DataStax Contract Job Trends

DataStax
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring DataStax 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 674 - 570
Rank change year-on-year - - +93
Contract jobs citing DataStax 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.002% - 0.010%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.012% - 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £711 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £723 - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +32.74%
75th Percentile £734 - £806
90th Percentile - - £908
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Database & BI Skills
UK

DataStax 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 8,148 5,949 7,151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.35% 18.14% 18.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,411 4,031 5,070
10th Percentile £356 £343 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% -3.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £651
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 90 103
10th Percentile £16.28 £19.20 £14.40
25th Percentile £24.65 £23.50 £20.38
Median hourly rate £39.50 £36.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.97% -3.33% -31.82%
75th Percentile £60.75 £64.69 £60.78
90th Percentile £76.30 £78.83 £72.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.89% +5.47% -41.46%

DataStax
Job Vacancy Trend

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

DataStax job vacancy trend in the UK

DataStax
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing DataStax

DataStax
Top 2 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DataStax within the UK over the 6 months to 31 July 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 - 1 £723 - 2
England - 1 £723 - 2

DataStax
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:

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%) 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%) CQL
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