MongoDB Contracts

MongoDB
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring MongoDB skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MongoDB over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 187 273 234
Rank change year-on-year +86 -39 -40
Contract jobs citing MongoDB 422 376 688
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.44% 0.86% 1.15%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.61% 5.15% 6.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 265 482
10th Percentile £398 £375 £425
25th Percentile £450 £425 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -2.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £750 £774
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile - £55.38 £48.80
25th Percentile £24.25 £55.94 £54.50
Median hourly rate £24.50 £63.75 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.57% -0.39% +2.98%
75th Percentile £36.69 £76.25 £73.50
90th Percentile £58.18 £78.50 £79.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.50 £75.00 -
% change year-on-year -67.33% - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

MongoDB 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 5,544 7,303 10,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.96% 16.75% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,832 5,193 7,664
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% -1.78%
75th Percentile £638 £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 105 144 183
10th Percentile £20.09 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.25 £20.98 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.11 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.23% -33.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.55 £70.88
90th Percentile £74.75 £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%

MongoDB
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for MongoDB in the UK

MongoDB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for MongoDB in the UK

MongoDB
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MongoDB over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MongoDB in the UK

MongoDB
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MongoDB.

Hourly rate trend for MongoDB in the UK

MongoDB
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing MongoDB over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for MongoDB in the UK

MongoDB
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MongoDB within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +62 320 £525 -8.70% 404
UK excluding London +62 192 £500 +11.11% 241
London +37 164 £585 -10.00% 191
Work from Home +61 152 £500 -3.01% 345
North of England +15 79 £490 -6.67% 80
Scotland +24 50 £500 +13.64% 19
North West -4 41 £448 -16.15% 53
Yorkshire +14 28 £550 +23.60% 20
South East +36 23 £483 -3.50% 42
South West +57 19 £650 +48.57% 41
East of England +44 12 £450 - 10
North East +5 10 £475 - 7
Midlands +24 7 £455 +40.00% 44
West Midlands +14 5 £499 +53.46% 28
East Midlands - 2 £326 - 16
Wales +1 1 - - 3
Northern Ireland -9 1 £500 - 7

