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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 435 342 372
Rank change year-on-year -93 +30 +72
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 136 139 191
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.37% 0.56% 0.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.33% 2.94% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 89 157
10th Percentile £419 £415 £421
25th Percentile £475 £537 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £663
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% -9.43% +10.42%
75th Percentile £600 £713 £825
90th Percentile £700 £1,075 -
UK median daily rate £538 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -10.42% -4.00% +9.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £65.50
25th Percentile - £39.25 £70.00
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 5,841 4,723 6,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.03% 19.17% 16.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,050 3,296 4,409
10th Percentile £345 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.37% +1.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £661
90th Percentile £700 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 87 160
10th Percentile £18.13 £20.21 £14.32
25th Percentile £26.12 £24.25 £20.81
Median hourly rate £49.36 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.03% -13.58% -32.50%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.86 £60.38
90th Percentile £85.13 £70.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year +66.67% -25.93% -29.57%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 -59 57 £550 -9.84% 44
West Midlands -28 44 £550 +52.78% 6
Midlands -29 44 £550 +52.78% 8
South West -22 16 £550 -24.14% 12
North of England -61 14 £500 -15.97% 11
North West -31 13 £500 -15.97% 9
South East -46 6 £399 -18.16% 20
East of England -32 1 - - 7
Yorkshire -63 1 - - 1
Elasticsearch
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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 15 (11.03%) Confluence
2 11 (8.09%) Apache Spark
2 11 (8.09%) nginx
3 7 (5.15%) Apache
4 6 (4.41%) OpenStack
4 6 (4.41%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (1.47%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.47%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.74%) Camunda
6 1 (0.74%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Magento
1 1 (0.74%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 46 (33.82%) AWS
2 28 (20.59%) Azure
3 22 (16.18%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 17 (12.50%) GitHub
4 17 (12.50%) Serverless
5 12 (8.82%) Amazon S3
5 12 (8.82%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (7.35%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (7.35%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (7.35%) GCP
7 9 (6.62%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (6.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 8 (5.88%) Route 53
9 5 (3.68%) IaaS
9 5 (3.68%) OpenShift
9 5 (3.68%) PaaS
10 3 (2.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (2.21%) Kong
11 2 (1.47%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (1.47%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (11.03%) DNS
2 14 (10.29%) Firewall
2 14 (10.29%) VPN
3 12 (8.82%) TCP/IP
4 8 (5.88%) OpenVPN
5 6 (4.41%) HTTP
6 5 (3.68%) DHCP
6 5 (3.68%) SMTP
7 2 (1.47%) Multicast
7 2 (1.47%) NAS
7 2 (1.47%) SAN
8 1 (0.74%) DSL
8 1 (0.74%) NaaS
8 1 (0.74%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (25.74%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (11.76%) Hadoop
3 13 (9.56%) Big Data
4 6 (4.41%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.94%) MySQL
5 4 (2.94%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.94%) Redis
6 3 (2.21%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.47%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.47%) Power BI
7 2 (1.47%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.47%) Tableau
7 2 (1.47%) Weaviate
8 1 (0.74%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.74%) Flink
8 1 (0.74%) Impala
8 1 (0.74%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.74%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 17 (12.50%) JIRA
2 8 (5.88%) GitLab
3 7 (5.15%) Bitbucket
3 7 (5.15%) Git
3 7 (5.15%) SonarQube
4 6 (4.41%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.21%) Gatling
5 3 (2.21%) JMeter
5 3 (2.21%) LoadRunner
6 2 (1.47%) Postman
7 1 (0.74%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.74%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.74%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.74%) git-flow
7 1 (0.74%) JUnit
7 1 (0.74%) Maven
7 1 (0.74%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.74%) Travis CI
General
1 39 (28.68%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (9.56%) Public Sector
4 12 (8.82%) Finance
5 9 (6.62%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.47%) Banking
8 1 (0.74%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.74%) Billing
8 1 (0.74%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.74%) Front Office
8 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.74%) Retail
8 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (19.12%) Developer
2 20 (14.71%) Data Engineer
3 19 (13.97%) Senior
4 17 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 16 (11.76%) Splunk Engineer
6 14 (10.29%) Full-Stack Developer
7 13 (9.56%) Senior Data Engineer
8 12 (8.82%) Site Engineer
9 11 (8.09%) Architect
9 11 (8.09%) SIEM Engineer
10 10 (7.35%) Applications Engineer
11 8 (5.88%) Software Engineer
12 7 (5.15%) Lead
13 6 (4.41%) Technical Architect
14 5 (3.68%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 5 (3.68%) Backend Developer
14 5 (3.68%) DevOps Engineer
14 5 (3.68%) NetApp Engineer
14 5 (3.68%) Storage Engineer
15 4 (2.94%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (36.76%) Kafka
2 42 (30.88%) Elastic Stack
3 26 (19.12%) Spring
4 23 (16.91%) Node.js
5 18 (13.24%) WireMock
6 16 (11.76%) REST
7 15 (11.03%) Spring Boot
8 14 (10.29%) React
9 13 (9.56%) Apache NiFi
10 12 (8.82%) Keycloak
11 9 (6.62%) LDAP
11 9 (6.62%) OpenID
12 8 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (3.68%) AngularJS
14 4 (2.94%) JSON
14 4 (2.94%) Middleware
15 3 (2.21%) .NET
15 3 (2.21%) Ultra Messaging
15 3 (2.21%) XML
15 3 (2.21%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.09%) Hybrid Cloud
1 11 (8.09%) Management Information System
2 10 (7.35%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.62%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.15%) Enterprise Storage
5 6 (4.41%) PKI
6 5 (3.68%) Clustering
7 4 (2.94%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.21%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.21%) Replication
9 2 (1.47%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.47%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.47%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.47%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.47%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.74%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 35 (25.74%) Linux
2 12 (8.82%) Unix
3 8 (5.88%) Windows
4 7 (5.15%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.68%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.47%) Solaris
6 2 (1.47%) VMS
6 2 (1.47%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.74%) CentOS
7 1 (0.74%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (49.26%) DevOps
2 36 (26.47%) Containerisation
3 32 (23.53%) CI/CD
4 29 (21.32%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (19.85%) Agile
5 27 (19.85%) Performance Tuning
6 25 (18.38%) Observability
7 24 (17.65%) Data Ingestion
8 23 (16.91%) Incident Response
9 20 (14.71%) Data Engineering
9 20 (14.71%) Data Modelling
9 20 (14.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 19 (13.97%) Data Pipeline
10 19 (13.97%) Full-Stack Development
10 19 (13.97%) Migration
11 17 (12.50%) Computer Science
11 17 (12.50%) ETL
11 17 (12.50%) SIEM
12 16 (11.76%) Visualisation
13 15 (11.03%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 53 (38.97%) Python
2 41 (30.15%) Java
3 19 (13.97%) JavaScript
4 18 (13.24%) Bash
5 15 (11.03%) TypeScript
6 14 (10.29%) Go
7 12 (8.82%) SQL
8 10 (7.35%) PowerShell
9 7 (5.15%) Rust
10 4 (2.94%) Scala
11 3 (2.21%) C#
12 2 (1.47%) Perl
12 2 (1.47%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.74%) Bicep
13 1 (0.74%) C
13 1 (0.74%) C++
13 1 (0.74%) Gremlin
13 1 (0.74%) PHP
13 1 (0.74%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 67 (49.26%) Security Cleared
2 51 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 25 (18.38%) DV Cleared
4 18 (13.24%) Degree
5 17 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (8.82%) Azure Certification
7 8 (5.88%) AWS Certification
8 7 (5.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.94%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.47%) QA
3 1 (0.74%) GDPR
3 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.74%) NIST
3 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 51 (37.50%) Docker
2 8 (5.88%) Squid
3 7 (5.15%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (5.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (4.41%) Active Directory
5 5 (3.68%) BitLocker
5 5 (3.68%) Hyper-V
5 5 (3.68%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (1.47%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.74%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 70 (51.47%) Kubernetes
2 43 (31.62%) Kibana
3 31 (22.79%) Ansible
4 27 (19.85%) Terraform
5 25 (18.38%) logstash
6 23 (16.91%) Grafana
7 20 (14.71%) Prometheus
8 18 (13.24%) Puppet
9 8 (5.88%) FortiGate
9 8 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (5.15%) Consul
11 5 (3.68%) vCenter Server
11 5 (3.68%) vMotion
12 3 (2.21%) Argo
12 3 (2.21%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (1.47%) Nagios
13 2 (1.47%) Oracle RMAN
13 2 (1.47%) Progress Chef
13 2 (1.47%) Red Hat Satellite
14 1 (0.74%) WSUS
Vendors
1 20 (14.71%) Splunk
2 15 (11.03%) Dynatrace
3 13 (9.56%) Red Hat
4 7 (5.15%) Atlassian
4 7 (5.15%) Microsoft
4 7 (5.15%) VMware
5 6 (4.41%) Cloudera
5 6 (4.41%) Foundry
5 6 (4.41%) Palantir
6 5 (3.68%) Citrix
6 5 (3.68%) NetApp
7 4 (2.94%) AppDynamics
7 4 (2.94%) Oracle
8 3 (2.21%) Solace
8 3 (2.21%) TIBCO
9 2 (1.47%) Dell
9 2 (1.47%) F5
9 2 (1.47%) IBM
9 2 (1.47%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.47%) Salesforce