PostgreSQL Job Trends in West Yorkshire

PostgreSQL (Postgres)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring PostgreSQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 90 117
Rank change year-on-year -31 +27 +53
Permanent jobs citing PostgreSQL 20 17 34
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.56% 1.25% 1.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.97% 8.90% 7.96%
Number of salaries quoted 11 9 26
10th Percentile £48,289 £50,824 £43,750
25th Percentile £54,144 £53,764 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.63% +18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £74,987 £76,840 £73,310
90th Percentile £88,148 £81,472 £74,375
Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +23.81% +16.67%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 335 191 427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 9.42% 14.02% 14.76%
Number of salaries quoted 194 163 338
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,700
25th Percentile £46,147 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +16.50% -2.83%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,886 £65,452
90th Percentile £94,250 £84,750 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £56,500 £57,500 £48,507
% change year-on-year -1.74% +18.54% -7.61%

PostgreSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PostgreSQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

PostgreSQL job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

PostgreSQL
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing PostgreSQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing PostgreSQL in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 29 May 2026.

Salary histogram for PostgreSQL in West Yorkshire

PostgreSQL
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PostgreSQL within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 29 May 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
Leeds -48 19 £69,310 +15.52% 2
Bradford - 1 - -
PostgreSQL
Yorkshire

PostgreSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 5 (25.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) AWS
2 13 (65.00%) Azure
3 11 (55.00%) Amazon SQS
3 11 (55.00%) Serverless
4 10 (50.00%) Amazon S3
5 9 (45.00%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (35.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (30.00%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (30.00%) Amazon EventBridge
7 6 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (30.00%) AWS Step Functions
7 6 (30.00%) GitHub
7 6 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (15.00%) Azure AKS
8 3 (15.00%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (5.00%) AWS Fargate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (60.00%) NoSQL
2 8 (40.00%) MongoDB
3 6 (30.00%) DynamoDB
3 6 (30.00%) MySQL
3 6 (30.00%) Relational Database
4 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (5.00%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 12 (60.00%) Git
2 5 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (15.00%) GitLab
4 1 (5.00%) PHPUnit
General
1 7 (35.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Developer
2 6 (30.00%) .NET Developer
3 5 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 5 (25.00%) Senior
4 4 (20.00%) Software Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (15.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Java Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Lead
6 2 (10.00%) Lead Software Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Architect
7 1 (5.00%) AWS Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Serverless Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (55.00%) RESTful
2 10 (50.00%) Node.js
2 10 (50.00%) React
3 6 (30.00%) .NET
3 6 (30.00%) .NET Core
3 6 (30.00%) ASP.NET
3 6 (30.00%) ASP.NET Core
3 6 (30.00%) AWS CDK
3 6 (30.00%) Blazor
4 5 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (25.00%) Kafka
4 5 (25.00%) Mustache
4 5 (25.00%) REST
4 5 (25.00%) Spring
4 5 (25.00%) Spring Boot
4 5 (25.00%) Web Services
5 1 (5.00%) Doctrine
5 1 (5.00%) Flask
5 1 (5.00%) Pandas
5 1 (5.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Linux
1 3 (15.00%) Unix
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) Microservices
2 17 (85.00%) Agile
3 16 (80.00%) CI/CD
4 12 (60.00%) DevOps
5 9 (45.00%) Scrum
5 9 (45.00%) TDD
6 7 (35.00%) Application Security
6 7 (35.00%) Coaching
6 7 (35.00%) Containerisation
6 7 (35.00%) Mentoring
7 6 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
7 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (25.00%) Test Automation
9 4 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 4 (20.00%) Open Source
9 4 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
9 4 (20.00%) SDLC
9 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
10 3 (15.00%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) Java
2 10 (50.00%) SQL
3 8 (40.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.00%) PHP
4 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 4 (20.00%) AWS Certified Developer
System Software
1 12 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (45.00%) Terraform
2 6 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (15.00%) Argo
4 1 (5.00%) Ansible