Chroma Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Chroma (ChromaDB)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Chroma skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 464 368 -
Rank change year-on-year -96 - -
Contract jobs citing Chroma 1 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.004% 0.019% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.028% 0.13% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £413 -
UK median daily rate £608 £419 £800
% change year-on-year +45.07% -47.66% -

All Database & BI Skills
UK excluding London

Chroma 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,519 2,365 2,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.67% 15.34% 13.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,301 1,558 1,635
10th Percentile £325 £292 £314
25th Percentile £408 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year - -1.04% -4.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £666 £625 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 42 66
10th Percentile £14.00 £20.76 £13.59
25th Percentile £22.00 £23.01 £17.50
Median hourly rate £38.25 £34.19 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.87% +13.97% -45.45%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.00 £59.34
90th Percentile £76.00 £70.00 £66.74
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £38.85 £32.50
% change year-on-year -0.89% +19.52% -40.91%

Chroma
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Chroma job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Chroma
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Chroma.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Chroma

Chroma
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Chroma within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
South East - 1 - -
Chroma
UK

Chroma
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Milvus
1 1 (100.00%) Pinecone
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Weaviate
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CrewAI
1 1 (100.00%) Faiss
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) LangGraph
1 1 (100.00%) Model Context Protocol
1 1 (100.00%) pgvector
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI