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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 42 100
Rank change year-on-year -65 +58 -33
Permanent jobs citing NoSQL 40 273 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.59% 6.19% 2.26%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.59% 32.16% 10.32%
Number of salaries quoted 5 13 37
10th Percentile £69,500 £55,000 £43,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £56,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -21.51% +32.72%
75th Percentile £82,751 £73,886 £84,056
90th Percentile - £78,777 £117,236
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,465 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.93% -9.70% +3.57%

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 345 849 591
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 13.76% 19.25% 21.91%
Number of salaries quoted 101 262 491
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +5.50%
75th Percentile £72,500 £64,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,738 £73,872 £82,548
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,759 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.40% +0.41% +4.17%

NoSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing NoSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for NoSQL 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 15 September 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 -14 35 £75,000 - 3
Edinburgh -2 5 £78,810 +26.10% 4
NoSQL
UK

NoSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 14 (35.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (10.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 15 (37.50%) AWS
2 11 (27.50%) Azure
3 10 (25.00%) GCP
4 5 (12.50%) Snowflake
5 4 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (10.00%) BlazeMeter
6 2 (5.00%) Apigee
6 2 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (5.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (30.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 9 (22.50%) MongoDB
3 8 (20.00%) Big Data
4 7 (17.50%) Relational Database
5 6 (15.00%) MySQL
5 6 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (15.00%) SQL Server
6 4 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (10.00%) Apache Hive
6 4 (10.00%) Apache Iceberg
6 4 (10.00%) DynamoDB
6 4 (10.00%) Impala
6 4 (10.00%) Redshift Spectrum
7 3 (7.50%) DB2
8 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (5.00%) Hadoop
9 1 (2.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (22.50%) JUnit
2 5 (12.50%) Git
2 5 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 5 (12.50%) Maven
3 3 (7.50%) Gradle
4 2 (5.00%) GitLab
4 2 (5.00%) Mockito
4 2 (5.00%) SonarQube
4 2 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 31 (77.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 30 (75.00%) Finance
3 26 (65.00%) Law
4 18 (45.00%) Banking
5 8 (20.00%) Investment Banking
5 8 (20.00%) Marketing
6 4 (10.00%) Legal
6 4 (10.00%) Publishing
7 3 (7.50%) Social Skills
8 2 (5.00%) Games
8 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
9 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
9 1 (2.50%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 27 (67.50%) Software Engineer
2 13 (32.50%) Java Engineer
2 13 (32.50%) Java Software Engineer
3 10 (25.00%) Developer
4 9 (22.50%) Java Developer
5 8 (20.00%) Lead
5 8 (20.00%) Lead Software Engineer
5 8 (20.00%) Python Engineer
5 8 (20.00%) Python Software Engineer
5 8 (20.00%) Senior
6 6 (15.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (12.50%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 4 (10.00%) Senior Developer
9 3 (7.50%) Senior Java Developer
10 2 (5.00%) Data Engineer
10 2 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
10 2 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
11 1 (2.50%) Backend Developer
11 1 (2.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 1 (2.50%) Junior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (60.00%) Spring
2 16 (40.00%) Spring Boot
3 12 (30.00%) Kafka
4 10 (25.00%) React
5 8 (20.00%) AngularJS
6 7 (17.50%) JPA
7 6 (15.00%) RESTful
8 5 (12.50%) Hibernate
9 4 (10.00%) CSS
9 4 (10.00%) PySpark
10 2 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (5.00%) Spring MVC
11 1 (2.50%) JWT
11 1 (2.50%) OAuth
11 1 (2.50%) OAuth2
11 1 (2.50%) REST
11 1 (2.50%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 17 (42.50%) Algorithms
2 8 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 4 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.00%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.50%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Linux
1 4 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (82.50%) Agile
2 29 (72.50%) Software Engineering
3 28 (70.00%) CI/CD
4 27 (67.50%) Operational Stability
5 23 (57.50%) Community of Practice
6 22 (55.00%) SDLC
7 21 (52.50%) Machine Learning
8 19 (47.50%) Artificial Intelligence
9 17 (42.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (37.50%) Visualisation
11 12 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
12 10 (25.00%) DevOps
13 9 (22.50%) Microservices
14 8 (20.00%) Analytics
14 8 (20.00%) Architectural Design
14 8 (20.00%) Information Architecture
15 7 (17.50%) Containerisation
15 7 (17.50%) Front End Development
15 7 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
15 7 (17.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 34 (85.00%) SQL
2 29 (72.50%) Java
3 15 (37.50%) Python
4 10 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 10 (25.00%) TypeScript
5 4 (10.00%) Scala
6 2 (5.00%) C#
6 2 (5.00%) Go
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.50%) QA
3 1 (2.50%) GRC
System Software
1 10 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.00%) Grafana
3 2 (5.00%) Istio
3 2 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (10.00%) Databricks
1 4 (10.00%) Dynatrace
1 4 (10.00%) Oracle
1 4 (10.00%) Splunk
2 1 (2.50%) IBM
2 1 (2.50%) Sybase