Apache Cassandra Job Trends

Apache Cassandra
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Apache Cassandra skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 742 651 694
Rank change year-on-year -91 +43 -22
Permanent jobs citing Apache Cassandra 19 33 190
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.019% 0.067% 0.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.22% 0.43% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 13 11 31
10th Percentile - £43,750 £62,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,169 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -12.50% +3.23%
75th Percentile £70,166 £76,250 £107,500
90th Percentile £75,020 £77,500 £125,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% -3.45% +28.89%

All Database & 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 permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 8,685 7,644 16,502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.80% 15.53% 16.31%
Number of salaries quoted 5,773 4,931 11,591
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,475
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,182 £57,501
Median % change year-on-year -1.93% +6.40% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%

Apache Cassandra
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Apache Cassandra job vacancy trend in the UK

Apache Cassandra
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apache Cassandra.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Apache Cassandra

Apache Cassandra
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apache Cassandra over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Apache Cassandra in the UK

Apache Cassandra
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Cassandra within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -58 16 £60,835 -16.09% 20
UK excluding London -85 13 £61,250 -12.50% 13
South East -22 10 £61,250 -10.91% 2
Work from Home -7 4 £64,169 -14.44% 4
North of England -18 2 £75,000 - 1
London -19 1 - - 12
Yorkshire -32 1 - -
South West -59 1 £50,000 - 5
North West - 1 £75,000 - 1

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 (21.05%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (21.05%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.26%) Apache
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Solr
2 1 (5.26%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 17 (89.47%) AWS
2 13 (68.42%) Azure
3 12 (63.16%) GCP
4 4 (21.05%) AWS Data Pipeline
4 4 (21.05%) GitHub
4 4 (21.05%) Prefect
5 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
6 2 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (10.53%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (5.26%) Matillion
7 1 (5.26%) SaaS
7 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (94.74%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (89.47%) NoSQL
3 14 (73.68%) MongoDB
4 12 (63.16%) MySQL
5 11 (57.89%) Relational Database
6 7 (36.84%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (26.32%) Big Data
7 5 (26.32%) RDBMS
8 4 (21.05%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (21.05%) BigQuery
9 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
10 2 (10.53%) Couchbase
10 2 (10.53%) Neo4j
10 2 (10.53%) Spark SQL
11 1 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (5.26%) DataStage
11 1 (5.26%) DynamoDB
11 1 (5.26%) Metadata
11 1 (5.26%) Power BI
11 1 (5.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Git
2 5 (26.32%) Jenkins
3 2 (10.53%) Cucumber
3 2 (10.53%) JMeter
3 2 (10.53%) JUnit
General
1 7 (36.84%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Advertising
2 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Law
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Data Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Data Custodian
2 4 (21.05%) Data Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Backend Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Java Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Lead
3 2 (10.53%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Lead Java Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior
4 1 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) Kafka
2 3 (15.79%) AngularJS
2 3 (15.79%) React
3 2 (10.53%) Node.js
3 2 (10.53%) Spring
3 2 (10.53%) Spring Boot
3 2 (10.53%) Vert.x
4 1 (5.26%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (5.26%) Django
4 1 (5.26%) FastAPI
4 1 (5.26%) Flask
4 1 (5.26%) GraphQL
4 1 (5.26%) NumPy
4 1 (5.26%) Pandas
4 1 (5.26%) REST
4 1 (5.26%) RESTful
4 1 (5.26%) scikit-learn
4 1 (5.26%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Management Information System
2 4 (21.05%) Replication
3 3 (15.79%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.26%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Agile
2 11 (57.89%) ETL
3 10 (52.63%) Data Science
4 8 (42.11%) CI/CD
4 8 (42.11%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (36.84%) Analytics
5 7 (36.84%) Computer Science
5 7 (36.84%) Scrum
6 6 (31.58%) Data Engineering
6 6 (31.58%) Data Modelling
6 6 (31.58%) DevOps
7 5 (26.32%) Data Management
7 5 (26.32%) Decision-Making
7 5 (26.32%) Kanban
8 4 (21.05%) AI
8 4 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (21.05%) Information Management
8 4 (21.05%) Knowledge Management
8 4 (21.05%) Mathematics
8 4 (21.05%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) Python
2 11 (57.89%) Java
3 9 (47.37%) SQL
4 8 (42.11%) Scala
5 4 (21.05%) JavaScript
6 3 (15.79%) Go
6 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
6 3 (15.79%) TypeScript
7 2 (10.53%) C#
7 2 (10.53%) PHP
8 1 (5.26%) Bash
8 1 (5.26%) C++
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) Degree
2 7 (36.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (21.05%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (21.05%) Master's Degree
3 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
4 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) Kubernetes
2 4 (21.05%) Ansible
2 4 (21.05%) Terraform
3 2 (10.53%) Grafana
3 2 (10.53%) Kibana
4 1 (5.26%) Podman
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 4 (21.05%) Google
3 3 (15.79%) Informatica
3 3 (15.79%) Oracle
3 3 (15.79%) Talend
4 2 (10.53%) Databricks
4 2 (10.53%) OpenAI
4 2 (10.53%) Splunk
5 1 (5.26%) Dynatrace
5 1 (5.26%) Foundry
5 1 (5.26%) Palantir