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 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 439 347 369
Rank change year-on-year -92 +22 +27
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 109 155 192
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.57% 0.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.06% 3.13% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 92 155
10th Percentile £373 £403 £450
25th Percentile £475 £513 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £604 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.90% -7.12% +8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £825
90th Percentile £697 £1,075 -
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £66.50
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate £79.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £79.00 - £75.00

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 5,292 4,956 5,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.90% 18.32% 16.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,683 3,285 4,267
10th Percentile £325 £350 £356
25th Percentile £412 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £613 £663 £660
90th Percentile £710 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 68 134
10th Percentile £18.93 £20.82 £18.77
25th Percentile £29.06 £24.25 £25.05
Median hourly rate £51.36 £42.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +22.29% -9.05% -16.04%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.79 £64.48
90th Percentile £84.70 £74.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £48.72 £35.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +39.20% -24.21% -16.04%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch in England over the 6 months to 10 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Elasticsearch in England

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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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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 10 January 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 -48 50 £575 -5.35% 41
West Midlands -2 44 £550 -13.39% 8
Midlands -9 44 £550 +10.55% 11
South West -16 18 £550 -33.33% 12
South East -27 4 £488 -0.61% 28
North of England -51 2 £500 -17.70% 16
East of England -31 1 - - 9
North West -34 1 £500 -13.04% 14
Yorkshire -49 1 - - 2
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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 (12.84%) Confluence
2 10 (9.17%) Apache
3 6 (5.50%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.92%) Camunda
4 1 (0.92%) JBoss
4 1 (0.92%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.92%) nginx
4 1 (0.92%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Magento
1 1 (0.92%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 38 (34.86%) Azure
2 21 (19.27%) AWS
3 19 (17.43%) GitHub
4 16 (14.68%) GCP
5 12 (11.01%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (10.09%) Serverless
7 8 (7.34%) Azure AKS
7 8 (7.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 8 (7.34%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (6.42%) Entra ID
9 5 (4.59%) IaaS
9 5 (4.59%) PaaS
10 4 (3.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (2.75%) Amazon S3
11 3 (2.75%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (2.75%) OpenShift
12 2 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (1.83%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 2 (1.83%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (1.83%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.59%) DNS
1 5 (4.59%) Firewall
2 4 (3.67%) SMTP
2 4 (3.67%) VPN
3 3 (2.75%) DHCP
3 3 (2.75%) HTTP
4 2 (1.83%) SSH
4 2 (1.83%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.92%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (19.27%) Hadoop
2 20 (18.35%) Big Data
3 19 (17.43%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.59%) MongoDB
4 5 (4.59%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.67%) Redis
6 3 (2.75%) Apache Hive
6 3 (2.75%) Impala
6 3 (2.75%) MySQL
6 3 (2.75%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.83%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.83%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.83%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.83%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.92%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.92%) MemSQL
8 1 (0.92%) Power BI
8 1 (0.92%) Tableau
8 1 (0.92%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 15 (13.76%) JIRA
2 12 (11.01%) Jenkins
3 10 (9.17%) Git
4 4 (3.67%) GitLab
4 4 (3.67%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.75%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.83%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.83%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.92%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.92%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.92%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (0.92%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.92%) git-flow
7 1 (0.92%) JUnit
7 1 (0.92%) Maven
7 1 (0.92%) Moq
7 1 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.92%) Travis CI
General
1 39 (35.78%) Social Skills
2 20 (18.35%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (14.68%) Finance
4 4 (3.67%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (3.67%) Law
5 3 (2.75%) Financial Institution
5 3 (2.75%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.92%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.92%) Banking
6 1 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.92%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.92%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (21.10%) Data Engineer
2 19 (17.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 18 (16.51%) Splunk Engineer
4 16 (14.68%) Senior
5 14 (12.84%) Site Engineer
6 13 (11.93%) Senior Data Engineer
7 9 (8.26%) Developer
7 9 (8.26%) Software Engineer
8 8 (7.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 7 (6.42%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (6.42%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 7 (6.42%) SIEM Engineer
10 6 (5.50%) Applications Engineer
10 6 (5.50%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (4.59%) Security Engineer
12 4 (3.67%) Lead
12 4 (3.67%) Python Engineer
13 3 (2.75%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 3 (2.75%) Kubernetes Specialist
13 3 (2.75%) Splunk Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (43.12%) Elastic Stack
2 37 (33.94%) Kafka
3 17 (15.60%) React
4 15 (13.76%) Apache NiFi
4 15 (13.76%) Node.js
5 12 (11.01%) Keycloak
6 11 (10.09%) RabbitMQ
7 10 (9.17%) REST
8 8 (7.34%) JSON
9 7 (6.42%) AngularJS
9 7 (6.42%) Express.js
9 7 (6.42%) Next.js
9 7 (6.42%) XML
10 6 (5.50%) Ultra Messaging
11 5 (4.59%) FIX Protocol
11 5 (4.59%) HTML
11 5 (4.59%) Spring
11 5 (4.59%) Spring Boot
12 4 (3.67%) CSS
12 4 (3.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.84%) Management Information System
2 13 (11.93%) Cloud Native
3 11 (10.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (6.42%) Algorithms
5 6 (5.50%) Replication
6 5 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (3.67%) PKI
8 3 (2.75%) Clustering
8 3 (2.75%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (2.75%) Hedge funds
9 2 (1.83%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.83%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.83%) Market Risk
9 2 (1.83%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.92%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.92%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.92%) MISP
10 1 (0.92%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 36 (33.03%) Linux
2 16 (14.68%) Unix
3 7 (6.42%) Windows
4 5 (4.59%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.75%) CentOS
5 3 (2.75%) Mac OS
5 3 (2.75%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.83%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (47.71%) DevOps
2 41 (37.61%) Containerisation
3 32 (29.36%) CI/CD
3 32 (29.36%) Observability
4 31 (28.44%) Agile
5 27 (24.77%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (23.85%) Data Ingestion
7 25 (22.94%) Migration
8 23 (21.10%) Software Engineering
9 22 (20.18%) Data Pipeline
10 21 (19.27%) Data Modelling
11 20 (18.35%) Incident Response
11 20 (18.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 19 (17.43%) Data Engineering
13 18 (16.51%) ETL
14 17 (15.60%) Scrum
15 16 (14.68%) Computer Science
15 16 (14.68%) Dashboard Development
15 16 (14.68%) Performance Tuning
16 14 (12.84%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 60 (55.05%) Python
2 24 (22.02%) Bash
3 15 (13.76%) Java
4 14 (12.84%) PowerShell
5 13 (11.93%) Go
5 13 (11.93%) SQL
6 12 (11.01%) TypeScript
7 11 (10.09%) JavaScript
8 10 (9.17%) Bicep
9 6 (5.50%) Perl
10 4 (3.67%) C#
11 3 (2.75%) C
12 2 (1.83%) Scala
12 2 (1.83%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.92%) PHP
13 1 (0.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (40.37%) Security Cleared
2 39 (35.78%) SC Cleared
3 20 (18.35%) DV Cleared
4 16 (14.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (14.68%) Degree
5 12 (11.01%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.83%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.92%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.92%) CEH
7 1 (0.92%) CISSP
7 1 (0.92%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.83%) Data Quality
1 2 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.83%) NIST
2 1 (0.92%) GDPR
2 1 (0.92%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.92%) QA
System Software
1 58 (53.21%) Docker
2 12 (11.01%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.75%) BitLocker
3 3 (2.75%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.75%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (2.75%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.83%) HDFS
5 1 (0.92%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.92%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 66 (60.55%) Kubernetes
2 53 (48.62%) Kibana
3 30 (27.52%) Ansible
3 30 (27.52%) logstash
4 18 (16.51%) Puppet
5 11 (10.09%) Terraform
6 8 (7.34%) Grafana
7 6 (5.50%) ITRS Geneos
7 6 (5.50%) Prometheus
8 5 (4.59%) Progress Chef
9 3 (2.75%) vCenter Server
9 3 (2.75%) vMotion
10 2 (1.83%) Argo
10 2 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.92%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.92%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.92%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.92%) Rsyslog
11 1 (0.92%) WSUS
Vendors
1 25 (22.94%) Splunk
2 14 (12.84%) Microsoft
3 12 (11.01%) Cloudera
3 12 (11.01%) Foundry
3 12 (11.01%) Palantir
4 6 (5.50%) Solace
4 6 (5.50%) TIBCO
5 4 (3.67%) Oracle
5 4 (3.67%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.75%) Citrix
6 3 (2.75%) Google
6 3 (2.75%) NetApp
6 3 (2.75%) VMware
7 2 (1.83%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.83%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.92%) Black Duck
8 1 (0.92%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.92%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.92%) Qualys
8 1 (0.92%) Veracode