Elasticsearch Contract Job Trends in South London

Elastic Elasticsearch
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Elasticsearch skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
26 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 16 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South London 5.57% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 22.54% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 16 0 0
10th Percentile £504 - -
25th Percentile £519 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 - -
75th Percentile £521 - -
90th Percentile £550 - -
London median daily rate £550 £613 £700
% change year-on-year -10.20% -12.50% +16.67%

All Database & BI Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 71 43 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 24.74% 20.48% 21.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 29 44
10th Percentile £375 £425 £231
25th Percentile £469 £463 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +5.26% -7.32%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £519
90th Percentile £559 £628 £638
London median daily rate £525 £565 £556
% change year-on-year -7.08% +1.62% -5.36%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Elasticsearch job vacancy trend in South London

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Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Elasticsearch

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Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Elasticsearch

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Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 26 February 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
Croydon - 16 £521 - 1
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London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (37.50%) