Hybrid/Remote NoSQL Job Trends

NoSQL
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring NoSQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 182 161
Rank change year-on-year -39 -21 +2
Permanent jobs citing NoSQL 158 308 464
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.03% 1.89% 2.00%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.52% 7.44% 8.14%
Number of salaries quoted 118 177 382
10th Percentile £53,750 £42,500 £51,025
25th Percentile £60,000 £51,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £61,206 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.41% -12.56% -1.04%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £88,563
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £97,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% - -6.67%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,101 4,141 5,700
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.70% 25.42% 24.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,561 2,452 4,701
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £69,308 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.82% +15.51% -4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £92,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%

NoSQL
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing NoSQL and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

NoSQL job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing NoSQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing NoSQL

NoSQL
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing NoSQL over the 6 months to 20 January 2026.

NoSQL salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

NoSQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 8 (5.06%) Apache
1 8 (5.06%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.16%) Confluence
3 3 (1.90%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.27%) Luigi
4 2 (1.27%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.63%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.63%) Camunda
5 1 (0.63%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 92 (58.23%) AWS
2 80 (50.63%) Azure
3 47 (29.75%) GitHub
4 45 (28.48%) GCP
5 44 (27.85%) Serverless
6 25 (15.82%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (13.92%) SaaS
8 21 (13.29%) Amazon S3
8 21 (13.29%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (12.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (12.03%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (10.13%) Azure App Service
10 16 (10.13%) Pulumi
11 15 (9.49%) Entra ID
12 13 (8.23%) PaaS
13 12 (7.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (5.70%) Amazon SQS
14 9 (5.70%) AWS Step Functions
15 8 (5.06%) Azure Service Bus
16 6 (3.80%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 18 (11.39%) Broadband
2 2 (1.27%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (18.99%) MongoDB
2 28 (17.72%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (14.56%) SQL Server
4 20 (12.66%) Relational Database
5 17 (10.76%) DynamoDB
6 14 (8.86%) MySQL
6 14 (8.86%) RDBMS
7 10 (6.33%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (3.16%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (3.16%) Big Data
9 5 (3.16%) Hadoop
10 4 (2.53%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (2.53%) Neo4j
11 3 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.90%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.90%) Metadata
11 3 (1.90%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 44 (27.85%) Git
2 19 (12.03%) Jenkins
3 14 (8.86%) Jaeger
4 11 (6.96%) GitLab
5 7 (4.43%) JIRA
6 5 (3.16%) git-flow
7 4 (2.53%) JMeter
8 3 (1.90%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.90%) Mocha
8 3 (1.90%) Postman
8 3 (1.90%) Selenium
8 3 (1.90%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.90%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (1.27%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.27%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.27%) Storybook
9 2 (1.27%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.27%) webpack
10 1 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.63%) Mockito
General
1 55 (34.81%) Social Skills
2 19 (12.03%) Finance
3 14 (8.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (6.33%) Telecoms
5 7 (4.43%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.80%) Law
6 6 (3.80%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.53%) Electronics
7 4 (2.53%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.53%) Legal
7 4 (2.53%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.53%) Marketing
8 3 (1.90%) Retail
9 2 (1.27%) Front Office
