NoSQL Job Trends in Scotland

NoSQL
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring NoSQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 126 81
Rank change year-on-year +3 -45 -5
Permanent jobs citing NoSQL 16 29 95
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.58% 0.93% 3.91%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.59% 5.62% 16.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2 10 59
10th Percentile £102,750 £47,138 £31,250
25th Percentile £103,125 £50,939 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £68,375 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +57.22% +1.30% +8.00%
75th Percentile £113,125 £73,289 £87,028
90th Percentile £114,250 £74,997 £117,236
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,750 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.32% -6.55% -3.33%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

NoSQL falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 286 516 565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.30% 16.56% 23.27%
Number of salaries quoted 102 234 429
10th Percentile £25,775 £34,125 £35,733
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% -11.74% +9.52%
75th Percentile £71,000 £65,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £78,375 £74,743 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%

NoSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing NoSQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

NoSQL job vacancy trend in Scotland

NoSQL
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing NoSQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing NoSQL

NoSQL
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NoSQL within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 3 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +21 14 - - 3
Edinburgh -19 2 £107,500 +73.12% 3
NoSQL
UK

NoSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 6 (37.50%) Apache Spark
2 2 (12.50%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Azure
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (12.50%) GCP
3 2 (12.50%) Snowflake
4 1 (6.25%) BlazeMeter
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) Apache Cassandra
2 4 (25.00%) Big Data
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (12.50%) Apache Hive
3 2 (12.50%) Apache Iceberg
3 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (12.50%) DynamoDB
3 2 (12.50%) Impala
3 2 (12.50%) Metadata
3 2 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 2 (12.50%) Redshift Spectrum
3 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 1 (6.25%) MySQL
4 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
1 1 (6.25%) JUnit
General
1 14 (87.50%) Finance
1 14 (87.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 14 (87.50%) Law
2 8 (50.00%) Banking
3 4 (25.00%) Investment Banking
3 4 (25.00%) Marketing
4 2 (12.50%) Legal
4 2 (12.50%) Publishing
5 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 13 (81.25%) Software Engineer
2 7 (43.75%) Java Engineer
2 7 (43.75%) Java Software Engineer
3 5 (31.25%) Lead
4 4 (25.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 4 (25.00%) Lead Software Engineer
4 4 (25.00%) Python Engineer
4 4 (25.00%) Python Software Engineer
5 3 (18.75%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 2 (12.50%) Architect
6 2 (12.50%) Data Architect
7 1 (6.25%) Lead Architect
7 1 (6.25%) Lead Data Architect
7 1 (6.25%) Principal Architect
7 1 (6.25%) Principal Data Architect
7 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) Spring
2 5 (31.25%) Kafka
3 4 (25.00%) Spring Boot
4 3 (18.75%) React
5 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
5 2 (12.50%) JPA
5 2 (12.50%) PySpark
6 1 (6.25%) CSS
6 1 (6.25%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 4 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Agile
2 13 (81.25%) Software Engineering
3 12 (75.00%) Operational Stability
4 11 (68.75%) Community of Practice
5 10 (62.50%) CI/CD
5 10 (62.50%) SDLC
6 8 (50.00%) AI
6 8 (50.00%) Machine Learning
7 7 (43.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (43.75%) Visualisation
8 6 (37.50%) Analytics
8 6 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
9 4 (25.00%) Architectural Design
9 4 (25.00%) ETL
9 4 (25.00%) Information Architecture
10 3 (18.75%) Data Integration
10 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
10 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
11 2 (12.50%) DevOps
11 2 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) SQL
2 10 (62.50%) Java
3 5 (31.25%) Python
4 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
4 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
5 2 (12.50%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Databricks
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Dynatrace
2 1 (6.25%) Splunk