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 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 186 141
Rank change year-on-year -60 -45 +67
Contract jobs citing NoSQL 214 193 303
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.06% 1.44% 1.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.93% 6.72% 8.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 141 220
10th Percentile £394 £375 £348
25th Percentile £432 £420 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% -12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £675 £663 £700
90th Percentile £768 £800 £814
England median daily rate £525 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +5.00% -16.67% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £37.75 -
25th Percentile £61.00 £40.00 -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +48.89% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £50.00 -
90th Percentile - £52.25 -
England median hourly rate £76.00 £52.50 -
% change year-on-year +44.76% - -

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 3,606 2,874 3,673
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.82% 21.37% 22.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,483 2,002 2,621
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £435 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £644 £680 £725
90th Percentile £738 £825 £850
England median daily rate £510 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -0.49% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 37 24
10th Percentile £17.97 £24.81 £25.40
25th Percentile £25.25 £32.50 £35.94
Median hourly rate £32.28 £55.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -41.32% +25.71% -12.94%
75th Percentile £57.50 £72.00 £54.06
90th Percentile £65.13 £87.50 £77.63
England median hourly rate £38.50 £43.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.49% +24.29% -36.07%

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 27 September 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 27 September 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 21 £578 +5.00% 31
South London -5 4 £425 -42.37%
West London -25 2 - - 19
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 29 (13.55%) Apache Spark
2 16 (7.48%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (5.14%) Apache
4 4 (1.87%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.87%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.93%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.93%) Camunda
5 2 (0.93%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.47%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.47%) CMS
6 1 (0.47%) Confluence
6 1 (0.47%) Luigi
6 1 (0.47%) MQSeries
Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Actimize
1 2 (0.93%) Endur
1 2 (0.93%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 121 (56.54%) AWS
2 118 (55.14%) Azure
3 52 (24.30%) GCP
4 48 (22.43%) GitHub
5 33 (15.42%) Serverless
6 31 (14.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 28 (13.08%) GitHub Actions
8 25 (11.68%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (8.88%) Snowflake
10 17 (7.94%) Amazon S3
10 17 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (6.07%) Power Platform
12 10 (4.67%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (4.67%) Cloud Computing
13 9 (4.21%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (4.21%) Amazon SQS
13 9 (4.21%) Azure Data Factory
13 9 (4.21%) Azure Functions
14 8 (3.74%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (3.74%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.87%) DNS
1 4 (1.87%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.40%) Internet
3 2 (0.93%) 4G
3 2 (0.93%) 5G
3 2 (0.93%) DHCP
3 2 (0.93%) HTTP
3 2 (0.93%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (27.57%) MongoDB
2 57 (26.64%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (10.75%) Relational Database
4 20 (9.35%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (8.88%) Data Lake
6 18 (8.41%) SQL Server
7 17 (7.94%) Big Data
7 17 (7.94%) MySQL
8 15 (7.01%) Apache Cassandra
9 14 (6.54%) BigQuery
10 13 (6.07%) DynamoDB
11 12 (5.61%) Redis
12 11 (5.14%) Power BI
12 11 (5.14%) RDBMS
13 9 (4.21%) Metadata
14 8 (3.74%) Amazon RDS
15 7 (3.27%) Couchbase
15 7 (3.27%) Hadoop
16 6 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
16 6 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 57 (26.64%) Git
2 41 (19.16%) Jenkins
3 27 (12.62%) GitLab
4 11 (5.14%) JUnit
5 7 (3.27%) Mockito
6 6 (2.80%) Maven
7 5 (2.34%) Gradle
8 4 (1.87%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.87%) Eclipse
8 4 (1.87%) JIRA
8 4 (1.87%) Mocha
9 3 (1.40%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.40%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.40%) ER Studio
9 3 (1.40%) Selenium
10 2 (0.93%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.93%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.93%) Karma Test Runner
10 2 (0.93%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 66 (30.84%) Finance
2 56 (26.17%) Social Skills
3 37 (17.29%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (10.28%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.07%) Banking
5 13 (6.07%) Front Office
5 13 (6.07%) Retail
6 8 (3.74%) Telecoms
7 7 (3.27%) Aerospace
8 6 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.80%) Local Government
8 6 (2.80%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.87%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.87%) Marketing
10 3 (1.40%) Billing
10 3 (1.40%) Legal
10 3 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.40%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 65 (30.37%) Developer
2 42 (19.63%) Senior
3 40 (18.69%) Data Engineer
4 20 (9.35%) Architect
5 18 (8.41%) Software Engineer
6 16 (7.48%) Full-Stack Developer
7 15 (7.01%) Java Developer
8 13 (6.07%) Python Developer
9 10 (4.67%) Lead
9 10 (4.67%) Senior Data Engineer
9 10 (4.67%) Senior Developer
10 9 (4.21%) Java Engineer
10 9 (4.21%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (3.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 8 (3.74%) Python Engineer
12 7 (3.27%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
12 7 (3.27%) Backend Developer
12 7 (3.27%) Data Architect
12 7 (3.27%) Java Software Engineer
12 7 (3.27%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (30.37%) Kafka
2 54 (25.23%) REST
3 44 (20.56%) Spring
4 43 (20.09%) Terraform
5 42 (19.63%) Spring Boot
6 39 (18.22%) React
6 39 (18.22%) RESTful
7 29 (13.55%) .NET
8 28 (13.08%) Node.js
9 25 (11.68%) RabbitMQ
10 21 (9.81%) AngularJS
10 21 (9.81%) CSS
11 20 (9.35%) GraphQL
11 20 (9.35%) HTML
12 19 (8.88%) OAuth
13 17 (7.94%) Vue
14 15 (7.01%) OAuth2
15 13 (6.07%) LangChain
16 11 (5.14%) OpenTelemetry
17 10 (4.67%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 48 (22.43%) Cloud Native
2 40 (18.69%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (8.41%) Data Structures
4 14 (6.54%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (5.14%) Algorithms
5 11 (5.14%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.67%) AI Agents
7 7 (3.27%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (3.27%) Replication
8 6 (2.80%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.87%) Derivative
10 4 (1.87%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.87%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.40%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (1.40%) Reference Data
11 3 (1.40%) Reinsurance
11 3 (1.40%) TM Forum
12 2 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (12.15%) Linux
2 10 (4.67%) Unix
3 3 (1.40%) Ubuntu
3 3 (1.40%) Windows
4 2 (0.93%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (60.28%) CI/CD
2 106 (49.53%) Agile
3 84 (39.25%) Microservices
4 81 (37.85%) DevOps
5 69 (32.24%) Data Modelling
6 68 (31.78%) Event-Driven
7 56 (26.17%) AI
8 50 (23.36%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 50 (23.36%) Test Automation
9 49 (22.90%) Containerisation
10 48 (22.43%) Full-Stack Development
10 48 (22.43%) Software Engineering
11 47 (21.96%) Problem-Solving
12 42 (19.63%) Scrum
13 37 (17.29%) Observability
14 36 (16.82%) Data Engineering
15 33 (15.42%) ETL
16 31 (14.49%) Data Pipeline
17 29 (13.55%) Infrastructure as Code
18 28 (13.08%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 125 (58.41%) SQL
2 102 (47.66%) Python
3 88 (41.12%) Java
4 40 (18.69%) JavaScript
5 36 (16.82%) TypeScript
6 24 (11.21%) Go
7 21 (9.81%) C#
8 16 (7.48%) Scala
9 10 (4.67%) Bash
10 8 (3.74%) PHP
10 8 (3.74%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.34%) Groovy
12 4 (1.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (1.87%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.40%) Bicep
13 3 (1.40%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.93%) C
14 2 (0.93%) C++
14 2 (0.93%) CQL
14 2 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 44 (20.56%) Security Cleared
2 28 (13.08%) SC Cleared
3 25 (11.68%) Degree
4 18 (8.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 6 (2.80%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.87%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.40%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.93%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.93%) PhD
10 2 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (15.42%) Data Quality
2 22 (10.28%) QA
3 8 (3.74%) GDPR
4 5 (2.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.40%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.93%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.47%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.47%) PSD2
7 1 (0.47%) SEPA
System Software
1 82 (38.32%) Docker
2 5 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.93%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 77 (35.98%) Kubernetes
2 21 (9.81%) Grafana
3 14 (6.54%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.80%) Ansible
5 5 (2.34%) Kibana
6 4 (1.87%) Istio
7 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (15.89%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.81%) Oracle
3 13 (6.07%) Databricks
4 12 (5.61%) Splunk
5 9 (4.21%) Google
5 9 (4.21%) New Relic
6 8 (3.74%) Dynatrace
7 7 (3.27%) Bloomberg
8 6 (2.80%) IBM
8 6 (2.80%) Refinitiv
9 5 (2.34%) OpenAI
9 5 (2.34%) VMware
10 3 (1.40%) Confluent
10 3 (1.40%) Informatica
10 3 (1.40%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.40%) SAP
11 2 (0.93%) Cisco
11 2 (0.93%) OpenLink
11 2 (0.93%) Sparx
12 1 (0.47%) Calypso