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 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 177 146 165
Rank change year-on-year -31 +19 -10
Contract jobs citing NoSQL 222 242 273
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.50% 1.74% 1.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.50% 8.06% 7.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 171 194
10th Percentile £400 £345 £427
25th Percentile £456 £469 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -10.45%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £721
90th Percentile £750 £800 £796
England median daily rate £510 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -12.82% +1.74% -9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £69.80 - -
25th Percentile £75.50 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £35.00
75th Percentile £95.00 - £35.32
90th Percentile - - £35.50
England median hourly rate £71.13 - £35.32
% change year-on-year - - -51.29%

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 2,961 3,004 3,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.99% 21.63% 19.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,041 2,045 2,609
10th Percentile £353 £369 £381
25th Percentile £415 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £699 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £775
England median daily rate £500 £545 £540
% change year-on-year -8.26% +0.93% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 31 43
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £29.41 £28.60 £26.02
Median hourly rate £45.00 £41.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -2.35% -22.73%
75th Percentile £74.25 £58.25 £53.94
90th Percentile £89.25 £78.75 £64.35
England median hourly rate £46.50 £39.00 £42.35
% change year-on-year +19.23% -7.90% -27.53%

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 30 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing NoSQL in London over the 6 months to 30 January 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 30 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 -38 16 £473 -30.00% 21
South London -6 5 £600 +4.35% 1
West London -19 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 40 (18.02%) Apache Spark
2 13 (5.86%) Confluence
3 9 (4.05%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (3.60%) Apache
5 6 (2.70%) Ethereum
5 6 (2.70%) Hyperledger
6 5 (2.25%) nginx
7 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.90%) Appian
8 2 (0.90%) Luigi
9 1 (0.45%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.45%) Misys Midas
1 1 (0.45%) R3 Corda
1 1 (0.45%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 120 (54.05%) AWS
2 111 (50.00%) Azure
3 45 (20.27%) GCP
4 44 (19.82%) GitHub
5 31 (13.96%) Serverless
6 27 (12.16%) Azure Data Factory
7 21 (9.46%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (8.56%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (8.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 14 (6.31%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
12 11 (4.95%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (4.95%) Amazon S3
12 11 (4.95%) Azure Functions
12 11 (4.95%) Power Platform
13 10 (4.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (4.50%) Azure AKS
14 8 (3.60%) Azure Logic Apps
15 7 (3.15%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.70%) HTTP
2 4 (1.80%) DNS
3 3 (1.35%) SSL
4 1 (0.45%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (25.68%) MongoDB
2 39 (17.57%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (16.22%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (12.61%) Azure SQL Database
5 26 (11.71%) SQL Server
6 23 (10.36%) Big Data
7 20 (9.01%) Relational Database
8 17 (7.66%) DynamoDB
9 16 (7.21%) Metadata
9 16 (7.21%) Redis
10 13 (5.86%) Data Lake
11 12 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (4.95%) Apache Cassandra
12 11 (4.95%) BigQuery
12 11 (4.95%) Power BI
13 10 (4.50%) Hadoop
13 10 (4.50%) MySQL
13 10 (4.50%) RDBMS
14 7 (3.15%) DocumentDB
15 6 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 77 (34.68%) Git
2 37 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 25 (11.26%) GitLab
4 19 (8.56%) JIRA
5 18 (8.11%) JUnit
6 9 (4.05%) ERwin
7 6 (2.70%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.70%) Mockito
8 5 (2.25%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.25%) Maven
8 5 (2.25%) TeamCity
9 4 (1.80%) ER Studio
9 4 (1.80%) Gradle
10 3 (1.35%) Gatling
10 3 (1.35%) MLflow
10 3 (1.35%) Postman
11 2 (0.90%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.90%) GoCD
11 2 (0.90%) ScriptRunner
11 2 (0.90%) SonarQube
General
1 64 (28.83%) Social Skills
2 58 (26.13%) Finance
3 26 (11.71%) Banking
4 22 (9.91%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (6.31%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.60%) Investment Banking
7 6 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.35%) Front Office
8 3 (1.35%) Legal
9 2 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.90%) Law
10 1 (0.45%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.45%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.45%) Games
10 1 (0.45%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.45%) Retail
10 1 (0.45%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 87 (39.19%) Developer
2 38 (17.12%) Data Engineer
3 29 (13.06%) Java Developer
4 28 (12.61%) Senior
5 21 (9.46%) Architect
5 21 (9.46%) Full-Stack Developer
6 20 (9.01%) Azure Data Engineer
6 20 (9.01%) Azure Engineer
7 17 (7.66%) Python Developer
8 14 (6.31%) Senior Developer
9 12 (5.41%) Data Architect
9 12 (5.41%) DBA
10 10 (4.50%) Senior Java Developer
11 8 (3.60%) Backend Developer
11 8 (3.60%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (3.60%) Data Modeller
11 8 (3.60%) Python Engineer
11 8 (3.60%) Software Engineer
12 7 (3.15%) Administrator
12 7 (3.15%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (26.58%) Kafka
2 49 (22.07%) RESTful
3 45 (20.27%) Spring
4 39 (17.57%) Spring Boot
5 36 (16.22%) REST
6 33 (14.86%) Node.js
7 32 (14.41%) React
8 27 (12.16%) AngularJS
9 25 (11.26%) PySpark
10 24 (10.81%) HTML
11 21 (9.46%) .NET
12 20 (9.01%) CSS
13 16 (7.21%) Vue
14 14 (6.31%) FastAPI
14 14 (6.31%) OAuth
15 13 (5.86%) Hibernate
15 13 (5.86%) OAuth2
16 11 (4.95%) gRPC
17 10 (4.50%) .NET Core
17 10 (4.50%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 34 (15.32%) Cloud Native
2 25 (11.26%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (6.76%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.41%) Data Structures
5 11 (4.95%) Algorithms
6 6 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (2.70%) Data Fabric
7 4 (1.80%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.80%) Derivative
7 4 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.35%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.35%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.35%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.90%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.90%) Blockchain
9 2 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.90%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.01%) Linux
2 12 (5.41%) Unix
3 3 (1.35%) Windows
4 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (50.00%) Agile
1 111 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 79 (35.59%) Microservices
3 74 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 57 (25.68%) Containerisation
4 57 (25.68%) DevOps
5 48 (21.62%) Data Pipeline
6 47 (21.17%) Data Governance
7 45 (20.27%) Problem-Solving
8 40 (18.02%) Data Engineering
9 37 (16.67%) Test Automation
10 34 (15.32%) Data Integration
10 34 (15.32%) TDD
11 33 (14.86%) Data Architecture
11 33 (14.86%) Full-Stack Development
12 32 (14.41%) Event-Driven
13 31 (13.96%) Scrum
14 30 (13.51%) Integration Patterns
14 30 (13.51%) Performance Optimisation
15 29 (13.06%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 150 (67.57%) SQL
2 105 (47.30%) Python
3 78 (35.14%) Java
4 30 (13.51%) TypeScript
5 28 (12.61%) JavaScript
5 28 (12.61%) Scala
6 21 (9.46%) C#
7 11 (4.95%) Bash
8 9 (4.05%) Go
8 9 (4.05%) Shell Script
9 8 (3.60%) R
10 4 (1.80%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.35%) Rust
12 2 (0.90%) VB
13 1 (0.45%) Bicep
13 1 (0.45%) Bourne shell
13 1 (0.45%) Clojure
13 1 (0.45%) Korn
13 1 (0.45%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.45%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 51 (22.97%) Security Cleared
2 44 (19.82%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.50%) Degree
4 7 (3.15%) AWS Certification
4 7 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.70%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.80%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.35%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.90%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.45%) CFA
9 1 (0.45%) ISEB
9 1 (0.45%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (15.32%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.41%) QA
3 10 (4.50%) GDPR
4 8 (3.60%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.80%) NIST
5 4 (1.80%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (1.35%) WCAG
7 2 (0.90%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.90%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.90%) PSD2
7 2 (0.90%) SEPA
8 1 (0.45%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.45%) IFRS
8 1 (0.45%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.45%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.45%) Solvency II
System Software
1 88 (39.64%) Docker
2 1 (0.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.45%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 90 (40.54%) Kubernetes
2 25 (11.26%) Terraform
3 9 (4.05%) Prometheus
4 7 (3.15%) Grafana
5 6 (2.70%) Ansible
6 4 (1.80%) Argo
7 2 (0.90%) Istio
7 2 (0.90%) Knative
7 2 (0.90%) Nagios
7 2 (0.90%) Rancher
7 2 (0.90%) rkt
8 1 (0.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 33 (14.86%) Databricks
2 14 (6.31%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.50%) Google
4 7 (3.15%) MuleSoft
4 7 (3.15%) Oracle
5 5 (2.25%) Atlassian
5 5 (2.25%) Confluent
5 5 (2.25%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.80%) Informatica
7 3 (1.35%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.35%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.35%) Refinitiv
7 3 (1.35%) Sybase
8 2 (0.90%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.90%) Splunk
9 1 (0.45%) IBM
9 1 (0.45%) SAP
9 1 (0.45%) SnapLogic
9 1 (0.45%) Solace
9 1 (0.45%) Zoomdata