CQL Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Cassandra Query Language (CQL)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring CQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CQL 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.042% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £708 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £715 - -
75th Percentile £723 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £715 - -

All Programming Languages
City of London

CQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 657 724 739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.57% 38.65% 35.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 495 506
10th Percentile £368 £400 £406
25th Percentile £456 £459 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £583
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% -0.43% -6.80%
75th Percentile £668 £698 £710
90th Percentile £763 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -7.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 0
10th Percentile £26.32 £21.13 -
25th Percentile £32.39 £25.88 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £56.11 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £65.83 £76.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £52.49 £40.26 £41.50
% change year-on-year +30.39% -3.00% -37.36%

CQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

CQL job vacancy trend in the City of London

CQL
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CQL

CQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cassandra Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Database Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Fraud Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree