NoSQL Contracts

NoSQL
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring NoSQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NoSQL over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 209 187 240
Rank change year-on-year -22 +53 -56
Contract jobs citing NoSQL 388 556 607
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.25% 1.28% 1.09%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.84% 7.33% 6.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 381 407
10th Percentile £399 £356 £416
25th Percentile £420 £463 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £590
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +1.69% -1.67%
75th Percentile £625 £713 £711
90th Percentile £750 £838 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £534 £525
% change year-on-year -6.37% +1.71% -1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 21
10th Percentile £39.25 £25.71 £62.50
25th Percentile £43.75 £31.68 £71.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £37.75 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.07% -49.67% +17.15%
75th Percentile £53.75 £47.13 £78.00
90th Percentile - £59.05 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £35.00 £73.75
% change year-on-year - -52.54% +47.50%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 5,676 7,581 9,606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.30% 17.47% 17.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,845 5,413 6,755
10th Percentile £356 £350 £371
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £758 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 150 170
10th Percentile £19.59 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £25.75 £20.82 £32.32
Median hourly rate £35.00 £40.00 £56.95
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -29.76% +45.04%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.29 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.50 £82.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.64 £33.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.12% -40.00% +57.14%

NoSQL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for NoSQL in the UK

NoSQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for NoSQL in the UK

NoSQL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NoSQL over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NoSQL in the UK

NoSQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for NoSQL in the UK

NoSQL
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing NoSQL over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for NoSQL in the UK

NoSQL
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 NoSQL within the UK over the 6 months to 2 July 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 -46 315 £500 -16.67% 1,780
London -65 182 £550 -8.33% 1,004
UK excluding London +62 145 £500 -6.37% 851
Work from Home +4 117 £463 -11.81% 883
North of England +31 58 £465 -12.92% 256
Midlands +23 32 £500 +19.05% 106
North West +22 28 £446 -15.05% 155
West Midlands +21 22 £551 +37.69% 59
South East +36 21 £469 -24.96% 203
Yorkshire +3 19 £550 -6.38% 80
Scotland +8 17 £600 +66.67% 73
South West +32 12 £650 +26.83% 93
North East +5 11 £490 - 21
East Midlands +9 10 £420 -23.64% 46
East of England +14 3 £613 -3.92% 83
Northern Ireland - 3 £410 - 26
Wales - 1 - - 18

