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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 456 356 359
Rank change year-on-year -100 +3 +78
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 138 116 185
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.47% 0.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.20% 2.47% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 81 155
10th Percentile £425 £402 £416
25th Percentile £475 £519 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £645
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -6.98% +17.27%
75th Percentile £578 £656 £825
90th Percentile £638 £713 -
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £35.75 £43.20 -
25th Percentile £43.63 £49.11 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £61.60 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.03% - -
75th Percentile £69.63 £71.46 -
90th Percentile £75.25 £75.81 -
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £61.60 -
% change year-on-year -5.03% - -

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 6,261 4,692 6,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.83% 19.15% 16.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,344 3,294 4,422
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £656 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 95 134
10th Percentile £16.72 £19.89 £14.00
25th Percentile £27.72 £23.88 £20.98
Median hourly rate £50.50 £33.11 £40.13
Median % change year-on-year +52.52% -17.48% -31.52%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.31 £54.03
90th Percentile £83.30 £70.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £34.58 £40.00
% change year-on-year +47.51% -13.56% -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 20 April 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 20 April 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 20 April 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 -40 64 £550 -9.84% 45
West Midlands -37 36 £550 -4.35% 4
Midlands -44 36 £550 +1.20% 8
North of England -58 14 £500 +27.23% 10
South West -24 13 £550 -8.33% 17
North West -40 13 £500 +27.23% 8
South East -62 6 £399 -28.28% 15
Yorkshire - 1 - - 2
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 (13.04%) nginx
2 14 (10.14%) Apache Spark
3 12 (8.70%) Confluence
4 9 (6.52%) Apache
5 6 (4.35%) OpenStack
6 5 (3.62%) Tomcat
7 3 (2.17%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (2.17%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.72%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Maya
Business Applications
1 2 (1.45%) Magento
2 1 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.72%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 48 (34.78%) AWS
2 25 (18.12%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 23 (16.67%) Azure
4 18 (13.04%) Serverless
5 12 (8.70%) Amazon S3
5 12 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (7.97%) GitHub
7 10 (7.25%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (6.52%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (6.52%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (6.52%) GCP
8 9 (6.52%) Route 53
8 9 (6.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 8 (5.80%) PaaS
10 7 (5.07%) IaaS
11 4 (2.90%) OpenShift
12 3 (2.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (2.17%) Kong
13 2 (1.45%) Azure Service Bus
13 2 (1.45%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 18 (13.04%) DNS
2 17 (12.32%) Firewall
2 17 (12.32%) VPN
3 12 (8.70%) TCP/IP
4 9 (6.52%) HTTP
4 9 (6.52%) OpenVPN
5 7 (5.07%) DHCP
5 7 (5.07%) SMTP
6 2 (1.45%) Multicast
6 2 (1.45%) NaaS
6 2 (1.45%) NAS
6 2 (1.45%) SAN
6 2 (1.45%) WAN
7 1 (0.72%) DSL
7 1 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (24.64%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (8.70%) Hadoop
3 8 (5.80%) Big Data
4 6 (4.35%) MongoDB
4 6 (4.35%) MySQL
5 4 (2.90%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.90%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.17%) Redis
7 2 (1.45%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.45%) Flink
7 2 (1.45%) InfluxDB
7 2 (1.45%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.45%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.45%) TimescaleDB
8 1 (0.72%) Power BI
8 1 (0.72%) SQLite
8 1 (0.72%) Tableau
8 1 (0.72%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 14 (10.14%) JIRA
2 10 (7.25%) Git
3 9 (6.52%) GitLab
4 7 (5.07%) Bitbucket
4 7 (5.07%) SonarQube
5 5 (3.62%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.17%) Gatling
6 3 (2.17%) JMeter
6 3 (2.17%) JUnit
6 3 (2.17%) LoadRunner
7 2 (1.45%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.45%) Postman
7 2 (1.45%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.72%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.72%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.72%) git-flow
8 1 (0.72%) Maven
8 1 (0.72%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.72%) Travis CI
General
1 28 (20.29%) Social Skills
2 13 (9.42%) Public Sector
3 10 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.80%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (5.80%) Finance
5 3 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.45%) Back Office
6 2 (1.45%) Banking
6 2 (1.45%) Billing
6 2 (1.45%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.72%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.72%) Front Office
7 1 (0.72%) Marketing
7 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (22.46%) Developer
