Elasticsearch Contract Job Trends in England

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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 440 352 389
Rank change year-on-year -88 +37 +48
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 105 171 189
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.55% 0.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.95% 3.08% 2.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 99 149
10th Percentile £354 £410 £445
25th Percentile £456 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £634 £700 £825
90th Percentile £695 £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 5,388 5,557 6,580
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.62% 17.77% 16.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,747 3,717 4,680
10th Percentile £328 £345 £355
25th Percentile £412 £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 £529 £534
% change year-on-year -5.48% -0.94% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 78 138
10th Percentile £20.72 £17.85 £19.05
25th Percentile £29.06 £22.93 £24.86
Median hourly rate £44.25 £35.00 £48.45
Median % change year-on-year +26.43% -27.76% -3.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.75 £68.31
90th Percentile £85.30 £65.30 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £30.11 £47.70
% change year-on-year +44.49% -36.88% +5.99%

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 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Elasticsearch in England

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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 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 -26 58 £550 -9.47% 69
West Midlands -8 30 £550 -13.39% 10
Midlands -19 30 £550 -13.39% 14
South West -16 15 £575 -11.54% 18
North West -29 3 £373 -28.57% 24
North of England -46 3 £373 -32.27% 29
South East -7 2 £450 -8.72% 24
East of England -23 2 £575 +91.67% 9
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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 16 (15.24%) Confluence
2 11 (10.48%) Apache
3 6 (5.71%) Apache Spark
4 4 (3.81%) JBoss
5 2 (1.90%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.95%) Camunda
6 1 (0.95%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.95%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Magento
1 1 (0.95%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 35 (33.33%) Azure
2 24 (22.86%) AWS
3 17 (16.19%) GitHub
4 15 (14.29%) GCP
5 14 (13.33%) Serverless
6 9 (8.57%) Azure AKS
6 9 (8.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 9 (8.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (7.62%) Entra ID
8 6 (5.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 6 (5.71%) OpenShift
9 5 (4.76%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.86%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (2.86%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.90%) Azure Functions
11 2 (1.90%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.90%) IaaS
11 2 (1.90%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.90%) HTTP
1 2 (1.90%) SSH
2 1 (0.95%) DSL
2 1 (0.95%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.95%) Firewall
2 1 (0.95%) SMTP
2 1 (0.95%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (21.90%) Big Data
1 23 (21.90%) Hadoop
2 16 (15.24%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (5.71%) Relational Database
4 5 (4.76%) MySQL
4 5 (4.76%) NoSQL
4 5 (4.76%) RDBMS
5 4 (3.81%) Data Lake
5 4 (3.81%) Redis
6 3 (2.86%) Apache Hive
6 3 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.86%) Impala
6 3 (2.86%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.86%) Power BI
6 3 (2.86%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.90%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.90%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.95%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 20 (19.05%) JIRA
2 19 (18.10%) Jenkins
3 12 (11.43%) Git
4 7 (6.67%) TeamCity
5 6 (5.71%) SonarQube
6 4 (3.81%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (3.81%) CA Release Automation
6 4 (3.81%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.90%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.90%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.90%) GitLab
7 2 (1.90%) Maven
7 2 (1.90%) Postman
8 1 (0.95%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.95%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.95%) JMeter
8 1 (0.95%) JUnit
8 1 (0.95%) Moq
8 1 (0.95%) Selenium
8 1 (0.95%) SoapUI
General
1 36 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.10%) Finance
3 15 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.76%) Banking
4 5 (4.76%) Investment Banking
5 4 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.81%) Law
6 3 (2.86%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.90%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.90%) Retail
8 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.95%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.95%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 21 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 14 (13.33%) Senior
