Couchbase Contracts

Couchbase Server (formerly Membase)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Couchbase skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Couchbase 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 504 540 700
Rank change year-on-year +36 +160 +65
Contract jobs citing Couchbase 16 42 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% 0.096% 0.030%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.29% 0.57% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 24 14
10th Percentile £465 £356 £530
25th Percentile £713 £397 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £475 £663
Median % change year-on-year +52.63% -28.30% +20.45%
75th Percentile £738 £545 £711
90th Percentile £783 £592 £782
UK excluding London median daily rate - £387 £600
% change year-on-year - -35.50% +20.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Couchbase 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 5,552 7,317 10,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.96% 16.80% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,834 5,210 7,665
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £660
90th Percentile £763 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 143 183
10th Percentile £19.97 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.06 £20.98 £35.00
Median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £65.15 £58.62 £70.88
90th Percentile £75.13 £72.50 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
% change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%

Couchbase
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Couchbase as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Couchbase in the UK

Couchbase
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Couchbase.

Daily rate trend for Couchbase in the UK

Couchbase
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Couchbase over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Couchbase in the UK

Couchbase
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Couchbase within the UK 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
England +35 15 £725 +52.63% 15
London +30 9 £725 +48.72% 5
UK excluding London +50 6 - - 10
Work from Home +22 5 - - 12
North West - 4 - - 5
North of England - 4 - - 8
South East +34 2 - - 2

Couchbase
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (6.25%) Apache
1 1 (6.25%) Confluence
1 1 (6.25%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (18.75%) OpenShift
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) BIG-IP
1 1 (6.25%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (87.50%) NoSQL
2 5 (31.25%) MongoDB
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (18.75%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (18.75%) OLTP
3 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
4 2 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (6.25%) Apache Ignite
5 1 (6.25%) Big Data
5 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
5 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 3 (18.75%) Banking
1 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) DBA
2 5 (31.25%) Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Senior
3 4 (25.00%) Senior Developer
4 3 (18.75%) React Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Senior React Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Architect
5 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Identity Management Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Site Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.25%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) Kafka
2 3 (18.75%) Node.js
2 3 (18.75%) React
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Camel
3 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (6.25%) J2EE
3 1 (6.25%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (6.25%) OAuth
3 1 (6.25%) OAuth2
3 1 (6.25%) REST
3 1 (6.25%) RESTful
3 1 (6.25%) Spring
3 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.25%) Vert.x
3 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (18.75%) iPad
2 3 (18.75%) Replication
3 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
3 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Debian
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Containerisation
2 5 (31.25%) DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) E-Commerce
4 3 (18.75%) Microservices
4 3 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (18.75%) Visualisation
5 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (12.50%) Mobile First
6 1 (6.25%) API Design
6 1 (6.25%) BDD
6 1 (6.25%) CI/CD
6 1 (6.25%) Computer Science
6 1 (6.25%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (6.25%) Data Engineering
6 1 (6.25%) Data Privacy
6 1 (6.25%) OOD
6 1 (6.25%) Process Improvement
6 1 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 1 (6.25%) Software Architecture
6 1 (6.25%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) SQL
2 6 (37.50%) Java
3 4 (25.00%) Scala
4 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
4 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
5 2 (12.50%) Go
6 1 (6.25%) Bash
6 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
System Software
1 11 (68.75%) Docker
2 7 (43.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (56.25%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) Grafana
3 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.25%) Terraform
3 1 (6.25%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) VMware
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Atlassian
3 1 (6.25%) F5
3 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.25%) Splunk