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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 144 111
Rank change year-on-year -39 -33 +84
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 42 52 192
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.41% 1.25% 2.08%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.40% 8.05% 11.61%
Number of salaries quoted 34 39 80
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,000 £36,120
25th Percentile £62,783 £58,750 £38,066
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,401 £67,626 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +8.54% +31.95% -21.15%
75th Percentile £87,813 £74,629 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,695 £71,991
England median annual salary £69,305 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -13.33%

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 656 646 1,654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 6.40% 15.53% 17.89%
Number of salaries quoted 483 420 1,263
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.99%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,250 £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 27 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 27 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 -31 27 £74,301 +7.09% 9
Cumbria - 10 £85,000 - 1
Lancashire 0 4 £60,720 +15.66% 1
Cheshire -38 1 £40,000 -46.31% 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 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (4.76%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 31 (73.81%) AWS
2 16 (38.10%) Azure
3 15 (35.71%) GCP
4 8 (19.05%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (16.67%) Serverless
6 6 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (11.90%) Azure AKS
8 4 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (7.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 3 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (7.14%) OpenShift
10 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (4.76%) SaaS
11 1 (2.38%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 1 (2.38%) AWS CodeBuild
11 1 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (2.38%) Cloud Run
11 1 (2.38%) PaaS
11 1 (2.38%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 7 (16.67%) Internet
2 1 (2.38%) LTE
2 1 (2.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (57.14%) MongoDB
2 15 (35.71%) NoSQL
3 12 (28.57%) MySQL
4 6 (14.29%) Relational Database
4 6 (14.29%) SQL Server
5 5 (11.90%) DynamoDB
6 4 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (7.14%) Oracle Database
8 2 (4.76%) Data Lake
9 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (2.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (42.86%) Git
2 5 (11.90%) GitLab
3 4 (9.52%) JIRA
4 3 (7.14%) Bitbucket
4 3 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 4 (9.52%) Advertising
4 3 (7.14%) Finance
5 1 (2.38%) Banking
5 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 14 (33.33%) Senior
2 10 (23.81%) Developer
3 8 (19.05%) Python Engineer
4 7 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (16.67%) Software Engineer
5 6 (14.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 6 (14.29%) Java Developer
6 4 (9.52%) Python Software Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) DBA
7 3 (7.14%) Oracle DBA
7 3 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Java Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Java Software Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Lead
8 2 (4.76%) MySQL DBA
8 2 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
8 2 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (33.33%) RESTful
2 11 (26.19%) React
3 10 (23.81%) FastAPI
4 9 (21.43%) Django
5 8 (19.05%) Vue
6 7 (16.67%) AngularJS
6 7 (16.67%) Node.js
6 7 (16.67%) Spring
6 7 (16.67%) Spring Boot
7 5 (11.90%) Celery
8 4 (9.52%) CSS
8 4 (9.52%) Flask
9 3 (7.14%) HTML
9 3 (7.14%) REST
10 2 (4.76%) Apache Camel
10 2 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (4.76%) Kafka
10 2 (4.76%) Web Services
11 1 (2.38%) LangChain
11 1 (2.38%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.81%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.90%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.14%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.38%) Cybercrime
4 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 16 (38.10%) Linux
2 5 (11.90%) Windows
3 4 (9.52%) Unix
4 3 (7.14%) Windows Server
4 3 (7.14%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (61.90%) CI/CD
2 20 (47.62%) Agile
3 18 (42.86%) DevOps
4 16 (38.10%) TDD
5 15 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (35.71%) Microservices
6 10 (23.81%) Containerisation
6 10 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (21.43%) AI
7 9 (21.43%) Collaborative Culture
7 9 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (21.43%) Software Engineering
8 8 (19.05%) Observability
8 8 (19.05%) Scrum
9 7 (16.67%) Mentoring
9 7 (16.67%) Test Automation
10 6 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
10 6 (14.29%) Event-Driven
10 6 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 5 (11.90%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 23 (54.76%) Python
2 16 (38.10%) SQL
3 15 (35.71%) Java
4 13 (30.95%) Go
5 12 (28.57%) TypeScript
6 7 (16.67%) C
7 6 (14.29%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.38%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (9.52%) Degree
2 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 14 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (54.76%) Kubernetes
2 16 (38.10%) Ansible
2 16 (38.10%) Terraform
3 3 (7.14%) Progress Chef
3 3 (7.14%) Puppet
3 3 (7.14%) Rancher
4 2 (4.76%) Argo
4 2 (4.76%) Grafana
4 2 (4.76%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.38%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 3 (7.14%) Oracle
2 2 (4.76%) Google
2 2 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.76%) Pega
2 2 (4.76%) WSO2