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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 473 371 388
Rank change year-on-year -102 +17 +81
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 125 105 163
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.29% 0.42% 0.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.91% 2.25% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 82 131
10th Percentile £406 £394 £419
25th Percentile £469 £493 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £573 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.08% -4.58% +11.11%
75th Percentile £578 £655 £700
90th Percentile £735 £711 £825
UK median daily rate £521 £570 £600
% change year-on-year -8.68% -5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £33.13 £47.14 -
25th Percentile £37.06 £58.98 -
Median hourly rate £44.75 £78.70 -
Median % change year-on-year -43.14% - -
75th Percentile £53.06 £79.35 -
90th Percentile £57.38 £79.74 -
UK median hourly rate £44.75 £78.70 -
% change year-on-year -43.14% - -

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 6,552 4,658 6,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.24% 18.78% 17.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,440 3,242 4,648
10th Percentile £350 £359 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 89 143
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.11 £23.50 £20.77
Median hourly rate £39.50 £33.88 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.59% -15.30% -31.73%
75th Percentile £73.38 £64.50 £52.83
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.74 £72.30
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +19.17% -12.50% -31.73%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch in England over the 6 months to 18 June 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 18 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Elasticsearch in England

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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 18 June 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 -36 67 £521 -16.72% 35
West Midlands -46 16 £500 -9.09% 4
Midlands -51 16 £500 -6.89% 7
North West -32 12 £519 +32.00% 7
North of England -67 12 £519 +32.00% 12
South East -62 10 £488 -15.22% 24
South West -24 7 £500 -16.67% 5
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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 23 (18.40%) nginx
2 16 (12.80%) Apache Spark
3 8 (6.40%) Tomcat
3 8 (6.40%) WebLogic
4 7 (5.60%) Confluence
5 5 (4.00%) OpenStack
6 4 (3.20%) Apache
7 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.80%) IIS
8 1 (0.80%) Liferay
8 1 (0.80%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.80%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Magento
1 1 (0.80%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 55 (44.00%) AWS
2 25 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 19 (15.20%) Serverless
4 14 (11.20%) Azure
4 14 (11.20%) GCP
5 12 (9.60%) Amazon S3
5 12 (9.60%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (8.00%) PaaS
7 9 (7.20%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (7.20%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (7.20%) IaaS
7 9 (7.20%) Route 53
7 9 (7.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (5.60%) OpenShift
9 4 (3.20%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.60%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.60%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (1.60%) Kong
10 2 (1.60%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 18 (14.40%) DNS
1 18 (14.40%) Firewall
1 18 (14.40%) VPN
2 11 (8.80%) TCP/IP
3 10 (8.00%) HTTP
4 9 (7.20%) DHCP
4 9 (7.20%) OpenVPN
4 9 (7.20%) SMTP
5 4 (3.20%) MQTT
5 4 (3.20%) Network Security
6 2 (1.60%) Multicast
6 2 (1.60%) NaaS
6 2 (1.60%) NAS
6 2 (1.60%) SAN
6 2 (1.60%) WAN
7 1 (0.80%) DSL
7 1 (0.80%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (18.40%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (8.00%) Big Data
3 8 (6.40%) Hadoop
4 6 (4.80%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (4.80%) MongoDB
4 6 (4.80%) MySQL
4 6 (4.80%) NoSQL
5 5 (4.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (4.00%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.40%) HBase
6 3 (2.40%) Oracle Database
6 3 (2.40%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.60%) Flink
7 2 (1.60%) InfluxDB
7 2 (1.60%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.60%) Redis
7 2 (1.60%) TimescaleDB
8 1 (0.80%) Metadata
8 1 (0.80%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 16 (12.80%) Git
2 12 (9.60%) JIRA
3 11 (8.80%) SonarQube
4 9 (7.20%) GitLab
5 7 (5.60%) Bitbucket
5 7 (5.60%) Jenkins
6 5 (4.00%) JUnit
7 3 (2.40%) Gatling
7 3 (2.40%) JMeter
7 3 (2.40%) LoadRunner
7 3 (2.40%) Selenium
8 2 (1.60%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.60%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.80%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.80%) Postman
General
1 21 (16.80%) Social Skills
2 12 (9.60%) Public Sector
3 7 (5.60%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (5.60%) Finance
4 4 (3.20%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.40%) Banking
5 3 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.60%) Back Office
