Elasticsearch Contracts in England

Elastic Elasticsearch
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Elasticsearch skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Elasticsearch over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 388 392 474
Rank change year-on-year +4 +82 -61
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 108 162 162
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.42% 0.44% 0.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.30% 2.49% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 127 106
10th Percentile £393 £415 £450
25th Percentile £500 £486 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £700
90th Percentile £708 £825 £788
UK median daily rate £570 £550 £513
% change year-on-year +3.64% +7.32% -10.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £47.14 - -
25th Percentile £58.98 - -
Median hourly rate £78.70 - -
75th Percentile £79.35 - -
90th Percentile £79.74 - -
UK median hourly rate £78.70 - -

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 4,694 6,499 8,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.40% 17.50% 17.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,251 4,681 5,796
10th Percentile £358 £350 £363
25th Percentile £418 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 139 152
10th Percentile £19.05 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £25.01 £20.76 £32.30
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £56.95
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -29.76% +41.84%
75th Percentile £62.88 £51.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £73.00 £71.70 £82.95
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £40.00 £56.40
% change year-on-year -12.50% -29.08% +40.47%

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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Elasticsearch in England.

Daily rate trend for Elasticsearch in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch in England over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Elasticsearch in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Elasticsearch in England.

Hourly rate trend for Elasticsearch in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Elasticsearch in England over the 6 months to 30 June 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 30 June 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 +40 53 £625 +5.22% 296
Midlands 0 14 £537 +1.08% 31
South East +45 13 £575 +19.29% 61
West Midlands +2 12 £550 - 21
North West +12 9 £393 -39.54% 51
North of England -9 9 £393 -37.12% 62
South West +30 6 £600 -7.69% 49
East of England +26 2 £575 -11.54% 30
East Midlands -2 2 £506 +42.13% 10
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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 18 (16.67%) Apache
2 14 (12.96%) JBoss
3 11 (10.19%) Apache Spark
4 10 (9.26%) Confluence
5 9 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (2.78%) nginx
6 3 (2.78%) Tomcat
7 2 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (1.85%) Apache Solr
7 2 (1.85%) IIS
8 1 (0.93%) DataSynapse
8 1 (0.93%) Gunicorn
8 1 (0.93%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.93%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 49 (45.37%) AWS
2 27 (25.00%) OpenShift
3 21 (19.44%) GCP
4 19 (17.59%) Azure
5 9 (8.33%) IaaS
5 9 (8.33%) PaaS
5 9 (8.33%) Serverless
6 8 (7.41%) Amazon S3
6 8 (7.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 7 (6.48%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (4.63%) GitHub
9 2 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (1.85%) Apigee
9 2 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.85%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.93%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (0.93%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.11%) DNS
2 10 (9.26%) Firewall
3 9 (8.33%) DHCP
3 9 (8.33%) SMTP
3 9 (8.33%) VPN
4 2 (1.85%) Network Security
5 1 (0.93%) DSL
5 1 (0.93%) DSLAM
5 1 (0.93%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.93%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.93%) SAN
5 1 (0.93%) SNMP
5 1 (0.93%) SSH
5 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.93%) Telnet
5 1 (0.93%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (25.93%) Big Data
2 19 (17.59%) Hadoop
3 18 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (13.89%) Relational Database
5 12 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (10.19%) RDBMS
7 7 (6.48%) Data Lake
8 6 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (4.63%) SQL Server
10 4 (3.70%) MongoDB
11 3 (2.78%) MySQL
11 3 (2.78%) Neo4j
11 3 (2.78%) NoSQL
12 2 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (1.85%) Flink
12 2 (1.85%) Pentaho
12 2 (1.85%) Power BI
12 2 (1.85%) Tableau
13 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 31 (28.70%) Jenkins
2 27 (25.00%) JIRA
3 26 (24.07%) Git
4 17 (15.74%) SonarQube
5 14 (12.96%) Sonatype Nexus
6 11 (10.19%) Bitbucket Server
6 11 (10.19%) CA Release Automation
6 11 (10.19%) TeamCity
7 8 (7.41%) Bitbucket
7 8 (7.41%) Selenium
8 7 (6.48%) GitLab
9 5 (4.63%) Postman
10 3 (2.78%) Artifactory
10 3 (2.78%) JMeter
10 3 (2.78%) JUnit
10 3 (2.78%) REST Assured
10 3 (2.78%) TestNG
10 3 (2.78%) Travis CI
11 1 (0.93%) Poetry
General
1 22 (20.37%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.89%) Banking
2 15 (13.89%) Finance
3 12 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.56%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.70%) Legal
7 3 (2.78%) Law
8 1 (0.93%) Back Office
8 1 (0.93%) Front Office
8 1 (0.93%) Marketing
8 1 (0.93%) Retail
8 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (15.74%) Senior
2 15 (13.89%) Developer
3 14 (12.96%) Data Engineer
4 12 (11.11%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 9 (8.33%) Architect
5 9 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (7.41%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 8 (7.41%) 3rd Line Support
6 8 (7.41%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 8 (7.41%) Support Engineer
7 7 (6.48%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (6.48%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 7 (6.48%) Infrastructure Support
7 7 (6.48%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 6 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
9 5 (4.63%) Consultant
9 5 (4.63%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.70%) Java Developer
10 4 (3.70%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (29.63%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (17.59%) Apache NiFi
3 18 (16.67%) Kafka
4 16 (14.81%) Spring Boot
5 10 (9.26%) OpenTelemetry
5 10 (9.26%) RabbitMQ
6 8 (7.41%) RESTful
7 7 (6.48%) .NET
8 6 (5.56%) HTML
8 6 (5.56%) REST
8 6 (5.56%) Spring
9 5 (4.63%) OpenAPI
9 5 (4.63%) React
9 5 (4.63%) Swagger
10 4 (3.70%) ASP.NET
10 4 (3.70%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (3.70%) Node.js
10 4 (3.70%) Web Services
11 3 (2.78%) CSS
11 3 (2.78%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.19%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (8.33%) Clustering
2 9 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 9 (8.33%) PKI
2 9 (8.33%) Public Cloud
3 6 (5.56%) Replication
4 5 (4.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (4.63%) Grid Computing
5 4 (3.70%) Fixed Income
5 4 (3.70%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.78%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.78%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.85%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.85%) Equities
7 2 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.85%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.93%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.93%) Video on Demand
8 1 (0.93%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 43 (39.81%) Linux
2 30 (27.78%) Windows
3 24 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (18.52%) Windows Server
5 5 (4.63%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (3.70%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (2.78%) CentOS
8 1 (0.93%) Debian
8 1 (0.93%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (39.81%) DevOps
2 38 (35.19%) CI/CD
3 33 (30.56%) Microservices
4 31 (28.70%) Analytics
5 30 (27.78%) Agile
6 27 (25.00%) Observability
7 26 (24.07%) Containerisation
8 25 (23.15%) Migration
9 17 (15.74%) Software Engineering
10 16 (14.81%) Machine Learning
11 14 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (12.04%) Data Ingestion
12 13 (12.04%) Test Automation
13 12 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
13 12 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
14 11 (10.19%) Build Automation
14 11 (10.19%) Code Quality
14 11 (10.19%) Continuous Integration
14 11 (10.19%) Deployment Automation
15 10 (9.26%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 40 (37.04%) Python
2 22 (20.37%) Java
3 19 (17.59%) PowerShell
4 13 (12.04%) SQL
5 12 (11.11%) C#
6 11 (10.19%) Perl
7 8 (7.41%) Bash
7 8 (7.41%) JavaScript
8 7 (6.48%) TypeScript
9 5 (4.63%) C++
10 3 (2.78%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.85%) Ruby
12 1 (0.93%) Bicep
12 1 (0.93%) C
12 1 (0.93%) Clojure
12 1 (0.93%) Go
12 1 (0.93%) Scala
Qualifications
1 45 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 27 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 24 (22.22%) SC Cleared
4 15 (13.89%) Degree
5 3 (2.78%) CEH
5 3 (2.78%) CISSP
5 3 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.78%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.85%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.63%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.78%) QA
3 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.93%) SLA
System Software
1 52 (48.15%) Docker
2 29 (26.85%) Active Directory
3 12 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (8.33%) BitLocker
4 9 (8.33%) Hyper-V
4 9 (8.33%) Microsoft App-V
4 9 (8.33%) Terminal Services
4 9 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (3.70%) Platform Symphony
6 3 (2.78%) Lustre
6 3 (2.78%) vCloud
6 3 (2.78%) VMware Workstation
6 3 (2.78%) vSphere
7 1 (0.93%) FreeRADIUS
7 1 (0.93%) iptables
Systems Management
1 66 (61.11%) Kubernetes
2 45 (41.67%) Kibana
3 28 (25.93%) Ansible
4 25 (23.15%) Grafana
5 20 (18.52%) logstash
6 19 (17.59%) Terraform
7 11 (10.19%) Progress Chef
7 11 (10.19%) Puppet
8 10 (9.26%) Argo
8 10 (9.26%) Nagios
9 9 (8.33%) vCenter Server
9 9 (8.33%) vMotion
10 8 (7.41%) ITRS Geneos
11 5 (4.63%) Prometheus
12 3 (2.78%) Karpenter
12 3 (2.78%) Podman
13 1 (0.93%) Graylog
13 1 (0.93%) Netcool
13 1 (0.93%) Proxmox
13 1 (0.93%) QRadar
Vendors
1 23 (21.30%) Microsoft
2 18 (16.67%) Splunk
3 16 (14.81%) Red Hat
4 13 (12.04%) Cloudera
4 13 (12.04%) VMware
5 12 (11.11%) Google
6 11 (10.19%) AppDynamics
7 10 (9.26%) HP
8 9 (8.33%) Citrix
8 9 (8.33%) Symantec
9 6 (5.56%) Foundry
9 6 (5.56%) Palantir
10 5 (4.63%) IBM
10 5 (4.63%) TIBCO
11 3 (2.78%) Oracle
11 3 (2.78%) Solace
12 1 (0.93%) Cisco
12 1 (0.93%) Databricks
12 1 (0.93%) Dell
12 1 (0.93%) Palo Alto