Elasticsearch Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Elastic Elasticsearch
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Elasticsearch skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 - 68
Rank change year-on-year - - +2
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 6 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.82% - 0.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.87% - 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £454 - £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £556 - £475
90th Percentile £590 - £520
Scotland median daily rate £543 £491 £470
% change year-on-year +10.49% +4.47% -9.09%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 209 127 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 28.71% 18.62% 17.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 87 118
10th Percentile £313 £320 £400
25th Percentile £400 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £425 £489
Median % change year-on-year +11.06% -13.00% -0.81%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £575
90th Percentile £650 £575 £638
Scotland median daily rate £494 £455 £480
% change year-on-year +8.46% -5.21% -2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile - £17.72 £62.84
25th Percentile £52.50 £18.92 £63.83
Median hourly rate £55.00 £19.59 £66.56
Median % change year-on-year +180.76% -70.57% +280.36%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £68.20
90th Percentile - - £68.53
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £19.59 £64.38
% change year-on-year +180.76% -69.57% +179.89%

Elasticsearch
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Elasticsearch in Glasgow

Elasticsearch
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Elasticsearch.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Big Data
1 1 (16.67%) Neo4j
General
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Platform Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) REST
1 2 (33.33%) SOAP
2 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
2 1 (16.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (66.67%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Analytics
1 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 4 (66.67%) Security Operations
2 3 (50.00%) Content Development
2 3 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 3 (50.00%) SIEM
2 3 (50.00%) SOAR
2 3 (50.00%) Use Case
3 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (16.67%) Data Science
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Management
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Runbook
3 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Shell Script
3 2 (33.33%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kibana
1 1 (16.67%) logstash
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Splunk
2 2 (33.33%) ArcSight
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) OpenAI