Elasticsearch Contracts in England

Elastic Elasticsearch
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Elasticsearch skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Elasticsearch over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 374 355 438
Rank change year-on-year -19 +83 -33
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 111 189 223
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.46% 0.51% 0.44%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.40% 3.03% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 158 153
10th Percentile £395 £417 £463
25th Percentile £513 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £645 £563
Median % change year-on-year -10.85% +14.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £825 £688
90th Percentile £710 - £784
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% -13.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £43.20 - -
25th Percentile £49.11 - -
Median hourly rate £61.60 - -
75th Percentile £71.46 - -
90th Percentile £75.81 - -
UK median hourly rate £61.60 - -

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 4,625 6,230 9,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.99% 16.75% 17.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,253 4,477 6,506
10th Percentile £360 £352 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £659 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 130 166
10th Percentile £19.25 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £23.50 £20.98 £33.05
Median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.61 £70.19
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Elasticsearch as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Elasticsearch in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Elasticsearch in England.

Daily rate trend for Elasticsearch in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Elasticsearch in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Elasticsearch in England.

Hourly rate trend for Elasticsearch in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Elasticsearch in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 -19 48 £608 +1.25% 106
South East +44 16 £575 +15.00% 58
Midlands +15 13 £537 -1.24% 35
West Midlands +10 11 £550 - 22
South West +41 9 £600 -25.00% 34
North of England +3 9 £393 -39.54% 40
North West +12 8 £393 -40.68% 24
East of England +32 3 - - 36
East Midlands +7 2 £506 +42.13% 12
North East -4 1 £650 +18.18% 6
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (12.61%) Apache Spark
2 13 (11.71%) Apache
3 12 (10.81%) JBoss
4 9 (8.11%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (5.41%) Confluence
5 6 (5.41%) Tomcat
6 4 (3.60%) nginx
7 2 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (1.80%) IIS
8 1 (0.90%) DataSynapse
8 1 (0.90%) Gunicorn
8 1 (0.90%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 57 (51.35%) AWS
2 25 (22.52%) OpenShift
3 23 (20.72%) Azure
3 23 (20.72%) GCP
4 9 (8.11%) IaaS
4 9 (8.11%) PaaS
5 8 (7.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 7 (6.31%) Amazon S3
7 6 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (4.50%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (4.50%) GitHub
8 5 (4.50%) Serverless
9 4 (3.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.70%) AWS CodeDeploy
10 3 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.80%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (1.80%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 2 (1.80%) AWS CodeBuild
11 2 (1.80%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.81%) DNS
2 10 (9.01%) Firewall
3 9 (8.11%) DHCP
3 9 (8.11%) SMTP
3 9 (8.11%) VPN
4 2 (1.80%) Network Security
5 1 (0.90%) DSL
5 1 (0.90%) DSLAM
5 1 (0.90%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.90%) SAN
5 1 (0.90%) SNMP
5 1 (0.90%) SSH
5 1 (0.90%) SSL
5 1 (0.90%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.90%) Telnet
5 1 (0.90%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (22.52%) Big Data
2 19 (17.12%) Hadoop
2 19 (17.12%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (14.41%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (12.61%) Relational Database
5 9 (8.11%) RDBMS
6 8 (7.21%) SQL Server
7 7 (6.31%) NoSQL
8 6 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (4.50%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (4.50%) MongoDB
10 4 (3.60%) Data Lake
11 3 (2.70%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (2.70%) Couchbase
11 3 (2.70%) Neo4j
11 3 (2.70%) OLTP
12 2 (1.80%) Flink
12 2 (1.80%) MySQL
12 2 (1.80%) Tableau
13 1 (0.90%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (23.42%) Jenkins
2 23 (20.72%) Git
3 21 (18.92%) JIRA
4 15 (13.51%) SonarQube
5 12 (10.81%) Sonatype Nexus
6 9 (8.11%) Bitbucket
6 9 (8.11%) Bitbucket Server
6 9 (8.11%) CA Release Automation
6 9 (8.11%) TeamCity
7 8 (7.21%) Selenium
8 7 (6.31%) GitLab
9 5 (4.50%) Postman
10 3 (2.70%) Artifactory
10 3 (2.70%) JMeter
10 3 (2.70%) JUnit
10 3 (2.70%) REST Assured
10 3 (2.70%) TestNG
10 3 (2.70%) Travis CI
11 1 (0.90%) Poetry
General
1 22 (19.82%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.41%) Banking
3 15 (13.51%) Finance
4 11 (9.91%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (9.91%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.60%) Legal
6 3 (2.70%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.70%) Law
7 1 (0.90%) Back Office
7 1 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.90%) Front Office
7 1 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (15.32%) Developer
2 14 (12.61%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (12.61%) Senior
3 13 (11.71%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 10 (9.01%) Data Engineer
4 10 (9.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (7.21%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 8 (7.21%) 3rd Line Support
5 8 (7.21%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 8 (7.21%) Architect
5 8 (7.21%) AWS DevOps
5 8 (7.21%) Support Engineer
6 7 (6.31%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (6.31%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 7 (6.31%) Infrastructure Support
6 7 (6.31%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 6 (5.41%) Lead
8 5 (4.50%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) Senior Data Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (27.03%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (16.22%) Kafka
3 15 (13.51%) Apache NiFi
4 14 (12.61%) Spring Boot
5 13 (11.71%) OpenTelemetry
6 9 (8.11%) RabbitMQ
7 8 (7.21%) .NET
7 8 (7.21%) RESTful
8 6 (5.41%) Spring
9 5 (4.50%) ASP.NET
9 5 (4.50%) HTML
9 5 (4.50%) OpenAPI
9 5 (4.50%) React
9 5 (4.50%) REST
9 5 (4.50%) Swagger
10 4 (3.60%) AngularJS
10 4 (3.60%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (3.60%) Web Services
11 3 (2.70%) Node.js
11 3 (2.70%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.11%) Clustering
1 9 (8.11%) Data Centre
1 9 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
1 9 (8.11%) PKI
2 8 (7.21%) Public Cloud
2 8 (7.21%) Replication
3 5 (4.50%) Grid Computing
4 4 (3.60%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.70%) iPad
6 2 (1.80%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.80%) Equities
6 2 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.80%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.80%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.90%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.90%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 41 (36.94%) Linux
2 31 (27.93%) Windows
3 25 (22.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 23 (20.72%) Windows Server
5 5 (4.50%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (3.60%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (2.70%) CentOS
8 1 (0.90%) Debian
8 1 (0.90%) SUSE
8 1 (0.90%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (45.05%) CI/CD
2 45 (40.54%) DevOps
3 32 (28.83%) Containerisation
4 31 (27.93%) Microservices
5 26 (23.42%) Agile
5 26 (23.42%) Migration
6 24 (21.62%) Analytics
6 24 (21.62%) Observability
7 16 (14.41%) Test Automation
8 15 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (11.71%) Software Engineering
10 11 (9.91%) Data Ingestion
10 11 (9.91%) Machine Learning
10 11 (9.91%) Performance Tuning
11 10 (9.01%) Artificial Intelligence
11 10 (9.01%) Continuous Integration
11 10 (9.01%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (9.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 10 (9.01%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (8.11%) Build Automation
Programming Languages
1 38 (34.23%) Python
2 26 (23.42%) Java
3 18 (16.22%) PowerShell
3 18 (16.22%) SQL
4 13 (11.71%) C#
5 11 (9.91%) Bash
5 11 (9.91%) JavaScript
6 9 (8.11%) Perl
7 7 (6.31%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.50%) C++
9 4 (3.60%) Scala
10 3 (2.70%) C
10 3 (2.70%) Go
10 3 (2.70%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.80%) Ruby
12 1 (0.90%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (41.44%) Security Cleared
2 27 (24.32%) DV Cleared
3 21 (18.92%) SC Cleared
4 20 (18.02%) Degree
5 8 (7.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.70%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.70%) CEH
6 3 (2.70%) CISSP
6 3 (2.70%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.80%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.90%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.90%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.90%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.50%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.70%) QA
3 1 (0.90%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.90%) GDPR
3 1 (0.90%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.90%) SLA
System Software
1 53 (47.75%) Docker
2 26 (23.42%) Active Directory
3 15 (13.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (8.11%) BitLocker
4 9 (8.11%) Hyper-V
4 9 (8.11%) Microsoft App-V
4 9 (8.11%) Terminal Services
4 9 (8.11%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (3.60%) Platform Symphony
6 3 (2.70%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 3 (2.70%) Lustre
6 3 (2.70%) vCloud
6 3 (2.70%) VMware Workstation
6 3 (2.70%) vSphere
7 1 (0.90%) FreeRADIUS
7 1 (0.90%) iptables
Systems Management
1 75 (67.57%) Kubernetes
2 41 (36.94%) Kibana
3 31 (27.93%) Ansible
4 27 (24.32%) Grafana
5 23 (20.72%) Terraform
6 20 (18.02%) logstash
7 13 (11.71%) Argo
8 10 (9.01%) Nagios
8 10 (9.01%) Puppet
9 9 (8.11%) Progress Chef
9 9 (8.11%) Prometheus
9 9 (8.11%) vCenter Server
9 9 (8.11%) vMotion
10 5 (4.50%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (2.70%) Karpenter
11 3 (2.70%) Podman
11 3 (2.70%) SCCM
11 3 (2.70%) SCOM
11 3 (2.70%) SCSM
12 1 (0.90%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 23 (20.72%) Microsoft
2 17 (15.32%) Splunk
3 16 (14.41%) VMware
4 14 (12.61%) Google
4 14 (12.61%) Red Hat
5 10 (9.01%) HP
6 9 (8.11%) AppDynamics
6 9 (8.11%) Citrix
6 9 (8.11%) Cloudera
6 9 (8.11%) Symantec
7 5 (4.50%) IBM
7 5 (4.50%) TIBCO
8 2 (1.80%) Foundry
8 2 (1.80%) Palantir
9 1 (0.90%) Dell
9 1 (0.90%) EMC
9 1 (0.90%) Huawei
9 1 (0.90%) Juniper
9 1 (0.90%) Nokia
9 1 (0.90%) Pega