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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 430 457 521
Rank change year-on-year +27 +64 +97
Contract jobs citing Apache Cassandra 89 143 192
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.33% 0.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.61% 1.96% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 111 143
10th Percentile £300 £363 £500
25th Percentile £550 £469 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £588 £650
Median % change year-on-year +19.15% -9.62% +8.33%
75th Percentile £775 £675 £800
90th Percentile £825 - £844
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £432 £659
% change year-on-year +13.54% -34.42% +25.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
10th Percentile - - £78.00
25th Percentile - £66.25 £79.41
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year - -19.73% -
75th Percentile - £68.75 £88.72
90th Percentile - - £90.00
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 5,544 7,303 10,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.96% 16.75% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,832 5,193 7,664
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.78%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £660
90th Percentile £763 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 144 183
10th Percentile £20.09 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.25 £20.98 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.11 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.23% -33.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.55 £70.88
90th Percentile £74.75 £72.50 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
% change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%

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 30 April 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 9 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 30 April 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 80 £725 +20.83% 51
London +1 39 £725 +31.82% 31
UK excluding London +53 28 £491 +13.54% 28
Work from Home +16 22 £700 +7.69% 27
North of England +24 13 £765 +30.21% 6
South East +47 11 £392 +7.40% 2
Yorkshire +13 11 £765 +30.21% 5
Scotland - 4 £300 - 7
North West +9 2 - - 1

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 22 (24.72%) Confluence
2 4 (4.49%) Oracle Coherence
3 3 (3.37%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.37%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.12%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (4.49%) MS Visio
2 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 43 (48.31%) AWS
2 18 (20.22%) Slack
3 14 (15.73%) Cloud Computing
4 8 (8.99%) Azure
5 6 (6.74%) GitHub
6 5 (5.62%) Power Platform
7 4 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.49%) Entra ID
7 4 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (3.37%) BlazeMeter
8 3 (3.37%) Kong
8 3 (3.37%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.12%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (1.12%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.12%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.12%) Azure Storage
9 1 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.12%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.24%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (37.08%) MongoDB
2 31 (34.83%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (29.21%) MySQL
4 10 (11.24%) NoSQL
5 8 (8.99%) Big Data
6 7 (7.87%) SQL Server
7 6 (6.74%) Redis
8 5 (5.62%) Hadoop
9 4 (4.49%) Relational Database
10 3 (3.37%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (3.37%) Hazelcast
11 2 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (2.25%) Couchbase
11 2 (2.25%) Metadata
12 1 (1.12%) Apache Hive
12 1 (1.12%) DynamoDB
12 1 (1.12%) HBase
12 1 (1.12%) HDInsight
12 1 (1.12%) Impala
12 1 (1.12%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 26 (29.21%) Git
2 23 (25.84%) JIRA
3 22 (24.72%) JUnit
4 19 (21.35%) Cucumber
4 19 (21.35%) Jasmine
5 5 (5.62%) Jenkins
6 4 (4.49%) Visual Studio
7 3 (3.37%) Maven
7 3 (3.37%) Subversion
8 2 (2.25%) GitLab
9 1 (1.12%) Bitbucket
General
1 12 (13.48%) Public Sector
2 8 (8.99%) Finance
3 6 (6.74%) Banking
4 5 (5.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.49%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (53.93%) Developer
2 29 (32.58%) Senior
3 23 (25.84%) Java Developer
4 15 (16.85%) Senior Developer
5 12 (13.48%) Senior Java Developer
6 9 (10.11%) Lead
7 7 (7.87%) Architect
8 6 (6.74%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (6.74%) Lead Developer
8 6 (6.74%) Lead Java Developer
9 5 (5.62%) Data Architect
10 4 (4.49%) C# Developer
10 4 (4.49%) Java Engineer
11 3 (3.37%) Agile C# Developer
11 3 (3.37%) Agile Developer
11 3 (3.37%) DevOps Specialist
11 3 (3.37%) Java Software Engineer
11 3 (3.37%) Lead Java Engineer
11 3 (3.37%) Software Engineer
11 3 (3.37%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (61.80%) Kafka
2 32 (35.96%) gRPC
3 31 (34.83%) Spring
4 24 (26.97%) Spring Boot
5 23 (25.84%) RESTful
6 21 (23.60%) Spring Security
7 20 (22.47%) Spring Batch
8 18 (20.22%) Swagger
9 17 (19.10%) OpenAPI
10 7 (7.87%) React
11 6 (6.74%) ActiveMQ
11 6 (6.74%) AngularJS
11 6 (6.74%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (4.49%) CSS
12 4 (4.49%) J2EE
12 4 (4.49%) OpenTelemetry
12 4 (4.49%) REST
12 4 (4.49%) Vue
13 3 (3.37%) Laravel
13 3 (3.37%) Phalcon
Miscellaneous
1 36 (40.45%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (19.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (3.37%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.37%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.12%) FMCG
4 1 (1.12%) IoT
4 1 (1.12%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.12%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.12%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.12%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 24 (26.97%) Linux
2 22 (24.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (4.49%) Windows
4 3 (3.37%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (71.91%) Microservices
2 53 (59.55%) Software Engineering
3 36 (40.45%) Open Source
4 30 (33.71%) CI/CD
5 25 (28.09%) Containerisation
5 25 (28.09%) Continuous Delivery
6 24 (26.97%) TDD
7 23 (25.84%) BDD
8 21 (23.60%) OWASP
9 20 (22.47%) Test Automation
10 19 (21.35%) Continuous Integration
11 17 (19.10%) API Design
11 17 (19.10%) Kernel Tuning
12 13 (14.61%) Integration Testing
12 13 (14.61%) Technical Leadership
13 12 (13.48%) Agile
13 12 (13.48%) DevOps
14 11 (12.36%) Operational Stability
15 10 (11.24%) High Availability
15 10 (11.24%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 37 (41.57%) Go
1 37 (41.57%) Java
2 31 (34.83%) SQL
3 25 (28.09%) Bash
4 7 (7.87%) JavaScript
5 5 (5.62%) C#
6 4 (4.49%) Perl
6 4 (4.49%) Python
7 3 (3.37%) PHP
7 3 (3.37%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.37%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.12%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.12%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (22.47%) Security Cleared
2 19 (21.35%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.62%) Degree
4 3 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.62%) GDPR
2 4 (4.49%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.12%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.12%) HIPAA
System Software
1 58 (65.17%) Docker
2 3 (3.37%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.12%) Apache Flume
3 1 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 67 (75.28%) Kubernetes
2 10 (11.24%) Grafana
3 8 (8.99%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.37%) Ansible
4 3 (3.37%) Control-M
4 3 (3.37%) Istio
4 3 (3.37%) Progress Chef
4 3 (3.37%) Puppet
4 3 (3.37%) Rundeck
4 3 (3.37%) SCCM
4 3 (3.37%) SCOM
4 3 (3.37%) SCSM
4 3 (3.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (7.87%) Splunk
2 5 (5.62%) Oracle
3 4 (4.49%) BiZZdesign
3 4 (4.49%) Informatica
3 4 (4.49%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.49%) Red Hat
3 4 (4.49%) Sparx
4 3 (3.37%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.37%) Zend
5 2 (2.25%) SAP
6 1 (1.12%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.12%) Databricks
6 1 (1.12%) Google
6 1 (1.12%) StreamSets