Elasticsearch Contract Job Trends in England

Elastic Elasticsearch
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Elasticsearch skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 496 384 391
Rank change year-on-year -112 +7 +78
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 124 116 167
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.43% 0.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.80% 2.32% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 94 124
10th Percentile £403 £392 £400
25th Percentile £463 £477 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.47% +2.27% -
75th Percentile £575 £655 £675
90th Percentile £688 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £519 £561 £540
% change year-on-year -7.61% +3.94% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 0
10th Percentile £38.23 £43.38 -
25th Percentile £49.81 £49.56 -
Median hourly rate £58.00 £67.35 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.88% - -
75th Percentile £63.63 £79.03 -
90th Percentile £69.70 £79.61 -
UK median hourly rate £58.00 £67.35 -
% change year-on-year -13.88% - -

All Database & BI Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,897 5,006 6,462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.33% 18.39% 17.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,618 3,463 4,648
10th Percentile £354 £350 £350
25th Percentile £418 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £675
90th Percentile £701 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 88 120
10th Percentile £16.00 £19.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.63 £20.00
Median hourly rate £41.36 £34.58 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.61% -13.56% -29.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.94 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.50 £69.93
UK median hourly rate £42.75 £36.25 £38.50
% change year-on-year +17.93% -5.84% -30.00%

Elasticsearch
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Elasticsearch relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Elasticsearch job vacancy trend in England

Elasticsearch
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Elasticsearch.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch in England over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Elasticsearch in England

Elasticsearch
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Elasticsearch.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Elasticsearch in England over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Elasticsearch in England

Elasticsearch
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 18 July 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
London -47 69 £521 -15.88% 27
North of England -75 13 £538 +37.12% 12
North West -48 12 £519 +32.33% 9
Midlands -58 11 £500 -6.89% 4
West Midlands -61 11 £500 -9.09% 2
South West -35 9 £475 -17.39% 7
South East -61 8 £588 +2.17% 14
Yorkshire - 1 £550 - 3
Elasticsearch
UK

