Elasticsearch Contract Job Trends in England

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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 457 346 360
Rank change year-on-year -111 +14 +90
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 131 132 193
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.54% 0.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.16% 2.87% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 90 160
10th Percentile £425 £393 £418
25th Percentile £479 £528 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £656
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -8.57% +14.13%
75th Percentile £588 £684 £825
90th Percentile £675 £1,075 -
UK median daily rate £544 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -9.38% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
Median hourly rate £79.00 £61.60 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.25% -1.44% -
UK median hourly rate £79.00 £61.60 £62.50
% change year-on-year +28.25% -1.44% -

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 6,056 4,601 6,161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.92% 18.95% 16.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,222 3,249 4,421
10th Percentile £350 £356 £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 £663 £665
90th Percentile £700 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 90 146
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.69 £14.00
25th Percentile £29.83 £24.25 £20.78
Median hourly rate £51.00 £32.96 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.73% -17.60% -33.33%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.88 £53.44
90th Percentile £85.05 £70.63 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £51.75 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +63.56% -20.90% -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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch in England over the 6 months to 31 March 2026.

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 31 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 -70 56 £550 -9.47% 47
West Midlands -27 39 £550 -4.35% 3
Midlands -40 39 £550 +2.42% 7
South West -27 14 £550 -8.33% 13
North of England -65 14 £500 -3.19% 12
North West -29 13 £500 +27.23% 10
South East -58 6 £399 -24.55% 20
East of England -41 1 - - 4
Yorkshire - 1 - - 2
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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 14 (10.69%) Confluence
1 14 (10.69%) nginx
2 12 (9.16%) Apache Spark
3 7 (5.34%) Apache
4 6 (4.58%) OpenStack
5 5 (3.82%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (3.05%) Tomcat
7 3 (2.29%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Magento
1 1 (0.76%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 44 (33.59%) AWS
2 25 (19.08%) Azure
3 23 (17.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 18 (13.74%) Serverless
5 14 (10.69%) GitHub
6 12 (9.16%) Amazon S3
7 11 (8.40%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (8.40%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (7.63%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (6.87%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (6.87%) GCP
9 9 (6.87%) Route 53
9 9 (6.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (5.34%) PaaS
11 6 (4.58%) IaaS
12 4 (3.05%) OpenShift
13 3 (2.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (2.29%) Kong
14 2 (1.53%) Azure Functions
14 2 (1.53%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 17 (12.98%) DNS
2 16 (12.21%) Firewall
2 16 (12.21%) VPN
3 12 (9.16%) TCP/IP
4 9 (6.87%) OpenVPN
5 8 (6.11%) HTTP
6 6 (4.58%) DHCP
6 6 (4.58%) SMTP
7 2 (1.53%) Multicast
7 2 (1.53%) NaaS
7 2 (1.53%) NAS
7 2 (1.53%) SAN
7 2 (1.53%) WAN
8 1 (0.76%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (25.95%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (10.69%) Hadoop
3 10 (7.63%) Big Data
4 5 (3.82%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.05%) MySQL
5 4 (3.05%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.05%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.53%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.53%) Flink
6 2 (1.53%) InfluxDB
6 2 (1.53%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.53%) Redis
6 2 (1.53%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.53%) TimescaleDB
7 1 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.76%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.76%) Power BI
7 1 (0.76%) Tableau
7 1 (0.76%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 16 (12.21%) JIRA
2 10 (7.63%) Git
3 8 (6.11%) GitLab
4 7 (5.34%) Bitbucket
4 7 (5.34%) SonarQube
5 6 (4.58%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.29%) Gatling
6 3 (2.29%) JMeter
6 3 (2.29%) JUnit
6 3 (2.29%) LoadRunner
7 2 (1.53%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.53%) Postman
7 2 (1.53%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.76%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.76%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.76%) git-flow
8 1 (0.76%) Maven
8 1 (0.76%) Travis CI
General
1 31 (23.66%) Social Skills
2 13 (9.92%) Public Sector
3 12 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.87%) Finance
5 8 (6.11%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.53%) Back Office
7 2 (1.53%) Banking
7 2 (1.53%) Billing
7 2 (1.53%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.76%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.76%) Front Office
