NoSQL
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring NoSQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited NoSQL over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 244 153 154
Rank change year-on-year -91 +1 -68
Permanent jobs citing NoSQL 748 1,934 2,273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.35% 1.87% 2.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.77% 10.53% 10.88%
Number of salaries quoted 301 837 1,090
10th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,465 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.93% -10.32% +4.29%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £112,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £61,206 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.20% -5.84% +8.33%

All Database and 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 7,654 18,365 20,897
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.81% 17.78% 21.51%
Number of salaries quoted 4,812 12,527 13,034
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,725 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,394 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.03% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £82,751 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £97,500 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

NoSQL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing NoSQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for NoSQL in the UK

NoSQL
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NoSQL.

Salary trend for NoSQL in the UK

NoSQL
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing NoSQL over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for NoSQL in the UK

NoSQL
Top 17 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 30 May 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
England -24 701 £71,991 +9.97% 1,572
Work from Home +108 404 £70,000 +6.93% 1,096
UK excluding London -144 378 £65,000 +6.20% 1,581
London +53 271 £80,750 +0.94% 239
South East -65 104 £62,500 -3.85% 483
North of England -80 102 £71,991 +17.62% 325
North West -104 65 £70,000 +14.37% 161
Midlands +1 60 £61,250 +2.08% 292
West Midlands +43 40 £64,500 -0.77% 150
East of England +69 39 £50,000 -31.03% 208
South West +78 36 £63,750 +15.91% 173
Yorkshire +44 35 £71,991 +9.97% 123
Scotland -94 35 £67,500 +10.66% 86
East Midlands -28 20 £60,000 +9.09% 121
Northern Ireland +30 3 £65,000 -31.58% 29
Wales +40 2 £61,154 -0.16% 40
North East +23 2 £47,500 -22.39% 41

NoSQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 54 (7.22%) Apache Spark
2 23 (3.07%) Confluence
3 22 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (2.41%) Apache
5 10 (1.34%) SAS
6 9 (1.20%) CMS
6 9 (1.20%) nginx
7 8 (1.07%) Apache Solr
8 7 (0.94%) Headless CMS
9 4 (0.53%) GemFire
10 3 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
10 3 (0.40%) IIS
10 3 (0.40%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.40%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.27%) Ethereum
11 2 (0.27%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.27%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.27%) WebSphere Application Server
12 1 (0.13%) Mendix
12 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.40%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Endur
2 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 499 (66.71%) AWS
2 243 (32.49%) Azure
3 216 (28.88%) Pulumi
4 173 (23.13%) GCP
5 59 (7.89%) Serverless
6 46 (6.15%) SaaS
7 45 (6.02%) Amazon S3
8 35 (4.68%) Amazon EC2
8 35 (4.68%) GitHub
9 30 (4.01%) AWS Lambda
10 28 (3.74%) Power Platform
11 27 (3.61%) Snowflake
12 26 (3.48%) Cloud Computing
13 20 (2.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 19 (2.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 17 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
16 13 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
17 11 (1.47%) Apigee
17 11 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
17 11 (1.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 217 (29.01%) Broadband
2 13 (1.74%) DNS
3 12 (1.60%) HTTP
4 9 (1.20%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.07%) HTTPS
5 8 (1.07%) IPsec
6 6 (0.80%) Internet
7 3 (0.40%) Firewall
7 3 (0.40%) VPN
8 2 (0.27%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.27%) FCoE
8 2 (0.27%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (0.27%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.27%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.27%) LAN
8 2 (0.27%) Multicast
8 2 (0.27%) NAS
8 2 (0.27%) SAN
8 2 (0.27%) SSL
8 2 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 275 (36.76%) Relational Database
2 243 (32.49%) RDBMS
3 161 (21.52%) MongoDB
4 105 (14.04%) PostgreSQL
5 70 (9.36%) MySQL
6 67 (8.96%) SQL Server
7 64 (8.56%) Data Warehouse
8 52 (6.95%) Big Data
9 40 (5.35%) Hadoop
10 38 (5.08%) DynamoDB
11 37 (4.95%) Redis
12 33 (4.41%) Data Lake
13 31 (4.14%) Amazon Redshift
13 31 (4.14%) BigQuery
14 26 (3.48%) Power BI
15 24 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
16 19 (2.54%) Couchbase
17 18 (2.41%) Apache Cassandra
18 14 (1.87%) DB2
18 14 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 215 (28.74%) Jaeger
2 112 (14.97%) Git
3 73 (9.76%) Jenkins
4 46 (6.15%) JUnit
5 40 (5.35%) JIRA
6 39 (5.21%) GitLab
7 22 (2.94%) Maven
8 19 (2.54%) Mockito
8 19 (2.54%) Selenium
9 16 (2.14%) IntelliJ
9 16 (2.14%) Jasmine
9 16 (2.14%) Karma Test Runner
10 15 (2.01%) Eclipse
10 15 (2.01%) Protractor
11 14 (1.87%) Sonatype Nexus
12 13 (1.74%) CircleCI
12 13 (1.74%) SonarQube
13 12 (1.60%) Cypress.io
14 11 (1.47%) Bitbucket
14 11 (1.47%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 285 (38.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 180 (24.06%) Finance
3 160 (21.39%) Social Skills
4 88 (11.76%) Banking
5 67 (8.96%) Law
6 55 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
7 39 (5.21%) Public Sector
8 32 (4.28%) Marketing
9 20 (2.67%) Manufacturing
10 17 (2.27%) Electronics
11 16 (2.14%) Games
12 14 (1.87%) Retail
12 14 (1.87%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.34%) Front Office
14 9 (1.20%) Legal
15 7 (0.94%) Advertising
15 7 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.80%) Investment Banking
17 5 (0.67%) Automotive
17 5 (0.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 297 (39.71%) Lead
2 224 (29.95%) Team Leader
3 195 (26.07%) Developer
4 138 (18.45%) Senior
5 104 (13.90%) Software Engineer
6 69 (9.22%) Architect
7 57 (7.62%) Senior Developer
8 45 (6.02%) Solutions Architect
9 41 (5.48%) Java Developer
10 40 (5.35%) Full-Stack Developer
11 33 (4.41%) Backend Developer
12 32 (4.28%) .NET Developer
13 30 (4.01%) Senior Software Engineer
14 29 (3.88%) Data Engineer
14 29 (3.88%) Java Engineer
15 28 (3.74%) Python Engineer
16 23 (3.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 23 (3.07%) Python Developer
17 22 (2.94%) Software Developer
18 19 (2.54%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 232 (31.02%) Elastic Stack
2 219 (29.28%) OpenTelemetry
3 143 (19.12%) React
4 124 (16.58%) Kafka
5 103 (13.77%) RESTful
6 87 (11.63%) .NET
7 78 (10.43%) REST
8 77 (10.29%) AngularJS
8 77 (10.29%) Spring
9 76 (10.16%) RabbitMQ
10 67 (8.96%) Node.js
11 55 (7.35%) Spring Boot
12 51 (6.82%) CSS
13 46 (6.15%) GraphQL
14 44 (5.88%) HTML
15 36 (4.81%) Hibernate
16 33 (4.41%) Vue
17 28 (3.74%) .NET Core
18 23 (3.07%) .NET Framework
18 23 (3.07%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 95 (12.70%) Cloud Native
2 69 (9.22%) Algorithms
3 46 (6.15%) Data Structures
4 42 (5.61%) Product Ownership
5 37 (4.95%) Management Information System
6 32 (4.28%) Mobile App
7 30 (4.01%) Distributed Systems
8 28 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
9 20 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (1.47%) Client/Server
10 11 (1.47%) e-Learning
10 11 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (1.47%) IoT
10 11 (1.47%) Mobile Games
11 10 (1.34%) Blockchain
11 10 (1.34%) Clustering
11 10 (1.34%) Distributed Applications
12 9 (1.20%) Derivative
12 9 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.07%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 288 (38.50%) Linux
2 243 (32.49%) Unix
3 23 (3.07%) Windows
4 17 (2.27%) Apple iOS
5 13 (1.74%) Android
6 3 (0.40%) Robot Operating System
7 2 (0.27%) Solaris
8 1 (0.13%) Debian
8 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 486 (64.97%) Agile
2 397 (53.07%) DevOps
3 352 (47.06%) Containerisation
4 290 (38.77%) Mentoring
5 266 (35.56%) CI/CD
6 265 (35.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 257 (34.36%) Continuous Integration
8 245 (32.75%) High Availability
9 244 (32.62%) Performance Optimisation
10 243 (32.49%) Roadmaps
11 232 (31.02%) Product Management
12 215 (28.74%) Budget Control
12 215 (28.74%) Cost Optimisation
12 215 (28.74%) GitOps
12 215 (28.74%) Resource Management
12 215 (28.74%) Task Automation
13 212 (28.34%) Microservices
14 167 (22.33%) Software Engineering
15 134 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
16 100 (13.37%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 412 (55.08%) Python
2 402 (53.74%) Java
3 356 (47.59%) SQL
4 351 (46.93%) JavaScript
5 256 (34.22%) Go
6 224 (29.95%) Bash
7 91 (12.17%) C#
8 81 (10.83%) TypeScript
9 23 (3.07%) Scala
10 17 (2.27%) R
11 16 (2.14%) PHP
12 14 (1.87%) C++
13 9 (1.20%) MATLAB
14 7 (0.94%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.53%) Groovy
15 4 (0.53%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.27%) Bicep
16 2 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
16 2 (0.27%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.27%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 254 (33.96%) AWS Certification
2 90 (12.03%) Degree
3 49 (6.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 29 (3.88%) Azure Certification
5 26 (3.48%) Security Cleared
6 22 (2.94%) Master's Degree
7 18 (2.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 18 (2.41%) SC Cleared
8 5 (0.67%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.53%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.40%) CISSP
10 3 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.27%) A+ Certification
11 2 (0.27%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.27%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.13%) CCSP
12 1 (0.13%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (4.81%) QA
2 31 (4.14%) GDPR
3 29 (3.88%) Data Quality
4 28 (3.74%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.47%) HIPAA
6 10 (1.34%) NIST
7 9 (1.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.53%) Basel II
8 4 (0.53%) Basel III
8 4 (0.53%) Dodd-Frank
8 4 (0.53%) GMP
8 4 (0.53%) IFRS
8 4 (0.53%) IFRS 9
8 4 (0.53%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.27%) SLA
10 1 (0.13%) COBIT
10 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 426 (56.95%) Docker
2 9 (1.20%) HDFS
3 8 (1.07%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.80%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.27%) KVM
5 2 (0.27%) NFS
5 2 (0.27%) SRDF
5 2 (0.27%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.27%) Xen
Systems Management
1 413 (55.21%) Kubernetes
2 301 (40.24%) Terraform
3 236 (31.55%) Prometheus
4 233 (31.15%) Ansible
5 220 (29.41%) Argo
6 215 (28.74%) Kustomize
7 16 (2.14%) Grafana
8 11 (1.47%) Istio
9 7 (0.94%) Puppet
10 6 (0.80%) Oozie
11 4 (0.53%) Kibana
11 4 (0.53%) Mesos
12 2 (0.27%) Graylog
12 2 (0.27%) HP Quality Center
12 2 (0.27%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.27%) Salt
13 1 (0.13%) logstash
13 1 (0.13%) Marathon
13 1 (0.13%) Nagios
Vendors
1 295 (39.44%) Google
2 38 (5.08%) Microsoft
3 33 (4.41%) Databricks
4 31 (4.14%) Oracle
5 29 (3.88%) IBM
6 19 (2.54%) Red Hat
7 16 (2.14%) SAP
8 8 (1.07%) Splunk
9 6 (0.80%) F5
9 6 (0.80%) New Relic
9 6 (0.80%) Solace
10 5 (0.67%) Cloudera
10 5 (0.67%) Intel
10 5 (0.67%) TIBCO
11 4 (0.53%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.53%) Bloomberg
11 4 (0.53%) CA Agile Central
12 3 (0.40%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.40%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.40%) YouTube