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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 408 377
Rank change year-on-year -94 -31 +58
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 126 106 152
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.27% 0.38% 0.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.82% 2.08% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 79 106
10th Percentile £346 £336 £404
25th Percentile £406 £453 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £625 £653 £645
90th Percentile £700 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £589
% change year-on-year -9.09% -6.62% +7.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £38.23 £55.70 -
25th Percentile £49.81 £59.75 -
Median hourly rate £58.00 £68.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% - -
75th Percentile £63.63 £74.75 -
90th Percentile £69.70 £77.90 -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £68.00 -
% change year-on-year -15.44% - -

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 6,924 5,101 5,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.87% 18.26% 18.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,623 3,514 4,071
10th Percentile £352 £339 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £713 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 74 83
10th Percentile £15.95 £21.02 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.96 £29.06 £21.63
Median hourly rate £39.00 £43.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +24.29% -36.07%
75th Percentile £57.81 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £80.00 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £40.18 £42.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -4.32% +19.99% -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 26 September 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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -64 76 £483 -16.09% 150
South West -28 19 £575 -4.17% 29
West Midlands -55 10 £700 +16.67% 13
Midlands -56 10 £700 +30.23% 20
South East -69 9 £690 +20.00% 22
North of England -67 7 £450 +20.81% 46
North West -44 3 - - 34
Yorkshire - 3 £475 - 8
North East - 1 £425 - 4
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 18 (14.29%) Apache Spark
2 17 (13.49%) nginx
3 12 (9.52%) Apache
4 10 (7.94%) WebLogic
5 9 (7.14%) Confluence
6 8 (6.35%) Tomcat
7 7 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (1.59%) Camunda
9 2 (1.59%) Liferay
9 2 (1.59%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.79%) CMS
10 1 (0.79%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.79%) IIS
10 1 (0.79%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.79%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (3.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Magento
1 1 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 54 (42.86%) AWS
2 37 (29.37%) Azure
3 23 (18.25%) GCP
4 20 (15.87%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 14 (11.11%) GitHub
6 12 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (7.94%) Serverless
8 9 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (3.97%) Amazon S3
10 5 (3.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (3.97%) Entra ID
11 4 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (3.17%) IaaS
11 4 (3.17%) OpenShift
11 4 (3.17%) PaaS
12 3 (2.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (2.38%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.14%) HTTP
2 7 (5.56%) DNS
3 5 (3.97%) Firewall
4 4 (3.17%) DHCP
4 4 (3.17%) MQTT
4 4 (3.17%) Network Security
4 4 (3.17%) SMTP
4 4 (3.17%) VPN
5 2 (1.59%) Kerberos
5 2 (1.59%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (1.59%) SAN
6 1 (0.79%) DSL
6 1 (0.79%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.49%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (11.90%) Metadata
3 13 (10.32%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (9.52%) Big Data
4 12 (9.52%) MongoDB
5 10 (7.94%) Data Lake
6 9 (7.14%) NoSQL
7 7 (5.56%) Hadoop
8 6 (4.76%) Flink
9 5 (3.97%) BigQuery
9 5 (3.97%) Redis
10 4 (3.17%) MySQL
10 4 (3.17%) Oracle Database
10 4 (3.17%) SQL Server
11 3 (2.38%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (2.38%) Apache Hive
11 3 (2.38%) ClickHouse
11 3 (2.38%) GIS
11 3 (2.38%) HBase
Development Applications
1 32 (25.40%) Git
2 17 (13.49%) JIRA
3 15 (11.90%) GitLab
4 14 (11.11%) Jenkins
5 6 (4.76%) JUnit
6 4 (3.17%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.17%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.38%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.38%) Gradle
7 3 (2.38%) Maven
7 3 (2.38%) Mockito
7 3 (2.38%) Selenium
8 2 (1.59%) Gatling
8 2 (1.59%) JMeter
8 2 (1.59%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.79%) git-flow
9 1 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.79%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.79%) RhodeCode
9 1 (0.79%) Storybook
General
1 22 (17.46%) Social Skills
2 13 (10.32%) Public Sector
3 11 (8.73%) Finance
4 9 (7.14%) Banking
5 5 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (3.97%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.38%) Marketing
6 3 (2.38%) Police
7 2 (1.59%) Law
8 1 (0.79%) Legal
8 1 (0.79%) Publishing
8 1 (0.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (30.95%) Developer
2 17 (13.49%) Senior
3 16 (12.70%) Java Developer
4 15 (11.90%) Architect
5 14 (11.11%) Data Engineer
6 11 (8.73%) Data Architect
6 11 (8.73%) Software Engineer
7 10 (7.94%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (6.35%) Lead
9 7 (5.56%) Java Engineer
9 7 (5.56%) Oracle Developer
9 7 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
9 7 (5.56%) WebLogic Developer
10 6 (4.76%) Elasticsearch Engineer
10 6 (4.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 6 (4.76%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 5 (3.97%) Digital Developer
11 5 (3.97%) Elasticsearch Developer
11 5 (3.97%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (3.97%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (30.16%) Kafka
2 22 (17.46%) Terraform
3 20 (15.87%) Spring
4 18 (14.29%) React
4 18 (14.29%) REST
5 16 (12.70%) Elastic Stack
6 14 (11.11%) Spring Boot
7 11 (8.73%) HTML
8 9 (7.14%) CSS
8 9 (7.14%) Next.js
9 8 (6.35%) Apache NiFi
10 7 (5.56%) Keycloak
11 6 (4.76%) GraphQL
11 6 (4.76%) Node.js
11 6 (4.76%) RESTful
12 5 (3.97%) .NET
12 5 (3.97%) Flask
13 4 (3.17%) Protocol Buffers
13 4 (3.17%) Spark Streaming
13 4 (3.17%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.70%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.73%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (7.14%) Digital Media
4 7 (5.56%) Clustering
5 6 (4.76%) Data Centre
5 6 (4.76%) Legacy Applications
5 6 (4.76%) PKI
5 6 (4.76%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.97%) Data Structures
7 4 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (3.17%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (3.17%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (3.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (2.38%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.38%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.59%) Replication
10 1 (0.79%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 29 (23.02%) Linux
2 9 (7.14%) Windows
3 8 (6.35%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.97%) Solaris
4 5 (3.97%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (2.38%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.59%) Debian
6 2 (1.59%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.59%) VMS
6 2 (1.59%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (42.06%) CI/CD
2 43 (34.13%) Agile
3 40 (31.75%) DevOps
4 26 (20.63%) Containerisation
4 26 (20.63%) Software Engineering
5 24 (19.05%) AI
5 24 (19.05%) Data Pipeline
6 23 (18.25%) Data Modelling
7 21 (16.67%) Analytics
8 20 (15.87%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (14.29%) ETL
10 17 (13.49%) Observability
10 17 (13.49%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (13.49%) Scrum
11 16 (12.70%) Machine Learning
11 16 (12.70%) Test Automation
12 15 (11.90%) Data Architecture
12 15 (11.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 14 (11.11%) Computer Science
14 13 (10.32%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 43 (34.13%) Python
2 41 (32.54%) SQL
3 38 (30.16%) Java
4 23 (18.25%) JavaScript
5 18 (14.29%) TypeScript
6 10 (7.94%) Bash
7 9 (7.14%) PL/SQL
8 8 (6.35%) Rust
9 7 (5.56%) Go
9 7 (5.56%) Kotlin
9 7 (5.56%) PowerShell
9 7 (5.56%) Shell Script
10 5 (3.97%) Scala
11 4 (3.17%) Ruby
12 3 (2.38%) C#
13 2 (1.59%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.79%) PHP
14 1 (0.79%) R
14 1 (0.79%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 53 (42.06%) SC Cleared
3 19 (15.08%) DV Cleared
4 16 (12.70%) Degree
5 8 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (5.56%) AWS Certification
7 6 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.38%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.79%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.14%) QA
2 7 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.38%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.38%) EMIR
3 3 (2.38%) MiFID
4 2 (1.59%) GDPR
4 2 (1.59%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.59%) SLA
5 1 (0.79%) FedRAMP
5 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.79%) ITGC
5 1 (0.79%) NIST
System Software
1 43 (34.13%) Docker
2 9 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
2 9 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.97%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.17%) BitLocker
4 4 (3.17%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.17%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (3.17%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (2.38%) HDFS
5 3 (2.38%) Terminal Services
6 2 (1.59%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.79%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 42 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 25 (19.84%) Prometheus
3 22 (17.46%) Ansible
4 21 (16.67%) Grafana
5 15 (11.90%) Kibana
6 11 (8.73%) Puppet
7 8 (6.35%) logstash
8 4 (3.17%) Nagios
8 4 (3.17%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (3.17%) Podman
8 4 (3.17%) vCenter Server
8 4 (3.17%) vMotion
9 3 (2.38%) Consul
10 2 (1.59%) Istio
10 2 (1.59%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (1.59%) systemd
11 1 (0.79%) Argo
11 1 (0.79%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (19.84%) Oracle
2 14 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.14%) VMware
4 8 (6.35%) IBM
5 5 (3.97%) Red Hat
6 4 (3.17%) Citrix
6 4 (3.17%) Cloudera
6 4 (3.17%) NVIDIA
6 4 (3.17%) Tenable
7 3 (2.38%) Databricks
7 3 (2.38%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.38%) Google
7 3 (2.38%) HP
7 3 (2.38%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.38%) Symantec
8 2 (1.59%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.59%) Confluent
8 2 (1.59%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.59%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.59%) WSO2