NoSQL Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

NoSQL
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring NoSQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 204 211 262
Rank change year-on-year +7 +51 -16
Contract jobs citing NoSQL 212 146 146
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.16% 0.99% 0.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.13% 6.57% 5.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 89 100
10th Percentile £324 £325 £400
25th Percentile £400 £378 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% -2.33%
75th Percentile £550 £612 £623
90th Percentile £638 £650 £677
UK median daily rate £500 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -10.71% +1.82% -10.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £54.79 - £77.01
25th Percentile £56.65 - £77.18
Median hourly rate £64.50 - £79.39
75th Percentile £71.76 - £82.99
90th Percentile £73.26 - £83.98
UK median hourly rate £66.25 - £76.25
% change year-on-year - - +69.44%

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 2,607 2,221 2,793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.25% 15.04% 14.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,808 1,390 1,991
10th Percentile £310 £313 £306
25th Percentile £400 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -0.10%
75th Percentile £570 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 50 91
10th Percentile £21.59 £18.45 £15.32
25th Percentile £31.25 £21.56 £20.91
Median hourly rate £60.00 £27.24 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +120.28% -41.02% -5.76%
75th Percentile £74.26 £64.50 £66.25
90th Percentile £84.60 £65.66 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £30.40 £47.50
% change year-on-year +64.47% -36.00% -8.21%

NoSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

NoSQL job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

NoSQL
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NoSQL in the UK excluding London

NoSQL
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

NoSQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing NoSQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 23 December 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 +10 103 £500 +10.44% 114
Yorkshire +18 64 £500 -8.85% 48
South East -29 39 £462 -26.16% 91
North West -29 35 £414 -7.08% 57
Midlands -23 30 £500 -13.04% 57
Scotland +10 24 £429 +11.36% 10
West Midlands -17 23 £525 -12.50% 29
East of England - 20 £625 - 56
South West -2 9 £575 +62.20% 39
East Midlands -13 7 £415 -24.55% 26
North East - 7 £475 - 10
Northern Ireland -9 1 £430 +43.33% 1
NoSQL
UK

