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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 135 109
Rank change year-on-year -10 -26 +107
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 33 100 79
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.66% 1.49% 2.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.46% 10.79% 10.37%
Number of salaries quoted 24 21 57
10th Percentile £38,600 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £84,375 £74,144 £75,000
90th Percentile £102,625 £78,750 £88,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%

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 511 927 762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 10.28% 13.80% 20.34%
Number of salaries quoted 399 465 631
10th Percentile £34,150 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,314 £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 £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,500 £84,056
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,450
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.08% -0.08%

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 29 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 29 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 -11 26 £70,000 +16.67% 14
Cheshire -6 2 £57,500 -22.82% 10
Lancashire +17 1 £70,000 +7.69% 10
Merseyside +1 1 £65,000 +109.68% 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 1 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.03%) IIS
1 1 (3.03%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 25 (75.76%) AWS
2 16 (48.48%) Azure
3 13 (39.39%) GCP
4 8 (24.24%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (18.18%) Serverless
6 5 (15.15%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (15.15%) SaaS
7 3 (9.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 3 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (6.06%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (6.06%) dbt
8 2 (6.06%) GitHub
8 2 (6.06%) Pulumi
8 2 (6.06%) Supabase
8 2 (6.06%) Vercel
9 1 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
9 1 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
9 1 (3.03%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (36.36%) MongoDB
2 7 (21.21%) MySQL
2 7 (21.21%) NoSQL
3 6 (18.18%) Relational Database
4 4 (12.12%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (9.09%) Redis
6 2 (6.06%) DynamoDB
6 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (3.03%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (3.03%) GIS
7 1 (3.03%) Power BI
7 1 (3.03%) Spatial Data
7 1 (3.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (27.27%) Git
2 5 (15.15%) Jenkins
3 3 (9.09%) GitLab
4 1 (3.03%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.03%) Mocha
4 1 (3.03%) Sinon.JS
General
1 11 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Marketing
3 4 (12.12%) Finance
3 4 (12.12%) Manufacturing
4 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.06%) Health Technology
5 2 (6.06%) Retail
6 1 (3.03%) Electronics
6 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (51.52%) Developer
2 9 (27.27%) Senior
3 8 (24.24%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (18.18%) Java Developer
4 6 (18.18%) Lead
5 5 (15.15%) Python Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Software Engineer
6 4 (12.12%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 4 (12.12%) Python Software Engineer
7 3 (9.09%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 3 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support
7 3 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (9.09%) Lead Developer
7 3 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (9.09%) Linux Support
7 3 (9.09%) Linux Support Engineer
7 3 (9.09%) Senior Developer
7 3 (9.09%) Software Developer
7 3 (9.09%) Support Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) Lead Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (36.36%) RESTful
2 11 (33.33%) Node.js
3 9 (27.27%) React
4 7 (21.21%) Django
4 7 (21.21%) REST
5 6 (18.18%) FastAPI
6 5 (15.15%) Spring
6 5 (15.15%) Spring Boot
7 4 (12.12%) AngularJS
7 4 (12.12%) Celery
7 4 (12.12%) Flask
7 4 (12.12%) Next.js
7 4 (12.12%) Vue
8 3 (9.09%) Tailwind CSS
9 2 (6.06%) .NET
9 2 (6.06%) CSS
9 2 (6.06%) CSS3
9 2 (6.06%) Express.js
9 2 (6.06%) HTML
9 2 (6.06%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 3 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.06%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.03%) Cybercrime
3 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.03%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.18%) Linux
2 3 (9.09%) Unix
3 1 (3.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (54.55%) DevOps
2 16 (48.48%) CI/CD
3 11 (33.33%) AI
3 11 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 11 (33.33%) Microservices
3 11 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (30.30%) TDD
5 9 (27.27%) Containerisation
6 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (18.18%) Software Engineering
7 5 (15.15%) Agile
7 5 (15.15%) Clean Code
7 5 (15.15%) Collaborative Culture
7 5 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (15.15%) Data Privacy
7 5 (15.15%) Mentoring
8 4 (12.12%) Asynchronous Programming
8 4 (12.12%) Fintech
8 4 (12.12%) Roadmaps
8 4 (12.12%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 14 (42.42%) Python
2 10 (30.30%) JavaScript
3 9 (27.27%) SQL
4 8 (24.24%) Java
4 8 (24.24%) TypeScript
5 5 (15.15%) Go
6 3 (9.09%) C#
7 1 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (3.03%) PHP
7 1 (3.03%) R
7 1 (3.03%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.15%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (12.12%) Degree
4 2 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) GDPR
2 2 (6.06%) QA
System Software
1 15 (45.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (15.15%) Ansible
2 5 (15.15%) Terraform
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (3.03%) Rancher
Vendors
1 4 (12.12%) Google
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.03%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.03%) Informatica
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle
2 1 (3.03%) Pega
2 1 (3.03%) SAP
2 1 (3.03%) Talend
2 1 (3.03%) WSO2