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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 121 116
Rank change year-on-year -22 -5 +24
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 6 6 12
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.24% 0.31% 0.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.38% 1.44% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 10
10th Percentile £504 £453 £509
25th Percentile £525 £623 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £648 £570
Median % change year-on-year -3.47% +13.70% -21.45%
75th Percentile £638 £684 £617
90th Percentile - £688 £655
London median daily rate £500 £575 £545
% change year-on-year -13.04% +5.50% -12.80%

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 435 417 486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.51% 21.38% 21.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 278 354
10th Percentile £363 £381 £402
25th Percentile £463 £425 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £575 £594
Median % change year-on-year -0.52% -3.24% -0.96%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £710
90th Percentile £750 £800 £796
London median daily rate £530 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.73% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile £20.43 £25.80 -
25th Percentile £22.20 £32.25 -
Median hourly rate £25.78 £34.65 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.59% - -
75th Percentile £29.76 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £31.76 £78.25 -
London median hourly rate £34.03 £52.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year -35.18% +3.96% -12.17%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -24 6 £625 -3.47% 2
Elasticsearch
London

Elasticsearch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (33.33%) Apache
3 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (16.67%) Confluence
3 1 (16.67%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Magento
1 1 (16.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) GCP
2 3 (50.00%) IaaS
2 3 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 3 (50.00%) PaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Data Pipeline
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DHCP
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
1 3 (50.00%) SMTP
1 3 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (50.00%) Big Data
2 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
2 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (16.67%) Flink
2 1 (16.67%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) PHPUnit
General
1 2 (33.33%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
1 3 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 3 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Magento Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) GraphQL
1 2 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) jQuery
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) KnockoutJS
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware
2 1 (16.67%) NgRx
2 1 (16.67%) SOAP
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Clustering
1 3 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (50.00%) PKI
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Media
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) AI
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (50.00%) Software Deployment
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 2 (33.33%) Observability
3 2 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Backlog Management
4 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (16.67%) Data Privacy
4 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (16.67%) Secure Coding
4 1 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (16.67%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) PHP
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
1 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
2 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (50.00%) BitLocker
2 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 3 (50.00%) Terminal Services
2 3 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Ansible
2 3 (50.00%) Nagios
2 3 (50.00%) Puppet
2 3 (50.00%) vCenter Server
2 3 (50.00%) vMotion
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Citrix
1 3 (50.00%) Google
1 3 (50.00%) HP
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (50.00%) Symantec
1 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Adobe