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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 459 335 363
Rank change year-on-year -124 +28 +69
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 131 140 198
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.57% 0.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.19% 2.98% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 90 162
10th Percentile £424 £393 £415
25th Percentile £475 £525 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £663
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -9.43% +10.42%
75th Percentile £600 £709 £825
90th Percentile £690 £1,075 -
UK median daily rate £544 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -9.38% -4.00% +10.86%
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 5,982 4,696 6,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.95% 19.04% 16.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,160 3,285 4,422
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 £663
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 122 92 155
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £27.41 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £49.36 £33.81 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +46.01% -16.01% -29.32%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.79 £53.94
90th Percentile £85.23 £70.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £50.50 £31.64 £40.13
% change year-on-year +59.61% -21.15% -29.54%

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

Elasticsearch
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch in England over the 6 months to 22 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 22 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 -57 55 £550 -9.47% 43
Midlands -33 40 £550 +22.63% 7
West Midlands -39 40 £550 +20.88% 3
South West -34 16 £550 -24.14% 11
North of England -78 14 £500 - 10
North West -25 13 £500 +23.61% 8
South East -51 6 £399 -18.16% 20
East of England -29 1 - - 4
Yorkshire -57 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 (10.69%) Confluence
2 12 (9.16%) nginx
3 11 (8.40%) Apache Spark
4 6 (4.58%) Apache
4 6 (4.58%) OpenStack
5 5 (3.82%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (1.53%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.53%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.76%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Magento
1 1 (0.76%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 47 (35.88%) AWS
2 27 (20.61%) Azure
3 22 (16.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 18 (13.74%) Serverless
5 16 (12.21%) GitHub
6 13 (9.92%) Amazon S3
7 12 (9.16%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (8.40%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (8.40%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (7.63%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (7.63%) GCP
9 10 (7.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 9 (6.87%) Route 53
11 7 (5.34%) PaaS
12 6 (4.58%) IaaS
13 4 (3.05%) OpenShift
14 3 (2.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 3 (2.29%) Kong
15 2 (1.53%) Azure Service Bus
15 2 (1.53%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 17 (12.98%) DNS
2 16 (12.21%) Firewall
2 16 (12.21%) VPN
3 13 (9.92%) TCP/IP
4 9 (6.87%) OpenVPN
5 6 (4.58%) DHCP
5 6 (4.58%) HTTP
5 6 (4.58%) SMTP
6 2 (1.53%) Multicast
6 2 (1.53%) NaaS
6 2 (1.53%) NAS
6 2 (1.53%) SAN
6 2 (1.53%) WAN
7 1 (0.76%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (26.72%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (10.69%) Hadoop
3 11 (8.40%) Big Data
4 6 (4.58%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.82%) MySQL
5 5 (3.82%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.29%) Redis
6 3 (2.29%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.29%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.53%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.53%) Flink
7 2 (1.53%) InfluxDB
7 2 (1.53%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.53%) Power BI
7 2 (1.53%) Tableau
7 2 (1.53%) TimescaleDB
7 2 (1.53%) Weaviate
8 1 (0.76%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 16 (12.21%) JIRA
2 8 (6.11%) Git
2 8 (6.11%) GitLab
3 7 (5.34%) Bitbucket
3 7 (5.34%) SonarQube
4 5 (3.82%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.29%) Gatling
5 3 (2.29%) JMeter
5 3 (2.29%) LoadRunner
6 2 (1.53%) JUnit
6 2 (1.53%) Postman
6 2 (1.53%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.76%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.76%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.76%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.76%) git-flow
7 1 (0.76%) Maven
7 1 (0.76%) Travis CI
General
1 32 (24.43%) Social Skills
2 13 (9.92%) Public Sector
3 12 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.87%) Finance
5 8 (6.11%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.53%) Banking
7 2 (1.53%) Billing
7 2 (1.53%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.76%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.76%) Back Office
8 1 (0.76%) Front Office
8 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (19.08%) Developer
2 19 (14.50%) Data Engineer
3 18 (13.74%) Senior
4 14 (10.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 13 (9.92%) Architect
5 13 (9.92%) Full-Stack Developer
5 13 (9.92%) Senior Data Engineer
5 13 (9.92%) Splunk Engineer
6 11 (8.40%) SIEM Engineer
6 11 (8.40%) Site Engineer
7 10 (7.63%) Applications Engineer
8 9 (6.87%) Software Engineer
9 6 (4.58%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 6 (4.58%) Lead
9 6 (4.58%) NetApp Engineer
9 6 (4.58%) Storage Engineer
9 6 (4.58%) Technical Architect
10 5 (3.82%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.82%) AWS Architect
10 5 (3.82%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (36.64%) Kafka
2 36 (27.48%) Elastic Stack
3 25 (19.08%) Spring
4 22 (16.79%) Node.js
5 18 (13.74%) WireMock
6 17 (12.98%) REST
7 14 (10.69%) Spring Boot
8 12 (9.16%) Apache NiFi
8 12 (9.16%) Keycloak
8 12 (9.16%) React
9 10 (7.63%) LDAP
9 10 (7.63%) OpenID
10 8 (6.11%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (3.05%) AngularJS
11 4 (3.05%) JSON
11 4 (3.05%) Swagger
12 3 (2.29%) GraphQL
12 3 (2.29%) LangChain
12 3 (2.29%) Playwright
12 3 (2.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.40%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (7.63%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (7.63%) Management Information System
3 9 (6.87%) Cloud Native
4 8 (6.11%) Enterprise Storage
5 7 (5.34%) PKI
6 6 (4.58%) Clustering
7 4 (3.05%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.29%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.29%) Replication
9 2 (1.53%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.53%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.53%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.53%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.53%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.53%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.76%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 32 (24.43%) Linux
2 10 (7.63%) Unix
3 9 (6.87%) Windows
4 8 (6.11%) Windows Server
5 6 (4.58%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.53%) Solaris
6 2 (1.53%) VMS
6 2 (1.53%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (1.53%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (50.38%) DevOps
2 32 (24.43%) Containerisation
3 27 (20.61%) CI/CD
3 27 (20.61%) Performance Tuning
3 27 (20.61%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (19.85%) Agile
5 22 (16.79%) Incident Response
5 22 (16.79%) Observability
6 21 (16.03%) Data Ingestion
7 20 (15.27%) Data Engineering
8 19 (14.50%) Data Pipeline
9 18 (13.74%) Data Modelling
9 18 (13.74%) Full-Stack Development
9 18 (13.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 17 (12.98%) ETL
10 17 (12.98%) SIEM
11 16 (12.21%) Computer Science
11 16 (12.21%) Visualisation
12 15 (11.45%) Migration
12 15 (11.45%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 49 (37.40%) Python
2 40 (30.53%) Java
3 17 (12.98%) JavaScript
4 15 (11.45%) Bash
4 15 (11.45%) TypeScript
5 14 (10.69%) Go
6 12 (9.16%) SQL
7 10 (7.63%) PowerShell
8 7 (5.34%) Rust
9 4 (3.05%) Scala
10 3 (2.29%) C#
11 2 (1.53%) C++
11 2 (1.53%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.76%) Gremlin
12 1 (0.76%) Groovy
12 1 (0.76%) PHP
12 1 (0.76%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 68 (51.91%) Security Cleared
2 51 (38.93%) SC Cleared
3 25 (19.08%) DV Cleared
4 17 (12.98%) Degree
5 16 (12.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (9.16%) Azure Certification
7 8 (6.11%) AWS Certification
8 7 (5.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.53%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.05%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.53%) QA
3 1 (0.76%) GDPR
3 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.76%) NIST
3 1 (0.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 47 (35.88%) Docker
2 9 (6.87%) Squid
3 8 (6.11%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (6.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (5.34%) Active Directory
5 6 (4.58%) BitLocker
5 6 (4.58%) Hyper-V
5 6 (4.58%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (1.53%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.76%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 66 (50.38%) Kubernetes
2 38 (29.01%) Kibana
3 30 (22.90%) Ansible
4 27 (20.61%) Terraform
5 24 (18.32%) Grafana
6 22 (16.79%) logstash
7 21 (16.03%) Prometheus
8 18 (13.74%) Puppet
9 9 (6.87%) FortiGate
9 9 (6.87%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (5.34%) Consul
11 6 (4.58%) vCenter Server
11 6 (4.58%) vMotion
12 3 (2.29%) Argo
13 2 (1.53%) Amdocs OSS
13 2 (1.53%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (1.53%) Nagios
13 2 (1.53%) Oracle RMAN
13 2 (1.53%) Progress Chef
13 2 (1.53%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 17 (12.98%) Dynatrace
2 16 (12.21%) Splunk
3 13 (9.92%) Red Hat
4 8 (6.11%) VMware
5 7 (5.34%) Atlassian
5 7 (5.34%) Microsoft
6 6 (4.58%) Citrix
6 6 (4.58%) NetApp
7 5 (3.82%) Cloudera
7 5 (3.82%) Foundry
7 5 (3.82%) Palantir
8 4 (3.05%) AppDynamics
9 3 (2.29%) Oracle
9 3 (2.29%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.53%) Amdocs
10 2 (1.53%) Dell
10 2 (1.53%) F5
10 2 (1.53%) IBM
10 2 (1.53%) Solace
10 2 (1.53%) TIBCO