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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 134 145
Rank change year-on-year -24 +11 +64
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 33 72 96
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.46% 1.54% 1.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.73% 10.17% 7.82%
Number of salaries quoted 25 35 63
10th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £35,224
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,875 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £69,308 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.64% +45.91% -17.39%
75th Percentile £88,750 £75,879 £69,800
90th Percentile £102,250 £88,750 £84,056
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +23.08% -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 490 708 1,227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 6.77% 15.16% 18.70%
Number of salaries quoted 364 379 1,045
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,450 £77,500
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 12 February 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 February 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 -24 20 £77,500 +11.70% 25
Cumbria - 9 £85,000 - 1
Cheshire -33 2 £48,750 -34.56% 6
Lancashire -4 1 £52,130 -11.27% 6
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 1 (3.03%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 28 (84.85%) AWS
2 12 (36.36%) Azure
2 12 (36.36%) GCP
3 8 (24.24%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (21.21%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (18.18%) Serverless
6 5 (15.15%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (9.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 3 (9.09%) Azure AKS
7 3 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (9.09%) OpenShift
8 2 (6.06%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (6.06%) dbt
8 2 (6.06%) Pulumi
8 2 (6.06%) SaaS
9 1 (3.03%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 1 (3.03%) Cloud Run
9 1 (3.03%) PaaS
9 1 (3.03%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.21%) Internet
2 2 (6.06%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (57.58%) MongoDB
2 10 (30.30%) NoSQL
3 8 (24.24%) MySQL
4 5 (15.15%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (15.15%) Relational Database
5 3 (9.09%) DynamoDB
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (6.06%) Oracle Database
6 2 (6.06%) Redis
6 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 16 (48.48%) Git
2 5 (15.15%) Jenkins
3 4 (12.12%) GitLab
4 3 (9.09%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 9 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.03%) Advertising
3 1 (3.03%) Banking
3 1 (3.03%) Electronics
3 1 (3.03%) Finance
3 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.03%) Marketing
3 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Developer
2 7 (21.21%) Senior
3 6 (18.18%) Java Developer
3 6 (18.18%) Python Engineer
3 6 (18.18%) Software Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (15.15%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 4 (12.12%) Python Software Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) DBA
7 2 (6.06%) Lead
7 2 (6.06%) Oracle DBA
7 2 (6.06%) Software Developer
8 1 (3.03%) Java Software Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) MySQL DBA
8 1 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) Python Developer
8 1 (3.03%) Site Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (30.30%) RESTful
2 8 (24.24%) Django
2 8 (24.24%) FastAPI
2 8 (24.24%) React
3 6 (18.18%) Node.js
3 6 (18.18%) Spring
3 6 (18.18%) Spring Boot
4 5 (15.15%) AngularJS
4 5 (15.15%) REST
4 5 (15.15%) Vue
5 4 (12.12%) Celery
5 4 (12.12%) Flask
6 1 (3.03%) .NET
6 1 (3.03%) Apache Camel
6 1 (3.03%) CSS
6 1 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (3.03%) HTML
6 1 (3.03%) Next.js
6 1 (3.03%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Cloud Native
2 3 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (9.09%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.03%) Cybercrime
3 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 14 (42.42%) Linux
2 3 (9.09%) Unix
3 2 (6.06%) Windows
3 2 (6.06%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (60.61%) CI/CD
2 16 (48.48%) DevOps
2 16 (48.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (36.36%) Microservices
4 11 (33.33%) TDD
5 10 (30.30%) Agile
6 9 (27.27%) Containerisation
6 9 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (24.24%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (21.21%) Collaborative Culture
8 7 (21.21%) Software Engineering
9 6 (18.18%) AI
10 5 (15.15%) Observability
10 5 (15.15%) Test Automation
11 4 (12.12%) Asynchronous Programming
11 4 (12.12%) B2B
11 4 (12.12%) B2C
11 4 (12.12%) BDD
11 4 (12.12%) Computer Science
11 4 (12.12%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 20 (60.61%) Python
2 13 (39.39%) Go
2 13 (39.39%) TypeScript
3 11 (33.33%) Java
4 10 (30.30%) SQL
5 7 (21.21%) C
5 7 (21.21%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.06%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (15.15%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (12.12%) Degree
2 4 (12.12%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 10 (30.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (57.58%) Kubernetes
2 16 (48.48%) Ansible
3 14 (42.42%) Terraform
4 3 (9.09%) Rancher
5 2 (6.06%) Progress Chef
5 2 (6.06%) Puppet
6 1 (3.03%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 3 (9.09%) Google
1 3 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (3.03%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.03%) Pega
2 1 (3.03%) SAP
2 1 (3.03%) WSO2