NoSQL Contract Job Trends in London

NoSQL
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring NoSQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 152 174
Rank change year-on-year -25 +22 -19
Contract jobs citing NoSQL 224 255 249
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.55% 1.74% 1.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.50% 8.11% 7.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 178 171
10th Percentile £377 £339 £431
25th Percentile £452 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £696 £731
90th Percentile £733 £775 £793
England median daily rate £500 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -14.53% +1.74% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.00 - -
Median hourly rate £68.00 - £35.00
75th Percentile £70.00 - £35.32
90th Percentile - - £35.50
England median hourly rate £66.25 - £77.50
% change year-on-year - - +10.71%

All Database & BI Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,988 3,143 3,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.72% 21.50% 19.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,075 2,158 2,541
10th Percentile £359 £362 £382
25th Percentile £415 £454 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £568
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -0.44% -5.42%
75th Percentile £650 £696 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £788
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 26 37
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £20.00
25th Percentile £29.88 £26.21 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.50 £42.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.77% -5.00% -14.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 £59.50 £61.75
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.38 £65.80
England median hourly rate £54.70 £39.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +40.26% -17.89% -13.64%

NoSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

NoSQL job vacancy trend in London

NoSQL
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing NoSQL

NoSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NoSQL in London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for NoSQL in London

NoSQL
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing NoSQL

NoSQL
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NoSQL within the London region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Central London -39 18 £475 -29.63% 24
South London -5 5 £600 +4.35% 1
West London -15 2 £552 -
NoSQL
England

NoSQL
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:

