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 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 342 376
Rank change year-on-year -83 +34 +46
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 148 141 172
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 0.55% 0.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.58% 2.92% 2.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 90 143
10th Percentile £420 £401 £450
25th Percentile £475 £551 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £603 £700
Median % change year-on-year -8.71% -13.93% +16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £718 £825
90th Percentile £704 £1,075 -
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £645
% change year-on-year -8.33% -6.98% +12.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £66.50
25th Percentile - £39.25 £72.50
Median hourly rate £79.00 £44.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.53% -40.67% -
75th Percentile - £49.75 £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £79.00 £44.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +77.53% -40.67% -

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 5,727 4,821 5,997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.19% 18.71% 16.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,988 3,275 4,313
10th Percentile £342 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £533
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +0.84% -3.09%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £663
90th Percentile £700 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 86 153
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.65
25th Percentile £26.88 £25.26 £21.64
Median hourly rate £54.00 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% -5.88% -22.73%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £61.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £71.88 £77.31
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £36.56 £42.50
% change year-on-year +47.72% -13.99% -22.73%

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 26 February 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
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 26 February 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 -32 62 £550 -10.20% 29
West Midlands -11 50 £550 +52.78% 6
Midlands -15 50 £550 +52.78% 8
South West -25 18 £550 -24.14% 17
North of England -63 14 £500 -15.97% 13
North West -26 13 £500 -9.09% 10
South East -33 6 £486 -0.21% 19
East of England -25 1 - - 7
Yorkshire -64 1 - - 2
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 17 (11.49%) Confluence
2 11 (7.43%) nginx
3 10 (6.76%) Apache Spark
4 8 (5.41%) Apache
4 8 (5.41%) Palantir Foundry
5 6 (4.05%) OpenStack
6 2 (1.35%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.35%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.68%) Camunda
7 1 (0.68%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Magento
1 1 (0.68%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 46 (31.08%) AWS
2 34 (22.97%) Azure
3 22 (14.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 18 (12.16%) Serverless
5 17 (11.49%) GitHub
6 15 (10.14%) GCP
7 12 (8.11%) Amazon S3
7 12 (8.11%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (6.76%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (6.76%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (6.08%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (6.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 8 (5.41%) Route 53
11 6 (4.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (4.05%) IaaS
11 6 (4.05%) PaaS
12 5 (3.38%) OpenShift
13 4 (2.70%) Azure AKS
13 4 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (2.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.46%) DNS
2 13 (8.78%) Firewall
2 13 (8.78%) VPN
3 12 (8.11%) TCP/IP
4 8 (5.41%) OpenVPN
5 4 (2.70%) DHCP
5 4 (2.70%) HTTP
5 4 (2.70%) SMTP
6 2 (1.35%) Multicast
6 2 (1.35%) NAS
6 2 (1.35%) SAN
7 1 (0.68%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (22.30%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (12.84%) Hadoop
3 15 (10.14%) Big Data
4 5 (3.38%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.70%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.70%) Redis
6 3 (2.03%) MySQL
6 3 (2.03%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.35%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.35%) Power BI
7 2 (1.35%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.35%) Tableau
7 2 (1.35%) Weaviate
8 1 (0.68%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.68%) Impala
8 1 (0.68%) MemSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (12.84%) JIRA
2 9 (6.08%) Git
3 8 (5.41%) GitLab
4 7 (4.73%) Bitbucket
4 7 (4.73%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.73%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.35%) Postman
6 1 (0.68%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.68%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.68%) Gatling
6 1 (0.68%) git-flow
6 1 (0.68%) JMeter
6 1 (0.68%) JUnit
6 1 (0.68%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.68%) Maven
6 1 (0.68%) Travis CI
General
1 47 (31.76%) Social Skills
2 18 (12.16%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (10.14%) Finance
4 11 (7.43%) Documentation Skills
4 11 (7.43%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.03%) Banking
5 3 (2.03%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.35%) Law
7 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.68%) Front Office
