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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 409 377 429
Rank change year-on-year -32 +52 -17
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 103 152 161
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.37% 0.46% 0.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.05% 2.53% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 108 116
10th Percentile £337 £409 £463
25th Percentile £456 £492 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £645 £646 £691
90th Percentile £700 £741 £788
UK median daily rate £555 £584 £550
% change year-on-year -4.97% +6.18% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £55.70 - -
25th Percentile £59.75 - £72.50
Median hourly rate £68.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile £74.75 - £77.50
90th Percentile £77.90 - -
UK median hourly rate £68.00 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +51.52%

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 5,029 6,003 7,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.10% 18.23% 16.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,465 4,163 4,959
10th Percentile £335 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £666
90th Percentile £750 £825 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £533 £545
% change year-on-year -6.19% -2.20% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 81 140
10th Percentile £21.23 £17.50 £21.00
25th Percentile £29.33 £21.25 £32.32
Median hourly rate £45.00 £37.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -31.82% +22.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.60 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.50 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +24.29% -36.36% +22.22%

Elasticsearch
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Elasticsearch as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Elasticsearch 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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch in England over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

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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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Elasticsearch in England over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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 +2 55 £575 -2.38% 73
Midlands -8 18 £600 +9.09% 33
West Midlands 0 17 £600 -5.51% 19
South East +18 11 £575 +19.29% 47
South West +15 7 £600 -4.76% 14
North West -20 3 £373 -17.22% 21
North of England -36 3 £373 -40.11% 30
East of England +2 2 £575 +91.67% 16
East Midlands -3 1 £475 +61.02% 12
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UK

