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 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 114 92
Rank change year-on-year -11 -22 -23
Permanent jobs citing NoSQL 32 37 66
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.22% 1.10% 2.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.36% 7.10% 11.85%
Number of salaries quoted 3 8 45
10th Percentile £68,500 £52,750 £38,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £56,313 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £64,625 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.05% -10.86% +20.83%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,971 £84,056
90th Percentile - £73,886 £117,236
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,125 £72,500
% change year-on-year +4.28% -7.41% +0.69%

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 342 521 557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 13.05% 15.44% 22.27%
Number of salaries quoted 104 227 464
10th Percentile £26,425 £32,650 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,625 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,750 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £63,750 £64,875 £72,500
90th Percentile £76,375 £75,000 £83,964
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +4.17%

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 15 October 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 +15 31 £75,000 +16.73% 5
Edinburgh -5 1 - - 1
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 12 (37.50%) Apache Spark
2 4 (12.50%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 12 (37.50%) AWS
2 8 (25.00%) Azure
3 7 (21.88%) GCP
4 5 (15.63%) Snowflake
5 4 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.13%) BlazeMeter
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (28.13%) Apache Cassandra
2 8 (25.00%) Big Data
3 7 (21.88%) Relational Database
4 6 (18.75%) SQL Server
5 5 (15.63%) MongoDB
5 5 (15.63%) MySQL
5 5 (15.63%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (12.50%) Apache Hive
6 4 (12.50%) Apache Iceberg
6 4 (12.50%) DynamoDB
6 4 (12.50%) Impala
6 4 (12.50%) Redshift Spectrum
7 3 (9.38%) DB2
8 1 (3.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) JUnit
2 2 (6.25%) Git
2 2 (6.25%) Gradle
2 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.25%) Maven
3 1 (3.13%) GitLab
3 1 (3.13%) JIRA
3 1 (3.13%) Mockito
General
1 28 (87.50%) Finance
2 26 (81.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 26 (81.25%) Law
3 16 (50.00%) Banking
4 8 (25.00%) Investment Banking
5 6 (18.75%) Marketing
6 4 (12.50%) Legal
6 4 (12.50%) Publishing
7 2 (6.25%) Games
7 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 2 (6.25%) Social Skills
8 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (3.13%) Financial Institution
8 1 (3.13%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 25 (78.13%) Software Engineer
2 13 (40.63%) Java Engineer
2 13 (40.63%) Java Software Engineer
3 8 (25.00%) Lead
3 8 (25.00%) Lead Software Engineer
3 8 (25.00%) Python Engineer
3 8 (25.00%) Python Software Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) Developer
4 6 (18.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 5 (15.63%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 5 (15.63%) Java Developer
6 3 (9.38%) Senior
6 3 (9.38%) Senior Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (3.13%) Backend Developer
8 1 (3.13%) Security Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Senior Software Developer
8 1 (3.13%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (56.25%) Spring
2 13 (40.63%) Spring Boot
3 11 (34.38%) Kafka
4 6 (18.75%) JPA
4 6 (18.75%) React
5 5 (15.63%) AngularJS
6 4 (12.50%) PySpark
7 3 (9.38%) RESTful
8 2 (6.25%) Hibernate
9 1 (3.13%) CSS
9 1 (3.13%) JWT
9 1 (3.13%) OAuth
9 1 (3.13%) OAuth2
9 1 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (3.13%) REST
9 1 (3.13%) Spring Cloud
9 1 (3.13%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 15 (46.88%) Algorithms
2 8 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 4 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.13%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Linux
1 2 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (84.38%) Agile
2 25 (78.13%) Software Engineering
3 24 (75.00%) Operational Stability
4 21 (65.63%) Community of Practice
5 20 (62.50%) CI/CD
6 19 (59.38%) SDLC
7 16 (50.00%) AI
7 16 (50.00%) Machine Learning
8 14 (43.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (40.63%) Visualisation
10 11 (34.38%) Full-Stack Development
11 8 (25.00%) Analytics
11 8 (25.00%) Architectural Design
11 8 (25.00%) Information Architecture
12 7 (21.88%) DevOps
13 6 (18.75%) Containerisation
13 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
14 5 (15.63%) Decision-Making
14 5 (15.63%) Mentoring
14 5 (15.63%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 29 (90.63%) SQL
2 23 (71.88%) Java
3 11 (34.38%) Python
4 5 (15.63%) JavaScript
4 5 (15.63%) TypeScript
5 4 (12.50%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.25%) QA
3 1 (3.13%) GRC
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (21.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.13%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (12.50%) Databricks
1 4 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (3.13%) Dynatrace
2 1 (3.13%) IBM
2 1 (3.13%) Splunk
2 1 (3.13%) Sybase