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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 432 336 375
Rank change year-on-year -96 +39 +36
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 111 171 197
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.59% 0.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.06% 3.24% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 98 159
10th Percentile £360 £409 £445
25th Percentile £467 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £608 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% -2.80% +4.17%
75th Percentile £634 £663 £825
90th Percentile £695 £1,075 -
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £55.60 - £66.50
25th Percentile £59.50 - £72.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £75.00
75th Percentile £74.00 - £77.50
90th Percentile £77.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 - £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 5,385 5,273 6,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.19% 18.16% 16.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,762 3,518 4,457
10th Percentile £325 £350 £361
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £625 £663 £656
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £527 £535
% change year-on-year -5.12% -1.50% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 74 128
10th Percentile £20.68 £18.15 £16.62
25th Percentile £29.00 £23.10 £24.70
Median hourly rate £43.50 £37.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -18.80% -9.45%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £64.51
90th Percentile £84.30 £66.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £30.40 £46.18
% change year-on-year +43.09% -34.17% -7.64%

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 16 December 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 16 December 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 16 December 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 -41 52 £563 -7.18% 31
West Midlands -2 41 £550 -13.39% 13
Midlands -10 41 £550 -13.39% 17
South West -13 19 £550 -13.73% 8
North of England -50 4 £373 -33.78% 19
North West -36 3 £373 -32.27% 14
South East -21 2 £450 -9.73% 19
East of England -32 2 £575 +91.67% 6
Yorkshire -44 1 - - 3
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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 15 (13.51%) Confluence
2 12 (10.81%) Apache
3 6 (5.41%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.70%) JBoss
5 1 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.90%) Camunda
5 1 (0.90%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.90%) nginx
5 1 (0.90%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Magento
1 1 (0.90%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 36 (32.43%) Azure
2 22 (19.82%) AWS
3 19 (17.12%) GitHub
4 16 (14.41%) GCP
5 12 (10.81%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (10.81%) Serverless
6 8 (7.21%) Azure AKS
6 8 (7.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 8 (7.21%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (6.31%) Entra ID
8 5 (4.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 5 (4.50%) OpenShift
9 4 (3.60%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.70%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (2.70%) IaaS
10 3 (2.70%) PaaS
11 2 (1.80%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.80%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.80%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.70%) DNS
1 3 (2.70%) Firewall
1 3 (2.70%) HTTP
2 2 (1.80%) SMTP
2 2 (1.80%) SSH
2 2 (1.80%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.80%) VPN
3 1 (0.90%) DHCP
3 1 (0.90%) DSL
3 1 (0.90%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (19.82%) Hadoop
2 21 (18.92%) Big Data
3 18 (16.22%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.50%) NoSQL
4 5 (4.50%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.60%) RDBMS
5 4 (3.60%) Redis
6 3 (2.70%) Apache Hive
6 3 (2.70%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.70%) Impala
6 3 (2.70%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.70%) MySQL
6 3 (2.70%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.80%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.90%) DB2
8 1 (0.90%) MemSQL
8 1 (0.90%) Sybase IQ
8 1 (0.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (17.12%) Jenkins
2 18 (16.22%) JIRA
3 11 (9.91%) Git
4 6 (5.41%) TeamCity
5 5 (4.50%) SonarQube
6 4 (3.60%) GitLab
7 3 (2.70%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (2.70%) CA Release Automation
7 3 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.80%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.80%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.80%) Maven
8 2 (1.80%) Postman
9 1 (0.90%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.90%) Gradle
9 1 (0.90%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.90%) JMeter
9 1 (0.90%) JUnit
9 1 (0.90%) Selenium
9 1 (0.90%) SoapUI
General
1 38 (34.23%) Social Skills
2 19 (17.12%) Finance
3 17 (15.32%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.50%) Banking
4 5 (4.50%) Investment Banking
5 4 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.60%) Law
6 3 (2.70%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.70%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.90%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.90%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.90%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (22.52%) Data Engineer
