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 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 347 371
Rank change year-on-year -68 +24 +59
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 146 138 175
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.41% 0.54% 0.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.55% 2.87% 2.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 87 144
10th Percentile £415 £398 £433
25th Percentile £475 £553 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £601 £681
Median % change year-on-year -11.53% -11.85% +13.54%
75th Percentile £600 £716 £825
90th Percentile £706 £1,075 -
UK median daily rate £538 £600 £645
% change year-on-year -10.42% -6.98% +12.17%
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 5,715 4,815 6,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.14% 18.86% 16.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,985 3,295 4,360
10th Percentile £343 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £530
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +1.42% -3.64%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £662
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 111 87 154
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.68
25th Percentile £26.88 £24.88 £21.64
Median hourly rate £52.50 £38.50 £42.35
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -9.08% -24.29%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £61.69
90th Percentile £86.00 £71.50 £77.21
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +50.00% -17.65% -22.73%

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 1 March 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
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 1 March 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 -47 61 £550 -10.20% 37
West Midlands -11 48 £550 +52.78% 7
Midlands -15 48 £550 +52.78% 16
South West -26 17 £550 -24.14% 26
North of England -58 14 £500 -9.09% 18
North West -35 13 £500 -9.09% 10
South East -33 7 £485 -0.46% 34
East of England -35 1 - - 15
Yorkshire -65 1 - - 6
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 15 (10.27%) Confluence
2 11 (7.53%) Apache Spark
2 11 (7.53%) nginx
3 7 (4.79%) Apache
4 6 (4.11%) OpenStack
4 6 (4.11%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (1.37%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.37%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.68%) Camunda
6 1 (0.68%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Magento
1 1 (0.68%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 48 (32.88%) AWS
2 33 (22.60%) Azure
3 22 (15.07%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 17 (11.64%) GitHub
4 17 (11.64%) Serverless
5 16 (10.96%) GCP
6 12 (8.22%) Amazon S3
6 12 (8.22%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (6.85%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (6.85%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (6.16%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (6.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 8 (5.48%) Route 53
10 6 (4.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (4.11%) IaaS
10 6 (4.11%) PaaS
11 5 (3.42%) OpenShift
12 4 (2.74%) Azure AKS
12 4 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (2.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.59%) DNS
2 13 (8.90%) Firewall
2 13 (8.90%) VPN
3 12 (8.22%) TCP/IP
4 8 (5.48%) OpenVPN
5 5 (3.42%) HTTP
6 4 (2.74%) DHCP
6 4 (2.74%) SMTP
7 2 (1.37%) Multicast
7 2 (1.37%) NAS
7 2 (1.37%) SAN
8 1 (0.68%) DSL
8 1 (0.68%) NaaS
8 1 (0.68%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (23.29%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (11.64%) Hadoop
3 13 (8.90%) Big Data
4 6 (4.11%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.42%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.74%) MySQL
6 4 (2.74%) Redis
7 3 (2.05%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.37%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.37%) Power BI
8 2 (1.37%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.37%) Tableau
8 2 (1.37%) Weaviate
9 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.68%) Impala
9 1 (0.68%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.68%) MemSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (11.64%) JIRA
2 9 (6.16%) Git
3 8 (5.48%) GitLab
4 7 (4.79%) Bitbucket
4 7 (4.79%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.79%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.37%) Gatling
5 2 (1.37%) JMeter
5 2 (1.37%) LoadRunner
5 2 (1.37%) Postman
6 1 (0.68%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.68%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.68%) git-flow
6 1 (0.68%) JUnit
6 1 (0.68%) Maven
6 1 (0.68%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.68%) Travis CI
General
1 46 (31.51%) Social Skills
2 17 (11.64%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (10.27%) Finance
4 12 (8.22%) Public Sector
5 11 (7.53%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.05%) Banking
6 3 (2.05%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.37%) Law
8 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.68%) Billing
8 1 (0.68%) Front Office
8 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.68%) Retail
8 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (19.86%) Developer
2 20 (13.70%) Data Engineer
3 19 (13.01%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 18 (12.33%) Senior
4 18 (12.33%) Splunk Engineer
5 16 (10.96%) Full-Stack Developer
6 14 (9.59%) Site Engineer
7 13 (8.90%) Senior Data Engineer
8 11 (7.53%) Architect
8 11 (7.53%) SIEM Engineer
9 10 (6.85%) Applications Engineer
9 10 (6.85%) Software Engineer
10 7 (4.79%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (4.79%) Lead
11 6 (4.11%) Technical Architect
12 5 (3.42%) Backend Developer
12 5 (3.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 4 (2.74%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 4 (2.74%) AWS Architect
13 4 (2.74%) NetApp Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (34.93%) Kafka
2 48 (32.88%) Elastic Stack
3 28 (19.18%) Node.js
4 26 (17.81%) Spring
5 18 (12.33%) React
5 18 (12.33%) WireMock
6 16 (10.96%) REST
7 15 (10.27%) Spring Boot
8 13 (8.90%) Apache NiFi
9 12 (8.22%) Keycloak
10 9 (6.16%) LDAP
10 9 (6.16%) OpenID
11 8 (5.48%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (4.79%) AngularJS
13 5 (3.42%) JSON
14 4 (2.74%) CSS
14 4 (2.74%) HTML
14 4 (2.74%) Middleware
14 4 (2.74%) Ultra Messaging
14 4 (2.74%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.90%) Cloud Native
1 13 (8.90%) Management Information System
2 11 (7.53%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (6.16%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.11%) Enterprise Storage
5 5 (3.42%) PKI
6 4 (2.74%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.74%) Clustering
6 4 (2.74%) Replication
6 4 (2.74%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.05%) Hedge funds
7 3 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.05%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.37%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.37%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.37%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.37%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.37%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 41 (28.08%) Linux
2 16 (10.96%) Unix
3 7 (4.79%) Windows
4 6 (4.11%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.74%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (2.05%) CentOS
6 3 (2.05%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.37%) Solaris
7 2 (1.37%) VMS
7 2 (1.37%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (1.37%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (51.37%) DevOps
2 39 (26.71%) Containerisation
3 35 (23.97%) CI/CD
4 34 (23.29%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (20.55%) Observability
6 28 (19.18%) Agile
6 28 (19.18%) Performance Tuning
7 26 (17.81%) Data Ingestion
8 25 (17.12%) Incident Response
9 24 (16.44%) Data Modelling
10 23 (15.75%) Full-Stack Development
10 23 (15.75%) Migration
11 22 (15.07%) Data Engineering
11 22 (15.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 20 (13.70%) Data Pipeline
13 19 (13.01%) Computer Science
13 19 (13.01%) Software Engineering
14 18 (12.33%) ETL
15 17 (11.64%) Machine Learning
15 17 (11.64%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 63 (43.15%) Python
2 43 (29.45%) Java
3 22 (15.07%) Bash
4 20 (13.70%) JavaScript
5 18 (12.33%) TypeScript
6 14 (9.59%) Go
7 12 (8.22%) SQL
8 10 (6.85%) PowerShell
9 7 (4.79%) Rust
10 6 (4.11%) Bicep
11 4 (2.74%) Perl
11 4 (2.74%) Scala
12 3 (2.05%) C
12 3 (2.05%) C#
13 2 (1.37%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.37%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.68%) C++
14 1 (0.68%) Gremlin
14 1 (0.68%) PHP
14 1 (0.68%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 68 (46.58%) Security Cleared
2 53 (36.30%) SC Cleared
3 24 (16.44%) DV Cleared
4 20 (13.70%) Degree
5 19 (13.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (8.22%) Azure Certification
7 8 (5.48%) AWS Certification
8 7 (4.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.74%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.37%) QA
3 1 (0.68%) GDPR
3 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.68%) NIST
3 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 55 (37.67%) Docker
2 10 (6.85%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.48%) Squid
4 6 (4.11%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (4.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (2.74%) BitLocker
5 4 (2.74%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.74%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (1.37%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.68%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 80 (54.79%) Kubernetes
2 50 (34.25%) Kibana
3 35 (23.97%) Ansible
4 31 (21.23%) Terraform
5 30 (20.55%) logstash
6 22 (15.07%) Grafana
7 20 (13.70%) Prometheus
8 19 (13.01%) Puppet
9 10 (6.85%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (5.48%) FortiGate
11 7 (4.79%) Consul
12 4 (2.74%) ITRS Geneos
12 4 (2.74%) vCenter Server
12 4 (2.74%) vMotion
13 3 (2.05%) Argo
14 2 (1.37%) Nagios
14 2 (1.37%) Oracle RMAN
14 2 (1.37%) Progress Chef
14 2 (1.37%) Red Hat Satellite
15 1 (0.68%) WSUS
Vendors
1 24 (16.44%) Splunk
2 15 (10.27%) Red Hat
3 14 (9.59%) Dynatrace
4 9 (6.16%) Microsoft
5 7 (4.79%) Atlassian
6 6 (4.11%) Cloudera
6 6 (4.11%) Foundry
6 6 (4.11%) Oracle
6 6 (4.11%) Palantir
6 6 (4.11%) VMware
7 4 (2.74%) Citrix
7 4 (2.74%) NetApp
7 4 (2.74%) Solace
7 4 (2.74%) TIBCO
8 3 (2.05%) AppDynamics
8 3 (2.05%) Google
9 2 (1.37%) Dell
9 2 (1.37%) F5
9 2 (1.37%) IBM
9 2 (1.37%) Salesforce