MongoDB
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 26 (6.16%) Confluence
2 24 (5.69%) Apache
3 18 (4.27%) Apache Spark
4 16 (3.79%) nginx
5 12 (2.84%) Traefik
6 6 (1.42%) BizTalk Server
6 6 (1.42%) Camunda
6 6 (1.42%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.95%) Alfresco
7 4 (0.95%) JBoss
8 3 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.71%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.47%) CMS
9 2 (0.47%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.24%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.24%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.24%) Luigi
10 1 (0.24%) SAS
10 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Sketch
2 1 (0.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.95%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.71%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.24%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 180 (42.65%) AWS
2 80 (18.96%) Azure
3 42 (9.95%) Serverless
4 40 (9.48%) GCP
5 27 (6.40%) Amazon ECS
6 26 (6.16%) AWS CloudFormation
7 24 (5.69%) Amazon S3
8 22 (5.21%) AWS Lambda
9 21 (4.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 21 (4.98%) Cloud Computing
10 18 (4.27%) Slack
11 17 (4.03%) AWS Fargate
11 17 (4.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 17 (4.03%) GitHub
12 16 (3.79%) Entra ID
13 15 (3.55%) SaaS
13 15 (3.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 12 (2.84%) Kong
15 11 (2.61%) IaaS
16 10 (2.37%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.50%) DNS
2 17 (4.03%) TCP/IP
3 15 (3.55%) HTTP
4 5 (1.18%) Kerberos
5 4 (0.95%) SSL
6 3 (0.71%) DHCP
6 3 (0.71%) IPsec
7 2 (0.47%) BGP
7 2 (0.47%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (0.47%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.47%) MPLS
7 2 (0.47%) VPN
8 1 (0.24%) FTP
8 1 (0.24%) NAS
8 1 (0.24%) SAN
8 1 (0.24%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (36.02%) PostgreSQL
2 117 (27.73%) NoSQL
3 111 (26.30%) MySQL
4 92 (21.80%) Relational Database
5 45 (10.66%) DB2
5 45 (10.66%) SQL Server
6 33 (7.82%) Apache Cassandra
7 25 (5.92%) RDBMS
8 23 (5.45%) Redis
9 16 (3.79%) DynamoDB
10 15 (3.55%) Big Data
11 14 (3.32%) Hadoop
12 12 (2.84%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (2.61%) Oracle Reports
14 10 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
15 9 (2.13%) Data Lake
15 9 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
16 7 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
17 5 (1.18%) Hazelcast
17 5 (1.18%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 80 (18.96%) JUnit
2 69 (16.35%) Git
3 58 (13.74%) Jenkins
4 49 (11.61%) GitLab
5 43 (10.19%) JIRA
6 27 (6.40%) Cucumber
7 26 (6.16%) Maven
8 19 (4.50%) Jasmine
9 12 (2.84%) Gradle
10 11 (2.61%) Artifactory
10 11 (2.61%) Mockito
11 10 (2.37%) SonarQube
12 8 (1.90%) gulp
13 7 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (1.66%) Subversion
13 7 (1.66%) TeamCity
14 6 (1.42%) Bitbucket
14 6 (1.42%) Visual Studio Code
15 5 (1.18%) Visual Studio
16 4 (0.95%) Ant
General
1 113 (26.78%) Social Skills
2 106 (25.12%) Finance
3 76 (18.01%) Public Sector
4 61 (14.45%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (13.74%) Banking
6 28 (6.64%) Front Office
7 27 (6.40%) Investment Banking
8 12 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.37%) Military
10 6 (1.42%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.95%) Retail
12 3 (0.71%) Mandarin Language
13 2 (0.47%) French Language
13 2 (0.47%) Marketing
13 2 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.24%) Automotive
14 1 (0.24%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.24%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.24%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.24%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 232 (54.98%) Developer
2 121 (28.67%) Java Developer
3 85 (20.14%) Senior
4 54 (12.80%) Senior Developer
5 46 (10.90%) Full-Stack Developer
6 45 (10.66%) Lead
7 32 (7.58%) Senior Java Developer
8 30 (7.11%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 25 (5.92%) Architect
10 24 (5.69%) DevOps Engineer
11 23 (5.45%) Software Engineer
12 22 (5.21%) DBA
13 21 (4.98%) SQL Developer
14 19 (4.50%) Python Developer
15 18 (4.27%) Investment Banking Java Developer
16 17 (4.03%) Lead Developer
17 16 (3.79%) Senior DevOps
18 13 (3.08%) .NET Developer
19 12 (2.84%) Senior SQL Developer
20 11 (2.61%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (39.81%) Kafka
2 147 (34.83%) Spring
3 96 (22.75%) Spring Boot
4 95 (22.51%) React
5 78 (18.48%) RESTful
6 52 (12.32%) AngularJS
7 51 (12.09%) .NET
