NoSQL Job Trends in the UK excluding London

NoSQL
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring NoSQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 256 122
Rank change year-on-year -111 -134 +87
Permanent jobs citing NoSQL 226 318 1,548
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.34% 1.10% 2.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.49% 7.23% 13.35%
Number of salaries quoted 167 231 571
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £48,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £63,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +2.93% -5.84%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £88,148 £87,500 £96,539
UK median annual salary £70,500 £70,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year +0.71% +6.93% -10.32%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,037 4,401 11,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.63% 15.19% 16.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,984 2,877 8,118
10th Percentile £34,500 £32,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

NoSQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

NoSQL job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

NoSQL
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing NoSQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing NoSQL

NoSQL
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing NoSQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Salary histogram for NoSQL in the UK excluding London

NoSQL
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NoSQL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
North of England -14 117 £70,000 - 33
Yorkshire -37 56 £71,250 -1.03% 6
North West -6 49 £67,500 -1.82% 23
South East -64 38 £58,750 -6.37% 29
South West -52 31 £70,000 +3.70% 17
Midlands -51 28 £67,500 +11.38% 13
East Midlands -29 18 £67,000 +11.67% 11
North East -29 12 £67,952 +25.02% 4
West Midlands -64 10 £70,000 +14.37% 2
Scotland -26 4 £100,000 +48.15% 6
East of England -25 3 £63,750 +27.50% 7
Wales -28 2 £58,500 +10.38% 4
Isle of Man - 2 £35,000 -
Northern Ireland -40 1 £77,500 +19.23%
NoSQL
UK

NoSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 16 (7.08%) IIS
2 10 (4.42%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (3.98%) Apache
4 5 (2.21%) nginx
5 4 (1.77%) Apache Solr
6 3 (1.33%) CMS
7 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.44%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.44%) Confluence
7 1 (0.44%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 153 (67.70%) AWS
2 108 (47.79%) Azure
3 49 (21.68%) GCP
4 43 (19.03%) Serverless
5 38 (16.81%) GitHub
6 35 (15.49%) AWS Lambda
7 34 (15.04%) Amazon S3
7 34 (15.04%) AWS CloudFormation
8 28 (12.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 28 (12.39%) AWS Step Functions
9 23 (10.18%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 22 (9.73%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (9.29%) GitHub Actions
12 20 (8.85%) Amazon ECS
13 13 (5.75%) Azure AKS
14 11 (4.87%) npm
14 11 (4.87%) NuGet
14 11 (4.87%) SonarCloud
15 10 (4.42%) Datadog
15 10 (4.42%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.21%) Broadband
2 3 (1.33%) HTTP
2 3 (1.33%) VPN
3 1 (0.44%) AMQP
3 1 (0.44%) Modbus
3 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (31.42%) MongoDB
2 60 (26.55%) PostgreSQL
3 47 (20.80%) MySQL
4 44 (19.47%) DynamoDB
5 24 (10.62%) SQL Server
6 19 (8.41%) Amazon Athena
6 19 (8.41%) Relational Database
7 13 (5.75%) Apache Cassandra
7 13 (5.75%) Metadata
8 11 (4.87%) Big Data
8 11 (4.87%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (3.98%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (2.65%) Data Mining
10 6 (2.65%) RDBMS
10 6 (2.65%) Tableau
11 5 (2.21%) BigQuery
11 5 (2.21%) Data Lake
11 5 (2.21%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 67 (29.65%) Git
2 17 (7.52%) Jenkins
3 13 (5.75%) JIRA
4 6 (2.65%) GitLab
4 6 (2.65%) JUnit
5 4 (1.77%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.33%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.33%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.33%) Gradle
6 3 (1.33%) Maven
6 3 (1.33%) Mockito
7 2 (0.88%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.44%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.44%) SpecFlow
General
1 49 (21.68%) Social Skills
2 27 (11.95%) Public Sector
3 25 (11.06%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.73%) Finance
5 7 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.65%) Law
6 6 (2.65%) Marketing
7 5 (2.21%) Advertising
7 5 (2.21%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.33%) Games
9 2 (0.88%) Banking
10 1 (0.44%) Legal
10 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 87 (38.50%) Developer
2 61 (26.99%) Senior
3 51 (22.57%) Software Engineer
4 36 (15.93%) Lead
5 35 (15.49%) Java Developer
6 26 (11.50%) Senior Developer
7 20 (8.85%) Data Engineer
7 20 (8.85%) Full-Stack Developer
8 17 (7.52%) Senior Software Engineer
9 16 (7.08%) .NET Developer
9 16 (7.08%) Lead Software Engineer
10 15 (6.64%) Architect
11 13 (5.75%) Data Architect
11 13 (5.75%) Java Engineer
12 11 (4.87%) AWS Developer
12 11 (4.87%) DevOps Engineer
13 10 (4.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 10 (4.42%) Java Software Engineer
13 10 (4.42%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 9 (3.98%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (31.42%) RESTful
2 61 (26.99%) .NET
3 59 (26.11%) Node.js
4 56 (24.78%) React
5 41 (18.14%) AngularJS
6 38 (16.81%) Spring
7 34 (15.04%) Spring Boot
8 30 (13.27%) REST
9 26 (11.50%) .NET Framework
10 25 (11.06%) .NET Core
11 24 (10.62%) Kafka
12 22 (9.73%) ASP.NET
13 21 (9.29%) ASP.NET Core
13 21 (9.29%) Vue
14 13 (5.75%) Blazor
15 12 (5.31%) CSS
15 12 (5.31%) HTML
16 11 (4.87%) YAML
17 9 (3.98%) AWS CDK
18 8 (3.54%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 57 (25.22%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.52%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (7.08%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.42%) Data Structures
5 9 (3.98%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (3.10%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.65%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.21%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (2.21%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.77%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.77%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.77%) Replication
10 3 (1.33%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.33%) Life Science
10 3 (1.33%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.88%) Cyber Defence
11 2 (0.88%) Low-Code
12 1 (0.44%) Educational Technology
12 1 (0.44%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.44%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 23 (10.18%) Linux
2 11 (4.87%) Windows
3 4 (1.77%) Android
3 4 (1.77%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (57.52%) Agile
2 126 (55.75%) CI/CD
3 107 (47.35%) DevOps
4 94 (41.59%) Microservices
5 66 (29.20%) Containerisation
6 63 (27.88%) Problem-Solving
7 61 (26.99%) Software Engineering
8 51 (22.57%) Test Automation
9 47 (20.80%) Full-Stack Development
10 37 (16.37%) Continuous Improvement
10 37 (16.37%) Infrastructure as Code
10 37 (16.37%) TDD
11 36 (15.93%) Mentoring
12 33 (14.60%) Scrum
13 32 (14.16%) DevSecOps
14 31 (13.72%) Data Modelling
15 28 (12.39%) AI
16 26 (11.50%) Analytics
17 25 (11.06%) Data Science
18 24 (10.62%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 139 (61.50%) SQL
2 99 (43.81%) Java
3 66 (29.20%) Python
4 50 (22.12%) JavaScript
5 48 (21.24%) C#
6 44 (19.47%) TypeScript
7 21 (9.29%) Kotlin
8 14 (6.19%) Bash
9 12 (5.31%) PHP
9 12 (5.31%) PowerShell
10 10 (4.42%) Go
10 10 (4.42%) Scala
11 6 (2.65%) Groovy
12 5 (2.21%) R
13 4 (1.77%) C++
14 3 (1.33%) Rust
15 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (10.18%) Degree
2 22 (9.73%) Security Cleared
3 12 (5.31%) AWS Certification
3 12 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.87%) Master's Degree
5 10 (4.42%) SC Cleared
6 8 (3.54%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.10%) AWS Certified Developer
8 5 (2.21%) MBA
9 4 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.44%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.44%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.73%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.65%) QA
3 5 (2.21%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.33%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.44%) GDPR
5 1 (0.44%) NIST
System Software
1 90 (39.82%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 67 (29.65%) Kubernetes
2 40 (17.70%) Terraform
3 7 (3.10%) Ansible
4 4 (1.77%) Grafana
4 4 (1.77%) Podman
4 4 (1.77%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.77%) Rancher
5 2 (0.88%) Argo
5 2 (0.88%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (7.52%) Google
2 12 (5.31%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.87%) CrowdStrike
4 7 (3.10%) Databricks
5 5 (2.21%) BT
6 4 (1.77%) Oracle
7 3 (1.33%) Confluent
7 3 (1.33%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.88%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.44%) Informatica
9 1 (0.44%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.44%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.44%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.44%) Splunk
9 1 (0.44%) Talend