PostgreSQL Job Trends in the North West

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 187 84
Rank change year-on-year -2 -103 +56
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 58 60 213
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.50% 1.16% 2.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.66% 8.29% 16.75%
Number of salaries quoted 47 38 46
10th Percentile £45,250 £36,150 £38,084
25th Percentile £48,289 £56,188 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +17.39% -11.54%
75th Percentile £77,645 £74,815 £68,438
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,900 £71,991
England median annual salary £69,310 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -7.14%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 871 724 1,272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 7.48% 13.99% 15.20%
Number of salaries quoted 668 432 757
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,800 £34,750
25th Percentile £41,071 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,250 £88,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in the North West

PostgreSQL
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing PostgreSQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in the North West over the 6 months to 3 August 2026.

Salary histogram for PostgreSQL in the North West

PostgreSQL
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the North West region over the 6 months to 3 August 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
Manchester -27 43 £67,500 - 27
Lancashire +23 13 £52,130 -14.89% 1
Merseyside -19 1 £50,101 -22.92%
Cumbria - 1 £65,000 -
PostgreSQL
England

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 6 (10.34%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (6.90%) Apache
3 2 (3.45%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.72%) OpenEdge
Cloud Services
1 30 (51.72%) AWS
2 23 (39.66%) Azure
3 13 (22.41%) GCP
4 9 (15.52%) GitHub
5 8 (13.79%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (13.79%) Serverless
6 5 (8.62%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (8.62%) dbt
6 5 (8.62%) GitHub Copilot
7 4 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (6.90%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (6.90%) Snowflake
7 4 (6.90%) Vercel
8 3 (5.17%) Azure AKS
8 3 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (3.45%) Anthropic Claude
9 2 (3.45%) Cloud Functions
9 2 (3.45%) Firebase
9 2 (3.45%) LangSmith
10 1 (1.72%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) LTE
1 1 (1.72%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (41.38%) MongoDB
2 14 (24.14%) NoSQL
3 13 (22.41%) MySQL
4 12 (20.69%) Relational Database
5 9 (15.52%) SQL Server
6 6 (10.34%) DynamoDB
7 2 (3.45%) Data Lake
7 2 (3.45%) Pinecone
7 2 (3.45%) Redis
8 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.72%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 15 (25.86%) Git
2 9 (15.52%) Jenkins
3 6 (10.34%) GitLab
4 4 (6.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (6.90%) Bitbucket
4 4 (6.90%) JIRA
5 2 (3.45%) Claude Code
5 2 (3.45%) Eclipse
5 2 (3.45%) JUnit
5 2 (3.45%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (3.45%) Vite
General
1 12 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 10 (17.24%) Public Sector
3 5 (8.62%) Finance
4 4 (6.90%) Advertising
4 4 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (6.90%) Law
5 1 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.72%) Banking
5 1 (1.72%) Billing
Job Titles
1 18 (31.03%) Senior
2 15 (25.86%) Software Engineer
3 14 (24.14%) Developer
4 9 (15.52%) Full-Stack Developer
5 8 (13.79%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (10.34%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 6 (10.34%) Java Developer
6 6 (10.34%) Python Engineer
7 5 (8.62%) Lead
7 5 (8.62%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (8.62%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) Data Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) DBA
8 4 (6.90%) Software Developer
9 3 (5.17%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Lead Software Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Python Software Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Senior DevOps
9 3 (5.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (25.86%) React
2 11 (18.97%) FastAPI
3 10 (17.24%) Node.js
3 10 (17.24%) RESTful
3 10 (17.24%) Spring
3 10 (17.24%) Spring Boot
3 10 (17.24%) Vue
4 9 (15.52%) Django
5 8 (13.79%) AngularJS
5 8 (13.79%) Next.js
6 7 (12.07%) Kafka
7 6 (10.34%) CSS
8 5 (8.62%) REST
9 4 (6.90%) .NET
9 4 (6.90%) Celery
9 4 (6.90%) HTML
9 4 (6.90%) pgvector
10 3 (5.17%) Flask
10 3 (5.17%) LangChain
11 2 (3.45%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 23 (39.66%) Cloud Native
2 7 (12.07%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.90%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.17%) Clustering
5 2 (3.45%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.45%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.72%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.72%) Housing Association
6 1 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.72%) Replication
6 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (20.69%) Linux
2 7 (12.07%) Windows
3 4 (6.90%) Unix
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (51.72%) CI/CD
2 26 (44.83%) DevOps
3 25 (43.10%) Agile
3 25 (43.10%) AI
4 21 (36.21%) Software Engineering
5 18 (31.03%) Microservices
6 17 (29.31%) TDD
7 15 (25.86%) Full-Stack Development
7 15 (25.86%) Mentoring
7 15 (25.86%) Observability
8 12 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (17.24%) Containerisation
9 10 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (17.24%) Scrum
10 9 (15.52%) Coaching
11 8 (13.79%) Data Pipeline
11 8 (13.79%) Event-Driven
11 8 (13.79%) Workflow
12 7 (12.07%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (44.83%) SQL
2 19 (32.76%) Python
3 18 (31.03%) Java
4 12 (20.69%) JavaScript
4 12 (20.69%) TypeScript
5 6 (10.34%) Bash
5 6 (10.34%) C#
5 6 (10.34%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (12.07%) Degree
1 7 (12.07%) SC Cleared
1 7 (12.07%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.90%) Master's Degree
3 3 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.45%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.34%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.45%) QA
3 1 (1.72%) GDPR
3 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (25.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (36.21%) Kubernetes
2 11 (18.97%) Terraform
3 7 (12.07%) Argo
4 6 (10.34%) Ansible
5 3 (5.17%) Grafana
6 2 (3.45%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.72%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (1.72%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.72%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (8.62%) Databricks
1 5 (8.62%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.45%) OpenAI
2 2 (3.45%) Oracle
2 2 (3.45%) Pega
2 2 (3.45%) WSO2
3 1 (1.72%) Google