NoSQL Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

NoSQL
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring NoSQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 93 91
Rank change year-on-year -25 -2 +54
Contract jobs citing NoSQL 23 12 25
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.03% 0.71% 1.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.42% 4.20% 8.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 9 12
10th Percentile £402 £475 £325
25th Percentile £468 £500 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £545 £612 £519
90th Percentile £892 £615 £575
England median daily rate £500 £585 £583
% change year-on-year -14.53% +0.43% -6.80%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 424 286 292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 19.07% 17.00% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 181 211
10th Percentile £368 £360 £325
25th Percentile £450 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% +10.53% -5.05%
75th Percentile £575 £624 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
Median hourly rate £36.00 £18.00 £31.04
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -42.01% +158.67%
England median hourly rate £43.50 £37.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +16.00% -18.80% -10.76%

NoSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

NoSQL job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

NoSQL
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing NoSQL

NoSQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NoSQL in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NoSQL in the West Midlands

NoSQL
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing NoSQL

NoSQL
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NoSQL within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Birmingham +16 21 £525 -12.50% 1
Staffordshire +1 1 £338 -38.64%
Herefordshire -18 1 £575 -6.05%
NoSQL
England

NoSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (17.39%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (17.39%) Apache Spark
2 2 (8.70%) Apache
2 2 (8.70%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 18 (78.26%) GCP
2 15 (65.22%) AWS
3 14 (60.87%) Serverless
4 4 (17.39%) AWS KMS
5 3 (13.04%) Azure
5 3 (13.04%) GitHub
6 2 (8.70%) Amazon S3
6 2 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (4.35%) Kong
7 1 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) SSH
1 2 (8.70%) SSL
1 2 (8.70%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.35%) DNS
2 1 (4.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (43.48%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (17.39%) Hadoop
2 4 (17.39%) MongoDB
3 3 (13.04%) Big Data
4 2 (8.70%) Delta Lake
4 2 (8.70%) Parquet
5 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (4.35%) DocumentDB
5 1 (4.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (60.87%) Jenkins
2 12 (52.17%) GitLab
3 10 (43.48%) Liquibase
4 3 (13.04%) JUnit
5 2 (8.70%) Git
5 2 (8.70%) JIRA
5 2 (8.70%) MLflow
5 2 (8.70%) SonarQube
5 2 (8.70%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (4.35%) Poetry
6 1 (4.35%) PyCharm
6 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 15 (65.22%) Finance
1 15 (65.22%) Social Skills
2 14 (60.87%) Banking
3 10 (43.48%) Financial Institution
4 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.70%) Retail Banking
6 1 (4.35%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Cloud Engineer
2 9 (39.13%) GCP Engineer
2 9 (39.13%) Software Engineer
3 8 (34.78%) Senior
4 7 (30.43%) Senior Software Engineer
5 6 (26.09%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (26.09%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 5 (21.74%) AWS Software Engineer
6 5 (21.74%) Developer
7 4 (17.39%) Data Engineer
7 4 (17.39%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (17.39%) GCP Software Engineer
7 4 (17.39%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 4 (17.39%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (17.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (13.04%) Java Developer
9 2 (8.70%) AWS DevOps
9 2 (8.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 2 (8.70%) GCP DevOps
9 2 (8.70%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (69.57%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (65.22%) REST
2 15 (65.22%) RESTful
3 4 (17.39%) Kafka
4 3 (13.04%) Gherkin
5 2 (8.70%) Apache Avro
5 2 (8.70%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (8.70%) Flask
5 2 (8.70%) NumPy
5 2 (8.70%) Pandas
6 1 (4.35%) .NET
6 1 (4.35%) SignalR
6 1 (4.35%) Spring
6 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (60.87%) Public Cloud
2 12 (52.17%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (43.48%) Cloud Native
4 3 (13.04%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
5 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 16 (69.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (78.26%) CI/CD
1 18 (78.26%) Containerisation
2 17 (73.91%) DevOps
2 17 (73.91%) Microservices
3 15 (65.22%) Agile
4 14 (60.87%) Computer Science
4 14 (60.87%) Cryptography
4 14 (60.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (60.87%) Root Cause Analysis
5 10 (43.48%) Cost Optimisation
5 10 (43.48%) Cybersecurity
5 10 (43.48%) High Availability
5 10 (43.48%) Non-Functional Testing
5 10 (43.48%) Software Engineering
6 9 (39.13%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (39.13%) Data Encryption
6 9 (39.13%) Data Security
7 8 (34.78%) Continuous Delivery
8 7 (30.43%) Change Management
9 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (82.61%) Python
2 15 (65.22%) Go
3 9 (39.13%) SQL
4 5 (21.74%) Java
5 2 (8.70%) Bash
5 2 (8.70%) Groovy
5 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.70%) Scala
6 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (60.87%) Computer Science Degree
1 14 (60.87%) Degree
2 12 (52.17%) Master's Degree
3 4 (17.39%) AWS Certification
4 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
5 2 (8.70%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (8.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
6 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (69.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (78.26%) Kubernetes
2 14 (60.87%) Grafana
2 14 (60.87%) Prometheus
2 14 (60.87%) Terraform
3 13 (56.52%) Ansible
4 2 (8.70%) Argo
4 2 (8.70%) Istio
Vendors
1 14 (60.87%) Splunk
2 7 (30.43%) Google
3 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.70%) Cloudera
5 1 (4.35%) Red Hat