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 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 595 439 413
Rank change year-on-year -156 -26 +135
Contract jobs citing Apache Cassandra 40 84 110
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.086% 0.30% 0.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.58% 1.65% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 16 61
10th Percentile £341 £445 £363
25th Percentile £408 £492 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.64% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £688 £680 £675
90th Percentile £710 £684 £760
UK median daily rate £492 £581 £550
% change year-on-year -15.32% +5.64% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 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 6,872 5,097 5,925
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.82% 18.25% 18.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,591 3,504 4,056
10th Percentile £351 £338 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £713 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 73 82
10th Percentile £15.93 £21.02 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.82 £29.00 £21.44
Median hourly rate £38.50 £43.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.49% +24.29% -36.07%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £79.75 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £40.18 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +0.45% +14.29% -33.33%

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 27 September 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 27 September 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 -101 22 £625 - 24
South East -64 6 £419 -5.90% 6
East of England - 5 £415 -
South West - 3 - - 2
North West -56 1 £621 -7.31% 3
North of England -71 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 (22.50%) Apache Spark
2 3 (7.50%) Apache
2 3 (7.50%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.50%) Confluence
3 1 (2.50%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 21 (52.50%) AWS
2 10 (25.00%) GCP
3 8 (20.00%) Azure
4 6 (15.00%) GitHub
4 6 (15.00%) Power Platform
5 3 (7.50%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (7.50%) Amazon Kinesis
5 3 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (7.50%) Datadog
5 3 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (7.50%) GitHub Copilot
5 3 (7.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (5.00%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon MSK
7 1 (2.50%) Prefect
7 1 (2.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (52.50%) NoSQL
2 10 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (22.50%) MongoDB
4 6 (15.00%) Big Data
4 6 (15.00%) Couchbase
4 6 (15.00%) Data Lake
4 6 (15.00%) Hazelcast
4 6 (15.00%) Relational Database
5 5 (12.50%) HBase
5 5 (12.50%) MySQL
5 5 (12.50%) Power BI
6 4 (10.00%) RDBMS
7 3 (7.50%) DynamoDB
7 3 (7.50%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
8 2 (5.00%) Cloudera CDH
8 2 (5.00%) InterSystems Cache
8 2 (5.00%) Metadata
9 1 (2.50%) Apache Hive
9 1 (2.50%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 11 (27.50%) Git
1 11 (27.50%) Jenkins
2 8 (20.00%) Selenium
3 7 (17.50%) JUnit
4 4 (10.00%) GitLab
4 4 (10.00%) JIRA
5 2 (5.00%) ER Studio
5 2 (5.00%) Gradle
5 2 (5.00%) Maven
6 1 (2.50%) JMeter
6 1 (2.50%) Postman
General
1 18 (45.00%) Banking
2 16 (40.00%) Finance
3 6 (15.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (12.50%) Investment Banking
5 3 (7.50%) Telecoms
6 2 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (5.00%) Front Office
6 2 (5.00%) Legal
7 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.50%) Back Office
7 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (40.00%) Senior
2 8 (20.00%) Cassandra Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Database Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Java Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Architect
4 5 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Developer
4 5 (12.50%) Java Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Data Architect
5 4 (10.00%) Senior Java Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Java Software Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Manager
6 3 (7.50%) Site Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Site Manager
6 3 (7.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Site Reliability Manager
6 3 (7.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (47.50%) Kafka
2 12 (30.00%) Spring
2 12 (30.00%) Spring Boot
3 5 (12.50%) CSS
3 5 (12.50%) HTML
3 5 (12.50%) Spring MVC
3 5 (12.50%) Terraform
4 4 (10.00%) Hibernate
4 4 (10.00%) JPA
4 4 (10.00%) jQuery
5 3 (7.50%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (7.50%) gRPC
5 3 (7.50%) React
5 3 (7.50%) REST
6 2 (5.00%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (5.00%) Middleware
6 2 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (5.00%) RESTful
6 2 (5.00%) Spring WebFlux
7 1 (2.50%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 14 (35.00%) Cloud Native
2 10 (25.00%) Replication
3 7 (17.50%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (7.50%) Clustering
4 3 (7.50%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.50%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.50%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (2.50%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.50%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.50%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.00%) Linux
2 4 (10.00%) Unix
3 3 (7.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 14 (35.00%) Microservices
3 13 (32.50%) Agile
4 10 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 10 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
5 9 (22.50%) DevOps
5 9 (22.50%) High Availability
6 8 (20.00%) AI
7 7 (17.50%) Containerisation
7 7 (17.50%) Software Engineering
8 6 (15.00%) Analytics
8 6 (15.00%) Data Governance
8 6 (15.00%) Event-Driven
8 6 (15.00%) SIEM
9 5 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (12.50%) Data Architecture
9 5 (12.50%) ETL
9 5 (12.50%) MVC
9 5 (12.50%) Scrum
9 5 (12.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 27 (67.50%) Java
2 23 (57.50%) SQL
3 16 (40.00%) Python
4 10 (25.00%) Bash
5 7 (17.50%) Go
6 6 (15.00%) JavaScript
7 5 (12.50%) PL/SQL
7 5 (12.50%) Shell Script
8 3 (7.50%) CQL
8 3 (7.50%) Scala
9 2 (5.00%) TypeScript
10 1 (2.50%) C#
10 1 (2.50%) PHP
10 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.00%) Degree
3 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.50%) CISSP
4 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.50%) QA
2 3 (7.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.00%) GDPR
4 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (2.50%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.50%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (37.50%) Docker
2 4 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 7 (17.50%) Grafana
2 7 (17.50%) Prometheus
3 5 (12.50%) Ansible
3 5 (12.50%) Check_MK
4 4 (10.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 14 (35.00%) Oracle
2 7 (17.50%) VMware
3 5 (12.50%) Google
4 3 (7.50%) Bloomberg
4 3 (7.50%) Cloudera
4 3 (7.50%) New Relic
4 3 (7.50%) Refinitiv
5 1 (2.50%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.50%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.50%) IBM
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.50%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.50%) Solace
5 1 (2.50%) Varonis