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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 403 375
Rank change year-on-year -110 -28 +58
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 124 101 156
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.27% 0.37% 0.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.81% 2.00% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 75 105
10th Percentile £339 £347 £401
25th Percentile £406 £453 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £625 £668 £645
90th Percentile £700 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £589
% change year-on-year -9.09% -6.62% +7.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £38.23 £55.70 -
25th Percentile £49.81 £59.75 -
Median hourly rate £58.00 £68.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% - -
75th Percentile £63.63 £74.75 -
90th Percentile £69.70 £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 6,844 5,041 5,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.77% 18.30% 18.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,561 3,464 4,016
10th Percentile £350 £338 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £713 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 73 81
10th Percentile £15.95 £21.02 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.91 £29.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £43.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.20% +24.29% -33.33%
75th Percentile £58.13 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £79.75 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £40.18 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +0.45% +14.29% -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 29 September 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 29 September 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 29 September 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 -69 74 £475 -17.39% 114
South West -28 19 £575 -4.17% 24
Midlands -52 10 £700 +16.67% 11
West Midlands -54 10 £700 +16.67% 9
South East -66 9 £690 +20.00% 7
North of England -70 7 £450 +20.81% 35
North West -50 3 - - 27
Yorkshire - 3 £475 - 4
North East - 1 £425 - 4
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 (13.71%) Apache Spark
2 16 (12.90%) nginx
3 11 (8.87%) Apache
4 9 (7.26%) Confluence
4 9 (7.26%) WebLogic
5 7 (5.65%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (5.65%) Tomcat
6 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (1.61%) Camunda
7 2 (1.61%) Liferay
7 2 (1.61%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.81%) CMS
8 1 (0.81%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.81%) IIS
8 1 (0.81%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.81%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (3.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Magento
1 1 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 55 (44.35%) AWS
2 38 (30.65%) Azure
3 24 (19.35%) GCP
4 19 (15.32%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 14 (11.29%) GitHub
6 12 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (8.06%) Serverless
8 9 (7.26%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (5.65%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (4.03%) Amazon S3
10 5 (4.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (4.03%) Entra ID
11 4 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (3.23%) IaaS
11 4 (3.23%) OpenShift
11 4 (3.23%) PaaS
12 3 (2.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (2.42%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.45%) HTTP
2 7 (5.65%) DNS
3 5 (4.03%) Firewall
4 4 (3.23%) DHCP
4 4 (3.23%) MQTT
4 4 (3.23%) Network Security
4 4 (3.23%) SMTP
4 4 (3.23%) VPN
5 2 (1.61%) Kerberos
5 2 (1.61%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (1.61%) SAN
6 1 (0.81%) DSL
6 1 (0.81%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.90%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (12.10%) Metadata
3 13 (10.48%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (9.68%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (9.68%) Big Data
4 12 (9.68%) MongoDB
5 10 (8.06%) Data Lake
6 9 (7.26%) NoSQL
7 7 (5.65%) Hadoop
8 6 (4.84%) Flink
9 5 (4.03%) BigQuery
9 5 (4.03%) Redis
10 4 (3.23%) MySQL
10 4 (3.23%) Oracle Database
10 4 (3.23%) SQL Server
11 3 (2.42%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (2.42%) Apache Hive
11 3 (2.42%) ClickHouse
11 3 (2.42%) GIS
11 3 (2.42%) HBase
Development Applications
1 31 (25.00%) Git
2 17 (13.71%) JIRA
3 16 (12.90%) GitLab
4 14 (11.29%) Jenkins
5 6 (4.84%) JUnit
6 4 (3.23%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.23%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.42%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.42%) Gradle
7 3 (2.42%) Maven
7 3 (2.42%) Mockito
7 3 (2.42%) Selenium
8 2 (1.61%) Gatling
8 2 (1.61%) JMeter
8 2 (1.61%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.81%) git-flow
9 1 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.81%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.81%) RhodeCode
9 1 (0.81%) Storybook
General
1 23 (18.55%) Social Skills
2 12 (9.68%) Public Sector
3 11 (8.87%) Finance
4 9 (7.26%) Banking
5 5 (4.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.03%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.42%) Marketing
6 3 (2.42%) Police
7 2 (1.61%) Law
8 1 (0.81%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.81%) Legal
8 1 (0.81%) Publishing
8 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (30.65%) Developer
2 16 (12.90%) Senior
