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 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 350 374
Rank change year-on-year -67 +24 +42
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 139 136 187
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.41% 0.53% 0.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.54% 2.85% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 84 154
10th Percentile £422 £438 £454
25th Percentile £475 £560 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £608 £663
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% -8.30% +10.42%
75th Percentile £613 £713 £825
90th Percentile £709 £1,075 -
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £635
% change year-on-year -8.33% -5.44% +5.75%
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 5,467 4,779 6,180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.28% 18.49% 16.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,798 3,174 4,451
10th Percentile £333 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £650
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 104 80 163
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.65
25th Percentile £27.06 £25.26 £21.64
Median hourly rate £51.36 £41.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.27% -3.53% -25.26%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.00 £60.75
90th Percentile £85.70 £74.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £53.25 £38.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +38.31% -9.41% -25.26%

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 10 February 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

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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 10 February 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 -48 59 £550 -9.47% 45
West Midlands -2 53 £550 +52.78% 6
Midlands -12 53 £550 +64.79% 8
South West -12 20 £550 -35.29% 16
North of England -68 8 £500 -17.70% 19
North West -29 7 £500 -13.04% 15
South East -22 4 £488 +0.05% 21
East of England -23 1 - - 5
Yorkshire -56 1 - - 3
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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 15 (10.79%) Confluence
2 8 (5.76%) Apache
2 8 (5.76%) Palantir Foundry
3 7 (5.04%) Apache Spark
3 7 (5.04%) nginx
4 6 (4.32%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.72%) Camunda
5 1 (0.72%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Magento
1 1 (0.72%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 38 (27.34%) AWS
1 38 (27.34%) Azure
2 18 (12.95%) GCP
3 17 (12.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 17 (12.23%) GitHub
4 14 (10.07%) Serverless
5 12 (8.63%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (6.47%) Amazon S3
7 8 (5.76%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (5.04%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (5.04%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (5.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 7 (5.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (4.32%) Azure AKS
9 6 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (4.32%) IaaS
9 6 (4.32%) PaaS
9 6 (4.32%) Route 53
10 5 (3.60%) Entra ID
11 3 (2.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.63%) DNS
1 12 (8.63%) Firewall
2 11 (7.91%) VPN
3 10 (7.19%) TCP/IP
4 6 (4.32%) OpenVPN
5 4 (2.88%) DHCP
5 4 (2.88%) SMTP
6 2 (1.44%) Multicast
6 2 (1.44%) NAS
6 2 (1.44%) SAN
7 1 (0.72%) DSL
7 1 (0.72%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (21.58%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (11.51%) Hadoop
3 15 (10.79%) Big Data
4 5 (3.60%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.88%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.88%) Redis
6 3 (2.16%) MySQL
7 2 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.44%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.44%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.44%) Weaviate
8 1 (0.72%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.72%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.72%) DB2
8 1 (0.72%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.72%) Impala
8 1 (0.72%) MemSQL
8 1 (0.72%) Power BI
8 1 (0.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (12.23%) JIRA
2 9 (6.47%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.76%) Git
3 8 (5.76%) GitLab
4 5 (3.60%) Bitbucket
4 5 (3.60%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.72%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.72%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.72%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.72%) git-flow
5 1 (0.72%) JUnit
5 1 (0.72%) Maven
5 1 (0.72%) Postman
5 1 (0.72%) Travis CI
General
1 45 (32.37%) Social Skills
2 19 (13.67%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (12.23%) Finance
4 9 (6.47%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (5.04%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.88%) Law
7 3 (2.16%) Banking
7 3 (2.16%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.72%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.72%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (15.83%) Developer
2 21 (15.11%) Data Engineer
3 20 (14.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 19 (13.67%) Splunk Engineer
5 15 (10.79%) Full-Stack Developer
5 15 (10.79%) Senior
5 15 (10.79%) Site Engineer
6 14 (10.07%) SIEM Engineer
7 13 (9.35%) Senior Data Engineer
8 11 (7.91%) Applications Engineer
9 9 (6.47%) Software Engineer
10 8 (5.76%) Architect
11 7 (5.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 7 (5.04%) Lead
11 7 (5.04%) Security Engineer
12 6 (4.32%) DevOps Engineer
13 5 (3.60%) Technical Architect
14 4 (2.88%) AWS Architect
14 4 (2.88%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 4 (2.88%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (39.57%) Elastic Stack
2 47 (33.81%) Kafka
3 26 (18.71%) Node.js
4 20 (14.39%) Spring
5 19 (13.67%) React
6 15 (10.79%) WireMock
7 14 (10.07%) REST
8 12 (8.63%) Apache NiFi
8 12 (8.63%) Keycloak
9 11 (7.91%) Spring Boot
10 8 (5.76%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (5.04%) AngularJS
11 7 (5.04%) JSON
11 7 (5.04%) LDAP
11 7 (5.04%) OpenID
12 6 (4.32%) Ultra Messaging
12 6 (4.32%) XML
13 5 (3.60%) Express.js
13 5 (3.60%) FIX Protocol
13 5 (3.60%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.79%) Management Information System
2 14 (10.07%) Cloud Native
3 11 (7.91%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (5.76%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (5.04%) Algorithms
6 6 (4.32%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (4.32%) Replication
7 5 (3.60%) PKI
8 4 (2.88%) Clustering
8 4 (2.88%) Security Posture
9 3 (2.16%) Hedge funds
9 3 (2.16%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.44%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.44%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.44%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.44%) Fixed Income
10 2 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.44%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.72%) MISP
Operating Systems
1 42 (30.22%) Linux
2 17 (12.23%) Unix
3 5 (3.60%) Windows
4 4 (2.88%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.88%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (2.16%) CentOS
5 3 (2.16%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (50.36%) DevOps
2 39 (28.06%) Containerisation
3 34 (24.46%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (22.30%) CI/CD
4 31 (22.30%) Observability
5 30 (21.58%) Performance Tuning
6 29 (20.86%) Agile
6 29 (20.86%) Data Ingestion
7 28 (20.14%) Incident Response
8 24 (17.27%) Data Engineering
8 24 (17.27%) Data Modelling
8 24 (17.27%) Full-Stack Development
8 24 (17.27%) Migration
9 23 (16.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 22 (15.83%) Data Pipeline
11 20 (14.39%) Computer Science
12 19 (13.67%) SIEM
12 19 (13.67%) Software Engineering
13 18 (12.95%) Dashboard Development
13 18 (12.95%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 64 (46.04%) Python
2 33 (23.74%) Java
3 26 (18.71%) Bash
4 16 (11.51%) JavaScript
5 15 (10.79%) TypeScript
6 14 (10.07%) Go
7 13 (9.35%) PowerShell
8 10 (7.19%) SQL
9 8 (5.76%) Bicep
10 4 (2.88%) Perl
10 4 (2.88%) Rust
10 4 (2.88%) Scala
11 3 (2.16%) C
12 2 (1.44%) C#
12 2 (1.44%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.72%) PHP
Qualifications
1 61 (43.88%) Security Cleared
2 50 (35.97%) SC Cleared
3 23 (16.55%) DV Cleared
4 20 (14.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (14.39%) Degree
5 12 (8.63%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.60%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.44%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.72%) CEH
9 1 (0.72%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.16%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.44%) NIST
3 1 (0.72%) GDPR
3 1 (0.72%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.72%) QA
System Software
1 57 (41.01%) Docker
2 12 (8.63%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.32%) Squid
4 4 (2.88%) BitLocker
4 4 (2.88%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.88%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (2.88%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.72%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 79 (56.83%) Kubernetes
2 56 (40.29%) Kibana
3 37 (26.62%) logstash
4 36 (25.90%) Ansible
5 25 (17.99%) Terraform
6 20 (14.39%) Puppet
7 16 (11.51%) Prometheus
8 15 (10.79%) Grafana
9 8 (5.76%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (4.32%) FortiGate
10 6 (4.32%) ITRS Geneos
11 5 (3.60%) Consul
12 4 (2.88%) vCenter Server
12 4 (2.88%) vMotion
13 3 (2.16%) Argo
14 2 (1.44%) Nagios
14 2 (1.44%) Progress Chef
14 2 (1.44%) Red Hat Satellite
15 1 (0.72%) Rsyslog
15 1 (0.72%) WSUS
Vendors
1 25 (17.99%) Splunk
2 14 (10.07%) Microsoft
3 11 (7.91%) Red Hat
4 8 (5.76%) Cloudera
4 8 (5.76%) Dynatrace
4 8 (5.76%) Foundry
4 8 (5.76%) Palantir
5 6 (4.32%) Solace
5 6 (4.32%) TIBCO
6 5 (3.60%) Atlassian
7 4 (2.88%) Citrix
7 4 (2.88%) NetApp
7 4 (2.88%) Oracle
7 4 (2.88%) VMware
8 3 (2.16%) Google
9 2 (1.44%) Dell
9 2 (1.44%) F5
9 2 (1.44%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.72%) Black Duck
10 1 (0.72%) Veracode