Couchbase Contracts in the UK excluding London

Couchbase Server (formerly Membase)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Couchbase skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Couchbase over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 380 458
Rank change year-on-year +50 +78 +34
Contract jobs citing Couchbase 6 19 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.047% 0.091% 0.017%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.30% 0.73% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 11 4
10th Percentile - £350 £566
25th Percentile - £357 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £387 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -35.50% +20.00%
75th Percentile - £490 £631
90th Percentile - £538 £643
UK median daily rate £725 £475 £663
% change year-on-year +52.63% -28.30% +20.45%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

Couchbase 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 2,019 2,594 3,714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.82% 12.49% 15.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,400 1,827 2,673
10th Percentile £315 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £594
90th Percentile £660 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 96 114
10th Percentile £18.74 £13.50 £21.96
25th Percentile £22.98 £18.03 £32.32
Median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%
75th Percentile £65.62 £58.61 £66.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £75.35
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

Couchbase
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Couchbase as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Couchbase in the UK excluding London

Couchbase
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Couchbase in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Couchbase in the UK excluding London

Couchbase
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 Couchbase within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
North West - 4 - - 5
North of England - 4 - - 8
South East +34 2 - - 1
Couchbase
UK

Couchbase
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) DBA
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) J2EE
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
1 1 (16.67%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) BDD
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
3 1 (16.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Go
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
2 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Atlassian