Apache Cassandra Contract Job Trends

Apache Cassandra
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Apache Cassandra skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 436 454
Rank change year-on-year -106 +18 +60
Contract jobs citing Apache Cassandra 88 87 141
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.30% 0.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.22% 1.57% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 26 111
10th Percentile £345 £300 £396
25th Percentile £441 £486 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £586 £769 £675
90th Percentile £640 £825 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £487 £434
% change year-on-year +2.62% +12.27% -34.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £67.50 - £42.49
25th Percentile £71.25 - £46.45
Median hourly rate £80.00 - £54.85
75th Percentile £86.25 - £62.70
90th Percentile £88.50 - £66.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £67.50
% change year-on-year - - -13.46%

All Database & BI 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 7,238 5,546 7,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.81% 18.98% 16.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,972 3,838 5,166
10th Percentile £350 £351 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.11%
75th Percentile £594 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £487 £488
% change year-on-year -2.41% -0.15% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 109 152
10th Percentile £18.10 £21.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £30.77 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £51.00 £33.11 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.03% -17.23% -29.76%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.62 £53.75
90th Percentile £83.55 £76.50 £71.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +58.03% -9.60% -36.36%

Apache Cassandra
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Apache Cassandra relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Apache Cassandra job vacancy trend in the UK

Apache Cassandra
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apache Cassandra.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apache Cassandra

Apache Cassandra
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Cassandra over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Cassandra in the UK

Apache Cassandra
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apache Cassandra.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apache Cassandra

Apache Cassandra
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Apache Cassandra over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Apache Cassandra in the UK

Apache Cassandra
Top 9 Contract Job 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 11 April 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
England -95 84 £525 -26.32% 10
London -58 53 £525 -27.59% 6
Work from Home -22 34 £500 -28.57% 3
UK excluding London -122 7 £500 +2.62% 6
Scotland +5 2 £500 +66.67%
North West -29 2 £486 -
South East -64 2 £290 -26.02% 5
North of England -80 2 £486 -35.27%
Midlands - 1 £650 -

