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 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 154 166
Rank change year-on-year -17 +12 -5
Contract jobs citing NoSQL 221 244 246
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.54% 1.74% 1.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.52% 8.05% 7.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 173 169
10th Percentile £400 £329 £431
25th Percentile £455 £475 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.96% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £725
90th Percentile £738 £788 £788
England median daily rate £500 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -14.53% +1.74% -9.63%
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 - £35.63
% change year-on-year - - -50.86%

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 2,937 3,031 3,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.40% 21.60% 19.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,045 2,081 2,519
10th Percentile £358 £363 £385
25th Percentile £415 £454 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.75% -1.23% -5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £695 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £788
England median daily rate £500 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -8.26% -0.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 26 39
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £23.10
25th Percentile £29.56 £26.21 £30.62
Median hourly rate £43.50 £42.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% -5.00% +6.98%
75th Percentile £67.38 £59.50 £56.44
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.38 £64.51
England median hourly rate £43.50 £39.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +10.13% -14.47% -16.04%

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 16 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 16 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 -32 17 £485 -28.15% 18
South London -3 5 £600 +4.35% 2
West London -17 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 38 (17.19%) Apache Spark
2 14 (6.33%) Confluence
3 9 (4.07%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (3.62%) Apache
5 5 (2.26%) nginx
6 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.90%) Luigi
7 2 (0.90%) SAS
8 1 (0.45%) Appian
8 1 (0.45%) WordPress
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%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 120 (54.30%) AWS
2 110 (49.77%) Azure
3 48 (21.72%) GitHub
4 46 (20.81%) GCP
5 32 (14.48%) Serverless
6 25 (11.31%) Azure Data Factory
7 23 (10.41%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (9.05%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (8.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 14 (6.33%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (5.43%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (5.43%) Azure Functions
11 12 (5.43%) Azure Monitor
12 11 (4.98%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (4.98%) Amazon S3
12 11 (4.98%) Azure AKS
13 10 (4.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (4.07%) Power Platform
15 8 (3.62%) Azure Logic Apps
16 7 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.81%) DNS
2 3 (1.36%) SSL
3 1 (0.45%) Firewall
3 1 (0.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (25.79%) MongoDB
2 42 (19.00%) PostgreSQL
3 37 (16.74%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (13.12%) SQL Server
5 28 (12.67%) Azure SQL Database
6 21 (9.50%) Big Data
6 21 (9.50%) Relational Database
7 18 (8.14%) Redis
8 16 (7.24%) DynamoDB
8 16 (7.24%) Metadata
9 12 (5.43%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (4.98%) BigQuery
10 11 (4.98%) Data Lake
10 11 (4.98%) MySQL
10 11 (4.98%) RDBMS
11 10 (4.52%) Apache Cassandra
11 10 (4.52%) Hadoop
12 9 (4.07%) Power BI
13 7 (3.17%) DocumentDB
13 7 (3.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 76 (34.39%) Git
2 38 (17.19%) Jenkins
3 27 (12.22%) GitLab
4 14 (6.33%) JIRA
5 13 (5.88%) JUnit
6 9 (4.07%) ERwin
7 8 (3.62%) TeamCity
8 7 (3.17%) Cypress.io
8 7 (3.17%) Mockito
9 6 (2.71%) Bitbucket
10 5 (2.26%) Maven
11 4 (1.81%) ER Studio
11 4 (1.81%) Gradle
12 3 (1.36%) Gatling
12 3 (1.36%) MLflow
12 3 (1.36%) Postman
13 2 (0.90%) CircleCI
13 2 (0.90%) GoCD
13 2 (0.90%) SonarQube
13 2 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 64 (28.96%) Social Skills
2 59 (26.70%) Finance
3 26 (11.76%) Banking
4 22 (9.95%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (6.33%) Public Sector
6 9 (4.07%) Investment Banking
7 6 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.36%) Front Office
9 2 (0.90%) Financial Institution
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%) Games
10 1 (0.45%) Legal
10 1 (0.45%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.45%) Retail
10 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.45%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 85 (38.46%) Developer
2 38 (17.19%) Data Engineer
3 28 (12.67%) Java Developer
4 26 (11.76%) Senior
5 21 (9.50%) Full-Stack Developer
6 20 (9.05%) Architect
6 20 (9.05%) Azure Data Engineer
6 20 (9.05%) Azure Engineer
7 16 (7.24%) Python Developer
8 13 (5.88%) DBA
9 11 (4.98%) Senior Developer
10 10 (4.52%) Data Architect
11 9 (4.07%) Python Engineer
11 9 (4.07%) Software Engineer
12 8 (3.62%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (3.62%) Data Modeller
13 7 (3.17%) Azure Administrator
13 7 (3.17%) Azure Developer
13 7 (3.17%) C# Developer
13 7 (3.17%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (24.89%) Kafka
2 49 (22.17%) RESTful
3 42 (19.00%) Spring
4 36 (16.29%) Spring Boot
5 34 (15.38%) Node.js
6 33 (14.93%) REST
7 32 (14.48%) React
8 25 (11.31%) PySpark
9 24 (10.86%) HTML
10 22 (9.95%) .NET
11 21 (9.50%) AngularJS
12 20 (9.05%) CSS
13 16 (7.24%) OAuth
14 15 (6.79%) OAuth2
14 15 (6.79%) Vue
15 14 (6.33%) FastAPI
15 14 (6.33%) Hibernate
15 14 (6.33%) RabbitMQ
16 11 (4.98%) Jest
17 10 (4.52%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 38 (17.19%) Cloud Native
2 27 (12.22%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.43%) Data Structures
4 11 (4.98%) Algorithms
5 10 (4.52%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.71%) Data Fabric
7 5 (2.26%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.81%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.81%) Derivative
8 4 (1.81%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.36%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.90%) IoT
10 2 (0.90%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.05%) Linux
2 12 (5.43%) Unix
3 3 (1.36%) Windows
4 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (48.87%) CI/CD
2 107 (48.42%) Agile
3 80 (36.20%) Microservices
4 70 (31.67%) Data Modelling
5 64 (28.96%) DevOps
6 60 (27.15%) Containerisation
7 48 (21.72%) Data Pipeline
8 47 (21.27%) Problem-Solving
9 44 (19.91%) Data Governance
10 38 (17.19%) Test Automation
11 37 (16.74%) Data Engineering
12 36 (16.29%) TDD
13 34 (15.38%) Data Integration
14 33 (14.93%) Event-Driven
15 32 (14.48%) Full-Stack Development
15 32 (14.48%) Software Engineering
16 31 (14.03%) Data Architecture
17 30 (13.57%) Integration Patterns
18 29 (13.12%) Performance Optimisation
19 26 (11.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 153 (69.23%) SQL
2 107 (48.42%) Python
3 76 (34.39%) Java
4 30 (13.57%) JavaScript
5 28 (12.67%) Scala
6 24 (10.86%) TypeScript
7 22 (9.95%) C#
8 12 (5.43%) Bash
8 12 (5.43%) Go
9 9 (4.07%) Shell Script
10 8 (3.62%) R
11 5 (2.26%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.36%) Rust
13 2 (0.90%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.90%) VB
14 1 (0.45%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.45%) Bourne shell
14 1 (0.45%) C++
14 1 (0.45%) Korn
14 1 (0.45%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 50 (22.62%) Security Cleared
2 43 (19.46%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.98%) Degree
4 8 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.17%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.71%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.26%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.36%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.36%) MCP
9 2 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.90%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.45%) CFA
10 1 (0.45%) ISEB
10 1 (0.45%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.88%) QA
3 8 (3.62%) Accessibility
4 7 (3.17%) GDPR
5 4 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.81%) NIST
5 4 (1.81%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.36%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.36%) WCAG
7 2 (0.90%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.90%) PSD2
7 2 (0.90%) SEPA
8 1 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
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 94 (42.53%) Docker
2 1 (0.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.45%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 95 (42.99%) Kubernetes
2 27 (12.22%) Terraform
3 10 (4.52%) Prometheus
4 9 (4.07%) Grafana
5 8 (3.62%) Ansible
6 4 (1.81%) Argo
7 3 (1.36%) Puppet
8 2 (0.90%) Istio
8 2 (0.90%) Knative
8 2 (0.90%) Nagios
8 2 (0.90%) Rancher
8 2 (0.90%) rkt
Vendors
1 33 (14.93%) Databricks
2 15 (6.79%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.43%) Google
4 8 (3.62%) MuleSoft
4 8 (3.62%) Oracle
5 5 (2.26%) Atlassian
5 5 (2.26%) Confluent
5 5 (2.26%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.81%) Informatica
6 4 (1.81%) Splunk
7 3 (1.36%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.36%) Refinitiv
7 3 (1.36%) Sybase
8 2 (0.90%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.90%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.45%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.45%) SAP
9 1 (0.45%) SnapLogic
9 1 (0.45%) Solace
9 1 (0.45%) Zoomdata