9 2 (1.27%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.27%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.63%) Back Office
10 1 (0.63%) Games
Job Titles
1 64 (40.51%) Developer
2 41 (25.95%) Lead
3 40 (25.32%) Senior
4 25 (15.82%) .NET Developer
5 24 (15.19%) Software Engineer
6 20 (12.66%) Full-Stack Developer
7 19 (12.03%) Azure Developer
7 19 (12.03%) Lead Developer
8 17 (10.76%) Data Engineer
9 16 (10.13%) Senior Software Engineer
10 15 (9.49%) Java Developer
11 13 (8.23%) Architect
11 13 (8.23%) Lead .NET Developer
12 12 (7.59%) SaaS Developer
13 11 (6.96%) Senior Developer
14 10 (6.33%) Python Engineer
15 8 (5.06%) Data Architect
16 7 (4.43%) Team Leader
17 6 (3.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 6 (3.80%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (34.81%) React
2 49 (31.01%) RESTful
3 41 (25.95%) .NET
4 29 (18.35%) Node.js
5 23 (14.56%) .NET Framework
5 23 (14.56%) Elastic Stack
6 22 (13.92%) Kafka
6 22 (13.92%) Spring
7 21 (13.29%) Spring Boot
8 19 (12.03%) REST
9 17 (10.76%) Entity Framework
9 17 (10.76%) Razor View Engine
9 17 (10.76%) Vue
10 16 (10.13%) AngularJS
10 16 (10.13%) ASP.NET Web API
11 15 (9.49%) CSS
12 14 (8.86%) FastAPI
12 14 (8.86%) HTML
12 14 (8.86%) OpenTelemetry
13 13 (8.23%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 35 (22.15%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.49%) Product Ownership
3 13 (8.23%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (6.96%) Data Structures
5 9 (5.70%) Algorithms
6 5 (3.16%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.90%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.27%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.27%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.27%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.27%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.27%) Social Media
8 2 (1.27%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.63%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.63%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.63%) NHS
9 1 (0.63%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 25 (15.82%) Linux
2 21 (13.29%) Unix
3 6 (3.80%) Windows
4 2 (1.27%) Android
4 2 (1.27%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.63%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (62.66%) CI/CD
2 86 (54.43%) Agile
2 86 (54.43%) DevOps
3 73 (46.20%) Microservices
4 61 (38.61%) Containerisation
5 53 (33.54%) Full-Stack Development
6 43 (27.22%) AI
7 42 (26.58%) Problem-Solving
8 40 (25.32%) Infrastructure as Code
8 40 (25.32%) Software Engineering
9 35 (22.15%) Mentoring
10 34 (21.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (18.99%) Computer Science
11 30 (18.99%) Scrum
12 27 (17.09%) Design Patterns
12 27 (17.09%) Front End Development
13 26 (16.46%) Code Quality
14 24 (15.19%) B2B
14 24 (15.19%) Continuous Integration
14 24 (15.19%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 97 (61.39%) SQL
2 77 (48.73%) Python
3 56 (35.44%) Java
4 41 (25.95%) JavaScript
5 34 (21.52%) TypeScript
6 24 (15.19%) Bash
6 24 (15.19%) C#
7 21 (13.29%) Go
8 7 (4.43%) Kotlin
9 5 (3.16%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.53%) R
11 3 (1.90%) Groovy
12 2 (1.27%) Bicep
12 2 (1.27%) Scala
12 2 (1.27%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.27%) XAML
13 1 (0.63%) Korn
13 1 (0.63%) PHP
Qualifications
1 30 (18.99%) Degree
2 28 (17.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (14.56%) Security Cleared
4 16 (10.13%) AWS Certification
4 16 (10.13%) SC Cleared
5 15 (9.49%) Master's Degree
6 9 (5.70%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.27%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (15.19%) QA
2 10 (6.33%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.16%) WCAG
4 3 (1.90%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.63%) IFRS
System Software
1 67 (42.41%) Docker
2 15 (9.49%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 58 (36.71%) Kubernetes
2 37 (23.42%) Terraform
3 26 (16.46%) Ansible
4 21 (13.29%) Prometheus
5 14 (8.86%) Argo
5 14 (8.86%) Kustomize
6 7 (4.43%) Grafana
7 2 (1.27%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.27%) Puppet
8 1 (0.63%) Icinga
8 1 (0.63%) Kibana
8 1 (0.63%) Nagios
Vendors
1 23 (14.56%) Google
2 19 (12.03%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.80%) Splunk
4 5 (3.16%) Oracle
5 4 (2.53%) SAP
6 3 (1.90%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.90%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.27%) Databricks
7 2 (1.27%) SendGrid
8 1 (0.63%) Apple
8 1 (0.63%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.63%) Samsung
8 1 (0.63%) SnapLogic
8 1 (0.63%) VMware