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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 120 148
Rank change year-on-year -5 +28 +11
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 6 12 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.31% 0.52% 0.62%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.42% 2.43% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 12
10th Percentile £453 £509 £525
25th Percentile £623 £513 £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £648 £570 £725
Median % change year-on-year +13.70% -21.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £684 £617 £788
90th Percentile £688 £655 -
London median daily rate £575 £540 £625
% change year-on-year +6.48% -13.60% -

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 424 493 724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 21.58% 21.54% 21.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 359 477
10th Percentile £382 £405 £395
25th Percentile £425 £483 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% -2.08% +2.56%
75th Percentile £676 £710 £700
90th Percentile £800 £790 £788
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £25.80 - £38.95
25th Percentile £32.25 - £40.38
Median hourly rate £34.65 - £44.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.12%
75th Percentile £63.75 - £48.88
90th Percentile £78.25 - £51.05
London median hourly rate £52.50 £50.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +4.48% -12.61% -0.86%

Elasticsearch
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Elasticsearch as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Elasticsearch in Central London

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch in Central London over the 6 months to 3 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Elasticsearch in Central London

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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 3 September 2025. 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 +3 6 £648 +13.70% 18
Elasticsearch
London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Hive
1 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
1 1 (16.67%) Impala
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
2 1 (16.67%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
2 5 (83.33%) Banking
2 5 (83.33%) Investment Banking
2 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (83.33%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Native
1 5 (83.33%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Fixed Income
1 5 (83.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (16.67%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Observability
2 5 (83.33%) Algorithmic Trading
2 5 (83.33%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (83.33%) Data Science
2 5 (83.33%) Electronic Trading
2 5 (83.33%) Event-Driven
2 5 (83.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 5 (83.33%) High-Frequency Trading
2 5 (83.33%) Low Latency
2 5 (83.33%) Machine Learning
2 5 (83.33%) Project Management
2 5 (83.33%) RBAC
2 5 (83.33%) Time Management
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Key Management
3 1 (16.67%) Open Source
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kibana
2 5 (83.33%) ITRS Geneos
2 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (83.33%) logstash
3 1 (16.67%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Solace
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft