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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 480 394 389
Rank change year-on-year -86 -5 +80
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 123 102 164
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.41% 0.44%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.86% 2.18% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 80 132
10th Percentile £406 £393 £419
25th Percentile £467 £505 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% -4.17% +10.09%
75th Percentile £583 £669 £700
90th Percentile £735 £713 £825
UK median daily rate £521 £573 £600
% change year-on-year -9.08% -4.58% +17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £33.13 £47.14 -
25th Percentile £37.06 £58.98 -
Median hourly rate £44.75 £78.70 -
Median % change year-on-year -43.14% - -
75th Percentile £53.06 £79.35 -
90th Percentile £57.38 £79.74 -
UK median hourly rate £44.75 £78.70 -
% change year-on-year -43.14% - -

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 6,618 4,672 6,467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.23% 18.65% 17.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,483 3,250 4,660
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £514 £525
% change year-on-year -2.72% -2.10% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 84 143
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.89 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.05 £24.63 £20.77
Median hourly rate £38.25 £33.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.20% -16.26% -30.43%
75th Percentile £71.13 £62.44 £52.83
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.25 £72.30
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £34.99 £40.00
% change year-on-year +12.89% -12.53% -30.43%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch in England over the 6 months to 24 June 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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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Elasticsearch in England over the 6 months to 24 June 2026.

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 24 June 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 -53 68 £521 -18.35% 31
Midlands -51 15 £500 -6.89% 7
West Midlands -52 15 £500 -9.09% 4
North West -44 12 £519 +32.00% 8
North of England -75 12 £519 +32.00% 12
South East -65 8 £588 +2.17% 25
South West -29 7 £500 -16.67% 6
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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 23 (18.70%) nginx
2 17 (13.82%) Apache Spark
3 8 (6.50%) Tomcat
3 8 (6.50%) WebLogic
4 7 (5.69%) Confluence
5 5 (4.07%) OpenStack
6 4 (3.25%) Apache
7 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.81%) IIS
8 1 (0.81%) Liferay
8 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.81%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Magento
1 1 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 56 (45.53%) AWS
2 25 (20.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 19 (15.45%) Serverless
4 14 (11.38%) GCP
5 12 (9.76%) Amazon S3
5 12 (9.76%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (9.76%) Azure
6 9 (7.32%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (7.32%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (7.32%) PaaS
6 9 (7.32%) Route 53
6 9 (7.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 8 (6.50%) IaaS
7 8 (6.50%) OpenShift
8 4 (3.25%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.63%) Azure Functions
9 2 (1.63%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (1.63%) Kong
9 2 (1.63%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 17 (13.82%) DNS
1 17 (13.82%) Firewall
1 17 (13.82%) VPN
2 11 (8.94%) TCP/IP
3 10 (8.13%) HTTP
4 9 (7.32%) OpenVPN
5 8 (6.50%) DHCP
5 8 (6.50%) SMTP
6 4 (3.25%) MQTT
6 4 (3.25%) Network Security
7 2 (1.63%) Multicast
7 2 (1.63%) NaaS
7 2 (1.63%) NAS
7 2 (1.63%) SAN
7 2 (1.63%) WAN
8 1 (0.81%) DSL
8 1 (0.81%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (18.70%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (8.94%) Big Data
3 9 (7.32%) Hadoop
4 6 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (4.88%) MySQL
4 6 (4.88%) NoSQL
5 5 (4.07%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (4.07%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.25%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.44%) HBase
7 3 (2.44%) Oracle Database
7 3 (2.44%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.63%) Flink
8 2 (1.63%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.63%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.63%) Redis
8 2 (1.63%) TimescaleDB
9 1 (0.81%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.81%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (13.01%) Git
2 12 (9.76%) JIRA
3 11 (8.94%) SonarQube
4 10 (8.13%) GitLab
5 8 (6.50%) Jenkins
6 7 (5.69%) Bitbucket
7 5 (4.07%) JUnit
8 3 (2.44%) Gatling
8 3 (2.44%) JMeter
8 3 (2.44%) LoadRunner
8 3 (2.44%) Selenium
9 2 (1.63%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.63%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.81%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.81%) Postman
General
1 21 (17.07%) Social Skills
2 12 (9.76%) Public Sector
3 7 (5.69%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (5.69%) Finance
4 3 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.44%) Banking
4 3 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.63%) Back Office