6 2 (1.60%) Billing
6 2 (1.60%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.80%) Front Office
7 1 (0.80%) Marketing
7 1 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.80%) Police
Job Titles
1 37 (29.60%) Developer
2 13 (10.40%) Full-Stack Developer
3 12 (9.60%) Architect
3 12 (9.60%) Software Engineer
4 11 (8.80%) Java Developer
5 10 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (7.20%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 9 (7.20%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (7.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (6.40%) Lead
8 7 (5.60%) Elasticsearch Engineer
8 7 (5.60%) Java Engineer
8 7 (5.60%) Senior
8 7 (5.60%) SIEM Engineer
9 6 (4.80%) AWS Architect
9 6 (4.80%) NetApp Engineer
9 6 (4.80%) Storage Engineer
9 6 (4.80%) Technical Architect
10 5 (4.00%) Backend Developer
10 5 (4.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (32.00%) Kafka
2 30 (24.00%) Spring
3 21 (16.80%) Node.js
4 20 (16.00%) REST
5 19 (15.20%) Elastic Stack
6 18 (14.40%) Spring Boot
7 17 (13.60%) WireMock
8 13 (10.40%) React
9 9 (7.20%) LDAP
9 9 (7.20%) OpenID
10 6 (4.80%) gRPC
10 6 (4.80%) RESTful
11 5 (4.00%) GraphQL
11 5 (4.00%) Middleware
11 5 (4.00%) Swagger
12 4 (3.20%) AngularJS
12 4 (3.20%) Apache NiFi
12 4 (3.20%) JSON
12 4 (3.20%) Keycloak
12 4 (3.20%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.20%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (9.60%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.60%) Clustering
3 9 (7.20%) PKI
4 8 (6.40%) Enterprise Storage
4 8 (6.40%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.80%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (3.20%) Data Centre
7 4 (3.20%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.60%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.60%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.60%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.80%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.80%) CMDB
9 1 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.80%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 35 (28.00%) Linux
2 15 (12.00%) Windows
3 14 (11.20%) Windows Server
4 7 (5.60%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (4.80%) Solaris
5 6 (4.80%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (4.00%) Unix
7 4 (3.20%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (3.20%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (2.40%) VMS
9 2 (1.60%) Debian
9 2 (1.60%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (44.80%) DevOps
2 31 (24.80%) CI/CD
3 30 (24.00%) Agile
4 20 (16.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 20 (16.00%) Performance Tuning
4 20 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (15.20%) Containerisation
6 18 (14.40%) AI
7 17 (13.60%) Roadmaps
8 15 (12.00%) Software Engineering
9 14 (11.20%) Microservices
9 14 (11.20%) Observability
9 14 (11.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 13 (10.40%) Cybersecurity
11 12 (9.60%) Data Ingestion
11 12 (9.60%) Decision-Making
11 12 (9.60%) Incident Response
11 12 (9.60%) Machine Learning
11 12 (9.60%) Test Automation
12 11 (8.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 57 (45.60%) Java
2 36 (28.80%) Python
3 22 (17.60%) SQL
4 19 (15.20%) JavaScript
5 14 (11.20%) TypeScript
6 11 (8.80%) Rust
7 9 (7.20%) PowerShell
8 8 (6.40%) Bash
9 7 (5.60%) PL/SQL
10 5 (4.00%) Scala
10 5 (4.00%) Shell Script
11 4 (3.20%) C#
12 3 (2.40%) Go
13 2 (1.60%) C++
13 2 (1.60%) Groovy
13 2 (1.60%) Ruby
14 1 (0.80%) PHP
14 1 (0.80%) R
14 1 (0.80%) SPARQL
14 1 (0.80%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 73 (58.40%) Security Cleared
2 55 (44.00%) SC Cleared
3 26 (20.80%) DV Cleared
4 18 (14.40%) Degree
5 9 (7.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (5.60%) AWS Certification
6 7 (5.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.80%) QA
2 3 (2.40%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.80%) Accessibility
System Software
1 40 (32.00%) Docker
2 15 (12.00%) VMware ESXi
2 15 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (7.20%) Active Directory
3 9 (7.20%) BitLocker
3 9 (7.20%) Hyper-V
3 9 (7.20%) Microsoft App-V
3 9 (7.20%) Squid
4 5 (4.00%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (2.40%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.80%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 51 (40.80%) Kubernetes
2 31 (24.80%) Ansible
3 29 (23.20%) Terraform
4 26 (20.80%) Grafana
5 24 (19.20%) Prometheus
6 21 (16.80%) Kibana
7 17 (13.60%) Puppet
8 12 (9.60%) logstash
9 9 (7.20%) FortiGate
9 9 (7.20%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (7.20%) vCenter Server
9 9 (7.20%) vMotion
10 8 (6.40%) Consul
11 6 (4.80%) Nagios
12 5 (4.00%) Oracle RMAN
13 4 (3.20%) Podman
14 3 (2.40%) Argo
15 2 (1.60%) Amdocs OSS
15 2 (1.60%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 16 (12.80%) Dynatrace
1 16 (12.80%) Red Hat
2 15 (12.00%) VMware
3 14 (11.20%) Oracle
4 13 (10.40%) Microsoft
5 9 (7.20%) Citrix
6 8 (6.40%) IBM
7 7 (5.60%) Atlassian
8 6 (4.80%) NetApp
9 4 (3.20%) NVIDIA
9 4 (3.20%) Splunk
9 4 (3.20%) Tenable
10 3 (2.40%) AppDynamics
10 3 (2.40%) Google
10 3 (2.40%) HP
10 3 (2.40%) Symantec
11 2 (1.60%) Amdocs
11 2 (1.60%) Dell
11 2 (1.60%) F5
11 2 (1.60%) Salesforce