MongoDB Job Trends

MongoDB
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring MongoDB skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 286 239
Rank change year-on-year -89 -47 -15
Permanent jobs citing MongoDB 294 521 745
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.97% 1.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.52% 5.47% 6.50%
Number of salaries quoted 230 306 553
10th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +12.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £91,250 £88,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -8.33%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK

MongoDB 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 6,507 9,532 11,461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.85% 17.81% 20.58%
Number of salaries quoted 4,164 5,324 8,909
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,375 £47,500 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,900 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +6.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £100,000 £114,775 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%

MongoDB
Job Vacancy Trend

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

MongoDB job vacancy trend in the UK

MongoDB
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MongoDB.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MongoDB

MongoDB
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing MongoDB over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for MongoDB in the UK

MongoDB
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MongoDB within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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 -62 273 £75,000 +3.45% 504
London +5 150 £80,000 -8.57% 101
Work from Home -18 147 £65,000 -9.71% 416
UK excluding London -85 123 £70,000 +16.67% 454
North of England -6 66 £70,000 +17.18% 86
North West +18 49 £70,000 +3.70% 45
South West -4 26 £65,000 - 68
Yorkshire -15 13 £59,500 +8.00% 24
South East -12 9 £70,000 +12.00% 139
East of England +18 8 £57,500 -23.33% 72
Midlands -12 8 £80,000 +25.49% 52
West Midlands +6 7 £90,000 +44.00% 25
Scotland -12 6 £67,500 +10.20% 12
North East +2 4 £51,000 -7.27% 17
East Midlands -26 1 £55,000 -15.38% 26

MongoDB
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:

