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 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 140 125
Rank change year-on-year -35 -15 +97
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 44 48 170
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.47% 1.33% 1.91%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.15% 7.50% 10.70%
Number of salaries quoted 35 40 75
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,125 £36,120
25th Percentile £63,125 £58,438 £38,066
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £68,467 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.19% +36.93% -16.67%
75th Percentile £91,875 £74,258 £67,500
90th Percentile £98,000 £89,722 £71,991
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year -6.67% +14.57% -12.71%

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 615 640 1,589
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 6.52% 17.73% 17.84%
Number of salaries quoted 459 417 1,243
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,350 £84,964
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

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 11 April 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 11 April 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 31 £75,901 +9.51% 27
Cumbria - 9 £85,000 - 1
Lancashire -11 2 £52,130 -0.70% 5
Cheshire -41 2 £48,750 - 3
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 2 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (4.55%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 34 (77.27%) AWS
2 19 (43.18%) GCP
3 17 (38.64%) Azure
4 11 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
5 9 (20.45%) Serverless
6 7 (15.91%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (11.36%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (6.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 3 (6.82%) Azure AKS
8 3 (6.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (6.82%) OpenShift
8 3 (6.82%) SaaS
9 2 (4.55%) Amazon ECR
9 2 (4.55%) dbt
9 2 (4.55%) Pulumi
10 1 (2.27%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 1 (2.27%) AWS CodeBuild
10 1 (2.27%) Cloud Run
10 1 (2.27%) PaaS
10 1 (2.27%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.91%) Internet
2 2 (4.55%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.27%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (56.82%) MongoDB
2 17 (38.64%) NoSQL
3 11 (25.00%) MySQL
4 7 (15.91%) Relational Database
5 5 (11.36%) DynamoDB
5 5 (11.36%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (11.36%) SQL Server
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (4.55%) Data Lake
6 2 (4.55%) Oracle Database
6 2 (4.55%) Redis
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 19 (43.18%) Git
2 4 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 4 (9.09%) JIRA
3 3 (6.82%) Bitbucket
3 3 (6.82%) GitLab
General
1 13 (29.55%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.36%) Public Sector
3 4 (9.09%) Advertising
4 3 (6.82%) Finance
5 1 (2.27%) Banking
5 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 14 (31.82%) Senior
2 11 (25.00%) Developer
2 11 (25.00%) Python Engineer
3 9 (20.45%) Software Engineer
4 8 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (15.91%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 7 (15.91%) Java Developer
6 6 (13.64%) Python Software Engineer
7 4 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (6.82%) Cloud Engineer
9 2 (4.55%) Data Engineer
9 2 (4.55%) DBA
9 2 (4.55%) Java Engineer
9 2 (4.55%) Java Software Engineer
9 2 (4.55%) Lead
9 2 (4.55%) Oracle DBA
9 2 (4.55%) Senior Data Engineer
10 1 (2.27%) Product Developer
10 1 (2.27%) React Developer
10 1 (2.27%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (36.36%) RESTful
2 13 (29.55%) Django
2 13 (29.55%) FastAPI
2 13 (29.55%) React
3 10 (22.73%) Vue
4 8 (18.18%) AngularJS
4 8 (18.18%) Spring
4 8 (18.18%) Spring Boot
5 7 (15.91%) Celery
6 6 (13.64%) Flask
7 5 (11.36%) Node.js
8 4 (9.09%) REST
9 3 (6.82%) CSS
9 3 (6.82%) HTML
10 2 (4.55%) .NET
10 2 (4.55%) Apache Camel
10 2 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (4.55%) Kafka
10 2 (4.55%) Web Services
11 1 (2.27%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.82%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.27%) Cybercrime
4 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 14 (31.82%) Linux
2 3 (6.82%) Unix
3 2 (4.55%) Windows
3 2 (4.55%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.55%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (4.55%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (61.36%) CI/CD
2 22 (50.00%) DevOps
3 18 (40.91%) TDD
4 17 (38.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (36.36%) Agile
6 15 (34.09%) Microservices
7 12 (27.27%) AI
7 12 (27.27%) Containerisation
7 12 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
9 10 (22.73%) Full-Stack Development
9 10 (22.73%) Observability
9 10 (22.73%) Software Engineering
10 7 (15.91%) Event-Driven
10 7 (15.91%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 6 (13.64%) Architectural Patterns
11 6 (13.64%) Asynchronous Programming
11 6 (13.64%) Clean Code
11 6 (13.64%) Computer Science
11 6 (13.64%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 27 (61.36%) Python
2 17 (38.64%) SQL
3 14 (31.82%) Java
4 13 (29.55%) Go
5 12 (27.27%) TypeScript
6 8 (18.18%) JavaScript
7 7 (15.91%) C
8 2 (4.55%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (13.64%) Degree
2 2 (4.55%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 18 (40.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (59.09%) Kubernetes
2 16 (36.36%) Ansible
3 15 (34.09%) Terraform
4 3 (6.82%) Rancher
5 2 (4.55%) Grafana
5 2 (4.55%) Progress Chef
5 2 (4.55%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.55%) Puppet
6 1 (2.27%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 3 (6.82%) Google
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.55%) Oracle
2 2 (4.55%) Pega
2 2 (4.55%) WSO2