Elasticsearch Contracts in the North of England

Elastic Elasticsearch
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 154 191
Rank change year-on-year -9 +37 +41
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 10 27 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.27% 0.56% 0.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.64% 3.72% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 18 10
10th Percentile £330 £455 £325
25th Percentile £373 £507 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -37.12% - +9.17%
75th Percentile £405 £650 £700
90th Percentile £713 £694 -
England median daily rate £570 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +3.64% - -12.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 609 725 779
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 16.46% 15.06% 14.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 511 554
10th Percentile £328 £350 £338
25th Percentile £399 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £550 £569 £613
90th Percentile £620 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 30 17
10th Percentile £21.17 £11.00 £21.34
25th Percentile £22.86 £19.07 £30.00
Median hourly rate £29.90 £40.25 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +0.63% +25.98%
75th Percentile £35.85 £44.74 £52.99
90th Percentile £67.00 £50.75 £64.20
England median hourly rate £33.94 £40.00 £56.40
% change year-on-year -15.15% -29.08% +49.21%

Elasticsearch
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Elasticsearch in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Elasticsearch in the North of England

Elasticsearch
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch in the North of England over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Elasticsearch in the North of England

Elasticsearch
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 4 July 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
North West +4 10 £393 -31.23% 67
Elasticsearch
England

Elasticsearch
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 8 (80.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (80.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) RDBMS
1 8 (80.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (20.00%) Big Data
2 2 (20.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 8 (80.00%) CA Release Automation
1 8 (80.00%) Git
1 8 (80.00%) Jenkins
1 8 (80.00%) JIRA
1 8 (80.00%) SonarQube
1 8 (80.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 8 (80.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) AWS DevOps
1 3 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) DevOps Specialist
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Support
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Platform Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) Elastic Stack
1 8 (80.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (20.00%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (20.00%) Kafka
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Linux
1 8 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Build Automation
1 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (80.00%) Code Quality
1 8 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
1 8 (80.00%) Deployment Automation
1 8 (80.00%) DevOps
1 8 (80.00%) Microservices
1 8 (80.00%) Migration
2 6 (60.00%) Analytics
2 6 (60.00%) Change Management
2 6 (60.00%) Observability
2 6 (60.00%) Runbook
2 6 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Perl
1 8 (80.00%) Python
2 6 (60.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) Active Directory
1 8 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Kibana
2 8 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (80.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Splunk
2 8 (80.00%) AppDynamics
2 8 (80.00%) Cloudera
2 8 (80.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft