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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 185 99 130
Rank change year-on-year -86 +31 +72
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 39 146 83
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.81% 2.05% 1.96%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.20% 15.73% 9.63%
Number of salaries quoted 21 22 73
10th Percentile £31,250 £47,575 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £61,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -5.77% -1.89%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,144 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,250 £78,625 £84,811
England median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% - -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 629 928 862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.11% 13.04% 20.38%
Number of salaries quoted 383 434 728
10th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -

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 17 October 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 17 October 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 -58 29 £70,000 +16.67% 18
Cheshire -29 5 £74,500 - 10
Merseyside 0 1 £65,000 +18.18%
Lancashire -10 1 £70,000 +7.69% 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 6 (15.38%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.56%) IIS
2 1 (2.56%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 29 (74.36%) AWS
2 14 (35.90%) Azure
3 8 (20.51%) GCP
3 8 (20.51%) GitHub
4 5 (12.82%) Serverless
5 4 (10.26%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (10.26%) SaaS
6 3 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (5.13%) Amazon S3
7 2 (5.13%) Supabase
7 2 (5.13%) Vercel
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon ECR
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.56%) PaaS
8 1 (2.56%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (43.59%) MongoDB
2 11 (28.21%) NoSQL
3 10 (25.64%) MySQL
4 5 (12.82%) Relational Database
5 3 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (5.13%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (5.13%) Redis
6 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.56%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.56%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (2.56%) GIS
7 1 (2.56%) Power BI
7 1 (2.56%) Spatial Data
7 1 (2.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (28.21%) GitLab
2 8 (20.51%) Git
3 6 (15.38%) Cucumber
3 6 (15.38%) JIRA
3 6 (15.38%) Selenium
4 4 (10.26%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.56%) Mocha
5 1 (2.56%) Sinon.JS
5 1 (2.56%) Subversion
5 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (28.21%) Finance
1 11 (28.21%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Manufacturing
2 7 (17.95%) Marketing
3 5 (12.82%) Public Sector
4 4 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.69%) Electronics
5 3 (7.69%) Telecoms
6 2 (5.13%) Health Technology
6 2 (5.13%) Retail
7 1 (2.56%) Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (51.28%) Developer
2 10 (25.64%) Full-Stack Developer
3 9 (23.08%) Software Engineer
4 8 (20.51%) Java Engineer
5 6 (15.38%) Java Software Engineer
5 6 (15.38%) Senior
6 5 (12.82%) Java Developer
6 5 (12.82%) Lead
7 4 (10.26%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) 2nd Line Support
7 4 (10.26%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
7 4 (10.26%) JavaScript Developer
7 4 (10.26%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) Linux Support
7 4 (10.26%) Linux Support Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) Python Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) Python Software Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) Software Developer
7 4 (10.26%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (33.33%) Node.js
2 11 (28.21%) Spring
2 11 (28.21%) Spring Boot
3 9 (23.08%) RESTful
4 6 (15.38%) Kafka
4 6 (15.38%) React
5 5 (12.82%) FastAPI
5 5 (12.82%) REST
6 3 (7.69%) Django
6 3 (7.69%) Flask
6 3 (7.69%) HTML
6 3 (7.69%) Middleware
6 3 (7.69%) Next.js
6 3 (7.69%) Svelte
7 2 (5.13%) AngularJS
7 2 (5.13%) Celery
7 2 (5.13%) CSS
7 2 (5.13%) Express.js
7 2 (5.13%) Tailwind CSS
7 2 (5.13%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Wiki
2 4 (10.26%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.13%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.13%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.56%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.56%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.82%) Linux
2 1 (2.56%) Unix
2 1 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (46.15%) DevOps
2 17 (43.59%) CI/CD
3 16 (41.03%) Agile
3 16 (41.03%) Full-Stack Development
4 15 (38.46%) Containerisation
4 15 (38.46%) Microservices
5 13 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 13 (33.33%) TDD
6 11 (28.21%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (20.51%) User Experience
8 7 (17.95%) AI
8 7 (17.95%) Code Quality
8 7 (17.95%) Test Automation
9 6 (15.38%) API Development
9 6 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (15.38%) Event-Driven
9 6 (15.38%) Mentoring
9 6 (15.38%) Roadmaps
10 5 (12.82%) Prototyping
10 5 (12.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (41.03%) Java
2 13 (33.33%) Python
3 12 (30.77%) JavaScript
3 12 (30.77%) SQL
4 9 (23.08%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.13%) C#
6 1 (2.56%) C++
6 1 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.56%) Go
6 1 (2.56%) PHP
6 1 (2.56%) R
6 1 (2.56%) Ruby
6 1 (2.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (17.95%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.26%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.69%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) GDPR
2 2 (5.13%) QA
System Software
1 21 (53.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.26%) Terraform
3 3 (7.69%) Ansible
4 1 (2.56%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (2.56%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.26%) Oracle
3 3 (7.69%) Google
3 3 (7.69%) SAP
4 1 (2.56%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.56%) ForgeRock
4 1 (2.56%) Informatica
4 1 (2.56%) Pega
4 1 (2.56%) Ping Identity
4 1 (2.56%) Talend
4 1 (2.56%) WSO2