5 2 (1.63%) Billing
5 2 (1.63%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.81%) Front Office
6 1 (0.81%) Marketing
6 1 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.81%) Police
Job Titles
1 37 (30.08%) Developer
2 13 (10.57%) Full-Stack Developer
3 12 (9.76%) Architect
3 12 (9.76%) Software Engineer
4 11 (8.94%) Java Developer
5 10 (8.13%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (6.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 8 (6.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (6.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (6.50%) Lead
7 7 (5.69%) Elasticsearch Engineer
7 7 (5.69%) Senior
7 7 (5.69%) SIEM Engineer
8 6 (4.88%) AWS Architect
8 6 (4.88%) Java Engineer
8 6 (4.88%) Technical Architect
9 5 (4.07%) Applications Engineer
9 5 (4.07%) Backend Developer
9 5 (4.07%) NetApp Engineer
9 5 (4.07%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (30.89%) Kafka
2 30 (24.39%) Spring
3 21 (17.07%) Node.js
4 20 (16.26%) REST
5 18 (14.63%) Elastic Stack
5 18 (14.63%) Spring Boot
6 17 (13.82%) WireMock
7 13 (10.57%) React
8 9 (7.32%) LDAP
8 9 (7.32%) OpenID
9 6 (4.88%) gRPC
9 6 (4.88%) RESTful
10 5 (4.07%) Apache NiFi
10 5 (4.07%) GraphQL
10 5 (4.07%) Middleware
10 5 (4.07%) Swagger
11 4 (3.25%) JSON
11 4 (3.25%) Keycloak
11 4 (3.25%) Protocol Buffers
12 3 (2.44%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.38%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (9.76%) Cloud Native
3 11 (8.94%) Clustering
4 9 (7.32%) PKI
5 8 (6.50%) Product Ownership
6 7 (5.69%) Enterprise Storage
7 6 (4.88%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (4.07%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (3.25%) Data Centre
10 3 (2.44%) Management Information System
11 2 (1.63%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.63%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.63%) Security Posture
11 2 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.81%) AI Agents
12 1 (0.81%) CMDB
12 1 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.81%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (27.64%) Linux
2 14 (11.38%) Windows
3 13 (10.57%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.88%) Solaris
4 6 (4.88%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (4.88%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (4.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (3.25%) Unix
6 4 (3.25%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (3.25%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.63%) Debian
7 2 (1.63%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.81%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (45.53%) DevOps
2 30 (24.39%) CI/CD
3 28 (22.76%) Agile
4 20 (16.26%) Containerisation
4 20 (16.26%) Full-Stack Development
4 20 (16.26%) Performance Tuning
5 18 (14.63%) AI
5 18 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (13.82%) Roadmaps
7 15 (12.20%) Software Engineering
8 14 (11.38%) Microservices
9 13 (10.57%) Cybersecurity
9 13 (10.57%) Observability
9 13 (10.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 12 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (9.76%) Decision-Making
10 12 (9.76%) Machine Learning
10 12 (9.76%) Test Automation
11 11 (8.94%) Event-Driven
11 11 (8.94%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 55 (44.72%) Java
2 37 (30.08%) Python
3 22 (17.89%) SQL
4 17 (13.82%) JavaScript
5 14 (11.38%) TypeScript
6 11 (8.94%) Rust
7 8 (6.50%) Bash
7 8 (6.50%) PowerShell
8 7 (5.69%) PL/SQL
9 5 (4.07%) Scala
9 5 (4.07%) Shell Script
10 4 (3.25%) C#
11 3 (2.44%) Go
12 2 (1.63%) C++
12 2 (1.63%) Groovy
12 2 (1.63%) Ruby
13 1 (0.81%) PHP
13 1 (0.81%) R
13 1 (0.81%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 73 (59.35%) Security Cleared
2 56 (45.53%) SC Cleared
3 25 (20.33%) DV Cleared
4 17 (13.82%) Degree
5 8 (6.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (5.69%) AWS Certification
6 7 (5.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.88%) QA
2 3 (2.44%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
System Software
1 40 (32.52%) Docker
2 14 (11.38%) VMware ESXi
2 14 (11.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (7.32%) Squid
4 8 (6.50%) Active Directory
4 8 (6.50%) BitLocker
4 8 (6.50%) Hyper-V
4 8 (6.50%) Microsoft App-V
5 5 (4.07%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (2.44%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.81%) HDFS
7 1 (0.81%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 49 (39.84%) Kubernetes
2 29 (23.58%) Terraform
3 28 (22.76%) Ansible
4 26 (21.14%) Grafana
5 24 (19.51%) Prometheus
6 21 (17.07%) Kibana
7 16 (13.01%) Puppet
8 12 (9.76%) logstash
9 9 (7.32%) FortiGate
9 9 (7.32%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (6.50%) Consul
10 8 (6.50%) vCenter Server
10 8 (6.50%) vMotion
11 6 (4.88%) Nagios
12 5 (4.07%) Oracle RMAN
13 4 (3.25%) Podman
14 3 (2.44%) Argo
15 2 (1.63%) Amdocs OSS
15 2 (1.63%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 16 (13.01%) Dynatrace
1 16 (13.01%) Red Hat
2 14 (11.38%) Oracle
2 14 (11.38%) VMware
3 12 (9.76%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.50%) Citrix
4 8 (6.50%) IBM
5 7 (5.69%) Atlassian
6 5 (4.07%) NetApp
7 4 (3.25%) NVIDIA
7 4 (3.25%) Tenable
8 3 (2.44%) AppDynamics
8 3 (2.44%) Google
8 3 (2.44%) HP
8 3 (2.44%) Splunk
8 3 (2.44%) Symantec
9 2 (1.63%) Amdocs
9 2 (1.63%) Cloudera
9 2 (1.63%) Dell
9 2 (1.63%) F5