PostgreSQL Jobs in Scotland

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for PostgreSQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PostgreSQL over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 168 125 156
Rank change year-on-year -43 +31 -20
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 114 96 100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.70% 2.08% 1.72%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.88% 11.27% 9.43%
Number of salaries quoted 33 55 42
10th Percentile £38,250 £41,250 £41,375
25th Percentile £43,750 £48,375 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% +11.63%
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £68,125
90th Percentile £69,819 £110,000 £74,875
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

PostgreSQL is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,938 852 1,060
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 28.90% 18.46% 18.28%
Number of salaries quoted 474 476 568
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,200 £43,750 £41,089
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +13.21% +11.58%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £89,852 £73,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PostgreSQL in Scotland.

Salary trend for PostgreSQL in Scotland

PostgreSQL
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in Scotland over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

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 11 May 2024. 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 -54 69 £50,000 -9.09% 3
Edinburgh +19 43 £58,941 +2.51% 6
Dundee - 1 £50,000 -
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 60 (52.63%) ArcGIS
1 60 (52.63%) GeoServer
2 8 (7.02%) Apache
3 4 (3.51%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.75%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 94 (82.46%) AWS
2 73 (64.04%) Azure
3 5 (4.39%) GCP
3 5 (4.39%) SaaS
4 4 (3.51%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (3.51%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (3.51%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (1.75%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.75%) Fivetran
6 2 (1.75%) Serverless
7 1 (0.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.88%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.88%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.88%) IaaS
7 1 (0.88%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.88%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (53.51%) GIS
2 60 (52.63%) QGIS
3 16 (14.04%) Oracle Database
4 13 (11.40%) Oracle Database 11g
5 11 (9.65%) SQL Server
6 6 (5.26%) Relational Database
7 5 (4.39%) MongoDB
7 5 (4.39%) MySQL
8 4 (3.51%) Big Data
8 4 (3.51%) Data Lake
8 4 (3.51%) NoSQL
8 4 (3.51%) Power BI
9 3 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.88%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.88%) Redis
11 1 (0.88%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (2.63%) GitLab
1 3 (2.63%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.75%) Artifactory
2 2 (1.75%) Git
2 2 (1.75%) JIRA
2 2 (1.75%) Maven
3 1 (0.88%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.88%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.88%) JUnit
3 1 (0.88%) Mockito
General
1 17 (14.91%) Social Skills
2 10 (8.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (5.26%) Finance
3 6 (5.26%) Games
4 4 (3.51%) Law
5 3 (2.63%) Marketing
6 1 (0.88%) Banking
6 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 66 (57.89%) Software Engineer
2 61 (53.51%) Senior
3 42 (36.84%) Senior Software Engineer
4 33 (28.95%) Developer
5 18 (15.79%) Senior Developer
6 13 (11.40%) Database Developer
6 13 (11.40%) PostgreSQL Developer
7 11 (9.65%) Senior Database Developer
8 6 (5.26%) Data Engineer
8 6 (5.26%) Python Developer
9 5 (4.39%) Backend Developer
9 5 (4.39%) Full Stack Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) Software Developer
10 4 (3.51%) Java Engineer
10 4 (3.51%) Senior Software Developer
10 4 (3.51%) Software Support Engineer
10 4 (3.51%) Support Engineer
11 3 (2.63%) Java Software Engineer
11 3 (2.63%) Lead Software Engineer
11 3 (2.63%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (59.65%) React
2 62 (54.39%) .NET
3 60 (52.63%) Leaflet
3 60 (52.63%) OpenLayers
3 60 (52.63%) PostGIS
4 54 (47.37%) CSS
5 53 (46.49%) .NET Core
6 13 (11.40%) Django
7 11 (9.65%) REST
8 7 (6.14%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (5.26%) RESTful
9 6 (5.26%) SOAP
9 6 (5.26%) Spring
9 6 (5.26%) Spring Boot
10 4 (3.51%) JSON
10 4 (3.51%) Web Services
10 4 (3.51%) XML
11 3 (2.63%) Hibernate
11 3 (2.63%) JPA
12 2 (1.75%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.39%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (3.51%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
3 1 (0.88%) Client/Server
3 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (0.88%) NHS
3 1 (0.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.16%) Linux
2 9 (7.89%) Ubuntu
3 4 (3.51%) AIX
4 3 (2.63%) Unix
5 1 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (73.68%) Agile
2 75 (65.79%) Actionable Insight
3 69 (60.53%) Software Engineering
4 64 (56.14%) DevOps
4 64 (56.14%) Web Development
5 18 (15.79%) Artificial Intelligence
6 17 (14.91%) Unit Testing
7 16 (14.04%) Migration
8 15 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (11.40%) Data Migration
9 13 (11.40%) Performance Tuning
9 13 (11.40%) Secure Coding
10 11 (9.65%) CI/CD
10 11 (9.65%) Full Stack Development
10 11 (9.65%) Microservices
11 9 (7.89%) Test Automation
12 8 (7.02%) Design Patterns
13 7 (6.14%) Containerisation
14 6 (5.26%) Data Pipeline
14 6 (5.26%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 79 (69.30%) Python
2 77 (67.54%) JavaScript
3 48 (42.11%) C#
4 30 (26.32%) SQL
5 16 (14.04%) Java
6 13 (11.40%) PL/SQL
7 11 (9.65%) C++
8 7 (6.14%) Go
9 6 (5.26%) TypeScript
10 5 (4.39%) C
11 4 (3.51%) VB
12 3 (2.63%) R
13 2 (1.75%) Bash
14 1 (0.88%) Delphi
14 1 (0.88%) Groovy
14 1 (0.88%) PHP
14 1 (0.88%) Rust
14 1 (0.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 62 (54.39%) Security Cleared
2 61 (53.51%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.88%) Degree
3 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.88%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.51%) Data Quality
1 4 (3.51%) QA
2 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.88%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 9 (7.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (9.65%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.26%) Ansible
3 2 (1.75%) Grafana
3 2 (1.75%) Terraform
4 1 (0.88%) Kibana
4 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 60 (52.63%) ESRI
2 24 (21.05%) Oracle
3 4 (3.51%) Google
4 3 (2.63%) Dynatrace
4 3 (2.63%) Splunk