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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 412 361
Rank change year-on-year -88 -51 +98
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 111 109 163
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.39% 0.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.59% 2.16% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 88 114
10th Percentile £357 £364 £374
25th Percentile £425 £463 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% - -1.12%
75th Percentile £600 £645 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £516 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.27% - +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile £38.23 £58.14 -
25th Percentile £49.81 £65.85 -
Median hourly rate £58.00 £78.70 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.30% - -
75th Percentile £63.63 £79.35 -
90th Percentile £69.70 £79.74 -
UK median hourly rate £58.00 £78.70 -
% change year-on-year -26.30% - -

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 6,984 5,038 6,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.34% 18.23% 18.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,672 3,498 4,373
10th Percentile £358 £344 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -4.19% -2.27%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 77 93
10th Percentile £15.97 £18.64 £14.40
25th Percentile £25.10 £23.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £38.38 £34.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.23% -8.00% -31.82%
75th Percentile £62.00 £63.75 £59.95
90th Percentile £76.75 £77.98 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £34.99 £35.25
% change year-on-year +10.03% -0.74% -35.91%

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 6 August 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 6 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Elasticsearch in England

Elasticsearch
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 6 August 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 -51 65 £516 -14.08% 92
North of England -64 12 £544 +38.36% 29
North West -47 11 £538 +36.77% 19
South East -60 10 £608 +5.65% 22
South West -42 8 £475 -13.64% 19
Midlands -63 4 £430 -20.02% 10
West Midlands -64 4 £430 -21.91% 8
Yorkshire - 1 £550 - 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 18 (16.22%) nginx
2 16 (14.41%) Apache Spark
3 8 (7.21%) Tomcat
3 8 (7.21%) WebLogic
4 7 (6.31%) Apache
5 3 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (2.70%) Confluence
5 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.80%) Liferay
6 2 (1.80%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.90%) CMS
7 1 (0.90%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.90%) IIS
7 1 (0.90%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.90%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (3.60%) Trello
2 1 (0.90%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Magento
1 1 (0.90%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 48 (43.24%) AWS
2 18 (16.22%) Azure
3 17 (15.32%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 16 (14.41%) GCP
5 12 (10.81%) Serverless
6 8 (7.21%) PaaS
7 7 (6.31%) GitHub
7 7 (6.31%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (6.31%) IaaS
7 7 (6.31%) OpenShift
8 6 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (4.50%) Amazon S3
10 4 (3.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (3.60%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (3.60%) Entra ID
10 4 (3.60%) Route 53
10 4 (3.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (2.70%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.81%) DNS
1 12 (10.81%) Firewall
2 11 (9.91%) VPN
3 10 (9.01%) HTTP
4 7 (6.31%) DHCP
4 7 (6.31%) SMTP
5 4 (3.60%) MQTT
5 4 (3.60%) Network Security
5 4 (3.60%) OpenVPN
5 4 (3.60%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.80%) NaaS
6 2 (1.80%) WAN
7 1 (0.90%) DSL
7 1 (0.90%) Intranet
7 1 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (14.41%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (10.81%) Metadata
3 10 (9.01%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (8.11%) Big Data
4 9 (8.11%) MongoDB
5 7 (6.31%) Hadoop
5 7 (6.31%) NoSQL
6 6 (5.41%) Data Lake
7 5 (4.50%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (4.50%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (4.50%) MySQL
7 5 (4.50%) Redis
8 4 (3.60%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.70%) Flink
9 3 (2.70%) HBase
9 3 (2.70%) InfluxDB
9 3 (2.70%) Oracle Database
9 3 (2.70%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.80%) Apache Hive
10 2 (1.80%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 20 (18.02%) Git
2 11 (9.91%) GitLab
3 10 (9.01%) Jenkins
3 10 (9.01%) JIRA
4 6 (5.41%) Bitbucket
4 6 (5.41%) SonarQube
5 5 (4.50%) JUnit
6 3 (2.70%) Gatling
6 3 (2.70%) JMeter
6 3 (2.70%) LoadRunner
6 3 (2.70%) Selenium
7 2 (1.80%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.80%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.90%) git-flow
8 1 (0.90%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.90%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.90%) Postman
8 1 (0.90%) RhodeCode
8 1 (0.90%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (10.81%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.11%) Public Sector
3 6 (5.41%) Finance
4 5 (4.50%) Banking
5 3 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.80%) Back Office
6 2 (1.80%) Billing
6 2 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.80%) Marketing
6 2 (1.80%) Police
6 2 (1.80%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.90%) Front Office
7 1 (0.90%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.90%) Legal
7 1 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (25.23%) Developer
2 18 (16.22%) Architect
3 17 (15.32%) Software Engineer
4 12 (10.81%) Senior
5 11 (9.91%) Data Architect
5 11 (9.91%) Java Developer
6 9 (8.11%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (7.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (7.21%) Java Engineer
8 7 (6.31%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 7 (6.31%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (5.41%) Elasticsearch Engineer
9 6 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (5.41%) Java Software Engineer
10 5 (4.50%) Lead
10 5 (4.50%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (3.60%) Data Engineer
11 4 (3.60%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 4 (3.60%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 4 (3.60%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (28.83%) Kafka
2 21 (18.92%) Spring
3 20 (18.02%) REST
4 12 (10.81%) Spring Boot
5 10 (9.01%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (8.11%) Node.js
6 9 (8.11%) React
7 8 (7.21%) Apache NiFi
8 6 (5.41%) GraphQL
8 6 (5.41%) gRPC
9 5 (4.50%) RESTful
9 5 (4.50%) WireMock
10 4 (3.60%) .NET
10 4 (3.60%) JSON
10 4 (3.60%) Ktor
10 4 (3.60%) LDAP
10 4 (3.60%) Middleware
10 4 (3.60%) OpenID
10 4 (3.60%) Protocol Buffers
10 4 (3.60%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.61%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (9.91%) Cloud Native
3 10 (9.01%) Clustering
4 9 (8.11%) PKI
5 8 (7.21%) Digital Media
6 6 (5.41%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (4.50%) Data Structures
7 5 (4.50%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (4.50%) Product Ownership
8 4 (3.60%) Data Centre
8 4 (3.60%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.80%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.90%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.90%) CMDB
11 1 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.90%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 32 (28.83%) Linux
2 13 (11.71%) Windows
3 12 (10.81%) Windows Server
4 6 (5.41%) Solaris
4 6 (5.41%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (4.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (4.50%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (3.60%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (3.60%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.80%) Debian
7 2 (1.80%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.80%) VMS
8 1 (0.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (36.04%) DevOps
2 35 (31.53%) CI/CD
3 33 (29.73%) Agile
4 22 (19.82%) Software Engineering
5 21 (18.92%) AI
6 18 (16.22%) Containerisation
7 16 (14.41%) Data Modelling
7 16 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (13.51%) Machine Learning
8 15 (13.51%) Observability
8 15 (13.51%) Test Automation
9 14 (12.61%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (12.61%) Microservices
10 13 (11.71%) Full-Stack Development
10 13 (11.71%) Scrum
11 12 (10.81%) Data Architecture
11 12 (10.81%) Infrastructure as Code
12 11 (9.91%) Data Pipeline
12 11 (9.91%) Roadmaps
12 11 (9.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 45 (40.54%) Java
2 35 (31.53%) Python
3 25 (22.52%) SQL
4 18 (16.22%) JavaScript
5 13 (11.71%) TypeScript
6 12 (10.81%) Rust
7 8 (7.21%) PL/SQL
7 8 (7.21%) PowerShell
8 6 (5.41%) Bash
8 6 (5.41%) C#
8 6 (5.41%) Shell Script
9 4 (3.60%) Kotlin
10 3 (2.70%) Go
10 3 (2.70%) Ruby
11 2 (1.80%) C++
11 2 (1.80%) Groovy
11 2 (1.80%) Scala
12 1 (0.90%) R
12 1 (0.90%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (54.05%) Security Cleared
2 45 (40.54%) SC Cleared
3 23 (20.72%) DV Cleared
4 9 (8.11%) Degree
5 8 (7.21%) AWS Certification
5 8 (7.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.31%) QA
2 4 (3.60%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.70%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.90%) ITGC
System Software
1 37 (33.33%) Docker
2 13 (11.71%) VMware ESXi
2 13 (11.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (6.31%) Active Directory
3 7 (6.31%) BitLocker
3 7 (6.31%) Hyper-V
3 7 (6.31%) Microsoft App-V
4 5 (4.50%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (3.60%) Squid
6 3 (2.70%) Terminal Services
7 2 (1.80%) HDFS
8 1 (0.90%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 39 (35.14%) Kubernetes
2 24 (21.62%) Terraform
3 22 (19.82%) Ansible
3 22 (19.82%) Prometheus
4 21 (18.92%) Grafana
5 14 (12.61%) Kibana
6 13 (11.71%) Puppet
7 7 (6.31%) logstash
7 7 (6.31%) vCenter Server
7 7 (6.31%) vMotion
8 5 (4.50%) Oracle RMAN
9 4 (3.60%) Consul
9 4 (3.60%) FortiGate
9 4 (3.60%) Nagios
9 4 (3.60%) Podman
9 4 (3.60%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.80%) Amdocs OSS
11 1 (0.90%) Argo
11 1 (0.90%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 15 (13.51%) Oracle
2 13 (11.71%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.71%) VMware
3 11 (9.91%) Dynatrace
4 9 (8.11%) Red Hat
5 8 (7.21%) IBM
6 7 (6.31%) Citrix
7 4 (3.60%) NetApp
7 4 (3.60%) NVIDIA
7 4 (3.60%) Tenable
8 3 (2.70%) AppDynamics
8 3 (2.70%) Cloudera
8 3 (2.70%) Google
8 3 (2.70%) HP
8 3 (2.70%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.70%) Symantec
9 2 (1.80%) Amdocs
9 2 (1.80%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.80%) Ciena
9 2 (1.80%) Salesforce