NoSQL Job Trends

NoSQL
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring NoSQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 219 155
Rank change year-on-year -92 -64 -15
Permanent jobs citing NoSQL 391 708 1,221
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.63% 1.33% 1.91%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.92% 7.49% 9.45%
Number of salaries quoted 249 388 853
10th Percentile £53,500 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,905 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £106,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £61,206 £67,500
% change year-on-year +6.20% -9.32% +3.85%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,606 9,453 12,918
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.61% 17.78% 20.19%
Number of salaries quoted 4,154 5,255 10,124
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%

NoSQL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

NoSQL job vacancy trend in the UK

NoSQL
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NoSQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NoSQL

NoSQL
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing NoSQL over the 6 months to 23 January 2026.

Salary histogram for NoSQL in the UK

NoSQL
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NoSQL within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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 -75 367 £70,000 - 352
London -43 179 £80,000 -5.88% 62
UK excluding London -110 175 £65,000 +6.20% 319
Work from Home -30 161 £72,500 +18.45% 141
North of England +10 92 £70,000 +14.37% 75
North West +22 53 £65,000 - 38
Yorkshire -18 37 £72,500 +19.63% 29
South East -91 32 £57,500 -8.00% 91
South West 0 27 £67,500 -6.90% 42
Midlands -15 16 £65,000 +6.20% 40
East Midlands -18 11 £65,000 +4.00% 25
East of England +15 5 £52,500 +7.69% 48
West Midlands 0 5 £60,000 - 15
Scotland -29 3 £105,000 +82.79% 10
North East -7 2 - - 9

