PostgreSQL Job Trends in the North of England

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 189 144
Rank change year-on-year -32 -45 +74
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 106 77 283
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.58% 1.04% 1.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.20% 6.63% 9.80%
Number of salaries quoted 82 57 152
10th Percentile £33,000 £45,750 £36,120
25th Percentile £48,289 £57,500 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,626 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% +22.96% -
75th Percentile £75,934 £74,258 £71,991
90th Percentile £88,625 £88,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -13.33%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,472 1,162 2,889
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 7.99% 15.65% 17.17%
Number of salaries quoted 918 803 2,284
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £56,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% +13.00% -6.10%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £65,603
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -11.54%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PostgreSQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in the North of England

PostgreSQL
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing PostgreSQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for PostgreSQL in the North of England

PostgreSQL
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the North of England region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
North West -25 45 £70,905 +2.19% 21
Yorkshire -26 45 £52,130 -12.93% 11
North East -35 16 £55,000 -20.73% 13
PostgreSQL
England

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 9 (8.49%) OpenStack
2 8 (7.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (7.55%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.94%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 78 (73.58%) AWS
2 50 (47.17%) Azure
3 26 (24.53%) Serverless
4 24 (22.64%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (18.87%) Amazon ECS
6 16 (15.09%) Amazon S3
6 16 (15.09%) Amazon SQS
6 16 (15.09%) Azure AKS
6 16 (15.09%) GCP
7 15 (14.15%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (13.21%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (13.21%) Azure Service Bus
9 13 (12.26%) GitHub
10 12 (11.32%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (10.38%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (9.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (9.43%) Amazon EventBridge
12 10 (9.43%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (9.43%) AWS Step Functions
13 9 (8.49%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.38%) DHCP
1 11 (10.38%) DNS
2 7 (6.60%) Internet
3 5 (4.72%) Firewall
3 5 (4.72%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.83%) Network Security
4 3 (2.83%) VLAN
4 3 (2.83%) VPN
4 3 (2.83%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.94%) HTTP
5 1 (0.94%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (40.57%) MongoDB
2 33 (31.13%) NoSQL
3 26 (24.53%) SQL Server
4 24 (22.64%) MySQL
5 18 (16.98%) Relational Database
6 15 (14.15%) DynamoDB
7 9 (8.49%) Power BI
8 5 (4.72%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (4.72%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (2.83%) GIS
9 3 (2.83%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.89%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.89%) Redis
11 1 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.94%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.94%) Metadata
11 1 (0.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 42 (39.62%) Git
2 16 (15.09%) GitLab
3 11 (10.38%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.77%) JIRA
5 3 (2.83%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.94%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.94%) JUnit
6 1 (0.94%) Maven
6 1 (0.94%) PHPUnit
General
1 27 (25.47%) Public Sector
2 25 (23.58%) Social Skills
3 12 (11.32%) Advertising
4 8 (7.55%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (5.66%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.77%) Finance
7 3 (2.83%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.83%) Retail
8 2 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.94%) Banking
9 1 (0.94%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.94%) Legal
9 1 (0.94%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 36 (33.96%) Developer
2 35 (33.02%) Senior
3 16 (15.09%) Software Engineer
4 15 (14.15%) Full-Stack Developer
4 15 (14.15%) Java Developer
5 13 (12.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (12.26%) Senior DevOps
5 13 (12.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 11 (10.38%) .NET Developer
6 11 (10.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 11 (10.38%) IT Support
6 11 (10.38%) IT Support Technician
6 11 (10.38%) IT Technician
6 11 (10.38%) Support Technician
7 9 (8.49%) Python Engineer
8 8 (7.55%) Java Engineer
8 8 (7.55%) Java Software Engineer
9 4 (3.77%) Senior Developer
9 4 (3.77%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (2.83%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (29.25%) Node.js
1 31 (29.25%) React
2 30 (28.30%) RESTful
3 16 (15.09%) REST
3 16 (15.09%) Spring
3 16 (15.09%) Spring Boot
4 15 (14.15%) .NET
5 13 (12.26%) .NET Core
6 11 (10.38%) CSS
7 10 (9.43%) ASP.NET
7 10 (9.43%) ASP.NET Core
7 10 (9.43%) AWS CDK
7 10 (9.43%) Blazor
7 10 (9.43%) Django
7 10 (9.43%) FastAPI
8 9 (8.49%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (8.49%) Kafka
9 8 (7.55%) AngularJS
9 8 (7.55%) HTML
9 8 (7.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 28 (26.42%) Cloud Native
2 13 (12.26%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.77%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (2.83%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.83%) Driving Licence
4 3 (2.83%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.94%) Cybercrime
6 1 (0.94%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.94%) IoT
6 1 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.94%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.94%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 32 (30.19%) Linux
2 20 (18.87%) Windows
3 16 (15.09%) Unix
4 7 (6.60%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.83%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (2.83%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (2.83%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (59.43%) CI/CD
2 56 (52.83%) Agile
3 51 (48.11%) Microservices
4 49 (46.23%) DevOps
5 31 (29.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 31 (29.25%) TDD
6 30 (28.30%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (26.42%) Test Automation
8 27 (25.47%) Mentoring
9 26 (24.53%) Containerisation
9 26 (24.53%) Scrum
10 25 (23.58%) Full-Stack Development
11 23 (21.70%) Coaching
12 21 (19.81%) Software Engineering
13 15 (14.15%) Continuous Integration
14 14 (13.21%) Deployment Automation
15 13 (12.26%) AI
16 12 (11.32%) BDD
16 12 (11.32%) Continuous Improvement
16 12 (11.32%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 44 (41.51%) Java
2 35 (33.02%) SQL
3 30 (28.30%) Python
4 18 (16.98%) JavaScript
5 17 (16.04%) TypeScript
6 13 (12.26%) Go
7 7 (6.60%) C
8 3 (2.83%) PHP
8 3 (2.83%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.89%) C#
10 1 (0.94%) Bash
10 1 (0.94%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 9 (8.49%) AWS Certification
2 8 (7.55%) AWS Certified Developer
3 4 (3.77%) Degree
4 3 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.83%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.83%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.83%) Data Quality
1 3 (2.83%) GDPR
1 3 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.94%) QA
System Software
1 42 (39.62%) Docker
2 11 (10.38%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.83%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 40 (37.74%) Terraform
2 36 (33.96%) Kubernetes
3 18 (16.98%) Ansible
4 13 (12.26%) Argo
5 4 (3.77%) Grafana
6 3 (2.83%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.83%) Puppet
6 3 (2.83%) Rancher
7 2 (1.89%) AWS Copilot
7 2 (1.89%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (7.55%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.77%) Oracle
3 3 (2.83%) Google
3 3 (2.83%) VMware
4 2 (1.89%) Pega
4 2 (1.89%) WSO2
5 1 (0.94%) Databricks