NoSQL Contract Job Trends in the City of London

NoSQL
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring NoSQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 69 97
Rank change year-on-year -39 +28 +38
Contract jobs citing NoSQL 16 50 31
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.85% 2.66% 1.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.79% 13.05% 6.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 42 19
10th Percentile £88 £585 £474
25th Percentile £403 £595 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £675 £665
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +1.50% +2.31%
75th Percentile £1,031 £696 £775
90th Percentile £1,150 £755 £925
Central London median daily rate £473 £675 £658
% change year-on-year -30.00% +2.66% +5.20%

All Database & BI Skills
City of London

NoSQL falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 334 383 497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.81% 20.36% 20.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 249 351
10th Percentile £324 £407 £413
25th Percentile £408 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -3.36% -0.83%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £749 £780 £825
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £598
% change year-on-year -8.70% -3.77% +1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £38.88
25th Percentile £32.50 £36.75 £40.19
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% -10.98% -48.57%
75th Percentile £35.50 £40.25 £47.19
90th Percentile - - £49.03
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £43.25
% change year-on-year -15.00% -7.51% -48.57%

NoSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NoSQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

NoSQL job vacancy trend in the City of London

NoSQL
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing NoSQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing NoSQL

NoSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NoSQL in the City of London over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for NoSQL in the City of London

NoSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 3 (18.75%) Apache Spark
2 2 (12.50%) Ethereum
2 2 (12.50%) Hyperledger
3 1 (6.25%) Apache
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) AWS
2 7 (43.75%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) GCP
3 4 (25.00%) GitHub
4 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (12.50%) Google Gemini
4 2 (12.50%) LangSmith
4 2 (12.50%) OpenShift
4 2 (12.50%) Vertex AI
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.25%) dbt
5 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) MongoDB
2 4 (25.00%) Redis
3 3 (18.75%) Big Data
4 2 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (12.50%) BigQuery
4 2 (12.50%) Hazelcast
4 2 (12.50%) MySQL
4 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
5 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
5 1 (6.25%) DB2
5 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
5 1 (6.25%) MemSQL
5 1 (6.25%) Metadata
5 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
5 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
5 1 (6.25%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Git
2 4 (25.00%) JUnit
3 2 (12.50%) Gatling
3 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 2 (12.50%) JIRA
4 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
4 1 (6.25%) ERwin
4 1 (6.25%) Mockito
General
1 9 (56.25%) Finance
2 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Banking
4 2 (12.50%) Legal
5 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Java Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Senior
4 3 (18.75%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Backend Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Gen AI Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Backend Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Blockchain Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Data Modeller
6 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Java Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) Spring
1 6 (37.50%) Spring Boot
2 4 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 4 (25.00%) Kafka
2 4 (25.00%) REST
3 3 (18.75%) Dask
3 3 (18.75%) Google JAX
3 3 (18.75%) JAX
3 3 (18.75%) LightGBM
3 3 (18.75%) OAuth
3 3 (18.75%) OAuth2
3 3 (18.75%) PyTorch
3 3 (18.75%) RESTful
3 3 (18.75%) scikit-learn
3 3 (18.75%) Spring Batch
3 3 (18.75%) TensorFlow
3 3 (18.75%) XGBoost
4 2 (12.50%) Model Context Protocol
4 2 (12.50%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (12.50%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (18.75%) Derivative
3 2 (12.50%) AI Agents
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
4 1 (6.25%) Blockchain
4 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
4 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Unix
2 1 (6.25%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
2 8 (50.00%) Microservices
3 5 (31.25%) Decision-Making
3 5 (31.25%) Machine Learning
4 4 (25.00%) Agile
4 4 (25.00%) Analytics
4 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (18.75%) Anomaly Detection
5 3 (18.75%) API Development
5 3 (18.75%) Business Strategy
5 3 (18.75%) Data Engineering
5 3 (18.75%) Data Governance
5 3 (18.75%) Deep Learning
5 3 (18.75%) Observability
5 3 (18.75%) Pattern Recognition
5 3 (18.75%) Performance Engineering
5 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (18.75%) Reinforcement Learning
5 3 (18.75%) Risk Analytics
5 3 (18.75%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Java
2 9 (56.25%) Python
2 9 (56.25%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
4 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) ISO 20022
1 2 (12.50%) ISO 8583
1 2 (12.50%) PSD2
1 2 (12.50%) QA
1 2 (12.50%) SEPA
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (12.50%) Ansible
3 2 (12.50%) Argo
3 2 (12.50%) Grafana
3 2 (12.50%) Istio
3 2 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Confluent
1 2 (12.50%) Dynatrace
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Databricks
2 1 (6.25%) Google
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft