Elasticsearch Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Elastic Elasticsearch
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Elasticsearch skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 101 132
Rank change year-on-year +8 +31 -10
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 21 18 11
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 1.34% 1.05% 0.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.07% 5.96% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 16 11
10th Percentile £174 £428 £425
25th Percentile £454 £453 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £486 £470
Median % change year-on-year +13.03% +3.30% -8.29%
75th Percentile £600 £514 £483
90th Percentile £701 £527 £513
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 346 302 411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 22.02% 17.56% 17.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 184 296
10th Percentile £313 £356 £398
25th Percentile £402 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -6.00% +4.38%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £570
90th Percentile £610 £675 £647
UK median daily rate £500 £527 £535
% change year-on-year -5.12% -1.50% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 1
10th Percentile £19.00 £18.26 -
25th Percentile £30.63 - £18.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £19.59 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +155.23% +0.46% -15.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £25.71 £20.75
90th Percentile £56.00 £28.07 -
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £31.55 £46.18
% change year-on-year +37.90% -31.69% -7.64%

Elasticsearch
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Elasticsearch job vacancy trend in Scotland

Elasticsearch
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Elasticsearch.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch in Scotland over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Elasticsearch in Scotland

Elasticsearch
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Elasticsearch within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 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
Edinburgh +2 11 £600 +22.20% 5
Glasgow +2 6 £454 +6.82% 1
West Lothian - 2 £69 -
Elasticsearch
UK

Elasticsearch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (9.52%) FileNet
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (14.29%) OpenShift
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon S3
3 2 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.76%) GitHub
4 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 2 (9.52%) DNS
2 2 (9.52%) HTTP
3 1 (4.76%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Big Data
2 3 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 3 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.76%) InfluxDB
3 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) Cypress.io
2 1 (4.76%) GitLab
2 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 7 (33.33%) Developer
2 4 (19.05%) Senior
3 3 (14.29%) Cloud Specialist
3 3 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Data Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Elasticsearch Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Python Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Site Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Genesys Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Platform Specialist
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (4.76%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (57.14%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (14.29%) REST
3 2 (9.52%) AWS CDK
3 2 (9.52%) Next.js
3 2 (9.52%) React
3 2 (9.52%) SOAP
4 1 (4.76%) Node.js
4 1 (4.76%) OAuth
4 1 (4.76%) OAuth2
4 1 (4.76%) Playwright
4 1 (4.76%) pytest
4 1 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (4.76%) Spring
4 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.76%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Linux Command Line
1 5 (23.81%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (9.52%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (33.33%) Linux
1 7 (33.33%) Unix
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Visualisation
2 9 (42.86%) Data Ingestion
3 6 (28.57%) Analytics
3 6 (28.57%) Performance Management
4 5 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (23.81%) Incident Response
4 5 (23.81%) Security Operations
5 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
5 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (14.29%) Agile
6 3 (14.29%) Content Development
6 3 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (14.29%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 3 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (14.29%) SIEM
6 3 (14.29%) SOAR
6 3 (14.29%) Use Case
7 2 (9.52%) Network Load Balancing
7 2 (9.52%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) Python
2 6 (28.57%) Shell Script
3 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 3 (14.29%) SQL
4 2 (9.52%) Bash
4 2 (9.52%) Perl
4 2 (9.52%) PHP
4 2 (9.52%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (4.76%) Java
5 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Docker
2 2 (9.52%) KVM
Systems Management
1 13 (61.90%) Kibana
2 12 (57.14%) logstash
3 6 (28.57%) Grafana
4 3 (14.29%) Terraform
5 2 (9.52%) Ansible
5 2 (9.52%) Fluentd
5 2 (9.52%) HAProxy
5 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
5 2 (9.52%) Prometheus
5 2 (9.52%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (4.76%) Nagios
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Splunk
2 4 (19.05%) Oracle
3 2 (9.52%) ArcSight
3 2 (9.52%) Commvault
3 2 (9.52%) Genesys
3 2 (9.52%) KANA
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.52%) Red Hat