NoSQL
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 15 (7.08%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (6.60%) Apache Spark
3 10 (4.72%) Apache
3 10 (4.72%) Confluence
4 2 (0.94%) CICS
4 2 (0.94%) Mule
4 2 (0.94%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.94%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.47%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.47%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 7 (3.30%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 142 (66.98%) AWS
2 79 (37.26%) GCP
3 65 (30.66%) Serverless
4 50 (23.58%) Azure
5 39 (18.40%) GitHub
6 22 (10.38%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (8.02%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (6.60%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (6.13%) Datadog
10 12 (5.66%) Amazon SQS
11 11 (5.19%) Power Platform
12 10 (4.72%) Amazon EventBridge
13 9 (4.25%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (4.25%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (3.77%) Amazon S3
14 8 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (3.77%) AWS KMS
15 7 (3.30%) AWS Fargate
15 7 (3.30%) OpenShift
15 7 (3.30%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.36%) Kerberos
2 4 (1.89%) Internet
2 4 (1.89%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.42%) SSH
3 3 (1.42%) SSL
4 2 (0.94%) DNS
4 2 (0.94%) Firewall
5 1 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.47%) FCoE
5 1 (0.47%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.47%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.47%) LAN
5 1 (0.47%) Multicast
5 1 (0.47%) NAS
5 1 (0.47%) SAN
5 1 (0.47%) VPN
5 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (32.08%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (26.89%) MongoDB
3 34 (16.04%) Relational Database
4 32 (15.09%) RDBMS
5 20 (9.43%) DynamoDB
6 19 (8.96%) Redis
7 18 (8.49%) MySQL
8 16 (7.55%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (7.08%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (6.60%) Big Data
11 12 (5.66%) Amazon Aurora
12 11 (5.19%) Apache Cassandra
12 11 (5.19%) Couchbase
12 11 (5.19%) Power BI
13 10 (4.72%) Hadoop
14 9 (4.25%) HBase
14 9 (4.25%) SQL Server
15 8 (3.77%) Amazon Redshift
15 8 (3.77%) BigQuery
16 6 (2.83%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 84 (39.62%) Jenkins
2 45 (21.23%) GitLab
3 42 (19.81%) Git
4 29 (13.68%) Liquibase
5 19 (8.96%) JUnit
6 17 (8.02%) JIRA
7 14 (6.60%) Gradle
8 12 (5.66%) SonarQube
8 12 (5.66%) Sonatype Nexus
9 11 (5.19%) Cucumber
10 8 (3.77%) Artifactory
10 8 (3.77%) Mockito
10 8 (3.77%) PyCharm
11 7 (3.30%) Maven
11 7 (3.30%) Mocha
12 5 (2.36%) SonarLint
13 4 (1.89%) JMeter
14 3 (1.42%) MLflow
14 3 (1.42%) Vite
15 2 (0.94%) Poetry
General
1 95 (44.81%) Social Skills
2 68 (32.08%) Finance
3 51 (24.06%) Banking
4 27 (12.74%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (12.74%) Financial Institution
5 20 (9.43%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.19%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.42%) Multimedia
8 3 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.94%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.94%) Retail Banking
9 2 (0.94%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.94%) Wearables
10 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.47%) Military
Job Titles
1 71 (33.49%) Developer
2 49 (23.11%) Senior
3 38 (17.92%) Java Developer
4 36 (16.98%) Software Engineer
5 27 (12.74%) Data Engineer
6 23 (10.85%) Cloud Engineer
7 21 (9.91%) Senior Developer
7 21 (9.91%) Senior Software Engineer
8 19 (8.96%) AWS Engineer
9 17 (8.02%) Full-Stack Developer
10 16 (7.55%) Architect
11 15 (7.08%) GCP Engineer
12 14 (6.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 14 (6.60%) DevOps Engineer
12 14 (6.60%) Python Engineer
13 12 (5.66%) Senior Java Developer
14 10 (4.72%) AWS Software Engineer
15 9 (4.25%) Platform Engineer
16 8 (3.77%) Cloud Software Engineer
16 8 (3.77%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (35.85%) RESTful
2 59 (27.83%) Kafka
3 57 (26.89%) REST
4 40 (18.87%) Elastic Stack
5 36 (16.98%) Spring
6 35 (16.51%) Spring Boot
7 33 (15.57%) React
8 23 (10.85%) Node.js
9 15 (7.08%) RabbitMQ
9 15 (7.08%) TensorFlow
10 14 (6.60%) NumPy
10 14 (6.60%) Pandas
11 13 (6.13%) AngularJS
12 12 (5.66%) .NET
13 10 (4.72%) Hibernate
14 9 (4.25%) CSS
14 9 (4.25%) J2EE
14 9 (4.25%) JSON
14 9 (4.25%) PyTorch
14 9 (4.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (20.75%) Cloud Native
2 42 (19.81%) Public Cloud
3 41 (19.34%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (5.66%) Replication
5 11 (5.19%) Data Structures
6 10 (4.72%) Algorithms
7 8 (3.77%) Clustering
7 8 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (3.30%) Product Ownership
9 5 (2.36%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (2.36%) NHS
9 5 (2.36%) N-Tier
10 4 (1.89%) Online Banking
11 3 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.94%) AI Agents
12 2 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.94%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 64 (30.19%) Linux
2 11 (5.19%) Unix
3 7 (3.30%) Windows
4 2 (0.94%) Solaris
4 2 (0.94%) zOS
5 1 (0.47%) MVS
5 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (59.43%) Microservices
2 122 (57.55%) CI/CD
3 104 (49.06%) Agile
4 90 (42.45%) DevOps
5 86 (40.57%) Containerisation
6 68 (32.08%) Software Engineering
7 56 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
8 52 (24.53%) Infrastructure as Code
9 48 (22.64%) Computer Science
10 44 (20.75%) High Availability
11 42 (19.81%) Continuous Integration
12 40 (18.87%) Root Cause Analysis
13 35 (16.51%) Data Security
14 34 (16.04%) Cryptography
15 33 (15.57%) Non-Functional Testing
15 33 (15.57%) Test Automation
16 32 (15.09%) Continuous Delivery
16 32 (15.09%) TDD
17 30 (14.15%) AI
17 30 (14.15%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 108 (50.94%) Python
2 89 (41.98%) SQL
3 78 (36.79%) Java
4 43 (20.28%) Go
5 21 (9.91%) JavaScript
6 15 (7.08%) TypeScript
7 11 (5.19%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.30%) C#
9 6 (2.83%) Bash
10 5 (2.36%) PL/SQL
10 5 (2.36%) Scala
11 3 (1.42%) Groovy
12 2 (0.94%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.47%) Bicep
13 1 (0.47%) Bourne shell
13 1 (0.47%) C++
Qualifications
1 48 (22.64%) Degree
2 44 (20.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (16.51%) Master's Degree
4 31 (14.62%) AWS Certification
5 30 (14.15%) Security Cleared
6 14 (6.60%) SC Cleared
7 11 (5.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (3.77%) OCP
8 8 (3.77%) Oracle Certification
9 6 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.89%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (1.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.89%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.94%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.13%) QA
2 11 (5.19%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.77%) Accessibility
4 7 (3.30%) GDPR
5 6 (2.83%) WCAG
6 2 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 95 (44.81%) Docker
2 3 (1.42%) HDFS
3 2 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.94%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.94%) KVM
3 2 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.47%) NFS
4 1 (0.47%) SRDF
4 1 (0.47%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.47%) Xen
Systems Management
1 110 (51.89%) Kubernetes
2 65 (30.66%) Terraform
3 50 (23.58%) Grafana
4 44 (20.75%) Ansible
5 41 (19.34%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.89%) Argo
6 4 (1.89%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.42%) Consul
7 3 (1.42%) Hadoop YARN
7 3 (1.42%) Istio
7 3 (1.42%) Oozie
8 2 (0.94%) Kibana
8 2 (0.94%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.94%) Puppet
9 1 (0.47%) Nagios
9 1 (0.47%) Rancher
9 1 (0.47%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 39 (18.40%) Splunk
2 33 (15.57%) Google
3 21 (9.91%) Microsoft
4 17 (8.02%) Oracle
5 7 (3.30%) Databricks
5 7 (3.30%) IBM
6 6 (2.83%) Cloudera
6 6 (2.83%) Confluent
6 6 (2.83%) Foundry
6 6 (2.83%) Gigya
6 6 (2.83%) OpenAI
7 5 (2.36%) Atlassian
7 5 (2.36%) VMware
8 3 (1.42%) Checkmarx
9 2 (0.94%) Brio
9 2 (0.94%) Cisco
9 2 (0.94%) EMC
9 2 (0.94%) Informatica
9 2 (0.94%) NetApp
9 2 (0.94%) Red Hat