NoSQL Contract Job Trends in England

NoSQL
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring NoSQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 208 191
Rank change year-on-year -94 -17 +62
Contract jobs citing NoSQL 379 341 431
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.83% 1.24% 1.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.42% 6.84% 7.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 241 306
10th Percentile £360 £361 £350
25th Percentile £424 £410 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £644 £600 £700
90th Percentile £700 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +5.00% -16.67% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 1
10th Percentile £51.13 £39.25 -
25th Percentile £62.38 £43.75 -
Median hourly rate £72.50 £52.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.10% +29.63% -46.00%
75th Percentile £76.75 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £80.38 - -
UK median hourly rate £72.50 £52.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year +38.10% +29.63% -46.00%

All Database & BI Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,992 4,986 6,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.29% 18.06% 18.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,693 3,437 4,355
10th Percentile £358 £340 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £547
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -5.85% -0.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £754 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 80 91
10th Percentile £14.85 £20.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.00 £24.88 £20.00
Median hourly rate £38.50 £34.82 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.58% -0.53% -36.36%
75th Percentile £62.88 £63.75 £56.25
90th Percentile £76.00 £78.71 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £34.47
% change year-on-year +12.86% +1.55% -37.34%

NoSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

NoSQL job vacancy trend in England

NoSQL
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing NoSQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing NoSQL

NoSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NoSQL in England over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for NoSQL in England

NoSQL
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing NoSQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing NoSQL

NoSQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing NoSQL in England over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for NoSQL in England

NoSQL
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NoSQL within the England region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -56 206 £535 +1.90% 57
North of England -99 61 £545 +14.74% 22
South East -53 45 £458 -2.24% 28
North West -51 33 £600 +34.83% 9
Midlands -54 28 £565 +22.16% 12
West Midlands -42 23 £598 +19.50% 4
Yorkshire -56 23 £600 +20.00% 9
South West -29 18 £650 +11.11% 14
North East -41 8 £450 -10.00% 4
East of England -20 7 £425 -43.33% 4
East Midlands -24 5 £450 +8.43% 8
NoSQL
UK

NoSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 55 (14.51%) Apache Spark
2 17 (4.49%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (4.22%) Apache
4 11 (2.90%) Confluence
4 11 (2.90%) SAS
5 4 (1.06%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.79%) nginx
7 2 (0.53%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.53%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.53%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.26%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.26%) Luigi
8 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (2.11%) CPLEX
2 2 (0.53%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.53%) Endur
1 2 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.26%) Actimize
2 1 (0.26%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.26%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 199 (52.51%) AWS
2 192 (50.66%) Azure
3 79 (20.84%) GCP
4 73 (19.26%) GitHub
5 59 (15.57%) Serverless
6 57 (15.04%) Azure DevOps
7 44 (11.61%) GitHub Actions
8 36 (9.50%) AWS Lambda
9 34 (8.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 32 (8.44%) Power Platform
11 28 (7.39%) Snowflake
12 25 (6.60%) Amazon S3
13 22 (5.80%) Azure AKS
14 21 (5.54%) Amazon ECS
15 16 (4.22%) Amazon SQS
16 15 (3.96%) Amazon EKS
17 13 (3.43%) Azure Monitor
18 12 (3.17%) Amazon EventBridge
18 12 (3.17%) Azure Data Factory
19 11 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.58%) Firewall
2 5 (1.32%) DNS
2 5 (1.32%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.06%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (0.79%) 5G
4 3 (0.79%) HTTP
4 3 (0.79%) Internet
4 3 (0.79%) SSH
5 2 (0.53%) 4G
5 2 (0.53%) DHCP
5 2 (0.53%) NaaS
5 2 (0.53%) WAN
6 1 (0.26%) Broadband
6 1 (0.26%) IPsec
6 1 (0.26%) OpenFlow
6 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (26.91%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (24.54%) MongoDB
3 46 (12.14%) Relational Database
4 42 (11.08%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (8.44%) Big Data
5 32 (8.44%) Data Lake
5 32 (8.44%) DynamoDB
5 32 (8.44%) MySQL
5 32 (8.44%) Power BI
6 30 (7.92%) Metadata
7 28 (7.39%) SQL Server
8 27 (7.12%) Apache Cassandra
9 24 (6.33%) RDBMS
10 18 (4.75%) Hadoop
11 17 (4.49%) Azure SQL Database
11 17 (4.49%) Redis
12 15 (3.96%) BigQuery
13 13 (3.43%) Flink
14 12 (3.17%) Amazon Aurora
15 10 (2.64%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 102 (26.91%) Git
2 56 (14.78%) Jenkins
3 34 (8.97%) GitLab
4 19 (5.01%) JUnit
5 16 (4.22%) JIRA
6 12 (3.17%) Mockito
7 6 (1.58%) Selenium
8 5 (1.32%) ER Studio
8 5 (1.32%) Gradle
8 5 (1.32%) JMeter
8 5 (1.32%) Maven
8 5 (1.32%) Mocha
9 4 (1.06%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.06%) Eclipse
9 4 (1.06%) Gatling
10 3 (0.79%) ERwin
10 3 (0.79%) Jasmine
10 3 (0.79%) Postman
10 3 (0.79%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 92 (24.27%) Social Skills
2 77 (20.32%) Finance
3 60 (15.83%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (12.40%) Public Sector
5 19 (5.01%) Banking
5 19 (5.01%) Retail
6 11 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (2.64%) Aerospace
7 10 (2.64%) Front Office
7 10 (2.64%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.11%) Marketing
9 7 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.85%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.58%) Billing
10 6 (1.58%) Legal
11 5 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.32%) Local Government
12 4 (1.06%) Games
12 4 (1.06%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 121 (31.93%) Developer
2 63 (16.62%) Architect
3 61 (16.09%) Senior
4 50 (13.19%) Data Engineer
5 37 (9.76%) Java Developer
6 35 (9.23%) Data Architect
7 34 (8.97%) Software Engineer
8 30 (7.92%) Full-Stack Developer
9 25 (6.60%) Lead
10 24 (6.33%) Senior Developer
11 21 (5.54%) Python Developer
12 18 (4.75%) Java Engineer
13 16 (4.22%) Senior Java Developer
14 14 (3.69%) Java Software Engineer
14 14 (3.69%) Solutions Architect
15 13 (3.43%) Senior Data Engineer
16 12 (3.17%) Backend Developer
17 10 (2.64%) Azure Architect
17 10 (2.64%) Enterprise Architect
18 9 (2.37%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (32.45%) Kafka
2 83 (21.90%) Spring
3 80 (21.11%) RESTful
4 77 (20.32%) REST
5 67 (17.68%) Spring Boot
6 58 (15.30%) React
7 43 (11.35%) Node.js
8 42 (11.08%) .NET
9 37 (9.76%) RabbitMQ
10 32 (8.44%) AngularJS
11 26 (6.86%) CSS
12 24 (6.33%) HTML
13 22 (5.80%) GraphQL
14 21 (5.54%) Vue
15 20 (5.28%) .NET Core
15 20 (5.28%) JSON
16 19 (5.01%) OAuth
17 17 (4.49%) FastAPI
18 15 (3.96%) Flask
19 14 (3.69%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 107 (28.23%) Cloud Native
2 72 (19.00%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (7.12%) Data Structures
4 19 (5.01%) Algorithms
5 15 (3.96%) Product Ownership
6 13 (3.43%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (2.64%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (2.37%) AI Agents
10 8 (2.11%) Replication
11 7 (1.85%) Autonomous Agent
12 6 (1.58%) IoT
12 6 (1.58%) SCADA
12 6 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.32%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 4 (1.06%) Distributed Applications
14 4 (1.06%) Onboarding
14 4 (1.06%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 34 (8.97%) Linux
2 14 (3.69%) Unix
3 7 (1.85%) Windows
3 7 (1.85%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.79%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (60.16%) CI/CD
2 180 (47.49%) Agile
3 171 (45.12%) DevOps
4 152 (40.11%) Microservices
5 103 (27.18%) Test Automation
6 99 (26.12%) Event-Driven
7 97 (25.59%) Data Modelling
8 91 (24.01%) Containerisation
9 90 (23.75%) Problem-Solving
10 82 (21.64%) Software Engineering
11 80 (21.11%) AI
12 73 (19.26%) Analytics
13 71 (18.73%) Full-Stack Development
14 69 (18.21%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 68 (17.94%) Data Pipeline
16 67 (17.68%) ETL
17 61 (16.09%) Data Engineering
18 60 (15.83%) Observability
19 59 (15.57%) Scrum
20 51 (13.46%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 226 (59.63%) SQL
2 159 (41.95%) Java
3 151 (39.84%) Python
4 55 (14.51%) JavaScript
5 52 (13.72%) TypeScript
6 35 (9.23%) C#
7 31 (8.18%) Go
8 22 (5.80%) Scala
9 20 (5.28%) Bash
10 15 (3.96%) PowerShell
11 13 (3.43%) Bicep
12 9 (2.37%) PHP
13 8 (2.11%) Shell Script
14 5 (1.32%) C++
14 5 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (1.32%) Groovy
15 4 (1.06%) PL/SQL
15 4 (1.06%) Rust
16 3 (0.79%) R
16 3 (0.79%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 81 (21.37%) Security Cleared
2 53 (13.98%) SC Cleared
3 31 (8.18%) Degree
4 19 (5.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.90%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.85%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.32%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.32%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.53%) CISSP
8 2 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.53%) PhD
9 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (12.93%) Data Quality
2 39 (10.29%) QA
3 17 (4.49%) GDPR
4 15 (3.96%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.85%) WCAG
7 5 (1.32%) NIST
7 5 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.53%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.53%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.53%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.26%) HL7
9 1 (0.26%) IFRS
9 1 (0.26%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.26%) NCSC
System Software
1 144 (37.99%) Docker
2 9 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.11%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.06%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.06%) KVM
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 140 (36.94%) Kubernetes
2 73 (19.26%) Terraform
3 24 (6.33%) Grafana
4 19 (5.01%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.11%) Ansible
6 6 (1.58%) Kibana
7 4 (1.06%) Podman
8 2 (0.53%) Amdocs OSS
8 2 (0.53%) Istio
9 1 (0.26%) linkerd
Vendors
1 54 (14.25%) Microsoft
2 38 (10.03%) Oracle
3 20 (5.28%) Splunk
4 19 (5.01%) Databricks
5 13 (3.43%) Google
6 11 (2.90%) Dynatrace
7 10 (2.64%) Informatica
7 10 (2.64%) New Relic
8 9 (2.37%) Bloomberg
8 9 (2.37%) VMware
9 8 (2.11%) Denodo
9 8 (2.11%) Refinitiv
9 8 (2.11%) SAP
10 6 (1.58%) Confluent
10 6 (1.58%) IBM
10 6 (1.58%) Teradata
11 4 (1.06%) OpenAI
11 4 (1.06%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.06%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.53%) Sparx