DataStax Contract Job Trends in England

DataStax
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring DataStax skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 632 - 532
Rank change year-on-year - - +84
Contract jobs citing DataStax 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.002% - 0.012%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.014% - 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £711 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £723 - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +32.74%
75th Percentile £734 - £806
90th Percentile - - £908
UK median daily rate £723 - £750
% change year-on-year - - +32.74%

All Database & BI Skills
England

DataStax 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 6,957 4,999 6,177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.35% 18.16% 18.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,654 3,467 4,422
10th Percentile £356 £347 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -4.19% -2.27%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £675
90th Percentile £701 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £507 £525
% change year-on-year -1.28% -3.52% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 78 92
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.67 £13.74
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £38.50 £34.82 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.58% -8.38% -30.91%
75th Percentile £62.00 £64.69 £60.36
90th Percentile £76.90 £77.86 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £36.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year +8.97% -3.33% -31.82%

DataStax
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

DataStax job vacancy trend in England

DataStax
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing DataStax.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing DataStax

DataStax
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 DataStax within the England region over the 6 months to 31 July 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 - 1 £723 - 2
DataStax
UK

DataStax
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
General
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%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Fraud Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) CQL
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle