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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 399 372
Rank change year-on-year -121 -27 +89
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 113 111 165
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.40% 0.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.62% 2.22% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 90 118
10th Percentile £371 £390 £389
25th Percentile £425 £477 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £555 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.22% +0.91% -
75th Percentile £600 £668 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £519 £555 £540
% change year-on-year -6.57% +2.78% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile £38.23 £58.14 -
25th Percentile £49.81 £65.85 -
Median hourly rate £58.00 £78.70 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.30% - -
75th Percentile £63.63 £79.35 -
90th Percentile £69.70 £79.74 -
UK median hourly rate £58.00 £78.70 -
% change year-on-year -26.30% - -

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 6,957 4,999 6,177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.35% 18.16% 18.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,654 3,467 4,422
10th Percentile £356 £347 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -4.19% -2.27%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £675
90th Percentile £701 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £507 £525
% change year-on-year -1.28% -3.52% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 78 92
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.67 £13.74
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £38.50 £34.82 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.58% -8.38% -30.91%
75th Percentile £62.00 £64.69 £60.36
90th Percentile £76.90 £77.86 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £36.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year +8.97% -3.33% -31.82%

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 31 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Elasticsearch in England over the 6 months to 31 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Elasticsearch in England

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 31 July 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 -58 64 £521 -13.25% 62
North of England -65 14 £544 +38.36% 22
North West -48 13 £538 +36.77% 15
South East -67 10 £608 +5.65% 21
South West -39 8 £475 -17.39% 11
Midlands -62 5 £450 -16.20% 8
West Midlands -69 5 £450 -18.18% 6
Yorkshire - 1 £550 - 6
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 18 (15.93%) nginx
2 17 (15.04%) Apache Spark
3 8 (7.08%) Tomcat
3 8 (7.08%) WebLogic
4 7 (6.19%) Apache
5 3 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (2.65%) Confluence
5 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.77%) Liferay
6 2 (1.77%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.88%) CMS
7 1 (0.88%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.88%) IIS
7 1 (0.88%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.88%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (2.65%) Trello
2 1 (0.88%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Magento
1 1 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 50 (44.25%) AWS
2 17 (15.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 17 (15.04%) Azure
3 16 (14.16%) GCP
4 12 (10.62%) Serverless
5 8 (7.08%) OpenShift
5 8 (7.08%) PaaS
6 7 (6.19%) IaaS
7 6 (5.31%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (4.42%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (4.42%) Amazon S3
9 4 (3.54%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (3.54%) Entra ID
9 4 (3.54%) GitHub
9 4 (3.54%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.54%) Route 53
9 4 (3.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (2.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (2.65%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.62%) DNS
1 12 (10.62%) Firewall
2 11 (9.73%) VPN
3 10 (8.85%) HTTP
4 7 (6.19%) DHCP
4 7 (6.19%) SMTP
5 4 (3.54%) MQTT
5 4 (3.54%) Network Security
5 4 (3.54%) OpenVPN
5 4 (3.54%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.77%) NaaS
6 2 (1.77%) WAN
7 1 (0.88%) DSL
7 1 (0.88%) Intranet
7 1 (0.88%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (14.16%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (8.85%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (8.85%) Metadata
3 9 (7.96%) Big Data
4 8 (7.08%) Hadoop
4 8 (7.08%) MongoDB
5 7 (6.19%) NoSQL
6 6 (5.31%) Data Lake
7 5 (4.42%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (4.42%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (4.42%) MySQL
7 5 (4.42%) Redis
8 4 (3.54%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.65%) Flink
9 3 (2.65%) HBase
9 3 (2.65%) InfluxDB
9 3 (2.65%) Oracle Database
9 3 (2.65%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.77%) Apache Hive
10 2 (1.77%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (16.81%) Git
2 10 (8.85%) GitLab
2 10 (8.85%) Jenkins
3 9 (7.96%) JIRA
4 6 (5.31%) SonarQube
5 5 (4.42%) Bitbucket
5 5 (4.42%) JUnit
6 3 (2.65%) Gatling
6 3 (2.65%) JMeter
6 3 (2.65%) LoadRunner
6 3 (2.65%) Selenium
7 2 (1.77%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.77%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.88%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.88%) Postman
8 1 (0.88%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (10.62%) Social Skills
2 9 (7.96%) Public Sector
3 6 (5.31%) Finance
4 5 (4.42%) Banking
5 3 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.77%) Back Office
6 2 (1.77%) Billing
6 2 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.77%) Marketing
6 2 (1.77%) Police
6 2 (1.77%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.88%) Front Office
7 1 (0.88%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.88%) Legal
7 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (24.78%) Developer
2 18 (15.93%) Architect
2 18 (15.93%) Software Engineer
3 11 (9.73%) Data Architect
3 11 (9.73%) Java Developer
4 10 (8.85%) Senior
5 9 (7.96%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (7.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (7.08%) Java Engineer
7 7 (6.19%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 7 (6.19%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (6.19%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (5.31%) Elasticsearch Engineer
8 6 (5.31%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (4.42%) Lead
9 5 (4.42%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (3.54%) Data Engineer
10 4 (3.54%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 4 (3.54%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
10 4 (3.54%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (28.32%) Kafka
2 22 (19.47%) Spring
3 18 (15.93%) REST
4 13 (11.50%) Spring Boot
5 11 (9.73%) Node.js
6 10 (8.85%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (8.85%) React
7 9 (7.96%) Apache NiFi
8 6 (5.31%) GraphQL
8 6 (5.31%) gRPC
8 6 (5.31%) WireMock
9 5 (4.42%) RESTful
10 4 (3.54%) JSON
10 4 (3.54%) Keycloak
10 4 (3.54%) LDAP
10 4 (3.54%) Middleware
10 4 (3.54%) OpenID
10 4 (3.54%) Protocol Buffers
10 4 (3.54%) Swagger
11 3 (2.65%) Ktor
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.39%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (9.73%) Cloud Native
3 10 (8.85%) Clustering
4 9 (7.96%) PKI
5 8 (7.08%) Digital Media
6 6 (5.31%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (4.42%) Data Structures
7 5 (4.42%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (4.42%) Product Ownership
8 4 (3.54%) Data Centre
8 4 (3.54%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.77%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.88%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (29.20%) Linux
2 13 (11.50%) Windows
3 12 (10.62%) Windows Server
4 6 (5.31%) Solaris
4 6 (5.31%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (4.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (4.42%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (3.54%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (3.54%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.77%) Debian
7 2 (1.77%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.77%) VMS
8 1 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (36.28%) DevOps
2 33 (29.20%) Agile
2 33 (29.20%) CI/CD
3 23 (20.35%) Software Engineering
4 21 (18.58%) AI
5 18 (15.93%) Containerisation
6 17 (15.04%) Machine Learning
7 16 (14.16%) Data Modelling
8 15 (13.27%) Full-Stack Development
8 15 (13.27%) Observability
8 15 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (13.27%) Test Automation
9 14 (12.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (12.39%) Microservices
10 12 (10.62%) Data Architecture
10 12 (10.62%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (10.62%) Scrum
11 11 (9.73%) Data Pipeline
11 11 (9.73%) Roadmaps
11 11 (9.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 47 (41.59%) Java
2 38 (33.63%) Python
3 25 (22.12%) SQL
4 19 (16.81%) JavaScript
5 15 (13.27%) TypeScript
6 13 (11.50%) Rust
7 8 (7.08%) PL/SQL
7 8 (7.08%) PowerShell
8 6 (5.31%) Bash
8 6 (5.31%) Shell Script
9 4 (3.54%) C#
9 4 (3.54%) Go
10 3 (2.65%) Kotlin
10 3 (2.65%) Ruby
11 2 (1.77%) C++
11 2 (1.77%) Groovy
11 2 (1.77%) Scala
12 1 (0.88%) Gremlin
12 1 (0.88%) PHP
12 1 (0.88%) R
Qualifications
1 63 (55.75%) Security Cleared
2 46 (40.71%) SC Cleared
3 25 (22.12%) DV Cleared
4 9 (7.96%) AWS Certification
4 9 (7.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 9 (7.96%) Degree
5 3 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.19%) QA
2 4 (3.54%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.65%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.88%) ITGC
System Software
1 36 (31.86%) Docker
2 13 (11.50%) VMware ESXi
2 13 (11.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (6.19%) Active Directory
3 7 (6.19%) BitLocker
3 7 (6.19%) Hyper-V
3 7 (6.19%) Microsoft App-V
4 5 (4.42%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (3.54%) Squid
6 3 (2.65%) Terminal Services
7 2 (1.77%) HDFS
8 1 (0.88%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 39 (34.51%) Kubernetes
2 25 (22.12%) Terraform
3 22 (19.47%) Ansible
4 21 (18.58%) Grafana
4 21 (18.58%) Prometheus
5 14 (12.39%) Kibana
6 13 (11.50%) Puppet
7 7 (6.19%) logstash
7 7 (6.19%) vCenter Server
7 7 (6.19%) vMotion
8 5 (4.42%) Oracle RMAN
9 4 (3.54%) Consul
9 4 (3.54%) FortiGate
9 4 (3.54%) Nagios
9 4 (3.54%) Podman
9 4 (3.54%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.77%) Amdocs OSS
11 1 (0.88%) Argo
11 1 (0.88%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 15 (13.27%) Oracle
2 13 (11.50%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.50%) VMware
3 11 (9.73%) Dynatrace
4 9 (7.96%) Red Hat
5 8 (7.08%) IBM
6 7 (6.19%) Citrix
7 4 (3.54%) NetApp
7 4 (3.54%) NVIDIA
7 4 (3.54%) Tenable
8 3 (2.65%) AppDynamics
8 3 (2.65%) Cloudera
8 3 (2.65%) Google
8 3 (2.65%) HP
8 3 (2.65%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.65%) Symantec
9 2 (1.77%) Amdocs
9 2 (1.77%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.77%) Ciena
9 2 (1.77%) Salesforce