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

 6 months to
14 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 407 370
Rank change year-on-year -106 -37 +67
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 116 102 152
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.37% 0.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.68% 2.06% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 81 108
10th Percentile £359 £339 £409
25th Percentile £413 £456 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £625 £668 £646
90th Percentile £689 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £560 £584
% change year-on-year -10.71% -4.11% +6.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £38.23 £55.70 -
25th Percentile £49.81 £59.75 -
Median hourly rate £58.00 £68.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% - -
75th Percentile £63.63 £74.75 -
90th Percentile £69.70 £77.90 -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £68.00 -
% change year-on-year -15.44% - -

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 6,897 4,959 5,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.99% 17.99% 18.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,603 3,400 4,159
10th Percentile £358 £334 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £622 £638 £675
90th Percentile £709 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £531
% change year-on-year - -5.75% -2.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 78 79
10th Percentile £15.72 £21.24 £17.50
25th Percentile £24.40 £31.12 £21.25
Median hourly rate £38.50 £42.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.32% +19.99% -36.36%
75th Percentile £61.13 £65.00 £60.78
90th Percentile £75.20 £80.00 £72.20
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -1.25% +14.29% -36.36%

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 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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Elasticsearch in England over the 6 months to 14 September 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 14 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 -64 73 £495 -13.91% 159
South West -37 16 £550 -8.33% 29
South East -58 7 £690 +20.00% 26
West Midlands -57 6 £450 -25.00% 12
Midlands -59 6 £450 -25.00% 16
North of England -73 6 £475 +24.10% 41
North West -53 3 - - 25
Yorkshire - 3 £475 - 11
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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 18 (15.52%) nginx
2 16 (13.79%) Apache Spark
3 12 (10.34%) Apache
4 9 (7.76%) Confluence
4 9 (7.76%) WebLogic
5 8 (6.90%) Tomcat
6 5 (4.31%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (1.72%) Camunda
8 2 (1.72%) Liferay
8 2 (1.72%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.86%) CMS
9 1 (0.86%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.86%) IIS
9 1 (0.86%) Sitecore CMS
9 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 49 (42.24%) AWS
2 33 (28.45%) Azure
3 21 (18.10%) GCP
4 19 (16.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 12 (10.34%) GitHub
6 10 (8.62%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (8.62%) Serverless
7 7 (6.03%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (5.17%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (4.31%) Amazon S3
9 5 (4.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (4.31%) Entra ID
10 4 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (3.45%) IaaS
10 4 (3.45%) OpenShift
10 4 (3.45%) PaaS
11 3 (2.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (2.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.90%) DNS
2 7 (6.03%) HTTP
3 6 (5.17%) Firewall
4 5 (4.31%) VPN
5 4 (3.45%) DHCP
5 4 (3.45%) MQTT
5 4 (3.45%) Network Security
5 4 (3.45%) SMTP
6 2 (1.72%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.72%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (1.72%) SAN
7 1 (0.86%) DSL
7 1 (0.86%) Intranet
7 1 (0.86%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.93%) Metadata
2 13 (11.21%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (11.21%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (9.48%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (9.48%) MongoDB
4 10 (8.62%) Big Data
5 9 (7.76%) Data Lake
6 8 (6.90%) NoSQL
7 6 (5.17%) Flink
8 5 (4.31%) Hadoop
8 5 (4.31%) Redis
9 4 (3.45%) BigQuery
9 4 (3.45%) MySQL
9 4 (3.45%) Oracle Database
9 4 (3.45%) SQL Server
10 3 (2.59%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (2.59%) ClickHouse
10 3 (2.59%) GIS
10 3 (2.59%) HBase
10 3 (2.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (26.72%) Git
2 17 (14.66%) JIRA
3 13 (11.21%) GitLab
3 13 (11.21%) Jenkins
4 6 (5.17%) JUnit
5 4 (3.45%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.45%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.59%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.59%) Selenium
7 2 (1.72%) Gradle
7 2 (1.72%) Maven
7 2 (1.72%) Mockito
8 1 (0.86%) git-flow
8 1 (0.86%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.86%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.86%) RhodeCode
8 1 (0.86%) TeamCity
General
1 20 (17.24%) Social Skills
2 11 (9.48%) Finance
3 10 (8.62%) Public Sector
4 9 (7.76%) Banking
5 5 (4.31%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.59%) Marketing
6 3 (2.59%) Police
7 2 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.72%) Law
8 1 (0.86%) Back Office
8 1 (0.86%) Legal
8 1 (0.86%) Publishing
8 1 (0.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (31.03%) Developer
2 16 (13.79%) Architect
3 14 (12.07%) Java Developer
4 13 (11.21%) Senior
5 12 (10.34%) Software Engineer
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%) Oracle Developer
10 6 (5.17%) WebLogic Developer
11 5 (4.31%) Digital Developer
11 5 (4.31%) Elasticsearch Developer
11 5 (4.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (4.31%) Java Software Engineer
11 5 (4.31%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 5 (4.31%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (29.31%) Kafka
2 23 (19.83%) Terraform
3 19 (16.38%) Spring
4 17 (14.66%) React
4 17 (14.66%) REST
5 15 (12.93%) Elastic Stack
6 13 (11.21%) Spring Boot
7 11 (9.48%) HTML
8 9 (7.76%) CSS
8 9 (7.76%) Next.js
9 6 (5.17%) Apache NiFi
9 6 (5.17%) RESTful
10 5 (4.31%) .NET
10 5 (4.31%) Flask
10 5 (4.31%) GraphQL
10 5 (4.31%) Keycloak
10 5 (4.31%) Node.js
11 4 (3.45%) gRPC
11 4 (3.45%) Protocol Buffers
11 4 (3.45%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.07%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.76%) Digital Media
2 9 (7.76%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.03%) Clustering
4 6 (5.17%) Data Centre
4 6 (5.17%) Legacy Applications
4 6 (5.17%) PKI
4 6 (5.17%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.31%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.45%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (2.59%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.72%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.72%) Replication
9 1 (0.86%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 28 (24.14%) Linux
2 9 (7.76%) Windows
3 8 (6.90%) 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 2016
5 3 (2.59%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.72%) Debian
6 2 (1.72%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.72%) VMS
6 2 (1.72%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (40.52%) CI/CD
2 39 (33.62%) Agile
3 38 (32.76%) DevOps
4 27 (23.28%) Software Engineering
5 24 (20.69%) Containerisation
6 22 (18.97%) AI
7 20 (17.24%) Data Modelling
8 19 (16.38%) Data Pipeline
8 19 (16.38%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (14.66%) Analytics
10 17 (14.66%) Test Automation
11 16 (13.79%) Observability
11 16 (13.79%) Scrum
12 15 (12.93%) Machine Learning
12 15 (12.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 14 (12.07%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (12.07%) Data Architecture
13 14 (12.07%) ETL
14 13 (11.21%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 39 (33.62%) Python
2 38 (32.76%) SQL
3 37 (31.90%) Java
4 23 (19.83%) JavaScript
5 17 (14.66%) TypeScript
6 9 (7.76%) Bash
6 9 (7.76%) PL/SQL
7 8 (6.90%) Rust
8 7 (6.03%) PowerShell
8 7 (6.03%) Shell Script
9 6 (5.17%) Kotlin
10 5 (4.31%) Go
11 4 (3.45%) C#
11 4 (3.45%) Ruby
11 4 (3.45%) Scala
12 2 (1.72%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.86%) Groovy
13 1 (0.86%) PHP
13 1 (0.86%) R
13 1 (0.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 57 (49.14%) Security Cleared
2 48 (41.38%) SC Cleared
3 16 (13.79%) DV Cleared
4 15 (12.93%) Degree
5 7 (6.03%) AWS Certification
5 7 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (5.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.86%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
9 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 41 (35.34%) Docker
2 9 (7.76%) VMware ESXi
2 9 (7.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.31%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.45%) BitLocker
4 4 (3.45%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.45%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (3.45%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (2.59%) Terminal Services
6 2 (1.72%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (1.72%) HDFS
7 1 (0.86%) Squid
7 1 (0.86%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 40 (34.48%) Kubernetes
2 24 (20.69%) Prometheus
3 21 (18.10%) Ansible
4 18 (15.52%) Grafana
5 12 (10.34%) Kibana
6 10 (8.62%) Puppet
7 8 (6.90%) logstash
8 4 (3.45%) Nagios
8 4 (3.45%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (3.45%) Podman
8 4 (3.45%) vCenter Server
8 4 (3.45%) vMotion
9 3 (2.59%) Consul
10 2 (1.72%) Istio
10 2 (1.72%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (1.72%) systemd
11 1 (0.86%) Argo
11 1 (0.86%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.86%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (19.83%) Oracle
2 14 (12.07%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.76%) VMware
4 8 (6.90%) IBM
5 6 (5.17%) Red Hat
6 4 (3.45%) Citrix
6 4 (3.45%) NVIDIA
6 4 (3.45%) Tenable
7 3 (2.59%) Cloudera
7 3 (2.59%) Databricks
7 3 (2.59%) Google
7 3 (2.59%) HP
7 3 (2.59%) Symantec
8 2 (1.72%) Confluent
8 2 (1.72%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.72%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.72%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.72%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.72%) WSO2
9 1 (0.86%) Netlify
274 Elasticsearch jobs in England