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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 451 355 365
Rank change year-on-year -96 +10 +71
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 136 117 185
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.48% 0.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.18% 2.49% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 82 155
10th Percentile £425 £404 £416
25th Percentile £475 £520 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £645
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -6.98% +17.27%
75th Percentile £575 £661 £825
90th Percentile £660 £713 -
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £35.75 £43.20 -
25th Percentile £43.63 £49.11 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £61.60 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.03% - -
75th Percentile £69.63 £71.46 -
90th Percentile £75.25 £75.81 -
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £61.60 -
% change year-on-year -5.03% - -

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 6,232 4,695 6,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.72% 19.14% 16.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,311 3,294 4,394
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £656 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 94 133
10th Percentile £16.85 £19.73 £14.00
25th Percentile £28.67 £23.69 £20.98
Median hourly rate £50.50 £32.96 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.22% -17.60% -33.33%
75th Percentile £74.37 £65.46 £54.13
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £34.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +47.83% -13.75% -34.69%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -38 63 £538 -11.89% 44
West Midlands -33 35 £550 -4.35% 4
Midlands -43 35 £550 +1.20% 7
North of England -63 14 £500 +27.23% 10
North West -37 13 £500 +27.23% 8
South West -34 12 £550 -8.33% 15
South East -62 6 £399 -30.65% 16
Yorkshire - 1 - - 2
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 18 (13.24%) nginx
2 14 (10.29%) Apache Spark
3 11 (8.09%) Confluence
4 8 (5.88%) Apache
5 6 (4.41%) OpenStack
6 5 (3.68%) Tomcat
7 3 (2.21%) WebLogic
8 2 (1.47%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.74%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Maya
Business Applications
1 2 (1.47%) Magento
2 1 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.74%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 48 (35.29%) AWS
2 25 (18.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 22 (16.18%) Azure
4 17 (12.50%) Serverless
5 12 (8.82%) Amazon S3
5 12 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (7.35%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (7.35%) GitHub
7 9 (6.62%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (6.62%) GCP
7 9 (6.62%) Route 53
7 9 (6.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 8 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (5.88%) PaaS
9 7 (5.15%) IaaS
10 4 (2.94%) OpenShift
11 3 (2.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (2.21%) Kong
12 2 (1.47%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (1.47%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 18 (13.24%) DNS
2 17 (12.50%) Firewall
2 17 (12.50%) VPN
3 12 (8.82%) TCP/IP
4 9 (6.62%) HTTP
4 9 (6.62%) OpenVPN
5 7 (5.15%) DHCP
5 7 (5.15%) SMTP
6 2 (1.47%) Multicast
6 2 (1.47%) NaaS
6 2 (1.47%) NAS
6 2 (1.47%) SAN
6 2 (1.47%) WAN
7 1 (0.74%) DSL
7 1 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (24.26%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (8.09%) Hadoop
3 7 (5.15%) Big Data
4 6 (4.41%) MongoDB
4 6 (4.41%) MySQL
5 4 (2.94%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.94%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.21%) Redis
7 2 (1.47%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.47%) Flink
7 2 (1.47%) InfluxDB
7 2 (1.47%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.47%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.47%) TimescaleDB
8 1 (0.74%) Power BI
8 1 (0.74%) SQLite
8 1 (0.74%) Tableau
8 1 (0.74%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 13 (9.56%) JIRA
2 10 (7.35%) Git
3 9 (6.62%) GitLab
4 7 (5.15%) Bitbucket
4 7 (5.15%) SonarQube
5 5 (3.68%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.21%) Gatling
6 3 (2.21%) JMeter
6 3 (2.21%) JUnit
6 3 (2.21%) LoadRunner
7 2 (1.47%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.47%) Postman
7 2 (1.47%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.74%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.74%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.74%) git-flow
8 1 (0.74%) Maven
8 1 (0.74%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.74%) Travis CI
General
1 28 (20.59%) Social Skills
2 13 (9.56%) Public Sector
3 10 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (5.88%) Finance
5 3 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.47%) Back Office
6 2 (1.47%) Banking
6 2 (1.47%) Billing
6 2 (1.47%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.74%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.74%) Front Office
7 1 (0.74%) Marketing
7 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (22.79%) Developer
2 17 (12.50%) Senior
3 14 (10.29%) Architect