3 13 (12.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 11 (10.48%) Developer
4 11 (10.48%) Splunk Engineer
5 9 (8.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 9 (8.57%) Senior Data Engineer
5 9 (8.57%) Software Engineer
6 8 (7.62%) Site Engineer
7 7 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (6.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 6 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) Applications Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) Python Engineer
10 4 (3.81%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
11 3 (2.86%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 3 (2.86%) Kubernetes Specialist
11 3 (2.86%) Migration Specialist
11 3 (2.86%) SIEM Engineer
11 3 (2.86%) Unix Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (42.86%) Elastic Stack
2 37 (35.24%) Kafka
3 17 (16.19%) React
4 16 (15.24%) Apache NiFi
5 15 (14.29%) Node.js
6 13 (12.38%) RabbitMQ
7 11 (10.48%) REST
8 9 (8.57%) FIX Protocol
8 9 (8.57%) Keycloak
8 9 (8.57%) Next.js
9 8 (7.62%) Express.js
9 8 (7.62%) JSON
9 8 (7.62%) Spring Boot
10 7 (6.67%) XML
11 6 (5.71%) HTML
11 6 (5.71%) Ultra Messaging
12 5 (4.76%) AngularJS
12 5 (4.76%) CSS
12 5 (4.76%) PySpark
13 4 (3.81%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.24%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.48%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (6.67%) Management Information System
5 6 (5.71%) Algorithms
5 6 (5.71%) Fixed Income
5 6 (5.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.81%) Replication
7 3 (2.86%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.90%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.90%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.95%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.95%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.95%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.95%) IoT
9 1 (0.95%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.95%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.95%) Video on Demand
9 1 (0.95%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 36 (34.29%) Linux
2 9 (8.57%) Unix
3 7 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (5.71%) Windows
5 3 (2.86%) CentOS
5 3 (2.86%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.90%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.95%) Debian
7 1 (0.95%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (45.71%) DevOps
2 35 (33.33%) Observability
3 34 (32.38%) Agile
3 34 (32.38%) Containerisation
4 32 (30.48%) CI/CD
5 27 (25.71%) Software Engineering
6 23 (21.90%) Data Pipeline
6 23 (21.90%) Migration
7 22 (20.95%) Microservices
8 19 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (17.14%) Data Ingestion
9 18 (17.14%) Full-Stack Development
10 17 (16.19%) Analytics
10 17 (16.19%) Machine Learning
11 16 (15.24%) Data Engineering
11 16 (15.24%) Scrum
12 15 (14.29%) ETL
12 15 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
13 14 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 12 (11.43%) Batch Processing
Programming Languages
1 60 (57.14%) Python
2 18 (17.14%) Bash
3 17 (16.19%) Java
4 14 (13.33%) PowerShell
5 13 (12.38%) SQL
6 12 (11.43%) TypeScript
7 11 (10.48%) Bicep
7 11 (10.48%) Go
8 9 (8.57%) JavaScript
8 9 (8.57%) Perl
9 4 (3.81%) C#
10 3 (2.86%) C
11 2 (1.90%) Scala
11 2 (1.90%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.95%) PHP
12 1 (0.95%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.95%) Ruby
12 1 (0.95%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 37 (35.24%) SC Cleared
3 19 (18.10%) DV Cleared
4 9 (8.57%) Azure Certification
5 6 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (5.71%) Degree
6 2 (1.90%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.95%) CEH
7 1 (0.95%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.95%) GDPR
1 1 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (0.95%) NIST
System Software
1 50 (47.62%) Docker
2 12 (11.43%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.90%) HDFS
4 1 (0.95%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.95%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 57 (54.29%) Kubernetes
2 53 (50.48%) Kibana
3 33 (31.43%) logstash
4 20 (19.05%) Ansible
5 12 (11.43%) Terraform
6 10 (9.52%) ITRS Geneos
7 8 (7.62%) Grafana
7 8 (7.62%) Puppet
8 7 (6.67%) Progress Chef
9 4 (3.81%) Argo
9 4 (3.81%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.95%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.95%) Graphite
11 1 (0.95%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.95%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 20 (19.05%) Splunk
2 17 (16.19%) Cloudera
3 14 (13.33%) Foundry
3 14 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 14 (13.33%) Palantir
4 10 (9.52%) Solace
5 7 (6.67%) Oracle
5 7 (6.67%) Red Hat
6 6 (5.71%) TIBCO
7 5 (4.76%) AppDynamics
8 3 (2.86%) Google
9 1 (0.95%) Adobe
9 1 (0.95%) Black Duck
9 1 (0.95%) Intel
9 1 (0.95%) PagerDuty
9 1 (0.95%) Qualys
9 1 (0.95%) SAP
9 1 (0.95%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.95%) Sybase
9 1 (0.95%) Veracode