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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 406 371
Rank change year-on-year -106 -35 +58
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 125 105 160
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.27% 0.38% 0.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.85% 2.07% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 77 105
10th Percentile £275 £352 £401
25th Percentile £406 £450 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £550 £603
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% -8.79% +0.50%
75th Percentile £638 £668 £656
90th Percentile £700 £697 £885
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £57.75 £55.70 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £59.75 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £68.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £74.75 -
90th Percentile £72.25 £77.90 -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £68.00 -
% change year-on-year -15.44% - -

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 6,751 5,063 5,832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.59% 18.14% 18.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,481 3,474 3,964
10th Percentile £352 £338 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -7.27% -
75th Percentile £625 £635 £663
90th Percentile £713 £750 £813
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.24% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 72 83
10th Percentile £16.70 £20.67 £17.50
25th Percentile £21.25 £29.00 £22.20
Median hourly rate £41.36 £42.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +19.99% -33.33%
75th Percentile £61.63 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £80.00 £71.15
UK median hourly rate £40.18 £39.48 £33.93
% change year-on-year +1.77% +16.36% -35.37%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -78 72 £475 -15.56% 109
South West -21 20 £575 -8.00% 14
Midlands -49 12 £700 +16.67% 6
West Midlands -56 12 £700 +16.67% 5
South East -60 10 £608 +10.45% 6
North of England -58 9 £394 +5.70% 22
Yorkshire - 5 £363 - 2
North West -45 3 - - 19
North East - 1 £425 - 1
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 17 (13.60%) Apache Spark
2 14 (11.20%) nginx
3 10 (8.00%) Apache
4 9 (7.20%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (7.20%) Confluence
4 9 (7.20%) WebLogic
5 6 (4.80%) Tomcat
6 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (1.60%) Camunda
7 2 (1.60%) Liferay
7 2 (1.60%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.80%) CMS
8 1 (0.80%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.80%) IIS
8 1 (0.80%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 4 (3.20%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 54 (43.20%) AWS
2 43 (34.40%) Azure
3 27 (21.60%) GCP
4 18 (14.40%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 16 (12.80%) GitHub
6 13 (10.40%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (8.80%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (8.80%) Serverless
8 8 (6.40%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (5.60%) Amazon S3
9 7 (5.60%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (4.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (4.80%) Entra ID
11 5 (4.00%) Azure AKS
12 4 (3.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (3.20%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (3.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (3.20%) dbt
12 4 (3.20%) OpenShift
13 3 (2.40%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.40%) HTTP
2 7 (5.60%) DNS
3 5 (4.00%) Firewall
3 5 (4.00%) Network Security
4 4 (3.20%) MQTT
5 3 (2.40%) DHCP
5 3 (2.40%) SMTP
5 3 (2.40%) VPN
6 2 (1.60%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.60%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (1.60%) SAN
7 1 (0.80%) DSL
7 1 (0.80%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.60%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (12.00%) Metadata
3 14 (11.20%) Big Data
3 14 (11.20%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (10.40%) MongoDB
5 12 (9.60%) Data Lake
6 11 (8.80%) NoSQL
7 10 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (6.40%) Hadoop
9 7 (5.60%) BigQuery
10 6 (4.80%) Flink
10 6 (4.80%) Oracle Database
10 6 (4.80%) SQL Server
11 5 (4.00%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (3.20%) Apache Hive
12 4 (3.20%) Apache Iceberg
12 4 (3.20%) MySQL
12 4 (3.20%) Redis
13 3 (2.40%) Pinecone
13 3 (2.40%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 30 (24.00%) Git
2 17 (13.60%) GitLab
2 17 (13.60%) JIRA
3 15 (12.00%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.80%) JUnit
5 4 (3.20%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.20%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.40%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.40%) Gatling
6 3 (2.40%) Gradle
6 3 (2.40%) JMeter
6 3 (2.40%) LoadRunner
6 3 (2.40%) Maven
6 3 (2.40%) Mockito
6 3 (2.40%) Selenium
7 1 (0.80%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.80%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.80%) RhodeCode
7 1 (0.80%) Storybook
7 1 (0.80%) TeamCity
General
1 25 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (11.20%) Finance
3 13 (10.40%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.00%) Banking
5 6 (4.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.00%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.40%) Marketing
7 3 (2.40%) Police
8 2 (1.60%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.60%) Law
9 1 (0.80%) Legal
9 1 (0.80%) Publishing
9 1 (0.80%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (25.60%) Developer
2 16 (12.80%) Data Engineer
