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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 416 360
Rank change year-on-year -90 -56 +102
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 112 98 177
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.36% 0.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.61% 1.98% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 80 122
10th Percentile £357 £337 £401
25th Percentile £425 £455 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £616 £628 £645
90th Percentile £688 £700 £749
UK median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - +4.76%
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 £57.50 £78.70 -
% change year-on-year -26.94% - -

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 6,957 4,948 6,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.22% 17.93% 18.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,644 3,415 4,320
10th Percentile £359 £338 £350
25th Percentile £423 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.96% -0.91%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £675
90th Percentile £708 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 81 91
10th Percentile £14.85 £20.85 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.35 £29.00 £19.92
Median hourly rate £38.25 £35.00 £33.93
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% +3.15% -38.31%
75th Percentile £61.88 £63.75 £54.38
90th Percentile £75.50 £78.70 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £37.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +2.00% +15.38% -40.91%

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 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 27 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 27 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 -54 69 £510 -11.30% 24
South West -34 14 £550 -4.35% 20
South East -58 9 £690 +20.00% 5
North of England -69 6 £475 +20.87% 19
West Midlands -58 4 £430 -28.42% 2
Midlands -63 4 £430 -25.30% 4
North West -48 3 - - 11
Yorkshire - 3 £475 - 5
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 17 (15.18%) nginx
2 15 (13.39%) Apache Spark
3 11 (9.82%) Apache
4 9 (8.04%) WebLogic
5 8 (7.14%) Confluence
5 8 (7.14%) Tomcat
6 3 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (1.79%) Camunda
7 2 (1.79%) Liferay
7 2 (1.79%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.89%) CMS
8 1 (0.89%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.89%) IIS
8 1 (0.89%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.89%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (3.57%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Magento
1 1 (0.89%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 46 (41.07%) AWS
2 28 (25.00%) Azure
3 19 (16.96%) GCP
4 16 (14.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 10 (8.93%) GitHub
6 9 (8.04%) Serverless
7 8 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (6.25%) PaaS
9 6 (5.36%) IaaS
10 5 (4.46%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (4.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (4.46%) Entra ID
11 4 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (3.57%) OpenShift
12 3 (2.68%) Azure AKS
12 3 (2.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (2.68%) dbt
12 3 (2.68%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.04%) DNS
1 9 (8.04%) HTTP
2 8 (7.14%) Firewall
3 7 (6.25%) VPN
4 6 (5.36%) DHCP
4 6 (5.36%) SMTP
5 4 (3.57%) MQTT
5 4 (3.57%) Network Security
6 1 (0.89%) DSL
6 1 (0.89%) Intranet
6 1 (0.89%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.89%) NaaS
6 1 (0.89%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.89%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.89%) SAN
6 1 (0.89%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.89%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.50%) Metadata
2 12 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (9.82%) MongoDB
3 11 (9.82%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (8.04%) Big Data
5 8 (7.14%) Data Lake
6 7 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (6.25%) NoSQL
7 5 (4.46%) Flink
7 5 (4.46%) Redis
8 4 (3.57%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (3.57%) Hadoop
8 4 (3.57%) MySQL
8 4 (3.57%) Relational Database
8 4 (3.57%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.68%) Apache Iceberg
9 3 (2.68%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.68%) ClickHouse
9 3 (2.68%) GIS
9 3 (2.68%) HBase
Development Applications
1 28 (25.00%) Git
2 16 (14.29%) JIRA
3 12 (10.71%) Jenkins
4 11 (9.82%) GitLab
5 5 (4.46%) JUnit
6 4 (3.57%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.57%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.68%) Selenium
8 2 (1.79%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.79%) Gatling
8 2 (1.79%) JMeter
8 2 (1.79%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.89%) git-flow
9 1 (0.89%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.89%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.89%) RhodeCode
9 1 (0.89%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.89%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (15.18%) Social Skills
2 10 (8.93%) Public Sector
3 9 (8.04%) Finance
4 7 (6.25%) Banking
5 3 (2.68%) Investment Banking
5 3 (2.68%) Police
6 2 (1.79%) Back Office
6 2 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.79%) Marketing
7 1 (0.89%) Billing
7 1 (0.89%) Law
7 1 (0.89%) Legal
7 1 (0.89%) Retail
7 1 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (29.46%) Developer
2 15 (13.39%) Architect
3 13 (11.61%) Java Developer
3 13 (11.61%) Software Engineer
4 12 (10.71%) Senior
5 11 (9.82%) Data Architect
6 10 (8.93%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (7.14%) Data Engineer
8 7 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (6.25%) Java Engineer
8 7 (6.25%) Lead
9 6 (5.36%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 6 (5.36%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (5.36%) Elasticsearch Engineer
9 6 (5.36%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 6 (5.36%) Oracle Developer
9 6 (5.36%) WebLogic Developer
10 5 (4.46%) Digital Developer
10 5 (4.46%) Elasticsearch Developer
10 5 (4.46%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (26.79%) Kafka
2 20 (17.86%) Terraform
3 17 (15.18%) REST
3 17 (15.18%) Spring
4 16 (14.29%) React
5 12 (10.71%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (9.82%) HTML
6 11 (9.82%) Spring Boot
7 9 (8.04%) CSS
7 9 (8.04%) Next.js
8 6 (5.36%) RESTful
9 5 (4.46%) Apache NiFi
9 5 (4.46%) gRPC
9 5 (4.46%) Node.js
10 4 (3.57%) GraphQL
10 4 (3.57%) JSON
10 4 (3.57%) Keycloak
10 4 (3.57%) Ktor
10 4 (3.57%) Protocol Buffers
10 4 (3.57%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.61%) Cloud Native
2 12 (10.71%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (8.04%) Clustering
4 8 (7.14%) Digital Media
4 8 (7.14%) PKI
5 6 (5.36%) Product Ownership
6 5 (4.46%) Data Centre
6 5 (4.46%) Data Structures
6 5 (4.46%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (3.57%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (3.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (2.68%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.68%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.89%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.89%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (25.89%) Linux
2 11 (9.82%) Windows
3 10 (8.93%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (4.46%) Solaris
4 5 (4.46%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (3.57%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (2.68%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (2.68%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.79%) Debian
7 2 (1.79%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.79%) VMS
8 1 (0.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (40.18%) CI/CD
2 40 (35.71%) Agile
3 34 (30.36%) DevOps
4 24 (21.43%) Software Engineering
5 21 (18.75%) AI
6 20 (17.86%) Containerisation
7 19 (16.96%) Test Automation
8 18 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (15.18%) Data Modelling
10 16 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
10 16 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (13.39%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (13.39%) Observability
11 15 (13.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 13 (11.61%) Full-Stack Development
12 13 (11.61%) Scrum
13 12 (10.71%) Data Architecture
13 12 (10.71%) Data Ingestion
13 12 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 12 (10.71%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 38 (33.93%) Java
2 36 (32.14%) SQL
3 34 (30.36%) Python
4 22 (19.64%) JavaScript
5 15 (13.39%) TypeScript
6 9 (8.04%) Bash
6 9 (8.04%) PL/SQL
6 9 (8.04%) PowerShell
7 8 (7.14%) Rust
8 7 (6.25%) Shell Script
9 5 (4.46%) C#
10 4 (3.57%) Go
10 4 (3.57%) Kotlin
10 4 (3.57%) Ruby
11 2 (1.79%) Groovy
11 2 (1.79%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.79%) Scala
12 1 (0.89%) C++
12 1 (0.89%) R
12 1 (0.89%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 53 (47.32%) Security Cleared
2 43 (38.39%) SC Cleared
3 16 (14.29%) DV Cleared
4 12 (10.71%) Degree
5 5 (4.46%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.89%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.36%) QA
2 3 (2.68%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.68%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.89%) EMIR
3 1 (0.89%) FedRAMP
3 1 (0.89%) GDPR
3 1 (0.89%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.89%) ITGC
3 1 (0.89%) MiFID
3 1 (0.89%) NIST
3 1 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.89%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (34.82%) Docker
2 11 (9.82%) VMware ESXi
2 11 (9.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (6.25%) Active Directory
4 6 (5.36%) BitLocker
4 6 (5.36%) Hyper-V
4 6 (5.36%) Microsoft App-V
5 4 (3.57%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (2.68%) Terminal Services
7 2 (1.79%) HDFS
8 1 (0.89%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.89%) Squid
8 1 (0.89%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 39 (34.82%) Kubernetes
2 24 (21.43%) Ansible
3 22 (19.64%) Prometheus
4 18 (16.07%) Grafana
5 14 (12.50%) Kibana
6 12 (10.71%) Puppet
7 8 (7.14%) logstash
8 6 (5.36%) vCenter Server
8 6 (5.36%) vMotion
9 4 (3.57%) Nagios
9 4 (3.57%) Oracle RMAN
9 4 (3.57%) Podman
10 3 (2.68%) Consul
11 2 (1.79%) Istio
11 2 (1.79%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.89%) Amdocs OSS
12 1 (0.89%) Argo
12 1 (0.89%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.89%) systemd
Vendors
1 18 (16.07%) Oracle
2 16 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 11 (9.82%) VMware
4 8 (7.14%) IBM
5 6 (5.36%) Citrix
5 6 (5.36%) Red Hat
6 5 (4.46%) Dynatrace
7 4 (3.57%) NVIDIA
7 4 (3.57%) Tenable
8 3 (2.68%) Cloudera
8 3 (2.68%) Databricks
8 3 (2.68%) Google
8 3 (2.68%) HP
8 3 (2.68%) NetApp
8 3 (2.68%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.68%) Symantec
9 2 (1.79%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.79%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.89%) Ciena
10 1 (0.89%) Splunk