Elasticsearch Contract Job Trends in the South East

Elastic Elasticsearch
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Elasticsearch skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 156 179
Rank change year-on-year -23 +23 +24
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 4 6 22
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.091% 0.18% 0.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.76% 1.21% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 21
10th Percentile £398 £485 £500
25th Percentile £452 £486 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £487 £800
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% -39.09% +52.38%
75th Percentile £502 £489 £825
90th Percentile £516 £490 -
England median daily rate £550 £608 £663
% change year-on-year -9.47% -8.30% +10.42%

All Database & BI Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 529 494 670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.02% 14.80% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 322 463
10th Percentile £205 £313 £300
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +3.45%
75th Percentile £573 £638 £630
90th Percentile £660 £675 £675
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 45
10th Percentile £12.29 £34.67 £20.34
25th Percentile £30.82 £41.25 £24.43
Median hourly rate £38.50 £63.15 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.03% +15.87% +25.29%
75th Percentile £43.15 £64.95 £72.00
90th Percentile £63.83 £65.62 £79.91
England median hourly rate £43.50 £39.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +11.54% -13.33% -18.18%

Elasticsearch
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Elasticsearch job vacancy trend in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Elasticsearch.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Elasticsearch

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch in the South East over the 6 months to 18 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Elasticsearch in the South East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Elasticsearch.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Elasticsearch

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Elasticsearch within the South East region over the 6 months to 18 January 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
Berkshire -12 4 £488 - 7
Thames Valley -12 4 £488 - 13
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
1 2 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 2 (50.00%) IaaS
1 2 (50.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Kafka
2 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (50.00%) Jinja
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) logstash
2 2 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google