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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 195 122
Rank change year-on-year -57 -73 +84
Contract jobs citing NoSQL 196 190 345
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.98% 1.38% 2.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.48% 6.45% 8.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 135 248
10th Percentile £410 £379 £350
25th Percentile £450 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £510 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% -15.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £663 £681 £750
90th Percentile £720 £800 £838
England median daily rate £525 £494 £600
% change year-on-year +6.38% -17.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £43.23 £39.25 -
25th Percentile £46.19 £43.75 -
Median hourly rate £54.75 £52.50 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% -21.64% -18.79%
75th Percentile £65.69 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £70.08 - -
England median hourly rate £72.50 £52.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year +38.10% +29.63% -46.00%

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 3,576 2,944 3,846
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.79% 21.45% 23.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,413 2,072 2,846
10th Percentile £363 £381 £363
25th Percentile £437 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £700 £725
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £515 £538
% change year-on-year -2.91% -4.19% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 32 23
10th Percentile £18.23 £24.55 £36.25
25th Percentile £25.25 £29.07 £41.88
Median hourly rate £39.50 £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.76% +3.96% -12.17%
75th Percentile £56.63 £63.75 £60.02
90th Percentile £60.75 £86.75 £78.00
England median hourly rate £39.00 £34.65 £37.50
% change year-on-year +12.55% -7.60% -31.82%

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 3 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing NoSQL in London over the 6 months to 3 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for NoSQL in London

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 3 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
Central London -27 30 £565 +2.73% 24
West London -20 2 - - 2
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 36 (18.37%) Apache Spark
2 15 (7.65%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (7.14%) Apache
4 4 (2.04%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.02%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.51%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.51%) Confluence
6 1 (0.51%) Luigi
6 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Endur
2 1 (0.51%) Actimize
2 1 (0.51%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 121 (61.73%) AWS
2 119 (60.71%) Azure
3 58 (29.59%) GCP
4 49 (25.00%) GitHub
5 32 (16.33%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (12.76%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (11.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 22 (11.22%) Serverless
8 14 (7.14%) Snowflake
9 13 (6.63%) Power Platform
10 12 (6.12%) Azure AKS
11 10 (5.10%) Amazon S3
11 10 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (4.59%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (4.59%) dbt
12 9 (4.59%) GitHub Copilot
13 7 (3.57%) Azure Functions
14 6 (3.06%) Cloud Computing
15 5 (2.55%) Amazon EMR
15 5 (2.55%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.53%) Internet
2 2 (1.02%) DHCP
2 2 (1.02%) DNS
2 2 (1.02%) NaaS
2 2 (1.02%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.02%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (29.59%) MongoDB
2 52 (26.53%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (11.73%) Big Data
4 20 (10.20%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (10.20%) Relational Database
5 19 (9.69%) Apache Cassandra
5 19 (9.69%) SQL Server
6 18 (9.18%) Data Lake
7 13 (6.63%) BigQuery
7 13 (6.63%) DynamoDB
7 13 (6.63%) Hadoop
8 12 (6.12%) MySQL
8 12 (6.12%) Power BI
8 12 (6.12%) RDBMS
9 11 (5.61%) Metadata
10 10 (5.10%) Flink
11 8 (4.08%) Redis
12 6 (3.06%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (3.06%) Apache Hive
12 6 (3.06%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 54 (27.55%) Git
2 30 (15.31%) Jenkins
3 19 (9.69%) GitLab
4 9 (4.59%) JUnit
5 5 (2.55%) JIRA
5 5 (2.55%) Mockito
6 4 (2.04%) Cypress.io
6 4 (2.04%) Eclipse
6 4 (2.04%) ER Studio
7 3 (1.53%) Gradle
7 3 (1.53%) Jasmine
7 3 (1.53%) Maven
7 3 (1.53%) Mocha
7 3 (1.53%) Visual Studio
8 2 (1.02%) ERwin
8 2 (1.02%) IntelliJ
8 2 (1.02%) JMeter
8 2 (1.02%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (1.02%) Robot Framework
8 2 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 56 (28.57%) Finance
2 52 (26.53%) Social Skills
3 37 (18.88%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (11.73%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.12%) Retail
6 10 (5.10%) Banking
6 10 (5.10%) Front Office
7 5 (2.55%) Aerospace
7 5 (2.55%) Billing
7 5 (2.55%) Local Government
7 5 (2.55%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.04%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.04%) Marketing
8 4 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.53%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.53%) Legal
9 3 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.02%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (26.02%) Developer
2 35 (17.86%) Data Engineer
2 35 (17.86%) Senior
3 29 (14.80%) Architect
4 17 (8.67%) Software Engineer
5 15 (7.65%) Java Developer
6 14 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
7 11 (5.61%) Data Architect
8 10 (5.10%) Senior Developer
9 9 (4.59%) Lead
9 9 (4.59%) Senior Java Developer
10 8 (4.08%) Senior Data Engineer
11 7 (3.57%) Azure Architect
11 7 (3.57%) Data Scientist
11 7 (3.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 7 (3.57%) Python Developer
11 7 (3.57%) Senior Software Engineer
12 6 (3.06%) Enterprise Architect
12 6 (3.06%) Java Engineer
12 6 (3.06%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (28.06%) Kafka
2 44 (22.45%) React
3 39 (19.90%) Spring
4 35 (17.86%) REST
4 35 (17.86%) RESTful
5 31 (15.82%) Spring Boot
6 28 (14.29%) Node.js
7 26 (13.27%) AngularJS
8 20 (10.20%) .NET
9 18 (9.18%) RabbitMQ
10 16 (8.16%) CSS
10 16 (8.16%) Vue
11 14 (7.14%) HTML
12 11 (5.61%) GraphQL
13 9 (4.59%) .NET Core
13 9 (4.59%) Apache Avro
13 9 (4.59%) Next.js
14 8 (4.08%) OpenTelemetry
14 8 (4.08%) PySpark
14 8 (4.08%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 52 (26.53%) Cloud Native
2 38 (19.39%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (7.14%) Data Structures
4 9 (4.59%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (3.57%) AI Agents
6 6 (3.06%) Algorithms
6 6 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.06%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.06%) Replication
7 5 (2.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (2.04%) Derivative
8 4 (2.04%) Distributed Applications
8 4 (2.04%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.53%) Data Fabric
9 3 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.53%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.53%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.53%) Reference Data
9 3 (1.53%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.65%) Linux
2 5 (2.55%) Unix
2 5 (2.55%) Windows
3 3 (1.53%) Android
3 3 (1.53%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.53%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.02%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (63.78%) CI/CD
2 96 (48.98%) Agile
3 82 (41.84%) DevOps
4 79 (40.31%) Microservices
5 52 (26.53%) Data Modelling
6 49 (25.00%) Event-Driven
6 49 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 48 (24.49%) Software Engineering
8 47 (23.98%) AI
8 47 (23.98%) Containerisation
9 46 (23.47%) Problem-Solving
10 41 (20.92%) Full-Stack Development
11 40 (20.41%) Data Engineering
12 38 (19.39%) Observability
13 34 (17.35%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 34 (17.35%) Scrum
14 33 (16.84%) ETL
15 32 (16.33%) Analytics
15 32 (16.33%) Data Pipeline
15 32 (16.33%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 127 (64.80%) SQL
2 89 (45.41%) Python
3 86 (43.88%) Java
4 36 (18.37%) JavaScript
4 36 (18.37%) TypeScript
5 21 (10.71%) Go
6 18 (9.18%) C#
7 16 (8.16%) Scala
8 7 (3.57%) PHP
9 5 (2.55%) Bash
9 5 (2.55%) C++
9 5 (2.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (2.55%) Groovy
10 3 (1.53%) C
10 3 (1.53%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.53%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.02%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.02%) R
12 1 (0.51%) Bicep
12 1 (0.51%) CQL
Qualifications
1 38 (19.39%) Security Cleared
2 27 (13.78%) SC Cleared
3 25 (12.76%) Degree
4 16 (8.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.55%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.55%) PhD
7 3 (1.53%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.53%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.02%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.51%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (11.73%) Data Quality
2 15 (7.65%) QA
3 11 (5.61%) Accessibility
4 7 (3.57%) GDPR
5 4 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.02%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (1.02%) WCAG
7 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.51%) IFRS
7 1 (0.51%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 79 (40.31%) Docker
2 5 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.02%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.51%) HDFS
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 85 (43.37%) Kubernetes
2 35 (17.86%) Terraform
3 16 (8.16%) Grafana
4 11 (5.61%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.55%) Ansible
5 5 (2.55%) Kibana
6 2 (1.02%) Amdocs OSS
6 2 (1.02%) Istio
7 1 (0.51%) linkerd
Vendors
1 22 (11.22%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.63%) Oracle
3 11 (5.61%) Dynatrace
4 9 (4.59%) Bloomberg
4 9 (4.59%) New Relic
5 8 (4.08%) Refinitiv
5 8 (4.08%) Splunk
6 7 (3.57%) Google
6 7 (3.57%) IBM
7 5 (2.55%) Databricks
7 5 (2.55%) VMware
8 4 (2.04%) Informatica
8 4 (2.04%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.53%) Confluent
9 3 (1.53%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.53%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.02%) Ciena
10 2 (1.02%) Cisco
10 2 (1.02%) Foundry
10 2 (1.02%) SAP