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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 168 200
Rank change year-on-year +17 +32 +67
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 11 13 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.32% 0.28% 0.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.43% 2.11% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 11
10th Percentile £510 £429 -
25th Percentile £544 £458 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £482 £520
Median % change year-on-year +19.29% -7.31% -7.56%
75th Percentile £588 £495 £569
90th Percentile £600 £510 £688
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -3.23%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 452 616 742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.95% 13.37% 13.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 409 522
10th Percentile £205 £262 £315
25th Percentile £325 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £544
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -8.05% +8.75%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £625
90th Percentile £638 £660 £688
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 20 44
10th Percentile - £22.24 £21.05
25th Percentile £13.25 £30.00 £31.91
Median hourly rate £24.00 £51.59 £54.75
Median % change year-on-year -53.48% -5.77% +146.07%
75th Percentile £32.05 £61.60 £70.47
90th Percentile - £61.91 £75.00
England median hourly rate £44.25 £36.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +22.07% -34.09% +22.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Elasticsearch as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Elasticsearch 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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 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
Hampshire - 9 £575 - 7
Berkshire +8 2 £450 -6.64% 4
Thames Valley +3 2 £450 -6.64% 7
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (9.09%) Gunicorn
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) GCP
1 10 (90.91%) IaaS
1 10 (90.91%) PaaS
2 8 (72.73%) AWS
2 8 (72.73%) OpenShift
3 2 (18.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (9.09%) GitHub
4 1 (9.09%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) DHCP
1 8 (72.73%) DNS
1 8 (72.73%) Firewall
1 8 (72.73%) SMTP
1 8 (72.73%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (72.73%) Big Data
2 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Redis
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) Poetry
General
1 6 (54.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 8 (72.73%) 3rd Line Support
1 8 (72.73%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 8 (72.73%) Support Engineer
2 7 (63.64%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (63.64%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure Support
2 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Python Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Jinja
1 2 (18.18%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) Celery
2 1 (9.09%) Flask
2 1 (9.09%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Clustering
1 8 (72.73%) Data Centre
1 8 (72.73%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Linux
2 8 (72.73%) Windows
2 8 (72.73%) Windows Server
3 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) DevOps
2 8 (72.73%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (72.73%) Machine Learning
2 8 (72.73%) Software Deployment
3 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 2 (18.18%) Data Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Security Operations
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Operations
5 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
5 1 (9.09%) Dependency Management
5 1 (9.09%) Identity Management
5 1 (9.09%) Migration
5 1 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (9.09%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) PowerShell
2 3 (27.27%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) Security Cleared
2 8 (72.73%) Degree
2 8 (72.73%) DV Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 10 (90.91%) Active Directory
2 8 (72.73%) BitLocker
2 8 (72.73%) Docker
2 8 (72.73%) Hyper-V
2 8 (72.73%) Microsoft App-V
2 8 (72.73%) Terminal Services
2 8 (72.73%) VMware ESXi
2 8 (72.73%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (90.91%) Ansible
1 10 (90.91%) Kubernetes
2 8 (72.73%) Nagios
2 8 (72.73%) Puppet
2 8 (72.73%) vCenter Server
2 8 (72.73%) vMotion
3 2 (18.18%) logstash
3 2 (18.18%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) Google
2 8 (72.73%) Citrix
2 8 (72.73%) HP
2 8 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 8 (72.73%) Symantec
2 8 (72.73%) VMware