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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 440 343 393
Rank change year-on-year -97 +50 +19
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 106 174 185
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.56% 0.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.98% 3.14% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 103 143
10th Percentile £354 £365 £450
25th Percentile £456 £500 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £610 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% -2.40% +2.46%
75th Percentile £634 £700 £788
90th Percentile £695 £1,075 £825
UK median daily rate £550 £601 £600
% change year-on-year -8.45% +0.13% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £55.70 - £66.50
25th Percentile £59.75 - £72.50
Median hourly rate £68.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile £74.75 - £77.50
90th Percentile £77.90 - -
UK median hourly rate £68.00 - £75.00

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 5,364 5,535 6,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.75% 17.75% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,722 3,725 4,711
10th Percentile £328 £350 £358
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - -
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £726 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £527 £534
% change year-on-year -5.08% -1.27% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 79 141
10th Percentile £20.67 £17.50 £19.25
25th Percentile £29.06 £22.20 £25.18
Median hourly rate £44.25 £33.93 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.42% -28.57% -4.90%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.38 £67.00
90th Percentile £84.65 £65.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £30.00 £46.84
% change year-on-year +45.00% -35.95% +4.09%

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025. 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 -28 58 £550 -9.47% 89
West Midlands -11 29 £550 -13.39% 10
Midlands -16 29 £550 +10.55% 13
South West -12 15 £600 -7.69% 18
North West -24 3 £373 -28.57% 36
North of England -49 3 £373 -32.27% 43
South East -5 2 £450 -7.69% 26
East of England -30 2 £575 +91.67% 9
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 15 (14.15%) Confluence
2 11 (10.38%) Apache
3 7 (6.60%) Apache Spark
4 4 (3.77%) JBoss
5 2 (1.89%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.94%) Camunda
6 1 (0.94%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.94%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Magento
1 1 (0.94%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 34 (32.08%) Azure
2 26 (24.53%) AWS
3 16 (15.09%) GCP
3 16 (15.09%) GitHub
4 14 (13.21%) Serverless
5 9 (8.49%) Azure AKS
5 9 (8.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 9 (8.49%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (7.55%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (7.55%) Entra ID
7 7 (6.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 6 (5.66%) Amazon S3
8 6 (5.66%) OpenShift
9 3 (2.83%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.83%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (2.83%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.89%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.89%) HTTP
1 2 (1.89%) SSH
2 1 (0.94%) DSL
2 1 (0.94%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.94%) Firewall
2 1 (0.94%) SMTP
2 1 (0.94%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (21.70%) Big Data
1 23 (21.70%) Hadoop
2 16 (15.09%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (5.66%) Relational Database
4 5 (4.72%) Data Lake
4 5 (4.72%) MySQL
4 5 (4.72%) NoSQL
4 5 (4.72%) RDBMS
5 4 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.77%) Redis
6 3 (2.83%) Apache Hive
6 3 (2.83%) Impala
6 3 (2.83%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.83%) Power BI
6 3 (2.83%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.89%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.89%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.94%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 20 (18.87%) Jenkins
2 19 (17.92%) JIRA
3 12 (11.32%) Git
4 7 (6.60%) TeamCity
5 6 (5.66%) SonarQube
6 4 (3.77%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (3.77%) CA Release Automation
6 4 (3.77%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (2.83%) GitLab
8 2 (1.89%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.89%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.89%) Maven
8 2 (1.89%) Postman
9 1 (0.94%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.94%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.94%) Gradle
9 1 (0.94%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.94%) JMeter
9 1 (0.94%) JUnit
9 1 (0.94%) Selenium
General
1 37 (34.91%) Social Skills
2 19 (17.92%) Finance
3 16 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.72%) Banking
4 5 (4.72%) Investment Banking
5 4 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.77%) Law
6 3 (2.83%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.89%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.89%) Retail
8 1 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.94%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.94%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 20 (18.87%) Data Engineer
2 15 (14.15%) Senior
3 13 (12.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 11 (10.38%) Developer
4 11 (10.38%) Splunk Engineer
5 9 (8.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 9 (8.49%) Senior Data Engineer
5 9 (8.49%) Software Engineer
6 8 (7.55%) Site Engineer
7 7 (6.60%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (6.60%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Applications Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Python Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
11 3 (2.83%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 3 (2.83%) Kubernetes Specialist
11 3 (2.83%) Migration Specialist
11 3 (2.83%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (43.40%) Elastic Stack
2 35 (33.02%) Kafka
3 17 (16.04%) React
4 16 (15.09%) Apache NiFi
5 15 (14.15%) Node.js
6 12 (11.32%) RabbitMQ
7 11 (10.38%) REST
8 9 (8.49%) FIX Protocol
8 9 (8.49%) Next.js
9 8 (7.55%) Express.js
9 8 (7.55%) JSON
9 8 (7.55%) Keycloak
9 8 (7.55%) Spring Boot
10 7 (6.60%) XML
11 6 (5.66%) HTML
11 6 (5.66%) Ultra Messaging
12 5 (4.72%) AngularJS
12 5 (4.72%) CSS
12 5 (4.72%) PySpark
13 4 (3.77%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.09%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.38%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (8.49%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (6.60%) Management Information System
5 6 (5.66%) Algorithms
5 6 (5.66%) Fixed Income
5 6 (5.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (4.72%) Replication
7 3 (2.83%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.89%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.89%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.94%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.94%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.94%) IoT
9 1 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.94%) MISP
9 1 (0.94%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.94%) Video on Demand
9 1 (0.94%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 37 (34.91%) Linux
2 9 (8.49%) Unix
3 8 (7.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (5.66%) Windows
5 3 (2.83%) CentOS
5 3 (2.83%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.89%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.94%) Debian
7 1 (0.94%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (45.28%) DevOps
2 37 (34.91%) Observability
3 35 (33.02%) Containerisation
4 34 (32.08%) Agile
4 34 (32.08%) CI/CD
5 26 (24.53%) Software Engineering
6 24 (22.64%) Migration
7 23 (21.70%) Data Pipeline
8 22 (20.75%) Microservices
9 20 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (17.92%) Analytics
10 19 (17.92%) Data Ingestion
11 18 (16.98%) Full-Stack Development
12 17 (16.04%) Machine Learning
13 16 (15.09%) Infrastructure as Code
14 15 (14.15%) Data Engineering
14 15 (14.15%) Scrum
15 14 (13.21%) ETL
15 14 (13.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 13 (12.26%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 60 (56.60%) Python
2 19 (17.92%) Bash
3 17 (16.04%) Java
4 14 (13.21%) PowerShell
5 13 (12.26%) SQL
6 12 (11.32%) TypeScript
7 11 (10.38%) Bicep
8 10 (9.43%) Go
9 9 (8.49%) JavaScript
9 9 (8.49%) Perl
10 4 (3.77%) C#
11 3 (2.83%) C
12 2 (1.89%) Scala
12 2 (1.89%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.94%) PHP
13 1 (0.94%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.94%) Ruby
13 1 (0.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (36.79%) Security Cleared
2 35 (33.02%) SC Cleared
3 19 (17.92%) DV Cleared
4 8 (7.55%) Azure Certification
5 6 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (5.66%) Degree
6 2 (1.89%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.94%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.94%) CEH
7 1 (0.94%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.94%) Data Quality
1 1 (0.94%) GDPR
1 1 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (0.94%) NIST
System Software
1 51 (48.11%) Docker
2 12 (11.32%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.89%) HDFS
4 1 (0.94%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.94%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 59 (55.66%) Kubernetes
2 54 (50.94%) Kibana
3 34 (32.08%) logstash
4 22 (20.75%) Ansible
5 14 (13.21%) Terraform
6 11 (10.38%) Grafana
7 10 (9.43%) ITRS Geneos
8 8 (7.55%) Puppet
9 7 (6.60%) Progress Chef
10 5 (4.72%) Argo
10 5 (4.72%) Prometheus
11 2 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.94%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.94%) Graphite
12 1 (0.94%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.94%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 20 (18.87%) Splunk
2 16 (15.09%) Cloudera
3 14 (13.21%) Microsoft
4 13 (12.26%) Foundry
4 13 (12.26%) Palantir
5 10 (9.43%) Solace
6 7 (6.60%) Oracle
6 7 (6.60%) Red Hat
7 6 (5.66%) TIBCO
8 5 (4.72%) AppDynamics
9 3 (2.83%) Google
10 1 (0.94%) Adobe
10 1 (0.94%) Black Duck
10 1 (0.94%) Intel
10 1 (0.94%) PagerDuty
10 1 (0.94%) Qualys
10 1 (0.94%) SAP
10 1 (0.94%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.94%) Sybase
10 1 (0.94%) Veracode