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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 429 346 388
Rank change year-on-year -83 +42 +22
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 101 170 190
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.55% 0.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.88% 3.07% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 98 150
10th Percentile £349 £409 £448
25th Percentile £455 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £609 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.65% -2.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £619 £700 £825
90th Percentile £691 £1,075 -
UK median daily rate £550 £603 £600
% change year-on-year -8.79% +0.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £66.50
25th Percentile £53.00 - £72.50
Median hourly rate £56.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile £59.00 - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £56.00 - £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 5,362 5,535 6,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.60% 17.92% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,725 3,700 4,630
10th Percentile £328 £350 £355
25th Percentile £411 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £534
% change year-on-year -5.66% -0.75% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 78 133
10th Percentile £20.89 £18.00 £18.71
25th Percentile £29.19 £24.69 £24.75
Median hourly rate £45.00 £36.25 £47.90
Median % change year-on-year +24.14% -24.31% -4.21%
75th Percentile £66.06 £58.90 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.50 £65.30 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £31.55 £47.50
% change year-on-year +42.65% -33.59% +4.40%

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 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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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 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 54 £550 -9.47% 30
West Midlands -5 30 £550 -13.39% 6
Midlands -17 30 £550 -13.39% 10
South West -14 15 £575 -14.81% 15
North West -24 3 £373 -28.57% 9
North of England -55 3 £373 -32.27% 13
South East -8 2 £450 -8.72% 25
East of England -25 2 £575 +91.67% 5
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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 (13.86%) Confluence
2 10 (9.90%) Apache
3 6 (5.94%) Apache Spark
4 4 (3.96%) JBoss
5 2 (1.98%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.99%) Camunda
6 1 (0.99%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.99%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Magento
1 1 (0.99%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 33 (32.67%) Azure
2 24 (23.76%) AWS
3 17 (16.83%) GitHub
4 15 (14.85%) GCP
5 12 (11.88%) Serverless
6 9 (8.91%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (7.92%) Azure AKS
7 8 (7.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 8 (7.92%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (6.93%) Entra ID
9 6 (5.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 6 (5.94%) OpenShift
10 5 (4.95%) Amazon S3
11 3 (2.97%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (2.97%) Power Platform
12 2 (1.98%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.98%) Azure Functions
12 2 (1.98%) Datadog
12 2 (1.98%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.98%) HTTP
1 2 (1.98%) SSH
2 1 (0.99%) DSL
2 1 (0.99%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.99%) Firewall
2 1 (0.99%) SMTP
2 1 (0.99%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (21.78%) Big Data
1 22 (21.78%) Hadoop
2 16 (15.84%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (5.94%) Relational Database
4 5 (4.95%) MySQL
4 5 (4.95%) NoSQL
4 5 (4.95%) RDBMS
5 4 (3.96%) Data Lake
5 4 (3.96%) Redis
6 3 (2.97%) Apache Hive
6 3 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.97%) Impala
6 3 (2.97%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.97%) Power BI
6 3 (2.97%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.98%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.98%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.99%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (18.81%) Jenkins
2 18 (17.82%) JIRA
3 11 (10.89%) Git
4 7 (6.93%) TeamCity
5 6 (5.94%) SonarQube
6 4 (3.96%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (3.96%) CA Release Automation
6 4 (3.96%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.98%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.98%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.98%) GitLab
7 2 (1.98%) Maven
7 2 (1.98%) Postman
8 1 (0.99%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.99%) Gradle
8 1 (0.99%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.99%) JMeter
8 1 (0.99%) JUnit
8 1 (0.99%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.99%) Selenium
General
1 35 (34.65%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.81%) Finance
3 14 (13.86%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.95%) Banking
4 5 (4.95%) Investment Banking
5 4 (3.96%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.96%) Law
6 3 (2.97%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.98%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.98%) Retail
8 1 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.99%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 20 (19.80%) Data Engineer
2 14 (13.86%) Senior
3 13 (12.87%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 11 (10.89%) Splunk Engineer
5 10 (9.90%) Developer
6 9 (8.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 9 (8.91%) Senior Data Engineer
7 8 (7.92%) Site Engineer
7 8 (7.92%) Software Engineer
8 7 (6.93%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 6 (5.94%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (5.94%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (4.95%) Applications Engineer
10 5 (4.95%) Python Engineer
11 3 (2.97%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 3 (2.97%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 3 (2.97%) Kubernetes Specialist
11 3 (2.97%) Migration Specialist
11 3 (2.97%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
11 3 (2.97%) Splunk Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (44.55%) Elastic Stack
2 36 (35.64%) Kafka
3 15 (14.85%) Apache NiFi
3 15 (14.85%) React
4 13 (12.87%) Node.js
5 12 (11.88%) RabbitMQ
6 10 (9.90%) REST
7 9 (8.91%) FIX Protocol
7 9 (8.91%) Keycloak
8 8 (7.92%) JSON
8 8 (7.92%) Next.js
8 8 (7.92%) Spring Boot
9 7 (6.93%) Express.js
9 7 (6.93%) XML
10 6 (5.94%) HTML
10 6 (5.94%) Ultra Messaging
11 5 (4.95%) AngularJS
11 5 (4.95%) CSS
11 5 (4.95%) PySpark
12 4 (3.96%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.84%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.89%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (9.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (6.93%) Management Information System
5 6 (5.94%) Algorithms
5 6 (5.94%) Fixed Income
5 6 (5.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.96%) Replication
7 3 (2.97%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.98%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.99%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.99%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.99%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.99%) IoT
9 1 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.99%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.99%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.99%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.99%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 36 (35.64%) Linux
2 9 (8.91%) Unix
3 7 (6.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (5.94%) Windows
5 3 (2.97%) CentOS
5 3 (2.97%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.98%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.99%) Debian
7 1 (0.99%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (45.54%) DevOps
2 35 (34.65%) Observability
3 33 (32.67%) Containerisation
4 32 (31.68%) CI/CD
5 31 (30.69%) Agile
6 25 (24.75%) Software Engineering
7 23 (22.77%) Data Pipeline
7 23 (22.77%) Migration
8 21 (20.79%) Microservices
9 18 (17.82%) Data Ingestion
9 18 (17.82%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (15.84%) Data Engineering
10 16 (15.84%) Full-Stack Development
10 16 (15.84%) Machine Learning
11 15 (14.85%) Analytics
11 15 (14.85%) ETL
11 15 (14.85%) Scrum
12 14 (13.86%) Infrastructure as Code
12 14 (13.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 12 (11.88%) Batch Processing
Programming Languages
1 60 (59.41%) Python
2 18 (17.82%) Bash
3 16 (15.84%) Java
4 14 (13.86%) PowerShell
5 13 (12.87%) SQL
6 11 (10.89%) Go
7 10 (9.90%) Bicep
7 10 (9.90%) TypeScript
8 9 (8.91%) Perl
9 8 (7.92%) JavaScript
10 4 (3.96%) C#
11 3 (2.97%) C
12 2 (1.98%) Scala
12 2 (1.98%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.99%) PHP
13 1 (0.99%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.99%) Ruby
13 1 (0.99%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (36.63%) Security Cleared
2 34 (33.66%) SC Cleared
3 18 (17.82%) DV Cleared
4 9 (8.91%) Azure Certification
5 6 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (5.94%) Degree
6 2 (1.98%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.99%) CEH
7 1 (0.99%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.99%) GDPR
1 1 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (0.99%) NIST
System Software
1 48 (47.52%) Docker
2 11 (10.89%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.98%) HDFS
4 1 (0.99%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.99%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 56 (55.45%) Kubernetes
2 52 (51.49%) Kibana
3 33 (32.67%) logstash
4 20 (19.80%) Ansible
5 12 (11.88%) Terraform
6 10 (9.90%) ITRS Geneos
7 8 (7.92%) Grafana
7 8 (7.92%) Puppet
8 7 (6.93%) Progress Chef
9 4 (3.96%) Argo
9 4 (3.96%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.99%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.99%) Graphite
11 1 (0.99%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.99%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 20 (19.80%) Splunk
2 16 (15.84%) Cloudera
3 13 (12.87%) Foundry
3 13 (12.87%) Microsoft
3 13 (12.87%) Palantir
4 10 (9.90%) Solace
5 7 (6.93%) Oracle
5 7 (6.93%) Red Hat
6 6 (5.94%) TIBCO
7 5 (4.95%) AppDynamics
8 3 (2.97%) Google
9 1 (0.99%) Adobe
9 1 (0.99%) Black Duck
9 1 (0.99%) Intel
9 1 (0.99%) PagerDuty
9 1 (0.99%) Qualys
9 1 (0.99%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.99%) SAP
9 1 (0.99%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.99%) Sybase