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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 123 124
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 +25
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 5 5 9
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.20% 0.26% 0.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.18% 1.18% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 6
10th Percentile £486 £536 £456
25th Percentile £531 £561 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £638 £675
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% -5.59% -12.87%
75th Percentile £638 £696 £925
90th Percentile - £710 -
London median daily rate £521 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -16.68% +4.17% +7.87%

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 425 422 529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 16.81% 22.32% 22.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 281 365
10th Percentile £350 £404 £408
25th Percentile £450 £459 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £710
90th Percentile £749 £775 £795
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile £21.61 £20.27 -
25th Percentile £25.14 £25.93 £46.75
Median hourly rate £32.07 £31.86 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.64% -34.31% -42.32%
75th Percentile £46.41 £51.01 £50.25
90th Percentile £54.40 £80.40 -
London median hourly rate £50.00 £35.00 £48.00
% change year-on-year +42.86% -27.08% -8.57%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -16 5 £593 -7.06% 16
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 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (20.00%) Apache
2 1 (20.00%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Magento
1 1 (20.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
1 2 (40.00%) IaaS
1 2 (40.00%) OpenShift
1 2 (40.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DHCP
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) SMTP
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (40.00%) Big Data
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) PHPUnit
General
1 1 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
1 2 (40.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 2 (40.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Support
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Magento Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
1 2 (40.00%) React
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
1 2 (40.00%) WireMock
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) jQuery
2 1 (20.00%) KnockoutJS
2 1 (20.00%) Middleware
2 1 (20.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Clustering
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (40.00%) PKI
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) AI
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (40.00%) Observability
2 2 (40.00%) Software Deployment
3 1 (20.00%) B2B
3 1 (20.00%) B2C
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (20.00%) MVC
3 1 (20.00%) Pair Programming
3 1 (20.00%) Release Management
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (20.00%) PHP
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
2 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) BitLocker
2 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (40.00%) Terminal Services
2 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (20.00%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Grafana
2 2 (40.00%) Nagios
2 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (40.00%) Puppet
2 2 (40.00%) vCenter Server
2 2 (40.00%) vMotion
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Citrix
1 2 (40.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (40.00%) Google
1 2 (40.00%) HP
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Symantec
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe