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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 150 123
Rank change year-on-year +2 -27 +78
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 28 60 73
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.44% 1.19% 1.62%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.79% 7.97% 8.60%
Number of salaries quoted 21 23 48
10th Percentile £57,500 £45,250 £34,625
25th Percentile £65,000 £51,250 £43,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £69,308 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +22.64% +17.97% -2.08%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,875 £70,625
90th Percentile £103,750 £88,750 £84,339
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +14.81% -10.00%

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 484 753 849
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 7.68% 14.93% 18.87%
Number of salaries quoted 367 383 706
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,021
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £68,708 £65,302 £69,538
90th Percentile £84,250 £84,150 £83,625
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.76%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 -7 19 £75,000 +8.21% 30
Cumbria - 7 £85,000 - 3
Cheshire -22 1 £57,500 -22.82% 12
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 1 (3.57%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 26 (92.86%) AWS
2 12 (42.86%) Azure
3 11 (39.29%) GCP
4 7 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (21.43%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (17.86%) Serverless
7 4 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (10.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 3 (10.71%) SaaS
9 2 (7.14%) Amazon ECR
9 2 (7.14%) Azure AKS
9 2 (7.14%) dbt
9 2 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (7.14%) OpenShift
9 2 (7.14%) Pulumi
10 1 (3.57%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 1 (3.57%) PaaS
10 1 (3.57%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 6 (21.43%) Internet
2 2 (7.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (60.71%) MongoDB
2 7 (25.00%) NoSQL
3 6 (21.43%) MySQL
4 4 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (14.29%) Relational Database
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (7.14%) DynamoDB
5 2 (7.14%) Redis
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database
6 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (46.43%) Git
2 5 (17.86%) Jenkins
3 3 (10.71%) GitLab
4 2 (7.14%) Bitbucket
General
1 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Marketing
3 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.14%) Retail
4 1 (3.57%) Electronics
4 1 (3.57%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Developer
2 5 (17.86%) Java Developer
2 5 (17.86%) Python Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Senior
2 5 (17.86%) Software Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Lead
3 4 (14.29%) Python Software Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Software Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Lead Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Lead Python Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Lead Software Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Python Developer
5 2 (7.14%) SaaS Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Mid-Level Software Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (32.14%) RESTful
2 7 (25.00%) Django
3 6 (21.43%) FastAPI
3 6 (21.43%) Node.js
3 6 (21.43%) React
4 5 (17.86%) REST
4 5 (17.86%) Spring
4 5 (17.86%) Spring Boot
5 4 (14.29%) AngularJS
5 4 (14.29%) Celery
5 4 (14.29%) Flask
5 4 (14.29%) Vue
6 1 (3.57%) .NET
6 1 (3.57%) Apache Camel
6 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (3.57%) Next.js
6 1 (3.57%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (3.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.14%) Marketing Technology
2 2 (7.14%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.57%) Cybercrime
3 1 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 11 (39.29%) Linux
2 3 (10.71%) Unix
3 1 (3.57%) Windows
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) CI/CD
2 14 (50.00%) DevOps
3 13 (46.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (35.71%) Microservices
5 9 (32.14%) Containerisation
5 9 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (32.14%) TDD
6 7 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (21.43%) Agile
7 6 (21.43%) AI
7 6 (21.43%) Collaborative Culture
7 6 (21.43%) Software Engineering
8 5 (17.86%) Clean Code
9 4 (14.29%) Asynchronous Programming
9 4 (14.29%) B2B
9 4 (14.29%) B2C
9 4 (14.29%) Computer Science
9 4 (14.29%) Data Science
9 4 (14.29%) Mentoring
9 4 (14.29%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 18 (64.29%) Python
2 11 (39.29%) Go
2 11 (39.29%) TypeScript
3 8 (28.57%) Java
4 7 (25.00%) SQL
5 6 (21.43%) C
5 6 (21.43%) JavaScript
6 2 (7.14%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (14.29%) Degree
2 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 10 (35.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 13 (46.43%) Ansible
3 11 (39.29%) Terraform
4 2 (7.14%) Rancher
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Google
1 2 (7.14%) Oracle
2 1 (3.57%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.57%) Pega
2 1 (3.57%) SAP
2 1 (3.57%) WSO2