pulumi
4 4 (17.39%) SaaS
5 3 (13.04%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 3 (13.04%) Apigee
5 3 (13.04%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.35%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (39.13%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (26.09%) SQL Server
3 5 (21.74%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (21.74%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (17.39%) Redis
4 4 (17.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
6 1 (4.35%) BigQuery
6 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
6 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
6 1 (4.35%) IBM InfoSphere
6 1 (4.35%) Metadata
6 1 (4.35%) MySQL
6 1 (4.35%) Neo4j
6 1 (4.35%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (4.35%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) ERwin
2 1 (4.35%) IntelliJ
2 1 (4.35%) jMock
2 1 (4.35%) JUnit
2 1 (4.35%) Subversion
General
1 7 (30.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Public Sector
4 4 (17.39%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (8.70%) Legal
6 1 (4.35%) Aerospace
6 1 (4.35%) Automotive
6 1 (4.35%) Health Technology
6 1 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (4.35%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Architect
2 4 (17.39%) Data Architect
2 4 (17.39%) Informatica Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Senior
3 3 (13.04%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Principal Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Principal Data Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Developer
4 2 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Java Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Junior
5 1 (4.35%) Junior Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Junior Java Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Site Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) Django
1 4 (17.39%) REST
1 4 (17.39%) SOAP
2 2 (8.70%) React
2 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.35%) AWS CDK
3 1 (4.35%) CSS
3 1 (4.35%) HTML
3 1 (4.35%) Java EE
3 1 (4.35%) Java SE
3 1 (4.35%) Kafka
3 1 (4.35%) NestJS
3 1 (4.35%) Node.js
3 1 (4.35%) pgvector
3 1 (4.35%) Quarkus
3 1 (4.35%) RESTful
3 1 (4.35%) Spring
3 1 (4.35%) Swing
3 1 (4.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Analytical Mindset
1 4 (17.39%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (13.04%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (13.04%) Replication
3 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.35%) IoT
4 1 (4.35%) Robotics
4 1 (4.35%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 9 (39.13%) Linux
2 8 (34.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) CI/CD
2 9 (39.13%) Data Modelling
2 9 (39.13%) DevOps
3 8 (34.78%) Agile
4 7 (30.43%) Data Governance
4 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (30.43%) Observability
4 7 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (26.09%) API Integration
5 6 (26.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 6 (26.09%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 5 (21.74%) Data Integration
6 5 (21.74%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (21.74%) Workflow
7 4 (17.39%) BDD
7 4 (17.39%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 4 (17.39%) Mentoring
7 4 (17.39%) Migration
7 4 (17.39%) Service-Level Objective
7 4 (17.39%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) Python
2 7 (30.43%) SQL
3 4 (17.39%) Java
3 4 (17.39%) Shell Script
4 2 (8.70%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.35%) C
5 1 (4.35%) C#
5 1 (4.35%) C++
5 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared
1 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (26.09%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.70%) NCSC
3 1 (4.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (39.13%) Terraform
2 6 (26.09%) Kubernetes
3 4 (17.39%) Control-M
4 3 (13.04%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 10 (43.48%) Google
2 7 (30.43%) Oracle
3 4 (17.39%) Informatica
4 3 (13.04%) Pega
5 1 (4.35%) IBM
5 1 (4.35%) Meraki
5 1 (4.35%) Siemens