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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 102 136
Rank change year-on-year -31 +34 -14
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 9 46 42
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.33% 1.64% 1.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.45% 9.00% 6.10%
Number of salaries quoted 8 28 38
10th Percentile £45,450 £43,625 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,274 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £60,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.49% -7.31% +30.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 £68,114 £84,056
90th Percentile £83,653 £74,144 £91,934
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -1.60% +11.11% -3.57%

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 261 511 688
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.57% 18.20% 26.01%
Number of salaries quoted 100 230 415
10th Percentile £25,750 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £65,625 £63,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £75,000 £74,230 £89,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 16 December 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 16 December 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
Edinburgh -19 9 £73,801 +18.08% 12
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 1 (11.11%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) AWS
2 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) GCP
3 5 (55.56%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (55.56%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (44.44%) Amazon ECR
4 4 (44.44%) dbt
4 4 (44.44%) Pulumi
5 3 (33.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 3 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 3 (33.33%) PaaS
5 3 (33.33%) Sentry
6 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
6 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (22.22%) OpenShift
6 2 (22.22%) Serverless
7 1 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (44.44%) Redis
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) IntelliJ
1 1 (11.11%) jMock
1 1 (11.11%) JUnit
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
1 2 (22.22%) Tech for Good
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Junior
4 1 (11.11%) Junior Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Junior Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Site Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Django
2 3 (33.33%) React
3 2 (22.22%) CSS
3 2 (22.22%) HTML
3 2 (22.22%) Kafka
3 2 (22.22%) Spring Boot
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CDK
4 1 (11.11%) Java EE
4 1 (11.11%) Java SE
4 1 (11.11%) NestJS
4 1 (11.11%) Node.js
4 1 (11.11%) Quarkus
4 1 (11.11%) RESTful
4 1 (11.11%) Swing
4 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) Clean Code
2 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (44.44%) Migration
2 4 (44.44%) Observability
2 4 (44.44%) Service-Level Objective
2 4 (44.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Microservices
3 3 (33.33%) Open Source
3 3 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) Data Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
4 2 (22.22%) Front End Development
4 2 (22.22%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) Java
2 3 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 1 (11.11%) C#
4 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
2 3 (33.33%) AWS Copilot
2 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle