NoSQL
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for NoSQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NoSQL over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 186 213 175
Rank change year-on-year +27 -38 -5
Contract jobs citing NoSQL 544 714 1,446
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.28% 1.25% 1.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.47% 7.00% 8.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 368 497 950
10th Percentile £363 £439 £425
25th Percentile £480 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £703 £725 £688
90th Percentile £825 £803 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.86% - +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 19 15
10th Percentile £25.71 £57.00 £47.75
25th Percentile £31.68 £71.25 £60.20
Median hourly rate £37.75 £75.00 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year -49.67% +14.43% +13.00%
75th Percentile £47.13 £78.00 £70.02
90th Percentile £59.05 £90.00 £81.34
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £75.00 £56.08
% change year-on-year -53.33% +33.75% -2.05%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

NoSQL is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,282 10,198 17,462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.11% 17.90% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,219 7,260 12,426
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% - +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +11.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 181 189
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £32.30 £22.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +30.43% +73.58%
75th Percentile £61.58 £73.75 £65.54
90th Percentile £73.75 £82.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £55.70 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.19% +59.14% +44.03%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NoSQL.

Daily rate trend for NoSQL in the UK

NoSQL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NoSQL over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NoSQL in the UK

NoSQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NoSQL.

Hourly rate trend for NoSQL in the UK

NoSQL
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing NoSQL over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for NoSQL in the UK

NoSQL
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NoSQL within the UK over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +40 498 £588 -6.00% 246
London +44 351 £600 -7.69% 122
Work from Home +13 168 £534 -7.13% 139
UK excluding London +40 147 £540 +2.86% 144
South East +33 50 £625 +19.05% 28
North of England +19 38 £534 -9.11% 47
North West +23 23 £534 -17.85% 34
South West +12 21 £525 -4.55% 11
Midlands +24 16 £423 -32.40% 27
Scotland +14 12 £360 -24.92% 14
Yorkshire +1 12 £625 +13.64% 6
West Midlands +28 11 £400 -38.46% 20
East of England +5 10 £638 +22.60% 5
East Midlands +8 5 £675 +67.70% 7
North East +10 3 - - 7

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 34 (6.25%) Apache
1 34 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 23 (4.23%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (4.23%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.94%) Confluence
4 13 (2.39%) nginx
5 10 (1.84%) OpenStack
6 6 (1.10%) Anypoint
6 6 (1.10%) Apache Solr
6 6 (1.10%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.55%) SAS
8 2 (0.37%) CMS
8 2 (0.37%) JBoss
8 2 (0.37%) ThingWorx
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.18%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (3.13%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.18%) Sketch
5 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (4.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 11 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.18%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 215 (39.52%) Azure
2 180 (33.09%) AWS
3 93 (17.10%) Serverless
4 61 (11.21%) GCP
5 53 (9.74%) GitHub
6 46 (8.46%) Azure Data Factory
7 38 (6.99%) Azure Functions
8 37 (6.80%) Azure Monitor
8 37 (6.80%) Power Platform
9 33 (6.07%) Azure DevOps
10 32 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
11 29 (5.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 26 (4.78%) Entra ID
13 22 (4.04%) Amazon S3
13 22 (4.04%) SaaS
14 19 (3.49%) OpenShift
15 16 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
15 16 (2.94%) PaaS
16 15 (2.76%) Azure Service Bus
17 14 (2.57%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.84%) BGP
1 10 (1.84%) Ethernet VPN
1 10 (1.84%) Firewall
1 10 (1.84%) MPLS
1 10 (1.84%) Radio Access Network
1 10 (1.84%) VPN
2 9 (1.65%) DNS
2 9 (1.65%) TCP/IP
3 5 (0.92%) DHCP
3 5 (0.92%) Kerberos
4 4 (0.74%) HTTPS
4 4 (0.74%) IPsec
4 4 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.55%) HTTP
5 3 (0.55%) Network Security
6 2 (0.37%) Internet
7 1 (0.18%) MQTT
7 1 (0.18%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (18.20%) PostgreSQL
2 94 (17.28%) MongoDB
3 67 (12.32%) Relational Database
4 59 (10.85%) SQL Server
5 55 (10.11%) Metadata
6 45 (8.27%) Data Vault
7 41 (7.54%) Apache Cassandra
8 39 (7.17%) RDBMS
9 37 (6.80%) Power BI
10 36 (6.62%) MySQL
11 35 (6.43%) Data Warehouse
12 32 (5.88%) Data Lake
13 29 (5.33%) Metadata Repository
14 28 (5.15%) DynamoDB
15 26 (4.78%) Azure SQL Database
16 25 (4.60%) Couchbase
17 22 (4.04%) Big Data
17 22 (4.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 15 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
19 14 (2.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 104 (19.12%) Git
2 56 (10.29%) Jenkins
3 36 (6.62%) GitLab
4 30 (5.51%) JIRA
5 25 (4.60%) TeamCity
6 14 (2.57%) Cucumber
7 12 (2.21%) Mockito
7 12 (2.21%) NUnit
7 12 (2.21%) SonarQube
8 11 (2.02%) JUnit
9 10 (1.84%) Moq
9 10 (1.84%) Robot Framework
9 10 (1.84%) Selenium
9 10 (1.84%) TestRail
10 9 (1.65%) ERwin
10 9 (1.65%) webpack
11 7 (1.29%) CircleCI
11 7 (1.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 6 (1.10%) Cypress.io
12 6 (1.10%) Visual Studio
General
1 128 (23.53%) Finance
2 95 (17.46%) Social Skills
3 64 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (8.64%) Banking
5 43 (7.90%) Public Sector
6 33 (6.07%) Telecoms
7 26 (4.78%) Marketing
8 24 (4.41%) Front Office
9 23 (4.23%) Manufacturing
10 21 (3.86%) Electronics
11 14 (2.57%) Publishing
12 13 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (2.02%) Retail
14 10 (1.84%) Investment Banking
15 8 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (1.29%) Legal
17 6 (1.10%) Back Office
18 5 (0.92%) Tech for Good
19 4 (0.74%) Law
Job Titles
1 234 (43.01%) Developer
2 109 (20.04%) Architect
3 82 (15.07%) Data Architect
4 65 (11.95%) Senior
5 56 (10.29%) Full Stack Developer
6 37 (6.80%) Data Engineer
7 31 (5.70%) Python Developer
8 26 (4.78%) Azure Developer
9 25 (4.60%) C# Developer
9 25 (4.60%) Senior Developer
9 25 (4.60%) Software Engineer
10 24 (4.41%) Chief Architect
10 24 (4.41%) Chief Data Architect
10 24 (4.41%) Java Developer
10 24 (4.41%) Software Developer
11 18 (3.31%) Azure Engineer
11 18 (3.31%) DBA
12 16 (2.94%) Lead
13 15 (2.76%) Analyst
13 15 (2.76%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (15.07%) React
2 79 (14.52%) REST
2 79 (14.52%) RESTful
3 70 (12.87%) Node.js
4 66 (12.13%) .NET
5 65 (11.95%) Kafka
6 49 (9.01%) Spring
7 48 (8.82%) JSON
8 42 (7.72%) HTML
9 37 (6.80%) Spring Boot
10 35 (6.43%) Web Services
11 33 (6.07%) CSS
12 31 (5.70%) .NET Core
13 28 (5.15%) ASP.NET
