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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 111 39
Rank change year-on-year -32 -72 +57
Permanent jobs citing NoSQL 4 30 335
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.13% 1.24% 8.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.44% 6.34% 29.49%
Number of salaries quoted 4 12 64
10th Percentile £89,500 £42,881 £31,250
25th Percentile £96,250 £46,999 £35,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £58,721 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +74.55% -9.66% -6.40%
75th Percentile £115,000 £74,875 £85,542
90th Percentile - £85,000 £100,064
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

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 277 473 1,136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.24% 19.57% 27.47%
Number of salaries quoted 88 204 473
10th Percentile £26,250 £35,000 £33,350
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £42,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £53,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.49% -3.18% -
75th Percentile £64,688 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,790 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%

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 18 February 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
Edinburgh -23 4 £102,500 +78.44% 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (75.00%) Metadata
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Data Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Data Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) CrewAI
1 1 (25.00%) LangGraph
1 1 (25.00%) NumPy
1 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (25.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (25.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (25.00%) Autonomous Agent
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Architecture
1 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Master Data Management
2 2 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 2 (50.00%) Software Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Data Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Kimball Methodology
3 1 (25.00%) LLM
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) OpenAI