Application Platforms
1 18 (6.12%) Apache Spark
2 16 (5.44%) Apache
3 10 (3.40%) Confluence
4 7 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.38%) nginx
5 6 (2.04%) IIS
6 3 (1.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.68%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.34%) Camunda
8 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.34%) SAS
8 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Actimize
1 1 (0.34%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 191 (64.97%) AWS
2 144 (48.98%) Azure
3 57 (19.39%) GCP
4 33 (11.22%) GitHub
4 33 (11.22%) Serverless
5 26 (8.84%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (6.46%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (6.12%) SaaS
8 17 (5.78%) Amazon S3
9 16 (5.44%) Amazon ECS
10 14 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
10 14 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
11 10 (3.40%) Amazon EMR
12 9 (3.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 8 (2.72%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (2.38%) Vercel
15 6 (2.04%) Azure AKS
16 5 (1.70%) Azure AI
16 5 (1.70%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (1.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.72%) Internet
2 5 (1.70%) HTTP
3 3 (1.02%) MQTT
3 3 (1.02%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.02%) WAN
4 2 (0.68%) AMQP
4 2 (0.68%) BGP
4 2 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.68%) Firewall
4 2 (0.68%) OpenVPN
4 2 (0.68%) OSPF
4 2 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.68%) RTMP
4 2 (0.68%) SSH
4 2 (0.68%) VLAN
4 2 (0.68%) VPN
4 2 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.68%) Wireless
5 1 (0.34%) DNS
5 1 (0.34%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (31.63%) PostgreSQL
2 82 (27.89%) NoSQL
3 62 (21.09%) SQL Server
4 56 (19.05%) MySQL
5 44 (14.97%) Azure SQL Database
6 37 (12.59%) Elasticsearch
7 25 (8.50%) Relational Database
8 20 (6.80%) Data Warehouse
9 18 (6.12%) Big Data
9 18 (6.12%) Hadoop
9 18 (6.12%) Neo4j
10 15 (5.10%) Apache Cassandra
10 15 (5.10%) DynamoDB
11 13 (4.42%) Redis
12 12 (4.08%) RDBMS
13 10 (3.40%) DataStage
13 10 (3.40%) Pentaho
14 8 (2.72%) Pinecone
15 7 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 6 (2.04%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 50 (17.01%) Git
2 33 (11.22%) GitLab
3 32 (10.88%) Jenkins
4 16 (5.44%) JIRA
5 12 (4.08%) Bitbucket
5 12 (4.08%) Cypress.io
6 10 (3.40%) JUnit
7 7 (2.38%) Vite
8 4 (1.36%) JMeter
9 3 (1.02%) MLflow
9 3 (1.02%) Postman
10 2 (0.68%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.68%) Jaeger
10 2 (0.68%) Mocha
10 2 (0.68%) Mockito
10 2 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.68%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.68%) Selenium
10 2 (0.68%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 69 (23.47%) Finance
2 56 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 22 (7.48%) Law
4 18 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (6.12%) Marketing
5 17 (5.78%) Financial Institution
5 17 (5.78%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.06%) Retail
7 8 (2.72%) Advertising
8 7 (2.38%) Banking
8 7 (2.38%) Electronics
9 5 (1.70%) Esports
9 5 (1.70%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.70%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.02%) Billing
10 3 (1.02%) Front Office
10 3 (1.02%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.02%) Legal
11 2 (0.68%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.68%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 131 (44.56%) Developer
2 55 (18.71%) .NET Developer
3 41 (13.95%) Senior
4 39 (13.27%) Lead
5 38 (12.93%) Software Engineer
6 21 (7.14%) Data Engineer
6 21 (7.14%) Lead Developer
7 20 (6.80%) Full-Stack Developer
8 17 (5.78%) Java Engineer
9 16 (5.44%) Backend Developer
10 13 (4.42%) Java Software Engineer
10 13 (4.42%) Kafka Engineer
10 13 (4.42%) Software Developer
11 12 (4.08%) Principal Engineer
12 11 (3.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 10 (3.40%) Java Developer
13 10 (3.40%) Senior Developer
14 9 (3.06%) Architect
14 9 (3.06%) Lead Software Developer
14 9 (3.06%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (26.87%) .NET
2 73 (24.83%) Node.js
2 73 (24.83%) React
3 54 (18.37%) Kafka
4 51 (17.35%) .NET Core
4 51 (17.35%) AngularJS
5 48 (16.33%) RESTful
6 47 (15.99%) ASP.NET
7 40 (13.61%) ASP.NET Web API
7 40 (13.61%) Spring
7 40 (13.61%) Spring Boot
8 38 (12.93%) ASP.NET MVC
8 38 (12.93%) FastAPI
9 35 (11.90%) HTML
10 32 (10.88%) RabbitMQ
11 31 (10.54%) REST
12 29 (9.86%) Entity Framework
12 29 (9.86%) Vue
13 25 (8.50%) .NET Framework
14 24 (8.16%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 44 (14.97%) Cloud Native
2 32 (10.88%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (9.18%) Product Ownership
4 13 (4.42%) Clustering
5 12 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (4.08%) Management Information System
6 11 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (3.40%) Algorithms
7 10 (3.40%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.72%) Virtual Team
9 7 (2.38%) Digital TV
9 7 (2.38%) Marketing Technology
10 6 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (2.04%) IoT
10 6 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (2.04%) Replication
11 5 (1.70%) Data Structures
12 3 (1.02%) Legacy Code
12 3 (1.02%) Onboarding
12 3 (1.02%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 30 (10.20%) Linux
2 14 (4.76%) Windows
3 10 (3.40%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.70%) Android
4 5 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.36%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (50.68%) Microservices
2 146 (49.66%) Agile
3 99 (33.67%) CI/CD
4 96 (32.65%) Full-Stack Development
5 82 (27.89%) AI
6 76 (25.85%) Software Engineering
7 73 (24.83%) Containerisation
8 65 (22.11%) Problem-Solving
9 59 (20.07%) DevOps
10 54 (18.37%) Scrum
11 51 (17.35%) TDD
12 45 (15.31%) Mentoring
13 44 (14.97%) BDD
14 42 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
14 42 (14.29%) Fintech
15 41 (13.95%) Analytics
15 41 (13.95%) Data Pipeline
16 40 (13.61%) Roadmaps
17 38 (12.93%) MVC
18 35 (11.90%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 130 (44.22%) SQL
2 120 (40.82%) Python
3 103 (35.03%) JavaScript
4 84 (28.57%) TypeScript
5 82 (27.89%) C#
6 76 (25.85%) Java
7 17 (5.78%) Go
8 11 (3.74%) PowerShell
9 9 (3.06%) C
9 9 (3.06%) Ruby
10 7 (2.38%) Bash
11 5 (1.70%) Groovy
11 5 (1.70%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.70%) PHP
11 5 (1.70%) Scala
12 4 (1.36%) Swift
13 3 (1.02%) Erlang
13 3 (1.02%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.68%) C++
14 2 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 44 (14.97%) Security Cleared
2 29 (9.86%) Degree
3 25 (8.50%) SC Cleared
4 20 (6.80%) DV Cleared
5 12 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.02%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.02%) MCSE
8 2 (0.68%) HNC
8 2 (0.68%) HND
8 2 (0.68%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.68%) MCSA
8 2 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.34%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.48%) QA
2 5 (1.70%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.36%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 86 (29.25%) Docker
2 2 (0.68%) NFS
2 2 (0.68%) VMware NSX
2 2 (0.68%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 97 (32.99%) Kubernetes
2 33 (11.22%) Terraform
3 15 (5.10%) Ansible
4 6 (2.04%) Grafana
4 6 (2.04%) Kibana
5 4 (1.36%) Nagios
6 3 (1.02%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.68%) Argo
7 2 (0.68%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.68%) Rancher
Vendors
1 62 (21.09%) Microsoft
2 50 (17.01%) Oracle
3 16 (5.44%) Atlassian
4 13 (4.42%) Informatica
4 13 (4.42%) Talend
5 8 (2.72%) OpenAI
6 7 (2.38%) Databricks
6 7 (2.38%) Facebook
6 7 (2.38%) Google
6 7 (2.38%) SAP
7 6 (2.04%) YouTube
8 5 (1.70%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.70%) Palantir
8 5 (1.70%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.36%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.02%) RedGate
10 3 (1.02%) Solace
10 3 (1.02%) Splunk
10 3 (1.02%) VMware
11 2 (0.68%) Cisco