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 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 147 177
Rank change year-on-year -61 +30 +21
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 10 14 9
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.19% 0.42% 0.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.30% 2.72% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 8
10th Percentile - £392 -
25th Percentile £475 £476 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £608 £663
Median % change year-on-year -17.70% -8.30% +15.22%
75th Percentile £553 £713 £694
90th Percentile £570 - -
England median daily rate £550 £608 £663
% change year-on-year -9.47% -8.30% +10.42%

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 769 514 688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.78% 15.26% 13.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 548 351 509
10th Percentile £325 £325 £304
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.10% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £583
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
England median daily rate £500 £538 £538
% change year-on-year -6.98% - -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 31
10th Percentile £18.36 £22.82 £20.77
25th Percentile £51.56 £24.25 £32.20
Median hourly rate £71.72 £27.50 £44.74
Median % change year-on-year +160.80% -38.53% -31.17%
75th Percentile £82.38 £32.08 £46.18
90th Percentile £86.90 £65.00 £53.75
England median hourly rate £54.25 £41.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +32.32% -3.53% -25.26%

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 13 February 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 -33 9 £500 -13.04% 12
Yorkshire -63 1 - - 2
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 3 (30.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (10.00%) Apigee
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) HTTP
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (10.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) Travis CI
General
1 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) SIEM Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (30.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (30.00%) Kafka
1 3 (30.00%) Spring
1 3 (30.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (10.00%) JSON
2 1 (10.00%) XML
2 1 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (20.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (20.00%) RBAC
3 2 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (20.00%) SIEM
3 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (10.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
4 1 (10.00%) Canary Deployment
4 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Python
2 7 (70.00%) Java
3 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (40.00%) Rust
3 4 (40.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (10.00%) Bash
4 1 (10.00%) Go
4 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) DV Cleared
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) AWS Certification
2 4 (40.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Terraform
2 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (30.00%) Kibana
3 3 (30.00%) logstash
4 1 (10.00%) Ansible
4 1 (10.00%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (10.00%) Grafana
4 1 (10.00%) Progress Chef
4 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Splunk