NoSQL Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

NoSQL
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 187 190 189
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 -52
Contract jobs citing NoSQL 115 163 346
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.16% 1.06% 1.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.49% 5.60% 7.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 111 241
10th Percentile £354 £363 £450
25th Percentile £410 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £534 £583
Median % change year-on-year -13.20% -8.40% -2.83%
75th Percentile £576 £638 £750
90th Percentile £753 £712 £800
UK median daily rate £520 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -9.57% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 13
10th Percentile - - £64.00
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £37.75 £75.00
% change year-on-year +39.07% -49.67% +14.47%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,096 2,913 4,916
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 21.17% 19.02% 19.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,488 2,140 3,580
10th Percentile £363 £356 £386
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.74% -2.67% -
75th Percentile £685 £650 £650
90th Percentile £838 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 37 81
10th Percentile £22.50 £20.06 £22.16
25th Percentile £30.00 £22.61 £43.50
Median hourly rate £63.00 £40.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.50% -39.39% +46.67%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £70.25 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £58.59
% change year-on-year -17.60% -31.73% +37.86%

NoSQL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing NoSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

NoSQL trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

NoSQL
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing NoSQL.

NoSQL daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

NoSQL
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing NoSQL over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

NoSQL daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

NoSQL
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing NoSQL.

