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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 148 137 154
Rank change year-on-year -11 +17 -70
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 41 47 86
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.78% 1.63% 1.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.78% 7.90% 7.41%
Number of salaries quoted 25 39 60
10th Percentile £36,750 £47,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,218 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +23.81% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £79,375 £66,563
90th Percentile £72,987 £90,387 £77,625
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% +7.69%

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 527 595 1,161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.07% 20.65% 21.72%
Number of salaries quoted 215 439 575
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,733 £31,378
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +14.58%
75th Percentile £64,875 £72,433 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,850 £82,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +8.33% -1.93% +6.40%

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 31 October 2024.

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 October 2024. 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 +16 23 £56,970 -12.35% 10
Glasgow +11 10 £55,000 -15.38% 5
Lanarkshire - 2 - - 2
Stirling - 1 £47,500 -
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 2 (4.88%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 26 (63.41%) AWS
2 12 (29.27%) Azure
3 5 (12.20%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (12.20%) GCP
4 4 (9.76%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (9.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 4 (9.76%) AWS CodeBuild
5 3 (7.32%) Amazon ECR
5 3 (7.32%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 3 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (7.32%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (7.32%) dbt
5 3 (7.32%) PaaS
5 3 (7.32%) Pulumi
5 3 (7.32%) Serverless
5 3 (7.32%) Vercel
6 2 (4.88%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.88%) OpenShift
6 2 (4.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.76%) Internet
2 3 (7.32%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.88%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (19.51%) MySQL
2 7 (17.07%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (14.63%) MongoDB
3 6 (14.63%) Relational Database
4 4 (9.76%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (9.76%) RDBMS
5 3 (7.32%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (7.32%) DB2
5 3 (7.32%) Redis
6 2 (4.88%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (4.88%) Informix
6 2 (4.88%) Power BI
6 2 (4.88%) SQL Server
6 2 (4.88%) SQLite
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.44%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.44%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 6 (14.63%) Git
2 3 (7.32%) Maven
3 2 (4.88%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.88%) Mocha
4 1 (2.44%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.44%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.44%) Postman
General
1 8 (19.51%) Social Skills
2 6 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (14.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (12.20%) Finance
4 3 (7.32%) Banking
5 1 (2.44%) Advertising
5 1 (2.44%) Legal
Job Titles
1 20 (48.78%) Senior
2 19 (46.34%) Developer
3 15 (36.59%) Software Engineer
4 10 (24.39%) Senior Developer
5 7 (17.07%) Senior Software Engineer
6 6 (14.63%) Java Developer
7 4 (9.76%) C++ Software Engineer
7 4 (9.76%) Lead
8 3 (7.32%) PHP Developer
8 3 (7.32%) Python Developer
8 3 (7.32%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (7.32%) Senior PHP Developer
9 2 (4.88%) Backend Developer
9 2 (4.88%) Lead Developer
9 2 (4.88%) Platform Engineer
9 2 (4.88%) Ruby on Rails Developer
9 2 (4.88%) Senior Backend Developer
9 2 (4.88%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
9 2 (4.88%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 2 (4.88%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (26.83%) React
2 8 (19.51%) CSS
2 8 (19.51%) HTML
3 7 (17.07%) RESTful
4 6 (14.63%) Spring
5 5 (12.20%) AngularJS
5 5 (12.20%) Django
5 5 (12.20%) OAuth
5 5 (12.20%) Spring Boot
6 4 (9.76%) Next.js
7 3 (7.32%) .NET
7 3 (7.32%) Jest
7 3 (7.32%) Node.js
7 3 (7.32%) OAuth2
7 3 (7.32%) SAML
7 3 (7.32%) Symfony
7 3 (7.32%) Twig
8 2 (4.88%) Qt
8 2 (4.88%) Ruby on Rails
8 2 (4.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.76%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (7.32%) Online Banking
3 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.88%) NHS
4 1 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.44%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.44%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (29.27%) Linux
2 6 (14.63%) Unix
3 4 (9.76%) Android
4 1 (2.44%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (51.22%) Software Engineering
2 17 (41.46%) Agile
3 15 (36.59%) DevOps
4 10 (24.39%) CI/CD
5 9 (21.95%) Test Automation
6 8 (19.51%) Microservices
6 8 (19.51%) Scrum
7 7 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (14.63%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (14.63%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (14.63%) Sprint Planning
9 5 (12.20%) Code Quality
9 5 (12.20%) Open Source
10 4 (9.76%) Computer Science
10 4 (9.76%) Mentoring
10 4 (9.76%) Project Planning
10 4 (9.76%) Roadmaps
11 3 (7.32%) Business Intelligence
11 3 (7.32%) Continuous Improvement
11 3 (7.32%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 14 (34.15%) JavaScript
2 12 (29.27%) Java
3 8 (19.51%) C++
3 8 (19.51%) Python
4 7 (17.07%) C
5 5 (12.20%) TypeScript
6 4 (9.76%) SQL
7 3 (7.32%) C#
7 3 (7.32%) Kotlin
7 3 (7.32%) PHP
7 3 (7.32%) Shell Script
8 2 (4.88%) R
8 2 (4.88%) Ruby
9 1 (2.44%) Scala
9 1 (2.44%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (14.63%) Degree
2 3 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (7.32%) SC Cleared
2 3 (7.32%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.44%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.63%) QA
2 2 (4.88%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.44%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (39.02%) Docker
2 1 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (14.63%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.76%) Terraform
3 2 (4.88%) Ansible
4 1 (2.44%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (21.95%) Oracle
2 5 (12.20%) Google
3 1 (2.44%) Commvault
3 1 (2.44%) Informatica
3 1 (2.44%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.44%) Red Hat