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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 454 336 356
Rank change year-on-year -118 +20 +62
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 130 136 196
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.56% 0.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.17% 2.94% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 88 160
10th Percentile £424 £393 £414
25th Percentile £475 £523 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £663
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -9.43% +10.42%
75th Percentile £600 £691 £825
90th Percentile £690 £1,075 -
UK median daily rate £544 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -9.38% - +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £43.20 £63.50
25th Percentile - £49.11 £65.00
Median hourly rate £79.00 £61.60 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +28.25% -10.40% -
75th Percentile - £71.46 £73.75
90th Percentile - £75.81 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £79.00 £61.60 £68.75
% change year-on-year +28.25% -10.40% -

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 5,983 4,631 6,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.95% 19.07% 16.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,152 3,250 4,415
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £666
90th Percentile £700 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 90 155
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.69 £14.00
25th Percentile £28.50 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £50.00 £33.81 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +47.91% -16.01% -28.63%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.67 £53.94
90th Percentile £85.15 £70.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £50.50 £31.64 £40.13
% change year-on-year +59.61% -21.15% -28.86%

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 25 March 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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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 25 March 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 -78 54 £550 -9.47% 47
West Midlands -26 40 £550 - 3
Midlands -44 40 £550 +2.42% 7
South West -21 15 £550 -8.33% 13
North of England -68 14 £500 +10.56% 12
North West -33 13 £500 +25.39% 10
South East -48 6 £399 -18.16% 20
East of England -39 1 - - 4
Yorkshire -59 1 - - 2
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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 14 (10.77%) Confluence
2 12 (9.23%) nginx
3 11 (8.46%) Apache Spark
4 6 (4.62%) Apache
4 6 (4.62%) OpenStack
5 5 (3.85%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (1.54%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.54%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Magento
1 1 (0.77%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 45 (34.62%) AWS
2 27 (20.77%) Azure
3 22 (16.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 18 (13.85%) Serverless
5 15 (11.54%) GitHub
6 12 (9.23%) Amazon S3
6 12 (9.23%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (8.46%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (7.69%) GCP
9 9 (6.92%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (6.92%) Route 53
9 9 (6.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (5.38%) PaaS
11 6 (4.62%) IaaS
12 4 (3.08%) OpenShift
13 3 (2.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (2.31%) Kong
14 2 (1.54%) Azure Functions
14 2 (1.54%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 17 (13.08%) DNS
2 16 (12.31%) Firewall
2 16 (12.31%) VPN
3 12 (9.23%) TCP/IP
4 9 (6.92%) OpenVPN
5 6 (4.62%) DHCP
5 6 (4.62%) HTTP
5 6 (4.62%) SMTP
6 2 (1.54%) Multicast
6 2 (1.54%) NaaS
6 2 (1.54%) NAS
6 2 (1.54%) SAN
6 2 (1.54%) WAN
7 1 (0.77%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (26.15%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (10.77%) Hadoop
3 10 (7.69%) Big Data
4 5 (3.85%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.08%) MySQL
5 4 (3.08%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.08%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.31%) Redis
7 2 (1.54%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.54%) Flink
7 2 (1.54%) InfluxDB
7 2 (1.54%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.54%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.54%) TimescaleDB
7 2 (1.54%) Weaviate
8 1 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.77%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.77%) Power BI
8 1 (0.77%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (12.31%) JIRA
2 9 (6.92%) Git
3 8 (6.15%) GitLab
4 7 (5.38%) Bitbucket
4 7 (5.38%) SonarQube
5 6 (4.62%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.31%) Gatling
6 3 (2.31%) JMeter
6 3 (2.31%) JUnit
6 3 (2.31%) LoadRunner
7 2 (1.54%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.54%) Postman
7 2 (1.54%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.77%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.77%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.77%) git-flow
8 1 (0.77%) Maven
8 1 (0.77%) Travis CI
General
1 31 (23.85%) Social Skills
2 12 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (9.23%) Public Sector
3 9 (6.92%) Finance
4 8 (6.15%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.54%) Back Office
6 2 (1.54%) Banking
6 2 (1.54%) Billing
6 2 (1.54%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.77%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.77%) Front Office
7 1 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.77%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (19.23%) Developer
2 18 (13.85%) Data Engineer
2 18 (13.85%) Senior
3 14 (10.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 13 (10.00%) Architect
4 13 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 13 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 13 (10.00%) Splunk Engineer
5 11 (8.46%) SIEM Engineer
5 11 (8.46%) Site Engineer
6 10 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
6 10 (7.69%) Software Engineer
7 6 (4.62%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 6 (4.62%) Lead
7 6 (4.62%) NetApp Engineer
7 6 (4.62%) Storage Engineer
7 6 (4.62%) Technical Architect
8 5 (3.85%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (3.85%) AWS Architect
8 5 (3.85%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (36.92%) Kafka
2 36 (27.69%) Elastic Stack
3 25 (19.23%) Spring
4 22 (16.92%) Node.js
5 18 (13.85%) REST
5 18 (13.85%) WireMock
6 14 (10.77%) Spring Boot
7 12 (9.23%) Keycloak
7 12 (9.23%) React
8 11 (8.46%) Apache NiFi
9 10 (7.69%) LDAP
9 10 (7.69%) OpenID
10 8 (6.15%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (3.85%) AngularJS
12 4 (3.08%) JSON
12 4 (3.08%) Swagger
13 3 (2.31%) GraphQL
13 3 (2.31%) LangChain
13 3 (2.31%) Playwright
13 3 (2.31%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
1 10 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
1 10 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 9 (6.92%) Cloud Native
3 8 (6.15%) Enterprise Storage
4 7 (5.38%) PKI
5 6 (4.62%) Clustering
6 4 (3.08%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.31%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.31%) Replication
8 2 (1.54%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.54%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.54%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.54%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.77%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 31 (23.85%) Linux
2 10 (7.69%) Unix
3 9 (6.92%) Windows
4 8 (6.15%) Windows Server
5 6 (4.62%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.54%) Solaris
6 2 (1.54%) VMS
6 2 (1.54%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (51.54%) DevOps
2 31 (23.85%) Containerisation
3 27 (20.77%) Agile
3 27 (20.77%) CI/CD
3 27 (20.77%) Performance Tuning
3 27 (20.77%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (16.92%) Incident Response
4 22 (16.92%) Observability
5 21 (16.15%) Data Ingestion
6 20 (15.38%) Data Engineering
7 18 (13.85%) Data Modelling
7 18 (13.85%) Data Pipeline
7 18 (13.85%) Full-Stack Development
7 18 (13.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 17 (13.08%) ETL
8 17 (13.08%) SIEM
9 16 (12.31%) Computer Science
9 16 (12.31%) Software Engineering
10 15 (11.54%) Migration
10 15 (11.54%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 48 (36.92%) Python
2 41 (31.54%) Java
3 17 (13.08%) JavaScript
4 15 (11.54%) TypeScript
5 14 (10.77%) Bash
5 14 (10.77%) Go
6 12 (9.23%) SQL
7 10 (7.69%) PowerShell
8 7 (5.38%) Rust
9 4 (3.08%) C#
9 4 (3.08%) Scala
10 2 (1.54%) C++
10 2 (1.54%) Groovy
10 2 (1.54%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.77%) Gremlin
11 1 (0.77%) PHP
11 1 (0.77%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 67 (51.54%) Security Cleared
2 51 (39.23%) SC Cleared
3 25 (19.23%) DV Cleared
4 17 (13.08%) Degree
5 16 (12.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (9.23%) Azure Certification
7 7 (5.38%) AWS Certification
7 7 (5.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.08%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.54%) QA
3 1 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.77%) NIST
3 1 (0.77%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 47 (36.15%) Docker
2 9 (6.92%) Squid
3 8 (6.15%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (6.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (5.38%) Active Directory
5 6 (4.62%) BitLocker
5 6 (4.62%) Hyper-V
5 6 (4.62%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (1.54%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.77%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 65 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 37 (28.46%) Kibana
3 29 (22.31%) Ansible
4 26 (20.00%) Terraform
5 24 (18.46%) Grafana
6 22 (16.92%) logstash
7 21 (16.15%) Prometheus
8 17 (13.08%) Puppet
9 9 (6.92%) FortiGate
9 9 (6.92%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (5.38%) Consul
11 6 (4.62%) vCenter Server
11 6 (4.62%) vMotion
12 3 (2.31%) Argo
13 2 (1.54%) Amdocs OSS
13 2 (1.54%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (1.54%) Nagios
13 2 (1.54%) Oracle RMAN
13 2 (1.54%) Red Hat Satellite
14 1 (0.77%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 17 (13.08%) Dynatrace
2 16 (12.31%) Splunk
3 13 (10.00%) Red Hat
4 8 (6.15%) VMware
5 7 (5.38%) Atlassian
5 7 (5.38%) Microsoft
6 6 (4.62%) Citrix
6 6 (4.62%) NetApp
7 5 (3.85%) Cloudera
7 5 (3.85%) Foundry
7 5 (3.85%) Palantir
8 4 (3.08%) AppDynamics
9 3 (2.31%) Oracle
9 3 (2.31%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.54%) Amdocs
10 2 (1.54%) Dell
10 2 (1.54%) F5
10 2 (1.54%) IBM
10 2 (1.54%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.54%) TIBCO