Elasticsearch
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 23 (18.55%) nginx
2 17 (13.71%) Apache Spark
3 8 (6.45%) Tomcat
3 8 (6.45%) WebLogic
4 7 (5.65%) Confluence
5 6 (4.84%) Apache
6 4 (3.23%) OpenStack
7 3 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (1.61%) Liferay
8 2 (1.61%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.81%) IIS
9 1 (0.81%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Trello
2 1 (0.81%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Magento
1 1 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 54 (43.55%) AWS
2 19 (15.32%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 18 (14.52%) Serverless
4 14 (11.29%) Azure
4 14 (11.29%) GCP
5 12 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (8.87%) Amazon S3
7 9 (7.26%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (7.26%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (7.26%) Route 53
7 9 (7.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 8 (6.45%) OpenShift
8 8 (6.45%) PaaS
9 7 (5.65%) IaaS
10 4 (3.23%) Entra ID
11 3 (2.42%) GitHub
11 3 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (1.61%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 17 (13.71%) DNS
1 17 (13.71%) Firewall
2 16 (12.90%) VPN
3 10 (8.06%) HTTP
3 10 (8.06%) TCP/IP
4 9 (7.26%) OpenVPN
5 7 (5.65%) DHCP
5 7 (5.65%) SMTP
6 4 (3.23%) MQTT
6 4 (3.23%) Network Security
7 2 (1.61%) NaaS
7 2 (1.61%) WAN
8 1 (0.81%) DSL
8 1 (0.81%) Intranet
8 1 (0.81%) Multicast
8 1 (0.81%) NAS
8 1 (0.81%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.81%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (14.52%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (8.06%) Big Data
3 9 (7.26%) Hadoop
4 8 (6.45%) Metadata
5 7 (5.65%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (5.65%) NoSQL
6 6 (4.84%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (4.84%) MongoDB
6 6 (4.84%) MySQL
7 5 (4.03%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (3.23%) Data Lake
8 4 (3.23%) Redis
8 4 (3.23%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.42%) HBase
9 3 (2.42%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.61%) Apache Hive
10 2 (1.61%) Flink
10 2 (1.61%) InfluxDB
10 2 (1.61%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.61%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 18 (14.52%) Git
2 13 (10.48%) JIRA
3 12 (9.68%) GitLab
4 11 (8.87%) SonarQube
5 9 (7.26%) Bitbucket
5 9 (7.26%) Jenkins
6 5 (4.03%) JUnit
7 3 (2.42%) Gatling
7 3 (2.42%) JMeter
7 3 (2.42%) LoadRunner
7 3 (2.42%) Selenium
8 2 (1.61%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.61%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.81%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.81%) Postman
General
1 17 (13.71%) Social Skills
2 9 (7.26%) Public Sector
3 7 (5.65%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (4.84%) Finance
5 3 (2.42%) Banking
5 3 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.61%) Back Office
6 2 (1.61%) Billing
6 2 (1.61%) Police
6 2 (1.61%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.81%) Front Office
7 1 (0.81%) Legal
7 1 (0.81%) Marketing
7 1 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (24.19%) Developer
2 20 (16.13%) Architect
3 15 (12.10%) Software Engineer
4 11 (8.87%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (8.87%) Java Developer
5 9 (7.26%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (7.26%) Senior
6 8 (6.45%) Data Architect
6 8 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (6.45%) Java Engineer
7 7 (5.65%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 7 (5.65%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (5.65%) Elasticsearch Engineer
8 6 (4.84%) AWS Architect
8 6 (4.84%) Lead
8 6 (4.84%) SIEM Engineer
8 6 (4.84%) Technical Architect
9 5 (4.03%) Applications Engineer
9 5 (4.03%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (4.03%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (28.23%) Kafka
2 26 (20.97%) Spring
3 19 (15.32%) REST
4 16 (12.90%) Elastic Stack
4 16 (12.90%) Spring Boot
5 15 (12.10%) Node.js
6 12 (9.68%) React
7 10 (8.06%) WireMock
8 9 (7.26%) Apache NiFi
8 9 (7.26%) LDAP
8 9 (7.26%) OpenID
9 6 (4.84%) GraphQL
9 6 (4.84%) gRPC
10 5 (4.03%) Middleware
10 5 (4.03%) RESTful
11 4 (3.23%) JSON
11 4 (3.23%) Keycloak
11 4 (3.23%) Protocol Buffers
11 4 (3.23%) Swagger
12 3 (2.42%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.29%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (10.48%) Cloud Native
3 10 (8.06%) Clustering
4 9 (7.26%) PKI
5 7 (5.65%) Digital Media
6 6 (4.84%) Legacy Applications
6 6 (4.84%) Product Ownership
7 5 (4.03%) Enterprise Storage
7 5 (4.03%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (3.23%) Data Centre
9 3 (2.42%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.61%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.81%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.81%) CMDB
11 1 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.81%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 33 (26.61%) Linux
2 13 (10.48%) Windows
3 12 (9.68%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.84%) Solaris
4 6 (4.84%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (4.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (4.03%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.61%) Debian
7 2 (1.61%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.61%) VMS
8 1 (0.81%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (41.94%) DevOps
2 34 (27.42%) Agile
3 32 (25.81%) CI/CD
4 20 (16.13%) Containerisation
4 20 (16.13%) Software Engineering
5 19 (15.32%) Full-Stack Development
6 18 (14.52%) AI
6 18 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (13.71%) Roadmaps
8 15 (12.10%) Microservices
9 14 (11.29%) Data Modelling
9 14 (11.29%) Machine Learning
9 14 (11.29%) Observability
9 14 (11.29%) Performance Tuning
10 13 (10.48%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (10.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 13 (10.48%) Test Automation
11 12 (9.68%) Cybersecurity
11 12 (9.68%) Decision-Making
11 12 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 51 (41.13%) Java
2 38 (30.65%) Python
3 23 (18.55%) SQL
4 16 (12.90%) JavaScript
5 12 (9.68%) TypeScript
6 11 (8.87%) Rust
7 8 (6.45%) PowerShell
8 7 (5.65%) Bash
8 7 (5.65%) PL/SQL
9 5 (4.03%) Shell Script
10 4 (3.23%) Go
11 3 (2.42%) C#
11 3 (2.42%) Ruby
11 3 (2.42%) Scala
12 2 (1.61%) C++
12 2 (1.61%) Groovy
12 2 (1.61%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.81%) Gremlin
13 1 (0.81%) PHP
13 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 71 (57.26%) Security Cleared
2 53 (42.74%) SC Cleared
3 25 (20.16%) DV Cleared
4 11 (8.87%) Degree
5 7 (5.65%) AWS Certification
5 7 (5.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.65%) QA
2 4 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.61%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.81%) ITGC
System Software
1 38 (30.65%) Docker
2 13 (10.48%) VMware ESXi
2 13 (10.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (7.26%) Squid
4 7 (5.65%) Active Directory
4 7 (5.65%) BitLocker
4 7 (5.65%) Hyper-V
4 7 (5.65%) Microsoft App-V
5 5 (4.03%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (2.42%) Terminal Services
7 2 (1.61%) HDFS
8 1 (0.81%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 48 (38.71%) Kubernetes
2 32 (25.81%) Terraform
3 28 (22.58%) Grafana
3 28 (22.58%) Prometheus
4 26 (20.97%) Ansible
5 18 (14.52%) Kibana
6 13 (10.48%) Puppet
7 11 (8.87%) logstash
8 9 (7.26%) Consul
8 9 (7.26%) FortiGate
8 9 (7.26%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (5.65%) vCenter Server
9 7 (5.65%) vMotion
10 6 (4.84%) Nagios
11 5 (4.03%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (3.23%) Podman
13 3 (2.42%) Argo
14 2 (1.61%) Amdocs OSS
15 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 16 (12.90%) Dynatrace
2 15 (12.10%) Red Hat
3 14 (11.29%) Microsoft
3 14 (11.29%) Oracle
4 13 (10.48%) VMware
5 8 (6.45%) IBM
6 7 (5.65%) Atlassian
6 7 (5.65%) Citrix
7 4 (3.23%) NetApp
7 4 (3.23%) NVIDIA
7 4 (3.23%) Tenable
8 3 (2.42%) AppDynamics
8 3 (2.42%) Cloudera
8 3 (2.42%) Google
8 3 (2.42%) HP
8 3 (2.42%) Symantec
9 2 (1.61%) Amdocs
9 2 (1.61%) Ciena
9 2 (1.61%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.61%) ServiceNow