Couchbase Job Trends

Couchbase Server (formerly Membase)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Couchbase skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 644 688 701
Rank change year-on-year +44 +13 +280
Permanent jobs citing Couchbase 7 23 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.012% 0.042% 0.023%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.11% 0.23% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1 20 12
10th Percentile - £50,000 £45,750
25th Percentile £67,500 £68,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £76,250 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -8.20% +15.09% -22.06%
75th Percentile £72,500 £87,500 £108,438
90th Percentile - £89,750 £134,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +36.36% -33.33%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Couchbase 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,613 9,851 10,735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.18% 17.84% 20.91%
Number of salaries quoted 4,191 5,574 8,290
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,779 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +4.63% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -

Couchbase
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Couchbase relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Couchbase job vacancy trend in the UK

Couchbase
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Couchbase.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Couchbase

Couchbase
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Couchbase within the UK over the 6 months to 1 January 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
England +61 7 £70,000 -6.67% 6
London +30 5 - -
UK excluding London +49 2 £70,000 -6.67% 5
Work from Home +60 1 - - 6
South East +19 1 - - 2
South West +6 1 £70,000 -9.68% 2

Couchbase
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 5 (71.43%) Amazon Kinesis
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Redis
2 6 (85.71%) NoSQL
3 5 (71.43%) DynamoDB
3 5 (71.43%) SQL Server
4 1 (14.29%) Airbyte
4 1 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
4 1 (14.29%) MySQL
4 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) JMeter
General
1 6 (85.71%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Development Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Software Development Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) DBA
2 1 (14.29%) Java Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Kafka
1 6 (85.71%) Memcached
1 6 (85.71%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) Laravel
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 1 (14.29%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (71.43%) Data Structures
2 5 (71.43%) Virtual Team
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) Computer Science
2 6 (85.71%) Microservices
3 5 (71.43%) Auto-Scaling
3 5 (71.43%) Blue-Green Deployment
3 5 (71.43%) Canary Deployment
3 5 (71.43%) Continuous Delivery
3 5 (71.43%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (71.43%) Distributed Cache
3 5 (71.43%) Event-Driven
3 5 (71.43%) Low Latency
3 5 (71.43%) Machine Learning
3 5 (71.43%) OO
3 5 (71.43%) OOP
3 5 (71.43%) Proactive Monitoring
3 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (71.43%) SOA
3 5 (71.43%) TDD
3 5 (71.43%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Java
2 5 (71.43%) Kotlin
2 5 (71.43%) Scala
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (85.71%) Degree
2 5 (71.43%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Grafana
1 1 (14.29%) Kibana
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Google
1 1 (14.29%) New Relic
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) Splunk