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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 111 207
Rank change year-on-year -7 +96 -81
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 17 33 38
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.50% 1.32% 0.71%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.29% 8.87% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 13 16 28
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +39.47% -17.39%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £56,563
90th Percentile £132,500 £89,625 £64,125
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +20.00% -10.71%

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 205 372 1,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 6.03% 14.91% 22.60%
Number of salaries quoted 105 126 350
10th Percentile £27,125 £32,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,283
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.98% -10.63%
75th Percentile £77,000 £76,840 £65,000
90th Percentile £101,500 £96,737 £74,100
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,875 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.44% +1.46% -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 31 July 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 31 July 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 +2 10 £65,000 +1.96% 9
Glasgow +3 7 £125,000 +67.22% 5
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 (5.88%) Apache
1 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) GCP
2 6 (35.29%) AWS
3 4 (23.53%) Cloud Run
4 3 (17.65%) Apigee
4 3 (17.65%) GitHub
5 2 (11.76%) Azure
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (5.88%) Cloud Composer
6 1 (5.88%) Datadog
6 1 (5.88%) Dataform
6 1 (5.88%) IaaS
6 1 (5.88%) OCI
6 1 (5.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (17.65%) DuckDB
1 3 (17.65%) Parquet
2 2 (11.76%) Data Lake
2 2 (11.76%) Neo4j
2 2 (11.76%) Pinecone
2 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.88%) BigQuery
3 1 (5.88%) MariaDB
3 1 (5.88%) Metadata
3 1 (5.88%) MySQL
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
1 1 (5.88%) Flyway
1 1 (5.88%) IntelliJ
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.88%) JUnit
1 1 (5.88%) Liquibase
1 1 (5.88%) Maven
1 1 (5.88%) Mockito
1 1 (5.88%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (41.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (29.41%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.76%) Aerospace
3 2 (11.76%) Automotive
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Health Technology
3 2 (11.76%) Legal
3 2 (11.76%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Law
4 1 (5.88%) Marketing
4 1 (5.88%) Retail
4 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Architect
2 5 (29.41%) Data Architect
2 5 (29.41%) Senior
3 4 (23.53%) Principal Architect
3 4 (23.53%) Principal Data Architect
4 3 (17.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Database Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Database Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Java Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Lead
6 1 (5.88%) Lead Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Pega Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Python Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Database Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Next.js
1 3 (17.65%) React
1 3 (17.65%) Svelte
1 3 (17.65%) SvelteKit
2 2 (11.76%) pgvector
3 1 (5.88%) FastAPI
3 1 (5.88%) RESTful
3 1 (5.88%) Spring
3 1 (5.88%) Spring Batch
3 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.88%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (17.65%) AI Agents
2 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 3 (17.65%) Public Cloud
3 2 (11.76%) IoT
3 2 (11.76%) Replication
3 2 (11.76%) Robotics
4 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) AIX
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Solaris
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Agile
1 7 (41.18%) AI
2 6 (35.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
3 5 (29.41%) DevOps
3 5 (29.41%) Observability
3 5 (29.41%) SDLC
4 4 (23.53%) Architectural Patterns
4 4 (23.53%) Clean Code
4 4 (23.53%) Data Architecture
4 4 (23.53%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (23.53%) Knowledge Transfer
4 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
5 3 (17.65%) Data Governance
5 3 (17.65%) Data Modelling
5 3 (17.65%) Generative AI
5 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (17.65%) LLM
6 2 (11.76%) API Management
6 2 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) Bash
3 1 (5.88%) Java
3 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) NCSC
2 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Kubernetes
1 5 (29.41%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) Data Guard
2 1 (5.88%) Grafana
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Flashback
2 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Google
2 5 (29.41%) Meraki
3 3 (17.65%) Pega
4 2 (11.76%) Dynatrace
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
4 2 (11.76%) Oracle
5 1 (5.88%) New Relic
5 1 (5.88%) Red Hat
5 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow