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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 103 41
Rank change year-on-year -32 -62 +61
Permanent jobs citing NoSQL 5 41 306
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.13% 1.64% 6.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.40% 11.99% 34.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 15
10th Percentile £78,875 £65,625 £55,000
25th Percentile £82,813 £68,750 £58,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £91,250 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.67% +20.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £100,313 £81,438 £73,886
90th Percentile £104,625 £82,751 £83,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year - +6.93% -9.70%

All Database & 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 208 342 881
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.52% 13.69% 19.44%
Number of salaries quoted 117 102 286
10th Percentile £27,125 £33,425 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,000 £50,750
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% +4.43% -11.74%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £64,563
90th Percentile £106,000 £83,738 £73,818
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -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
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing NoSQL in Scotland over the 6 months to 5 September 2026.

Salary histogram for NoSQL in Scotland

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 5 September 2026. 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 -27 3 £77,500 +3.33% 30
Edinburgh +3 2 £105,000 +33.23% 9
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 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (20.00%) Ethereum
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (20.00%) AWS IoT
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) AMQP
1 1 (20.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (20.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Iceberg
2 1 (20.00%) Big Data
2 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (20.00%) Redis
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (40.00%) Law
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (20.00%) Games
3 1 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Principal Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Head of Development
2 1 (20.00%) Messaging Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Principal Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Principal Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Principal Technical Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
1 2 (40.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) Django
2 1 (20.00%) Memcached
2 1 (20.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) AI Agents
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (20.00%) Autonomous Agent
3 1 (20.00%) Bitcoin
3 1 (20.00%) Blockchain
3 1 (20.00%) Educational Technology
3 1 (20.00%) IoT
3 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) AI
1 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Observability
4 1 (20.00%) Anomaly Detection
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Low Latency
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks
1 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (20.00%) OpenAI
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk