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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 120 127
Rank change year-on-year -9 +7 +27
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 3 11 15
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.15% 0.51% 0.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.83% 2.57% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 15
10th Percentile £311 £438 £435
25th Percentile £354 £519 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £589 £538
Median % change year-on-year -23.60% +9.48% -24.49%
75th Percentile £473 £606 £925
90th Percentile £474 £615 -
London median daily rate £550 £608 £650
% change year-on-year -9.47% -6.54% +6.34%

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 362 428 526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.84% 19.84% 20.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 280 380
10th Percentile £327 £412 £405
25th Percentile £413 £480 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £580 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% -3.33% +1.91%
75th Percentile £650 £686 £700
90th Percentile £738 £776 £825
London median daily rate £525 £565 £568
% change year-on-year -7.08% -0.44% -5.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £37.20 -
25th Percentile £32.50 £37.88 -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -49.42%
75th Percentile £35.50 £41.38 -
90th Percentile - £41.60 -
London median hourly rate £43.50 £42.75 £43.75
% change year-on-year +1.75% -2.29% +4.01%

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 January 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 January 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 3 £450 -23.60% 26
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Hive
1 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
1 1 (33.33%) Impala
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
2 1 (33.33%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Ultra Messaging
1 1 (33.33%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Market Risk
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
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%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Electronic Trading
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Key Management
3 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kibana
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (33.33%) logstash
2 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (33.33%) Solace
2 1 (33.33%) TIBCO