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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 105 222
Rank change year-on-year -15 +117 -100
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 18 34 47
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.57% 1.63% 0.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.53% 9.50% 2.67%
Number of salaries quoted 9 18 33
10th Percentile £49,160 £49,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,563 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +25.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,938 £61,250
90th Percentile £132,500 £84,475 £67,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 211 358 1,763
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 6.64% 17.16% 27.27%
Number of salaries quoted 75 147 454
10th Percentile £27,200 £33,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £56,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +7.62% -12.50%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,545 £64,500
90th Percentile £93,000 £98,474 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +11 12 £66,250 +10.42% 7
Glasgow +1 6 £125,000 +67.22% 2
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 (27.78%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.56%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) AWS
2 6 (33.33%) GCP
3 4 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (22.22%) Amazon S3
3 4 (22.22%) AWS CodePipeline
3 4 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (22.22%) AWS Step Functions
3 4 (22.22%) Cloud Run
3 4 (22.22%) SaaS
3 4 (22.22%) Serverless
4 3 (16.67%) Apigee
5 2 (11.11%) GitHub
6 1 (5.56%) Azure
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (5.56%) Cloud Composer
6 1 (5.56%) Dataform
6 1 (5.56%) IaaS
6 1 (5.56%) OCI
6 1 (5.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) SQL Server
2 6 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (22.22%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (11.11%) Data Lake
4 2 (11.11%) Neo4j
4 2 (11.11%) Pinecone
4 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
5 1 (5.56%) BigQuery
5 1 (5.56%) IBM InfoSphere
5 1 (5.56%) Metadata
5 1 (5.56%) MySQL
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) ERwin
2 1 (5.56%) Subversion
General
1 6 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (27.78%) Public Sector
2 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Aerospace
4 2 (11.11%) Automotive
4 2 (11.11%) Health Technology
4 2 (11.11%) Legal
4 2 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (5.56%) Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Architect
2 5 (27.78%) Data Architect
3 4 (22.22%) Informatica Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Principal Architect
3 4 (22.22%) Principal Data Architect
4 2 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Database Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Pega Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Database Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) REST
1 4 (22.22%) SOAP
2 2 (11.11%) pgvector
3 1 (5.56%) Spring
3 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Analytical Mindset
1 4 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (16.67%) Replication
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 2 (11.11%) IoT
3 2 (11.11%) Robotics
4 1 (5.56%) SCADA
4 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Linux
2 4 (22.22%) Unix
3 1 (5.56%) AIX
3 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Solaris
3 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
2 7 (38.89%) Data Governance
3 6 (33.33%) Agile
3 6 (33.33%) API Integration
3 6 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 5 (27.78%) Data Integration
4 5 (27.78%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (27.78%) Workflow
5 4 (22.22%) AI
5 4 (22.22%) BDD
5 4 (22.22%) Data Architecture
5 4 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (22.22%) DevOps
5 4 (22.22%) Event-Driven
5 4 (22.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 4 (22.22%) Integration Patterns
5 4 (22.22%) Knowledge Transfer
5 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
5 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) Python
1 7 (38.89%) SQL
2 4 (22.22%) Shell Script
3 2 (11.11%) Java
4 1 (5.56%) Bash
4 1 (5.56%) C
4 1 (5.56%) C++
4 1 (5.56%) Perl
4 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.11%) NCSC
3 1 (5.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Terraform
2 4 (22.22%) Control-M
2 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.56%) Data Guard
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Oracle
2 6 (33.33%) Google
3 4 (22.22%) Informatica
4 3 (16.67%) Pega
5 2 (11.11%) Meraki
6 1 (5.56%) Dynatrace
6 1 (5.56%) IBM
6 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
6 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
6 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
6 1 (5.56%) Siemens