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 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 466 380 376
Rank change year-on-year -86 -4 +77
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 129 112 168
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.46% 0.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.04% 2.43% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 87 135
10th Percentile £425 £398 £416
25th Percentile £475 £510 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £575 £622
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% -7.56% +13.09%
75th Percentile £573 £663 £700
90th Percentile £721 £713 £825
UK median daily rate £521 £573 £600
% change year-on-year -9.08% -4.58% +15.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £35.75 £47.14 -
25th Percentile £43.63 £58.98 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £78.70 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.67% - -
75th Percentile £69.63 £79.35 -
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.74 -
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £78.70 -
% change year-on-year -25.67% - -

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 6,335 4,618 6,257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.15% 19.05% 16.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,318 3,206 4,515
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £424 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £519 £525
% change year-on-year -3.66% -1.14% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 92 138
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.41 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.82 £22.96 £20.77
Median hourly rate £41.00 £31.85 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.75% -20.39% -33.33%
75th Percentile £73.75 £62.63 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.63 £73.25
UK median hourly rate £42.11 £32.96 £40.00
% change year-on-year +27.75% -17.60% -33.33%

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 1 June 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 1 June 2026.

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 1 June 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 -56 62 £521 -16.68% 44
Midlands -42 24 £525 -2.23% 5
West Midlands -42 24 £525 -4.55% 3
North of England -68 14 £500 +27.23% 16
North West -40 13 £500 +27.23% 13
South West -25 10 £550 -8.33% 15
South East -69 8 £486 -15.43% 26
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
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 21 (16.28%) nginx
2 17 (13.18%) Apache Spark
3 9 (6.98%) Confluence
4 7 (5.43%) Apache
5 6 (4.65%) OpenStack
6 5 (3.88%) Tomcat
7 3 (2.33%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.78%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.78%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Magento
1 1 (0.78%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 51 (39.53%) AWS
2 25 (19.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 18 (13.95%) Serverless
4 14 (10.85%) Azure
5 12 (9.30%) Amazon S3
5 12 (9.30%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (7.75%) GCP
7 9 (6.98%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (6.98%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (6.98%) Route 53
7 9 (6.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 8 (6.20%) PaaS
9 7 (5.43%) IaaS
10 4 (3.10%) OpenShift
11 3 (2.33%) Kong
12 2 (1.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (1.55%) Azure Functions
12 2 (1.55%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (1.55%) Entra ID
12 2 (1.55%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 18 (13.95%) DNS
2 17 (13.18%) Firewall
2 17 (13.18%) VPN
3 12 (9.30%) TCP/IP
4 9 (6.98%) HTTP
4 9 (6.98%) OpenVPN
5 7 (5.43%) DHCP
5 7 (5.43%) SMTP
6 2 (1.55%) MQTT
6 2 (1.55%) Multicast
6 2 (1.55%) NaaS
6 2 (1.55%) NAS
6 2 (1.55%) Network Security
6 2 (1.55%) SAN
6 2 (1.55%) WAN
7 1 (0.78%) DSL
7 1 (0.78%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (20.16%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (7.75%) Hadoop
3 8 (6.20%) Big Data
4 6 (4.65%) MongoDB
4 6 (4.65%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.88%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (3.88%) MySQL
6 4 (3.10%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.33%) HBase
8 2 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.55%) Flink
8 2 (1.55%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.55%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.55%) Redis
8 2 (1.55%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.55%) TimescaleDB
9 1 (0.78%) Power BI
9 1 (0.78%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.78%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 15 (11.63%) Git
2 14 (10.85%) JIRA
3 9 (6.98%) GitLab
3 9 (6.98%) SonarQube
4 7 (5.43%) Bitbucket
5 6 (4.65%) Jenkins
6 5 (3.88%) JUnit
7 3 (2.33%) Gatling
7 3 (2.33%) JMeter
7 3 (2.33%) LoadRunner
7 3 (2.33%) Selenium
8 2 (1.55%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.55%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.78%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.78%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.78%) Postman
9 1 (0.78%) Travis CI
General
1 23 (17.83%) Social Skills
2 11 (8.53%) Public Sector
3 8 (6.20%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.43%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (5.43%) Finance
5 3 (2.33%) Banking
5 3 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.55%) Back Office
6 2 (1.55%) Billing
6 2 (1.55%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.78%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.78%) Front Office
7 1 (0.78%) Marketing
7 1 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (24.03%) Developer
2 13 (10.08%) Full-Stack Developer
3 12 (9.30%) Architect
3 12 (9.30%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (9.30%) Software Engineer
4 11 (8.53%) SIEM Engineer
5 10 (7.75%) Senior
6 9 (6.98%) Applications Engineer
7 8 (6.20%) Elasticsearch Engineer
7 8 (6.20%) Lead
7 8 (6.20%) Site Engineer
7 8 (6.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 7 (5.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 7 (5.43%) Java Engineer
8 7 (5.43%) NetApp Engineer
8 7 (5.43%) Splunk Engineer
8 7 (5.43%) Storage Engineer
9 6 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (4.65%) Java Developer
9 6 (4.65%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (34.11%) Kafka
2 29 (22.48%) Elastic Stack
2 29 (22.48%) Spring
3 23 (17.83%) Node.js
4 21 (16.28%) REST
5 19 (14.73%) WireMock
6 17 (13.18%) Spring Boot
7 15 (11.63%) React
8 10 (7.75%) LDAP
9 9 (6.98%) OpenID
10 7 (5.43%) Apache NiFi
11 5 (3.88%) GraphQL
11 5 (3.88%) JSON
11 5 (3.88%) Middleware
11 5 (3.88%) Swagger
12 4 (3.10%) AngularJS
12 4 (3.10%) gRPC
12 4 (3.10%) Keycloak
12 4 (3.10%) Playwright
12 4 (3.10%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.85%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (9.30%) Cloud Native
3 10 (7.75%) Clustering
4 9 (6.98%) Enterprise Storage
5 8 (6.20%) PKI
6 7 (5.43%) Management Information System
7 6 (4.65%) Product Ownership
8 5 (3.88%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (3.10%) Security Posture
10 3 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.55%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.55%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.55%) Replication
11 2 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.78%) CMDB
12 1 (0.78%) Data Centre
12 1 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 1 (0.78%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 34 (26.36%) Linux
2 13 (10.08%) Windows
3 11 (8.53%) Windows Server
4 7 (5.43%) Unix
4 7 (5.43%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (3.88%) Solaris
5 5 (3.88%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (3.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (3.10%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (3.10%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (2.33%) VMS
8 2 (1.55%) Debian
8 2 (1.55%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (47.29%) DevOps
2 30 (23.26%) Agile
2 30 (23.26%) CI/CD
3 25 (19.38%) Performance Tuning
4 24 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (17.83%) Containerisation
6 20 (15.50%) Full-Stack Development
7 18 (13.95%) Incident Response
8 17 (13.18%) Observability
8 17 (13.18%) Roadmaps
9 16 (12.40%) Data Ingestion
9 16 (12.40%) Data Modelling
9 16 (12.40%) SIEM
9 16 (12.40%) Software Engineering
10 15 (11.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 14 (10.85%) Computer Science
11 14 (10.85%) Cybersecurity
11 14 (10.85%) Decision-Making
12 13 (10.08%) Microservices
12 13 (10.08%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 53 (41.09%) Java
2 38 (29.46%) Python
3 21 (16.28%) JavaScript
4 19 (14.73%) SQL
5 16 (12.40%) TypeScript
6 11 (8.53%) Bash
7 9 (6.98%) Rust
8 8 (6.20%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.88%) Go
9 5 (3.88%) Scala
10 4 (3.10%) C#
10 4 (3.10%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.33%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.55%) C++
12 2 (1.55%) Groovy
12 2 (1.55%) Ruby
13 1 (0.78%) Gremlin
13 1 (0.78%) PHP
13 1 (0.78%) R
13 1 (0.78%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 68 (52.71%) Security Cleared
2 51 (39.53%) SC Cleared
3 24 (18.60%) DV Cleared
4 17 (13.18%) Degree
5 13 (10.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (5.43%) AWS Certification
6 7 (5.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.55%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.55%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.43%) QA
2 5 (3.88%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
System Software
1 42 (32.56%) Docker
2 12 (9.30%) VMware ESXi
2 12 (9.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (6.98%) Squid
4 8 (6.20%) Active Directory
5 7 (5.43%) BitLocker
5 7 (5.43%) Hyper-V
5 7 (5.43%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (3.10%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.78%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 55 (42.64%) Kubernetes
2 32 (24.81%) Ansible
3 30 (23.26%) Kibana
4 29 (22.48%) Terraform
5 28 (21.71%) Grafana
6 26 (20.16%) Prometheus
7 18 (13.95%) logstash
8 17 (13.18%) Puppet
9 9 (6.98%) FortiGate
9 9 (6.98%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (6.20%) Consul
11 7 (5.43%) vCenter Server
11 7 (5.43%) vMotion
12 4 (3.10%) Oracle RMAN
13 3 (2.33%) Argo
13 3 (2.33%) Nagios
14 2 (1.55%) Amdocs OSS
14 2 (1.55%) Podman
14 2 (1.55%) Red Hat Satellite
15 1 (0.78%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 18 (13.95%) Dynatrace
2 16 (12.40%) Red Hat
3 12 (9.30%) VMware
4 9 (6.98%) Microsoft
5 8 (6.20%) Oracle
5 8 (6.20%) Splunk
6 7 (5.43%) Atlassian
6 7 (5.43%) Citrix
6 7 (5.43%) NetApp
7 5 (3.88%) IBM
8 3 (2.33%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.55%) Amdocs
9 2 (1.55%) Ciena
9 2 (1.55%) Cloudera
9 2 (1.55%) Dell
9 2 (1.55%) F5
9 2 (1.55%) Netlify
9 2 (1.55%) NVIDIA
9 2 (1.55%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.55%) Tenable