Elasticsearch Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Elastic Elasticsearch
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Elasticsearch skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 83 91
Rank change year-on-year -12 +8 +24
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 1 4 10
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.086% 0.38% 0.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.44% 2.25% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 9
10th Percentile - £536 £598
25th Percentile £475 £553 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £663
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -5.66% +20.45%
75th Percentile £525 £713 £694
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £500 £575 £663
% change year-on-year -13.04% -13.21% +20.45%

All Database & BI Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 227 178 279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 19.57% 17.10% 18.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 124 211
10th Percentile £313 £377 £315
25th Percentile £363 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £625
90th Percentile £600 £696 £694
North West median daily rate £436 £475 £520
% change year-on-year -8.16% -8.65% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 3
10th Percentile £56.88 - £66.50
25th Percentile £61.56 £24.25 £68.75
Median hourly rate £71.25 £24.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +190.82% -67.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £79.06 £65.00 £79.25
90th Percentile £82.63 - £80.30
North West median hourly rate £69.38 £25.43 £46.18
% change year-on-year +172.83% -44.93% -28.95%

Elasticsearch
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Elasticsearch relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Elasticsearch job vacancy trend in Manchester

Elasticsearch
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) logstash