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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 438 340 363
Rank change year-on-year -98 +23 +49
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 110 160 197
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.57% 0.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.03% 3.14% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 94 156
10th Percentile £376 £405 £450
25th Percentile £472 £516 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £604 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.90% -7.12% +8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £681 £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 - - £72.50
Median hourly rate £79.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £79.00 - £75.00

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 5,421 5,089 6,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.11% 18.28% 16.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,785 3,377 4,324
10th Percentile £325 £350 £358
25th Percentile £410 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £614 £663 £662
90th Percentile £713 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 73 132
10th Percentile £20.90 £18.66 £18.64
25th Percentile £29.72 £24.25 £25.35
Median hourly rate £54.85 £39.50 £47.70
Median % change year-on-year +38.86% -17.19% -13.28%
75th Percentile £70.50 £64.73 £64.65
90th Percentile £84.90 £72.95 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £31.55 £47.50
% change year-on-year +71.18% -33.59% -13.64%

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

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 2 January 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
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 2 January 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 -57 51 £563 -7.41% 38
West Midlands -4 43 £550 -13.39% 8
Midlands -5 43 £550 +10.55% 13
South West -9 19 £550 -24.14% 11
South East -19 4 £488 -0.61% 19
North of England -46 2 £500 -13.04% 22
East of England -28 1 - - 9
North West -35 1 £500 -11.11% 20
Yorkshire -50 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 14 (12.73%) Confluence
2 11 (10.00%) Apache
3 6 (5.45%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.91%) Camunda
4 1 (0.91%) JBoss
4 1 (0.91%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.91%) nginx
4 1 (0.91%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Magento
1 1 (0.91%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 39 (35.45%) Azure
2 21 (19.09%) AWS
3 19 (17.27%) GitHub
4 16 (14.55%) GCP
5 12 (10.91%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (10.00%) Serverless
7 8 (7.27%) Azure AKS
7 8 (7.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 8 (7.27%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (6.36%) Entra ID
9 4 (3.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (3.64%) IaaS
9 4 (3.64%) PaaS
10 3 (2.73%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.73%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (2.73%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 2 (1.82%) Azure Functions
11 2 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.64%) DNS
1 4 (3.64%) Firewall
2 3 (2.73%) HTTP
2 3 (2.73%) SMTP
2 3 (2.73%) VPN
3 2 (1.82%) DHCP
3 2 (1.82%) SSH
3 2 (1.82%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.91%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (19.09%) Hadoop
2 20 (18.18%) Big Data
3 19 (17.27%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.55%) MongoDB
4 5 (4.55%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.64%) Redis
6 3 (2.73%) Apache Hive
6 3 (2.73%) Impala
6 3 (2.73%) MySQL
6 3 (2.73%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.73%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.82%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.82%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.82%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.91%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.91%) MemSQL
8 1 (0.91%) Power BI
8 1 (0.91%) Sybase IQ
8 1 (0.91%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 15 (13.64%) Jenkins
1 15 (13.64%) JIRA
2 11 (10.00%) Git
3 4 (3.64%) GitLab
3 4 (3.64%) TeamCity
4 3 (2.73%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.82%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.82%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.82%) Maven
5 2 (1.82%) Postman
6 1 (0.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.91%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.91%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.91%) JMeter
6 1 (0.91%) JUnit
6 1 (0.91%) Moq
6 1 (0.91%) NeoLoad
6 1 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.91%) Selenium
6 1 (0.91%) SoapUI
General
1 39 (35.45%) Social Skills
2 19 (17.27%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (15.45%) Finance
4 4 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (3.64%) Law
5 3 (2.73%) Banking
5 3 (2.73%) Financial Institution
5 3 (2.73%) Investment Banking
5 3 (2.73%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.91%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.91%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.91%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (21.82%) Data Engineer
2 18 (16.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 17 (15.45%) Splunk Engineer
4 16 (14.55%) Senior
5 13 (11.82%) Senior Data Engineer
5 13 (11.82%) Site Engineer
6 10 (9.09%) Developer
7 9 (8.18%) Software Engineer
8 8 (7.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 7 (6.36%) Applications Engineer
9 7 (6.36%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (6.36%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 7 (6.36%) SIEM Engineer
10 6 (5.45%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (4.55%) Security Engineer
12 4 (3.64%) Python Engineer
13 3 (2.73%) Kubernetes Specialist
13 3 (2.73%) Lead
13 3 (2.73%) Migration Specialist
13 3 (2.73%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (45.45%) Elastic Stack
2 38 (34.55%) Kafka
3 17 (15.45%) React
4 16 (14.55%) Apache NiFi
5 15 (13.64%) Node.js
6 12 (10.91%) Keycloak
7 11 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
7 11 (10.00%) REST
8 9 (8.18%) JSON
9 8 (7.27%) XML
10 7 (6.36%) AngularJS
10 7 (6.36%) Express.js
10 7 (6.36%) FIX Protocol
10 7 (6.36%) Next.js
11 6 (5.45%) HTML
11 6 (5.45%) Spring
11 6 (5.45%) Spring Boot
11 6 (5.45%) Ultra Messaging
12 5 (4.55%) CSS
13 4 (3.64%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 13 (11.82%) Management Information System
3 11 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (6.36%) Algorithms
4 7 (6.36%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (5.45%) Replication
6 4 (3.64%) Fixed Income
6 4 (3.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.73%) Hedge funds
7 3 (2.73%) PKI
8 2 (1.82%) Clustering
8 2 (1.82%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.82%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (1.82%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.82%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.91%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.91%) MISP
9 1 (0.91%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.91%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 36 (32.73%) Linux
2 15 (13.64%) Unix
3 6 (5.45%) Windows
4 4 (3.64%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.73%) CentOS
5 3 (2.73%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.82%) VMS
6 2 (1.82%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (48.18%) DevOps
2 41 (37.27%) Containerisation
3 33 (30.00%) Observability
4 32 (29.09%) CI/CD
5 31 (28.18%) Agile
6 26 (23.64%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (22.73%) Data Ingestion
7 25 (22.73%) Data Pipeline
8 24 (21.82%) Migration
9 23 (20.91%) Software Engineering
10 19 (17.27%) Data Modelling
10 19 (17.27%) Incident Response
10 19 (17.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 18 (16.36%) Data Engineering
11 18 (16.36%) ETL
12 17 (15.45%) Scrum
13 15 (13.64%) Dashboard Development
13 15 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
13 15 (13.64%) Microservices
13 15 (13.64%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 62 (56.36%) Python
2 24 (21.82%) Bash
3 16 (14.55%) Java
4 15 (13.64%) PowerShell
5 14 (12.73%) SQL
6 13 (11.82%) Go
7 12 (10.91%) JavaScript
7 12 (10.91%) TypeScript
8 10 (9.09%) Bicep
9 6 (5.45%) Perl
10 4 (3.64%) C#
11 3 (2.73%) C
12 2 (1.82%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.91%) PHP
13 1 (0.91%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.91%) Scala
13 1 (0.91%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 39 (35.45%) SC Cleared
3 20 (18.18%) DV Cleared
4 14 (12.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (12.73%) Degree
5 12 (10.91%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.82%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.91%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.91%) CEH
7 1 (0.91%) CISSP
7 1 (0.91%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.82%) Data Quality
1 2 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.82%) NIST
2 1 (0.91%) GDPR
2 1 (0.91%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.91%) QA
System Software
1 58 (52.73%) Docker
2 11 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.82%) BitLocker
3 2 (1.82%) HDFS
3 2 (1.82%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.82%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.91%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.91%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 66 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 56 (50.91%) Kibana
3 34 (30.91%) logstash
4 29 (26.36%) Ansible
5 16 (14.55%) Puppet
6 12 (10.91%) Terraform
7 9 (8.18%) Grafana
8 8 (7.27%) ITRS Geneos
9 7 (6.36%) Prometheus
10 5 (4.55%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.82%) Argo
11 2 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.82%) vCenter Server
11 2 (1.82%) vMotion
12 1 (0.91%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.91%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.91%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.91%) Rsyslog
12 1 (0.91%) WSUS
Vendors
1 24 (21.82%) Splunk
2 13 (11.82%) Microsoft
3 12 (10.91%) Cloudera
3 12 (10.91%) Foundry
3 12 (10.91%) Palantir
4 8 (7.27%) Solace
5 6 (5.45%) TIBCO
6 5 (4.55%) Oracle
7 4 (3.64%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.73%) Google
9 2 (1.82%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.82%) Citrix
9 2 (1.82%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.82%) NetApp
9 2 (1.82%) VMware
10 1 (0.91%) Black Duck
10 1 (0.91%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.91%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.91%) Sybase
10 1 (0.91%) Veracode