3 14 (10.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 12 (8.82%) Data Engineer
4 12 (8.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 11 (8.09%) SIEM Engineer
6 10 (7.35%) Site Engineer
6 10 (7.35%) Software Engineer
6 10 (7.35%) Splunk Engineer
7 9 (6.62%) Applications Engineer
7 9 (6.62%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (6.62%) Senior Data Engineer
8 8 (5.88%) Lead
9 7 (5.15%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 7 (5.15%) NetApp Engineer
9 7 (5.15%) Storage Engineer
9 7 (5.15%) Technical Architect
10 6 (4.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (4.41%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (35.29%) Kafka
2 35 (25.74%) Elastic Stack
3 27 (19.85%) Spring
4 23 (16.91%) Node.js
5 20 (14.71%) REST
6 19 (13.97%) WireMock
7 16 (11.76%) React
7 16 (11.76%) Spring Boot
8 10 (7.35%) LDAP
8 10 (7.35%) OpenID
9 8 (5.88%) Apache NiFi
9 8 (5.88%) Keycloak
10 6 (4.41%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (3.68%) AngularJS
11 5 (3.68%) JSON
11 5 (3.68%) Middleware
12 4 (2.94%) GraphQL
12 4 (2.94%) Playwright
12 4 (2.94%) Swagger
13 3 (2.21%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.09%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (7.35%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.62%) Enterprise Storage
4 8 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 8 (5.88%) PKI
5 7 (5.15%) Clustering
6 6 (4.41%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (3.68%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (2.94%) Security Posture
9 3 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (2.21%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.47%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.47%) Replication
11 1 (0.74%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.74%) CMDB
11 1 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.74%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 33 (24.26%) Linux
2 13 (9.56%) Windows
3 11 (8.09%) Windows Server
4 8 (5.88%) Unix
5 7 (5.15%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (3.68%) Solaris
6 5 (3.68%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (2.94%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (2.21%) VMS
9 2 (1.47%) Debian
9 2 (1.47%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (49.26%) DevOps
2 31 (22.79%) CI/CD
3 30 (22.06%) Containerisation
4 28 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (19.85%) Agile
6 26 (19.12%) Performance Tuning
7 21 (15.44%) Full-Stack Development
7 21 (15.44%) Observability
8 20 (14.71%) Incident Response
9 19 (13.97%) Data Ingestion
10 18 (13.24%) Data Engineering
10 18 (13.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 17 (12.50%) Data Modelling
11 17 (12.50%) SIEM
12 15 (11.03%) Data Pipeline
13 14 (10.29%) Computer Science
13 14 (10.29%) Decision-Making
13 14 (10.29%) Roadmaps
13 14 (10.29%) Software Engineering
13 14 (10.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 51 (37.50%) Java
2 45 (33.09%) Python
3 21 (15.44%) JavaScript
4 17 (12.50%) SQL
5 16 (11.76%) TypeScript
6 13 (9.56%) Bash
7 12 (8.82%) Go
8 9 (6.62%) PowerShell
9 7 (5.15%) Rust
10 5 (3.68%) Scala
11 4 (2.94%) C#
11 4 (2.94%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.47%) C++
12 2 (1.47%) Groovy
12 2 (1.47%) PHP
12 2 (1.47%) Ruby
13 1 (0.74%) Gremlin
13 1 (0.74%) R
13 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.74%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 71 (52.21%) Security Cleared
2 54 (39.71%) SC Cleared
3 23 (16.91%) DV Cleared
4 15 (11.03%) Degree
5 14 (10.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (5.88%) Azure Certification
7 7 (5.15%) AWS Certification
7 7 (5.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.68%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.94%) QA
3 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.74%) NIST
3 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 48 (35.29%) Docker
2 12 (8.82%) VMware ESXi
2 12 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (6.62%) Squid
4 8 (5.88%) Active Directory
5 7 (5.15%) BitLocker
5 7 (5.15%) Hyper-V
5 7 (5.15%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (2.94%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (1.47%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 62 (45.59%) Kubernetes
2 36 (26.47%) Kibana
3 31 (22.79%) Ansible
4 28 (20.59%) Grafana
4 28 (20.59%) Terraform
5 25 (18.38%) Prometheus
6 23 (16.91%) logstash
7 16 (11.76%) Puppet
8 9 (6.62%) FortiGate
8 9 (6.62%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (5.88%) Consul
10 7 (5.15%) vCenter Server
10 7 (5.15%) vMotion
11 4 (2.94%) Argo
11 4 (2.94%) Oracle RMAN
12 3 (2.21%) Nagios
13 2 (1.47%) Amdocs OSS
13 2 (1.47%) Red Hat Satellite
14 1 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
14 1 (0.74%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 18 (13.24%) Dynatrace
2 16 (11.76%) Red Hat
3 13 (9.56%) Splunk
4 12 (8.82%) VMware
5 9 (6.62%) Microsoft
6 7 (5.15%) Atlassian
6 7 (5.15%) Citrix
6 7 (5.15%) NetApp
7 6 (4.41%) Oracle
8 5 (3.68%) IBM
9 4 (2.94%) AppDynamics
10 3 (2.21%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.47%) Adobe
11 2 (1.47%) Amdocs
11 2 (1.47%) Ciena
11 2 (1.47%) Cloudera
11 2 (1.47%) Dell
11 2 (1.47%) F5
11 2 (1.47%) Foundry
11 2 (1.47%) Palantir