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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 176 92
Rank change year-on-year -19 -84 +64
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 50 64 233
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.44% 1.25% 2.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.96% 8.77% 14.89%
Number of salaries quoted 45 42 61
10th Percentile £44,750 £38,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,289 £56,188 £39,586
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +22.73% -15.38%
75th Percentile £79,040 £74,815 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £84,200 £71,991
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 839 730 1,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 7.37% 14.22% 16.02%
Number of salaries quoted 658 432 1,043
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,125 £41,250 £42,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,021 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +4.80% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £84,964
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -26 36 £67,500 - 19
Lancashire +23 11 £57,500 +9.52% 3
Cheshire -5 1 £40,000 -46.31%
Merseyside -15 1 £50,101 -22.92%
Cumbria - 1 £65,000 -
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 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (4.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.00%) OpenEdge
Cloud Services
1 25 (50.00%) AWS
2 22 (44.00%) Azure
3 14 (28.00%) GCP
4 8 (16.00%) Amazon ECS
4 8 (16.00%) Serverless
5 4 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (8.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (8.00%) GitHub
5 4 (8.00%) Vercel
6 3 (6.00%) Azure AKS
7 2 (4.00%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (4.00%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (4.00%) Firebase
7 2 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.00%) LangSmith
7 2 (4.00%) SaaS
8 1 (2.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 1 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) LTE
1 1 (2.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (48.00%) MongoDB
2 14 (28.00%) NoSQL
3 11 (22.00%) MySQL
3 11 (22.00%) Relational Database
4 8 (16.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.00%) Data Lake
5 2 (4.00%) DynamoDB
5 2 (4.00%) Pinecone
5 2 (4.00%) Redis
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.00%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (24.00%) Git
2 6 (12.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (10.00%) GitLab
4 4 (8.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (8.00%) Bitbucket
4 4 (8.00%) JIRA
5 2 (4.00%) Claude Code
5 2 (4.00%) Vite
General
1 10 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 8 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.00%) Finance
4 4 (8.00%) Advertising
5 2 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.00%) Law
6 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.00%) Banking
6 1 (2.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 17 (34.00%) Senior
2 13 (26.00%) Developer
2 13 (26.00%) Software Engineer
3 9 (18.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 8 (16.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (12.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 6 (12.00%) Java Developer
5 6 (12.00%) Python Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Lead
6 5 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Lead Software Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Python Software Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (6.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Software Developer
9 2 (4.00%) DBA
9 2 (4.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (4.00%) Product Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (30.00%) React
2 12 (24.00%) FastAPI
3 10 (20.00%) Node.js
3 10 (20.00%) RESTful
3 10 (20.00%) Vue
4 9 (18.00%) Django
5 8 (16.00%) Next.js
5 8 (16.00%) Spring
5 8 (16.00%) Spring Boot
6 7 (14.00%) AngularJS
6 7 (14.00%) Kafka
7 6 (12.00%) CSS
8 4 (8.00%) Celery
8 4 (8.00%) HTML
8 4 (8.00%) REST
9 3 (6.00%) .NET
9 3 (6.00%) Flask
9 3 (6.00%) LangChain
10 2 (4.00%) Langfuse
10 2 (4.00%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 19 (38.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (14.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.00%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.00%) Clustering
4 1 (2.00%) Housing Association
4 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.00%) Replication
4 1 (2.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (24.00%) Linux
2 7 (14.00%) Windows
3 4 (8.00%) Unix
4 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 25 (50.00%) DevOps
3 20 (40.00%) Agile
4 19 (38.00%) AI
5 18 (36.00%) Microservices
5 18 (36.00%) Software Engineering
6 17 (34.00%) TDD
7 15 (30.00%) Observability
8 14 (28.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 12 (24.00%) Mentoring
10 11 (22.00%) Containerisation
10 11 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (20.00%) Scrum
12 9 (18.00%) Infrastructure as Code
13 8 (16.00%) Event-Driven
13 8 (16.00%) Workflow
14 7 (14.00%) Coaching
14 7 (14.00%) Platform Engineering
15 6 (12.00%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 22 (44.00%) SQL
2 16 (32.00%) Java
2 16 (32.00%) Python
3 13 (26.00%) TypeScript
4 12 (24.00%) JavaScript
5 6 (12.00%) Bash
5 6 (12.00%) PowerShell
6 3 (6.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (6.00%) Degree
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (4.00%) QA
2 1 (2.00%) GDPR
2 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (42.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (22.00%) Terraform
3 7 (14.00%) Argo
4 6 (12.00%) Ansible
5 3 (6.00%) Grafana
6 2 (4.00%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.00%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (2.00%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.00%) Google
2 2 (4.00%) OpenAI
2 2 (4.00%) Oracle
2 2 (4.00%) Pega
2 2 (4.00%) WSO2
3 1 (2.00%) Databricks