CQL Contract Job Trends in London

Cassandra Query Language (CQL)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring CQL 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 436 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CQL 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.005% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.016% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £711 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £723 - -
75th Percentile £734 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £723 - -

All Programming Languages
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,248 5,255 6,479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.13% 38.63% 39.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,184 3,710 4,880
10th Percentile £385 £370 £375
25th Percentile £450 £428 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £713
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £523 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.46% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 50 42
10th Percentile £34.50 £26.31 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £31.71
Median hourly rate £53.50 £44.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.55% -5.79% -20.83%
75th Percentile £73.00 £63.06 £57.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.25 £74.69
England median hourly rate £65.00 £59.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +9.24% -8.46% +5.94%

CQL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

CQL job vacancy trend in London

CQL
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CQL

CQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

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%) DataStax
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%) 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