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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 195 98
Rank change year-on-year -14 -97 +22
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 54 40 152
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.42% 0.77% 2.09%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.77% 6.38% 15.85%
Number of salaries quoted 39 21 22
10th Percentile £43,250 £31,250 £47,575
25th Percentile £47,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £74,987 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £84,250 £78,625
England median annual salary £72,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +14.29% -

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 798 627 959
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 6.21% 12.15% 13.19%
Number of salaries quoted 576 380 448
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,875 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -40 40 £62,500 -10.71% 54
Lancashire +24 12 £53,750 -23.21%
Merseyside -15 1 £50,101 -22.92% 2
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 8 (14.81%) Apache
2 7 (12.96%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.85%) Apache Superset
3 1 (1.85%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.85%) OpenEdge
Cloud Services
1 26 (48.15%) AWS
2 17 (31.48%) Azure
3 14 (25.93%) GitHub
4 8 (14.81%) dbt
4 8 (14.81%) GitHub Copilot
5 7 (12.96%) Snowflake
6 6 (11.11%) GCP
7 5 (9.26%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (7.41%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (7.41%) Serverless
8 4 (7.41%) Vercel
9 3 (5.56%) Azure AKS
9 3 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (3.70%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (3.70%) Cloud Functions
10 2 (3.70%) Firebase
10 2 (3.70%) LangSmith
11 1 (1.85%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 10 (18.52%) Relational Database
3 8 (14.81%) MySQL
4 7 (12.96%) DynamoDB
5 6 (11.11%) SQL Server
6 4 (7.41%) Chroma
6 4 (7.41%) NoSQL
6 4 (7.41%) Pinecone
7 2 (3.70%) Redis
8 1 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.85%) Metabase
8 1 (1.85%) OLAP
8 1 (1.85%) OLAP Cube
8 1 (1.85%) OLTP
8 1 (1.85%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.85%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.85%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (1.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (22.22%) Git
2 11 (20.37%) Jenkins
3 9 (16.67%) GitLab
4 4 (7.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (7.41%) Bitbucket
5 3 (5.56%) Eclipse
5 3 (5.56%) JUnit
5 3 (5.56%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (3.70%) Claude Code
6 2 (3.70%) Vite
7 1 (1.85%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.85%) Mocha
General
1 12 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.11%) Law
3 5 (9.26%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.56%) Finance
6 2 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.85%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.85%) Billing
7 1 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 16 (29.63%) Software Engineer
2 15 (27.78%) Senior
3 10 (18.52%) Developer
4 8 (14.81%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (12.96%) DBA
5 7 (12.96%) Senior Software Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Lead
6 5 (9.26%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 5 (9.26%) Software Developer
7 4 (7.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Data Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (5.56%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Lead Software Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Product Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (5.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (24.07%) React
2 11 (20.37%) Terraform
3 9 (16.67%) Next.js
3 9 (16.67%) Node.js
4 8 (14.81%) FastAPI
4 8 (14.81%) pgvector
5 6 (11.11%) Kafka
6 5 (9.26%) Spring
6 5 (9.26%) Spring Boot
7 4 (7.41%) CrewAI
7 4 (7.41%) Django
7 4 (7.41%) LangChain
7 4 (7.41%) LangGraph
7 4 (7.41%) PostGIS
7 4 (7.41%) REST
7 4 (7.41%) Vue
8 3 (5.56%) .NET
8 3 (5.56%) CSS
8 3 (5.56%) Hibernate
8 3 (5.56%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 20 (37.04%) Cloud Native
2 7 (12.96%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.41%) Clustering
3 4 (7.41%) Data Structures
3 4 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.56%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.70%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.85%) Housing Association
6 1 (1.85%) Replication
6 1 (1.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (20.37%) Linux
2 7 (12.96%) Windows
3 3 (5.56%) Unix
4 1 (1.85%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (53.70%) AI
2 23 (42.59%) Software Engineering
3 21 (38.89%) CI/CD
4 20 (37.04%) Agile
4 20 (37.04%) DevOps
5 17 (31.48%) Mentoring
6 13 (24.07%) Microservices
7 12 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (22.22%) Generative AI
8 11 (20.37%) Full-Stack Development
8 11 (20.37%) Observability
9 10 (18.52%) Data Pipeline
10 9 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (14.81%) Coaching
11 8 (14.81%) Containerisation
11 8 (14.81%) Data Engineering
11 8 (14.81%) ETL
11 8 (14.81%) Machine Learning
12 7 (12.96%) Code Quality
12 7 (12.96%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 21 (38.89%) SQL
2 19 (35.19%) Python
3 16 (29.63%) TypeScript
4 12 (22.22%) Java
5 8 (14.81%) JavaScript
6 6 (11.11%) Bash
6 6 (11.11%) C#
6 6 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (14.81%) Degree
1 8 (14.81%) SC Cleared
1 8 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.96%) Master's Degree
3 3 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (5.56%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.81%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.56%) QA
3 1 (1.85%) GDPR
3 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 7 (12.96%) Argo
3 5 (9.26%) Ansible
4 1 (1.85%) Grafana
4 1 (1.85%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (14.81%) Databricks
2 4 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.41%) Mistral
2 4 (7.41%) OpenAI
3 2 (3.70%) Oracle
4 1 (1.85%) Trend Micro