2 16 (12.80%) Senior
3 14 (11.20%) Architect
4 12 (9.60%) Java Developer
5 11 (8.80%) Data Architect
5 11 (8.80%) Software Engineer
6 8 (6.40%) Consultant
6 8 (6.40%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (6.40%) Elasticsearch Consultant
6 8 (6.40%) Senior Data Engineer
7 7 (5.60%) Oracle Developer
7 7 (5.60%) WebLogic Developer
8 6 (4.80%) Elasticsearch Engineer
8 6 (4.80%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 6 (4.80%) Java Engineer
8 6 (4.80%) Lead
9 5 (4.00%) Digital Developer
9 5 (4.00%) Python Engineer
9 5 (4.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (29.60%) Kafka
2 23 (18.40%) Terraform
3 18 (14.40%) Elastic Stack
3 18 (14.40%) Spring
4 14 (11.20%) React
4 14 (11.20%) REST
5 12 (9.60%) Spring Boot
6 10 (8.00%) HTML
7 9 (7.20%) Apache NiFi
7 9 (7.20%) Next.js
8 8 (6.40%) CSS
8 8 (6.40%) Keycloak
9 6 (4.80%) RESTful
10 5 (4.00%) .NET
10 5 (4.00%) Flask
10 5 (4.00%) GraphQL
10 5 (4.00%) LangChain
10 5 (4.00%) Spark Streaming
11 4 (3.20%) Protocol Buffers
11 4 (3.20%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.40%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.20%) Digital Media
2 9 (7.20%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.80%) Clustering
3 6 (4.80%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.00%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 5 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (4.00%) PKI
5 4 (3.20%) Legacy Applications
5 4 (3.20%) Replication
5 4 (3.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (2.40%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.40%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (2.40%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.80%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 28 (22.40%) Linux
2 7 (5.60%) Windows
3 6 (4.80%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.40%) Solaris
5 3 (2.40%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (1.60%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.80%) Unix
7 1 (0.80%) VMS
7 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (44.80%) CI/CD
2 44 (35.20%) Agile
3 41 (32.80%) DevOps
4 30 (24.00%) AI
5 28 (22.40%) Software Engineering
6 26 (20.80%) Containerisation
7 25 (20.00%) Analytics
8 23 (18.40%) Data Modelling
8 23 (18.40%) Data Pipeline
8 23 (18.40%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (16.00%) Machine Learning
10 18 (14.40%) ETL
11 17 (13.60%) Scrum
12 15 (12.00%) Computer Science
12 15 (12.00%) Data Architecture
12 15 (12.00%) Observability
13 14 (11.20%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (11.20%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (11.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 14 (11.20%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 42 (33.60%) Python
2 38 (30.40%) SQL
3 30 (24.00%) Java
4 20 (16.00%) JavaScript
5 17 (13.60%) TypeScript
6 13 (10.40%) Bash
7 8 (6.40%) Rust
8 7 (5.60%) Kotlin
8 7 (5.60%) PL/SQL
8 7 (5.60%) PowerShell
8 7 (5.60%) Shell Script
9 6 (4.80%) Go
10 4 (3.20%) C#
10 4 (3.20%) Scala
11 3 (2.40%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (1.60%) Ruby
13 1 (0.80%) Bicep
13 1 (0.80%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.80%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (44.80%) Security Cleared
2 47 (37.60%) SC Cleared
3 19 (15.20%) DV Cleared
4 17 (13.60%) Degree
5 9 (7.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (5.60%) AWS Certification
7 6 (4.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (4.00%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.80%) FFIEC
10 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.80%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.00%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.60%) QA
3 3 (2.40%) EMIR
3 3 (2.40%) MiFID
4 2 (1.60%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.60%) GDPR
4 2 (1.60%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.60%) NIST
4 2 (1.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.60%) SLA
5 1 (0.80%) FedRAMP
5 1 (0.80%) GLBA
5 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.80%) ITGC
5 1 (0.80%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 37 (29.60%) Docker
2 6 (4.80%) VMware ESXi
2 6 (4.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.00%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.20%) HDFS
5 3 (2.40%) BitLocker
5 3 (2.40%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.40%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (2.40%) Terminal Services
6 2 (1.60%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (1.60%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 44 (35.20%) Kubernetes
2 22 (17.60%) Ansible
2 22 (17.60%) Prometheus
3 19 (15.20%) Grafana
4 16 (12.80%) Kibana
5 11 (8.80%) Puppet
6 8 (6.40%) logstash
7 4 (3.20%) Podman
8 3 (2.40%) Nagios
8 3 (2.40%) vCenter Server
8 3 (2.40%) vMotion
9 2 (1.60%) Argo
9 2 (1.60%) Consul
9 2 (1.60%) Istio
9 2 (1.60%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (1.60%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (1.60%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.60%) systemd
Vendors
1 25 (20.00%) Oracle
2 16 (12.80%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.40%) Google
3 8 (6.40%) IBM
4 6 (4.80%) VMware
5 5 (4.00%) Cloudera
6 4 (3.20%) Databricks
6 4 (3.20%) NVIDIA
6 4 (3.20%) Red Hat
6 4 (3.20%) Tenable
7 3 (2.40%) AppDynamics
7 3 (2.40%) Citrix
7 3 (2.40%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.40%) HP
7 3 (2.40%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.40%) Symantec
8 2 (1.60%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.60%) SAP
8 2 (1.60%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.60%) WSO2