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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 357 380
Rank change year-on-year -64 +23 +52
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 148 140 176
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.54% 0.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.63% 2.91% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 89 145
10th Percentile £420 £400 £452
25th Percentile £476 £560 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £605 £663
Median % change year-on-year -9.02% -8.75% +10.42%
75th Percentile £600 £713 £825
90th Percentile £703 £1,075 -
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £645
% change year-on-year -8.33% -6.98% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £66.50
25th Percentile - £39.25 £72.50
Median hourly rate £79.00 £44.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.53% -40.67% -
75th Percentile - £49.75 £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £79.00 £44.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +77.53% -40.67% -

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 5,637 4,806 6,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.24% 18.55% 16.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,902 3,243 4,333
10th Percentile £340 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £535
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +0.47% -2.73%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £656
90th Percentile £700 £780 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 82 159
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.83
25th Percentile £27.25 £25.06 £21.69
Median hourly rate £54.00 £41.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.71% -3.53% -25.26%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.00 £61.75
90th Percentile £85.40 £73.38 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £38.31 £42.50
% change year-on-year +40.97% -9.87% -24.01%

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 19 February 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
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 19 February 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 -58 62 £550 -9.47% 34
West Midlands -17 52 £550 +52.78% 7
Midlands -25 52 £550 +64.79% 9
South West -17 19 £550 -24.14% 17
North of England -73 13 £500 -15.97% 15
North West -24 12 £500 -9.09% 12
South East -27 5 £488 +0.72% 19
East of England -31 1 - - 6
Yorkshire -57 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 16 (10.81%) Confluence
2 10 (6.76%) Apache Spark
3 9 (6.08%) nginx
4 8 (5.41%) Apache
4 8 (5.41%) Palantir Foundry
5 6 (4.05%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.68%) Camunda
6 1 (0.68%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.68%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.68%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Magento
1 1 (0.68%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 44 (29.73%) AWS
2 37 (25.00%) Azure
3 22 (14.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 17 (11.49%) GitHub
4 17 (11.49%) Serverless
5 16 (10.81%) GCP
6 12 (8.11%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (7.43%) Amazon S3
8 9 (6.08%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (6.08%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (5.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (4.73%) Route 53
11 6 (4.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (4.05%) IaaS
11 6 (4.05%) PaaS
12 5 (3.38%) OpenShift
13 4 (2.70%) Azure AKS
13 4 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (2.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.78%) DNS
1 13 (8.78%) Firewall
2 12 (8.11%) VPN
3 11 (7.43%) TCP/IP
4 7 (4.73%) OpenVPN
5 4 (2.70%) DHCP
5 4 (2.70%) SMTP
6 2 (1.35%) HTTP
6 2 (1.35%) Multicast
6 2 (1.35%) NAS
6 2 (1.35%) SAN
7 1 (0.68%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (22.30%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (12.84%) Hadoop
3 15 (10.14%) Big Data
4 5 (3.38%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.38%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.70%) Redis
6 3 (2.03%) MySQL
6 3 (2.03%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.35%) Power BI
7 2 (1.35%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.35%) Tableau
7 2 (1.35%) Weaviate
8 1 (0.68%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.68%) Impala
8 1 (0.68%) MemSQL
8 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 18 (12.16%) JIRA
2 9 (6.08%) Git
3 8 (5.41%) GitLab
4 7 (4.73%) Jenkins
5 6 (4.05%) Bitbucket
5 6 (4.05%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.35%) Postman
7 1 (0.68%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.68%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.68%) git-flow
7 1 (0.68%) JUnit
7 1 (0.68%) Maven
7 1 (0.68%) Travis CI
General
1 47 (31.76%) Social Skills
2 19 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (10.81%) Finance
4 10 (6.76%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (6.08%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.03%) Banking
6 3 (2.03%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.35%) Law
8 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.68%) Front Office
8 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (19.59%) Developer
2 21 (14.19%) Data Engineer
3 20 (13.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 19 (12.84%) Splunk Engineer
5 16 (10.81%) Full-Stack Developer
5 16 (10.81%) Senior
6 15 (10.14%) Site Engineer
7 14 (9.46%) SIEM Engineer
8 13 (8.78%) Senior Data Engineer
9 10 (6.76%) Applications Engineer
10 9 (6.08%) Architect
10 9 (6.08%) Software Engineer
11 7 (4.73%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.73%) Lead
11 7 (4.73%) Security Engineer
12 6 (4.05%) Technical Architect
13 5 (3.38%) Backend Developer
13 5 (3.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 4 (2.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 4 (2.70%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (35.81%) Elastic Stack
2 52 (35.14%) Kafka
3 28 (18.92%) Node.js
4 26 (17.57%) Spring
5 18 (12.16%) React
5 18 (12.16%) WireMock
6 16 (10.81%) REST
7 15 (10.14%) Apache NiFi
7 15 (10.14%) Spring Boot
8 12 (8.11%) Keycloak
9 8 (5.41%) LDAP
9 8 (5.41%) OpenID
9 8 (5.41%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (4.73%) AngularJS
11 6 (4.05%) JSON
12 4 (2.70%) CSS
12 4 (2.70%) HTML
12 4 (2.70%) Ultra Messaging
12 4 (2.70%) XML
13 3 (2.03%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.14%) Management Information System
2 12 (8.11%) Cloud Native
3 11 (7.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.05%) Enterprise Storage
5 5 (3.38%) Algorithms
5 5 (3.38%) PKI
6 4 (2.70%) Clustering
6 4 (2.70%) Replication
6 4 (2.70%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.03%) Hedge funds
7 3 (2.03%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.35%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.35%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.35%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.35%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.68%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 43 (29.05%) Linux
2 17 (11.49%) Unix
3 6 (4.05%) Windows
4 5 (3.38%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.70%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (2.03%) CentOS
6 3 (2.03%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.35%) VMS
8 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.68%) Solaris
8 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (49.32%) DevOps
2 40 (27.03%) Containerisation
3 35 (23.65%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (22.30%) CI/CD
5 30 (20.27%) Observability
6 29 (19.59%) Incident Response
7 28 (18.92%) Agile
7 28 (18.92%) Data Ingestion
7 28 (18.92%) Performance Tuning
8 25 (16.89%) Data Modelling
9 24 (16.22%) Migration
10 23 (15.54%) Data Engineering
10 23 (15.54%) Full-Stack Development
10 23 (15.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 20 (13.51%) Computer Science
11 20 (13.51%) Data Pipeline
11 20 (13.51%) SIEM
11 20 (13.51%) Software Engineering
12 18 (12.16%) Dashboard Development
13 17 (11.49%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 68 (45.95%) Python
2 41 (27.70%) Java
3 26 (17.57%) Bash
4 19 (12.84%) JavaScript
5 17 (11.49%) TypeScript
6 14 (9.46%) Go
7 11 (7.43%) PowerShell
7 11 (7.43%) SQL
8 6 (4.05%) Bicep
8 6 (4.05%) Rust
9 4 (2.70%) Perl
9 4 (2.70%) Scala
10 3 (2.03%) C
10 3 (2.03%) C#
11 2 (1.35%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.68%) Gremlin
12 1 (0.68%) PHP
12 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.68%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 70 (47.30%) Security Cleared
2 56 (37.84%) SC Cleared
3 28 (18.92%) DV Cleared
4 21 (14.19%) Degree
5 20 (13.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (8.11%) Azure Certification
7 7 (4.73%) AWS Certification
8 6 (4.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.35%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.68%) CEH
10 1 (0.68%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.70%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.35%) NIST
2 2 (1.35%) QA
3 1 (0.68%) GDPR
3 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 55 (37.16%) Docker
2 10 (6.76%) Active Directory
3 7 (4.73%) Squid
4 5 (3.38%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (3.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (2.70%) BitLocker
5 4 (2.70%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.70%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.68%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 80 (54.05%) Kubernetes
2 53 (35.81%) Kibana
3 36 (24.32%) Ansible
4 34 (22.97%) logstash
5 29 (19.59%) Terraform
6 20 (13.51%) Puppet
7 18 (12.16%) Grafana
7 18 (12.16%) Prometheus
8 9 (6.08%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (4.73%) FortiGate
10 6 (4.05%) Consul
11 4 (2.70%) ITRS Geneos
11 4 (2.70%) vCenter Server
11 4 (2.70%) vMotion
12 3 (2.03%) Argo
13 2 (1.35%) Nagios
13 2 (1.35%) Progress Chef
13 2 (1.35%) Red Hat Satellite
14 1 (0.68%) Oracle RMAN
14 1 (0.68%) WSUS
Vendors
1 25 (16.89%) Splunk
2 13 (8.78%) Red Hat
3 10 (6.76%) Dynatrace
3 10 (6.76%) Microsoft
4 8 (5.41%) Cloudera
4 8 (5.41%) Foundry
4 8 (5.41%) Palantir
5 6 (4.05%) Atlassian
6 5 (3.38%) Oracle
6 5 (3.38%) VMware
7 4 (2.70%) Citrix
7 4 (2.70%) NetApp
7 4 (2.70%) Solace
7 4 (2.70%) TIBCO
8 3 (2.03%) Google
9 2 (1.35%) Dell
9 2 (1.35%) F5
9 2 (1.35%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.68%) Netlify
10 1 (0.68%) Refinitiv