Elasticsearch Contracts in the South East

Elastic Elasticsearch
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 186 204
Rank change year-on-year +43 +18 +43
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 13 20 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.43% 0.35% 0.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.13% 3.10% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 11
10th Percentile £437 £417 -
25th Percentile £510 £458 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £482 £500
Median % change year-on-year +19.29% -3.60% -16.67%
75th Percentile £588 £496 £538
90th Percentile £598 £500 £688
England median daily rate £575 £600 £545
% change year-on-year -4.17% +10.09% -12.80%

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 415 645 782
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.64% 11.17% 13.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 398 541
10th Percentile £300 £325 £325
25th Percentile £402 £400 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £600
90th Percentile £645 £688 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 40 44
10th Percentile £13.25 £18.20 £22.16
25th Percentile £21.51 £22.56 £30.79
Median hourly rate £25.88 £48.18 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -46.28% -17.00% +157.98%
75th Percentile £32.05 £61.94 £74.06
90th Percentile £38.00 £80.00 £75.53
England median hourly rate £34.19 £40.00 £56.95
% change year-on-year -14.53% -29.76% +50.66%

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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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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Elasticsearch in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Elasticsearch in the South East

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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 22 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Elasticsearch in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Elasticsearch in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Elasticsearch in the South East

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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 22 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
Hampshire - 13 £575 - 17
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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 (61.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (15.38%) JBoss
3 1 (7.69%) Gunicorn
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) AWS
1 10 (76.92%) OpenShift
2 8 (61.54%) GCP
2 8 (61.54%) IaaS
2 8 (61.54%) PaaS
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.69%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 8 (61.54%) DHCP
1 8 (61.54%) DNS
1 8 (61.54%) Firewall
1 8 (61.54%) SMTP
1 8 (61.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (61.54%) Big Data
2 3 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (23.08%) Relational Database
3 2 (15.38%) RDBMS
4 1 (7.69%) ObjectStore
4 1 (7.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
2 2 (15.38%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (15.38%) CA Release Automation
2 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) SonarQube
2 2 (15.38%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (15.38%) TeamCity
3 1 (7.69%) Poetry
General
1 6 (46.15%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 8 (61.54%) 3rd Line Support
1 8 (61.54%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 8 (61.54%) Support Engineer
2 7 (53.85%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (53.85%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure Support
2 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Python Developer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Python Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Ruby Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Flask
2 2 (15.38%) Celery
2 2 (15.38%) Django
2 2 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (15.38%) FastAPI
2 2 (15.38%) pytest
2 2 (15.38%) RESTful
2 2 (15.38%) Spring Boot
2 2 (15.38%) Web Services
3 1 (7.69%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Clustering
1 8 (61.54%) Data Centre
1 8 (61.54%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (76.92%) Linux
1 10 (76.92%) Windows
2 8 (61.54%) Windows Server
3 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) DevOps
2 8 (61.54%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (61.54%) Machine Learning
2 8 (61.54%) Software Deployment
3 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 3 (23.08%) Migration
5 2 (15.38%) Agile
5 2 (15.38%) Build Automation
5 2 (15.38%) Code Quality
5 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (15.38%) Microservices
5 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
6 1 (7.69%) Dependency Management
6 1 (7.69%) Identity Management
6 1 (7.69%) Lean Software Development
6 1 (7.69%) Performance Optimisation
6 1 (7.69%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) PowerShell
2 5 (38.46%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) Perl
4 1 (7.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (84.62%) Security Cleared
2 8 (61.54%) Degree
2 8 (61.54%) DV Cleared
3 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 10 (76.92%) Active Directory
1 10 (76.92%) Docker
2 8 (61.54%) BitLocker
2 8 (61.54%) Hyper-V
2 8 (61.54%) Microsoft App-V
2 8 (61.54%) Terminal Services
2 8 (61.54%) VMware ESXi
2 8 (61.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (76.92%) Kubernetes
2 8 (61.54%) Ansible
2 8 (61.54%) Nagios
2 8 (61.54%) Puppet
2 8 (61.54%) vCenter Server
2 8 (61.54%) vMotion
3 2 (15.38%) Kibana
3 2 (15.38%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Citrix
1 8 (61.54%) Google
1 8 (61.54%) HP
1 8 (61.54%) Microsoft
1 8 (61.54%) Symantec
1 8 (61.54%) VMware
2 2 (15.38%) AppDynamics
2 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
2 2 (15.38%) Splunk