Elasticsearch Contracts in Scotland

Elastic Elasticsearch
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Elasticsearch skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Elasticsearch over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 99 120
Rank change year-on-year -12 +21 +9
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 5 19 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.30% 0.92% 1.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.42% 5.29% 7.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 19 36
10th Percentile - £438 £428
25th Percentile £205 £456 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £484 £484
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +0.10% -5.66%
75th Percentile £538 £514 £502
90th Percentile £583 £534 £540
UK median daily rate £573 £600 £513
% change year-on-year -4.58% +17.07% -10.95%

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 353 359 538
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 21.36% 17.33% 19.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 264 413
10th Percentile £294 £311 £386
25th Percentile £407 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £534 £525 £550
90th Percentile £589 £612 £638
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.19% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 7
10th Percentile £26.17 £24.60 £19.83
25th Percentile £36.05 £29.04 £27.94
Median hourly rate £55.00 £37.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.37% +5.91% +34.62%
75th Percentile £57.50 £45.72 £67.66
90th Percentile - £50.54 £69.25
UK median hourly rate £34.99 £40.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -12.53% -30.43% +35.29%

Elasticsearch
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Elasticsearch as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Elasticsearch in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Elasticsearch in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Elasticsearch in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch in Scotland over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Elasticsearch in Scotland

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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 24 June 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 -8 4 £330 -31.25% 1
Glasgow -15 1 £575 +11.87% 4
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UK

Elasticsearch
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (40.00%) Apigee
2 2 (40.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (40.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (20.00%) PaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Route 53
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (20.00%) InfluxDB
2 1 (20.00%) Metadata
2 1 (20.00%) Neo4j
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Lead Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
2 2 (40.00%) AWS CDK
2 2 (40.00%) OpenAPI
2 2 (40.00%) RESTful
2 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (40.00%) Spring Security
2 2 (40.00%) Swagger
3 1 (20.00%) Loki
3 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
3 1 (20.00%) React
3 1 (20.00%) TensorFlow
3 1 (20.00%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) API Design
4 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Data Security
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Document Management
4 1 (20.00%) Domain-Driven Design
4 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
4 1 (20.00%) Inclusive Design
4 1 (20.00%) Kanban
4 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Pair Programming
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Groovy
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) OCP
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Kibana
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) OpenAI
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle