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

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 433 341 421
Rank change year-on-year -92 +80 -6
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 103 175 172
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.56% 0.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.94% 3.15% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 108 127
10th Percentile £352 £388 £450
25th Percentile £450 £499 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £609 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.65% +1.46% -2.44%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £775
90th Percentile £695 £1,075 £825
UK median daily rate £550 £603 £598
% change year-on-year -8.79% +0.92% -0.42%
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 5,302 5,562 6,699
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.18% 17.86% 16.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,641 3,750 4,764
10th Percentile £328 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -
75th Percentile £625 £663 £655
90th Percentile £737 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £528 £535
% change year-on-year -5.35% -1.26% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 80 145
10th Percentile £19.94 £17.95 £18.84
25th Percentile £29.00 £23.98 £25.25
Median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.29% -29.29% -3.41%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.11 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.30 £66.38 £79.20
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £31.55 £47.90
% change year-on-year +37.90% -34.14% -4.21%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch in England over the 6 months to 1 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 1 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 1 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 -16 59 £550 -9.47% 43
Midlands -11 25 £575 +24.32% 12
West Midlands -13 25 £575 -9.45% 7
South West -7 13 £600 -11.11% 23
North West -27 3 £373 -28.57% 11
North of England -54 3 £373 -32.27% 16
South East -3 2 £450 -6.64% 44
East of England -19 2 £575 +91.67% 12
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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 16 (15.53%) Confluence
2 12 (11.65%) Apache
3 7 (6.80%) Apache Spark
4 4 (3.88%) JBoss
5 2 (1.94%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.97%) Camunda
6 1 (0.97%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.97%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 31 (30.10%) Azure
2 25 (24.27%) AWS
3 16 (15.53%) GCP
4 15 (14.56%) Serverless
5 11 (10.68%) GitHub
6 9 (8.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 8 (7.77%) Azure AKS
7 8 (7.77%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (7.77%) Entra ID
8 6 (5.83%) Amazon S3
8 6 (5.83%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (5.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 6 (5.83%) OpenShift
9 3 (2.91%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.91%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (2.91%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.94%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.94%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (1.94%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.94%) HTTP
1 2 (1.94%) SSH
2 1 (0.97%) DSL
2 1 (0.97%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.97%) Firewall
2 1 (0.97%) SMTP
2 1 (0.97%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (23.30%) Big Data
1 24 (23.30%) Hadoop
2 14 (13.59%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.85%) Data Lake
3 5 (4.85%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.85%) RDBMS
3 5 (4.85%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.88%) MySQL
5 3 (2.91%) Apache Hive
5 3 (2.91%) Impala
5 3 (2.91%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.91%) Power BI
5 3 (2.91%) Redis
5 3 (2.91%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.94%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.94%) Pentaho
7 1 (0.97%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 20 (19.42%) Jenkins
1 20 (19.42%) JIRA
2 13 (12.62%) Git
3 7 (6.80%) TeamCity
4 6 (5.83%) SonarQube
5 4 (3.88%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (3.88%) CA Release Automation
5 4 (3.88%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.94%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.94%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.94%) GitLab
6 2 (1.94%) Maven
6 2 (1.94%) Postman
7 1 (0.97%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.97%) Gradle
7 1 (0.97%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.97%) JMeter
7 1 (0.97%) JUnit
7 1 (0.97%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.97%) Selenium
General
1 35 (33.98%) Social Skills
2 20 (19.42%) Finance
3 15 (14.56%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.83%) Banking
4 6 (5.83%) Investment Banking
5 4 (3.88%) Law
6 3 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.91%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.97%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.97%) Marketing
7 1 (0.97%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.97%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (18.45%) Data Engineer
2 12 (11.65%) Developer
2 12 (11.65%) Senior
3 11 (10.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 10 (9.71%) Software Engineer
4 10 (9.71%) Splunk Engineer
5 9 (8.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 7 (6.80%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (6.80%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 7 (6.80%) Senior Data Engineer
6 7 (6.80%) Site Engineer
7 6 (5.83%) Applications Engineer
7 6 (5.83%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.85%) Python Engineer
8 5 (4.85%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 4 (3.88%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 3 (2.91%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 3 (2.91%) Kubernetes Specialist
10 3 (2.91%) Migration Specialist
10 3 (2.91%) Splunk Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (42.72%) Elastic Stack
2 33 (32.04%) Kafka
3 18 (17.48%) React
4 17 (16.50%) Apache NiFi
5 16 (15.53%) Node.js
6 12 (11.65%) REST
7 11 (10.68%) RabbitMQ
8 10 (9.71%) FIX Protocol
9 9 (8.74%) Next.js
10 8 (7.77%) Express.js
10 8 (7.77%) JSON
11 7 (6.80%) HTML
11 7 (6.80%) Spring Boot
11 7 (6.80%) XML
12 6 (5.83%) Keycloak
12 6 (5.83%) Ultra Messaging
13 5 (4.85%) AngularJS
13 5 (4.85%) CSS
13 5 (4.85%) PySpark
14 4 (3.88%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.50%) Cloud Native
2 12 (11.65%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.80%) Fixed Income
3 7 (6.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (6.80%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (6.80%) Management Information System
4 6 (5.83%) Algorithms
5 5 (4.85%) Replication
6 3 (2.91%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.94%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.94%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.97%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.97%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.97%) IoT
8 1 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.97%) MISP
8 1 (0.97%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.97%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.97%) Video on Demand
8 1 (0.97%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 38 (36.89%) Linux
2 9 (8.74%) Unix
3 8 (7.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (5.83%) Windows
5 3 (2.91%) CentOS
5 3 (2.91%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.94%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.97%) Debian
7 1 (0.97%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (44.66%) DevOps
2 36 (34.95%) Agile
3 35 (33.98%) Observability
4 31 (30.10%) Containerisation
5 30 (29.13%) CI/CD
6 28 (27.18%) Software Engineering
7 23 (22.33%) Data Pipeline
8 22 (21.36%) Migration
9 21 (20.39%) Microservices
10 20 (19.42%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (18.45%) Full-Stack Development
12 17 (16.50%) Analytics
12 17 (16.50%) Data Ingestion
12 17 (16.50%) Machine Learning
13 15 (14.56%) Infrastructure as Code
13 15 (14.56%) Scrum
14 13 (12.62%) Data Engineering
14 13 (12.62%) Low Latency
15 12 (11.65%) Data Science
15 12 (11.65%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 57 (55.34%) Python
2 18 (17.48%) Bash
3 16 (15.53%) Java
4 14 (13.59%) PowerShell
5 13 (12.62%) SQL
5 13 (12.62%) TypeScript
6 11 (10.68%) Bicep
7 9 (8.74%) JavaScript
7 9 (8.74%) Perl
8 7 (6.80%) Go
9 4 (3.88%) C#
10 3 (2.91%) C
11 2 (1.94%) Scala
11 2 (1.94%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.97%) Clojure
12 1 (0.97%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.97%) Ruby
12 1 (0.97%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (36.89%) Security Cleared
2 34 (33.01%) SC Cleared
3 19 (18.45%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.83%) Azure Certification
4 6 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (5.83%) Degree
5 2 (1.94%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.97%) CEH
6 1 (0.97%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.97%) Data Quality
1 1 (0.97%) GDPR
1 1 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (0.97%) NIST
System Software
1 48 (46.60%) Docker
2 12 (11.65%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.94%) HDFS
4 1 (0.97%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 54 (52.43%) Kubernetes
2 52 (50.49%) Kibana
3 32 (31.07%) logstash
4 22 (21.36%) Ansible
5 13 (12.62%) Terraform
6 11 (10.68%) ITRS Geneos
7 9 (8.74%) Grafana
8 8 (7.77%) Puppet
9 7 (6.80%) Progress Chef
10 4 (3.88%) Argo
10 4 (3.88%) Prometheus
11 2 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.97%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.97%) Graphite
12 1 (0.97%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 17 (16.50%) Cloudera
1 17 (16.50%) Splunk
2 14 (13.59%) Foundry
2 14 (13.59%) Microsoft
2 14 (13.59%) Palantir
3 11 (10.68%) Solace
4 8 (7.77%) Oracle
5 7 (6.80%) Red Hat
6 6 (5.83%) TIBCO
7 4 (3.88%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.94%) Google
9 1 (0.97%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.97%) Sybase