MongoDB Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

MongoDB
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring MongoDB skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 200 219
Rank change year-on-year -95 +19 +51
Contract jobs citing MongoDB 193 205 157
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.69% 1.29% 0.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.63% 8.36% 6.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 116 98
10th Percentile £325 £400 £363
25th Percentile £400 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £500 £497
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +0.60% -5.33%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £612
90th Percentile £640 £684 £712
UK median daily rate £500 £503 £575
% change year-on-year -0.50% -12.61% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £28.68 - -
25th Percentile £33.06 - -
Median hourly rate £40.75 - -
75th Percentile £48.06 - -
90th Percentile £52.23 - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - £110.00
% change year-on-year - - +44.26%

All Database & BI Skills
UK excluding London

MongoDB 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 3,426 2,452 2,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.18% 15.47% 14.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,165 1,628 1,564
10th Percentile £325 £300 £318
25th Percentile £408 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £646 £663
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 34 65
10th Percentile £15.57 £20.69 £17.50
25th Percentile £21.25 £23.01 £19.59
Median hourly rate £41.71 £35.49 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.53% +18.30% -42.86%
75th Percentile £58.13 £64.88 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £65.00 £67.85
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £38.96 £35.00
% change year-on-year +5.24% +11.31% -33.33%

MongoDB
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

MongoDB job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

MongoDB
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

MongoDB
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MongoDB in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for MongoDB in the UK excluding London

MongoDB
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing MongoDB.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing MongoDB

MongoDB
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing MongoDB in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for MongoDB in the UK excluding London

MongoDB
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 MongoDB within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 October 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
North of England -68 83 £425 -22.73% 78
Midlands -13 54 £464 -7.28% 23
West Midlands -12 50 £465 -7.09% 18
Scotland -37 38 £377 -22.67% 28
North West -39 35 £469 +0.81% 51
North East -31 28 £425 -39.29% 16
Yorkshire -56 25 £381 -30.73% 11
South East -70 14 £458 -0.87% 31
South West -36 6 £544 -1.14% 29
East of England -28 5 £425 -15.84% 5
East Midlands -21 4 £402 +4.55% 5
Northern Ireland - 2 £190 - 14
MongoDB
UK

MongoDB
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:

Application Platforms
1 20 (10.36%) Confluence
2 6 (3.11%) Apache
3 4 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.55%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.55%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.04%) nginx
5 2 (1.04%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.04%) Traefik
6 1 (0.52%) Camunda
6 1 (0.52%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (4.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (4.15%) MS Visio
2 6 (3.11%) CPLEX
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 94 (48.70%) AWS
2 38 (19.69%) GitHub
3 22 (11.40%) Azure
4 18 (9.33%) GitHub Actions
5 16 (8.29%) Amazon SQS
5 16 (8.29%) GCP
6 14 (7.25%) Amazon EKS
7 13 (6.74%) Serverless
8 12 (6.22%) Amazon S3
9 10 (5.18%) GitHub Copilot
9 10 (5.18%) Kong
10 9 (4.66%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (4.66%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (4.66%) ChatGPT
11 8 (4.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (4.15%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (4.15%) OpenShift
12 7 (3.63%) Anthropic Claude
12 7 (3.63%) AWS Fargate
13 6 (3.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.66%) DNS
2 6 (3.11%) SSH
3 5 (2.59%) HTTP
3 5 (2.59%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.07%) 5G
5 3 (1.55%) 4G
6 2 (1.04%) HTTPS
6 2 (1.04%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (22.28%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (20.73%) NoSQL
3 31 (16.06%) Relational Database
4 20 (10.36%) MySQL
5 19 (9.84%) SQL Server
6 15 (7.77%) Redis
7 14 (7.25%) DynamoDB
8 13 (6.74%) RDBMS
9 11 (5.70%) Db2
10 7 (3.63%) DocumentDB
10 7 (3.63%) Metadata
11 5 (2.59%) Apache Cassandra
11 5 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (2.59%) Hazelcast
11 5 (2.59%) Oracle Database
12 3 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.55%) BusinessObjects
12 3 (1.55%) Flink
12 3 (1.55%) Pentaho
12 3 (1.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 65 (33.68%) GitLab
2 63 (32.64%) Git
3 43 (22.28%) Jenkins
4 25 (12.95%) Selenium
5 18 (9.33%) JIRA
5 18 (9.33%) JUnit
6 17 (8.81%) Gatling
7 15 (7.77%) Cucumber
8 13 (6.74%) Maven
9 11 (5.70%) Gradle
10 10 (5.18%) REST Assured
11 9 (4.66%) Mockito
12 8 (4.15%) Serenity BDD
13 6 (3.11%) Claude Code
13 6 (3.11%) GoCD
13 6 (3.11%) JProfiler
14 4 (2.07%) Snyk
14 4 (2.07%) SonarQube
15 3 (1.55%) ScalaTest
15 3 (1.55%) Subversion
General
1 54 (27.98%) Social Skills
2 47 (24.35%) Public Sector
3 32 (16.58%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (16.06%) Finance
5 18 (9.33%) Banking
6 14 (7.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.63%) Front Office
7 7 (3.63%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.07%) Military
8 4 (2.07%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.04%) Legal
9 2 (1.04%) Retail
10 1 (0.52%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.52%) International Banking
10 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 100 (51.81%) Developer
2 51 (26.42%) Java Developer
3 44 (22.80%) Senior
4 21 (10.88%) Python Developer
4 21 (10.88%) Senior Developer
5 19 (9.84%) Lead
6 15 (7.77%) Senior Java Developer
7 14 (7.25%) Test Engineer
8 13 (6.74%) Software Developer
9 12 (6.22%) Java Engineer
10 11 (5.70%) Analyst
11 10 (5.18%) Lead Developer
11 10 (5.18%) Lead Java Developer
11 10 (5.18%) Quality Engineer
12 9 (4.66%) Business Systems Analyst
12 9 (4.66%) Full-Stack Developer
12 9 (4.66%) Systems Analyst
13 8 (4.15%) Lead Test Engineer
14 7 (3.63%) DBA
14 7 (3.63%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (41.45%) Kafka
2 65 (33.68%) Spring
3 59 (30.57%) Spring Boot
4 40 (20.73%) JSON
5 39 (20.21%) RabbitMQ
5 39 (20.21%) React
5 39 (20.21%) REST
6 32 (16.58%) RESTful
6 32 (16.58%) Terraform
7 27 (13.99%) Playwright
8 21 (10.88%) Node.js
9 17 (8.81%) FastAPI
9 17 (8.81%) OAuth
10 16 (8.29%) OAuth2
11 13 (6.74%) .NET
11 13 (6.74%) CSS
11 13 (6.74%) Web Services
12 12 (6.22%) HTML
12 12 (6.22%) OpenTelemetry
12 12 (6.22%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 29 (15.03%) Cloud Native
2 25 (12.95%) Product Ownership
3 16 (8.29%) Data Structures
4 15 (7.77%) Algorithms
4 15 (7.77%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (6.74%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (4.15%) Blog
7 7 (3.63%) Equity Derivative
8 6 (3.11%) Derivative
9 4 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.07%) Replication
10 3 (1.55%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (1.04%) AI Agents
11 2 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.04%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.52%) Management Information System
12 1 (0.52%) Onboarding
12 1 (0.52%) PKI
12 1 (0.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.84%) Linux
2 8 (4.15%) Unix
3 4 (2.07%) Windows
4 2 (1.04%) CentOS
4 2 (1.04%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.52%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (58.03%) Agile
2 111 (57.51%) CI/CD
3 87 (45.08%) Microservices
4 75 (38.86%) DevOps
5 66 (34.20%) Test Automation
6 58 (30.05%) TDD
7 49 (25.39%) Problem-Solving
8 48 (24.87%) Scrum
9 42 (21.76%) Observability
10 40 (20.73%) Containerisation
11 35 (18.13%) BDD
12 34 (17.62%) Continuous Improvement
13 33 (17.10%) Mentoring
14 31 (16.06%) Software Engineering
15 30 (15.54%) Event-Driven
16 29 (15.03%) Stakeholder Management
17 28 (14.51%) Coaching
18 27 (13.99%) AI
18 27 (13.99%) SDLC
19 20 (10.36%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 106 (54.92%) Java
2 60 (31.09%) SQL
3 50 (25.91%) Python
4 34 (17.62%) JavaScript
5 18 (9.33%) TypeScript
6 16 (8.29%) PowerShell
7 13 (6.74%) Bash
8 12 (6.22%) PL/SQL
9 10 (5.18%) Shell Script
10 9 (4.66%) Scala
11 8 (4.15%) C#
11 8 (4.15%) C++
12 3 (1.55%) Go
12 3 (1.55%) Ruby
13 2 (1.04%) Perl
13 2 (1.04%) R
14 1 (0.52%) Bicep
14 1 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.52%) Groovy
14 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (25.91%) Security Cleared
2 39 (20.21%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (4.15%) Degree
5 5 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.59%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.07%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.55%) Postgraduate
8 2 (1.04%) CISSP
9 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.52%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (18.13%) Accessibility
2 29 (15.03%) QA
3 14 (7.25%) WCAG
4 8 (4.15%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.04%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.04%) GDPR
6 1 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.52%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.52%) NCSC
6 1 (0.52%) NIST
System Software
1 67 (34.72%) Docker
2 2 (1.04%) Ceph
2 2 (1.04%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.04%) Squid
2 2 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 73 (37.82%) Kubernetes
2 41 (21.24%) Grafana
3 29 (15.03%) Prometheus
4 24 (12.44%) Ansible
5 8 (4.15%) Argo
5 8 (4.15%) Kibana
6 5 (2.59%) Control-M
6 5 (2.59%) IBM Guardium
6 5 (2.59%) Nessus
7 3 (1.55%) Istio
8 2 (1.04%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.04%) logstash
8 2 (1.04%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.52%) Consul
9 1 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.52%) linkerd
9 1 (0.52%) Rancher
9 1 (0.52%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 51 (26.42%) Oracle
2 16 (8.29%) Splunk
3 15 (7.77%) Microsoft
4 11 (5.70%) MuleSoft
5 7 (3.63%) IBM
5 7 (3.63%) Sybase
6 6 (3.11%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.59%) Confluent
7 5 (2.59%) SAP
7 5 (2.59%) Tenable
8 4 (2.07%) Google
9 3 (1.55%) Cloudera
9 3 (1.55%) CyberArk
9 3 (1.55%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.04%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.04%) Databricks
10 2 (1.04%) NetApp
10 2 (1.04%) Okta
10 2 (1.04%) Solace
10 2 (1.04%) VMware