Couchbase Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Couchbase Server (formerly Membase)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Couchbase skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 345 420
Rank change year-on-year -15 +75 +89
Contract jobs citing Couchbase 2 22 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.013% 0.12% 0.005%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.086% 0.90% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 1
10th Percentile - £354 -
25th Percentile £410 £366 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £425 £750
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -43.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £430 £475 -
90th Percentile - £490 -
UK median daily rate £725 £475 £675
% change year-on-year +52.63% -29.63% +17.39%

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 2,339 2,449 3,083
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.21% 13.58% 14.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,541 1,642 2,196
10th Percentile £294 £317 £328
25th Percentile £385 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.52% -4.50% -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £625 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 65 111
10th Percentile £20.75 £13.58 £21.00
25th Percentile £22.84 £17.50 £26.04
Median hourly rate £33.88 £30.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.93% -45.45% +57.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.50 £73.73
90th Percentile £70.00 £67.14 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £38.85 £32.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +19.52% -40.91% +29.41%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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 29 August 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
South East -2 2 £420 -1.18% 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) OCI
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Replication
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Confluent
1 2 (100.00%) IBM