PostgreSQL Jobs in Scotland

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring PostgreSQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PostgreSQL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 166 131
Rank change year-on-year +54 -35 +4
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 33 118 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.17% 1.75% 1.97%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.97% 6.03% 10.81%
Number of salaries quoted 21 34 53
10th Percentile £49,750 £42,875 £39,050
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,367 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.73% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £71,250 £66,875 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,250 £86,375 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% -

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 331 1,958 860
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.75% 29.07% 18.20%
Number of salaries quoted 206 492 476
10th Percentile £35,500 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,833 £42,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -11.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £92,300 £77,500 £89,852
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +1 25 £66,367 -20.59% 15
Glasgow +113 5 £74,500 +49.00% 14
Lanarkshire - 1 £48,343 -
North Lanarkshire - 1 £51,000 -
Aberdeen - 1 £71,000 - 6
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 (3.03%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (51.52%) Azure
2 14 (42.42%) AWS
3 7 (21.21%) GCP
4 4 (12.12%) GitHub
5 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (9.09%) Power Platform
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon S3
6 2 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (6.06%) AWS CodeCommit
6 2 (6.06%) Sentry
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Functions
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.03%) Serverless
7 1 (3.03%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) VPN
2 1 (3.03%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (51.52%) SQL Server
2 11 (33.33%) MongoDB
3 10 (30.30%) NoSQL
4 8 (24.24%) MySQL
5 3 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (9.09%) Relational Database
6 2 (6.06%) Data Mining
6 2 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (6.06%) Power BI
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
7 1 (3.03%) Data Mart
7 1 (3.03%) Metadata
7 1 (3.03%) Neo4j
7 1 (3.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (30.30%) Jenkins
2 9 (27.27%) GitLab
3 8 (24.24%) Git
4 4 (12.12%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (9.09%) Fiddler
5 3 (9.09%) Gradle
5 3 (9.09%) Maven
5 3 (9.09%) Postman
5 3 (9.09%) TeamCity
5 3 (9.09%) Visual Studio
6 2 (6.06%) Checkstyle
6 2 (6.06%) JUnit
6 2 (6.06%) Mockito
6 2 (6.06%) SonarQube
7 1 (3.03%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 10 (30.30%) Finance
2 9 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 8 (24.24%) Banking
4 6 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (9.09%) Law
6 2 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (6.06%) Local Government
7 1 (3.03%) Agriculture
7 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (36.36%) Senior
2 11 (33.33%) Developer
3 7 (21.21%) Lead
4 5 (15.15%) Software Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) .NET Developer
5 4 (12.12%) Database Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Senior Database Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Database Team Leader
6 3 (9.09%) Development Team Leader
6 3 (9.09%) Java Developer
6 3 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Team Leader
7 2 (6.06%) Administrator
7 2 (6.06%) Backend Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Senior Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Senior Systems Administrator
7 2 (6.06%) Systems Administrator
8 1 (3.03%) Computer Vision Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (30.30%) RESTful
2 8 (24.24%) React
3 7 (21.21%) REST
3 7 (21.21%) Web Services
4 6 (18.18%) .NET
4 6 (18.18%) Spring Boot
5 5 (15.15%) .NET Framework
5 5 (15.15%) CSS
5 5 (15.15%) HTML
5 5 (15.15%) Spring
6 4 (12.12%) .NET Core
6 4 (12.12%) ASP.NET
6 4 (12.12%) JWT
6 4 (12.12%) Kafka
6 4 (12.12%) OAuth
6 4 (12.12%) OAuth2
7 3 (9.09%) ADO.NET
7 3 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (9.09%) Hibernate
7 3 (9.09%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.06%) Algorithms
1 2 (6.06%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
1 2 (6.06%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.03%) Data Fabric
2 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.03%) Digital Signage
2 1 (3.03%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.03%) IoT
2 1 (3.03%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.03%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (3.03%) Video\Live Streaming
2 1 (3.03%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.18%) Linux
2 4 (12.12%) Windows
3 2 (6.06%) VMS
4 1 (3.03%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (48.48%) CI/CD
2 15 (45.45%) Microservices
3 14 (42.42%) Agile
4 12 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 11 (33.33%) DevOps
5 11 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 9 (27.27%) Mentoring
7 8 (24.24%) Coaching
7 8 (24.24%) Performance Tuning
7 8 (24.24%) Software Engineering
8 7 (21.21%) OOP
9 6 (18.18%) Line Management
9 6 (18.18%) Scrum
10 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (15.15%) OO
11 4 (12.12%) Customer Service
11 4 (12.12%) MVC
11 4 (12.12%) Problem Management
11 4 (12.12%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 12 (36.36%) Java
2 10 (30.30%) SQL
3 5 (15.15%) JavaScript
4 4 (12.12%) Python
5 3 (9.09%) C++
5 3 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 2 (6.06%) C#
7 1 (3.03%) Bash
7 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.03%) Rust
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) Oracle Certification
2 3 (9.09%) Degree
3 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.03%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.03%) PhD
4 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) QA
2 3 (9.09%) ISO 9001
3 1 (3.03%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (39.39%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (51.52%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.12%) Terraform
3 3 (9.09%) Grafana
3 3 (9.09%) Puppet
4 2 (6.06%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.03%) Ansible
5 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.03%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.03%) SCCM
5 1 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) Microsoft
1 7 (21.21%) Oracle
2 2 (6.06%) New Relic
3 1 (3.03%) Cisco
3 1 (3.03%) ForgeRock
3 1 (3.03%) Ping Identity
3 1 (3.03%) StreamSets