NoSQL
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 25 (6.39%) Apache Spark
2 14 (3.58%) Apache
3 12 (3.07%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.30%) IIS
5 6 (1.53%) Confluence
5 6 (1.53%) SharePoint
6 4 (1.02%) nginx
7 3 (0.77%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.77%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.51%) Luigi
8 2 (0.51%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.51%) SAS
9 1 (0.26%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.26%) Camunda
9 1 (0.26%) CMS
9 1 (0.26%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 6 (1.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.26%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 227 (58.06%) AWS
2 189 (48.34%) Azure
3 83 (21.23%) GCP
3 83 (21.23%) Serverless
4 82 (20.97%) GitHub
5 46 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 44 (11.25%) GitHub Actions
7 43 (11.00%) Amazon S3
7 43 (11.00%) AWS Lambda
7 43 (11.00%) Azure DevOps
8 38 (9.72%) SaaS
9 32 (8.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 23 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
11 21 (5.37%) Pulumi
12 18 (4.60%) Amazon SQS
12 18 (4.60%) Azure App Service
13 16 (4.09%) Entra ID
14 15 (3.84%) Datadog
15 14 (3.58%) PaaS
16 13 (3.32%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.88%) Broadband
2 4 (1.02%) HTTP
2 4 (1.02%) VPN
3 2 (0.51%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (21.23%) MongoDB
2 71 (18.16%) PostgreSQL
3 69 (17.65%) SQL Server
4 68 (17.39%) DynamoDB
5 45 (11.51%) Relational Database
6 40 (10.23%) Data Warehouse
7 38 (9.72%) MySQL
8 35 (8.95%) RDBMS
9 34 (8.70%) Big Data
10 33 (8.44%) Hadoop
11 22 (5.63%) Metadata
12 20 (5.12%) Apache Cassandra
13 18 (4.60%) Amazon RDS
13 18 (4.60%) Neo4j
14 11 (2.81%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (2.81%) Pentaho
15 10 (2.56%) DataStage
16 9 (2.30%) Amazon Athena
17 8 (2.05%) Pinecone
17 8 (2.05%) Redis
Development Applications
1 98 (25.06%) Git
2 40 (10.23%) Jenkins
3 31 (7.93%) GitLab
4 19 (4.86%) Jaeger
5 15 (3.84%) JIRA
6 8 (2.05%) CircleCI
7 7 (1.79%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.79%) Vite
8 5 (1.28%) git-flow
8 5 (1.28%) JUnit
9 4 (1.02%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.02%) JMeter
10 3 (0.77%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.77%) Gradle
10 3 (0.77%) Mocha
10 3 (0.77%) Postman
10 3 (0.77%) Selenium
10 3 (0.77%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.51%) TeamCity
General
1 148 (37.85%) Social Skills
2 71 (18.16%) Finance
3 60 (15.35%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (8.18%) Law
5 27 (6.91%) Public Sector
6 20 (5.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (4.09%) Manufacturing
7 16 (4.09%) Marketing
7 16 (4.09%) Telecoms
8 12 (3.07%) Banking
9 11 (2.81%) Retail
10 10 (2.56%) Electronics
11 8 (2.05%) Financial Institution
11 8 (2.05%) Legal
12 6 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.28%) Front Office
14 4 (1.02%) Games
14 4 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.51%) Advertising
15 2 (0.51%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 160 (40.92%) Developer
2 96 (24.55%) Senior
3 82 (20.97%) Lead
4 49 (12.53%) .NET Developer
5 48 (12.28%) Software Engineer
6 42 (10.74%) Full-Stack Developer
6 42 (10.74%) Senior Developer
7 37 (9.46%) Architect
8 33 (8.44%) Data Engineer
9 32 (8.18%) Lead Developer
10 24 (6.14%) Data Architect
11 22 (5.63%) Java Developer
12 21 (5.37%) Lead .NET Developer
12 21 (5.37%) Senior Software Engineer
13 20 (5.12%) Azure Developer
14 17 (4.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 17 (4.35%) Python Developer
15 16 (4.09%) Backend Developer
16 15 (3.84%) Cloud Engineer
16 15 (3.84%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (28.13%) React
2 97 (24.81%) .NET
3 96 (24.55%) RESTful
4 64 (16.37%) Kafka
5 62 (15.86%) REST
6 58 (14.83%) Node.js
7 47 (12.02%) AngularJS
8 42 (10.74%) .NET Framework
9 41 (10.49%) Spring
10 37 (9.46%) CSS
10 37 (9.46%) FastAPI
11 36 (9.21%) HTML
12 35 (8.95%) Vue
13 34 (8.70%) Spring Boot
14 33 (8.44%) .NET Core
15 28 (7.16%) Elastic Stack
16 27 (6.91%) Flask
17 24 (6.14%) RabbitMQ
18 20 (5.12%) Blazor
18 20 (5.12%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 78 (19.95%) Cloud Native
2 57 (14.58%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (12.02%) Product Ownership
4 35 (8.95%) Data Structures
5 20 (5.12%) Management Information System
6 16 (4.09%) Algorithms
6 16 (4.09%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (3.32%) Low-Code
8 12 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (2.81%) Distributed Computing
10 10 (2.56%) AI Agents
10 10 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (2.56%) Virtual Team
11 9 (2.30%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.53%) Blockchain
12 6 (1.53%) FMCG
12 6 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.53%) Web3
13 5 (1.28%) Clustering
13 5 (1.28%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 39 (9.97%) Linux
2 27 (6.91%) Unix
3 11 (2.81%) Windows
4 3 (0.77%) Android
4 3 (0.77%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (58.57%) CI/CD
2 197 (50.38%) Agile
3 169 (43.22%) DevOps
4 166 (42.46%) Microservices
5 133 (34.02%) Problem-Solving
6 123 (31.46%) Containerisation
7 112 (28.64%) AI
8 98 (25.06%) Full-Stack Development
9 84 (21.48%) Infrastructure as Code
10 81 (20.72%) Software Engineering
11 70 (17.90%) Machine Learning
12 69 (17.65%) Analytics
13 65 (16.62%) Data Modelling
14 64 (16.37%) Roadmaps
15 60 (15.35%) ETL
15 60 (15.35%) Mentoring
16 59 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
16 59 (15.09%) Test Automation
17 58 (14.83%) Computer Science
17 58 (14.83%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 252 (64.45%) SQL
2 178 (45.52%) Python
3 126 (32.23%) Java
4 91 (23.27%) JavaScript
5 70 (17.90%) C#
5 70 (17.90%) TypeScript
6 41 (10.49%) Go
7 34 (8.70%) Bash
8 18 (4.60%) Kotlin
9 13 (3.32%) Scala
10 11 (2.81%) PowerShell
10 11 (2.81%) R
11 7 (1.79%) PHP
12 6 (1.53%) Bicep
12 6 (1.53%) Groovy
13 4 (1.02%) C++
14 2 (0.51%) C
14 2 (0.51%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.51%) XAML
15 1 (0.26%) Korn
Qualifications
1 64 (16.37%) Degree
2 59 (15.09%) Security Cleared
3 43 (11.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 38 (9.72%) AWS Certification
5 34 (8.70%) SC Cleared
6 31 (7.93%) Master's Degree
7 22 (5.63%) DV Cleared
8 11 (2.81%) AWS Certified Developer
9 9 (2.30%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (1.28%) MBA
11 4 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.51%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (10.23%) QA
2 22 (5.63%) Data Quality
3 20 (5.12%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.79%) SLA
5 5 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (1.28%) WCAG
6 4 (1.02%) GDPR
7 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.26%) IFRS
7 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.26%) PERC
System Software
1 144 (36.83%) Docker
2 17 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 120 (30.69%) Kubernetes
2 83 (21.23%) Terraform
3 34 (8.70%) Ansible
4 33 (8.44%) Prometheus
5 20 (5.12%) Argo
6 19 (4.86%) Kustomize
7 9 (2.30%) Grafana
8 3 (0.77%) Rancher
9 2 (0.51%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.51%) Puppet
10 1 (0.26%) Icinga
10 1 (0.26%) Kibana
10 1 (0.26%) Nagios
Vendors
1 49 (12.53%) Microsoft
2 40 (10.23%) Google
3 26 (6.65%) Oracle
4 19 (4.86%) OpenAI
5 18 (4.60%) SAP
6 17 (4.35%) Databricks
7 13 (3.32%) Informatica
8 11 (2.81%) Talend
9 7 (1.79%) MuleSoft
9 7 (1.79%) Splunk
10 5 (1.28%) BT
11 4 (1.02%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (1.02%) Dell
11 4 (1.02%) iManage
12 3 (0.77%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.77%) SnapLogic
13 2 (0.51%) Adobe
13 2 (0.51%) SendGrid
14 1 (0.26%) Apple
14 1 (0.26%) Salesforce