7 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (19.59%) Developer
2 21 (14.19%) Data Engineer
3 20 (13.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 19 (12.84%) Splunk Engineer
5 17 (11.49%) Senior
6 16 (10.81%) Full-Stack Developer
7 15 (10.14%) Site Engineer
8 13 (8.78%) Senior Data Engineer
9 12 (8.11%) SIEM Engineer
10 10 (6.76%) Applications Engineer
10 10 (6.76%) Architect
10 10 (6.76%) Software Engineer
11 7 (4.73%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.73%) Lead
12 6 (4.05%) Technical Architect
13 5 (3.38%) Backend Developer
13 5 (3.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 5 (3.38%) Security Engineer
14 4 (2.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 4 (2.70%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (35.14%) Kafka
2 50 (33.78%) Elastic Stack
3 28 (18.92%) Node.js
4 26 (17.57%) Spring
5 18 (12.16%) React
5 18 (12.16%) WireMock
6 15 (10.14%) Apache NiFi
6 15 (10.14%) REST
6 15 (10.14%) Spring Boot
7 12 (8.11%) Keycloak
8 9 (6.08%) LDAP
8 9 (6.08%) OpenID
9 8 (5.41%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (4.73%) AngularJS
11 5 (3.38%) JSON
12 4 (2.70%) CSS
12 4 (2.70%) HTML
12 4 (2.70%) Middleware
12 4 (2.70%) Ultra Messaging
12 4 (2.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.46%) Management Information System
2 12 (8.11%) Cloud Native
3 11 (7.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (4.73%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (4.05%) Enterprise Storage
6 5 (3.38%) PKI
7 4 (2.70%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.70%) Clustering
7 4 (2.70%) Replication
7 4 (2.70%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (2.03%) Hedge funds
8 3 (2.03%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.35%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.35%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.35%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 43 (29.05%) Linux
2 17 (11.49%) Unix
3 7 (4.73%) Windows
4 6 (4.05%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.70%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (2.03%) CentOS
6 3 (2.03%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.35%) Solaris
7 2 (1.35%) VMS
7 2 (1.35%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (1.35%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (51.35%) DevOps
2 40 (27.03%) Containerisation
3 35 (23.65%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (22.97%) CI/CD
5 30 (20.27%) Observability
6 29 (19.59%) Agile
7 28 (18.92%) Performance Tuning
8 27 (18.24%) Data Ingestion
8 27 (18.24%) Incident Response
9 25 (16.89%) Data Modelling
10 24 (16.22%) Migration
11 23 (15.54%) Full-Stack Development
11 23 (15.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 22 (14.86%) Data Engineering
13 21 (14.19%) Software Engineering
14 20 (13.51%) Computer Science
14 20 (13.51%) Data Pipeline
15 18 (12.16%) Dashboard Development
15 18 (12.16%) ETL
15 18 (12.16%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 65 (43.92%) Python
2 42 (28.38%) Java
3 24 (16.22%) Bash
4 20 (13.51%) JavaScript
5 18 (12.16%) TypeScript
6 14 (9.46%) Go
7 11 (7.43%) SQL
8 10 (6.76%) PowerShell
9 7 (4.73%) Rust
10 6 (4.05%) Bicep
11 4 (2.70%) Perl
11 4 (2.70%) Scala
12 3 (2.03%) C
12 3 (2.03%) C#
13 2 (1.35%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.35%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.68%) Gremlin
14 1 (0.68%) PHP
14 1 (0.68%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 71 (47.97%) Security Cleared
2 56 (37.84%) SC Cleared
3 27 (18.24%) DV Cleared
4 21 (14.19%) Degree
5 20 (13.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (8.11%) Azure Certification
7 8 (5.41%) AWS Certification
8 7 (4.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.70%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.35%) QA
3 1 (0.68%) GDPR
3 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.68%) NIST
3 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 56 (37.84%) Docker
2 10 (6.76%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.41%) Squid
4 6 (4.05%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (4.05%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (2.70%) BitLocker
5 4 (2.70%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.70%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (1.35%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.68%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 81 (54.73%) Kubernetes
2 51 (34.46%) Kibana
3 36 (24.32%) Ansible
4 31 (20.95%) logstash
4 31 (20.95%) Terraform
5 20 (13.51%) Grafana
5 20 (13.51%) Puppet
6 19 (12.84%) Prometheus
7 10 (6.76%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (5.41%) FortiGate
9 7 (4.73%) Consul
10 4 (2.70%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (2.70%) vCenter Server
10 4 (2.70%) vMotion
11 3 (2.03%) Argo
12 2 (1.35%) Nagios
12 2 (1.35%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (1.35%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.35%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.68%) WSUS
Vendors
1 25 (16.89%) Splunk
2 15 (10.14%) Red Hat
3 12 (8.11%) Dynatrace
4 9 (6.08%) Microsoft
5 8 (5.41%) Cloudera
5 8 (5.41%) Foundry
5 8 (5.41%) Palantir
6 7 (4.73%) Atlassian
7 6 (4.05%) Oracle
7 6 (4.05%) VMware
8 4 (2.70%) Citrix
8 4 (2.70%) NetApp
8 4 (2.70%) Solace
8 4 (2.70%) TIBCO
9 3 (2.03%) Google
10 2 (1.35%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.35%) Dell
10 2 (1.35%) F5
10 2 (1.35%) IBM
10 2 (1.35%) OpenAI