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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 402 374
Rank change year-on-year -111 -28 +70
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 116 107 156
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.38% 0.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.65% 2.14% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 85 110
10th Percentile £358 £348 £410
25th Percentile £409 £456 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £595
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -7.49% -0.92%
75th Percentile £616 £638 £645
90th Percentile £690 £700 £739
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.22% +4.17%
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 £57.50 £78.70 -
% change year-on-year -26.94% - -

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 7,014 5,001 6,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.12% 17.97% 18.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,681 3,436 4,193
10th Percentile £358 £332 £350
25th Percentile £423 £412 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.98% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £619 £638 £675
90th Percentile £701 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 80 80
10th Percentile £15.61 £21.25 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.35 £31.45 £21.25
Median hourly rate £39.00 £42.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.13% +19.99% -36.36%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.00 £60.36
90th Percentile £75.30 £80.00 £71.85
UK median hourly rate £40.18 £40.00 £34.47
% change year-on-year +0.45% +16.06% -35.58%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 11 September 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 73 £483 -16.09% 96
South West -39 16 £550 -8.33% 22
South East -62 7 £690 +20.00% 24
North of England -69 6 £475 +20.87% 29
West Midlands -59 5 £450 -25.00% 9
Midlands -61 5 £450 -25.00% 11
North West -43 3 - - 16
Yorkshire - 3 £475 - 8
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 17 (14.66%) Apache Spark
1 17 (14.66%) nginx
2 12 (10.34%) Apache
3 9 (7.76%) Confluence
3 9 (7.76%) WebLogic
4 8 (6.90%) Tomcat
5 5 (4.31%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (1.72%) Camunda
7 2 (1.72%) Liferay
7 2 (1.72%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.86%) CMS
8 1 (0.86%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.86%) IIS
8 1 (0.86%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.86%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (3.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Magento
1 1 (0.86%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 48 (41.38%) AWS
2 33 (28.45%) Azure
3 22 (18.97%) GCP
4 17 (14.66%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 12 (10.34%) GitHub
6 11 (9.48%) Serverless
7 10 (8.62%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (6.03%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (5.17%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (5.17%) PaaS
10 5 (4.31%) Amazon S3
10 5 (4.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (4.31%) Entra ID
10 5 (4.31%) IaaS
11 4 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (3.45%) OpenShift
12 3 (2.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (2.59%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.76%) DNS
2 7 (6.03%) Firewall
2 7 (6.03%) HTTP
3 6 (5.17%) VPN
4 5 (4.31%) DHCP
4 5 (4.31%) SMTP
5 4 (3.45%) MQTT
5 4 (3.45%) Network Security
6 2 (1.72%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.72%) SAN
7 1 (0.86%) DSL
7 1 (0.86%) Intranet
7 1 (0.86%) NaaS
7 1 (0.86%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.86%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.86%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.86%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.93%) Metadata
2 13 (11.21%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (11.21%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (10.34%) MongoDB
4 10 (8.62%) Big Data
5 9 (7.76%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (7.76%) Data Lake
5 9 (7.76%) NoSQL
6 7 (6.03%) Flink
7 5 (4.31%) Hadoop
7 5 (4.31%) Redis
8 4 (3.45%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (3.45%) BigQuery
8 4 (3.45%) MySQL
8 4 (3.45%) Oracle Database
8 4 (3.45%) Relational Database
8 4 (3.45%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.59%) ClickHouse
9 3 (2.59%) GIS
9 3 (2.59%) HBase
Development Applications
1 32 (27.59%) Git
2 17 (14.66%) JIRA
3 14 (12.07%) Jenkins
4 13 (11.21%) GitLab
5 7 (6.03%) JUnit
6 4 (3.45%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.45%) Cucumber
6 4 (3.45%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.59%) Selenium
8 2 (1.72%) Gradle
8 2 (1.72%) Maven
8 2 (1.72%) Mockito
9 1 (0.86%) git-flow
9 1 (0.86%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.86%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.86%) RhodeCode
9 1 (0.86%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.86%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (16.38%) Social Skills
2 11 (9.48%) Finance
3 9 (7.76%) Banking
4 8 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.31%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.59%) Marketing
6 3 (2.59%) Police
7 2 (1.72%) Back Office
7 2 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.86%) Billing
8 1 (0.86%) Law
8 1 (0.86%) Legal
8 1 (0.86%) Publishing
8 1 (0.86%) Retail
8 1 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (31.03%) Developer
2 15 (12.93%) Architect
3 14 (12.07%) Java Developer
4 13 (11.21%) Software Engineer
5 12 (10.34%) Senior
6 11 (9.48%) Data Architect
7 10 (8.62%) Data Engineer
7 10 (8.62%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (6.90%) Lead
9 7 (6.03%) Java Engineer
10 6 (5.17%) Elasticsearch Engineer
10 6 (5.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 6 (5.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (5.17%) Oracle Developer
10 6 (5.17%) WebLogic Developer
11 5 (4.31%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 5 (4.31%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (4.31%) Elasticsearch Developer
11 5 (4.31%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 5 (4.31%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (30.17%) Kafka
2 21 (18.10%) Terraform
3 19 (16.38%) REST
3 19 (16.38%) Spring
4 15 (12.93%) Elastic Stack
4 15 (12.93%) React
5 13 (11.21%) Spring Boot
6 11 (9.48%) HTML
7 9 (7.76%) CSS
7 9 (7.76%) Next.js
8 6 (5.17%) Apache NiFi
8 6 (5.17%) GraphQL
8 6 (5.17%) RESTful
9 5 (4.31%) Flask
9 5 (4.31%) gRPC
9 5 (4.31%) Keycloak
9 5 (4.31%) Node.js
10 4 (3.45%) Protocol Buffers
10 4 (3.45%) Spark Streaming
10 4 (3.45%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.21%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.62%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (7.76%) Digital Media
4 8 (6.90%) Clustering
5 7 (6.03%) PKI
6 6 (5.17%) Data Centre
6 6 (5.17%) Product Ownership
7 5 (4.31%) Data Structures
7 5 (4.31%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (3.45%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (3.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 3 (2.59%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.72%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 29 (25.00%) Linux
2 10 (8.62%) Windows
3 9 (7.76%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (4.31%) Solaris
4 5 (4.31%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (2.59%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (2.59%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (2.59%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.72%) Debian
6 2 (1.72%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.72%) VMS
7 1 (0.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (40.52%) CI/CD
2 41 (35.34%) Agile
3 39 (33.62%) DevOps
4 26 (22.41%) Software Engineering
5 23 (19.83%) AI
6 22 (18.97%) Containerisation
7 20 (17.24%) Data Modelling
8 19 (16.38%) Data Pipeline
8 19 (16.38%) Test Automation
9 18 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (14.66%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (14.66%) Observability
10 17 (14.66%) Scrum
11 16 (13.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 15 (12.93%) Analytics
12 15 (12.93%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (12.07%) ETL
14 13 (11.21%) Data Architecture
14 13 (11.21%) Event-Driven
14 13 (11.21%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 39 (33.62%) Java
1 39 (33.62%) SQL
2 38 (32.76%) Python
3 21 (18.10%) JavaScript
4 15 (12.93%) TypeScript
5 9 (7.76%) Bash
5 9 (7.76%) PL/SQL
6 8 (6.90%) PowerShell
6 8 (6.90%) Rust
7 7 (6.03%) Shell Script
8 6 (5.17%) Kotlin
9 5 (4.31%) C#
9 5 (4.31%) Go
10 4 (3.45%) Ruby
10 4 (3.45%) Scala
11 2 (1.72%) Groovy
11 2 (1.72%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.86%) C++
12 1 (0.86%) R
12 1 (0.86%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 55 (47.41%) Security Cleared
2 45 (38.79%) SC Cleared
3 17 (14.66%) DV Cleared
4 14 (12.07%) Degree
5 6 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (4.31%) AWS Certification
7 4 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.86%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.86%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.90%) QA
2 5 (4.31%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.59%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.59%) EMIR
3 3 (2.59%) MiFID
4 2 (1.72%) GDPR
4 2 (1.72%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.72%) SLA
5 1 (0.86%) FedRAMP
5 1 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.86%) ITGC
5 1 (0.86%) NIST
System Software
1 40 (34.48%) Docker
2 10 (8.62%) VMware ESXi
2 10 (8.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (5.17%) Active Directory
4 5 (4.31%) BitLocker
4 5 (4.31%) Hyper-V
4 5 (4.31%) Microsoft App-V
5 4 (3.45%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (2.59%) Terminal Services
7 2 (1.72%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (1.72%) HDFS
8 1 (0.86%) Squid
8 1 (0.86%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 41 (35.34%) Kubernetes
2 25 (21.55%) Prometheus
3 22 (18.97%) Ansible
4 19 (16.38%) Grafana
5 12 (10.34%) Kibana
6 11 (9.48%) Puppet
7 8 (6.90%) logstash
8 5 (4.31%) vCenter Server
8 5 (4.31%) vMotion
9 4 (3.45%) Nagios
9 4 (3.45%) Oracle RMAN
9 4 (3.45%) Podman
10 3 (2.59%) Consul
11 2 (1.72%) Istio
11 2 (1.72%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (1.72%) systemd
12 1 (0.86%) Amdocs OSS
12 1 (0.86%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.86%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (18.97%) Oracle
2 15 (12.93%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.62%) VMware
4 8 (6.90%) IBM
5 6 (5.17%) Red Hat
6 5 (4.31%) Citrix
7 4 (3.45%) NVIDIA
7 4 (3.45%) Tenable
8 3 (2.59%) Cloudera
8 3 (2.59%) Databricks
8 3 (2.59%) Dynatrace
8 3 (2.59%) Google
8 3 (2.59%) HP
8 3 (2.59%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.59%) Symantec
9 2 (1.72%) Confluent
9 2 (1.72%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.72%) NetApp
9 2 (1.72%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.86%) Netlify