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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 349 363
Rank change year-on-year -83 +14 +44
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 115 143 194
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.54% 0.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.17% 2.94% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 83 157
10th Percentile £408 £432 £459
25th Percentile £475 £555 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £608 £663
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% -8.30% +10.42%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £825
90th Percentile £701 £1,075 -
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £645
% change year-on-year -8.33% -6.98% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £66.50
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate £79.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £79.00 - £75.00

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 5,297 4,864 6,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.58% 18.37% 16.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,696 3,226 4,309
10th Percentile £329 £355 £355
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £613 £663 £650
90th Percentile £708 £780 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 72 151
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £15.89
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.25 £22.43
Median hourly rate £43.50 £39.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -13.33% -20.86%
75th Percentile £71.00 £64.73 £62.75
90th Percentile £84.00 £72.98 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +24.29% -22.22% -20.86%

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

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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 20 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Elasticsearch in England

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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

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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 20 January 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 -56 51 £550 -9.47% 46
West Midlands +5 46 £550 +10.55% 5
Midlands -5 46 £550 +52.78% 12
South West -2 18 £550 -33.33% 25
South East -24 4 £488 +0.05% 36
North of England -64 3 £500 -21.88% 27
North West -30 2 £500 -17.70% 17
East of England -25 1 - - 12
Yorkshire -51 1 - - 9
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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 12 (10.43%) Confluence
2 9 (7.83%) Apache
3 6 (5.22%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.74%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.87%) Camunda
5 1 (0.87%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.87%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Magento
1 1 (0.87%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 37 (32.17%) Azure
2 23 (20.00%) AWS
3 18 (15.65%) GitHub
4 17 (14.78%) GCP
5 12 (10.43%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (8.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 9 (7.83%) Serverless
8 8 (6.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 7 (6.09%) Azure AKS
9 7 (6.09%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (5.22%) Entra ID
11 5 (4.35%) IaaS
11 5 (4.35%) PaaS
12 3 (2.61%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (2.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 2 (1.74%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (1.74%) Azure Functions
13 2 (1.74%) Azure Monitor
13 2 (1.74%) Datadog
13 2 (1.74%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.35%) DNS
1 5 (4.35%) Firewall
2 4 (3.48%) SMTP
2 4 (3.48%) VPN
3 3 (2.61%) DHCP
3 3 (2.61%) HTTP
3 3 (2.61%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.74%) SSH
5 1 (0.87%) DSL
5 1 (0.87%) Multicast
5 1 (0.87%) NAS
5 1 (0.87%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (20.87%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (16.52%) Hadoop
3 18 (15.65%) Big Data
4 5 (4.35%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.48%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.61%) Apache Hive
6 3 (2.61%) Impala
6 3 (2.61%) Redis
7 2 (1.74%) MySQL
7 2 (1.74%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.74%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.87%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.87%) DB2
8 1 (0.87%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.87%) MemSQL
8 1 (0.87%) Sybase IQ
8 1 (0.87%) Tableau
8 1 (0.87%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 13 (11.30%) JIRA
2 11 (9.57%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.09%) Git
4 5 (4.35%) GitLab
5 2 (1.74%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.74%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.74%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.87%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.87%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.87%) git-flow
6 1 (0.87%) JUnit
6 1 (0.87%) Maven
6 1 (0.87%) Postman
6 1 (0.87%) Travis CI
General
1 40 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 20 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (14.78%) Finance
4 6 (5.22%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.48%) Law
6 3 (2.61%) Banking
6 3 (2.61%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.87%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.87%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.87%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.87%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (19.13%) Data Engineer
2 20 (17.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 19 (16.52%) Splunk Engineer
4 16 (13.91%) Developer
5 15 (13.04%) Senior
5 15 (13.04%) Site Engineer
6 13 (11.30%) Senior Data Engineer
7 11 (9.57%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (6.96%) SIEM Engineer
9 7 (6.09%) Software Engineer
10 6 (5.22%) Applications Engineer
10 6 (5.22%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (5.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 6 (5.22%) Lead
11 5 (4.35%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 5 (4.35%) Security Engineer
12 3 (2.61%) Migration Specialist
12 3 (2.61%) Platform Engineer
12 3 (2.61%) Storage Engineer
12 3 (2.61%) Unix Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (42.61%) Elastic Stack
2 42 (36.52%) Kafka
3 19 (16.52%) Node.js
4 17 (14.78%) React
5 13 (11.30%) Apache NiFi
6 12 (10.43%) Keycloak
6 12 (10.43%) REST
6 12 (10.43%) Spring
7 9 (7.83%) RabbitMQ
7 9 (7.83%) WireMock
8 8 (6.96%) JSON
9 7 (6.09%) AngularJS
9 7 (6.09%) Spring Boot
9 7 (6.09%) XML
10 6 (5.22%) Express.js
10 6 (5.22%) Next.js
10 6 (5.22%) Ultra Messaging
11 5 (4.35%) FIX Protocol
11 5 (4.35%) HTML
12 4 (3.48%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.04%) Management Information System
2 13 (11.30%) Cloud Native
3 11 (9.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (6.09%) Algorithms
4 7 (6.09%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (5.22%) Replication
6 4 (3.48%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (3.48%) PKI
7 3 (2.61%) Clustering
7 3 (2.61%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.74%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.74%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.74%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.74%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.74%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.87%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.87%) MISP
9 1 (0.87%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.87%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 37 (32.17%) Linux
2 17 (14.78%) Unix
3 6 (5.22%) Windows
4 5 (4.35%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.61%) CentOS
5 3 (2.61%) Mac OS
5 3 (2.61%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (1.74%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (47.83%) DevOps
2 40 (34.78%) Containerisation
3 32 (27.83%) Observability
4 31 (26.96%) CI/CD
5 28 (24.35%) Agile
5 28 (24.35%) Data Ingestion
5 28 (24.35%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (20.87%) Migration
7 23 (20.00%) Data Modelling
7 23 (20.00%) Incident Response
8 22 (19.13%) Data Pipeline
9 21 (18.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 20 (17.39%) Data Engineering
10 20 (17.39%) Performance Tuning
11 19 (16.52%) Software Engineering
12 18 (15.65%) Computer Science
12 18 (15.65%) ETL
13 17 (14.78%) Dashboard Development
13 17 (14.78%) Full-Stack Development
14 15 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 61 (53.04%) Python
2 26 (22.61%) Bash
3 23 (20.00%) Java
4 14 (12.17%) PowerShell
5 13 (11.30%) Go
5 13 (11.30%) JavaScript
5 13 (11.30%) SQL
6 12 (10.43%) TypeScript
7 9 (7.83%) Bicep
8 5 (4.35%) Perl
9 4 (3.48%) C#
10 3 (2.61%) C
10 3 (2.61%) Scala
11 2 (1.74%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.87%) PHP
12 1 (0.87%) Rust
Qualifications
1 46 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 41 (35.65%) SC Cleared
3 20 (17.39%) DV Cleared
4 18 (15.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (15.65%) Degree
5 12 (10.43%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.74%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.87%) CEH
7 1 (0.87%) CISSP
7 1 (0.87%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.61%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.74%) NIST
3 1 (0.87%) GDPR
3 1 (0.87%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.87%) QA
System Software
1 57 (49.57%) Docker
2 11 (9.57%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.61%) BitLocker
3 3 (2.61%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.61%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (2.61%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.74%) HDFS
5 1 (0.87%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.87%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 66 (57.39%) Kubernetes
2 54 (46.96%) Kibana
3 32 (27.83%) Ansible
3 32 (27.83%) logstash
4 19 (16.52%) Puppet
5 12 (10.43%) Terraform
6 7 (6.09%) Grafana
6 7 (6.09%) Prometheus
7 6 (5.22%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (3.48%) Progress Chef
9 3 (2.61%) vCenter Server
9 3 (2.61%) vMotion
10 2 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.87%) Argo
11 1 (0.87%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.87%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.87%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.87%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.87%) Rsyslog
11 1 (0.87%) WSUS
Vendors
1 25 (21.74%) Splunk
2 14 (12.17%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.70%) Cloudera
3 10 (8.70%) Foundry
3 10 (8.70%) Palantir
4 6 (5.22%) Solace
4 6 (5.22%) TIBCO
5 4 (3.48%) Oracle
5 4 (3.48%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.61%) Citrix
6 3 (2.61%) Google
6 3 (2.61%) NetApp
6 3 (2.61%) VMware
7 2 (1.74%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.87%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.87%) Black Duck
8 1 (0.87%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.87%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.87%) Qualys
8 1 (0.87%) Veracode