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 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 173 152
Rank change year-on-year -71 -21 +44
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 14 7 24
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.19% 0.18% 0.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.39% 1.12% 3.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 15
10th Percentile £479 £304 £442
25th Percentile £484 £353 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £393 £622
Median % change year-on-year +36.77% -36.82% +14.13%
75th Percentile £578 £398 £645
90th Percentile £580 £404 £650
England median daily rate £520 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -7.23% +1.82% -

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 1,006 627 667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 13.85% 16.15% 15.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 619 427 456
10th Percentile £350 £319 £356
25th Percentile £406 £393 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £489
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -4.91% -2.20%
75th Percentile £574 £550 £575
90th Percentile £650 £613 £638
England median daily rate £500 £516 £535
% change year-on-year -3.10% -3.55% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 8 19
10th Percentile £23.08 £21.02 £11.00
25th Percentile £29.97 £22.13 £13.50
Median hourly rate £60.50 £31.56 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +91.73% +12.70% -30.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £47.50 £44.74
90th Percentile £86.00 £75.63 £68.95
England median hourly rate £41.00 £34.82 £38.50
% change year-on-year +17.77% -9.57% -30.00%

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
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 25 July 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 -46 13 £519 +32.00% 13
Yorkshire - 1 £550 - 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 4 (28.57%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 12 (85.71%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) OpenShift
3 3 (21.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (7.14%) Azure
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Hadoop
2 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
General
1 1 (7.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Software Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Java Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Lead
3 1 (7.14%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) SIEM Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Site Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Kafka
2 4 (28.57%) Apache NiFi
2 4 (28.57%) Spring
2 4 (28.57%) Spring Boot
3 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 9 (64.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) DevOps
2 8 (57.14%) Machine Learning
2 8 (57.14%) Software Engineering
3 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (21.43%) AI
4 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
5 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (7.14%) Analytics
6 1 (7.14%) Data Governance
6 1 (7.14%) Data Visualisation
6 1 (7.14%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (7.14%) Regulatory Compliance
6 1 (7.14%) SIEM
6 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (7.14%) Technical Debt
6 1 (7.14%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) Python
2 12 (85.71%) Java
3 8 (57.14%) JavaScript
3 8 (57.14%) Rust
3 8 (57.14%) TypeScript
4 1 (7.14%) Go
4 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) DV Cleared
1 9 (64.29%) Security Cleared
2 8 (57.14%) AWS Certification
2 8 (57.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 9 (64.29%) Terraform
2 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) Grafana
3 1 (7.14%) Kibana
3 1 (7.14%) logstash
3 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Databricks
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft