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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 348 372
Rank change year-on-year -69 +24 +40
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 144 138 186
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 0.53% 0.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.59% 2.85% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 87 152
10th Percentile £424 £412 £454
25th Percentile £478 £560 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £608 £663
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% -8.30% +10.42%
75th Percentile £609 £713 £825
90th Percentile £704 £1,075 -
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £645
% change year-on-year -8.33% -6.98% +7.50%
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 5,570 4,844 6,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.27% 18.59% 16.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,860 3,254 4,444
10th Percentile £338 £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 83 162
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.62
25th Percentile £27.06 £25.13 £21.66
Median hourly rate £52.00 £40.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.40% -4.71% -25.26%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.00 £61.13
90th Percentile £85.78 £73.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £53.25 £38.11 £42.50
% change year-on-year +39.73% -10.33% -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 14 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 14 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 -45 60 £550 -9.47% 39
West Midlands -3 53 £550 +8.91% 6
Midlands -9 53 £550 +52.78% 8
South West -11 20 £550 -35.29% 17
North of England -62 10 £500 -13.04% 15
North West -32 9 £500 -11.11% 12
South East -25 5 £488 +0.72% 21
East of England -29 1 - - 6
Yorkshire -58 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 16 (11.11%) Confluence
2 9 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 9 (6.25%) nginx
3 8 (5.56%) Apache
3 8 (5.56%) Palantir Foundry
4 6 (4.17%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.69%) Camunda
5 1 (0.69%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.69%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.69%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Magento
1 1 (0.69%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 42 (29.17%) AWS
2 39 (27.08%) Azure
3 18 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 18 (12.50%) GCP
4 17 (11.81%) GitHub
5 16 (11.11%) Serverless
6 12 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (6.94%) Amazon S3
8 9 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 8 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (4.86%) Route 53
11 6 (4.17%) Azure AKS
11 6 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (4.17%) IaaS
11 6 (4.17%) PaaS
12 5 (3.47%) Entra ID
13 4 (2.78%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.03%) DNS
1 13 (9.03%) Firewall
2 12 (8.33%) VPN
3 11 (7.64%) TCP/IP
4 7 (4.86%) OpenVPN
5 4 (2.78%) DHCP
5 4 (2.78%) SMTP
6 2 (1.39%) HTTP
6 2 (1.39%) Multicast
6 2 (1.39%) NAS
6 2 (1.39%) SAN
7 1 (0.69%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (21.53%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (12.50%) Hadoop
3 15 (10.42%) Big Data
4 5 (3.47%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.78%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.78%) Redis
6 3 (2.08%) MySQL
6 3 (2.08%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.39%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.39%) Weaviate
8 1 (0.69%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.69%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.69%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.69%) Impala
8 1 (0.69%) MemSQL
8 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.69%) Power BI
8 1 (0.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (12.50%) JIRA
2 9 (6.25%) Git
3 8 (5.56%) GitLab
4 7 (4.86%) Jenkins
5 6 (4.17%) Bitbucket
5 6 (4.17%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.69%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.69%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.69%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.69%) git-flow
6 1 (0.69%) JUnit
6 1 (0.69%) Maven
6 1 (0.69%) Postman
6 1 (0.69%) Travis CI
General
1 46 (31.94%) Social Skills
2 19 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (10.42%) Finance
4 10 (6.94%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.78%) Law
7 3 (2.08%) Banking
7 3 (2.08%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.69%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.69%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (17.36%) Developer
2 21 (14.58%) Data Engineer
3 20 (13.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 19 (13.19%) Splunk Engineer
5 15 (10.42%) Full-Stack Developer
5 15 (10.42%) Senior
5 15 (10.42%) Site Engineer
6 14 (9.72%) SIEM Engineer
7 13 (9.03%) Senior Data Engineer
8 10 (6.94%) Applications Engineer
9 9 (6.25%) Architect
9 9 (6.25%) Software Engineer
10 7 (4.86%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (4.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 7 (4.86%) Lead
10 7 (4.86%) Security Engineer
11 6 (4.17%) Technical Architect
12 4 (2.78%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 4 (2.78%) AWS Architect
12 4 (2.78%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (36.81%) Elastic Stack
2 50 (34.72%) Kafka
3 27 (18.75%) Node.js
4 23 (15.97%) Spring
5 20 (13.89%) React
6 16 (11.11%) WireMock
7 14 (9.72%) Apache NiFi
7 14 (9.72%) REST
8 13 (9.03%) Spring Boot
9 12 (8.33%) Keycloak
10 8 (5.56%) LDAP
10 8 (5.56%) OpenID
10 8 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (4.86%) AngularJS
12 5 (3.47%) Express.js
12 5 (3.47%) JSON
12 5 (3.47%) Next.js
13 4 (2.78%) CSS
13 4 (2.78%) HTML
13 4 (2.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.42%) Management Information System
2 13 (9.03%) Cloud Native
3 11 (7.64%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.17%) Enterprise Storage
5 5 (3.47%) Algorithms
5 5 (3.47%) PKI
6 4 (2.78%) Clustering
6 4 (2.78%) Replication
6 4 (2.78%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.08%) Hedge funds
7 3 (2.08%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.39%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.39%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.39%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.39%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 41 (28.47%) Linux
2 17 (11.81%) Unix
3 6 (4.17%) Windows
4 5 (3.47%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.78%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (2.08%) CentOS
6 3 (2.08%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.39%) VMS
8 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.69%) Solaris
8 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (49.31%) DevOps
2 40 (27.78%) Containerisation
3 35 (24.31%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 30 (20.83%) Observability
6 29 (20.14%) Agile
6 29 (20.14%) Data Ingestion
6 29 (20.14%) Incident Response
7 28 (19.44%) Performance Tuning
8 24 (16.67%) Data Engineering
8 24 (16.67%) Data Modelling
8 24 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
8 24 (16.67%) Migration
9 23 (15.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 20 (13.89%) Computer Science
10 20 (13.89%) Data Pipeline
10 20 (13.89%) SIEM
10 20 (13.89%) Software Engineering
11 18 (12.50%) Dashboard Development
11 18 (12.50%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 64 (44.44%) Python
2 36 (25.00%) Java
3 26 (18.06%) Bash
4 17 (11.81%) JavaScript
5 16 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 14 (9.72%) Go
7 11 (7.64%) PowerShell
8 10 (6.94%) SQL
9 8 (5.56%) Bicep
10 4 (2.78%) Perl
10 4 (2.78%) Rust
10 4 (2.78%) Scala
11 3 (2.08%) C
11 3 (2.08%) C#
12 2 (1.39%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.69%) PHP
13 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (46.53%) Security Cleared
2 55 (38.19%) SC Cleared
3 26 (18.06%) DV Cleared
4 20 (13.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (13.89%) Degree
5 12 (8.33%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.47%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.39%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.69%) CEH
9 1 (0.69%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.08%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.39%) NIST
3 1 (0.69%) GDPR
3 1 (0.69%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.69%) QA
System Software
1 57 (39.58%) Docker
2 12 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 7 (4.86%) Squid
4 5 (3.47%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (2.78%) BitLocker
5 4 (2.78%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.78%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.69%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 81 (56.25%) Kubernetes
2 55 (38.19%) Kibana
3 36 (25.00%) Ansible
4 35 (24.31%) logstash
5 26 (18.06%) Terraform
6 20 (13.89%) Puppet
7 18 (12.50%) Prometheus
8 17 (11.81%) Grafana
9 9 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (4.86%) FortiGate
11 6 (4.17%) Consul
12 4 (2.78%) ITRS Geneos
12 4 (2.78%) vCenter Server
12 4 (2.78%) vMotion
13 3 (2.08%) Argo
14 2 (1.39%) Nagios
14 2 (1.39%) Progress Chef
14 2 (1.39%) Red Hat Satellite
15 1 (0.69%) Oracle RMAN
15 1 (0.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 25 (17.36%) Splunk
2 13 (9.03%) Red Hat
3 12 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 10 (6.94%) Dynatrace
5 8 (5.56%) Cloudera
5 8 (5.56%) Foundry
5 8 (5.56%) Palantir
6 6 (4.17%) Atlassian
7 5 (3.47%) Oracle
7 5 (3.47%) VMware
8 4 (2.78%) Citrix
8 4 (2.78%) NetApp
8 4 (2.78%) Solace
8 4 (2.78%) TIBCO
9 3 (2.08%) Google
10 2 (1.39%) Dell
10 2 (1.39%) F5
10 2 (1.39%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.69%) Black Duck
11 1 (0.69%) Veracode