CockroachDB Contract Job Trends

CockroachDB
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring CockroachDB skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 577 537 606
Rank change year-on-year -40 +69 +187
Contract jobs citing CockroachDB 5 6 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.017% 0.004%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.079% 0.093% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £503 -
25th Percentile - £506 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £550 £350
Median % change year-on-year - +57.14% -50.00%
75th Percentile - £625 £375
90th Percentile - £640 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

CockroachDB 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 6,318 6,430 7,643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.41% 18.01% 16.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,344 4,251 5,359
10th Percentile £326 £340 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £527 £535
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% -1.50% -2.73%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £713 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 86 144
10th Percentile £20.71 £18.25 £16.62
25th Percentile £29.00 £23.10 £21.57
Median hourly rate £43.50 £31.55 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +37.90% -31.69% -7.64%
75th Percentile £67.13 £55.25 £64.65
90th Percentile £83.95 £65.50 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £49.36 £27.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +79.49% -40.45% +2.99%

CockroachDB
Job Vacancy Trend

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

CockroachDB job vacancy trend in the UK

CockroachDB
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

CockroachDB
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 CockroachDB within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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
UK excluding London - 5 - - 4
Scotland - 3 - -
England -41 2 - - 7
South West - 2 - - 2
Work from Home -5 1 - - 2

CockroachDB
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 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) NewSQL
2 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (20.00%) OLTP
3 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) JUnit
1 1 (20.00%) Postman
1 1 (20.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (20.00%) SoapUI
1 1 (20.00%) TestNG
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Database Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Django Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Python/Django Developer
2 1 (20.00%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (20.00%) Django
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth
1 1 (20.00%) OpenID
1 1 (20.00%) pytest
1 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (20.00%) React
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) API Design
2 1 (20.00%) API Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Defect Tracking
2 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (20.00%) SOLID
2 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) ANSI SQL
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk