Elasticsearch Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Elastic Elasticsearch
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Elasticsearch skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 114 150
Rank change year-on-year -4 +36 -3
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 6 12 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.33% 0.58% 0.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.45% 2.63% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 10
10th Percentile £453 £509 £525
25th Percentile £623 £513 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £648 £570 £738
Median % change year-on-year +13.70% -22.78% +5.36%
75th Percentile £684 £617 £788
90th Percentile £688 £655 -
Central London median daily rate £648 £570 £725
% change year-on-year +13.70% -21.45% +3.57%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 415 457 686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.89% 21.97% 21.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 329 442
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £438 £481 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +2.13%
75th Percentile £688 £719 £706
90th Percentile £800 £817 £788
Central London median daily rate £564 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -4.06% -2.08% +3.36%
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
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 - £44.00
% change year-on-year - - -22.12%

Elasticsearch
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Elasticsearch in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Elasticsearch.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch in the City of London over the 6 months to 31 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Elasticsearch in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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