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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 186 269 233
Rank change year-on-year +83 -36 -41
Contract jobs citing MongoDB 424 370 679
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.45% 0.85% 1.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.64% 5.07% 6.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 263 473
10th Percentile £395 £375 £425
25th Percentile £450 £430 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% -2.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £522
% change year-on-year +11.11% -13.87% -0.48%
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 5,551 7,303 10,684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.94% 16.82% 17.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,833 5,212 7,593
10th Percentile £357 £350 £375
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £663
90th Percentile £763 £767 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 144 185
10th Percentile £19.84 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £23.88 £20.98 £32.40
Median hourly rate £32.81 £40.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.98% -30.43% +35.29%
75th Percentile £65.31 £58.81 £70.25
90th Percentile £75.50 £72.50 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% -27.27% +57.14%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 3 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 +67 319 £525 -10.64% 726
UK excluding London +70 196 £500 +11.11% 570
London +42 161 £585 -10.00% 269
Work from Home +57 152 £500 -4.76% 491
North of England +6 82 £490 -6.67% 145
Scotland +28 52 £500 +13.64% 32
North West -1 42 £448 -16.15% 77
Yorkshire +9 30 £550 +23.60% 50
South East +29 23 £483 -3.50% 158
South West +41 18 £650 +48.57% 79
East of England +49 12 £450 - 55
North East +1 10 £475 - 19
Midlands +18 7 £455 +40.00% 100
West Midlands +11 5 £499 +53.46% 55
East Midlands - 2 £326 - 38
Wales +3 1 - - 9
Northern Ireland -7 1 £500 - 11

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 (6.13%) Apache
1 26 (6.13%) Confluence
2 20 (4.72%) Apache Spark
3 16 (3.77%) nginx
4 12 (2.83%) Traefik
5 8 (1.89%) Camunda
6 6 (1.42%) Alfresco
6 6 (1.42%) BizTalk Server
6 6 (1.42%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.94%) 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 (0.94%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.47%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.24%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 178 (41.98%) AWS
2 81 (19.10%) Azure
3 44 (10.38%) GCP
4 42 (9.91%) Serverless
5 27 (6.37%) Amazon ECS
6 26 (6.13%) Amazon S3
6 26 (6.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 22 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
8 21 (4.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 21 (4.95%) Cloud Computing
9 18 (4.25%) Slack
10 17 (4.01%) AWS Fargate
10 17 (4.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 16 (3.77%) Entra ID
11 16 (3.77%) GitHub
12 15 (3.54%) SaaS
12 15 (3.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 12 (2.83%) Kong
14 11 (2.59%) IaaS
15 10 (2.36%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.48%) DNS
2 17 (4.01%) TCP/IP
3 15 (3.54%) HTTP
4 5 (1.18%) Kerberos
5 4 (0.94%) 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 (35.85%) PostgreSQL
2 119 (28.07%) NoSQL
3 114 (26.89%) MySQL
4 92 (21.70%) Relational Database
5 45 (10.61%) DB2
6 44 (10.38%) SQL Server
7 33 (7.78%) Apache Cassandra
8 25 (5.90%) RDBMS
9 24 (5.66%) Redis
10 16 (3.77%) DynamoDB
11 15 (3.54%) Big Data
12 14 (3.30%) Hadoop
13 12 (2.83%) Azure SQL Database
14 11 (2.59%) Oracle Reports
15 10 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
16 9 (2.12%) Data Lake
16 9 (2.12%) Elasticsearch
17 7 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
18 6 (1.42%) GIS
19 5 (1.18%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 83 (19.58%) JUnit
2 69 (16.27%) Git
3 61 (14.39%) Jenkins
4 51 (12.03%) GitLab
5 44 (10.38%) JIRA
6 27 (6.37%) Cucumber
7 26 (6.13%) Maven
8 19 (4.48%) Jasmine
9 14 (3.30%) Gradle
10 13 (3.07%) Mockito
11 11 (2.59%) Artifactory
12 10 (2.36%) SonarQube
13 8 (1.89%) gulp
14 7 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
14 7 (1.65%) Subversion
14 7 (1.65%) TeamCity
15 6 (1.42%) Bitbucket
15 6 (1.42%) Visual Studio Code
16 5 (1.18%) Cypress.io
16 5 (1.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 116 (27.36%) Social Skills
2 105 (24.76%) Finance
3 75 (17.69%) Public Sector
4 61 (14.39%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (13.68%) Banking
6 28 (6.60%) Front Office
7 27 (6.37%) Investment Banking
8 12 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.36%) Military
10 6 (1.42%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.71%) Mandarin Language
11 3 (0.71%) Retail
12 2 (0.47%) French Language
12 2 (0.47%) Marketing
12 2 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.24%) Advertising
13 1 (0.24%) Automotive
13 1 (0.24%) Law
13 1 (0.24%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.24%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 236 (55.66%) Developer