NoSQL
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 35 (9.02%) Apache Spark
2 18 (4.64%) Apache
3 13 (3.35%) Confluence
4 11 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.77%) Camunda
6 2 (0.52%) IIS
6 2 (0.52%) Luigi
6 2 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.26%) nginx
7 1 (0.26%) SAS
7 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.52%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.26%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.26%) Sketch
3 1 (0.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.55%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (1.03%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.52%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.52%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.52%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.26%) Actimize
4 1 (0.26%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 200 (51.55%) AWS
2 129 (33.25%) Azure
3 89 (22.94%) Serverless
4 64 (16.49%) GCP
5 44 (11.34%) AWS Lambda
6 42 (10.82%) Amazon S3
7 31 (7.99%) GitHub
8 24 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (4.90%) Power Platform
9 19 (4.90%) Snowflake
10 18 (4.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 17 (4.38%) Amazon EC2
11 17 (4.38%) Azure AKS
11 17 (4.38%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (4.12%) Azure Monitor
13 15 (3.87%) Cloud Computing
14 13 (3.35%) Azure Sentinel
15 12 (3.09%) Apigee
15 12 (3.09%) Azure Data Factory
15 12 (3.09%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.12%) Firewall
2 7 (1.80%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.03%) HTTP
3 4 (1.03%) VPN
4 3 (0.77%) DNS
5 2 (0.52%) BGP
5 2 (0.52%) DHCP
5 2 (0.52%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (0.52%) MPLS
5 2 (0.52%) Network Security
6 1 (0.26%) FTP
6 1 (0.26%) Internet
6 1 (0.26%) SSL
6 1 (0.26%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (35.31%) MongoDB
2 80 (20.62%) PostgreSQL
3 57 (14.69%) Relational Database
4 43 (11.08%) SQL Server
5 40 (10.31%) Data Warehouse
6 36 (9.28%) Big Data
7 35 (9.02%) MySQL
8 32 (8.25%) RDBMS
9 28 (7.22%) Data Lake
10 19 (4.90%) Power BI
11 18 (4.64%) DynamoDB
11 18 (4.64%) Metadata
12 16 (4.12%) Amazon RDS
12 16 (4.12%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (3.87%) Hadoop
14 14 (3.61%) BigQuery
14 14 (3.61%) Flink
15 13 (3.35%) Amazon Aurora
15 13 (3.35%) Apache Cassandra
15 13 (3.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 59 (15.21%) Jenkins
2 55 (14.18%) Git
3 36 (9.28%) JIRA
4 34 (8.76%) GitLab
5 18 (4.64%) JUnit
6 16 (4.12%) Artifactory
6 16 (4.12%) ERwin
7 15 (3.87%) Maven
8 11 (2.84%) Cypress.io
9 10 (2.58%) Gradle
9 10 (2.58%) SonarQube
9 10 (2.58%) Sonatype Nexus
10 9 (2.32%) ER Studio
11 8 (2.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (1.80%) gulp
13 6 (1.55%) Cucumber
14 5 (1.29%) Mockito
14 5 (1.29%) Subversion
15 4 (1.03%) NetBeans
15 4 (1.03%) NUnit
General
1 92 (23.71%) Finance
2 90 (23.20%) Social Skills
3 53 (13.66%) Public Sector
4 51 (13.14%) Banking
5 41 (10.57%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.09%) Retail Banking
7 11 (2.84%) Financial Institution
7 11 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.06%) Front Office
9 7 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.29%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.29%) Legal
10 5 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.03%) Police
12 3 (0.77%) Local Government
12 3 (0.77%) Military
12 3 (0.77%) Retail
13 2 (0.52%) Law
13 2 (0.52%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 154 (39.69%) Developer
2 61 (15.72%) Architect
3 55 (14.18%) Java Developer
4 49 (12.63%) Senior
5 45 (11.60%) Data Engineer
6 36 (9.28%) Full-Stack Developer
7 25 (6.44%) Senior Developer
8 24 (6.19%) Data Architect
9 21 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
10 20 (5.15%) Solutions Architect
11 18 (4.64%) Lead
12 15 (3.87%) Cloud Engineer
12 15 (3.87%) Software Engineer
13 14 (3.61%) .NET Developer
13 14 (3.61%) Data Modeller
13 14 (3.61%) DBA
13 14 (3.61%) Python Developer
14 12 (3.09%) AWS Data Engineer
14 12 (3.09%) React Developer
14 12 (3.09%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (27.84%) Kafka
2 84 (21.65%) RESTful
3 71 (18.30%) React
4 68 (17.53%) Spring
5 61 (15.72%) Node.js
6 58 (14.95%) Spring Boot
7 47 (12.11%) .NET
8 32 (8.25%) AngularJS
9 29 (7.47%) JSON
10 28 (7.22%) REST
11 26 (6.70%) CSS
