Apache Ignite Contract Job Trends

Apache Ignite
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Apache Ignite skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 590 464 547
Rank change year-on-year -126 +83 +176
Contract jobs citing Apache Ignite 7 68 45
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.017% 0.22% 0.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.10% 1.19% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 68 45
10th Percentile - - £588
25th Percentile £675 £638 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £775 £725
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% +11.54%
75th Percentile £825 £875 £788
90th Percentile - £888 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Database & BI Skills
UK

Apache Ignite 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 6,670 5,701 7,235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.33% 18.48% 16.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,581 3,814 5,136
10th Percentile £343 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 91 174
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.83 £16.04
25th Percentile £29.13 £24.88 £21.64
Median hourly rate £55.00 £38.11 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +44.32% -10.33% -24.01%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.86 £62.88
90th Percentile £85.55 £70.00 £77.21
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £29.90 £40.25
% change year-on-year +83.95% -25.71% -28.04%

Apache Ignite
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Apache Ignite job vacancy trend in the UK

Apache Ignite
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Apache Ignite
Top 5 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 Ignite within the UK over the 6 months to 20 February 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 -110 6 £750 -3.23% 2
England -156 6 £750 -3.23% 2
Work from Home -81 5 £750 -3.23%
UK excluding London - 1 - - 1
Scotland - 1 - -

Apache Ignite
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 7 (100.00%) Apache
2 5 (71.43%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
1 5 (71.43%) dbt
1 5 (71.43%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Amazon Athena
1 5 (71.43%) Apache Arrow
1 5 (71.43%) Apache Iceberg
1 5 (71.43%) Data Lake
1 5 (71.43%) Dremio
2 2 (28.57%) Flink
General
1 7 (100.00%) Banking
1 7 (100.00%) Front Office
1 7 (100.00%) Investment Banking
2 5 (71.43%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Prime Brokerage
4 1 (14.29%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) AWS Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) AWS Software Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Java Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Java Software Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Python Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Python Software Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Software Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Senior
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Java Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Java Software Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Front Office Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) gRPC
1 5 (71.43%) NumPy
1 5 (71.43%) Pandas
1 5 (71.43%) Protocol Buffers
1 5 (71.43%) SciPy
2 2 (28.57%) Kafka
2 2 (28.57%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Derivative
1 5 (71.43%) Equities
1 5 (71.43%) Fixed Income
1 5 (71.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 5 (71.43%) Hedge funds
1 5 (71.43%) Pricing Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
1 5 (71.43%) Asset Management
1 5 (71.43%) Investment Management
1 5 (71.43%) Software Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Concurrent Programming
2 2 (28.57%) Inventory Management
2 2 (28.57%) Pair Programming
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) TDD
3 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
2 5 (71.43%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle