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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 440 348 356
Rank change year-on-year -92 +8 +65
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 113 167 199
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.58% 0.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.09% 3.20% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 96 159
10th Percentile £360 £407 £445
25th Percentile £456 £513 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £606 £644
Median % change year-on-year -9.24% -5.90% +7.33%
75th Percentile £623 £669 £825
90th Percentile £695 £1,075 -
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £55.60 - £66.50
25th Percentile £59.50 - £72.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £75.00
75th Percentile £74.00 - £77.50
90th Percentile £77.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 - £75.00

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 5,406 5,221 6,093
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.05% 18.17% 16.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,761 3,469 4,351
10th Percentile £325 £350 £355
25th Percentile £410 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £615 £663 £662
90th Percentile £720 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 76 129
10th Percentile £20.72 £18.90 £18.18
25th Percentile £29.41 £23.87 £25.38
Median hourly rate £54.35 £39.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.36% -17.89% -13.64%
75th Percentile £69.81 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.30 £71.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £31.55 £47.50
% change year-on-year +58.50% -33.59% -11.63%

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 25 December 2025.

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Elasticsearch in England over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Elasticsearch in England

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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 25 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
London -44 52 £550 -9.24% 54
West Midlands 0 43 £550 -13.39% 20
Midlands -9 43 £550 -13.39% 35
South West -12 19 £550 -38.03% 27
South East -32 4 £488 -0.61% 49
North of England -61 4 £373 -35.22% 43
North West -35 3 £373 -33.78% 31
East of England -31 1 - - 23
Yorkshire -41 1 - - 10
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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 14 (12.39%) Confluence
2 11 (9.73%) Apache
3 5 (4.42%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.65%) JBoss
5 1 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.88%) Camunda
5 1 (0.88%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.88%) nginx
5 1 (0.88%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Magento
1 1 (0.88%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 38 (33.63%) Azure
2 22 (19.47%) AWS
3 19 (16.81%) GitHub
4 15 (13.27%) GCP
5 12 (10.62%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (9.73%) Serverless
7 8 (7.08%) Azure AKS
7 8 (7.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 8 (7.08%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (6.19%) Entra ID
9 5 (4.42%) OpenShift
10 4 (3.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (3.54%) IaaS
10 4 (3.54%) PaaS
11 3 (2.65%) Amazon S3
11 3 (2.65%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (1.77%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (1.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 2 (1.77%) Azure Functions
12 2 (1.77%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.54%) DNS
1 4 (3.54%) Firewall
2 3 (2.65%) HTTP
2 3 (2.65%) SMTP
2 3 (2.65%) VPN
3 2 (1.77%) DHCP
3 2 (1.77%) SSH
3 2 (1.77%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.88%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (17.70%) Hadoop
2 19 (16.81%) Big Data
2 19 (16.81%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.42%) MongoDB
3 5 (4.42%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.42%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.54%) RDBMS
4 4 (3.54%) Redis
5 3 (2.65%) Apache Hive
5 3 (2.65%) Impala
5 3 (2.65%) MySQL
5 3 (2.65%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.77%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.77%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.88%) DB2
7 1 (0.88%) Power BI
7 1 (0.88%) Sybase IQ
7 1 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (15.04%) Jenkins
1 17 (15.04%) JIRA
2 13 (11.50%) Git
3 6 (5.31%) TeamCity
4 5 (4.42%) SonarQube
5 4 (3.54%) GitLab
6 3 (2.65%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (2.65%) CA Release Automation
6 3 (2.65%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.77%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.77%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.77%) Maven
7 2 (1.77%) Postman
8 1 (0.88%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.88%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.88%) Gradle
8 1 (0.88%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.88%) JMeter
8 1 (0.88%) JUnit
8 1 (0.88%) NeoLoad
General
1 37 (32.74%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.93%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (15.04%) Finance
4 4 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (3.54%) Law
5 3 (2.65%) Banking
5 3 (2.65%) Financial Institution
5 3 (2.65%) Investment Banking
5 3 (2.65%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.88%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (21.24%) Data Engineer
2 18 (15.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 17 (15.04%) Senior
4 16 (14.16%) Splunk Engineer
5 13 (11.50%) Senior Data Engineer
5 13 (11.50%) Site Engineer
6 10 (8.85%) Developer
7 9 (7.96%) Software Engineer
8 8 (7.08%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (7.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 7 (6.19%) Applications Engineer
9 7 (6.19%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 7 (6.19%) SIEM Engineer
10 6 (5.31%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (4.42%) Security Engineer
12 4 (3.54%) Platform Engineer
12 4 (3.54%) Python Engineer
13 3 (2.65%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 3 (2.65%) Elasticsearch Engineer
13 3 (2.65%) Splunk Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (47.79%) Elastic Stack
2 41 (36.28%) Kafka
3 17 (15.04%) React
4 16 (14.16%) Apache NiFi
5 15 (13.27%) Node.js
6 12 (10.62%) Keycloak
7 11 (9.73%) RabbitMQ
7 11 (9.73%) REST
8 9 (7.96%) JSON
9 8 (7.08%) Spring Boot
9 8 (7.08%) XML
10 7 (6.19%) AngularJS
10 7 (6.19%) Express.js
10 7 (6.19%) FIX Protocol
10 7 (6.19%) Next.js
11 6 (5.31%) HTML
11 6 (5.31%) Spring
11 6 (5.31%) Ultra Messaging
12 5 (4.42%) CSS
13 4 (3.54%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.27%) Cloud Native
2 12 (10.62%) Management Information System
3 11 (9.73%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (7.08%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (6.19%) Algorithms
6 6 (5.31%) Replication
7 4 (3.54%) Fixed Income
7 4 (3.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (2.65%) Hedge funds
8 3 (2.65%) PKI
9 2 (1.77%) Clustering
9 2 (1.77%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.77%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.77%) Market Risk
9 2 (1.77%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.88%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.88%) IoT
10 1 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.88%) MISP
10 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 38 (33.63%) Linux
2 14 (12.39%) Unix
3 8 (7.08%) Windows
4 4 (3.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.54%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.65%) CentOS
5 3 (2.65%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.77%) VMS
6 2 (1.77%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.88%) Debian
7 1 (0.88%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (47.79%) DevOps
2 40 (35.40%) Containerisation
3 35 (30.97%) Observability
4 33 (29.20%) CI/CD
5 30 (26.55%) Agile
6 26 (23.01%) Data Pipeline
6 26 (23.01%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (22.12%) Data Ingestion
7 25 (22.12%) Migration
8 23 (20.35%) Software Engineering
9 19 (16.81%) Data Engineering
9 19 (16.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 18 (15.93%) ETL
10 18 (15.93%) Incident Response
11 17 (15.04%) Data Modelling
11 17 (15.04%) Microservices
11 17 (15.04%) Scrum
12 16 (14.16%) Infrastructure as Code
13 14 (12.39%) Dashboard Development
13 14 (12.39%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 64 (56.64%) Python
2 24 (21.24%) Bash
3 18 (15.93%) Java
4 15 (13.27%) PowerShell
5 14 (12.39%) Go
5 14 (12.39%) SQL
6 12 (10.62%) JavaScript
6 12 (10.62%) TypeScript
7 10 (8.85%) Bicep
8 8 (7.08%) Perl
9 4 (3.54%) C#
10 3 (2.65%) C
11 2 (1.77%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.88%) PHP
12 1 (0.88%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.88%) Ruby
12 1 (0.88%) Scala
12 1 (0.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (38.94%) Security Cleared
2 39 (34.51%) SC Cleared
3 20 (17.70%) DV Cleared
4 12 (10.62%) Azure Certification
4 12 (10.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (10.62%) Degree
5 2 (1.77%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.88%) CEH
6 1 (0.88%) CISSP
6 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.77%) Data Quality
1 2 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.77%) NIST
2 1 (0.88%) GDPR
2 1 (0.88%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.88%) QA
System Software
1 58 (51.33%) Docker
2 13 (11.50%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.77%) BitLocker
3 2 (1.77%) HDFS
3 2 (1.77%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.77%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (1.77%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.88%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.88%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 66 (58.41%) Kubernetes
2 60 (53.10%) Kibana
3 37 (32.74%) logstash
4 29 (25.66%) Ansible
5 15 (13.27%) Puppet
6 13 (11.50%) Terraform
7 10 (8.85%) Grafana
8 8 (7.08%) ITRS Geneos
8 8 (7.08%) Prometheus
9 7 (6.19%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.77%) Argo
10 2 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.77%) vCenter Server
10 2 (1.77%) vMotion
11 1 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.88%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.88%) Graphite
11 1 (0.88%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.88%) Rsyslog
11 1 (0.88%) WSUS
Vendors
1 25 (22.12%) Splunk
2 14 (12.39%) Cloudera
2 14 (12.39%) Microsoft
3 12 (10.62%) Foundry
3 12 (10.62%) Palantir
4 8 (7.08%) Solace
5 6 (5.31%) Red Hat
5 6 (5.31%) TIBCO
6 5 (4.42%) Oracle
7 4 (3.54%) AppDynamics
8 3 (2.65%) Google
9 2 (1.77%) Citrix
9 2 (1.77%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.77%) NetApp
9 2 (1.77%) VMware
10 1 (0.88%) Adobe
10 1 (0.88%) Black Duck
10 1 (0.88%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.88%) PagerDuty
10 1 (0.88%) Veracode