2 123 (29.01%) Java Developer
3 87 (20.52%) Senior
4 56 (13.21%) Senior Developer
5 48 (11.32%) Full-Stack Developer
6 46 (10.85%) Lead
7 33 (7.78%) Senior Java Developer
8 30 (7.08%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 25 (5.90%) Architect
10 24 (5.66%) DevOps Engineer
11 23 (5.42%) Software Engineer
12 22 (5.19%) DBA
13 21 (4.95%) SQL Developer
14 19 (4.48%) Python Developer
15 18 (4.25%) Investment Banking Java Developer
16 17 (4.01%) Lead Developer
17 16 (3.77%) Senior DevOps
18 13 (3.07%) .NET Developer
19 12 (2.83%) Senior SQL Developer
20 11 (2.59%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (39.86%) Kafka
2 147 (34.67%) Spring
3 97 (22.88%) React
4 96 (22.64%) Spring Boot
5 80 (18.87%) RESTful
6 55 (12.97%) AngularJS
7 49 (11.56%) .NET
8 44 (10.38%) Node.js
9 43 (10.14%) HTML
10 33 (7.78%) JMS
10 33 (7.78%) Swagger
11 32 (7.55%) CSS
11 32 (7.55%) OpenAPI
12 31 (7.31%) XML
13 28 (6.60%) JSON
14 25 (5.90%) Spring Security
15 23 (5.42%) REST
16 22 (5.19%) Keycloak
17 21 (4.95%) Spring Batch
18 20 (4.72%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 43 (10.14%) Data Structures
2 32 (7.55%) Equities
3 29 (6.84%) PKI
4 20 (4.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 17 (4.01%) Product Ownership
6 16 (3.77%) Cloud Native
7 11 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (2.59%) Replication
8 10 (2.36%) Algorithms
8 10 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (2.12%) Derivative
9 9 (2.12%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.42%) Equity Derivative
11 6 (1.42%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.18%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.18%) LIMS
12 5 (1.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 131 (30.90%) Linux
2 50 (11.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 33 (7.78%) Unix
4 25 (5.90%) Windows
5 19 (4.48%) 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
1 186 (43.87%) Agile
2 154 (36.32%) Microservices
3 139 (32.78%) DevOps
4 133 (31.37%) CI/CD
5 114 (26.89%) Problem-Solving
6 74 (17.45%) Software Engineering
7 70 (16.51%) Full-Stack Development
7 70 (16.51%) TDD
8 65 (15.33%) SDLC
9 62 (14.62%) Containerisation
10 61 (14.39%) Test Automation
11 58 (13.68%) Continuous Integration
12 54 (12.74%) Mentoring
13 49 (11.56%) Multithreading
14 42 (9.91%) API Development
15 41 (9.67%) Open Source
15 41 (9.67%) Performance Tuning
16 39 (9.20%) BDD
17 37 (8.73%) Continuous Delivery
17 37 (8.73%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 211 (49.76%) Java
2 189 (44.58%) SQL
3 157 (37.03%) Python
4 90 (21.23%) JavaScript
5 50 (11.79%) Bash
6 40 (9.43%) Shell Script
7 32 (7.55%) TypeScript
8 27 (6.37%) C#
9 26 (6.13%) Go
10 18 (4.25%) PHP
11 13 (3.07%) Ruby
11 13 (3.07%) Scala
12 12 (2.83%) PL/SQL
13 10 (2.36%) PowerShell
14 8 (1.89%) Perl
15 7 (1.65%) C++
15 7 (1.65%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.94%) R
17 3 (0.71%) Bicep
17 3 (0.71%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 107 (25.24%) Security Cleared
2 96 (22.64%) SC Cleared
3 30 (7.08%) AWS Certification
4 24 (5.66%) Degree
5 17 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (3.54%) AWS Certified Developer
7 9 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.89%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.18%) 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 (3.30%) NCSC
2 10 (2.36%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.12%) Def Stans
3 9 (2.12%) Disclosure Scotland
4 8 (1.89%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.89%) QA
5 6 (1.42%) GDPR
6 3 (0.71%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.47%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.24%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.24%) SLA
8 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 100 (23.58%) Docker
2 14 (3.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.42%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.42%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (0.71%) RACF
5 2 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.24%) KVM
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 136 (32.08%) Kubernetes
2 63 (14.86%) Terraform
3 33 (7.78%) Grafana
4 27 (6.37%) Prometheus
5 21 (4.95%) Ansible
5 21 (4.95%) Packer
6 19 (4.48%) Istio
7 15 (3.54%) Rancher
8 14 (3.30%) Consul
8 14 (3.30%) HAProxy
8 14 (3.30%) Jamf Pro
8 14 (3.30%) linkerd
8 14 (3.30%) ZABBIX
9 12 (2.83%) Kibana
10 4 (0.94%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.94%) 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%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 87 (20.52%) Oracle
2 52 (12.26%) Sybase
3 28 (6.60%) Splunk
4 24 (5.66%) Microsoft
5 20 (4.72%) MuleSoft
6 19 (4.48%) Google
7 17 (4.01%) VMware
8 15 (3.54%) Okta
9 12 (2.83%) Apple
9 12 (2.83%) ESET
10 11 (2.59%) ServiceNow
11 10 (2.36%) SAP
12 9 (2.12%) Salesforce
13 8 (1.89%) IBM
14 7 (1.65%) AppDynamics
14 7 (1.65%) Solace
15 6 (1.42%) Zend
16 5 (1.18%) Cisco
16 5 (1.18%) Murex
16 5 (1.18%) TIBCO