3 15 (12.10%) Architect
3 15 (12.10%) Java Developer
4 14 (11.29%) Data Engineer
5 11 (8.87%) Data Architect
5 11 (8.87%) Software Engineer
6 9 (7.26%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (6.45%) Lead
8 7 (5.65%) Oracle Developer
8 7 (5.65%) Senior Data Engineer
8 7 (5.65%) WebLogic Developer
9 6 (4.84%) Elasticsearch Engineer
9 6 (4.84%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 6 (4.84%) Java Engineer
10 5 (4.03%) Digital Developer
10 5 (4.03%) Elasticsearch Developer
10 5 (4.03%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (4.03%) Java Software Engineer
10 5 (4.03%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (30.65%) Kafka
2 22 (17.74%) Terraform
3 19 (15.32%) Spring
4 17 (13.71%) Elastic Stack
4 17 (13.71%) React
4 17 (13.71%) REST
5 13 (10.48%) Spring Boot
6 11 (8.87%) HTML
7 9 (7.26%) CSS
7 9 (7.26%) Next.js
8 8 (6.45%) Apache NiFi
9 7 (5.65%) Keycloak
10 6 (4.84%) GraphQL
10 6 (4.84%) RESTful
11 5 (4.03%) .NET
11 5 (4.03%) Flask
11 5 (4.03%) Node.js
12 4 (3.23%) Protocol Buffers
12 4 (3.23%) Spark Streaming
12 4 (3.23%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.10%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.87%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (7.26%) Digital Media
4 7 (5.65%) Clustering
5 6 (4.84%) Data Centre
5 6 (4.84%) PKI
5 6 (4.84%) Product Ownership
6 5 (4.03%) Data Structures
6 5 (4.03%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (3.23%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (3.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (2.42%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.42%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.61%) Replication
10 1 (0.81%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 29 (23.39%) Linux
2 8 (6.45%) Windows
3 7 (5.65%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.23%) Solaris
4 4 (3.23%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (1.61%) Debian
5 2 (1.61%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.61%) VMS
5 2 (1.61%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.81%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (41.94%) CI/CD
2 43 (34.68%) Agile
3 40 (32.26%) DevOps
4 26 (20.97%) Containerisation
4 26 (20.97%) Software Engineering
5 24 (19.35%) AI
6 23 (18.55%) Data Modelling
6 23 (18.55%) Data Pipeline
7 21 (16.94%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (16.13%) Analytics
9 17 (13.71%) ETL
9 17 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (13.71%) Scrum
10 16 (12.90%) Machine Learning
10 16 (12.90%) Observability
11 15 (12.10%) Data Architecture
11 15 (12.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 15 (12.10%) Test Automation
12 14 (11.29%) Computer Science
13 13 (10.48%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 43 (34.68%) Python
2 39 (31.45%) SQL
3 35 (28.23%) Java
4 22 (17.74%) JavaScript
5 17 (13.71%) TypeScript
6 11 (8.87%) Bash
7 8 (6.45%) PL/SQL
7 8 (6.45%) Rust
8 7 (5.65%) Go
8 7 (5.65%) Kotlin
8 7 (5.65%) PowerShell
8 7 (5.65%) Shell Script
9 5 (4.03%) Scala
10 4 (3.23%) Ruby
11 3 (2.42%) C#
12 2 (1.61%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.81%) PHP
13 1 (0.81%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (48.39%) Security Cleared
2 50 (40.32%) SC Cleared
3 19 (15.32%) DV Cleared
4 16 (12.90%) Degree
5 8 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (5.65%) AWS Certification
7 6 (4.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.42%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.81%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.26%) QA
2 8 (6.45%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.42%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.42%) EMIR
3 3 (2.42%) MiFID
4 2 (1.61%) GDPR
4 2 (1.61%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.61%) SLA
5 1 (0.81%) FedRAMP
5 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.81%) ITGC
5 1 (0.81%) NIST
System Software
1 41 (33.06%) Docker
2 8 (6.45%) VMware ESXi
2 8 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.03%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.23%) BitLocker
4 4 (3.23%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.23%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (2.42%) HDFS
5 3 (2.42%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (2.42%) Terminal Services
6 2 (1.61%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.81%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 42 (33.87%) Kubernetes
2 24 (19.35%) Prometheus
3 23 (18.55%) Ansible
4 20 (16.13%) Grafana
5 16 (12.90%) Kibana
6 11 (8.87%) Puppet
7 9 (7.26%) logstash
8 4 (3.23%) Nagios
8 4 (3.23%) Podman
8 4 (3.23%) vCenter Server
8 4 (3.23%) vMotion
9 3 (2.42%) Consul
9 3 (2.42%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (1.61%) Argo
10 2 (1.61%) Istio
10 2 (1.61%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (1.61%) systemd
11 1 (0.81%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 24 (19.35%) Oracle
2 13 (10.48%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.45%) VMware
4 7 (5.65%) IBM
5 4 (3.23%) Citrix
5 4 (3.23%) Cloudera
5 4 (3.23%) Google
5 4 (3.23%) NVIDIA
5 4 (3.23%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.23%) Tenable
6 3 (2.42%) Databricks
6 3 (2.42%) HP
6 3 (2.42%) OpenAI
6 3 (2.42%) Symantec
7 2 (1.61%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.61%) Confluent
7 2 (1.61%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.61%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.61%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.61%) WSO2