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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 339 369
Rank change year-on-year -76 +30 +40
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 135 139 192
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.41% 0.53% 0.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.50% 2.87% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 86 155
10th Percentile £413 £451 £457
25th Percentile £475 £560 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £606 £663
Median % change year-on-year -9.24% -8.53% +10.42%
75th Percentile £614 £681 £825
90th Percentile £706 £1,075 -
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £644
% change year-on-year -8.33% -6.83% +7.33%
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 5,405 4,840 6,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.35% 18.57% 16.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,780 3,196 4,444
10th Percentile £330 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +1.40% -2.27%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £650
90th Percentile £700 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 80 170
10th Percentile £18.23 £22.27 £15.50
25th Percentile £27.06 £25.19 £21.16
Median hourly rate £45.75 £39.00 £42.35
Median % change year-on-year +17.31% -7.90% -25.53%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.73 £61.13
90th Percentile £85.10 £74.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +42.86% -17.65% -25.26%

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 3 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

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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 3 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 -39 59 £550 -9.47% 45
West Midlands +9 53 £550 +52.78% 8
Midlands -12 53 £550 +64.79% 11
South West -15 20 £550 -33.33% 13
South East -27 4 £488 +0.05% 24
North of England -68 4 £500 -17.70% 19
North West -38 3 £500 -13.04% 14
East of England -24 1 - - 5
Yorkshire -50 1 - - 4
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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 15 (11.11%) Confluence
2 8 (5.93%) Apache
2 8 (5.93%) Palantir Foundry
3 7 (5.19%) Apache Spark
4 6 (4.44%) nginx
4 6 (4.44%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.74%) Camunda
5 1 (0.74%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Magento
1 1 (0.74%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 37 (27.41%) Azure
2 33 (24.44%) AWS
3 18 (13.33%) GCP
3 18 (13.33%) GitHub
4 16 (11.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 13 (9.63%) Serverless
6 12 (8.89%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (5.93%) Amazon S3
8 7 (5.19%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (5.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (4.44%) Azure AKS
9 6 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (3.70%) Entra ID
10 5 (3.70%) IaaS
10 5 (3.70%) PaaS
10 5 (3.70%) Route 53
11 3 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.41%) DNS
1 10 (7.41%) Firewall
2 9 (6.67%) TCP/IP
2 9 (6.67%) VPN
3 5 (3.70%) OpenVPN
4 4 (2.96%) SMTP
5 3 (2.22%) DHCP
5 3 (2.22%) HTTP
6 2 (1.48%) Multicast
6 2 (1.48%) NAS
6 2 (1.48%) SAN
6 2 (1.48%) SSH
7 1 (0.74%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (21.48%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (13.33%) Hadoop
3 17 (12.59%) Big Data
4 5 (3.70%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.96%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.22%) Apache Hive
6 3 (2.22%) Impala
6 3 (2.22%) MySQL
6 3 (2.22%) Redis
7 2 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.48%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.48%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.74%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.74%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.74%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.74%) MemSQL
8 1 (0.74%) Power BI
8 1 (0.74%) Tableau
8 1 (0.74%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 17 (12.59%) JIRA
2 11 (8.15%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.93%) Git
3 8 (5.93%) GitLab
4 7 (5.19%) SonarQube
5 5 (3.70%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.48%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.48%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.74%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.74%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.74%) git-flow
7 1 (0.74%) JUnit
7 1 (0.74%) Maven
7 1 (0.74%) Postman
7 1 (0.74%) Travis CI
General
1 47 (34.81%) Social Skills
2 20 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (14.07%) Finance
4 9 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (5.19%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.96%) Law
7 3 (2.22%) Banking
7 3 (2.22%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.74%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.74%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (15.56%) Data Engineer
1 21 (15.56%) Developer
2 20 (14.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 19 (14.07%) Splunk Engineer
4 15 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
4 15 (11.11%) Senior
4 15 (11.11%) Site Engineer
5 14 (10.37%) SIEM Engineer
6 13 (9.63%) Senior Data Engineer
7 11 (8.15%) Applications Engineer
8 8 (5.93%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (5.19%) Architect
9 7 (5.19%) Lead
9 7 (5.19%) Security Engineer
10 6 (4.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 6 (4.44%) Software Engineer
11 5 (3.70%) Technical Architect
12 4 (2.96%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 3 (2.22%) Security Specialist
13 3 (2.22%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (41.48%) Elastic Stack
2 46 (34.07%) Kafka
3 24 (17.78%) Node.js
4 19 (14.07%) React
5 18 (13.33%) Spring
6 14 (10.37%) REST
6 14 (10.37%) WireMock
7 12 (8.89%) Keycloak
8 11 (8.15%) Apache NiFi
9 10 (7.41%) Spring Boot
10 8 (5.93%) JSON
10 8 (5.93%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (5.19%) AngularJS
11 7 (5.19%) XML
12 6 (4.44%) LDAP
12 6 (4.44%) OpenID
12 6 (4.44%) Ultra Messaging
13 5 (3.70%) Express.js
13 5 (3.70%) FIX Protocol
13 5 (3.70%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 15 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 11 (8.15%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (5.93%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.19%) Algorithms
5 6 (4.44%) Replication
6 5 (3.70%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (2.96%) PKI
7 4 (2.96%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.22%) Clustering
8 3 (2.22%) Hedge funds
8 3 (2.22%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.48%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.48%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.48%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.48%) Market Risk
9 2 (1.48%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 39 (28.89%) Linux
2 17 (12.59%) Unix
3 6 (4.44%) Windows
4 5 (3.70%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.22%) CentOS
5 3 (2.22%) Mac OS
5 3 (2.22%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (1.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (50.37%) DevOps
2 42 (31.11%) Containerisation
3 34 (25.19%) CI/CD
3 34 (25.19%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (23.70%) Observability
5 30 (22.22%) Agile
6 29 (21.48%) Data Ingestion
6 29 (21.48%) Performance Tuning
7 28 (20.74%) Incident Response
8 24 (17.78%) Data Modelling
8 24 (17.78%) Migration
9 23 (17.04%) Data Engineering
9 23 (17.04%) Full-Stack Development
9 23 (17.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 22 (16.30%) Data Pipeline
11 20 (14.81%) Computer Science
12 19 (14.07%) SIEM
13 18 (13.33%) Dashboard Development
13 18 (13.33%) ETL
14 17 (12.59%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 63 (46.67%) Python
2 31 (22.96%) Java
3 27 (20.00%) Bash
4 15 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 14 (10.37%) PowerShell
6 13 (9.63%) Go
6 13 (9.63%) SQL
7 11 (8.15%) TypeScript
8 8 (5.93%) Bicep
9 5 (3.70%) Perl
10 4 (2.96%) C#
10 4 (2.96%) Scala
11 3 (2.22%) C
12 2 (1.48%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.74%) PHP
13 1 (0.74%) Rust
Qualifications
1 54 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 48 (35.56%) SC Cleared
3 20 (14.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (14.81%) Degree
4 18 (13.33%) DV Cleared
5 12 (8.89%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.48%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.48%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.74%) CEH
7 1 (0.74%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.22%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.48%) NIST
3 1 (0.74%) GDPR
3 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.74%) QA
System Software
1 59 (43.70%) Docker
2 11 (8.15%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.70%) Squid
4 3 (2.22%) BitLocker
4 3 (2.22%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.22%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.48%) HDFS
6 1 (0.74%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.74%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 77 (57.04%) Kubernetes
2 58 (42.96%) Kibana
3 37 (27.41%) Ansible
3 37 (27.41%) logstash
4 21 (15.56%) Terraform
5 19 (14.07%) Puppet
6 15 (11.11%) Prometheus
7 14 (10.37%) Grafana
8 7 (5.19%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (4.44%) ITRS Geneos
10 5 (3.70%) Consul
10 5 (3.70%) FortiGate
11 4 (2.96%) Progress Chef
12 3 (2.22%) Argo
12 3 (2.22%) vCenter Server
12 3 (2.22%) vMotion
13 2 (1.48%) Nagios
13 2 (1.48%) Red Hat Satellite
14 1 (0.74%) Rsyslog
14 1 (0.74%) WSUS
Vendors
1 25 (18.52%) Splunk
2 15 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.41%) Red Hat
4 8 (5.93%) Cloudera
4 8 (5.93%) Foundry
4 8 (5.93%) Palantir
5 7 (5.19%) Dynatrace
6 6 (4.44%) Solace
6 6 (4.44%) TIBCO
7 5 (3.70%) Atlassian
8 4 (2.96%) Oracle
9 3 (2.22%) Citrix
9 3 (2.22%) Google
9 3 (2.22%) NetApp
9 3 (2.22%) VMware
10 2 (1.48%) Dell
10 2 (1.48%) F5
11 1 (0.74%) Intel
11 1 (0.74%) SAP
11 1 (0.74%) Sybase