2 17 (15.32%) Senior
3 16 (14.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 14 (12.61%) Splunk Engineer
5 13 (11.71%) Senior Data Engineer
6 11 (9.91%) Site Engineer
7 10 (9.01%) Developer
8 9 (8.11%) Applications Engineer
8 9 (8.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 8 (7.21%) Software Engineer
10 7 (6.31%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 7 (6.31%) SIEM Engineer
11 6 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (4.50%) Python Engineer
12 5 (4.50%) Security Engineer
13 4 (3.60%) Platform Engineer
14 3 (2.70%) Java Developer
14 3 (2.70%) Kubernetes Specialist
14 3 (2.70%) Unix Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (48.65%) Elastic Stack
2 38 (34.23%) Kafka
3 17 (15.32%) Apache NiFi
4 15 (13.51%) React
5 13 (11.71%) Node.js
6 12 (10.81%) Keycloak
6 12 (10.81%) RabbitMQ
7 10 (9.01%) REST
8 9 (8.11%) FIX Protocol
8 9 (8.11%) JSON
9 8 (7.21%) Next.js
9 8 (7.21%) XML
10 7 (6.31%) Express.js
10 7 (6.31%) Spring Boot
11 6 (5.41%) HTML
11 6 (5.41%) Ultra Messaging
12 5 (4.50%) AngularJS
12 5 (4.50%) CSS
12 5 (4.50%) PySpark
13 4 (3.60%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.32%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.91%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (9.01%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (9.01%) Management Information System
4 7 (6.31%) Algorithms
5 6 (5.41%) Fixed Income
5 6 (5.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (5.41%) Replication
6 3 (2.70%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.80%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.80%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.80%) PKI
7 2 (1.80%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.90%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.90%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.90%) Clustering
8 1 (0.90%) IoT
8 1 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.90%) MISP
8 1 (0.90%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 38 (34.23%) Linux
2 12 (10.81%) Unix
3 7 (6.31%) Windows
4 5 (4.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.70%) CentOS
5 3 (2.70%) Mac OS
5 3 (2.70%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.90%) Debian
6 1 (0.90%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.90%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (46.85%) DevOps
2 39 (35.14%) Containerisation
3 36 (32.43%) Observability
4 32 (28.83%) CI/CD
5 30 (27.03%) Agile
6 28 (25.23%) Data Pipeline
7 24 (21.62%) Migration
7 24 (21.62%) Software Engineering
8 23 (20.72%) Data Ingestion
9 22 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (17.12%) Data Engineering
10 19 (17.12%) Microservices
11 18 (16.22%) ETL
12 17 (15.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 16 (14.41%) Incident Response
13 16 (14.41%) Infrastructure as Code
13 16 (14.41%) Machine Learning
13 16 (14.41%) Scrum
14 15 (13.51%) Data Modelling
14 15 (13.51%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 65 (58.56%) Python
2 22 (19.82%) Bash
3 16 (14.41%) PowerShell
4 14 (12.61%) Go
4 14 (12.61%) Java
4 14 (12.61%) SQL
5 10 (9.01%) Bicep
5 10 (9.01%) TypeScript
6 8 (7.21%) JavaScript
6 8 (7.21%) Perl
7 4 (3.60%) C#
8 3 (2.70%) C
9 2 (1.80%) Scala
9 2 (1.80%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.90%) PHP
10 1 (0.90%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.90%) Ruby
10 1 (0.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (37.84%) Security Cleared
2 38 (34.23%) SC Cleared
3 20 (18.02%) DV Cleared
4 12 (10.81%) Azure Certification
5 10 (9.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (9.01%) Degree
6 2 (1.80%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.90%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.90%) CEH
7 1 (0.90%) CISSP
7 1 (0.90%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.80%) Data Quality
1 2 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.80%) NIST
2 1 (0.90%) GDPR
2 1 (0.90%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.90%) QA
System Software
1 55 (49.55%) Docker
2 12 (10.81%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.80%) HDFS
4 1 (0.90%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.90%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.90%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.90%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.90%) Varnish
4 1 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 62 (55.86%) Kubernetes
2 60 (54.05%) Kibana
3 39 (35.14%) logstash
4 26 (23.42%) Ansible
5 14 (12.61%) Terraform
6 13 (11.71%) Puppet
7 10 (9.01%) ITRS Geneos
8 9 (8.11%) Grafana
9 7 (6.31%) Progress Chef
10 6 (5.41%) Prometheus
11 3 (2.70%) Argo
12 2 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.90%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.90%) Graphite
13 1 (0.90%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.90%) Rsyslog
13 1 (0.90%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.90%) vMotion
13 1 (0.90%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (20.72%) Splunk
2 15 (13.51%) Cloudera
3 13 (11.71%) Foundry
3 13 (11.71%) Microsoft
3 13 (11.71%) Palantir
4 10 (9.01%) Solace
5 6 (5.41%) Red Hat
5 6 (5.41%) TIBCO
6 5 (4.50%) Oracle
7 4 (3.60%) AppDynamics
8 3 (2.70%) Google
9 1 (0.90%) Adobe
9 1 (0.90%) Citrix
9 1 (0.90%) Intel
9 1 (0.90%) NetApp
9 1 (0.90%) Qualys
9 1 (0.90%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.90%) SAP
9 1 (0.90%) Sybase
9 1 (0.90%) VMware