Hybrid/Remote Chroma Contract Job Trends

Chroma (ChromaDB)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Chroma skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 301 335
Rank change year-on-year -60 +34 -
Contract jobs citing Chroma 3 5 1
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.022% 0.051% 0.008%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.12% 0.26% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £550 £325 -
25th Percentile £588 £344 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £400 £700
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -42.86% -
75th Percentile £725 £431 £725
90th Percentile £740 £435 -
UK median daily rate £608 £419 £800
% change year-on-year +45.07% -47.66% -

All Database & BI Skills
Work from Home

Chroma 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,433 1,941 2,630
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 18.02% 19.67% 20.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,688 1,335 1,878
10th Percentile £364 £356 £344
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £613 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 26 21
10th Percentile £16.14 £21.02 £18.50
25th Percentile £23.73 £32.05 £19.59
Median hourly rate £45.00 £59.75 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.69% +83.85% -40.91%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.88 £47.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £87.50 £65.03
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £38.85 £32.50
% change year-on-year -0.89% +19.52% -40.91%

Chroma
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Chroma and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Chroma job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Chroma
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Chroma.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Chroma

Chroma
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Chroma over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Chroma daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Chroma
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 1 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Pinecone
2 2 (66.67%) Weaviate
3 1 (33.33%) Milvus
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) LangChain
1 2 (66.67%) LlamaIndex
2 1 (33.33%) FastAPI
2 1 (33.33%) Flask
2 1 (33.33%) Hugging Face
2 1 (33.33%) LangGraph
2 1 (33.33%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) AI Agents
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) LLM
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) API Development
3 1 (33.33%) Auto-Scaling
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Security
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) MLOps
3 1 (33.33%) Multi-Agent System
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Prompt Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Semantic Search
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) OpenAI