2 18 (13.04%) Senior
3 14 (10.14%) Architect
3 14 (10.14%) Data Engineer
3 14 (10.14%) Full-Stack Developer
4 12 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 11 (7.97%) SIEM Engineer
6 10 (7.25%) Senior Data Engineer
6 10 (7.25%) Site Engineer
6 10 (7.25%) Software Engineer
6 10 (7.25%) Splunk Engineer
7 9 (6.52%) Applications Engineer
7 9 (6.52%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (5.80%) Lead
9 7 (5.07%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 7 (5.07%) NetApp Engineer
9 7 (5.07%) Storage Engineer
9 7 (5.07%) Technical Architect
10 6 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (4.35%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (36.23%) Kafka
2 35 (25.36%) Elastic Stack
3 27 (19.57%) Spring
4 23 (16.67%) Node.js
5 20 (14.49%) REST
6 19 (13.77%) WireMock
7 16 (11.59%) React
7 16 (11.59%) Spring Boot
8 10 (7.25%) LDAP
8 10 (7.25%) OpenID
9 9 (6.52%) Apache NiFi
9 9 (6.52%) Keycloak
10 7 (5.07%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (3.62%) AngularJS
11 5 (3.62%) JSON
11 5 (3.62%) Middleware
12 4 (2.90%) GraphQL
12 4 (2.90%) Playwright
12 4 (2.90%) Swagger
13 3 (2.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.97%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (7.25%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.52%) Enterprise Storage
4 8 (5.80%) Management Information System
4 8 (5.80%) PKI
5 7 (5.07%) Clustering
5 7 (5.07%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.62%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (2.90%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.17%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.45%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.45%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.45%) Replication
10 1 (0.72%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.72%) CMDB
10 1 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.72%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 33 (23.91%) Linux
2 13 (9.42%) Windows
3 11 (7.97%) Windows Server
4 8 (5.80%) Unix
5 7 (5.07%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (3.62%) Solaris
6 5 (3.62%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (2.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (2.90%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (2.90%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (2.17%) VMS
9 2 (1.45%) Debian
9 2 (1.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (49.28%) DevOps
2 31 (22.46%) CI/CD
2 31 (22.46%) Containerisation
3 28 (20.29%) Agile
3 28 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (18.84%) Performance Tuning
5 21 (15.22%) Full-Stack Development
5 21 (15.22%) Observability
6 20 (14.49%) Incident Response
7 19 (13.77%) Data Engineering
7 19 (13.77%) Data Ingestion
8 18 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 17 (12.32%) Data Modelling
9 17 (12.32%) SIEM
10 16 (11.59%) Data Pipeline
11 15 (10.87%) Software Engineering
12 14 (10.14%) Computer Science
12 14 (10.14%) ETL
12 14 (10.14%) Roadmaps
12 14 (10.14%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 51 (36.96%) Java
2 46 (33.33%) Python
3 21 (15.22%) JavaScript
4 17 (12.32%) SQL
5 16 (11.59%) TypeScript
6 13 (9.42%) Bash
6 13 (9.42%) Go
7 9 (6.52%) PowerShell
8 7 (5.07%) Rust
9 5 (3.62%) Scala
10 4 (2.90%) C#
10 4 (2.90%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.45%) C++
11 2 (1.45%) Groovy
11 2 (1.45%) PHP
11 2 (1.45%) Ruby
12 1 (0.72%) Gremlin
12 1 (0.72%) R
12 1 (0.72%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.72%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 73 (52.90%) Security Cleared
2 56 (40.58%) SC Cleared
3 24 (17.39%) DV Cleared
4 15 (10.87%) Degree
5 14 (10.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (6.52%) Azure Certification
7 7 (5.07%) AWS Certification
7 7 (5.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.62%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.90%) QA
3 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.72%) NIST
3 1 (0.72%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 49 (35.51%) Docker
2 12 (8.70%) VMware ESXi
2 12 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (6.52%) Squid
4 8 (5.80%) Active Directory
5 7 (5.07%) BitLocker
5 7 (5.07%) Hyper-V
5 7 (5.07%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (2.90%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (1.45%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 63 (45.65%) Kubernetes
2 36 (26.09%) Kibana
3 31 (22.46%) Ansible
4 28 (20.29%) Grafana
4 28 (20.29%) Terraform
5 25 (18.12%) Prometheus
6 23 (16.67%) logstash
7 16 (11.59%) Puppet
8 9 (6.52%) FortiGate
8 9 (6.52%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (5.80%) Consul
10 7 (5.07%) vCenter Server
10 7 (5.07%) vMotion
11 4 (2.90%) Argo
11 4 (2.90%) Oracle RMAN
12 3 (2.17%) Nagios
13 2 (1.45%) Amdocs OSS
13 2 (1.45%) Red Hat Satellite
14 1 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
14 1 (0.72%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 18 (13.04%) Dynatrace
2 16 (11.59%) Red Hat
3 13 (9.42%) Splunk
4 12 (8.70%) VMware
5 9 (6.52%) Microsoft
6 7 (5.07%) Atlassian
6 7 (5.07%) Citrix
6 7 (5.07%) NetApp
7 6 (4.35%) Oracle
8 5 (3.62%) IBM
9 4 (2.90%) AppDynamics
10 3 (2.17%) Cloudera
10 3 (2.17%) Foundry
10 3 (2.17%) Palantir
10 3 (2.17%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.45%) Adobe
11 2 (1.45%) Amdocs
11 2 (1.45%) Dell
11 2 (1.45%) F5
11 2 (1.45%) ServiceNow