Elasticsearch Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Elasticsearch Engineer
UK > England

The median Elasticsearch Engineer daily rate in England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 545 516 565
Rank change year-on-year -29 +49 +175
Contract jobs requiring an Elasticsearch Engineer 3 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.010% 0.010% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.011% 0.011% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +25.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £650
90th Percentile - - £740
UK median daily rate £525 £625 £500
% change year-on-year -16.00% +25.00% -16.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 28,419 28,414 35,414
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.22% 92.93% 93.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,221 17,533 24,351
10th Percentile £285 £300 £290
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,705 993 1,381
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.36 £15.33
25th Percentile £17.88 £21.05 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.08% -16.67% +36.36%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.80 £74.69 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +44.15%

Elasticsearch Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Elasticsearch Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Elasticsearch Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Elasticsearch Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Elasticsearch Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Elasticsearch Engineer job vacancies in England

Elasticsearch Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Elasticsearch Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 4 December 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
Midlands -27 3 £525 - 1
West Midlands -27 3 £525 - 1
Elasticsearch Engineer
UK

Elasticsearch Engineer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 4 December 2025, Elasticsearch Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Elasticsearch Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (100.00%) Kibana
1 3 (100.00%) logstash
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (66.67%) Kafka
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
3 1 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (33.33%) OpenStack
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 1 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation

Elasticsearch Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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%) OpenStack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (66.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kibana
1 3 (100.00%) logstash
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform