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

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 472 364 383
Rank change year-on-year -108 +19 +75
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 127 109 167
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.45% 0.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.98% 2.36% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 84 134
10th Percentile £419 £395 £415
25th Percentile £475 £502 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £575 £611
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% -5.89% +11.09%
75th Percentile £580 £666 £700
90th Percentile £735 £713 £825
UK median daily rate £521 £570 £600
% change year-on-year -8.64% -5.00% +17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £35.75 £47.14 -
25th Percentile £43.63 £58.98 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £78.70 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.67% - -
75th Percentile £69.63 £79.35 -
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.74 -
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £78.70 -
% change year-on-year -25.67% - -

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 6,404 4,622 6,338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.15% 18.97% 16.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,359 3,197 4,575
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £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 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £516 £525
% change year-on-year -3.10% -1.71% -4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 91 140
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.87 £22.99 £20.77
Median hourly rate £41.71 £32.05 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.14% -19.88% -32.54%
75th Percentile £73.94 £63.25 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.25 £72.75
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £34.19 £40.00
% change year-on-year +25.77% -14.53% -33.33%

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 8 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

Elasticsearch
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Elasticsearch in England over the 6 months to 8 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 8 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 -51 66 £521 -16.68% 32
Midlands -47 19 £525 -2.23% 6
West Midlands -50 19 £525 -4.55% 3
North West -38 12 £519 +32.00% 11
North of England -73 12 £519 +32.00% 15
South West -26 9 £525 -12.50% 8
South East -71 9 £488 -15.22% 25
Elasticsearch
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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 23 (18.11%) nginx
2 17 (13.39%) Apache Spark
3 8 (6.30%) Confluence
4 7 (5.51%) Apache
4 7 (5.51%) Tomcat
5 5 (3.94%) OpenStack
6 4 (3.15%) WebLogic
7 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.79%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.79%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Magento
1 1 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 54 (42.52%) AWS
2 25 (19.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 19 (14.96%) Serverless
4 13 (10.24%) Azure
5 12 (9.45%) Amazon S3
5 12 (9.45%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (9.45%) GCP
6 10 (7.87%) PaaS
7 9 (7.09%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (7.09%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (7.09%) IaaS
7 9 (7.09%) Route 53
7 9 (7.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (4.72%) OpenShift
9 3 (2.36%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.57%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.57%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (1.57%) Kong
10 2 (1.57%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 19 (14.96%) DNS
2 18 (14.17%) Firewall
2 18 (14.17%) VPN
3 11 (8.66%) TCP/IP
4 9 (7.09%) DHCP
4 9 (7.09%) HTTP
4 9 (7.09%) OpenVPN
4 9 (7.09%) SMTP
5 3 (2.36%) MQTT
5 3 (2.36%) Network Security
6 2 (1.57%) Multicast
6 2 (1.57%) NaaS
6 2 (1.57%) NAS
6 2 (1.57%) SAN
6 2 (1.57%) WAN
7 1 (0.79%) DSL
7 1 (0.79%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (19.69%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (7.87%) Big Data
2 10 (7.87%) Hadoop
3 6 (4.72%) MongoDB
3 6 (4.72%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.94%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (3.94%) Apache Cassandra
4 5 (3.94%) MySQL
5 4 (3.15%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.36%) HBase
7 2 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.57%) Flink
7 2 (1.57%) InfluxDB
7 2 (1.57%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.57%) Redis
7 2 (1.57%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.57%) TimescaleDB
8 1 (0.79%) Power BI
8 1 (0.79%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.79%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 16 (12.60%) Git
2 13 (10.24%) JIRA
3 10 (7.87%) SonarQube
4 9 (7.09%) GitLab
5 7 (5.51%) Bitbucket
6 6 (4.72%) Jenkins
7 5 (3.94%) JUnit
8 3 (2.36%) Gatling
8 3 (2.36%) JMeter
8 3 (2.36%) LoadRunner
8 3 (2.36%) Selenium
9 2 (1.57%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.57%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.79%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.79%) Postman
General
1 22 (17.32%) Social Skills
2 11 (8.66%) Public Sector
3 7 (5.51%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (5.51%) Finance
4 6 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.36%) Banking
5 3 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.57%) Back Office
6 2 (1.57%) Billing
6 2 (1.57%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.79%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.79%) Front Office
7 1 (0.79%) Marketing
7 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (25.20%) Developer
2 13 (10.24%) Full-Stack Developer
3 12 (9.45%) Architect
3 12 (9.45%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (9.45%) Software Engineer
4 9 (7.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 9 (7.09%) Senior
5 8 (6.30%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (6.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (6.30%) Lead
6 7 (5.51%) Elasticsearch Engineer
6 7 (5.51%) Java Developer
6 7 (5.51%) Java Engineer
6 7 (5.51%) NetApp Engineer
6 7 (5.51%) SIEM Engineer
6 7 (5.51%) Site Engineer
6 7 (5.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 7 (5.51%) Storage Engineer
7 6 (4.72%) AWS Architect
7 6 (4.72%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (34.65%) Kafka
2 30 (23.62%) Spring
3 24 (18.90%) Elastic Stack
4 23 (18.11%) Node.js
5 21 (16.54%) REST
6 19 (14.96%) WireMock
7 18 (14.17%) Spring Boot
8 15 (11.81%) React
9 10 (7.87%) LDAP
10 9 (7.09%) OpenID
11 7 (5.51%) Apache NiFi
12 5 (3.94%) GraphQL
12 5 (3.94%) gRPC
12 5 (3.94%) Middleware
12 5 (3.94%) RESTful
12 5 (3.94%) Swagger
13 4 (3.15%) AngularJS
13 4 (3.15%) JSON
13 4 (3.15%) Keycloak
13 4 (3.15%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.02%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (9.45%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.45%) Clustering
3 10 (7.87%) PKI
4 9 (7.09%) Enterprise Storage
5 7 (5.51%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.72%) Legacy Applications
6 6 (4.72%) Management Information System
7 4 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.36%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.57%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.57%) Replication
9 2 (1.57%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.79%) CMDB
10 1 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.79%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 37 (29.13%) Linux
2 16 (12.60%) Windows
3 14 (11.02%) Windows Server
4 8 (6.30%) Windows Server 2003
5 7 (5.51%) Unix
6 6 (4.72%) Solaris
6 6 (4.72%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (3.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (3.15%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (3.15%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (2.36%) VMS
10 2 (1.57%) Debian
10 2 (1.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (47.24%) DevOps
2 31 (24.41%) CI/CD
3 30 (23.62%) Agile
4 22 (17.32%) Containerisation
4 22 (17.32%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (16.54%) Performance Tuning
6 20 (15.75%) Full-Stack Development
7 17 (13.39%) Roadmaps
8 16 (12.60%) Observability
8 16 (12.60%) Software Engineering
9 15 (11.81%) AI
9 15 (11.81%) Data Ingestion
9 15 (11.81%) Data Modelling
9 15 (11.81%) Incident Response
9 15 (11.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 14 (11.02%) Decision-Making
10 14 (11.02%) Microservices
11 12 (9.45%) Computer Science
11 12 (9.45%) Cybersecurity
11 12 (9.45%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 55 (43.31%) Java
2 37 (29.13%) Python
3 21 (16.54%) JavaScript
4 20 (15.75%) SQL
5 16 (12.60%) TypeScript
6 10 (7.87%) Bash
6 10 (7.87%) Rust
7 9 (7.09%) PowerShell
8 5 (3.94%) PL/SQL
8 5 (3.94%) Scala
9 4 (3.15%) C#
9 4 (3.15%) Go
9 4 (3.15%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.57%) C++
10 2 (1.57%) Groovy
10 2 (1.57%) Ruby
11 1 (0.79%) Gremlin
11 1 (0.79%) PHP
11 1 (0.79%) R
11 1 (0.79%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 72 (56.69%) Security Cleared
2 53 (41.73%) SC Cleared
3 27 (21.26%) DV Cleared
4 18 (14.17%) Degree
5 11 (8.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (5.51%) AWS Certification
6 7 (5.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.79%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.72%) QA
2 5 (3.94%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
System Software
1 44 (34.65%) Docker
2 15 (11.81%) VMware ESXi
2 15 (11.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (7.87%) Active Directory
4 9 (7.09%) BitLocker
4 9 (7.09%) Hyper-V
4 9 (7.09%) Microsoft App-V
4 9 (7.09%) Squid
5 5 (3.94%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (1.57%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.79%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 55 (43.31%) Kubernetes
2 33 (25.98%) Ansible
3 29 (22.83%) Terraform
4 28 (22.05%) Grafana
5 26 (20.47%) Prometheus
6 25 (19.69%) Kibana
7 18 (14.17%) Puppet
8 14 (11.02%) logstash
9 9 (7.09%) FortiGate
9 9 (7.09%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (7.09%) vCenter Server
9 9 (7.09%) vMotion
10 8 (6.30%) Consul
11 5 (3.94%) Nagios
11 5 (3.94%) Oracle RMAN
12 3 (2.36%) Argo
12 3 (2.36%) Podman
13 2 (1.57%) Amdocs OSS
13 2 (1.57%) Red Hat Satellite
14 1 (0.79%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (14.17%) Dynatrace
2 16 (12.60%) Red Hat
3 15 (11.81%) VMware
4 11 (8.66%) Microsoft
5 10 (7.87%) Oracle
6 9 (7.09%) Citrix
7 7 (5.51%) Atlassian
7 7 (5.51%) IBM
7 7 (5.51%) NetApp
8 6 (4.72%) Splunk
9 3 (2.36%) AppDynamics
9 3 (2.36%) NVIDIA
9 3 (2.36%) Tenable
10 2 (1.57%) Ciena
10 2 (1.57%) Cloudera
10 2 (1.57%) F5
10 2 (1.57%) Google
10 2 (1.57%) Netlify
10 2 (1.57%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.57%) Symantec