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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 549 506 651
Rank change year-on-year -43 +145 +157
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Couchbase 5 53 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.015% 0.14% 0.033%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.085% 0.75% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 25 12
10th Percentile £471 £370 £563
25th Percentile £561 £425 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £475 £663
Median % change year-on-year +52.63% -28.30% +16.48%
75th Percentile £738 £753 £708
90th Percentile - £805 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £420 £425 £750
% change year-on-year -1.18% -43.33% +57.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,877 7,030 8,708
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.94% 18.13% 17.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,943 4,930 6,090
10th Percentile £340 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.23% -1.36%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 100 167
10th Percentile £21.21 £14.93 £20.95
25th Percentile £29.00 £19.77 £31.37
Median hourly rate £38.85 £32.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.52% -40.91% +29.41%
75th Percentile £64.00 £54.06 £73.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.93 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.88 £30.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year +12.93% -44.19% +53.57%

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
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Couchbase
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Couchbase over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Couchbase in the UK

Couchbase
Top 5 DemandTrendContract 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -24 5 £725 +52.63% 1
London +4 3 £725 +45.00%
South East +2 2 £420 -1.18% 1
UK excluding London -9 2 £420 -1.18% 1
Work from Home +6 1 - -

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 (20.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (40.00%) OCI
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (60.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (20.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (20.00%) Apache Ignite
4 1 (20.00%) Big Data
4 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
4 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Management Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) React Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior React Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Camel
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) OAuth
2 1 (20.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Replication
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) High Availability
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) Security Patching
2 1 (20.00%) API Design
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (20.00%) Information Security
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile First
2 1 (20.00%) OO
2 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Scala
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Confluent
1 2 (40.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle