Elasticsearch Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Elastic Elasticsearch
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Elasticsearch skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 184 143
Rank change year-on-year -61 -41 +55
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 7 3 23
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.092% 0.075% 0.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.71% 0.44% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 15
10th Percentile £359 £269 £442
25th Percentile £402 £295 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £373 £622
Median % change year-on-year +20.81% -40.11% +14.13%
75th Percentile £509 £405 £645
90th Percentile £549 £406 £673
England median daily rate £520 £556 £600
% change year-on-year -6.52% -7.29% -

All Database & BI 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 990 680 593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 13.00% 16.95% 14.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 614 469 377
10th Percentile £350 £313 £350
25th Percentile £411 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -8.16% -2.00%
75th Percentile £575 £540 £575
90th Percentile £663 £650 £646
England median daily rate £505 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -1.46% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 5 9
10th Percentile £17.75 - £21.30
25th Percentile £28.50 £21.02 £26.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £72.83 £40.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £69.25 £65.95
England median hourly rate £39.50 £43.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -9.20% +20.00% -34.09%

Elasticsearch
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Elasticsearch job vacancy trend in the North of England

Elasticsearch
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Elasticsearch.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Elasticsearch

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 24 September 2026.

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 24 September 2026. 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 -51 3 - - 36
Yorkshire - 3 £475 - 10
North East - 1 £425 - 4
Elasticsearch
England

Elasticsearch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Apache
1 2 (28.57%) nginx
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Databricks
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Functions
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) Serverless
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Storage
4 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Data Lake
2 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (14.29%) Power BI
3 1 (14.29%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (14.29%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Site Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Kafka
3 1 (14.29%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Analytics
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (42.86%) AI
3 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (42.86%) Data Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Data Ingestion
3 3 (42.86%) Data Integration
3 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
3 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (42.86%) ETL
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (42.86%) Machine Learning
3 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
3 3 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Data Cleansing
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 3 (42.86%) Rust
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) TypeScript
3 2 (28.57%) Bash
3 2 (28.57%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Certification
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Grafana
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
1 3 (42.86%) Prometheus
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Kibana
2 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Databricks
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat