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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 122 139
Rank change year-on-year -39 +17 +73
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 36 73 103
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.48% 1.61% 1.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.19% 10.34% 8.19%
Number of salaries quoted 28 35 60
10th Percentile £51,237 £45,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £52,875 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £69,384 £45,032
Median % change year-on-year +11.70% +54.08% -21.68%
75th Percentile £88,750 £75,879 £65,000
90th Percentile £101,125 £88,750 £84,056
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +23.08% -10.34%

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 501 706 1,257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 6.73% 15.61% 18.87%
Number of salaries quoted 371 378 1,061
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,313 £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 £70,713 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,250 £80,000
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 19 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 19 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 -35 23 £77,500 +11.70% 20
Cumbria - 9 £85,000 - 1
Lancashire -7 2 £52,130 -11.27% 6
Cheshire -25 2 £48,750 -34.56% 7
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 (2.78%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 30 (83.33%) AWS
2 14 (38.89%) Azure
2 14 (38.89%) GCP
3 9 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (19.44%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (16.67%) Serverless
6 4 (11.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 3 (8.33%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (8.33%) Azure AKS
7 3 (8.33%) dbt
7 3 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (8.33%) OpenShift
7 3 (8.33%) Pulumi
8 2 (5.56%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 2 (5.56%) PaaS
8 2 (5.56%) SaaS
8 2 (5.56%) Sentry
9 1 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (2.78%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 7 (19.44%) Internet
2 3 (8.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.78%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (55.56%) MongoDB
2 11 (30.56%) NoSQL
3 8 (22.22%) MySQL
4 6 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (13.89%) Relational Database
6 3 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (8.33%) DynamoDB
6 3 (8.33%) Redis
7 2 (5.56%) Oracle Database
7 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
8 1 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 16 (44.44%) Git
2 5 (13.89%) Jenkins
3 4 (11.11%) GitLab
4 3 (8.33%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.78%) Advertising
3 1 (2.78%) Banking
3 1 (2.78%) Electronics
3 1 (2.78%) Finance
3 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.78%) Marketing
3 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (27.78%) Senior
2 8 (22.22%) Developer
2 8 (22.22%) Software Engineer
3 7 (19.44%) Python Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (13.89%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 5 (13.89%) Java Developer
4 5 (13.89%) Python Software Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) DBA
7 2 (5.56%) Java Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Java Software Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Lead
7 2 (5.56%) Oracle DBA
7 2 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (33.33%) RESTful
2 10 (27.78%) Django
2 10 (27.78%) FastAPI
3 9 (25.00%) React
4 6 (16.67%) Celery
4 6 (16.67%) Node.js
4 6 (16.67%) Spring
4 6 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 6 (16.67%) Vue
5 5 (13.89%) AngularJS
5 5 (13.89%) Flask
6 4 (11.11%) REST
7 1 (2.78%) .NET
7 1 (2.78%) Apache Camel
7 1 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (2.78%) HTML
7 1 (2.78%) LangChain
7 1 (2.78%) LlamaIndex
7 1 (2.78%) Next.js
7 1 (2.78%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (8.33%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.78%) Cybercrime
4 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 15 (41.67%) Linux
2 4 (11.11%) Unix
3 2 (5.56%) Windows
3 2 (5.56%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.56%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (5.56%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (61.11%) CI/CD
2 18 (50.00%) DevOps
3 17 (47.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (36.11%) TDD
5 12 (33.33%) Agile
5 12 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 12 (33.33%) Microservices
6 10 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 8 (22.22%) AI
8 8 (22.22%) Collaborative Culture
8 8 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (16.67%) Observability
10 5 (13.89%) Asynchronous Programming
10 5 (13.89%) B2B
10 5 (13.89%) B2C
10 5 (13.89%) Computer Science
10 5 (13.89%) Data Science
10 5 (13.89%) Mentoring
10 5 (13.89%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (63.89%) Python
2 13 (36.11%) Go
2 13 (36.11%) TypeScript
3 12 (33.33%) Java
4 11 (30.56%) SQL
5 7 (19.44%) C
5 7 (19.44%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (13.89%) Degree
1 5 (13.89%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 13 (36.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 16 (44.44%) Ansible
3 15 (41.67%) Terraform
4 3 (8.33%) Rancher
5 2 (5.56%) AWS Copilot
5 2 (5.56%) Progress Chef
5 2 (5.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (11.11%) Google
2 3 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (2.78%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.78%) Pega
3 1 (2.78%) SAP
3 1 (2.78%) WSO2