Apache Cassandra
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 4 (4.55%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.41%) Confluence
3 1 (1.14%) Apache
3 1 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 82 (93.18%) AWS
2 14 (15.91%) Azure
2 14 (15.91%) GitHub
3 11 (12.50%) GCP
4 8 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
5 7 (7.95%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (6.82%) Amazon S3
7 5 (5.68%) AWS Step Functions
8 4 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (4.55%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (3.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (3.41%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (3.41%) Apigee
9 3 (3.41%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (3.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (3.41%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (3.41%) OpenShift
9 3 (3.41%) Route 53
9 3 (3.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.27%) NaaS
1 2 (2.27%) WAN
2 1 (1.14%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 20 (22.73%) NoSQL
2 20 (22.73%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (12.50%) MySQL
4 8 (9.09%) SQL Server
5 5 (5.68%) Hadoop
6 4 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (4.55%) DynamoDB
7 3 (3.41%) Couchbase
7 3 (3.41%) Flink
7 3 (3.41%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.27%) InfluxDB
8 2 (2.27%) RDBMS
8 2 (2.27%) Redis
8 2 (2.27%) TimescaleDB
9 1 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.14%) DB2
Development Applications
1 11 (12.50%) GitLab
2 9 (10.23%) Git
2 9 (10.23%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.95%) JUnit
3 7 (7.95%) Mockito
4 4 (4.55%) JIRA
5 3 (3.41%) Gradle
5 3 (3.41%) Maven
6 2 (2.27%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.27%) Robot Framework
6 2 (2.27%) webpack
7 1 (1.14%) Babel
7 1 (1.14%) ER Studio
7 1 (1.14%) ERwin
7 1 (1.14%) JMeter
7 1 (1.14%) MLflow
7 1 (1.14%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (1.14%) Postman
7 1 (1.14%) PowerDesigner
General
1 11 (12.50%) Banking
2 10 (11.36%) Finance
3 5 (5.68%) Social Skills
4 4 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.55%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.27%) Billing
5 2 (2.27%) Investment Banking
5 2 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (47.73%) Developer
2 34 (38.64%) Senior
3 33 (37.50%) Senior Developer
4 28 (31.82%) Software Engineer
5 11 (12.50%) Java Developer
6 7 (7.95%) Java Engineer
7 5 (5.68%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (5.68%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (4.55%) Java Software Engineer
9 2 (2.27%) Architect
9 2 (2.27%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 1 (1.14%) Applications Developer
10 1 (1.14%) AWS Engineer
10 1 (1.14%) Business Solution Architect
10 1 (1.14%) Data Engineer
10 1 (1.14%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 1 (1.14%) Platform Engineer
10 1 (1.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 1 (1.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (78.41%) Kafka
2 54 (61.36%) gRPC
3 14 (15.91%) Spring
4 13 (14.77%) React
4 13 (14.77%) REST
5 12 (13.64%) Spring Boot
6 8 (9.09%) AngularJS
6 8 (9.09%) CSS
7 7 (7.95%) HTML
7 7 (7.95%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (6.82%) Vue
9 5 (5.68%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (5.68%) RESTful
10 4 (4.55%) Spring MVC
11 2 (2.27%) GraphQL
11 2 (2.27%) Node.js
11 2 (2.27%) OpenAPI
11 2 (2.27%) PyTorch
11 2 (2.27%) Redux
11 2 (2.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 56 (63.64%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (10.23%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.41%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.27%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.27%) Derivative
5 2 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.14%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.14%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.14%) CMDB
6 1 (1.14%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.14%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.14%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (85.23%) Microservices
2 61 (69.32%) Software Engineering
3 56 (63.64%) Open Source
4 21 (23.86%) CI/CD
5 15 (17.05%) DevOps
6 12 (13.64%) Agile
7 10 (11.36%) Containerisation
7 10 (11.36%) Observability
8 9 (10.23%) Fintech
8 9 (10.23%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (9.09%) Event-Driven
9 8 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
9 8 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
9 8 (9.09%) Test Automation
10 7 (7.95%) Refactoring
11 6 (6.82%) Batch Processing
11 6 (6.82%) Code Quality
11 6 (6.82%) Decision-Making
11 6 (6.82%) Secure Coding
12 5 (5.68%) AI
Programming Languages
1 55 (62.50%) Go
2 24 (27.27%) Java
3 17 (19.32%) Python
4 12 (13.64%) SQL
5 10 (11.36%) JavaScript
5 10 (11.36%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.55%) Bash
7 3 (3.41%) C++
8 2 (2.27%) Scala
9 1 (1.14%) C
9 1 (1.14%) C#
9 1 (1.14%) PHP
9 1 (1.14%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.14%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.14%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (5.68%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.55%) Degree
3 3 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.14%) CISSP
4 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.14%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.41%) QA
2 1 (1.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (1.14%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.14%) GDPR
2 1 (1.14%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.14%) IFRS
2 1 (1.14%) IFRS 9
2 1 (1.14%) NIST
System Software
1 75 (85.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 76 (86.36%) Kubernetes
2 9 (10.23%) Grafana
3 6 (6.82%) Prometheus
3 6 (6.82%) Terraform
4 3 (3.41%) Argo
4 3 (3.41%) Karpenter
5 2 (2.27%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (1.14%) Ansible
6 1 (1.14%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 5 (5.68%) Google
1 5 (5.68%) Oracle
2 3 (3.41%) Atlassian
2 3 (3.41%) Dynatrace
2 3 (3.41%) Splunk
3 2 (2.27%) Amdocs
3 2 (2.27%) Ciena
3 2 (2.27%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.27%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.27%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.27%) Solace
4 1 (1.14%) BT
4 1 (1.14%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.14%) Databricks
4 1 (1.14%) OpenAI