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

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 175 109
Rank change year-on-year -22 -66 +80
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 47 67 222
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.43% 1.43% 2.08%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.28% 9.15% 12.94%
Number of salaries quoted 40 45 76
10th Percentile £48,793 £40,950 £36,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £58,750 £38,079
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £69,384 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +29.09% -17.31%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £65,625
90th Percentile £95,000 £94,584 £70,000
England median annual salary £69,310 £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 748 732 1,716
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 6.92% 15.57% 16.06%
Number of salaries quoted 578 399 1,252
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £32,775
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,551 £56,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +13.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,938 £72,777 £66,250
90th Percentile £84,300 £85,450 £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 8 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 8 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 -35 29 £70,000 +0.44% 21
Cumbria - 9 £85,000 -
Lancashire +27 7 £69,310 +32.02% 8
Merseyside -14 1 £50,101 -22.92% 1
Cheshire -17 1 £40,000 -46.31% 4
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 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (4.26%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.13%) OpenEdge
Cloud Services
1 30 (63.83%) AWS
2 19 (40.43%) Azure
3 15 (31.91%) GCP
4 9 (19.15%) Amazon ECS
4 9 (19.15%) Serverless
5 6 (12.77%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (10.64%) Azure AKS
7 4 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (8.51%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (6.38%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (4.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (4.26%) OpenShift
9 2 (4.26%) SaaS
10 1 (2.13%) Amazon ECR
10 1 (2.13%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 1 (2.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (2.13%) GitHub
10 1 (2.13%) PaaS
10 1 (2.13%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.89%) Internet
2 1 (2.13%) LTE
2 1 (2.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (59.57%) MongoDB
2 14 (29.79%) NoSQL
3 11 (23.40%) MySQL
4 9 (19.15%) Relational Database
5 7 (14.89%) SQL Server
6 4 (8.51%) DynamoDB
7 3 (6.38%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (4.26%) Data Lake
8 2 (4.26%) Oracle Database
9 1 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (2.13%) RDBMS
9 1 (2.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (40.43%) Git
2 5 (10.64%) GitLab
3 4 (8.51%) Bitbucket
3 4 (8.51%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.51%) JIRA
4 2 (4.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 9 (19.15%) Public Sector
2 8 (17.02%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.51%) Advertising
4 3 (6.38%) Finance
5 2 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (34.04%) Senior
2 12 (25.53%) Developer
3 8 (17.02%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (14.89%) Python Engineer
5 6 (12.77%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 6 (12.77%) Java Developer
5 6 (12.77%) Software Engineer
6 5 (10.64%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) DBA
7 3 (6.38%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Python Software Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (6.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Software Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Data Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Lead
8 2 (4.26%) Oracle DBA
8 2 (4.26%) Product Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (25.53%) RESTful
2 11 (23.40%) FastAPI
3 10 (21.28%) Django
3 10 (21.28%) Vue
4 9 (19.15%) Node.js
4 9 (19.15%) React
5 8 (17.02%) Spring
5 8 (17.02%) Spring Boot
6 7 (14.89%) AngularJS
7 5 (10.64%) CSS
8 4 (8.51%) Celery
8 4 (8.51%) HTML
8 4 (8.51%) Kafka
8 4 (8.51%) REST
9 3 (6.38%) .NET
9 3 (6.38%) Flask
10 2 (4.26%) Apache Camel
10 2 (4.26%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (4.26%) Web Services
11 1 (2.13%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 14 (29.79%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.51%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.26%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.13%) Clustering
4 1 (2.13%) Housing Association
4 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.13%) Replication
4 1 (2.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (36.17%) Linux
2 7 (14.89%) Windows
3 4 (8.51%) Unix
4 2 (4.26%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.26%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (4.26%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (4.26%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (59.57%) CI/CD
2 23 (48.94%) DevOps
3 22 (46.81%) Agile
4 17 (36.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (36.17%) Microservices
4 17 (36.17%) TDD
5 12 (25.53%) AI
6 11 (23.40%) Observability
7 10 (21.28%) Scrum
8 9 (19.15%) Containerisation
8 9 (19.15%) Full-Stack Development
8 9 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (19.15%) Software Engineering
9 8 (17.02%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (17.02%) Event-Driven
10 7 (14.89%) Collaborative Culture
10 7 (14.89%) Mentoring
10 7 (14.89%) Test Automation
11 6 (12.77%) Architectural Patterns
11 6 (12.77%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 24 (51.06%) Python
2 17 (36.17%) Java
2 17 (36.17%) SQL
3 12 (25.53%) TypeScript
4 9 (19.15%) Go
4 9 (19.15%) JavaScript
5 7 (14.89%) C
6 3 (6.38%) Bash
6 3 (6.38%) C#
6 3 (6.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (6.38%) Degree
2 2 (4.26%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.26%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.26%) Data Quality
1 2 (4.26%) QA
2 1 (2.13%) GDPR
2 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (29.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (53.19%) Kubernetes
2 18 (38.30%) Terraform
3 16 (34.04%) Ansible
4 5 (10.64%) Argo
5 3 (6.38%) Grafana
6 2 (4.26%) Progress Chef
6 2 (4.26%) Prometheus
6 2 (4.26%) Puppet
6 2 (4.26%) Rancher
7 1 (2.13%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 4 (8.51%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.38%) Oracle
3 2 (4.26%) Google
3 2 (4.26%) Pega
3 2 (4.26%) WSO2
4 1 (2.13%) Databricks