NewSQL Contract Job Trends in London

NewSQL
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring NewSQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 - 393
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NewSQL 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.006% - 0.011%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.031% - 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £660 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £690 - -
75th Percentile £720 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £690 £469 -
% change year-on-year +47.12% - -

All Database & BI Skills
London

NewSQL 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,273 2,806 3,842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.45% 22.30% 21.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,239 1,983 2,835
10th Percentile £363 £375 £378
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £557 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.80% -0.92% -2.17%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £700
90th Percentile £750 £838 £825
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 32 37
10th Percentile £19.23 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £29.14 £28.03 £25.79
Median hourly rate £50.00 £39.31 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.21% -21.39% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62.63 £56.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.50 £64.73
England median hourly rate £47.54 £32.05 £40.00
% change year-on-year +48.33% -19.88% -27.27%

NewSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

NewSQL job vacancy trend in London

NewSQL
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing NewSQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing NewSQL

NewSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Database Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Benchmarking
1 1 (100.00%) Database Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL