NoSQL Contracts in the UK excluding London

NoSQL
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring NoSQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NoSQL 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 209 252 298
Rank change year-on-year +43 +46 -63
Contract jobs citing NoSQL 127 148 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.99% 0.71% 0.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.29% 5.71% 4.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 92 107
10th Percentile £335 £364 £400
25th Percentile £409 £448 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £537 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.41% +2.29% -
75th Percentile £563 £650 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £693
UK median daily rate £520 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -9.57% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 13
10th Percentile - £24.38 £64.00
25th Percentile - £28.37 £71.25
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -53.33% +20.68%
75th Percentile - £37.75 -
90th Percentile - £39.40 £77.40
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £37.75 £75.00
% change year-on-year +39.07% -49.67% +14.47%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding 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 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%

NoSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for NoSQL in the UK excluding London

NoSQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for NoSQL in the UK excluding London

NoSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NoSQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NoSQL in the UK excluding London

NoSQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NoSQL in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for NoSQL in the UK excluding London

NoSQL
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 NoSQL 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 of England +32 51 £458 -14.80% 99
North West +33 39 £445 -16.67% 65
Midlands +24 21 £512 +17.03% 65
South East +17 19 £525 -13.40% 134
West Midlands +15 15 £594 +39.82% 38
South West +39 14 £650 +23.81% 39
Scotland +15 14 £525 +23.53% 36
Yorkshire +3 7 £550 -12.00% 25
Northern Ireland - 7 £325 - 12
East Midlands +11 6 £367 -45.63% 24
North East +2 5 £465 - 10
East of England +22 2 £575 -9.80% 31
Wales - 1 - - 6
NoSQL
UK