NoSQL hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

NoSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (4.35%) Apache
1 5 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.61%) Confluence
3 2 (1.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.87%) Camunda
4 1 (0.87%) CMS
4 1 (0.87%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.87%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.87%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.87%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.61%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.74%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 44 (38.26%) AWS
2 40 (34.78%) Serverless
3 35 (30.43%) Azure
4 11 (9.57%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (9.57%) GCP
5 8 (6.96%) Amazon S3
5 8 (6.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 8 (6.96%) GitHub
5 8 (6.96%) Power Platform
6 7 (6.09%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (6.09%) Azure Functions
7 6 (5.22%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (5.22%) Apigee
7 6 (5.22%) PaaS
7 6 (5.22%) Snowflake
8 5 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (4.35%) SaaS
9 4 (3.48%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.48%) Firewall
1 4 (3.48%) SSL
2 3 (2.61%) IPsec
2 3 (2.61%) Kerberos
3 2 (1.74%) Network Security
4 1 (0.87%) FTP
4 1 (0.87%) HTTP
4 1 (0.87%) VPN
4 1 (0.87%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (24.35%) MongoDB
2 20 (17.39%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (16.52%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (15.65%) Relational Database
5 15 (13.04%) RDBMS
6 13 (11.30%) Data Lake
7 11 (9.57%) Big Data
8 9 (7.83%) MySQL
9 8 (6.96%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (6.96%) Power BI
9 8 (6.96%) SQL Server
10 7 (6.09%) DynamoDB
10 7 (6.09%) Oracle Reports
11 5 (4.35%) Metadata
11 5 (4.35%) Tableau
12 4 (3.48%) BigQuery
12 4 (3.48%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (2.61%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (2.61%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (2.61%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 20 (17.39%) Jenkins
2 16 (13.91%) Git
3 12 (10.43%) GitLab
4 9 (7.83%) JIRA
5 8 (6.96%) Maven
6 7 (6.09%) ERwin
7 5 (4.35%) ER Studio
7 5 (4.35%) JUnit
8 4 (3.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (3.48%) NUnit
9 3 (2.61%) CA Release Automation
9 3 (2.61%) Gradle
9 3 (2.61%) HP UFT
9 3 (2.61%) IntelliJ
9 3 (2.61%) NetBeans
9 3 (2.61%) Selenium
9 3 (2.61%) Subversion
10 2 (1.74%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.74%) gulp
10 2 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (20.87%) Social Skills
2 19 (16.52%) Finance
3 16 (13.91%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.70%) Banking
5 9 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.48%) Financial Institution
6 4 (3.48%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (3.48%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (2.61%) Front Office
7 3 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.61%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.74%) Law
8 2 (1.74%) Military
9 1 (0.87%) Aviation
9 1 (0.87%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.87%) Local Government
9 1 (0.87%) Retail
9 1 (0.87%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (33.04%) Developer
2 21 (18.26%) Architect
3 13 (11.30%) Java Developer
4 12 (10.43%) Senior
5 10 (8.70%) Data Engineer
6 8 (6.96%) .NET Developer
6 8 (6.96%) DBA
7 7 (6.09%) Data Architect
7 7 (6.09%) Data Modeller
7 7 (6.09%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (6.09%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (4.35%) Enterprise Architect
8 5 (4.35%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 5 (4.35%) Senior Developer
9 4 (3.48%) Node.js Developer
9 4 (3.48%) Python Engineer
10 3 (2.61%) Analyst
10 3 (2.61%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (2.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 3 (2.61%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (26.09%) Kafka
2 23 (20.00%) RESTful
3 18 (15.65%) Node.js
3 18 (15.65%) Spring
4 15 (13.04%) .NET
5 14 (12.17%) OAuth
6 12 (10.43%) JSON
6 12 (10.43%) React
6 12 (10.43%) Spring Boot
7 9 (7.83%) AWS CDK
7 9 (7.83%) Hibernate
7 9 (7.83%) OpenID
8 8 (6.96%) .NET Core
8 8 (6.96%) AngularJS
8 8 (6.96%) Web Services
8 8 (6.96%) XML
9 7 (6.09%) REST
10 5 (4.35%) ASP.NET
10 5 (4.35%) CSS
10 5 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 22 (19.13%) Cloud Native
2 13 (11.30%) Data Structures
3 8 (6.96%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (6.96%) Product Ownership
4 7 (6.09%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.48%) Data Fabric
6 3 (2.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.61%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.61%) NHS
6 3 (2.61%) Replication
7 2 (1.74%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.74%) iPad
7 2 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.74%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.74%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.87%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.87%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.96%) Linux
2 2 (1.74%) Unix
2 2 (1.74%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (33.91%) Agile
2 38 (33.04%) DevOps
2 38 (33.04%) Microservices
3 29 (25.22%) CI/CD
4 24 (20.87%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (20.00%) ETL
5 23 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 22 (19.13%) Containerisation
7 21 (18.26%) Data Modelling
8 19 (16.52%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (15.65%) Full-Stack Development
10 16 (13.91%) Data Governance
10 16 (13.91%) Event-Driven
11 15 (13.04%) Data Architecture
11 15 (13.04%) Mentoring
11 15 (13.04%) Test Automation
12 14 (12.17%) API Development
12 14 (12.17%) Data Pipeline
12 14 (12.17%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 12 (10.43%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 71 (61.74%) SQL
2 34 (29.57%) Java
2 34 (29.57%) Python
3 16 (13.91%) JavaScript
3 16 (13.91%) TypeScript
4 13 (11.30%) C#
5 8 (6.96%) Scala
6 4 (3.48%) Bicep
6 4 (3.48%) Go
6 4 (3.48%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.74%) Bash
7 2 (1.74%) PHP
7 2 (1.74%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.74%) R
7 2 (1.74%) Ruby
8 1 (0.87%) C
8 1 (0.87%) C++
Qualifications
1 10 (8.70%) Degree
2 7 (6.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (4.35%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.48%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (2.61%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.74%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.87%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.87%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.87%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.17%) Data Quality
2 10 (8.70%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.35%) GDPR
3 5 (4.35%) QA
4 2 (1.74%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.87%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.87%) NIST
5 1 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.87%) SLA
5 1 (0.87%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (23.48%) Docker
2 3 (2.61%) RACF
2 3 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.74%) HDFS
4 1 (0.87%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.87%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.87%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.87%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (26.09%) Terraform
2 29 (25.22%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.35%) Ansible
3 5 (4.35%) Prometheus
4 4 (3.48%) Grafana
4 4 (3.48%) Puppet
4 4 (3.48%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (2.61%) Packer
5 3 (2.61%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.87%) Argo
6 1 (0.87%) Consul
6 1 (0.87%) Istio
6 1 (0.87%) linkerd
Vendors
1 14 (12.17%) Oracle
2 13 (11.30%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.22%) Google
4 3 (2.61%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (2.61%) SAP
4 3 (2.61%) Splunk
4 3 (2.61%) Sybase
4 3 (2.61%) VMware
5 2 (1.74%) Databricks
5 2 (1.74%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.74%) Okta
5 2 (1.74%) OutSystems
6 1 (0.87%) Ariba
6 1 (0.87%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.87%) IBM
6 1 (0.87%) New Relic
6 1 (0.87%) PagerDuty
6 1 (0.87%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.87%) StreamSets
6 1 (0.87%) Talend