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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 197 152 184
Rank change year-on-year -45 +32 +21
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 4 12 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.086% 0.33% 0.064%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.54% 2.36% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 1
10th Percentile £269 £388 -
25th Percentile £295 £476 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £373 £563 £475
Median % change year-on-year -33.78% +18.42% -17.39%
75th Percentile £466 £643 £488
90th Percentile £501 £684 -
England median daily rate £550 £608 £625
% change year-on-year -9.47% -2.80% +4.17%

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 747 509 662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 16.13% 14.06% 14.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 318 477
10th Percentile £316 £325 £300
25th Percentile £371 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.93% -2.25% -4.76%
75th Percentile £540 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £660
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 16
10th Percentile £39.20 £22.72 £20.38
25th Percentile £53.75 £23.48 £25.41
Median hourly rate £64.50 £27.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +134.55% -40.45% -28.95%
75th Percentile £81.50 £49.38 £54.06
90th Percentile £85.20 £65.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £43.50 £37.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +16.00% -18.80% -10.76%

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 14 December 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 14 December 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 -24 3 £373 -32.27% 16
Yorkshire -45 1 - - 3
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 (50.00%) JBoss
2 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (25.00%) Apigee
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (50.00%) CA Release Automation
2 2 (50.00%) SonarQube
2 2 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (50.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (25.00%) CircleCI
3 1 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (25.00%) Travis CI
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (25.00%) JSON
3 1 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Build Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Change Management
2 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) Runbook
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) SIEM
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Perl
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kibana
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) Progress Chef
3 2 (50.00%) logstash
4 1 (25.00%) Ansible
4 1 (25.00%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (25.00%) Grafana
4 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (25.00%) Puppet
4 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Splunk
2 2 (50.00%) AppDynamics
2 2 (50.00%) Cloudera
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft