Apache Cassandra Contracts

Apache Cassandra
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Apache Cassandra skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Apache Cassandra over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 456 449 525
Rank change year-on-year -7 +76 +115
Contract jobs citing Apache Cassandra 80 143 157
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.33% 0.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.42% 1.90% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 102 105
10th Percentile £300 £356 £450
25th Percentile £513 £417 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £581 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.08% -3.13% -8.05%
75th Percentile £741 £675 £788
90th Percentile £750 - £848
UK excluding London median daily rate £300 £400 £775
% change year-on-year -25.00% -48.39% +82.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 11
10th Percentile - - £78.00
25th Percentile - £66.25 £78.94
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year - -19.73% -
75th Percentile - £68.75 £90.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £67.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -13.46% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,649 7,536 9,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.33% 17.46% 17.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,829 5,379 6,750
10th Percentile £356 £350 £372
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £751 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 150 171
10th Percentile £19.56 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £25.57 £20.82 £32.30
Median hourly rate £34.99 £40.00 £56.40
Median % change year-on-year -12.53% -29.08% +40.47%
75th Percentile £63.94 £53.29 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.64 £33.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.12% -40.00% +57.14%

Apache Cassandra
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Apache Cassandra as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Apache Cassandra in the UK

Apache Cassandra
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Apache Cassandra.

Daily rate trend for Apache Cassandra in the UK

Apache Cassandra
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Cassandra over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Cassandra in the UK

Apache Cassandra
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Apache Cassandra.

Hourly rate trend for Apache Cassandra in the UK

Apache Cassandra
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 1 July 2025. 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
England -10 67 £700 +19.15% 213
London +3 38 £725 +31.82% 118
Work from Home +7 15 £700 +7.69% 96
UK excluding London +24 14 £300 -25.00% 126
Scotland - 9 £375 - 26
South East +50 4 £300 -17.81% 39
North of England -5 1 £550 -6.38% 21
Yorkshire -11 1 £550 -6.38% 8

Apache Cassandra
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (6.25%) Confluence
2 4 (5.00%) Oracle Coherence
3 3 (3.75%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.25%) Apache
4 1 (1.25%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (5.00%) MS Visio
2 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (5.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 56 (70.00%) AWS
2 8 (10.00%) Azure
2 8 (10.00%) BlazeMeter
3 4 (5.00%) Entra ID
3 4 (5.00%) GitHub
3 4 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.75%) Kong
4 3 (3.75%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.25%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (1.25%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.25%) dbt
5 1 (1.25%) GCP
5 1 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.25%) Slack
5 1 (1.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.25%) DNS
1 1 (1.25%) Firewall
1 1 (1.25%) HTTP
1 1 (1.25%) LAN
1 1 (1.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 13 (16.25%) NoSQL
3 11 (13.75%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (10.00%) Big Data
5 7 (8.75%) MySQL
6 6 (7.50%) Hadoop
7 5 (6.25%) Redis
7 5 (6.25%) SQL Server
8 3 (3.75%) Hazelcast
9 2 (2.50%) Couchbase
9 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.25%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.25%) BigQuery
10 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
10 1 (1.25%) Data Vault
10 1 (1.25%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.25%) Metadata
10 1 (1.25%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (11.25%) JUnit
2 7 (8.75%) Git
3 5 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.25%) JIRA
4 4 (5.00%) Visual Studio
5 3 (3.75%) Maven
6 2 (2.50%) GitLab
7 1 (1.25%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.25%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.25%) Jasmine
7 1 (1.25%) Mockito
7 1 (1.25%) Subversion
General
1 8 (10.00%) Banking
1 8 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (6.25%) Finance
3 4 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.00%) Investment Banking
3 4 (5.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 41 (51.25%) Developer
2 26 (32.50%) Senior
3 12 (15.00%) Java Developer
4 8 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 6 (7.50%) Architect
5 6 (7.50%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (6.25%) Data Architect
7 4 (5.00%) C# Developer
7 4 (5.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Agile C# Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Agile Developer
8 3 (3.75%) DevOps Specialist
8 3 (3.75%) Senior Java Developer
9 2 (2.50%) Core Java Developer
9 2 (2.50%) Java Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) Java Software Developer
9 2 (2.50%) Software Developer
10 1 (1.25%) Customer Engineer
10 1 (1.25%) Software Engineer
10 1 (1.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (83.75%) Kafka
2 46 (57.50%) gRPC
3 16 (20.00%) Spring
4 10 (12.50%) AngularJS
4 10 (12.50%) React
5 9 (11.25%) CSS
6 4 (5.00%) ActiveMQ
6 4 (5.00%) J2EE
6 4 (5.00%) REST
6 4 (5.00%) Spring Boot
7 3 (3.75%) RESTful
8 2 (2.50%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (2.50%) Spring Batch
8 2 (2.50%) Spring Security
8 2 (2.50%) Vue
9 1 (1.25%) Apache NiFi
9 1 (1.25%) Dropwizard
9 1 (1.25%) OpenAPI
9 1 (1.25%) Phalcon
9 1 (1.25%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 45 (56.25%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (10.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.25%) SCADA
3 1 (1.25%) Taxonomies
3 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.00%) Linux
2 2 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (80.00%) Microservices
2 58 (72.50%) Software Engineering
3 50 (62.50%) Open Source
4 16 (20.00%) Agile
5 14 (17.50%) CI/CD
6 13 (16.25%) Continuous Delivery
7 10 (12.50%) SDLC
8 9 (11.25%) DevOps
8 9 (11.25%) Full-Stack Development
8 9 (11.25%) Performance Testing
8 9 (11.25%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
9 8 (10.00%) Community of Practice
9 8 (10.00%) Front End Development
9 8 (10.00%) Machine Learning
9 8 (10.00%) Micro Frontends
9 8 (10.00%) Operational Stability
9 8 (10.00%) Refactoring
9 8 (10.00%) Unit Testing
9 8 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 49 (61.25%) Go
2 25 (31.25%) Java
3 10 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 10 (12.50%) SQL
4 8 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 5 (6.25%) Bash
5 5 (6.25%) Python
6 4 (5.00%) C#
7 3 (3.75%) Perl
7 3 (3.75%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.50%) Scala
9 1 (1.25%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (6.25%) Degree
2 3 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.25%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.00%) GDPR
2 1 (1.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 53 (66.25%) Docker
2 1 (1.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 59 (73.75%) Kubernetes
2 13 (16.25%) Grafana
3 6 (7.50%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.75%) Ansible
4 3 (3.75%) Control-M
4 3 (3.75%) Istio
4 3 (3.75%) Progress Chef
4 3 (3.75%) Puppet
4 3 (3.75%) Rundeck
4 3 (3.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (12.50%) Splunk
2 8 (10.00%) Dynatrace
3 7 (8.75%) Oracle
4 5 (6.25%) Informatica
5 4 (5.00%) BiZZdesign
5 4 (5.00%) Sparx
6 3 (3.75%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.25%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.25%) Google
7 1 (1.25%) Talend
7 1 (1.25%) Zend