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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 168 112
Rank change year-on-year +48 -56 +48
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 27 46 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.06% 1.01% 1.91%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.80% 5.07% 8.68%
Number of salaries quoted 11 30 45
10th Percentile £60,000 £37,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £63,125 £43,750 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,875 £57,188 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £65,540 £87,622
UK median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -10.71% -3.45%

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 346 908 599
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 13.62% 19.93% 21.96%
Number of salaries quoted 102 271 494
10th Percentile £32,575 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £56,318
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -11.22% +3.33%
75th Percentile £72,313 £64,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £83,639 £73,750 £82,534
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +4.17%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL 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 13 September 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 13 September 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 +77 17 £74,750 +57.37% 3
Edinburgh +8 10 £67,500 +22.73% 10
PostgreSQL
UK

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 20 (74.07%) AWS
2 7 (25.93%) Azure
3 5 (18.52%) Amazon S3
3 5 (18.52%) GCP
3 5 (18.52%) GitHub
4 4 (14.81%) Amazon SageMaker
4 4 (14.81%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (14.81%) Serverless
4 4 (14.81%) Snowflake
5 2 (7.41%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (3.70%) Datadog
6 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (29.63%) MySQL
2 7 (25.93%) SQL Server
3 6 (22.22%) NoSQL
3 6 (22.22%) Relational Database
4 5 (18.52%) MongoDB
5 4 (14.81%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (14.81%) KDB
5 4 (14.81%) Kdb+
6 2 (7.41%) DB2
6 2 (7.41%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (7.41%) Power BI
6 2 (7.41%) Star Schema
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (3.70%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (3.70%) CockroachDB
7 1 (3.70%) Couchbase
7 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
7 1 (3.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) Jenkins
2 4 (14.81%) Git
3 3 (11.11%) GitLab
3 3 (11.11%) Gradle
3 3 (11.11%) Maven
4 2 (7.41%) JUnit
4 2 (7.41%) Mockito
5 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.70%) Snyk
General
1 14 (51.85%) Finance
2 13 (48.15%) Law
3 10 (37.04%) Banking
3 10 (37.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
5 4 (14.81%) Front Office
5 4 (14.81%) Private Banking
6 2 (7.41%) Games
6 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (3.70%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.70%) Legal
7 1 (3.70%) Marketing
7 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (44.44%) Lead
2 11 (40.74%) Developer
3 10 (37.04%) Software Engineer
4 9 (33.33%) Java Developer
5 8 (29.63%) Lead Software Engineer
6 7 (25.93%) Senior
7 6 (22.22%) Senior Developer
7 6 (22.22%) Senior Java Developer
8 5 (18.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 5 (18.52%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (14.81%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (14.81%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 4 (14.81%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 4 (14.81%) Kafka Developer
9 4 (14.81%) Kafka Engineer
9 4 (14.81%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (14.81%) Lead Java Engineer
9 4 (14.81%) Python Engineer
9 4 (14.81%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
9 4 (14.81%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (33.33%) RESTful
1 9 (33.33%) Spring
1 9 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 7 (25.93%) Kafka
3 3 (11.11%) Hibernate
3 3 (11.11%) JPA
3 3 (11.11%) React
4 2 (7.41%) .NET
4 2 (7.41%) AngularJS
4 2 (7.41%) HTML
4 2 (7.41%) JWT
4 2 (7.41%) OAuth
4 2 (7.41%) OAuth2
4 2 (7.41%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (7.41%) Spring MVC
5 1 (3.70%) CherryPy
5 1 (3.70%) Memcached
5 1 (3.70%) OpenID
5 1 (3.70%) REST
5 1 (3.70%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 8 (29.63%) Cloud Native
2 4 (14.81%) Derivative
2 4 (14.81%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (11.11%) Algorithms
4 2 (7.41%) Replication
5 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.70%) Private Cloud
5 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (55.56%) Agile
2 13 (48.15%) CI/CD
2 13 (48.15%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (40.74%) Software Engineering
4 10 (37.04%) Decision-Making
4 10 (37.04%) Microservices
5 9 (33.33%) Computer Science
5 9 (33.33%) Operational Stability
6 8 (29.63%) Mathematics
7 7 (25.93%) Data Engineering
7 7 (25.93%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (25.93%) SDLC
8 6 (22.22%) Mentoring
9 5 (18.52%) Containerisation
10 4 (14.81%) Creative Thinking
10 4 (14.81%) DevOps
10 4 (14.81%) Functional Programming
10 4 (14.81%) Performance Tuning
10 4 (14.81%) Quantitative Research
10 4 (14.81%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 16 (59.26%) SQL
2 12 (44.44%) Java
3 10 (37.04%) Python
4 1 (3.70%) C
4 1 (3.70%) C#
4 1 (3.70%) C++
4 1 (3.70%) PHP
4 1 (3.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.93%) QA
2 3 (11.11%) ISO 9001
3 2 (7.41%) GDPR
3 2 (7.41%) NIST
4 1 (3.70%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (18.52%) Terraform
3 1 (3.70%) Ansible
3 1 (3.70%) Grafana
3 1 (3.70%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.70%) Puppet
3 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (48.15%) Oracle
2 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.70%) ForgeRock
3 1 (3.70%) Ping Identity
3 1 (3.70%) Splunk
3 1 (3.70%) Sybase