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

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 102 123
Rank change year-on-year -29 +21 +19
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 13 46 40
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.47% 1.50% 1.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.76% 8.76% 6.83%
Number of salaries quoted 9 29 37
10th Percentile £47,800 £44,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,698 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.08% -3.85% +26.83%
75th Percentile £78,790 £68,114 £84,056
90th Percentile £95,000 £74,144 £91,934
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% +7.41% -6.90%

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 273 525 586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.88% 17.17% 23.56%
Number of salaries quoted 101 240 429
10th Percentile £25,750 £34,875 £35,653
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% -11.74% +9.52%
75th Percentile £68,750 £64,813 £72,433
90th Percentile £75,000 £74,230 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.14% +5.42% -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 9 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 9 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 -25 10 £73,801 +18.08% 9
Glasgow +9 3 - - 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 (7.69%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 11 (84.62%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) GCP
3 5 (38.46%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (38.46%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (30.77%) Amazon ECR
4 4 (30.77%) dbt
4 4 (30.77%) Pulumi
5 3 (23.08%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 3 (23.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 3 (23.08%) Amazon S3
5 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (23.08%) PaaS
5 3 (23.08%) Sentry
5 3 (23.08%) Serverless
6 2 (15.38%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (15.38%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (15.38%) OpenShift
6 2 (15.38%) Snowflake
7 1 (7.69%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (30.77%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (30.77%) Redis
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
3 1 (7.69%) KDB
3 1 (7.69%) Kdb+
3 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 1 (7.69%) MySQL
3 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) IntelliJ
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.69%) jMock
1 1 (7.69%) JUnit
General
1 4 (30.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Law
3 2 (15.38%) Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Tech for Good
4 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
4 1 (7.69%) Front Office
4 1 (7.69%) Marketing
4 1 (7.69%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Senior
2 4 (30.77%) Software Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Security Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Data Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Java Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Lead
4 2 (15.38%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Kafka Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Java Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Python Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Django
2 3 (23.08%) Kafka
2 3 (23.08%) React
2 3 (23.08%) RESTful
2 3 (23.08%) Spring Boot
3 2 (15.38%) CSS
3 2 (15.38%) HTML
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CDK
4 1 (7.69%) Java EE
4 1 (7.69%) Java SE
4 1 (7.69%) NestJS
4 1 (7.69%) Node.js
4 1 (7.69%) Quarkus
4 1 (7.69%) Spring
4 1 (7.69%) Swing
4 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
3 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.69%) Derivative
3 1 (7.69%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Linux
2 4 (30.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
1 6 (46.15%) DevOps
2 5 (38.46%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (38.46%) Software Engineering
3 4 (30.77%) Clean Code
3 4 (30.77%) Data Engineering
3 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (30.77%) Microservices
3 4 (30.77%) Migration
3 4 (30.77%) Observability
3 4 (30.77%) Service-Level Objective
3 4 (30.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) Analytics
4 3 (23.08%) Data Protection
4 3 (23.08%) Open Source
4 3 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) Prototyping
5 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
5 2 (15.38%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Python
2 5 (38.46%) Java
3 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) TypeScript
4 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.69%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) GDPR
1 2 (15.38%) NIST
2 1 (7.69%) GRC
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Terraform
2 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
3 3 (23.08%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Google
2 3 (23.08%) Oracle