Elasticsearch Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Elastic Elasticsearch
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Elasticsearch skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 - 73
Rank change year-on-year - - +22
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 9 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.54% - 0.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.26% - 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £275 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
75th Percentile £325 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £600 £550 £563
% change year-on-year +9.09% -2.22% +2.27%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Birmingham

Elasticsearch 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 in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 109 133 146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 18.70% 18.79% 16.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 98 103
10th Percentile £121 £339 £292
25th Percentile £400 £406 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £511 £645 £643
90th Percentile £613 £716 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £494 £510
% change year-on-year +1.27% -3.19% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £24.19
25th Percentile - - £24.47
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £28.15
75th Percentile - - £32.05
90th Percentile - - £33.87
West Midlands median hourly rate £34.43 £34.47 £28.15
% change year-on-year -0.10% +22.46% -

Elasticsearch
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Elasticsearch as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Elasticsearch in Birmingham

Elasticsearch
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Elasticsearch.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (22.22%) Confluence
1 2 (22.22%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DSL
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
1 2 (22.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
1 2 (22.22%) GitLab
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
1 2 (22.22%) JMeter
1 2 (22.22%) Postman
1 2 (22.22%) REST Assured
1 2 (22.22%) Selenium
1 2 (22.22%) TestNG
1 2 (22.22%) Travis CI
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Elasticsearch Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Search Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Support Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Security Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Security Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) SIEM Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) SIEM Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) SIEM Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Site Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Software Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (22.22%) .NET
2 2 (22.22%) HTML
2 2 (22.22%) Kafka
2 2 (22.22%) Middleware
2 2 (22.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Data Ingestion
1 6 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Change Management
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 3 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) SIEM
4 2 (22.22%) API Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (22.22%) ITIL
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (22.22%) Regression Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Security Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (22.22%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Bash
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) C#
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Degree
2 3 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (22.22%) CEH
3 2 (22.22%) CISSP
3 2 (22.22%) ISTQB
3 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) Tableau Certification
4 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Kibana
2 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
3 3 (33.33%) logstash
4 2 (22.22%) Ansible
4 2 (22.22%) Grafana
5 1 (11.11%) Puppet
5 1 (11.11%) QRadar
5 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 2 (22.22%) Splunk
2 1 (11.11%) IBM