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 citing Elasticsearch skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 15 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	227	174	168
Rank change year-on-year	-53	-6	+20
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch	11	2	10
As % of all contract jobs in the South East	0.16%	0.050%	0.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category	1.60%	0.39%	1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted	11	2	6
10^th Percentile	-	£379	£470
25^th Percentile	£275	£403	£482
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£450	£488
Median % change year-on-year	+16.67%	-7.69%	-14.29%
75^th Percentile	£735	£491	£498
90^th Percentile	-	£511	£516
England median daily rate	£525	£550	£613
% change year-on-year	-4.55%	-10.20%	-2.00%

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 citing database or business intelligence skills in the South East.

	6 months to 15 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing database or business intelligence skills	688	518	601
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East	9.81%	13.06%	14.56%
Number of daily rates quoted	442	390	395
10^th Percentile	£325	£205	£256
25^th Percentile	£413	£331	£400
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£500	£450	£500
Median % change year-on-year	+11.11%	-10.00%	-6.54%
75^th Percentile	£592	£550	£625
90^th Percentile	£650	£626	£662
England median daily rate	£513	£500	£550
% change year-on-year	+2.50%	-9.09%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	60	4	16
10^th Percentile	£14.09	£16.33	£21.58
25^th Percentile	£23.81	£20.94	£30.00
Median hourly rate	£29.79	£32.00	£45.34
Median % change year-on-year	-6.92%	-29.42%	-9.32%
75^th Percentile	£67.79	£52.52	£60.36
90^th Percentile	£85.60	£75.06	£64.73
England median hourly rate	£41.71	£45.00	£33.22
% change year-on-year	-7.31%	+35.48%	-30.07%

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 Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Elasticsearch Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch in the South East over the 6 months to 15 November 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Elasticsearch in the South East

Elasticsearch Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Elasticsearch 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 15 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Hampshire	-	7	£690	-	6
Surrey	-	4	£275	-
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Elasticsearch Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 15 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Elasticsearch also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South East region citing Elasticsearch.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AWS	81.8%	9
2	Agile	72.7%	8
2	CI/CD	72.7%	8
2	Grafana	72.7%	8
5	Ansible	54.5%	6
5	Kibana	54.5%	6
5	Shell Script	54.5%	6
8	Azure	45.5%	5
8	GCP	45.5%	5
8	Identity Access Management	45.5%	5
8	Kafka	45.5%	5
8	Kubernetes	45.5%	5
8	SC Cleared	45.5%	5
8	Security Cleared	45.5%	5
15	Agile Coaching	36.4%	4
15	AI	36.4%	4
15	AppDynamics	36.4%	4
15	Containerisation	36.4%	4
15	Cybersecurity	36.4%	4
15	Degree	36.4%	4
15	DevSecOps	36.4%	4
15	Docker	36.4%	4
15	DV Cleared	36.4%	4
15	Dynatrace	36.4%	4
15	Edge Computing	36.4%	4
15	Entra ID	36.4%	4
15	Gatling	36.4%	4
15	Git	36.4%	4
15	GitLab	36.4%	4
15	gRPC	36.4%	4

Elasticsearch Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Database & Business Intelligence

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	MongoDB	18.2%	2
2	Amazon Redshift	9.1%	1
2	Data Lake	9.1%	1
2	Data Warehouse	9.1%	1
2	InfluxDB	9.1%	1
2	PostgreSQL	9.1%	1