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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 193 84 126
Rank change year-on-year -109 +42 +51
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 43 188 91
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.84% 2.43% 1.97%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.73% 17.64% 9.75%
Number of salaries quoted 21 27 82
10th Percentile £31,250 £47,500 £44,125
25th Percentile £57,500 £49,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £84,250 £75,487 £85,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £65,233 £70,000
% change year-on-year +22.64% -6.81% -6.67%

All Database and 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 639 1,066 933
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 12.47% 13.80% 20.19%
Number of salaries quoted 382 535 779
10th Percentile £33,500 £32,800 £33,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £84,985 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £64,250
% change year-on-year -7.69% +1.17% +7.08%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing PostgreSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for PostgreSQL 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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 2025. 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 -76 28 £67,500 +12.50% 14
Cheshire -16 10 £74,500 - 5
Merseyside -4 1 £65,000 +18.18% 1
Lancashire -11 1 £70,000 - 7
PostgreSQL
England

PostgreSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 6 (13.95%) Confluence
2 1 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.33%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 29 (67.44%) AWS
2 11 (25.58%) Azure
3 8 (18.60%) GitHub
4 6 (13.95%) GCP
5 4 (9.30%) SaaS
6 3 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (6.98%) Serverless
7 2 (4.65%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.65%) Supabase
7 2 (4.65%) Vercel
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (34.88%) MongoDB
1 15 (34.88%) MySQL
2 10 (23.26%) NoSQL
3 6 (13.95%) SQL Server
4 3 (6.98%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.33%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.33%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (2.33%) GIS
6 1 (2.33%) Power BI
6 1 (2.33%) Redis
6 1 (2.33%) Spatial Data
6 1 (2.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (27.91%) GitLab
2 8 (18.60%) Git
3 6 (13.95%) Cucumber
3 6 (13.95%) JIRA
3 6 (13.95%) Selenium
4 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.33%) Mocha
4 1 (2.33%) Sinon.JS
4 1 (2.33%) Subversion
4 1 (2.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (23.26%) Finance
1 10 (23.26%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.95%) Manufacturing
2 6 (13.95%) Marketing
3 4 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.65%) Electronics
5 2 (4.65%) Health Technology
5 2 (4.65%) Retail
5 2 (4.65%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (60.47%) Developer
2 13 (30.23%) Full-Stack Developer
3 9 (20.93%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
3 9 (20.93%) JavaScript Developer
3 9 (20.93%) Senior
4 8 (18.60%) Java Engineer
4 8 (18.60%) Software Engineer
5 7 (16.28%) Java Developer
5 7 (16.28%) Senior Developer
6 6 (13.95%) Java Software Engineer
7 5 (11.63%) Lead
7 5 (11.63%) Node.js Developer
8 4 (9.30%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 4 (9.30%) 2nd Line Support
8 4 (9.30%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 4 (9.30%) AWS Developer
8 4 (9.30%) Linux Engineer
8 4 (9.30%) Linux Support
8 4 (9.30%) Linux Support Engineer
8 4 (9.30%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (34.88%) Node.js
2 10 (23.26%) Kafka
3 9 (20.93%) React
4 8 (18.60%) Middleware
4 8 (18.60%) RESTful
4 8 (18.60%) Spring
4 8 (18.60%) Spring Boot
4 8 (18.60%) Svelte
5 4 (9.30%) AngularJS
6 3 (6.98%) FastAPI
6 3 (6.98%) HTML
6 3 (6.98%) Next.js
6 3 (6.98%) REST
7 2 (4.65%) CSS
7 2 (4.65%) CSS3
7 2 (4.65%) Express.js
7 2 (4.65%) Flask
7 2 (4.65%) HTML5
7 2 (4.65%) Tailwind CSS
8 1 (2.33%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Wiki
2 4 (9.30%) Product Ownership
2 4 (9.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 3 (6.98%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.65%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.65%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (2.33%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.33%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.33%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.30%) Linux
2 1 (2.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (51.16%) Full-Stack Development
2 18 (41.86%) Agile
3 16 (37.21%) User Experience
4 15 (34.88%) CI/CD
5 14 (32.56%) DevOps
5 14 (32.56%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (30.23%) Containerisation
6 13 (30.23%) Microservices
7 11 (25.58%) Software Engineering
8 10 (23.26%) Mentoring
8 10 (23.26%) TDD
9 9 (20.93%) Creative Problem-Solving
9 9 (20.93%) Secure Coding
10 8 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (16.28%) Artificial Intelligence
11 7 (16.28%) Code Quality
11 7 (16.28%) Test Automation
12 6 (13.95%) Event-Driven
12 6 (13.95%) Front End Development
12 6 (13.95%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 18 (41.86%) JavaScript
2 17 (39.53%) Java
2 17 (39.53%) TypeScript
3 14 (32.56%) Python
4 11 (25.58%) SQL
5 1 (2.33%) C#
5 1 (2.33%) C++
5 1 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.33%) Go
5 1 (2.33%) PHP
5 1 (2.33%) R
5 1 (2.33%) Ruby
5 1 (2.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 4 (9.30%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (4.65%) DV Cleared
2 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) GDPR
2 2 (4.65%) QA
System Software
1 24 (55.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (34.88%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.65%) Terraform
3 1 (2.33%) Ansible
3 1 (2.33%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (13.95%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.98%) Oracle
3 2 (4.65%) Google
3 2 (4.65%) SAP
4 1 (2.33%) ForgeRock
4 1 (2.33%) Informatica
4 1 (2.33%) Ping Identity
4 1 (2.33%) Talend