Application Platforms
1 35 (15.63%) Apache Spark
2 12 (5.36%) Confluence
3 9 (4.02%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (3.13%) Apache
5 5 (2.23%) nginx
6 2 (0.89%) Luigi
6 2 (0.89%) SAS
7 1 (0.45%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.89%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.45%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.45%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 118 (52.68%) AWS
2 112 (50.00%) Azure
3 46 (20.54%) GitHub
4 44 (19.64%) GCP
5 29 (12.95%) Serverless
6 23 (10.27%) Azure Data Factory
7 22 (9.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 22 (9.82%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (8.48%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (5.36%) Azure Functions
9 12 (5.36%) Azure Monitor
10 11 (4.91%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (4.91%) Azure AKS
11 10 (4.46%) Amazon S3
11 10 (4.46%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (4.02%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (4.02%) Azure Logic Apps
12 9 (4.02%) Power Platform
13 8 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (3.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.34%) DNS
2 2 (0.89%) SSL
3 1 (0.45%) Firewall
3 1 (0.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (24.11%) MongoDB
2 39 (17.41%) PostgreSQL
3 38 (16.96%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (12.50%) SQL Server
5 27 (12.05%) Azure SQL Database
6 19 (8.48%) Big Data
7 18 (8.04%) Relational Database
8 16 (7.14%) Metadata
8 16 (7.14%) Redis
9 13 (5.80%) DynamoDB
10 12 (5.36%) BigQuery
11 11 (4.91%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (4.02%) Data Lake
12 9 (4.02%) Hadoop
12 9 (4.02%) MySQL
12 9 (4.02%) Power BI
12 9 (4.02%) Tableau
13 8 (3.57%) Apache Cassandra
13 8 (3.57%) RDBMS
14 7 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 74 (33.04%) Git
2 32 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 25 (11.16%) GitLab
4 14 (6.25%) JIRA
5 11 (4.91%) JUnit
6 9 (4.02%) ERwin
6 9 (4.02%) TeamCity
7 7 (3.13%) Bitbucket
7 7 (3.13%) Mockito
8 6 (2.68%) Cypress.io
9 5 (2.23%) Maven
10 4 (1.79%) ER Studio
10 4 (1.79%) Gradle
11 3 (1.34%) Gatling
12 2 (0.89%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.89%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.89%) GoCD
12 2 (0.89%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.89%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 68 (30.36%) Social Skills
2 60 (26.79%) Finance
3 28 (12.50%) Banking
4 23 (10.27%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.36%) Investment Banking
6 10 (4.46%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.23%) Front Office
9 2 (0.89%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (0.89%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.89%) Law
10 1 (0.45%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.45%) Legal
10 1 (0.45%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.45%) Publishing
10 1 (0.45%) Retail
10 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.45%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 87 (38.84%) Developer
2 31 (13.84%) Data Engineer
3 28 (12.50%) Java Developer
4 27 (12.05%) Senior
5 21 (9.38%) Full-Stack Developer
6 20 (8.93%) Architect
7 19 (8.48%) Azure Data Engineer
7 19 (8.48%) Azure Engineer
8 15 (6.70%) Python Developer
9 13 (5.80%) DBA
10 11 (4.91%) Senior Developer
11 10 (4.46%) Data Architect
11 10 (4.46%) Software Engineer
12 9 (4.02%) Lead
13 8 (3.57%) Azure Developer
13 8 (3.57%) C# Developer
13 8 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
13 8 (3.57%) Data Modeller
13 8 (3.57%) Python Engineer
14 7 (3.13%) Azure Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (22.77%) Kafka
2 47 (20.98%) RESTful
3 34 (15.18%) Node.js
3 34 (15.18%) React
3 34 (15.18%) Spring
4 31 (13.84%) REST
5 28 (12.50%) Spring Boot
6 27 (12.05%) .NET
7 25 (11.16%) AngularJS
8 23 (10.27%) HTML
9 22 (9.82%) PySpark
10 20 (8.93%) CSS
11 15 (6.70%) OAuth
11 15 (6.70%) Vue
12 14 (6.25%) .NET Core
12 14 (6.25%) OAuth2
12 14 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
13 13 (5.80%) FastAPI
13 13 (5.80%) Hibernate
14 11 (4.91%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 36 (16.07%) Cloud Native
2 27 (12.05%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.36%) Data Structures
4 11 (4.91%) Algorithms
5 10 (4.46%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.13%) Data Fabric
7 6 (2.68%) Derivative
8 5 (2.23%) Hedge funds
8 5 (2.23%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.79%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.79%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.34%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.89%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.89%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.89%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.93%) Linux
2 12 (5.36%) Unix
3 3 (1.34%) Windows
4 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (47.32%) Agile
2 105 (46.88%) CI/CD
3 84 (37.50%) Microservices
4 72 (32.14%) Data Modelling
5 63 (28.13%) DevOps
6 53 (23.66%) Containerisation
7 48 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (20.54%) Data Governance
8 46 (20.54%) Test Automation
9 45 (20.09%) Data Pipeline
10 35 (15.63%) Software Engineering
10 35 (15.63%) TDD
11 34 (15.18%) Event-Driven
11 34 (15.18%) Full-Stack Development
12 32 (14.29%) Data Integration
13 31 (13.84%) Data Engineering
14 30 (13.39%) Data Architecture
15 28 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
16 27 (12.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 27 (12.05%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 154 (68.75%) SQL
2 106 (47.32%) Python
3 73 (32.59%) Java
4 29 (12.95%) JavaScript
5 27 (12.05%) C#
6 26 (11.61%) TypeScript
7 25 (11.16%) Scala
8 12 (5.36%) Bash
8 12 (5.36%) Go
9 9 (4.02%) Shell Script
10 8 (3.57%) R
11 5 (2.23%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.34%) Rust
13 2 (0.89%) Bicep
13 2 (0.89%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.89%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.89%) VB
14 1 (0.45%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.45%) C++
14 1 (0.45%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 43 (19.20%) Security Cleared
2 38 (16.96%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.25%) Degree
4 11 (4.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.13%) Master's Degree
6 6 (2.68%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.23%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.34%) MCP
9 2 (0.89%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.89%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.45%) CFA
10 1 (0.45%) ISEB
10 1 (0.45%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (14.73%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.80%) QA
3 8 (3.57%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.68%) GDPR
5 3 (1.34%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.34%) NIST
5 3 (1.34%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.34%) WCAG
6 2 (0.89%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.89%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.89%) MiFID
6 2 (0.89%) PSD2
6 2 (0.89%) SEPA
7 1 (0.45%) Basel III
7 1 (0.45%) IFRS
7 1 (0.45%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.45%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.45%) Solvency II
System Software
1 85 (37.95%) Docker
2 1 (0.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.45%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 88 (39.29%) Kubernetes
2 28 (12.50%) Terraform
3 10 (4.46%) Prometheus
4 9 (4.02%) Grafana
5 8 (3.57%) Ansible
6 4 (1.79%) Argo
7 3 (1.34%) Puppet
8 2 (0.89%) Istio
8 2 (0.89%) Knative
8 2 (0.89%) Nagios
8 2 (0.89%) Rancher
8 2 (0.89%) rkt
Vendors
1 34 (15.18%) Databricks
2 17 (7.59%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.36%) Google
4 11 (4.91%) Oracle
5 8 (3.57%) MuleSoft
6 5 (2.23%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.23%) Confluent
6 5 (2.23%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.79%) Bloomberg
7 4 (1.79%) Refinitiv
7 4 (1.79%) Splunk
8 2 (0.89%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.89%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.45%) IBM
9 1 (0.45%) Informatica
9 1 (0.45%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.45%) SnapLogic
9 1 (0.45%) Solace
9 1 (0.45%) Sybase
9 1 (0.45%) Zoomdata