12 25 (6.44%) RabbitMQ
13 21 (5.41%) GraphQL
13 21 (5.41%) XML
14 20 (5.15%) .NET Core
14 20 (5.15%) HTML
14 20 (5.15%) Web Services
15 19 (4.90%) Hibernate
16 18 (4.64%) OAuth
17 17 (4.38%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 59 (15.21%) Cloud Native
2 27 (6.96%) Product Ownership
3 26 (6.70%) Data Structures
4 24 (6.19%) Algorithms
5 22 (5.67%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (4.12%) Derivative
7 15 (3.87%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.06%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.55%) Data Fabric
10 6 (1.55%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.29%) Fixed Income
11 5 (1.29%) Genomics
11 5 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.29%) IoT
11 5 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.29%) PKI
11 5 (1.29%) Replication
11 5 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.03%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 32 (8.25%) Linux
2 8 (2.06%) Unix
3 7 (1.80%) Windows
4 3 (0.77%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.52%) CentOS
5 2 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (40.72%) Agile
2 148 (38.14%) DevOps
3 143 (36.86%) Microservices
4 138 (35.57%) CI/CD
5 95 (24.48%) Problem-Solving
6 77 (19.85%) Test Automation
7 73 (18.81%) Containerisation
8 63 (16.24%) Data Modelling
8 63 (16.24%) ETL
9 62 (15.98%) Software Engineering
10 54 (13.92%) Infrastructure as Code
11 53 (13.66%) Event-Driven
11 53 (13.66%) TDD
12 51 (13.14%) Data Pipeline
12 51 (13.14%) Full-Stack Development
13 50 (12.89%) API Development
14 46 (11.86%) Scrum
15 43 (11.08%) Data Governance
15 43 (11.08%) SOLID
16 38 (9.79%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 244 (62.89%) SQL
2 147 (37.89%) Python
3 140 (36.08%) Java
4 86 (22.16%) JavaScript
5 54 (13.92%) C#
6 49 (12.63%) TypeScript
7 23 (5.93%) Scala
8 21 (5.41%) PowerShell
9 16 (4.12%) Bicep
10 14 (3.61%) Go
11 8 (2.06%) C++
12 7 (1.80%) T-SQL
13 6 (1.55%) Bash
13 6 (1.55%) Ruby
14 5 (1.29%) R
15 3 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.77%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.77%) VB
16 2 (0.52%) C
16 2 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 56 (14.43%) Security Cleared
2 46 (11.86%) Degree
3 39 (10.05%) SC Cleared
4 27 (6.96%) AWS Certification
5 21 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.58%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.58%) Master's Degree
7 9 (2.32%) AWS Certified Developer
7 9 (2.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (1.80%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.29%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.52%) MCSE
12 2 (0.52%) Tableau Certification
12 2 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.26%) CEH
13 1 (0.26%) CISSP
13 1 (0.26%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (8.51%) Data Quality
1 33 (8.51%) QA
2 23 (5.93%) Accessibility
3 16 (4.12%) GDPR
4 9 (2.32%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.29%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.77%) NIST
6 3 (0.77%) WCAG
7 2 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.52%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 101 (26.03%) Docker
2 11 (2.84%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.77%) HDFS
3 3 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 123 (31.70%) Kubernetes
2 75 (19.33%) Terraform
3 22 (5.67%) Grafana
4 14 (3.61%) Ansible
5 12 (3.09%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.55%) Puppet
7 4 (1.03%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.52%) Istio
9 2 (0.52%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.52%) linkerd
10 1 (0.26%) Argo
10 1 (0.26%) Consul
10 1 (0.26%) Graylog
10 1 (0.26%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.26%) Packer
10 1 (0.26%) Podman
10 1 (0.26%) Rancher
10 1 (0.26%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 49 (12.63%) Microsoft
2 44 (11.34%) Oracle
3 19 (4.90%) Google
3 19 (4.90%) Splunk
4 15 (3.87%) SAP
5 12 (3.09%) Databricks
6 11 (2.84%) MuleSoft
7 10 (2.58%) Dynatrace
7 10 (2.58%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.55%) Cisco
9 5 (1.29%) Informatica
9 5 (1.29%) TIBCO
10 4 (1.03%) CA Agile Central
10 4 (1.03%) LabVantage
10 4 (1.03%) SnapLogic
11 3 (0.77%) Okta
11 3 (0.77%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.77%) VMware
12 2 (0.52%) New Relic
12 2 (0.52%) Talend