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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 453 368 358
Rank change year-on-year -85 -10 +73
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 134 111 189
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.46% 0.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.14% 2.40% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 82 158
10th Percentile £425 £394 £417
25th Percentile £475 £514 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £645
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% -8.91% +14.67%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £825
90th Percentile £683 £711 -
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £35.75 £43.20 -
25th Percentile £43.63 £49.11 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £61.60 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.03% - -
75th Percentile £69.63 £71.46 -
90th Percentile £75.25 £75.81 -
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £61.60 -
% change year-on-year -5.03% - -

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 6,255 4,623 6,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.51% 19.00% 16.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,330 3,252 4,460
10th Percentile £350 £360 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £600 £656 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £781
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 92 131
10th Percentile £16.70 £19.41 £14.00
25th Percentile £27.09 £23.50 £20.98
Median hourly rate £48.13 £32.43 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.41% -18.93% -31.09%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.00 £56.74
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £33.11 £40.00
% change year-on-year +51.01% -17.23% -33.33%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -36 63 £525 -13.58% 41
West Midlands -36 34 £550 - 2
Midlands -48 34 £550 +2.42% 4
North of England -71 14 £500 +27.23% 8
North West -33 13 £500 +27.23% 7
South West -29 11 £550 -8.33% 14
South East -60 6 £399 -30.65% 17
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
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 19 (14.18%) nginx
2 14 (10.45%) Apache Spark
3 10 (7.46%) Confluence
4 8 (5.97%) Apache
5 6 (4.48%) OpenStack
6 5 (3.73%) Tomcat
7 3 (2.24%) WebLogic
8 2 (1.49%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.75%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Maya
Business Applications
1 2 (1.49%) Magento
2 1 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.75%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 47 (35.07%) AWS
2 25 (18.66%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 20 (14.93%) Azure
4 17 (12.69%) Serverless
5 12 (8.96%) Amazon S3
5 12 (8.96%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (7.46%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (6.72%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (6.72%) GCP
7 9 (6.72%) GitHub
7 9 (6.72%) Route 53
7 9 (6.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 8 (5.97%) PaaS
9 7 (5.22%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (5.22%) IaaS
10 4 (2.99%) OpenShift
11 3 (2.24%) Kong
12 2 (1.49%) Azure Functions
12 2 (1.49%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (1.49%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 18 (13.43%) DNS
2 17 (12.69%) Firewall
2 17 (12.69%) VPN
3 12 (8.96%) TCP/IP
4 9 (6.72%) HTTP
4 9 (6.72%) OpenVPN
5 7 (5.22%) DHCP
5 7 (5.22%) SMTP
6 2 (1.49%) Multicast
6 2 (1.49%) NaaS
6 2 (1.49%) NAS
6 2 (1.49%) SAN
6 2 (1.49%) WAN
7 1 (0.75%) DSL
7 1 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (23.13%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (8.21%) Hadoop
3 6 (4.48%) Big Data
3 6 (4.48%) MongoDB
3 6 (4.48%) MySQL
4 4 (2.99%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.24%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.24%) Redis
6 2 (1.49%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.49%) Flink
6 2 (1.49%) InfluxDB
6 2 (1.49%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.49%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.49%) TimescaleDB
7 1 (0.75%) Power BI
7 1 (0.75%) SQLite
7 1 (0.75%) Tableau
7 1 (0.75%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 12 (8.96%) JIRA
2 10 (7.46%) Git
3 8 (5.97%) GitLab
4 7 (5.22%) Bitbucket
4 7 (5.22%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.99%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.24%) Gatling
6 3 (2.24%) JMeter
6 3 (2.24%) LoadRunner
7 2 (1.49%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.49%) JUnit
7 2 (1.49%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.75%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.75%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.75%) git-flow
8 1 (0.75%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.75%) Postman
8 1 (0.75%) Travis CI
General
1 27 (20.15%) Social Skills
2 13 (9.70%) Public Sector
3 10 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.97%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (5.22%) Finance
6 3 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.49%) Back Office
7 2 (1.49%) Banking
7 2 (1.49%) Billing
7 2 (1.49%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.75%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.75%) Front Office
8 1 (0.75%) Marketing
8 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (22.39%) Developer
2 16 (11.94%) Senior
3 14 (10.45%) Architect
4 13 (9.70%) Full-Stack Developer
5 12 (8.96%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 11 (8.21%) Data Engineer
6 11 (8.21%) SIEM Engineer
7 10 (7.46%) DevOps Engineer
7 10 (7.46%) Site Engineer
7 10 (7.46%) Software Engineer
7 10 (7.46%) Splunk Engineer
8 9 (6.72%) Applications Engineer
9 8 (5.97%) Lead
9 8 (5.97%) Senior Data Engineer
10 7 (5.22%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 7 (5.22%) NetApp Engineer
10 7 (5.22%) Storage Engineer
10 7 (5.22%) Technical Architect
11 6 (4.48%) AWS Architect
11 6 (4.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (34.33%) Kafka
2 34 (25.37%) Elastic Stack
3 26 (19.40%) Spring
4 23 (17.16%) Node.js
5 20 (14.93%) REST
6 19 (14.18%) WireMock
7 15 (11.19%) React
7 15 (11.19%) Spring Boot
8 10 (7.46%) LDAP
8 10 (7.46%) OpenID
9 8 (5.97%) Apache NiFi
10 7 (5.22%) Keycloak
11 6 (4.48%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (3.73%) JSON
12 5 (3.73%) Middleware
13 4 (2.99%) AngularJS
13 4 (2.99%) GraphQL
13 4 (2.99%) Playwright
13 4 (2.99%) Swagger
14 3 (2.24%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.21%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (7.46%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.72%) Enterprise Storage
4 8 (5.97%) Management Information System
4 8 (5.97%) PKI
5 7 (5.22%) Clustering
6 5 (3.73%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.73%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (2.99%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.24%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.49%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.49%) Replication
10 1 (0.75%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.75%) CMDB
10 1 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.75%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 33 (24.63%) Linux
2 13 (9.70%) Windows
3 11 (8.21%) Windows Server
4 8 (5.97%) Unix
5 7 (5.22%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (3.73%) Solaris
6 5 (3.73%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (2.99%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (2.99%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (2.24%) VMS
9 2 (1.49%) Debian
9 2 (1.49%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (50.00%) DevOps
2 30 (22.39%) CI/CD
3 28 (20.90%) Containerisation
4 26 (19.40%) Agile
4 26 (19.40%) Performance Tuning
4 26 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (15.67%) Observability
6 20 (14.93%) Full-Stack Development
6 20 (14.93%) Incident Response
7 18 (13.43%) Data Ingestion
7 18 (13.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 17 (12.69%) Data Engineering
8 17 (12.69%) Data Modelling
8 17 (12.69%) SIEM
9 14 (10.45%) Computer Science
9 14 (10.45%) Data Pipeline
9 14 (10.45%) Decision-Making
9 14 (10.45%) Roadmaps
9 14 (10.45%) Software Engineering
10 13 (9.70%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 50 (37.31%) Java
2 44 (32.84%) Python
3 21 (15.67%) JavaScript
4 16 (11.94%) SQL
4 16 (11.94%) TypeScript
5 13 (9.70%) Bash
6 11 (8.21%) Go
7 9 (6.72%) PowerShell
8 7 (5.22%) Rust
9 5 (3.73%) Scala
10 4 (2.99%) C#
10 4 (2.99%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.49%) C++
11 2 (1.49%) Groovy
11 2 (1.49%) PHP
11 2 (1.49%) Ruby
12 1 (0.75%) Gremlin
12 1 (0.75%) R
12 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.75%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 71 (52.99%) Security Cleared
2 54 (40.30%) SC Cleared
3 23 (17.16%) DV Cleared
4 15 (11.19%) Degree
5 14 (10.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (5.22%) AWS Certification
6 7 (5.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (5.22%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.49%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.73%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.99%) QA
3 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.75%) NIST
3 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 46 (34.33%) Docker
2 12 (8.96%) VMware ESXi
2 12 (8.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (6.72%) Squid
4 8 (5.97%) Active Directory
5 7 (5.22%) BitLocker
5 7 (5.22%) Hyper-V
5 7 (5.22%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (2.99%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (1.49%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 60 (44.78%) Kubernetes
2 35 (26.12%) Kibana
3 31 (23.13%) Ansible
4 28 (20.90%) Grafana
4 28 (20.90%) Terraform
5 25 (18.66%) Prometheus
6 22 (16.42%) logstash
7 16 (11.94%) Puppet
8 9 (6.72%) FortiGate
8 9 (6.72%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (5.97%) Consul
10 7 (5.22%) vCenter Server
10 7 (5.22%) vMotion
11 4 (2.99%) Argo
11 4 (2.99%) Oracle RMAN
12 3 (2.24%) Nagios
13 2 (1.49%) Amdocs OSS
13 2 (1.49%) Red Hat Satellite
14 1 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
14 1 (0.75%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 18 (13.43%) Dynatrace
2 16 (11.94%) Red Hat
3 13 (9.70%) Splunk
4 12 (8.96%) VMware
5 9 (6.72%) Microsoft
6 7 (5.22%) Atlassian
6 7 (5.22%) Citrix
6 7 (5.22%) NetApp
7 5 (3.73%) IBM
7 5 (3.73%) Oracle
8 4 (2.99%) AppDynamics
9 3 (2.24%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.49%) Adobe
10 2 (1.49%) Amdocs
10 2 (1.49%) Cloudera
10 2 (1.49%) Dell
10 2 (1.49%) F5
10 2 (1.49%) Foundry
10 2 (1.49%) Palantir
10 2 (1.49%) ServiceNow