NoSQL
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 10 (7.87%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.72%) Confluence
3 5 (3.94%) Apache
4 2 (1.57%) IIS
4 2 (1.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.79%) Camunda
5 1 (0.79%) CMS
5 1 (0.79%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.57%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.79%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.79%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (1.57%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 37 (29.13%) AWS
2 28 (22.05%) Azure
3 26 (20.47%) Serverless
4 15 (11.81%) GCP
5 13 (10.24%) Amazon S3
6 9 (7.09%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (5.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 7 (5.51%) GitHub
8 6 (4.72%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (4.72%) Azure Functions
8 6 (4.72%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (4.72%) OpenShift
9 5 (3.94%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (3.94%) Kong
10 4 (3.15%) Amazon Cognito
10 4 (3.15%) Apigee
10 4 (3.15%) Entra ID
11 3 (2.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (2.36%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (2.36%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.79%) BGP
1 1 (0.79%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (0.79%) FTP
1 1 (0.79%) HTTP
1 1 (0.79%) MPLS
1 1 (0.79%) SSL
1 1 (0.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (40.94%) MongoDB
2 31 (24.41%) Relational Database
3 29 (22.83%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (18.11%) RDBMS
5 20 (15.75%) MySQL
6 12 (9.45%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (8.66%) Data Lake
7 11 (8.66%) Oracle Reports
8 9 (7.09%) Big Data
8 9 (7.09%) SQL Server
9 8 (6.30%) Apache Cassandra
10 7 (5.51%) Metadata
10 7 (5.51%) Parquet
11 6 (4.72%) DynamoDB
11 6 (4.72%) Flink
12 5 (3.94%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (3.94%) Couchbase
13 4 (3.15%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (3.15%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (3.15%) Redis
Development Applications
1 30 (23.62%) Git
2 19 (14.96%) Jenkins
3 17 (13.39%) JIRA
4 12 (9.45%) GitLab
5 11 (8.66%) Maven
6 10 (7.87%) JUnit
7 7 (5.51%) ERwin
7 7 (5.51%) Selenium
7 7 (5.51%) Subversion
8 5 (3.94%) Artifactory
8 5 (3.94%) Gradle
8 5 (3.94%) gulp
8 5 (3.94%) SonarQube
8 5 (3.94%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (3.15%) CA Release Automation
9 4 (3.15%) HP UFT
9 4 (3.15%) IntelliJ
9 4 (3.15%) NetBeans
10 3 (2.36%) CircleCI
11 2 (1.57%) ER Studio
General
1 26 (20.47%) Social Skills
2 22 (17.32%) Finance
3 13 (10.24%) Public Sector
4 12 (9.45%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.30%) Banking
6 6 (4.72%) Front Office
7 5 (3.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.36%) Legal
8 3 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.57%) Billing
9 2 (1.57%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.57%) Law
9 2 (1.57%) Military
10 1 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (38.58%) Developer
2 20 (15.75%) Full-Stack Developer
3 16 (12.60%) Architect
3 16 (12.60%) DBA
4 15 (11.81%) Java Developer
5 14 (11.02%) Senior
6 9 (7.09%) Data Engineer
7 8 (6.30%) PostgreSQL DBA
7 8 (6.30%) Software Engineer
8 7 (5.51%) Data Architect
8 7 (5.51%) Data Modeller
9 6 (4.72%) Azure Developer
9 6 (4.72%) Java Engineer
9 6 (4.72%) Lead
10 5 (3.94%) Administrator
10 5 (3.94%) Full-Stack Python Developer
10 5 (3.94%) Python Developer
10 5 (3.94%) React Developer
10 5 (3.94%) Senior Developer
10 5 (3.94%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (33.86%) Kafka
2 32 (25.20%) React
3 27 (21.26%) JSON
4 21 (16.54%) RESTful
5 19 (14.96%) Node.js
6 18 (14.17%) AngularJS
6 18 (14.17%) Spring
6 18 (14.17%) XML
7 17 (13.39%) Spring Boot
8 15 (11.81%) CSS
9 14 (11.02%) HTML
9 14 (11.02%) Web Services
10 11 (8.66%) RabbitMQ
11 10 (7.87%) .NET
12 9 (7.09%) Apache Avro
12 9 (7.09%) Hibernate
12 9 (7.09%) HTML5
13 8 (6.30%) REST
14 7 (5.51%) Laravel
14 7 (5.51%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.39%) Product Ownership
2 9 (7.09%) Cloud Native
3 8 (6.30%) Data Structures
4 7 (5.51%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.94%) Equities
6 4 (3.15%) Derivative
6 4 (3.15%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (2.36%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.36%) Mainframe
7 3 (2.36%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.36%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.57%) Replication
9 1 (0.79%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.79%) IoT
9 1 (0.79%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.79%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.87%) Linux
2 4 (3.15%) Unix
3 1 (0.79%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (47.24%) Agile
1 60 (47.24%) CI/CD
2 48 (37.80%) DevOps
3 39 (30.71%) Microservices
4 38 (29.92%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (19.69%) Test Automation
6 22 (17.32%) Full-Stack Development
6 22 (17.32%) Software Engineering
7 21 (16.54%) Event-Driven
8 20 (15.75%) Containerisation
9 19 (14.96%) Data Modelling
9 19 (14.96%) SDLC
10 18 (14.17%) ETL
11 17 (13.39%) Mentoring
12 16 (12.60%) API Development
13 15 (11.81%) Scrum
14 13 (10.24%) Code Quality
14 13 (10.24%) Data Ingestion
14 13 (10.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 12 (9.45%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 78 (61.42%) SQL
2 43 (33.86%) Java
3 34 (26.77%) JavaScript
3 34 (26.77%) Python
4 16 (12.60%) TypeScript
5 7 (5.51%) PHP
6 6 (4.72%) Go
6 6 (4.72%) Scala
7 5 (3.94%) C#
8 4 (3.15%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.57%) Bash
9 2 (1.57%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.79%) Bicep
10 1 (0.79%) C++
10 1 (0.79%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.79%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (16.54%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.24%) Degree
3 9 (7.09%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.30%) DV Cleared
5 7 (5.51%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.57%) Tableau Certification
7 2 (1.57%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.79%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.66%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.72%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.72%) QA
3 5 (3.94%) GDPR
4 2 (1.57%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.79%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.79%) SLA
5 1 (0.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (21.26%) Docker
2 8 (6.30%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.57%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 39 (30.71%) Kubernetes
2 18 (14.17%) Terraform
3 7 (5.51%) Grafana
4 5 (3.94%) Puppet
5 4 (3.15%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.36%) Ansible
6 3 (2.36%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.79%) Graylog
7 1 (0.79%) Packer
Vendors
1 23 (18.11%) Oracle
2 13 (10.24%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.30%) Databricks
4 7 (5.51%) Google
5 6 (4.72%) MuleSoft
6 5 (3.94%) SAP
6 5 (3.94%) Splunk
7 4 (3.15%) CA Agile Central
7 4 (3.15%) Dynatrace
7 4 (3.15%) SnapLogic
7 4 (3.15%) Talend
7 4 (3.15%) VMware
7 4 (3.15%) Zend
8 3 (2.36%) Informatica
9 2 (1.57%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.57%) New Relic
9 2 (1.57%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.57%) Sybase
10 1 (0.79%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.79%) PagerDuty