8 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (20.61%) Developer
2 18 (13.74%) Senior
3 17 (12.98%) Data Engineer
4 14 (10.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 13 (9.92%) Architect
5 13 (9.92%) Full-Stack Developer
5 13 (9.92%) Splunk Engineer
6 12 (9.16%) Senior Data Engineer
7 11 (8.40%) SIEM Engineer
7 11 (8.40%) Site Engineer
8 10 (7.63%) Applications Engineer
8 10 (7.63%) Software Engineer
9 7 (5.34%) Lead
10 6 (4.58%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) NetApp Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) Storage Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) Technical Architect
11 5 (3.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (3.82%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (36.64%) Kafka
2 35 (26.72%) Elastic Stack
3 26 (19.85%) Spring
4 22 (16.79%) Node.js
5 19 (14.50%) WireMock
6 18 (13.74%) REST
7 15 (11.45%) Spring Boot
8 12 (9.16%) React
9 11 (8.40%) Apache NiFi
9 11 (8.40%) Keycloak
10 10 (7.63%) LDAP
10 10 (7.63%) OpenID
11 8 (6.11%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (3.82%) AngularJS
13 4 (3.05%) JSON
13 4 (3.05%) Playwright
13 4 (3.05%) Swagger
14 3 (2.29%) GraphQL
14 3 (2.29%) Middleware
14 3 (2.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.63%) Distributed Systems
1 10 (7.63%) Management Information System
2 9 (6.87%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.87%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (6.11%) Enterprise Storage
4 7 (5.34%) PKI
5 6 (4.58%) Clustering
6 4 (3.05%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (3.05%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.29%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.29%) Replication
8 2 (1.53%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.53%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.53%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.76%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.76%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 31 (23.66%) Linux
2 11 (8.40%) Windows
3 10 (7.63%) Unix
4 9 (6.87%) Windows Server
5 6 (4.58%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (3.05%) Solaris
6 4 (3.05%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (2.29%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (2.29%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.53%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (51.91%) DevOps
2 32 (24.43%) Containerisation
3 30 (22.90%) CI/CD
4 27 (20.61%) Agile
4 27 (20.61%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (19.08%) Performance Tuning
6 22 (16.79%) Incident Response
6 22 (16.79%) Observability
7 21 (16.03%) Data Ingestion
8 18 (13.74%) Data Engineering
8 18 (13.74%) Data Modelling
8 18 (13.74%) ETL
8 18 (13.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 17 (12.98%) Full-Stack Development
9 17 (12.98%) SIEM
10 16 (12.21%) Computer Science
10 16 (12.21%) Data Pipeline
10 16 (12.21%) Software Engineering
11 15 (11.45%) Migration
11 15 (11.45%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 46 (35.11%) Python
2 44 (33.59%) Java
3 18 (13.74%) JavaScript
4 15 (11.45%) TypeScript
5 14 (10.69%) Bash
5 14 (10.69%) SQL
6 13 (9.92%) Go
7 9 (6.87%) PowerShell
8 7 (5.34%) Rust
9 4 (3.05%) C#
9 4 (3.05%) PL/SQL
9 4 (3.05%) Scala
10 2 (1.53%) C++
10 2 (1.53%) Groovy
11 1 (0.76%) Gremlin
11 1 (0.76%) PHP
11 1 (0.76%) R
11 1 (0.76%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 70 (53.44%) Security Cleared
2 54 (41.22%) SC Cleared
3 25 (19.08%) DV Cleared
4 17 (12.98%) Degree
5 16 (12.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (8.40%) Azure Certification
7 7 (5.34%) AWS Certification
7 7 (5.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.53%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.05%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.53%) QA
3 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.76%) NIST
3 1 (0.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 49 (37.40%) Docker
2 10 (7.63%) VMware ESXi
2 10 (7.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (6.87%) Squid
4 7 (5.34%) Active Directory
5 6 (4.58%) BitLocker
5 6 (4.58%) Hyper-V
5 6 (4.58%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (3.05%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.76%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 65 (49.62%) Kubernetes
2 36 (27.48%) Kibana
3 29 (22.14%) Ansible
4 26 (19.85%) Terraform
5 25 (19.08%) Grafana
6 22 (16.79%) Prometheus
7 21 (16.03%) logstash
8 17 (12.98%) Puppet
9 9 (6.87%) FortiGate
9 9 (6.87%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (5.34%) Consul
11 6 (4.58%) vCenter Server
11 6 (4.58%) vMotion
12 4 (3.05%) Oracle RMAN
13 3 (2.29%) Argo
14 2 (1.53%) Amdocs OSS
14 2 (1.53%) Nagios
14 2 (1.53%) Red Hat Satellite
15 1 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
15 1 (0.76%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (13.74%) Dynatrace
2 16 (12.21%) Splunk
3 15 (11.45%) Red Hat
4 10 (7.63%) VMware
5 8 (6.11%) Microsoft
6 7 (5.34%) Atlassian
7 6 (4.58%) Citrix
7 6 (4.58%) NetApp
8 5 (3.82%) Cloudera
8 5 (3.82%) Foundry
8 5 (3.82%) Oracle
8 5 (3.82%) Palantir
9 4 (3.05%) AppDynamics
9 4 (3.05%) IBM
10 3 (2.29%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.53%) Amdocs
11 2 (1.53%) Ciena
11 2 (1.53%) Dell
11 2 (1.53%) F5
11 2 (1.53%) ServiceNow