Elasticsearch Contract Job Trends in Central London

Elastic Elasticsearch
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Elasticsearch skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 119 115
Rank change year-on-year -28 -4 +26
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 6 7 14
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.25% 0.37% 0.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.43% 1.81% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 11
10th Percentile £445 £368 -
25th Percentile £499 £524 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £645 £589
Median % change year-on-year -8.91% +9.51% +2.43%
75th Percentile £638 £681 £616
90th Percentile - £688 £650
London median daily rate £475 £575 £602
% change year-on-year -17.39% -4.52% -7.35%

All Database & BI Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

6 months to
17 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 420 387 489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.65% 20.42% 20.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 279 352
10th Percentile £374 £375 £413
25th Percentile £455 £429 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £668 £688 £710
90th Percentile £763 £800 £825
London median daily rate £535 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile £19.40 £22.70 £37.20
25th Percentile £19.63 £32.00 £37.88
Median hourly rate £21.00 £34.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.24% -15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £22.75 £63.75 £41.38
90th Percentile £23.20 - £41.60
London median hourly rate £36.00 £53.75 £43.75
% change year-on-year -33.02% +22.86% -12.94%

Elasticsearch Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Elasticsearch relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Elasticsearch job vacancy trend in Central London

Elasticsearch Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Elasticsearch.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch in Central London over the 6 months to 17 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Elasticsearch in Central London

Elasticsearch Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Elasticsearch within the Central London region over the 6 months to 17 October 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
City of London -27 6 £588 -8.91% 8
Elasticsearch
London

Elasticsearch Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Database & Business Intelligence

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Amazon RDS50.0%3
1Big Data50.0%3
3Data Warehouse33.3%2
4Amazon Redshift16.7%1
4Apache Iceberg16.7%1
4BigQuery16.7%1
4Data Lake16.7%1
4Flink16.7%1
4NoSQL16.7%1