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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 116 119
Rank change year-on-year -26 +3 +106
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 41 118 84
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.81% 1.70% 2.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.65% 12.94% 10.57%
Number of salaries quoted 26 19 62
10th Percentile £31,250 £47,600 £44,375
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -3.85% -1.89%
75th Percentile £88,125 £74,144 £73,625
90th Percentile £103,750 £79,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%

All Database and 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 536 912 795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 10.54% 13.15% 20.42%
Number of salaries quoted 411 437 653
10th Percentile £33,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,000 £84,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.84% -0.80%

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025. 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 -23 33 £70,000 +16.67% 54
Cheshire -4 3 £57,500 -22.82% 15
Lancashire +19 1 £70,000 +7.69% 17
Merseyside - 1 £65,000 - 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 6 (14.63%) Confluence
2 1 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.44%) IIS
2 1 (2.44%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 33 (80.49%) AWS
2 15 (36.59%) Azure
3 12 (29.27%) GCP
4 8 (19.51%) GitHub
5 7 (17.07%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (17.07%) Serverless
6 5 (12.20%) SaaS
7 4 (9.76%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (7.32%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 3 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (4.88%) Amazon ECR
9 2 (4.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (4.88%) dbt
9 2 (4.88%) Pulumi
9 2 (4.88%) Supabase
9 2 (4.88%) Vercel
10 1 (2.44%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 1 (2.44%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (2.44%) Power Platform
10 1 (2.44%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (46.34%) MongoDB
2 12 (29.27%) NoSQL
3 7 (17.07%) MySQL
4 6 (14.63%) Relational Database
5 3 (7.32%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (7.32%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (7.32%) Redis
6 2 (4.88%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (2.44%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.44%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (2.44%) GIS
7 1 (2.44%) Power BI
7 1 (2.44%) Spatial Data
7 1 (2.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (21.95%) GitLab
2 7 (17.07%) Git
3 6 (14.63%) Cucumber
3 6 (14.63%) JIRA
3 6 (14.63%) Selenium
4 4 (9.76%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.44%) Mocha
5 1 (2.44%) Sinon.JS
General
1 14 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 10 (24.39%) Finance
3 7 (17.07%) Manufacturing
3 7 (17.07%) Marketing
4 5 (12.20%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.32%) Electronics
5 3 (7.32%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.88%) Health Technology
6 2 (4.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (41.46%) Developer
2 10 (24.39%) Software Engineer
3 9 (21.95%) Senior
4 8 (19.51%) Full-Stack Developer
4 8 (19.51%) Java Engineer
5 7 (17.07%) Lead
5 7 (17.07%) Python Engineer
6 6 (14.63%) Java Software Engineer
6 6 (14.63%) Python Software Engineer
7 5 (12.20%) Java Developer
8 4 (9.76%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 4 (9.76%) 2nd Line Support
8 4 (9.76%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 4 (9.76%) Linux Engineer
8 4 (9.76%) Linux Support
8 4 (9.76%) Linux Support Engineer
8 4 (9.76%) Support Engineer
9 3 (7.32%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 3 (7.32%) Lead Developer
9 3 (7.32%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (29.27%) Node.js
1 12 (29.27%) Spring
1 12 (29.27%) Spring Boot
2 10 (24.39%) RESTful
3 8 (19.51%) FastAPI
3 8 (19.51%) React
4 7 (17.07%) Django
5 6 (14.63%) Kafka
5 6 (14.63%) REST
6 4 (9.76%) Celery
6 4 (9.76%) Flask
6 4 (9.76%) Next.js
6 4 (9.76%) Vue
7 3 (7.32%) AngularJS
7 3 (7.32%) Tailwind CSS
8 2 (4.88%) .NET
8 2 (4.88%) CSS3
8 2 (4.88%) Express.js
8 2 (4.88%) HTML
8 2 (4.88%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Wiki
2 5 (12.20%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.88%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (2.44%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.44%) Cybercrime
5 1 (2.44%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.44%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.44%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.63%) Linux
2 2 (4.88%) Unix
3 1 (2.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (58.54%) DevOps
2 21 (51.22%) CI/CD
3 16 (39.02%) Containerisation
3 16 (39.02%) TDD
4 15 (36.59%) Microservices
5 14 (34.15%) Agile
5 14 (34.15%) Full-Stack Development
5 14 (34.15%) Software Engineering
6 11 (26.83%) AI
6 11 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (17.07%) Code Quality
7 7 (17.07%) Event-Driven
7 7 (17.07%) Mentoring
7 7 (17.07%) Roadmaps
8 6 (14.63%) API Development
8 6 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (14.63%) Test Automation
8 6 (14.63%) User Experience
9 5 (12.20%) Data Privacy
9 5 (12.20%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 16 (39.02%) Python
2 15 (36.59%) Java
3 12 (29.27%) JavaScript
4 11 (26.83%) SQL
5 10 (24.39%) TypeScript
6 3 (7.32%) C#
6 3 (7.32%) Go
7 1 (2.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.44%) PHP
7 1 (2.44%) R
7 1 (2.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (19.51%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.20%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (9.76%) Degree
4 3 (7.32%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) GDPR
2 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 23 (56.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (41.46%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.76%) Terraform
3 3 (7.32%) Ansible
4 1 (2.44%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 5 (12.20%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.76%) Google
3 3 (7.32%) Oracle
3 3 (7.32%) SAP
4 1 (2.44%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.44%) Informatica
4 1 (2.44%) Pega
4 1 (2.44%) Talend
4 1 (2.44%) WSO2