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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 519 398 358
Rank change year-on-year -121 -40 +97
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 109 110 167
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.40% 0.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.55% 2.18% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 89 117
10th Percentile £357 £336 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.54% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £604 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £506 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.95% - +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile £38.23 £58.14 -
25th Percentile £49.81 £65.85 -
Median hourly rate £58.00 £78.70 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.30% - -
75th Percentile £63.63 £79.35 -
90th Percentile £69.70 £79.74 -
UK median hourly rate £58.00 £78.70 -
% change year-on-year -26.30% - -

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 7,045 5,051 6,122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.40% 18.16% 18.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,714 3,507 4,373
10th Percentile £358 £343 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -4.63% -1.82%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £675
90th Percentile £701 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 227 79 92
10th Percentile £15.97 £18.69 £14.33
25th Percentile £24.65 £23.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £38.50 £34.65 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -4.41% -34.09%
75th Percentile £65.61 £62.88 £60.36
90th Percentile £76.70 £77.74 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £33.93
% change year-on-year +12.86% +3.15% -38.31%

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 9 August 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 9 August 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 9 August 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 -83 64 £513 -12.77% 89
North of England -62 11 £538 +36.77% 30
South East -70 10 £608 +5.65% 18
North West -44 9 £538 +36.77% 20
South West -40 8 £475 -13.64% 20
West Midlands -59 4 £430 -21.91% 6
Midlands -63 4 £430 -20.02% 9
Yorkshire - 2 £513 - 9
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 (16.51%) nginx
2 17 (15.60%) Apache Spark
3 9 (8.26%) Apache
4 8 (7.34%) Tomcat
4 8 (7.34%) WebLogic
5 3 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (2.75%) Confluence
5 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.83%) Liferay
6 2 (1.83%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.92%) CMS
7 1 (0.92%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.92%) IIS
7 1 (0.92%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.92%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (3.67%) Trello
2 1 (0.92%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Magento
1 1 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 47 (43.12%) AWS
2 19 (17.43%) Azure
3 17 (15.60%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 17 (15.60%) GCP
4 12 (11.01%) Serverless
5 8 (7.34%) GitHub
6 7 (6.42%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (6.42%) OpenShift
6 7 (6.42%) PaaS
7 6 (5.50%) IaaS
8 5 (4.59%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (4.59%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (4.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (4.59%) Entra ID
9 4 (3.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (3.67%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.75%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (2.75%) Route 53
10 3 (2.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.17%) DNS
1 10 (9.17%) Firewall
1 10 (9.17%) HTTP
2 9 (8.26%) VPN
3 6 (5.50%) DHCP
3 6 (5.50%) SMTP
4 4 (3.67%) MQTT
4 4 (3.67%) Network Security
5 3 (2.75%) OpenVPN
5 3 (2.75%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.83%) NaaS
6 2 (1.83%) WAN
7 1 (0.92%) DSL
7 1 (0.92%) Intranet
7 1 (0.92%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.76%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (11.01%) Metadata
3 11 (10.09%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (8.26%) Big Data
4 9 (8.26%) MongoDB
5 7 (6.42%) Data Lake
5 7 (6.42%) Hadoop
5 7 (6.42%) NoSQL
6 5 (4.59%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (4.59%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (4.59%) MySQL
6 5 (4.59%) Redis
7 4 (3.67%) Flink
7 4 (3.67%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.75%) HBase
8 3 (2.75%) InfluxDB
8 3 (2.75%) Oracle Database
8 3 (2.75%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.83%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.83%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 20 (18.35%) Git
2 11 (10.09%) GitLab
3 10 (9.17%) Jenkins
3 10 (9.17%) JIRA
4 6 (5.50%) Bitbucket
4 6 (5.50%) SonarQube
5 5 (4.59%) JUnit
6 3 (2.75%) Gatling
6 3 (2.75%) JMeter
6 3 (2.75%) LoadRunner
6 3 (2.75%) Selenium
7 2 (1.83%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.83%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.92%) git-flow
8 1 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.92%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.92%) Postman
8 1 (0.92%) RhodeCode
8 1 (0.92%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (11.01%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.26%) Public Sector
3 7 (6.42%) Finance
4 5 (4.59%) Banking
5 3 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.83%) Back Office
6 2 (1.83%) Billing
6 2 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.83%) Marketing
6 2 (1.83%) Police
6 2 (1.83%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.92%) Front Office
7 1 (0.92%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.92%) Legal
7 1 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (24.77%) Developer
2 17 (15.60%) Architect
3 16 (14.68%) Software Engineer
4 13 (11.93%) Senior
5 11 (10.09%) Data Architect
5 11 (10.09%) Java Developer
6 9 (8.26%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (6.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (6.42%) Java Engineer
8 6 (5.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 6 (5.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (5.50%) Elasticsearch Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (4.59%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Lead
9 5 (4.59%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (3.67%) Junior
10 4 (3.67%) Oracle Developer
10 4 (3.67%) WebLogic Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (30.28%) Kafka
2 20 (18.35%) REST
2 20 (18.35%) Spring
3 12 (11.01%) Spring Boot
4 10 (9.17%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (8.26%) React
6 8 (7.34%) Apache NiFi
6 8 (7.34%) Node.js
7 6 (5.50%) GraphQL
7 6 (5.50%) gRPC
8 5 (4.59%) RESTful
9 4 (3.67%) .NET
9 4 (3.67%) JSON
9 4 (3.67%) Keycloak
9 4 (3.67%) Ktor
9 4 (3.67%) Middleware
9 4 (3.67%) Protocol Buffers
9 4 (3.67%) Swagger
9 4 (3.67%) WireMock
10 3 (2.75%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.84%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (11.01%) Cloud Native
3 9 (8.26%) Clustering
4 8 (7.34%) Digital Media
4 8 (7.34%) PKI
5 6 (5.50%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (4.59%) Data Structures
6 5 (4.59%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (4.59%) Product Ownership
7 4 (3.67%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.75%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (2.75%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.92%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.92%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (28.44%) Linux
2 12 (11.01%) Windows
3 11 (10.09%) Windows Server
4 6 (5.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (5.50%) Solaris
4 6 (5.50%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (3.67%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (3.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (3.67%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.83%) Debian
6 2 (1.83%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.83%) VMS
7 1 (0.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (35.78%) DevOps
2 37 (33.94%) CI/CD
3 34 (31.19%) Agile
4 23 (21.10%) AI
5 21 (19.27%) Software Engineering
6 18 (16.51%) Containerisation
7 17 (15.60%) Data Modelling
8 15 (13.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (13.76%) Machine Learning
8 15 (13.76%) Observability
8 15 (13.76%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (13.76%) Test Automation
9 14 (12.84%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (12.84%) Microservices
10 13 (11.93%) Data Pipeline
10 13 (11.93%) Scrum
11 12 (11.01%) Data Architecture
11 12 (11.01%) Full-Stack Development
11 12 (11.01%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 11 (10.09%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 43 (39.45%) Java
2 35 (32.11%) Python
3 26 (23.85%) SQL
4 17 (15.60%) JavaScript
5 12 (11.01%) TypeScript
6 11 (10.09%) Rust
7 8 (7.34%) PL/SQL
7 8 (7.34%) PowerShell
8 7 (6.42%) Bash
9 6 (5.50%) C#
9 6 (5.50%) Shell Script
10 4 (3.67%) Kotlin
11 3 (2.75%) Go
11 3 (2.75%) Ruby
12 2 (1.83%) C++
12 2 (1.83%) Groovy
12 2 (1.83%) Scala
13 1 (0.92%) PHP
13 1 (0.92%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (50.46%) Security Cleared
2 43 (39.45%) SC Cleared
3 20 (18.35%) DV Cleared
4 9 (8.26%) Degree
5 7 (6.42%) AWS Certification
5 7 (6.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.42%) QA
2 4 (3.67%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.75%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.92%) ITGC
4 1 (0.92%) NIST
System Software
1 36 (33.03%) Docker
2 12 (11.01%) VMware ESXi
2 12 (11.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (6.42%) Active Directory
4 6 (5.50%) BitLocker
4 6 (5.50%) Hyper-V
4 6 (5.50%) Microsoft App-V
5 5 (4.59%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (2.75%) Squid
6 3 (2.75%) Terminal Services
7 2 (1.83%) HDFS
8 1 (0.92%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 39 (35.78%) Kubernetes
2 23 (21.10%) Terraform
3 22 (20.18%) Prometheus
4 21 (19.27%) Ansible
4 21 (19.27%) Grafana
5 14 (12.84%) Kibana
6 12 (11.01%) Puppet
7 7 (6.42%) logstash
8 6 (5.50%) vCenter Server
8 6 (5.50%) vMotion
9 5 (4.59%) Oracle RMAN
10 4 (3.67%) Consul
10 4 (3.67%) Nagios
10 4 (3.67%) Podman
11 3 (2.75%) FortiGate
11 3 (2.75%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (1.83%) Amdocs OSS
13 1 (0.92%) Argo
13 1 (0.92%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 15 (13.76%) Oracle
2 13 (11.93%) Microsoft
3 12 (11.01%) VMware
4 10 (9.17%) Dynatrace
5 9 (8.26%) Red Hat
6 8 (7.34%) IBM
7 6 (5.50%) Citrix
8 4 (3.67%) NVIDIA
8 4 (3.67%) Tenable
9 3 (2.75%) AppDynamics
9 3 (2.75%) Cloudera
9 3 (2.75%) Google
9 3 (2.75%) HP
9 3 (2.75%) NetApp
9 3 (2.75%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.75%) Symantec
10 2 (1.83%) Amdocs
10 2 (1.83%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.83%) Ciena
10 2 (1.83%) Salesforce