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 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 591 437 382
Rank change year-on-year -154 -55 +133
Contract jobs citing Apache Cassandra 49 77 143
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.28% 0.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.70% 1.54% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 13 94
10th Percentile £354 £530 £363
25th Percentile £415 £590 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £670 £575
Median % change year-on-year -24.10% +16.52% -4.17%
75th Percentile £605 £750 £675
90th Percentile £706 - £750
UK median daily rate £509 £578 £570
% change year-on-year -12.02% +1.40% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £69.68 -
25th Percentile - £71.81 £66.25
Median hourly rate - £79.25 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year - +17.41% -13.46%
75th Percentile - £85.31 £68.75
90th Percentile - £86.63 -
UK median hourly rate - £79.25 £67.50
% change year-on-year - +17.41% -13.46%

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 7,016 5,015 6,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.28% 18.08% 18.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,698 3,454 4,331
10th Percentile £358 £338 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.96% -0.91%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £675
90th Percentile £709 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 82 90
10th Percentile £14.85 £20.87 £14.19
25th Percentile £23.62 £25.34 £20.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £34.99 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.32% -0.03% -36.36%
75th Percentile £60.94 £63.31 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.58 £69.93
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £35.50 £33.93
% change year-on-year +7.75% +4.63% -38.31%

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 23 August 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 23 August 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 -104 28 £525 -25.00% 11
South East - 7 £400 - 4
East of England - 5 £415 -
South West - 3 - -
North West -44 1 £621 -7.31%
North of England -62 1 £621 +1.80%
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 11 (22.45%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.12%) Apache
2 3 (6.12%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.04%) Confluence
3 1 (2.04%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Actimize
1 1 (2.04%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 33 (67.35%) AWS
2 12 (24.49%) GCP
3 10 (20.41%) Azure
4 9 (18.37%) GitHub
5 6 (12.24%) Power Platform
6 5 (10.20%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (8.16%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (8.16%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (6.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (6.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (6.12%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (6.12%) Datadog
8 3 (6.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (4.08%) OpenShift
9 2 (4.08%) Serverless
9 2 (4.08%) Snowflake
10 1 (2.04%) PaaS
10 1 (2.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.08%) NaaS
1 2 (4.08%) WAN
2 1 (2.04%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (53.06%) NoSQL
2 15 (30.61%) MongoDB
3 14 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (14.29%) Data Lake
4 7 (14.29%) MySQL
5 6 (12.24%) Big Data
5 6 (12.24%) Couchbase
5 6 (12.24%) Hazelcast
5 6 (12.24%) Relational Database
6 5 (10.20%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (10.20%) HBase
6 5 (10.20%) Power BI
6 5 (10.20%) SQL Server
7 4 (8.16%) DynamoDB
7 4 (8.16%) RDBMS
8 3 (6.12%) Flink
8 3 (6.12%) Metadata
9 2 (4.08%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (4.08%) Cloudera CDH
9 2 (4.08%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 12 (24.49%) Jenkins
2 10 (20.41%) Git
3 9 (18.37%) JUnit
4 8 (16.33%) Selenium
5 5 (10.20%) GitLab
6 4 (8.16%) JIRA
7 3 (6.12%) ER Studio
7 3 (6.12%) Gradle
7 3 (6.12%) Maven
8 2 (4.08%) JMeter
8 2 (4.08%) Mockito
8 2 (4.08%) Postman
8 2 (4.08%) Robot Framework
9 1 (2.04%) ERwin
9 1 (2.04%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (2.04%) PowerDesigner
General
1 17 (34.69%) Finance
2 14 (28.57%) Banking
3 6 (12.24%) Social Skills
4 5 (10.20%) Telecoms
5 3 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.12%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.08%) Billing
6 2 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.08%) Legal
6 2 (4.08%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.04%) Back Office
7 1 (2.04%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 20 (40.82%) Senior
2 11 (22.45%) Developer
3 8 (16.33%) Senior Developer
4 7 (14.29%) Architect
4 7 (14.29%) Java Developer
5 6 (12.24%) Cassandra Engineer
5 6 (12.24%) Java Engineer
5 6 (12.24%) Software Engineer
6 5 (10.20%) Senior Java Developer
7 4 (8.16%) Data Architect
7 4 (8.16%) Data Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Database Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Java Software Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Linux Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Senior Java Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Senior Manager
8 3 (6.12%) Site Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Site Manager
8 3 (6.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Site Reliability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (61.22%) Kafka
2 15 (30.61%) Spring
2 15 (30.61%) Spring Boot
3 10 (20.41%) gRPC
4 8 (16.33%) REST
5 7 (14.29%) CSS
5 7 (14.29%) HTML
6 6 (12.24%) React
6 6 (12.24%) Spring MVC
7 5 (10.20%) Terraform
8 4 (8.16%) Hibernate
8 4 (8.16%) JPA
8 4 (8.16%) jQuery
8 4 (8.16%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (6.12%) AngularJS
9 3 (6.12%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (6.12%) GraphQL
9 3 (6.12%) RESTful
9 3 (6.12%) Swagger
10 2 (4.08%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (32.65%) Cloud Native
2 15 (30.61%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (20.41%) Replication
4 3 (6.12%) Clustering
4 3 (6.12%) Data Structures
4 3 (6.12%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (4.08%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.04%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (2.04%) CMDB
6 1 (2.04%) Credit Risk
6 1 (2.04%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.04%) Reference Data
6 1 (2.04%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (20.41%) Linux
2 4 (8.16%) Unix
3 3 (6.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (46.94%) Microservices
2 18 (36.73%) CI/CD
3 16 (32.65%) Agile
4 12 (24.49%) Software Engineering
5 11 (22.45%) Data Modelling
5 11 (22.45%) DevOps
5 11 (22.45%) Performance Tuning
6 10 (20.41%) Open Source
7 9 (18.37%) AI
7 9 (18.37%) Event-Driven
8 8 (16.33%) High Availability
8 8 (16.33%) Observability
9 7 (14.29%) Containerisation
10 6 (12.24%) Analytics
10 6 (12.24%) Data Governance
10 6 (12.24%) ETL
10 6 (12.24%) MVC
10 6 (12.24%) Roadmaps
10 6 (12.24%) SIEM
10 6 (12.24%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 31 (63.27%) Java
2 28 (57.14%) SQL
3 18 (36.73%) Python
4 12 (24.49%) Go
5 11 (22.45%) Bash
6 8 (16.33%) JavaScript
7 6 (12.24%) PL/SQL
8 5 (10.20%) Shell Script
9 4 (8.16%) TypeScript
10 3 (6.12%) CQL
10 3 (6.12%) Scala
11 2 (4.08%) C++
12 1 (2.04%) C
12 1 (2.04%) C#
12 1 (2.04%) PHP
12 1 (2.04%) PowerShell
12 1 (2.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (12.24%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.16%) Degree
3 2 (4.08%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.04%) CISSP
4 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.24%) QA
2 3 (6.12%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (4.08%) GDPR
4 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (2.04%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.04%) IFRS
4 1 (2.04%) IFRS 9
4 1 (2.04%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (46.94%) Docker
2 4 (8.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (46.94%) Kubernetes
2 11 (22.45%) Grafana
2 11 (22.45%) Prometheus
3 5 (10.20%) Check_MK
4 4 (8.16%) Ansible
4 4 (8.16%) Podman
5 2 (4.08%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 14 (28.57%) Oracle
2 7 (14.29%) VMware
3 5 (10.20%) Google
4 3 (6.12%) Bloomberg
4 3 (6.12%) Cloudera
4 3 (6.12%) Dynatrace
4 3 (6.12%) New Relic
4 3 (6.12%) Refinitiv
5 2 (4.08%) Amdocs
5 2 (4.08%) Ciena
5 2 (4.08%) Salesforce
5 2 (4.08%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.08%) Solace
6 1 (2.04%) BT
6 1 (2.04%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.04%) IBM
6 1 (2.04%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.04%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.04%) Varonis