Elasticsearch
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (16.50%) Apache
2 14 (13.59%) Confluence
3 9 (8.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (6.80%) Apache Spark
5 5 (4.85%) JBoss
6 2 (1.94%) Apache Solr
6 2 (1.94%) IIS
7 1 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.97%) Camunda
7 1 (0.97%) Gunicorn
7 1 (0.97%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 34 (33.01%) AWS
2 26 (25.24%) GCP
3 25 (24.27%) Azure
4 15 (14.56%) OpenShift
4 15 (14.56%) Serverless
5 11 (10.68%) IaaS
5 11 (10.68%) PaaS
6 8 (7.77%) Azure AKS
6 8 (7.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 8 (7.77%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (7.77%) Entra ID
7 7 (6.80%) Amazon S3
7 7 (6.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (2.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.91%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.91%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.91%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (2.91%) GitHub
9 2 (1.94%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (1.94%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.68%) DNS
2 10 (9.71%) Firewall
2 10 (9.71%) SMTP
3 9 (8.74%) DHCP
3 9 (8.74%) VPN
4 2 (1.94%) HTTP
4 2 (1.94%) SSH
5 1 (0.97%) DSL
5 1 (0.97%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.97%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (31.07%) Big Data
2 22 (21.36%) Hadoop
3 10 (9.71%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (9.71%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (6.80%) Relational Database
5 6 (5.83%) RDBMS
5 6 (5.83%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.85%) Data Lake
6 5 (4.85%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.88%) MySQL
8 3 (2.91%) Redis
9 2 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.94%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.94%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.94%) Impala
9 2 (1.94%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.94%) Pentaho
9 2 (1.94%) Power BI
9 2 (1.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (21.36%) Jenkins
2 19 (18.45%) JIRA
3 15 (14.56%) Git
4 9 (8.74%) SonarQube
5 8 (7.77%) TeamCity
6 7 (6.80%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (5.83%) Bitbucket
8 5 (4.85%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (4.85%) CA Release Automation
9 2 (1.94%) GitLab
9 2 (1.94%) JMeter
9 2 (1.94%) Postman
9 2 (1.94%) Selenium
10 1 (0.97%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.97%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.97%) Gradle
10 1 (0.97%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.97%) Maven
10 1 (0.97%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.97%) TestNG
General
1 27 (26.21%) Social Skills
2 18 (17.48%) Finance
3 14 (13.59%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.74%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.80%) Banking
6 6 (5.83%) Investment Banking
6 6 (5.83%) Law
7 3 (2.91%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.94%) Legal
9 1 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.97%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.97%) Marketing
9 1 (0.97%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (14.56%) Data Engineer
2 12 (11.65%) Developer
3 10 (9.71%) Software Engineer
4 9 (8.74%) Senior
4 9 (8.74%) Support Engineer
5 8 (7.77%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 8 (7.77%) 3rd Line Support
5 8 (7.77%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 8 (7.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 8 (7.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (6.80%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (6.80%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 7 (6.80%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 7 (6.80%) Infrastructure Support
6 7 (6.80%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 6 (5.83%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (5.83%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (4.85%) Applications Engineer
8 5 (4.85%) Architect
8 5 (4.85%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (35.92%) Elastic Stack
2 24 (23.30%) Kafka
3 20 (19.42%) Apache NiFi
4 16 (15.53%) Node.js
4 16 (15.53%) React
5 13 (12.62%) RabbitMQ
6 10 (9.71%) HTML
6 10 (9.71%) REST
7 9 (8.74%) FIX Protocol
7 9 (8.74%) Next.js
8 8 (7.77%) Express.js
9 7 (6.80%) .NET
9 7 (6.80%) Spring Boot
10 6 (5.83%) CSS
10 6 (5.83%) JSON
11 5 (4.85%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (4.85%) XML
12 4 (3.88%) AngularJS
12 4 (3.88%) ASP.NET
12 4 (3.88%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.59%) Cloud Native
2 13 (12.62%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (8.74%) Clustering
3 9 (8.74%) Data Centre
3 9 (8.74%) PKI
4 6 (5.83%) Replication
5 5 (4.85%) Algorithms
5 5 (4.85%) Fixed Income
5 5 (4.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.88%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.88%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.91%) Hedge funds
7 3 (2.91%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.91%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.94%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.94%) Video on Demand
9 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.97%) MISP
9 1 (0.97%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.97%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 45 (43.69%) Linux
2 17 (16.50%) Windows
3 13 (12.62%) Windows Server
4 12 (11.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (5.83%) Unix
6 5 (4.85%) CentOS
7 4 (3.88%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (2.91%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.97%) Debian
9 1 (0.97%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (48.54%) DevOps
2 36 (34.95%) Agile
3 30 (29.13%) CI/CD
4 28 (27.18%) Observability
5 27 (26.21%) Software Engineering
6 23 (22.33%) Machine Learning
7 21 (20.39%) Microservices
8 19 (18.45%) Analytics
8 19 (18.45%) Containerisation
8 19 (18.45%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (16.50%) Full-Stack Development
9 17 (16.50%) Migration
10 16 (15.53%) Data Pipeline
11 13 (12.62%) Data Ingestion
11 13 (12.62%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (12.62%) Scrum
12 10 (9.71%) Data Modelling
12 10 (9.71%) Data Science
12 10 (9.71%) Low Latency
13 9 (8.74%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 46 (44.66%) Python
2 23 (22.33%) PowerShell
3 15 (14.56%) Java
4 14 (13.59%) Bash
5 13 (12.62%) JavaScript
5 13 (12.62%) TypeScript
6 12 (11.65%) SQL
7 10 (9.71%) Bicep
8 9 (8.74%) Perl
9 8 (7.77%) C#
10 3 (2.91%) C
11 2 (1.94%) Scala
11 2 (1.94%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.97%) Clojure
12 1 (0.97%) Go
12 1 (0.97%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.97%) Ruby
12 1 (0.97%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (45.63%) Security Cleared
2 30 (29.13%) SC Cleared
3 29 (28.16%) DV Cleared
4 15 (14.56%) Degree
5 4 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.94%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.94%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.94%) CEH
6 2 (1.94%) CISSP
6 2 (1.94%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.97%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.91%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.97%) NIST
2 1 (0.97%) QA
System Software
1 48 (46.60%) Docker
2 26 (25.24%) Active Directory
3 11 (10.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (8.74%) BitLocker
4 9 (8.74%) Hyper-V
4 9 (8.74%) Microsoft App-V
4 9 (8.74%) Terminal Services
4 9 (8.74%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.94%) HDFS
5 2 (1.94%) vCloud
5 2 (1.94%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (1.94%) vSphere
6 1 (0.97%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 55 (53.40%) Kubernetes
2 49 (47.57%) Kibana
3 29 (28.16%) logstash
4 28 (27.18%) Ansible
5 13 (12.62%) Puppet
5 13 (12.62%) Terraform
6 12 (11.65%) Grafana
7 9 (8.74%) ITRS Geneos
7 9 (8.74%) Nagios
7 9 (8.74%) vCenter Server
7 9 (8.74%) vMotion
8 7 (6.80%) Progress Chef
9 5 (4.85%) Argo
10 4 (3.88%) Prometheus
11 2 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.97%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.97%) Graphite
12 1 (0.97%) QRadar
12 1 (0.97%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 28 (27.18%) Microsoft
2 15 (14.56%) Cloudera
3 12 (11.65%) Foundry
3 12 (11.65%) Palantir
4 11 (10.68%) Google
4 11 (10.68%) Splunk
4 11 (10.68%) VMware
5 9 (8.74%) Citrix
5 9 (8.74%) HP
5 9 (8.74%) Solace
5 9 (8.74%) Symantec
6 8 (7.77%) Red Hat
7 7 (6.80%) Oracle
8 5 (4.85%) AppDynamics
9 4 (3.88%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.97%) IBM