Elasticsearch Engineer Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Elasticsearch Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Elasticsearch Engineer daily rate in Birmingham is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
4 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Elasticsearch Engineer 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.41% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £525 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Birmingham. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Birmingham with a recognized job title 656 688 699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.37% 94.90% 93.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 438 458 482
10th Percentile £221 £190 £254
25th Percentile £363 £353 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +7.53% -2.11%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £638 £727 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 15 21
10th Percentile - £17.33 £14.54
25th Percentile £12.62 £23.78 £15.50
Median hourly rate £17.85 £30.45 £31.04
Median % change year-on-year -41.40% -1.90% +63.37%
75th Percentile £25.38 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £31.13 £56.45 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £23.71 £22.50
% change year-on-year +5.44% +5.38% +26.98%

Elasticsearch Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Elasticsearch Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Elasticsearch Engineer job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Elasticsearch Engineer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 4 December 2025, Elasticsearch Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Elasticsearch Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (100.00%) Kibana
1 3 (100.00%) logstash
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (66.67%) Kafka
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
3 1 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (33.33%) OpenStack
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 1 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation

Elasticsearch Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (33.33%) OpenStack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (66.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kibana
1 3 (100.00%) logstash
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform