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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 405 380
Rank change year-on-year -110 -25 +86
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 117 113 164
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.41% 0.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.69% 2.25% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 91 119
10th Percentile £357 £393 £393
25th Percentile £425 £478 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.40% +1.82% -
75th Percentile £581 £668 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £555 £540
% change year-on-year -9.91% +2.78% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 0
10th Percentile £38.23 £43.38 -
25th Percentile £49.81 £49.56 -
Median hourly rate £58.00 £67.35 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.88% - -
75th Percentile £63.63 £79.03 -
90th Percentile £69.70 £79.61 -
UK median hourly rate £58.00 £67.35 -
% change year-on-year -13.88% - -

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 5,032 6,231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.38% 18.23% 18.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,646 3,485 4,480
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £418 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -4.19% -2.27%
75th Percentile £609 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £507 £525
% change year-on-year -1.28% -3.52% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 80 95
10th Percentile £16.70 £18.72 £13.91
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £34.82 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% -9.57% -30.00%
75th Percentile £68.47 £64.06 £58.73
90th Percentile £76.90 £77.62 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £36.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year +15.06% -3.33% -31.82%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -54 62 £519 -13.58% 52
North of England -66 15 £538 +36.77% 22
North West -41 14 £519 +32.00% 15
West Midlands -54 10 £500 -9.09% 6
Midlands -57 10 £500 -6.89% 8
South West -37 9 £475 -17.39% 8
South East -76 9 £690 +20.00% 20
Yorkshire - 1 £550 - 6
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 (15.38%) nginx
2 16 (13.68%) Apache Spark
3 8 (6.84%) Tomcat
3 8 (6.84%) WebLogic
4 6 (5.13%) Apache
5 3 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (2.56%) Confluence
5 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (2.56%) OpenStack
6 2 (1.71%) Liferay
6 2 (1.71%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.85%) IIS
7 1 (0.85%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Trello
2 1 (0.85%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Magento
1 1 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 51 (43.59%) AWS
2 17 (14.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 16 (13.68%) Azure
4 15 (12.82%) GCP
5 13 (11.11%) Serverless
6 8 (6.84%) OpenShift
6 8 (6.84%) PaaS
7 7 (5.98%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (5.98%) IaaS
8 5 (4.27%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (4.27%) Amazon S3
9 4 (3.42%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (3.42%) Entra ID
9 4 (3.42%) GitHub
9 4 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.42%) Route 53
9 4 (3.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (2.56%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (1.71%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.26%) DNS
1 12 (10.26%) Firewall
2 11 (9.40%) VPN
3 10 (8.55%) HTTP
4 7 (5.98%) DHCP
4 7 (5.98%) SMTP
5 4 (3.42%) MQTT
5 4 (3.42%) Network Security
5 4 (3.42%) OpenVPN
5 4 (3.42%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.71%) NaaS
6 2 (1.71%) WAN
7 1 (0.85%) DSL
7 1 (0.85%) Intranet
7 1 (0.85%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.68%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (7.69%) Big Data
2 9 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (7.69%) Metadata
3 8 (6.84%) Hadoop
4 7 (5.98%) MongoDB
4 7 (5.98%) NoSQL
5 6 (5.13%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (5.13%) Data Lake
5 6 (5.13%) MySQL
6 5 (4.27%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (4.27%) Redis
7 4 (3.42%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.56%) HBase
8 3 (2.56%) InfluxDB
8 3 (2.56%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.71%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.71%) Flink
9 2 (1.71%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.71%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 19 (16.24%) Git
2 11 (9.40%) GitLab
3 9 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 9 (7.69%) JIRA
4 6 (5.13%) SonarQube
5 5 (4.27%) Bitbucket
5 5 (4.27%) JUnit
6 3 (2.56%) Gatling
6 3 (2.56%) JMeter
6 3 (2.56%) LoadRunner
6 3 (2.56%) Selenium
7 2 (1.71%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.71%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.85%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.85%) Postman
General
1 12 (10.26%) Social Skills
2 10 (8.55%) Public Sector
3 5 (4.27%) Finance
4 4 (3.42%) Banking
5 3 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.71%) Back Office
6 2 (1.71%) Billing
6 2 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.71%) Police
6 2 (1.71%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.85%) Front Office
7 1 (0.85%) Legal
7 1 (0.85%) Marketing
7 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (23.08%) Developer
2 18 (15.38%) Software Engineer
3 17 (14.53%) Architect
4 11 (9.40%) Java Developer
5 10 (8.55%) Data Architect
5 10 (8.55%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (7.69%) Java Engineer
6 9 (7.69%) Senior
7 8 (6.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (5.98%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 7 (5.98%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (5.98%) Elasticsearch Engineer
8 7 (5.98%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (5.13%) Java Software Engineer
9 6 (5.13%) SIEM Engineer
10 5 (4.27%) Applications Engineer
10 5 (4.27%) Lead
10 5 (4.27%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (3.42%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 4 (3.42%) WebLogic Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (27.35%) Kafka
2 23 (19.66%) Spring
3 18 (15.38%) REST
4 15 (12.82%) Elastic Stack
5 14 (11.97%) Spring Boot
6 12 (10.26%) Node.js
6 12 (10.26%) React
7 9 (7.69%) Apache NiFi
8 6 (5.13%) GraphQL
8 6 (5.13%) gRPC
8 6 (5.13%) WireMock
9 5 (4.27%) Middleware
9 5 (4.27%) RESTful
10 4 (3.42%) JSON
10 4 (3.42%) Keycloak
10 4 (3.42%) LDAP
10 4 (3.42%) OpenID
10 4 (3.42%) Protocol Buffers
10 4 (3.42%) Swagger
11 3 (2.56%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.97%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (10.26%) Cloud Native
3 10 (8.55%) Clustering
4 9 (7.69%) PKI
5 7 (5.98%) Digital Media
6 6 (5.13%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (4.27%) Data Structures
7 5 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (4.27%) Product Ownership
8 4 (3.42%) Data Centre
8 4 (3.42%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.71%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.85%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.85%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.85%) CMDB
11 1 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 34 (29.06%) Linux
2 13 (11.11%) Windows
3 12 (10.26%) Windows Server
4 6 (5.13%) Solaris
4 6 (5.13%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (4.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (4.27%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (3.42%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (3.42%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.71%) Debian
7 2 (1.71%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.71%) VMS
8 1 (0.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (37.61%) DevOps
2 33 (28.21%) Agile
3 32 (27.35%) CI/CD
4 23 (19.66%) Software Engineering
5 20 (17.09%) AI
6 19 (16.24%) Containerisation
7 17 (14.53%) Full-Stack Development
8 16 (13.68%) Machine Learning
9 15 (12.82%) Data Modelling
9 15 (12.82%) Microservices
9 15 (12.82%) Test Automation
10 14 (11.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (11.97%) Observability
10 14 (11.97%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (10.26%) Scrum
11 12 (10.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 11 (9.40%) Cybersecurity
12 11 (9.40%) Infrastructure as Code
12 11 (9.40%) Performance Tuning
12 11 (9.40%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 49 (41.88%) Java
2 39 (33.33%) Python
3 24 (20.51%) SQL
4 18 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 15 (12.82%) TypeScript
6 13 (11.11%) Rust
7 8 (6.84%) PowerShell
8 7 (5.98%) PL/SQL
9 6 (5.13%) Bash
10 5 (4.27%) Shell Script
11 4 (3.42%) Go
12 3 (2.56%) C#
12 3 (2.56%) Kotlin
12 3 (2.56%) Ruby
13 2 (1.71%) C++
13 2 (1.71%) Groovy
13 2 (1.71%) Scala
14 1 (0.85%) PHP
14 1 (0.85%) SPARQL
14 1 (0.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 64 (54.70%) Security Cleared
2 46 (39.32%) SC Cleared
3 25 (21.37%) DV Cleared
4 10 (8.55%) Degree
5 9 (7.69%) AWS Certification
5 9 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.98%) QA
2 4 (3.42%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.56%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.85%) ITGC
System Software
1 37 (31.62%) Docker
2 13 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
2 13 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (5.98%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.98%) BitLocker
3 7 (5.98%) Hyper-V
3 7 (5.98%) Microsoft App-V
4 5 (4.27%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (3.42%) Squid
6 3 (2.56%) Terminal Services
7 2 (1.71%) HDFS
8 1 (0.85%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 42 (35.90%) Kubernetes
2 28 (23.93%) Terraform
3 24 (20.51%) Ansible
4 22 (18.80%) Grafana
4 22 (18.80%) Prometheus
5 17 (14.53%) Kibana
6 13 (11.11%) Puppet
7 10 (8.55%) logstash
8 7 (5.98%) vCenter Server
8 7 (5.98%) vMotion
9 5 (4.27%) Nagios
9 5 (4.27%) Oracle RMAN
10 4 (3.42%) Consul
10 4 (3.42%) FortiGate
10 4 (3.42%) Podman
10 4 (3.42%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.71%) Amdocs OSS
11 2 (1.71%) Argo
Vendors
1 14 (11.97%) Oracle
2 13 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.11%) VMware
3 11 (9.40%) Dynatrace
4 9 (7.69%) Red Hat
5 8 (6.84%) IBM
6 7 (5.98%) Citrix
7 4 (3.42%) NetApp
7 4 (3.42%) NVIDIA
7 4 (3.42%) Tenable
8 3 (2.56%) AppDynamics
8 3 (2.56%) Cloudera
8 3 (2.56%) Google
8 3 (2.56%) HP
8 3 (2.56%) Symantec
9 2 (1.71%) Amdocs
9 2 (1.71%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.71%) Ciena
9 2 (1.71%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.71%) ServiceNow