8 44 (10.43%) Node.js
9 41 (9.72%) HTML
10 33 (7.82%) JMS
11 32 (7.58%) CSS
12 31 (7.35%) Swagger
13 30 (7.11%) OpenAPI
13 30 (7.11%) XML
14 28 (6.64%) JSON
15 25 (5.92%) Spring Security
16 21 (4.98%) Keycloak
16 21 (4.98%) REST
16 21 (4.98%) Spring Batch
17 19 (4.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 43 (10.19%) Data Structures
2 32 (7.58%) Equities
3 29 (6.87%) PKI
4 20 (4.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 17 (4.03%) Cloud Native
5 17 (4.03%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (2.61%) Replication
7 10 (2.37%) Algorithms
7 10 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (2.13%) Derivative
8 9 (2.13%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.42%) Equity Derivative
10 6 (1.42%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.18%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.18%) LIMS
11 5 (1.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 129 (30.57%) Linux
2 50 (11.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 33 (7.82%) Unix
4 25 (5.92%) Windows
5 19 (4.50%) CentOS
6 5 (1.18%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.47%) AIX
7 2 (0.47%) Android
7 2 (0.47%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.47%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.47%) Solaris
8 1 (0.24%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (44.31%) Agile
2 152 (36.02%) Microservices
3 136 (32.23%) DevOps
4 131 (31.04%) CI/CD
5 111 (26.30%) Problem-Solving
6 74 (17.54%) Software Engineering
7 69 (16.35%) Full-Stack Development
8 68 (16.11%) TDD
9 66 (15.64%) SDLC
10 60 (14.22%) Test Automation
11 58 (13.74%) Containerisation
11 58 (13.74%) Continuous Integration
12 53 (12.56%) Mentoring
13 48 (11.37%) Multithreading
14 41 (9.72%) API Development
14 41 (9.72%) Open Source
14 41 (9.72%) Performance Tuning
15 39 (9.24%) BDD
16 37 (8.77%) Continuous Delivery
17 36 (8.53%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 210 (49.76%) Java
2 189 (44.79%) SQL
3 156 (36.97%) Python
4 93 (22.04%) JavaScript
5 49 (11.61%) Bash
6 40 (9.48%) Shell Script
7 30 (7.11%) TypeScript
8 27 (6.40%) C#
9 26 (6.16%) Go
10 18 (4.27%) PHP
11 13 (3.08%) Ruby
11 13 (3.08%) Scala
12 12 (2.84%) PL/SQL
13 10 (2.37%) PowerShell
14 8 (1.90%) Perl
15 7 (1.66%) C++
15 7 (1.66%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.95%) R
17 3 (0.71%) C
17 3 (0.71%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 108 (25.59%) Security Cleared
2 96 (22.75%) SC Cleared
3 31 (7.35%) AWS Certification
4 26 (6.16%) Degree
5 19 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (3.79%) AWS Certified Developer
7 8 (1.90%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.42%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.18%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.47%) CISSP
11 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.24%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.32%) NCSC
2 10 (2.37%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.13%) Def Stans
3 9 (2.13%) Disclosure Scotland
4 8 (1.90%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.66%) QA
6 6 (1.42%) GDPR
7 3 (0.71%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.47%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.24%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.24%) SLA
9 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 96 (22.75%) Docker
2 14 (3.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.42%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.95%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 3 (0.71%) RACF
6 2 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.24%) KVM
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 134 (31.75%) Kubernetes
2 61 (14.45%) Terraform
3 32 (7.58%) Grafana
4 26 (6.16%) Prometheus
5 21 (4.98%) Packer
6 19 (4.50%) Ansible
6 19 (4.50%) Istio
7 15 (3.55%) Rancher
8 14 (3.32%) Consul
8 14 (3.32%) HAProxy
8 14 (3.32%) Jamf Pro
8 14 (3.32%) linkerd
8 14 (3.32%) ZABBIX
9 12 (2.84%) Kibana
10 4 (0.95%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.95%) Puppet
11 3 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.47%) CA Wily
12 2 (0.47%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 89 (21.09%) Oracle
2 52 (12.32%) Sybase
3 28 (6.64%) Splunk
4 25 (5.92%) Microsoft
5 20 (4.74%) MuleSoft
6 18 (4.27%) Google
7 17 (4.03%) VMware
8 15 (3.55%) Okta
9 12 (2.84%) Apple
9 12 (2.84%) ESET
9 12 (2.84%) SAP
10 10 (2.37%) Salesforce
10 10 (2.37%) ServiceNow
11 8 (1.90%) IBM
12 7 (1.66%) AppDynamics
12 7 (1.66%) Solace
13 6 (1.42%) Zend
14 5 (1.18%) Atlassian
14 5 (1.18%) Cisco
14 5 (1.18%) Murex