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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 175 106
Rank change year-on-year -8 -69 +70
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 54 67 231
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.49% 1.41% 2.06%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.81% 9.22% 12.89%
Number of salaries quoted 48 45 73
10th Percentile £47,500 £38,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,650 £57,500 £38,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,626 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% +22.96% -15.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £74,258 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £94,084 £70,000
England median annual salary £69,305 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.59% +15.38% -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 793 727 1,792
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 7.24% 15.33% 15.94%
Number of salaries quoted 624 409 1,285
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £33,609
25th Percentile £40,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,043 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +7.93% -7.27%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,950 £84,964
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 22 June 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 22 June 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 -36 37 £67,500 -2.71% 16
Lancashire +30 9 £57,500 +9.52% 4
Cumbria - 6 £85,000 - 1
Cheshire -3 1 £40,000 -46.31% 1
Merseyside -20 1 £50,101 -22.92% 1
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 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (3.70%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.85%) OpenEdge
Cloud Services
1 29 (53.70%) AWS
2 21 (38.89%) Azure
3 16 (29.63%) GCP
4 9 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
4 9 (16.67%) Serverless
5 5 (9.26%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (7.41%) Azure AKS
6 4 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (7.41%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (7.41%) Vercel
7 3 (5.56%) GitHub
8 2 (3.70%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.70%) Cloud Functions
8 2 (3.70%) Firebase
8 2 (3.70%) LangSmith
8 2 (3.70%) SaaS
9 1 (1.85%) Amazon ECR
9 1 (1.85%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (1.85%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.41%) Internet
2 1 (1.85%) LTE
2 1 (1.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (53.70%) MongoDB
2 15 (27.78%) NoSQL
3 11 (20.37%) MySQL
4 9 (16.67%) Relational Database
5 8 (14.81%) SQL Server
6 3 (5.56%) DynamoDB
7 2 (3.70%) Data Lake
7 2 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (3.70%) Oracle Database
7 2 (3.70%) Pinecone
7 2 (3.70%) Redis
8 1 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.85%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (31.48%) Git
2 6 (11.11%) GitLab
2 6 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 5 (9.26%) Bitbucket
4 4 (7.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (7.41%) JIRA
5 2 (3.70%) Claude Code
5 2 (3.70%) Vite
General
1 9 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 9 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.26%) Finance
3 4 (7.41%) Advertising
4 2 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Banking
5 1 (1.85%) Billing
5 1 (1.85%) Law
Job Titles
1 18 (33.33%) Senior
2 12 (22.22%) Developer
2 12 (22.22%) Software Engineer
3 8 (14.81%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (14.81%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (12.96%) Python Engineer
5 6 (11.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 6 (11.11%) Java Developer
6 5 (9.26%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Lead
7 4 (7.41%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) DBA
8 3 (5.56%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Python Software Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (5.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Software Developer
9 2 (3.70%) Data Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) Product Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (25.93%) React
2 13 (24.07%) FastAPI
3 11 (20.37%) RESTful
4 10 (18.52%) Django
4 10 (18.52%) Vue
5 9 (16.67%) Node.js
6 8 (14.81%) Spring
6 8 (14.81%) Spring Boot
7 7 (12.96%) AngularJS
7 7 (12.96%) Kafka
7 7 (12.96%) Next.js
8 6 (11.11%) CSS
9 4 (7.41%) Celery
9 4 (7.41%) HTML
9 4 (7.41%) REST
10 3 (5.56%) .NET
10 3 (5.56%) Flask
10 3 (5.56%) LangChain
11 2 (3.70%) pgvector
11 2 (3.70%) Prisma
Miscellaneous
1 20 (37.04%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.70%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.85%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.85%) Clustering
4 1 (1.85%) Housing Association
4 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.85%) Replication
4 1 (1.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (31.48%) Linux
2 8 (14.81%) Windows
3 4 (7.41%) Unix
4 2 (3.70%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.70%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (3.70%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (59.26%) CI/CD
2 27 (50.00%) DevOps
3 22 (40.74%) Agile
4 18 (33.33%) AI
4 18 (33.33%) Microservices
5 17 (31.48%) Software Engineering
5 17 (31.48%) TDD
6 16 (29.63%) Observability
7 15 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (24.07%) Full-Stack Development
9 12 (22.22%) Containerisation
9 12 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (20.37%) Mentoring
11 10 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (18.52%) Scrum
12 8 (14.81%) Event-Driven
12 8 (14.81%) Workflow
13 7 (12.96%) Platform Engineering
14 6 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
14 6 (11.11%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 23 (42.59%) SQL
2 22 (40.74%) Python
3 16 (29.63%) Java
3 16 (29.63%) TypeScript
4 11 (20.37%) JavaScript
5 6 (11.11%) Bash
5 6 (11.11%) PowerShell
6 5 (9.26%) Go
7 4 (7.41%) C
8 3 (5.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (7.41%) SC Cleared
1 4 (7.41%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (5.56%) Degree
3 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) Data Quality
1 2 (3.70%) QA
2 1 (1.85%) GDPR
2 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (29.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 16 (29.63%) Terraform
3 12 (22.22%) Ansible
4 7 (12.96%) Argo
5 3 (5.56%) Grafana
6 2 (3.70%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.70%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.70%) Puppet
7 1 (1.85%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (1.85%) Rancher
Vendors
1 4 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.56%) Oracle
3 2 (3.70%) Google
3 2 (3.70%) OpenAI
3 2 (3.70%) Pega
3 2 (3.70%) WSO2
4 1 (1.85%) Databricks