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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 153 166
Rank change year-on-year -65 +13 +28
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 9 12 18
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.13% 0.34% 0.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.15% 2.51% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 10
10th Percentile £301 £510 £396
25th Percentile £306 £530 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £690 £575 £482
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +19.29% -5.02%
75th Percentile £735 £588 £498
90th Percentile £740 £599 £557
England median daily rate £521 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.36% - -6.38%

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 780 478 603
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.56% 13.42% 12.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 333 402
10th Percentile £312 £221 £290
25th Percentile £413 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.99% -7.40% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £625
90th Percentile £650 £638 £662
England median daily rate £500 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 11 22
10th Percentile £13.86 £13.25 £20.92
25th Percentile £27.75 £22.18 £30.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £24.00 £51.59
Median % change year-on-year +59.38% -53.48% +3.18%
75th Percentile £55.00 £32.05 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £36.25 £62.83
England median hourly rate £38.25 £34.82 £35.00
% change year-on-year +9.87% -0.53% -36.36%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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
Hampshire -36 6 £690 +20.00% 3
Surrey - 3 £313 - 2
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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 8 (88.89%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) GCP
3 4 (44.44%) Entra ID
3 4 (44.44%) Serverless
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) MQTT
1 4 (44.44%) Network Security
2 3 (33.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
1 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (11.11%) InfluxDB
1 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Git
1 4 (44.44%) GitLab
1 4 (44.44%) SonarQube
2 3 (33.33%) Gatling
2 3 (33.33%) JMeter
2 3 (33.33%) LoadRunner
3 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Performance Tester
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Performance Tester
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Tester
2 3 (33.33%) Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Database Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Kafka
2 4 (44.44%) gRPC
2 4 (44.44%) Keycloak
2 4 (44.44%) Protocol Buffers
2 4 (44.44%) RESTful
3 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (11.11%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Agile
1 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (44.44%) Agile Coaching
3 4 (44.44%) AI
3 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
3 4 (44.44%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (44.44%) DevSecOps
3 4 (44.44%) Edge Computing
3 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (44.44%) Kanban
3 4 (44.44%) Microservices
3 4 (44.44%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 4 (44.44%) Scrum
3 4 (44.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 4 (44.44%) Vulnerability Management
3 4 (44.44%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 3 (33.33%) Performance Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 3 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Shell Script
2 4 (44.44%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) Rust
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) Degree
2 4 (44.44%) DV Cleared
3 3 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Grafana
2 5 (55.56%) Ansible
2 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
3 4 (44.44%) Kibana
3 4 (44.44%) Podman
3 4 (44.44%) Prometheus
3 4 (44.44%) Puppet
3 4 (44.44%) Terraform
4 1 (11.11%) logstash
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) NVIDIA
1 4 (44.44%) Tenable
2 3 (33.33%) AppDynamics
2 3 (33.33%) Dynatrace
3 1 (11.11%) CyberArk
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow