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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 186 89
Rank change year-on-year -12 -97 +49
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 58 53 200
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.49% 1.02% 2.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.67% 7.42% 16.22%
Number of salaries quoted 42 31 43
10th Percentile £45,250 £31,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £47,813 £58,125 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,934 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £84,250 £71,991
England median annual salary £69,655 £75,000 £65,233
% change year-on-year -7.13% +14.97% -6.81%

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 870 714 1,233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 7.29% 13.68% 14.77%
Number of salaries quoted 663 416 727
10th Percentile £35,554 £34,000 £34,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,966 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.58% -2.45% -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 17 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 17 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 -23 45 £65,000 -3.70% 27
Lancashire +29 11 £57,500 -6.12% 1
Merseyside -15 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 9 (15.52%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (12.07%) Apache
3 2 (3.45%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.72%) OpenEdge
Cloud Services
1 30 (51.72%) AWS
2 20 (34.48%) Azure
3 12 (20.69%) GitHub
4 11 (18.97%) GCP
5 8 (13.79%) GitHub Copilot
5 8 (13.79%) Serverless
6 7 (12.07%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (12.07%) dbt
6 7 (12.07%) Snowflake
7 5 (8.62%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (6.90%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (6.90%) Vercel
9 3 (5.17%) Azure AKS
9 3 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (3.45%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (3.45%) Cloud Functions
10 2 (3.45%) Firebase
10 2 (3.45%) LangSmith
11 1 (1.72%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (36.21%) MongoDB
2 13 (22.41%) Relational Database
3 10 (17.24%) MySQL
3 10 (17.24%) NoSQL
4 9 (15.52%) DynamoDB
4 9 (15.52%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.45%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.45%) Pinecone
6 1 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.72%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (24.14%) Git
2 9 (15.52%) Jenkins
3 7 (12.07%) GitLab
4 4 (6.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (6.90%) Bitbucket
5 3 (5.17%) JIRA
6 2 (3.45%) Claude Code
6 2 (3.45%) Eclipse
6 2 (3.45%) JUnit
6 2 (3.45%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (3.45%) Vite
7 1 (1.72%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.72%) Mocha
General
1 14 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.79%) Public Sector
3 6 (10.34%) Law
4 5 (8.62%) Finance
5 4 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.17%) Advertising
7 1 (1.72%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Billing
Job Titles
1 18 (31.03%) Senior
2 15 (25.86%) Software Engineer
3 13 (22.41%) Developer
4 8 (13.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (13.79%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (10.34%) Senior Software Engineer
6 5 (8.62%) Data Engineer
6 5 (8.62%) DBA
6 5 (8.62%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 5 (8.62%) Java Developer
6 5 (8.62%) Lead
6 5 (8.62%) Python Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) Software Developer
8 3 (5.17%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Lead Software Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 3 (5.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (24.14%) React
2 10 (17.24%) FastAPI
2 10 (17.24%) Node.js
3 9 (15.52%) Next.js
3 9 (15.52%) Spring
3 9 (15.52%) Spring Boot
4 8 (13.79%) Vue
5 7 (12.07%) AngularJS
5 7 (12.07%) Django
5 7 (12.07%) Kafka
6 6 (10.34%) REST
6 6 (10.34%) RESTful
7 5 (8.62%) CSS
7 5 (8.62%) pgvector
8 4 (6.90%) .NET
9 3 (5.17%) Celery
9 3 (5.17%) HTML
9 3 (5.17%) JSON
9 3 (5.17%) LangChain
9 3 (5.17%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 24 (41.38%) Cloud Native
2 7 (12.07%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (12.07%) Product Ownership
3 4 (6.90%) Clustering
4 3 (5.17%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.45%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.72%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.72%) Housing Association
6 1 (1.72%) Replication
6 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.97%) Linux
2 7 (12.07%) Windows
3 3 (5.17%) 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 29 (50.00%) AI
2 27 (46.55%) CI/CD
3 25 (43.10%) Agile
4 24 (41.38%) DevOps
5 21 (36.21%) Software Engineering
6 15 (25.86%) Full-Stack Development
6 15 (25.86%) Microservices
7 14 (24.14%) Mentoring
7 14 (24.14%) Observability
8 13 (22.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (22.41%) TDD
9 12 (20.69%) Data Pipeline
10 10 (17.24%) Generative AI
10 10 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (17.24%) Scrum
11 9 (15.52%) Containerisation
11 9 (15.52%) Data Engineering
11 9 (15.52%) ETL
11 9 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (13.79%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 25 (43.10%) SQL
2 21 (36.21%) Python
3 15 (25.86%) Java
4 13 (22.41%) TypeScript
5 12 (20.69%) JavaScript
6 6 (10.34%) Bash
6 6 (10.34%) C#
6 6 (10.34%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (15.52%) Degree
2 8 (13.79%) SC Cleared
2 8 (13.79%) Security Cleared
3 7 (12.07%) Master's Degree
4 3 (5.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (5.17%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.52%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.45%) QA
3 1 (1.72%) GDPR
3 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (24.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (36.21%) Kubernetes
2 11 (18.97%) Terraform
3 7 (12.07%) Ansible
3 7 (12.07%) Argo
4 3 (5.17%) Grafana
5 2 (3.45%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.72%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.72%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (13.79%) Databricks
2 5 (8.62%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.45%) OpenAI
3 2 (3.45%) Oracle
3 2 (3.45%) Pega
3 2 (3.45%) WSO2