Apache Cassandra Contract Job Trends in England

Apache Cassandra
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Apache Cassandra skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 589 420 419
Rank change year-on-year -169 -1 +110
Contract jobs citing Apache Cassandra 41 92 107
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.089% 0.33% 0.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.61% 1.80% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 19 56
10th Percentile £224 £446 £346
25th Percentile £380 £478 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £590 £550
Median % change year-on-year -21.61% +7.27% -9.09%
75th Percentile £705 £680 £678
90th Percentile £725 £682 £764
UK median daily rate £463 £578 £550
% change year-on-year -19.98% +5.09% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £85.00 -

All Database & BI Skills
England

Apache Cassandra falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,751 5,099 5,863
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.59% 18.17% 18.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,480 3,495 3,986
10th Percentile £352 £338 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £512 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.39% -6.91% -
75th Percentile £625 £634 £663
90th Percentile £713 £750 £813
UK median daily rate £502 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.42% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 72 84
10th Percentile £16.70 £20.67 £17.50
25th Percentile £21.25 £29.00 £22.30
Median hourly rate £41.36 £42.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +19.99% -33.33%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £80.00 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £40.18 £39.48 £34.47
% change year-on-year +1.77% +14.55% -34.35%

Apache Cassandra
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Apache Cassandra relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Apache Cassandra job vacancy trend in England

Apache Cassandra
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Apache Cassandra.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Apache Cassandra

Apache Cassandra
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Cassandra in England over the 6 months to 11 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Cassandra in England

Apache Cassandra
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Apache Cassandra.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Apache Cassandra

Apache Cassandra
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Cassandra within the England region over the 6 months to 11 October 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -111 21 £703 +12.48% 24
South East -65 6 £419 -6.32% 7
East of England - 5 £415 - 4
North of England -78 3 £200 -70.15% 5
South West - 3 - - 2
Yorkshire - 2 £200 - 1
North West -54 1 £621 -7.31% 4
Apache Cassandra
UK

Apache Cassandra
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 9 (21.95%) Apache Spark
2 3 (7.32%) Apache
2 3 (7.32%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.44%) Confluence
3 1 (2.44%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 19 (46.34%) AWS
2 12 (29.27%) GCP
3 6 (14.63%) Azure
3 6 (14.63%) Power Platform
4 4 (9.76%) GitHub
5 3 (7.32%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (7.32%) Datadog
5 3 (7.32%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (7.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 3 (7.32%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (2.44%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (2.44%) npm
6 1 (2.44%) Prefect
6 1 (2.44%) Serverless
6 1 (2.44%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.44%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (51.22%) NoSQL
2 12 (29.27%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (21.95%) MongoDB
4 7 (17.07%) MySQL
5 6 (14.63%) Big Data
5 6 (14.63%) Couchbase
5 6 (14.63%) Data Lake
5 6 (14.63%) Hazelcast
5 6 (14.63%) Relational Database
6 5 (12.20%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (12.20%) HBase
6 5 (12.20%) Power BI
6 5 (12.20%) SQL Server
7 4 (9.76%) RDBMS
8 3 (7.32%) BigQuery
8 3 (7.32%) Db2
9 2 (4.88%) Cloudera CDH
9 2 (4.88%) InterSystems Cache
9 2 (4.88%) Oracle Database
9 2 (4.88%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 11 (26.83%) Jenkins
2 9 (21.95%) Git
3 8 (19.51%) Selenium
4 7 (17.07%) JUnit
5 4 (9.76%) GitLab
5 4 (9.76%) JIRA
6 2 (4.88%) ER Studio
7 1 (2.44%) JMeter
7 1 (2.44%) Postman
7 1 (2.44%) webpack
General
1 20 (48.78%) Banking
2 19 (46.34%) Finance
3 6 (14.63%) Investment Banking
4 4 (9.76%) Social Skills
5 3 (7.32%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.88%) Front Office
6 2 (4.88%) Legal
7 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Back Office
7 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (34.15%) Senior
2 8 (19.51%) Cassandra Engineer
3 6 (14.63%) Database Engineer
3 6 (14.63%) Java Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) Architect
4 5 (12.20%) Data Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Data Architect
5 4 (9.76%) Developer
5 4 (9.76%) Senior Java Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Site Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Java Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Java Software Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Senior Manager
6 3 (7.32%) Site Manager
6 3 (7.32%) Site Reliability Manager
6 3 (7.32%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) NoSQL Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (43.90%) Kafka
2 11 (26.83%) Spring
3 10 (24.39%) Spring Boot
4 6 (14.63%) CSS
5 5 (12.20%) HTML
5 5 (12.20%) Spring MVC
5 5 (12.20%) Terraform
6 4 (9.76%) Hibernate
6 4 (9.76%) JPA
6 4 (9.76%) jQuery
6 4 (9.76%) React
7 3 (7.32%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (7.32%) gRPC
7 3 (7.32%) REST
8 2 (4.88%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (4.88%) Middleware
8 2 (4.88%) Spring WebFlux
9 1 (2.44%) PyTorch
9 1 (2.44%) Web Services
9 1 (2.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (29.27%) Cloud Native
1 12 (29.27%) Replication
2 6 (14.63%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.32%) Clustering
3 3 (7.32%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.44%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.44%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (2.44%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.44%) Derivative
5 1 (2.44%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.44%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.44%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.44%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (24.39%) Linux
2 4 (9.76%) Unix
3 3 (7.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (39.02%) CI/CD
2 13 (31.71%) Agile
2 13 (31.71%) Microservices
3 10 (24.39%) AI
3 10 (24.39%) Data Modelling
3 10 (24.39%) Performance Tuning
4 9 (21.95%) High Availability
5 8 (19.51%) Analytics
5 8 (19.51%) DevOps
5 8 (19.51%) Software Engineering
6 6 (14.63%) Data Governance
6 6 (14.63%) SIEM
7 5 (12.20%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (12.20%) Data Architecture
7 5 (12.20%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (12.20%) ETL
7 5 (12.20%) Migration
7 5 (12.20%) MVC
7 5 (12.20%) Scrum
7 5 (12.20%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 26 (63.41%) Java
2 25 (60.98%) SQL
3 16 (39.02%) Python
4 10 (24.39%) Bash
5 7 (17.07%) Go
5 7 (17.07%) JavaScript
6 5 (12.20%) PL/SQL
6 5 (12.20%) Shell Script
7 3 (7.32%) CQL
7 3 (7.32%) Scala
7 3 (7.32%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.44%) C#
8 1 (2.44%) PHP
8 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (12.20%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.76%) Degree
3 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.44%) CISSP
4 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) QA
1 3 (7.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (4.88%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.88%) GDPR
3 1 (2.44%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.44%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.44%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (34.15%) Docker
2 4 (9.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (31.71%) Kubernetes
2 5 (12.20%) Ansible
2 5 (12.20%) Check_MK
2 5 (12.20%) Grafana
2 5 (12.20%) Prometheus
3 4 (9.76%) Podman
Vendors
1 16 (39.02%) Oracle
2 7 (17.07%) Google
2 7 (17.07%) VMware
3 3 (7.32%) Bloomberg
3 3 (7.32%) Cloudera
3 3 (7.32%) IBM
3 3 (7.32%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.32%) New Relic
3 3 (7.32%) Refinitiv
4 2 (4.88%) SAP
5 1 (2.44%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.44%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.44%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.44%) Solace
5 1 (2.44%) Varonis