14 27 (4.96%) SOAP
15 26 (4.78%) RabbitMQ
16 24 (4.41%) XML
17 22 (4.04%) ASP.NET Core
18 21 (3.86%) FastAPI
18 21 (3.86%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 40 (7.35%) Product Ownership
2 36 (6.62%) Reference Data
3 26 (4.78%) Cloud Native
4 20 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (3.49%) Data Structures
5 19 (3.49%) Greenfield Project
6 18 (3.31%) Algorithms
7 14 (2.57%) Onboarding
7 14 (2.57%) Public Cloud
8 13 (2.39%) Derivative
9 11 (2.02%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.29%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.29%) Renewable Energy
10 7 (1.29%) Solar Panel
10 7 (1.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 6 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
12 5 (0.92%) Blockchain
12 5 (0.92%) Clustering
12 5 (0.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 43 (7.90%) Linux
2 20 (3.68%) Unix
3 10 (1.84%) VMS
4 9 (1.65%) CentOS
5 6 (1.10%) Android
5 6 (1.10%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.92%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.55%) Windows
8 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (32.72%) Agile
2 177 (32.54%) CI/CD
3 150 (27.57%) DevOps
4 144 (26.47%) Microservices
5 121 (22.24%) Data Modelling
6 91 (16.73%) Test Automation
7 81 (14.89%) Full Stack Development
8 77 (14.15%) Software Engineering
9 76 (13.97%) Containerisation
10 69 (12.68%) TDD
11 66 (12.13%) Business Intelligence
11 66 (12.13%) Unit Testing
12 63 (11.58%) Continuous Integration
12 63 (11.58%) Data Architecture
13 58 (10.66%) ETL
14 54 (9.93%) Data Governance
14 54 (9.93%) SDLC
15 53 (9.74%) Analytics
16 50 (9.19%) Problem-Solving
17 48 (8.82%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 316 (58.09%) SQL
2 193 (35.48%) Python
3 126 (23.16%) Java
4 88 (16.18%) JavaScript
5 70 (12.87%) C#
6 44 (8.09%) Go
7 39 (7.17%) TypeScript
8 30 (5.51%) Scala
9 21 (3.86%) PowerShell
10 18 (3.31%) C++
11 17 (3.13%) T-SQL
12 16 (2.94%) Bash
13 13 (2.39%) C
13 13 (2.39%) Rust
14 9 (1.65%) Groovy
14 9 (1.65%) PHP
15 8 (1.47%) Shell Script
16 6 (1.10%) Ruby
17 3 (0.55%) R
18 2 (0.37%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 78 (14.34%) Security Cleared
2 70 (12.87%) SC Cleared
3 40 (7.35%) Degree
4 19 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.47%) DV Cleared
5 8 (1.47%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.74%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.55%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (0.37%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.18%) CBAP
9 1 (0.18%) CISSP
9 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.18%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.96%) Data Quality
2 23 (4.23%) GDPR
3 21 (3.86%) QA
4 7 (1.29%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.29%) ISO 20022
4 7 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.10%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.92%) NIST
7 4 (0.74%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.55%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.18%) GRC
10 1 (0.18%) NCSC
10 1 (0.18%) SLA
10 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 114 (20.96%) Docker
2 23 (4.23%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.74%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.18%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.18%) iptables
Systems Management
1 108 (19.85%) Kubernetes
2 49 (9.01%) Terraform
3 32 (5.88%) Ansible
3 32 (5.88%) Grafana
4 17 (3.13%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.10%) Kibana
6 5 (0.92%) PingFederate
6 5 (0.92%) Puppet
6 5 (0.92%) ZABBIX
7 3 (0.55%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.37%) Ambari
8 2 (0.37%) Oozie
8 2 (0.37%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.18%) Ganglia
9 1 (0.18%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.18%) logstash
9 1 (0.18%) Rancher
9 1 (0.18%) rkt
9 1 (0.18%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 71 (13.05%) Oracle
2 66 (12.13%) Microsoft
3 34 (6.25%) Google
3 34 (6.25%) SAP
4 24 (4.41%) Informatica
4 24 (4.41%) Sparx
5 18 (3.31%) Salesforce
6 14 (2.57%) Databricks
6 14 (2.57%) OpenAI
6 14 (2.57%) Splunk
7 12 (2.21%) TIBCO
8 9 (1.65%) Talend
9 8 (1.47%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.29%) WSO2
11 6 (1.10%) CyberSource
11 6 (1.10%) MuleSoft
11 6 (1.10%) Okta
12 5 (0.92%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.92%) Ping Identity
12 5 (0.92%) Varonis