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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 114 116
Rank change year-on-year -14 +2 +28
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 22 41 41
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.79% 1.24% 1.72%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.94% 8.28% 8.04%
Number of salaries quoted 12 24 38
10th Percentile £53,250 £37,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,875 £49,688 £51,452
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £56,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.62% -13.08% +23.81%
75th Percentile £78,790 £67,653 £84,056
90th Percentile £93,379 £73,276 £91,934
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -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 317 495 510
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.40% 14.98% 21.36%
Number of salaries quoted 111 219 431
10th Percentile £26,000 £33,750 £35,733
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £51,500 £56,318
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% -8.55% +7.27%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £84,056
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 15 November 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 15 November 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 +1 13 £75,000 +36.36% 7
Edinburgh -7 9 £73,801 +18.08% 11
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 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 19 (86.36%) AWS
2 8 (36.36%) Azure
3 7 (31.82%) GCP
4 4 (18.18%) Amazon ECR
4 4 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (18.18%) dbt
4 4 (18.18%) GitHub
4 4 (18.18%) Pulumi
5 3 (13.64%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 3 (13.64%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 3 (13.64%) Amazon S3
5 3 (13.64%) Amazon SageMaker
5 3 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (13.64%) PaaS
5 3 (13.64%) Sentry
5 3 (13.64%) Serverless
5 3 (13.64%) Snowflake
6 2 (9.09%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (9.09%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) Relational Database
2 5 (22.73%) Redis
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (18.18%) KDB
3 4 (18.18%) Kdb+
3 4 (18.18%) MySQL
4 3 (13.64%) NoSQL
5 2 (9.09%) DB2
5 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
5 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
6 1 (4.55%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (4.55%) CockroachDB
6 1 (4.55%) Couchbase
6 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
6 1 (4.55%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (4.55%) Power BI
6 1 (4.55%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.55%) Snyk
General
1 13 (59.09%) Finance
2 10 (45.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 10 (45.45%) Law
3 8 (36.36%) Banking
4 4 (18.18%) Front Office
4 4 (18.18%) Private Banking
5 2 (9.09%) Games
5 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
5 2 (9.09%) Tech for Good
6 1 (4.55%) Financial Institution
6 1 (4.55%) Legal
6 1 (4.55%) Marketing
6 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 9 (40.91%) Lead
3 8 (36.36%) Lead Software Engineer
3 8 (36.36%) Senior
4 6 (27.27%) Developer
4 6 (27.27%) Java Developer
5 5 (22.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 4 (18.18%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 4 (18.18%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 4 (18.18%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 4 (18.18%) Kafka Developer
6 4 (18.18%) Kafka Engineer
6 4 (18.18%) Lead Developer
6 4 (18.18%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (18.18%) Lead Java Engineer
6 4 (18.18%) Python Engineer
6 4 (18.18%) Senior Developer
6 4 (18.18%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 4 (18.18%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 4 (18.18%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (36.36%) Spring Boot
2 7 (31.82%) Kafka
3 6 (27.27%) RESTful
3 6 (27.27%) Spring
4 4 (18.18%) Django
5 3 (13.64%) CSS
5 3 (13.64%) HTML
6 2 (9.09%) React
7 1 (4.55%) .NET
7 1 (4.55%) Blazor
7 1 (4.55%) Memcached
7 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (4.55%) Middleware
7 1 (4.55%) Tailwind CSS
7 1 (4.55%) Vue
7 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 4 (18.18%) Derivative
2 4 (18.18%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (13.64%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (9.09%) Algorithms
5 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (4.55%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Linux
1 4 (18.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 11 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 11 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 9 (40.91%) Agile
2 9 (40.91%) Decision-Making
2 9 (40.91%) Operational Stability
3 8 (36.36%) Computer Science
3 8 (36.36%) Mathematics
4 7 (31.82%) Data Engineering
4 7 (31.82%) DevOps
4 7 (31.82%) Microservices
5 6 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (27.27%) SDLC
6 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (22.73%) Observability
7 4 (18.18%) Clean Code
7 4 (18.18%) Creative Thinking
7 4 (18.18%) Service-Level Objective
7 4 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (18.18%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) Python
2 10 (45.45%) Java
3 8 (36.36%) SQL
4 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.55%) C
5 1 (4.55%) C#
5 1 (4.55%) C++
5 1 (4.55%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) GDPR
1 2 (9.09%) NIST
2 1 (4.55%) GRC
2 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 6 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (36.36%) Terraform
2 6 (27.27%) Kubernetes
3 3 (13.64%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (4.55%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Oracle
2 4 (18.18%) Google
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.55%) Splunk
3 1 (4.55%) Sybase