NoSQL Contract Job Trends

NoSQL
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring NoSQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 207 199
Rank change year-on-year -98 -8 +45
Contract jobs citing NoSQL 421 421 486
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.79% 1.27% 1.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.16% 6.98% 6.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 301 340
10th Percentile £365 £361 £350
25th Percentile £425 £410 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £598
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -16.32% +3.91%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £700
90th Percentile £712 £738 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 3
10th Percentile £51.13 £39.25 £25.48
25th Percentile £62.38 £43.75 £31.12
Median hourly rate £72.50 £52.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.10% +29.63% -46.00%
75th Percentile £76.75 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £80.38 - £61.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.50 - £31.12
% change year-on-year - - -58.51%

All Database & BI Skills
UK

NoSQL 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 8,157 6,033 7,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.29% 18.20% 18.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,429 4,082 4,976
10th Percentile £356 £343 £350
25th Percentile £418 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -3.89%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £651
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 92 102
10th Percentile £15.95 £19.71 £15.10
25th Percentile £23.05 £24.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% +1.55% -37.34%
75th Percentile £61.31 £62.44 £56.88
90th Percentile £76.35 £78.58 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.89% +5.47% -39.48%

NoSQL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

NoSQL job vacancy trend in the UK

NoSQL
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

NoSQL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NoSQL over the 6 months to 10 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for NoSQL in the UK

NoSQL
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NoSQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NoSQL

NoSQL
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing NoSQL over the 6 months to 10 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for NoSQL in the UK

NoSQL
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NoSQL within the UK over the 6 months to 10 August 2026. 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 -93 371 £525 +5.00% 333
London -69 200 £550 +5.26% 210
UK excluding London -99 169 £500 +6.38% 157
Work from Home -61 104 £540 +16.76% 143
North of England -80 60 £500 +5.26% 42
South East -50 43 £465 +1.31% 35
North West -47 32 £575 +29.21% 20
Midlands -57 27 £533 +15.45% 18
West Midlands -47 24 £575 +15.00% 7
Yorkshire -54 22 £600 +20.00% 18
South West -31 19 £644 -1.90% 27
Scotland -23 12 £426 -8.39% 16
East of England -13 8 £425 -43.33% 9
North East -44 8 £450 -10.00% 4
East Midlands -20 3 £402 -1.95% 11
Wales -15 2 £650 - 3

NoSQL
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:

Application Platforms
1 61 (14.49%) Apache Spark
2 18 (4.28%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (3.80%) Apache
4 13 (3.09%) Confluence
5 10 (2.38%) SAS
6 4 (0.95%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.71%) nginx
8 2 (0.48%) Alfresco
8 2 (0.48%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.48%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.48%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.24%) Camunda
9 1 (0.24%) CMS
9 1 (0.24%) Luigi
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 8 (1.90%) CPLEX
2 2 (0.48%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Endur
2 1 (0.24%) Actimize
2 1 (0.24%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.24%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.24%) Shopify
2 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 240 (57.01%) AWS
2 213 (50.59%) Azure
3 100 (23.75%) GCP
4 87 (20.67%) GitHub
5 73 (17.34%) Serverless
6 56 (13.30%) Azure DevOps
7 55 (13.06%) GitHub Actions
8 45 (10.69%) AWS Lambda
9 34 (8.08%) Power Platform
10 33 (7.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 32 (7.60%) Amazon S3
12 29 (6.89%) Snowflake
13 27 (6.41%) Amazon ECS
14 22 (5.23%) Azure AKS
15 18 (4.28%) Amazon SQS
16 17 (4.04%) Amazon EKS
17 16 (3.80%) Amazon EventBridge
18 13 (3.09%) Azure Monitor
19 12 (2.85%) Cloud Computing
20 11 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.19%) DNS
1 5 (1.19%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.95%) Firewall
2 4 (0.95%) Reverse Proxy
3 3 (0.71%) 5G
3 3 (0.71%) HTTP
3 3 (0.71%) Internet
3 3 (0.71%) SSH
4 2 (0.48%) 4G
4 2 (0.48%) DHCP
4 2 (0.48%) NaaS
4 2 (0.48%) WAN
5 1 (0.24%) Broadband
5 1 (0.24%) IPsec
5 1 (0.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (27.32%) PostgreSQL
2 110 (26.13%) MongoDB
3 52 (12.35%) Relational Database
4 46 (10.93%) Data Warehouse
5 40 (9.50%) DynamoDB
6 38 (9.03%) Big Data
6 38 (9.03%) MySQL
7 35 (8.31%) Data Lake
8 33 (7.84%) Metadata
8 33 (7.84%) Power BI
9 30 (7.13%) SQL Server
10 28 (6.65%) Apache Cassandra
11 24 (5.70%) RDBMS
12 20 (4.75%) Hadoop
13 19 (4.51%) Redis
14 16 (3.80%) Azure SQL Database
14 16 (3.80%) BigQuery
14 16 (3.80%) Flink
15 15 (3.56%) Amazon Aurora
16 11 (2.61%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 117 (27.79%) Git
2 68 (16.15%) Jenkins
3 44 (10.45%) GitLab
4 17 (4.04%) JUnit
5 16 (3.80%) JIRA
6 12 (2.85%) Mockito
7 7 (1.66%) Selenium
8 6 (1.43%) Mocha
9 5 (1.19%) Claude Code
9 5 (1.19%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.19%) ER Studio
9 5 (1.19%) Gatling
9 5 (1.19%) Gradle
9 5 (1.19%) JMeter
9 5 (1.19%) Maven
10 4 (0.95%) Eclipse
10 4 (0.95%) Vite
11 3 (0.71%) Postman
11 3 (0.71%) Robot Framework
11 3 (0.71%) Visual Studio
General
1 99 (23.52%) Social Skills
2 82 (19.48%) Finance
3 61 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (12.83%) Public Sector
5 21 (4.99%) Banking
6 19 (4.51%) Retail
7 11 (2.61%) Aerospace
7 11 (2.61%) Front Office
7 11 (2.61%) Telecoms
8 10 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.66%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.66%) Marketing
11 6 (1.43%) Billing
11 6 (1.43%) Legal
12 5 (1.19%) Local Government
13 4 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.95%) Games
13 4 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 143 (33.97%) Developer
2 79 (18.76%) Architect
3 68 (16.15%) Senior
4 52 (12.35%) Data Engineer
5 49 (11.64%) Java Developer
6 46 (10.93%) Data Architect
7 33 (7.84%) Full-Stack Developer
7 33 (7.84%) Software Engineer
8 27 (6.41%) Senior Developer
9 24 (5.70%) Python Developer
10 21 (4.99%) Lead
11 17 (4.04%) Senior Java Developer
11 17 (4.04%) Solutions Architect
12 16 (3.80%) Java Engineer
13 15 (3.56%) Backend Developer
14 14 (3.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 14 (3.33%) Senior Data Engineer
15 13 (3.09%) Java Software Engineer
16 12 (2.85%) Azure Architect
17 11 (2.61%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (31.83%) Kafka
2 99 (23.52%) RESTful
3 97 (23.04%) Spring
4 83 (19.71%) REST
5 80 (19.00%) Spring Boot
6 76 (18.05%) React
7 58 (13.78%) Node.js
8 49 (11.64%) .NET
9 41 (9.74%) RabbitMQ
10 39 (9.26%) AngularJS
11 31 (7.36%) CSS
12 29 (6.89%) HTML
13 27 (6.41%) GraphQL
14 26 (6.18%) Vue
15 21 (4.99%) .NET Core
15 21 (4.99%) FastAPI
16 20 (4.75%) JSON
17 19 (4.51%) OAuth
18 18 (4.28%) Jest
18 18 (4.28%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 113 (26.84%) Cloud Native
2 70 (16.63%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (6.18%) Data Structures
4 23 (5.46%) Product Ownership
5 19 (4.51%) Algorithms
6 15 (3.56%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (3.09%) AI Agents
8 12 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.90%) Replication
11 7 (1.66%) Autonomous Agent
12 6 (1.43%) Distributed Architecture
12 6 (1.43%) IoT
12 6 (1.43%) SCADA
13 5 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 5 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (0.95%) Management Information System
14 4 (0.95%) PropTech
14 4 (0.95%) Sports Betting
14 4 (0.95%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 35 (8.31%) Linux
2 15 (3.56%) Unix
3 8 (1.90%) Windows
3 8 (1.90%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.71%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (60.57%) CI/CD
2 198 (47.03%) Agile
3 189 (44.89%) DevOps
4 175 (41.57%) Microservices
5 113 (26.84%) Data Modelling
6 112 (26.60%) Event-Driven
7 109 (25.89%) Test Automation
8 105 (24.94%) Containerisation
9 92 (21.85%) Problem-Solving
10 91 (21.62%) AI
11 90 (21.38%) Software Engineering
12 83 (19.71%) Full-Stack Development
13 79 (18.76%) Analytics
14 78 (18.53%) ETL
15 75 (17.81%) Data Pipeline
16 72 (17.10%) Scrum
17 71 (16.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 66 (15.68%) Observability
19 63 (14.96%) Data Engineering
20 60 (14.25%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 255 (60.57%) SQL
2 178 (42.28%) Java
3 163 (38.72%) Python
4 65 (15.44%) TypeScript
5 62 (14.73%) JavaScript
6 41 (9.74%) C#
7 28 (6.65%) Go
8 23 (5.46%) Scala
9 19 (4.51%) Bash
10 13 (3.09%) PowerShell
11 12 (2.85%) Bicep
12 9 (2.14%) PHP
13 8 (1.90%) Shell Script
14 5 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (1.19%) Groovy
15 4 (0.95%) C++
15 4 (0.95%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.71%) C
16 3 (0.71%) R
16 3 (0.71%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 87 (20.67%) Security Cleared
2 58 (13.78%) SC Cleared
3 33 (7.84%) Degree
4 21 (4.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (2.38%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.66%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.19%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.19%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.48%) CISSP
10 2 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.48%) PhD
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.24%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (12.59%) Data Quality
2 42 (9.98%) QA
3 30 (7.13%) Accessibility
4 21 (4.99%) GDPR
5 13 (3.09%) WCAG
6 10 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (1.19%) NIST
9 2 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.48%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.48%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.48%) NCSC
9 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.24%) HL7
10 1 (0.24%) IFRS
10 1 (0.24%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 164 (38.95%) Docker
2 9 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.90%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.95%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.95%) KVM
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 154 (36.58%) Kubernetes
2 72 (17.10%) Terraform
3 26 (6.18%) Grafana
4 22 (5.23%) Prometheus
5 9 (2.14%) Ansible
6 8 (1.90%) Kibana
7 4 (0.95%) Podman
8 2 (0.48%) Amdocs OSS
8 2 (0.48%) Istio
9 1 (0.24%) linkerd
Vendors
1 54 (12.83%) Microsoft
2 42 (9.98%) Oracle
3 20 (4.75%) Databricks
4 19 (4.51%) Splunk
5 13 (3.09%) Google
5 13 (3.09%) Informatica
6 11 (2.61%) Dynatrace
7 10 (2.38%) New Relic
8 9 (2.14%) Bloomberg
8 9 (2.14%) VMware
9 8 (1.90%) Denodo
9 8 (1.90%) Refinitiv
9 8 (1.90%) SAP
10 7 (1.66%) IBM
11 6 (1.43%) Teradata
12 5 (1.19%) Confluent
12 5 (1.19%) OpenAI
13 4 (0.95%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.95%) ServiceNow
14 3 (0.71%) Ab Initio