Elasticsearch Contracts in the Midlands

Elastic Elasticsearch
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 98 113 159
Rank change year-on-year +15 +46 +33
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 13 20 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.68% 0.73% 0.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.59% 4.81% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 3
10th Percentile £239 £356 £545
25th Percentile £369 £395 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £544 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% -9.38% +20.00%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £650
90th Percentile £645 £617 £680
England median daily rate £575 £645 £563
% change year-on-year -10.85% +14.67% -10.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 283 416 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.79% 15.09% 17.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 308 412
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £655 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 6
10th Percentile £16.31 - £21.53
25th Percentile £17.00 - £24.16
Median hourly rate £18.20 £14.00 £25.87
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -45.87% -26.10%
75th Percentile £19.25 £27.49 £32.93
90th Percentile £20.90 £40.50 £47.54
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Elasticsearch in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Elasticsearch in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Elasticsearch in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Elasticsearch within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +10 11 £550 - 22
East Midlands +7 2 £506 +42.13% 12
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (23.08%) Apache
1 3 (23.08%) Confluence
2 2 (15.38%) IIS
2 2 (15.38%) JBoss
3 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) OpenShift
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DSL
1 1 (7.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
1 2 (15.38%) Tableau
2 1 (7.69%) Flink
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
2 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Git
1 5 (38.46%) Jenkins
1 5 (38.46%) JIRA
2 3 (23.08%) GitLab
2 3 (23.08%) JMeter
2 3 (23.08%) Postman
2 3 (23.08%) REST Assured
2 3 (23.08%) Selenium
2 3 (23.08%) TestNG
2 3 (23.08%) Travis CI
3 2 (15.38%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (15.38%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (15.38%) SonarQube
3 2 (15.38%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (15.38%) TeamCity
4 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
General
1 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Data Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
2 3 (23.08%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Elasticsearch Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Support Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Tester
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Security Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Security Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) SIEM Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) SIEM Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) SIEM Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Software Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Software Support Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (23.08%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (15.38%) .NET
3 2 (15.38%) HTML
3 2 (15.38%) Kafka
3 2 (15.38%) Middleware
3 2 (15.38%) Spring Boot
3 2 (15.38%) Web Services
4 1 (7.69%) Keycloak
4 1 (7.69%) PySpark
4 1 (7.69%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Replication
2 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
1 7 (53.85%) Data Ingestion
2 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (38.46%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) DevOps
3 5 (38.46%) Non-Functional Testing
3 5 (38.46%) Visualisation
4 4 (30.77%) Analytics
4 4 (30.77%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (30.77%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (30.77%) SIEM
5 3 (23.08%) API Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
5 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (23.08%) Data Architecture
5 3 (23.08%) Data Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) Functional Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Regression Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) Bash
3 2 (15.38%) C#
3 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 2 (15.38%) Perl
3 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Degree
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) DV Cleared
3 3 (23.08%) CEH
3 3 (23.08%) CISSP
3 3 (23.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (23.08%) ISTQB
4 2 (15.38%) Tableau Certification
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
5 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) QA
2 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
3 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Docker
2 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (69.23%) Kibana
1 9 (69.23%) Kubernetes
2 4 (30.77%) logstash
3 2 (15.38%) Grafana
3 2 (15.38%) Progress Chef
4 1 (7.69%) Ansible
4 1 (7.69%) QRadar
4 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Splunk
2 2 (15.38%) AppDynamics
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.69%) IBM