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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 434 334 387
Rank change year-on-year -100 +53 +37
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 104 171 195
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.56% 0.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.93% 3.08% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 99 156
10th Percentile £354 £410 £438
25th Percentile £458 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £608 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% -2.80% +4.17%
75th Percentile £623 £675 £825
90th Percentile £695 £1,075 -
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £66.50
25th Percentile £53.00 - £72.50
Median hourly rate £56.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile £59.00 - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £56.00 - £75.00

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 5,388 5,556 6,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.29% 18.10% 16.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,757 3,716 4,546
10th Percentile £325 £350 £356
25th Percentile £410 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £623 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £534
% change year-on-year -5.66% -0.75% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 78 130
10th Percentile £21.21 £18.35 £18.38
25th Percentile £29.25 £24.31 £22.69
Median hourly rate £46.50 £38.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +22.37% -17.71% -9.45%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.55 £64.52
90th Percentile £84.30 £66.00 £77.55
UK median hourly rate £47.61 £31.55 £46.18
% change year-on-year +50.93% -31.69% -7.64%

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

Elasticsearch
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch in England over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Elasticsearch in England

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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 5 December 2025. 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 -36 51 £550 -9.24% 29
West Midlands -1 38 £550 -13.39% 12
Midlands -4 38 £550 -13.39% 17
South West -15 17 £550 -18.52% 11
North West -25 3 £373 -28.57% 13
North of England -52 3 £373 -32.27% 17
South East -14 2 £450 -8.72% 19
East of England -25 2 £575 +91.67% 5
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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 14 (13.46%) Confluence
2 10 (9.62%) Apache
3 5 (4.81%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.88%) JBoss
5 1 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.96%) Camunda
5 1 (0.96%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.96%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Magento
1 1 (0.96%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 34 (32.69%) Azure
2 21 (20.19%) AWS
3 18 (17.31%) GitHub
4 15 (14.42%) GCP
5 12 (11.54%) Serverless
6 11 (10.58%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (7.69%) Azure AKS
7 8 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 8 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (6.73%) Entra ID
9 5 (4.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (4.81%) OpenShift
10 4 (3.85%) Amazon S3
11 3 (2.88%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (1.92%) Datadog
12 2 (1.92%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.92%) HTTP
1 2 (1.92%) SSH
2 1 (0.96%) DSL
2 1 (0.96%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.96%) Firewall
2 1 (0.96%) SMTP
2 1 (0.96%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (20.19%) Big Data
1 21 (20.19%) Hadoop
2 17 (16.35%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.81%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.81%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.85%) RDBMS
4 4 (3.85%) Redis
5 3 (2.88%) Apache Hive
5 3 (2.88%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.88%) Impala
5 3 (2.88%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.88%) MySQL
5 3 (2.88%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.92%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.96%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.96%) MemSQL
7 1 (0.96%) Power BI
7 1 (0.96%) Sybase IQ
7 1 (0.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (17.31%) Jenkins
2 17 (16.35%) JIRA
3 10 (9.62%) Git
4 6 (5.77%) TeamCity
5 5 (4.81%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.88%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (2.88%) CA Release Automation
6 3 (2.88%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.92%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.92%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.92%) GitLab
7 2 (1.92%) Maven
7 2 (1.92%) Postman
8 1 (0.96%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.96%) git-flow
8 1 (0.96%) Gradle
8 1 (0.96%) Moq
8 1 (0.96%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.96%) SoapUI
General
1 36 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.27%) Finance
3 15 (14.42%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.81%) Banking
4 5 (4.81%) Investment Banking
5 4 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.85%) Law
6 3 (2.88%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.88%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.96%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (21.15%) Data Engineer
2 15 (14.42%) Senior
2 15 (14.42%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 13 (12.50%) Splunk Engineer
4 11 (10.58%) Senior Data Engineer
5 10 (9.62%) Developer
5 10 (9.62%) Site Engineer
6 9 (8.65%) Applications Engineer
6 9 (8.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 8 (7.69%) Software Engineer
8 7 (6.73%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 7 (6.73%) SIEM Engineer
9 6 (5.77%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (5.77%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (4.81%) Python Engineer
10 5 (4.81%) Security Engineer
11 3 (2.88%) Elasticsearch Engineer
11 3 (2.88%) Kubernetes Specialist
11 3 (2.88%) Migration Specialist
11 3 (2.88%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (47.12%) Elastic Stack
2 36 (34.62%) Kafka
3 15 (14.42%) Apache NiFi
3 15 (14.42%) React
4 13 (12.50%) Node.js
5 12 (11.54%) RabbitMQ
6 11 (10.58%) Keycloak
7 10 (9.62%) REST
8 9 (8.65%) FIX Protocol
9 8 (7.69%) JSON
9 8 (7.69%) Next.js
10 7 (6.73%) Express.js
10 7 (6.73%) Spring Boot
10 7 (6.73%) XML
11 6 (5.77%) HTML
11 6 (5.77%) Ultra Messaging
12 5 (4.81%) AngularJS
12 5 (4.81%) CSS
12 5 (4.81%) PySpark
13 4 (3.85%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.35%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.58%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (9.62%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (8.65%) Management Information System
5 6 (5.77%) Algorithms
5 6 (5.77%) Fixed Income
5 6 (5.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.85%) Replication
7 3 (2.88%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.92%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.92%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.96%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.96%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.96%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.96%) IoT
9 1 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.96%) MISP
9 1 (0.96%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.96%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 35 (33.65%) Linux
2 11 (10.58%) Unix
3 5 (4.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (4.81%) Windows
4 3 (2.88%) CentOS
4 3 (2.88%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.92%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.96%) Debian
6 1 (0.96%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (47.12%) DevOps
2 35 (33.65%) Containerisation
2 35 (33.65%) Observability
3 30 (28.85%) CI/CD
4 29 (27.88%) Agile
5 25 (24.04%) Data Pipeline
6 24 (23.08%) Software Engineering
7 23 (22.12%) Migration
8 20 (19.23%) Data Ingestion
8 20 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (18.27%) Microservices
10 18 (17.31%) Data Engineering
11 16 (15.38%) ETL
11 16 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 15 (14.42%) Full-Stack Development
12 15 (14.42%) Machine Learning
12 15 (14.42%) Scrum
13 14 (13.46%) Incident Response
13 14 (13.46%) Infrastructure as Code
14 13 (12.50%) Batch Processing
Programming Languages
1 62 (59.62%) Python
2 20 (19.23%) Bash
3 14 (13.46%) Java
3 14 (13.46%) PowerShell
4 13 (12.50%) Go
4 13 (12.50%) SQL
5 10 (9.62%) Bicep
5 10 (9.62%) TypeScript
6 8 (7.69%) JavaScript
6 8 (7.69%) Perl
7 4 (3.85%) C#
8 3 (2.88%) C
9 2 (1.92%) Scala
9 2 (1.92%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.96%) PHP
10 1 (0.96%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.96%) Ruby
10 1 (0.96%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 37 (35.58%) SC Cleared
3 18 (17.31%) DV Cleared
4 11 (10.58%) Azure Certification
5 9 (8.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (8.65%) Degree
6 2 (1.92%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.96%) CEH
7 1 (0.96%) CISSP
7 1 (0.96%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.92%) NIST
2 1 (0.96%) GDPR
2 1 (0.96%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 50 (48.08%) Docker
2 10 (9.62%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.92%) HDFS
4 1 (0.96%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.96%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 58 (55.77%) Kubernetes
2 56 (53.85%) Kibana
3 36 (34.62%) logstash
4 22 (21.15%) Ansible
5 12 (11.54%) Terraform
6 10 (9.62%) ITRS Geneos
6 10 (9.62%) Puppet
7 7 (6.73%) Grafana
8 6 (5.77%) Progress Chef
9 4 (3.85%) Prometheus
10 3 (2.88%) Argo
11 2 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.96%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.96%) Graphite
12 1 (0.96%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.96%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 21 (20.19%) Splunk
2 15 (14.42%) Cloudera
3 13 (12.50%) Foundry
3 13 (12.50%) Palantir
4 12 (11.54%) Microsoft
5 10 (9.62%) Solace
6 6 (5.77%) Red Hat
6 6 (5.77%) TIBCO
7 5 (4.81%) Oracle
8 4 (3.85%) AppDynamics
9 3 (2.88%) Google
10 1 (0.96%) Adobe
10 1 (0.96%) Black Duck
10 1 (0.96%) Intel
10 1 (0.96%) PagerDuty
10 1 (0.96%) Qualys
10 1 (0.96%) SAP
10 1 (0.96%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.96%) Sybase
10 1 (0.96%) Veracode