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 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
7 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 118 116
Rank change year-on-year -18 -2 +41
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 3 6 16
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.13% 0.30% 0.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.71% 1.43% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 13
10th Percentile £467 £403 £453
25th Percentile £482 £519 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £600 £501
Median % change year-on-year -14.67% +19.88% -35.42%
75th Percentile £542 £625 £925
90th Percentile £556 £682 -
London median daily rate £550 £608 £600
% change year-on-year -9.47% +1.25% +4.35%

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 421 419 540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.79% 21.15% 21.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 270 368
10th Percentile £350 £403 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £557 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.82% -3.06% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £685 £688
90th Percentile £738 £738 £791
London median daily rate £525 £563 £558
% change year-on-year -6.76% +0.90% -3.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £33.51 £30.18 -
25th Percentile £37.23 £31.85 £46.75
Median hourly rate £44.92 £34.65 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.62% -28.56% -42.32%
75th Percentile £53.07 £67.34 £50.25
90th Percentile £57.06 £86.94 -
London median hourly rate £45.50 £42.50 £45.53
% change year-on-year +7.06% -6.65% +4.35%

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
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 7 April 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 -17 3 £512 -14.67% 24
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 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Magento
1 1 (33.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) PHPUnit
General
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Magento Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
1 2 (66.67%) React
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) WireMock
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) KnockoutJS
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) B2B
3 1 (33.33%) B2C
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (33.33%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Dynatrace
2 1 (33.33%) Adobe
24 Elasticsearch jobs in Central London