Chroma Contract Job Trends

Chroma (ChromaDB)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Chroma skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 664 552 555
Rank change year-on-year -112 +3 -
Contract jobs citing Chroma 18 8 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.033% 0.024% 0.005%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.22% 0.13% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 2
10th Percentile £410 £344 £693
25th Percentile £476 £383 £719
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £419 £800
Median % change year-on-year +45.07% -47.66% -
75th Percentile £693 £454 £894
90th Percentile £725 £693 £928
UK excluding London median daily rate - £413 -

All Database & BI Skills
UK

Chroma 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 8,220 5,940 6,980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.23% 18.03% 18.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,477 3,981 4,887
10th Percentile £358 £340 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.23%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £480
% change year-on-year - -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 94 99
10th Percentile £15.82 £21.22 £14.85
25th Percentile £23.00 £29.02 £19.71
Median hourly rate £38.50 £38.85 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.89% +19.52% -40.91%
75th Percentile £60.75 £64.94 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.63 £70.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £34.19 £30.00
% change year-on-year +11.87% +13.97% -45.45%

Chroma
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Chroma relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Chroma job vacancy trend in the UK

Chroma
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Chroma.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Chroma

Chroma
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Chroma over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Chroma in the UK

Chroma
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Chroma within the UK over the 6 months to 30 August 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
England -97 17 £550 +31.34%
London -64 16 £550 +29.41%
Work from Home -60 3 £700 +75.00%
UK excluding London -96 1 - -
South East - 1 - -

Chroma
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 16 (88.89%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) AWS
2 5 (27.78%) GCP
3 3 (16.67%) Azure AI
4 2 (11.11%) Anthropic Claude
4 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (11.11%) GitHub
4 2 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (11.11%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
5 1 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (100.00%) Pinecone
2 15 (83.33%) Weaviate
3 3 (16.67%) Milvus
4 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Claude Code
2 2 (11.11%) Git
3 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (55.56%) Banking
1 10 (55.56%) Finance
1 10 (55.56%) Front Office
1 10 (55.56%) Investment Banking
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (94.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Gen AI Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Junior
4 1 (5.56%) Junior Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (88.89%) LangChain
2 13 (72.22%) LlamaIndex
3 10 (55.56%) .NET
4 6 (33.33%) LangGraph
5 5 (27.78%) Semantic Kernel
6 3 (16.67%) CrewAI
6 3 (16.67%) REST
7 2 (11.11%) FastAPI
7 2 (11.11%) Flask
7 2 (11.11%) Hugging Face
7 2 (11.11%) Model Context Protocol
8 1 (5.56%) Faiss
8 1 (5.56%) JSON
8 1 (5.56%) Kafka
8 1 (5.56%) Node.js
8 1 (5.56%) pgvector
8 1 (5.56%) RESTful
8 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 15 (83.33%) AI Agents
2 4 (22.22%) Cloud Native
3 3 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) AI
2 17 (94.44%) LLM
3 16 (88.89%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 15 (83.33%) Prompt Engineering
4 15 (83.33%) Software Engineering
5 13 (72.22%) Semantic Search
6 12 (66.67%) Multi-Agent System
7 11 (61.11%) Intelligent Automation
7 11 (61.11%) Use Case
8 10 (55.56%) AI Transformation
8 10 (55.56%) Operations Research
8 10 (55.56%) Prototyping
8 10 (55.56%) Rapid Prototyping
8 10 (55.56%) Translating Business Requirements
9 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
9 5 (27.78%) Generative AI
10 4 (22.22%) Microservices
11 3 (16.67%) DevOps
11 3 (16.67%) Observability
11 3 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) Python
2 11 (61.11%) C#
3 5 (27.78%) TypeScript
4 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 2 (11.11%) Java
6 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (83.33%) OpenAI
2 2 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft