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

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 198 187 215
Rank change year-on-year -11 +28 -39
Contract jobs citing NoSQL 390 542 759
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.33% 1.25% 1.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.01% 7.39% 7.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 364 522
10th Percentile £393 £363 £445
25th Percentile £419 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.96% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £659 £719 £725
90th Percentile £750 £834 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £534 £525
% change year-on-year -11.99% +1.71% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 19
10th Percentile - £25.71 £57.00
25th Percentile £51.25 £31.68 £71.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £37.75 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.07% -49.67% +14.47%
75th Percentile £53.75 £47.13 £78.00
90th Percentile - £59.05 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £35.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -53.33% +20.68%

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 5,567 7,337 10,579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.00% 16.91% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,836 5,241 7,525
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £421 £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 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.95% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 143 186
10th Percentile £20.89 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.25 £20.98 £33.05
Median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £59.30
Median % change year-on-year -17.60% -32.54% +36.70%
75th Percentile £65.46 £58.88 £73.41
90th Percentile £75.88 £72.50 £81.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £55.70
% change year-on-year -25.00% -28.19% +59.14%

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 7 May 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
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 7 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 -28 315 £538 -6.52% 711
London -34 201 £585 -2.50% 359
UK excluding London +28 127 £470 -11.99% 452
Work from Home -11 114 £464 -13.20% 369
North of England +26 48 £463 -13.39% 118
North West +27 35 £445 -16.67% 80
Midlands +26 23 £551 +25.89% 66
South East +3 19 £500 -14.89% 143
West Midlands +21 17 £599 +40.94% 39
Scotland +20 16 £525 +38.89% 42
South West +26 13 £650 +23.81% 44
Yorkshire +11 8 £550 -12.00% 28
Northern Ireland - 7 £325 - 8
East Midlands +12 6 £367 -45.63% 25
North East -1 5 £465 - 11
East of England +23 2 £575 -9.80% 32
Wales - 1 - - 6

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 26 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 17 (4.36%) Apache
3 14 (3.59%) Confluence
4 8 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.03%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.51%) Camunda
6 2 (0.51%) IIS
6 2 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.26%) CMS
7 1 (0.26%) Luigi
7 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.26%) SAS
7 1 (0.26%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.51%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.26%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.26%) Sketch
3 1 (0.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.03%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.77%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.51%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.51%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.26%) Actimize
4 1 (0.26%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.26%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 187 (47.95%) AWS
2 121 (31.03%) Azure
3 96 (24.62%) Serverless
4 49 (12.56%) Amazon S3
5 46 (11.79%) GCP
6 43 (11.03%) AWS Lambda
7 34 (8.72%) GitHub
8 24 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (6.15%) Power Platform
9 22 (5.64%) Amazon EC2
10 18 (4.62%) Azure AKS
10 18 (4.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 18 (4.62%) Azure Monitor
11 17 (4.36%) Amazon EKS
11 17 (4.36%) OpenShift
12 16 (4.10%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (4.10%) Route 53
12 16 (4.10%) Snowflake
13 14 (3.59%) Azure Data Factory
13 14 (3.59%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.33%) Firewall
2 4 (1.03%) SSL
2 4 (1.03%) VPN
3 3 (0.77%) DNS
3 3 (0.77%) HTTP
3 3 (0.77%) IPsec
3 3 (0.77%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.51%) BGP
4 2 (0.51%) DHCP
4 2 (0.51%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.51%) MPLS
4 2 (0.51%) Network Security
4 2 (0.51%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.26%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.26%) FTP
5 1 (0.26%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (30.00%) MongoDB
2 73 (18.72%) PostgreSQL
3 60 (15.38%) Relational Database
4 46 (11.79%) Data Warehouse
5 39 (10.00%) SQL Server
6 35 (8.97%) Data Lake
6 35 (8.97%) RDBMS
7 34 (8.72%) MySQL
8 29 (7.44%) Big Data
9 24 (6.15%) Amazon RDS
9 24 (6.15%) DynamoDB
9 24 (6.15%) Power BI
10 20 (5.13%) Amazon Aurora
11 19 (4.87%) Redis
12 14 (3.59%) DocumentDB
12 14 (3.59%) Metadata
13 13 (3.33%) Hadoop
13 13 (3.33%) Tableau
14 12 (3.08%) Flink
15 11 (2.82%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 60 (15.38%) Git
2 51 (13.08%) Jenkins
3 35 (8.97%) JIRA
4 29 (7.44%) GitLab
5 17 (4.36%) Maven
6 16 (4.10%) ERwin
7 13 (3.33%) JUnit
8 12 (3.08%) Artifactory
9 10 (2.56%) Gradle
10 8 (2.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 8 (2.05%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (1.79%) Cypress.io
11 7 (1.79%) gulp
11 7 (1.79%) SonarQube
11 7 (1.79%) Subversion
12 6 (1.54%) Cucumber
12 6 (1.54%) ER Studio
12 6 (1.54%) Selenium
13 5 (1.28%) Bitbucket
13 5 (1.28%) TeamCity
General
1 96 (24.62%) Finance
2 85 (21.79%) Social Skills
3 50 (12.82%) Banking
4 49 (12.56%) Public Sector
5 31 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (3.59%) Retail Banking
7 9 (2.31%) Front Office
8 8 (2.05%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.54%) Retail
11 5 (1.28%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.03%) Legal
12 4 (1.03%) Marketing
12 4 (1.03%) Military
13 3 (0.77%) Local Government
13 3 (0.77%) Police
14 2 (0.51%) Billing
Job Titles
1 147 (37.69%) Developer
2 56 (14.36%) Java Developer
3 49 (12.56%) Architect
4 48 (12.31%) Data Engineer
5 45 (11.54%) Senior
6 32 (8.21%) Full-Stack Developer
7 23 (5.90%) Senior Developer
8 22 (5.64%) Lead
9 20 (5.13%) Software Engineer
10 18 (4.62%) Data Architect
10 18 (4.62%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 17 (4.36%) AWS Engineer
12 15 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
13 14 (3.59%) .NET Developer
13 14 (3.59%) Data Modeller
14 13 (3.33%) DBA
15 11 (2.82%) Azure Engineer
15 11 (2.82%) C# Developer
15 11 (2.82%) Cloud Engineer
15 11 (2.82%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (25.38%) Kafka
2 81 (20.77%) RESTful
3 80 (20.51%) React
4 66 (16.92%) Spring
5 62 (15.90%) Spring Boot
6 52 (13.33%) Node.js
7 48 (12.31%) .NET
8 37 (9.49%) JSON
9 31 (7.95%) AngularJS
9 31 (7.95%) Web Services
10 26 (6.67%) CSS
10 26 (6.67%) XML
11 25 (6.41%) REST
12 24 (6.15%) GraphQL
12 24 (6.15%) HTML
13 21 (5.38%) RabbitMQ
14 19 (4.87%) OAuth
15 17 (4.36%) .NET Core
15 17 (4.36%) Hibernate
15 17 (4.36%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 51 (13.08%) Cloud Native
2 26 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 24 (6.15%) Derivative
4 21 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (4.62%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (4.10%) Data Structures
7 10 (2.56%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (2.05%) Onboarding
9 8 (2.05%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.79%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.54%) Equities
11 6 (1.54%) Genomics
12 5 (1.28%) Data Fabric
12 5 (1.28%) Equity Derivative
12 5 (1.28%) PKI
12 5 (1.28%) Replication
12 5 (1.28%) Social Media
13 4 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (1.03%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 37 (9.49%) Linux
2 7 (1.79%) Unix
3 5 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.28%) Windows
4 2 (0.51%) CentOS
4 2 (0.51%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.26%) Debian
5 1 (0.26%) SUSE
5 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (38.72%) Agile
2 147 (37.69%) DevOps
3 134 (34.36%) CI/CD
4 130 (33.33%) Microservices
5 84 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
6 68 (17.44%) ETL
7 67 (17.18%) Software Engineering
7 67 (17.18%) Test Automation
8 66 (16.92%) Data Modelling
9 63 (16.15%) Containerisation
10 56 (14.36%) Event-Driven
11 53 (13.59%) Infrastructure as Code
12 52 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
13 51 (13.08%) API Development
14 48 (12.31%) Full-Stack Development
14 48 (12.31%) SOLID
14 48 (12.31%) TDD
15 39 (10.00%) Data Engineering
16 36 (9.23%) Analytics
17 35 (8.97%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 248 (63.59%) SQL
2 141 (36.15%) Python
3 126 (32.31%) Java
4 92 (23.59%) JavaScript
5 52 (13.33%) C#
6 38 (9.74%) TypeScript
7 24 (6.15%) Scala
8 18 (4.62%) Go
9 16 (4.10%) PowerShell
10 15 (3.85%) Bicep
11 8 (2.05%) PHP
11 8 (2.05%) Ruby
12 6 (1.54%) R
13 5 (1.28%) Bash
14 4 (1.03%) C++
14 4 (1.03%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.77%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.77%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.77%) VB
Qualifications
1 50 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 42 (10.77%) Degree
3 37 (9.49%) SC Cleared
4 21 (5.38%) AWS Certification
5 15 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (3.59%) AWS Certified Developer
7 9 (2.31%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.54%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.51%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.51%) Tableau Certification
11 2 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.26%) CEH
12 1 (0.26%) CISSP
12 1 (0.26%) ISEB
12 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (8.46%) Data Quality
2 22 (5.64%) Accessibility
2 22 (5.64%) QA
3 11 (2.82%) GDPR
4 8 (2.05%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.03%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.51%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.26%) NIST
7 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.26%) SLA
7 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 99 (25.38%) Docker
2 13 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.03%) HDFS
5 3 (0.77%) RACF
6 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 125 (32.05%) Kubernetes
2 84 (21.54%) Terraform
3 21 (5.38%) Grafana
4 20 (5.13%) Ansible
5 12 (3.08%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.05%) Puppet
7 6 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.28%) Kibana
8 5 (1.28%) Packer
8 5 (1.28%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.51%) Istio
9 2 (0.51%) linkerd
9 2 (0.51%) Rancher
10 1 (0.26%) Argo
10 1 (0.26%) Consul
10 1 (0.26%) Graylog
10 1 (0.26%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.26%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.26%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 54 (13.85%) Microsoft
2 52 (13.33%) Oracle
3 20 (5.13%) Google
4 18 (4.62%) Databricks
4 18 (4.62%) SAP
5 15 (3.85%) Splunk
6 12 (3.08%) Informatica
6 12 (3.08%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.82%) MuleSoft
8 8 (2.05%) Talend
9 6 (1.54%) Dynatrace
9 6 (1.54%) VMware
10 5 (1.28%) Cisco
10 5 (1.28%) TIBCO
11 4 (1.03%) CA Agile Central
11 4 (1.03%) LabVantage
11 4 (1.03%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.03%) SnapLogic
11 4 (1.03%) Zend
12 3 (0.77%) New Relic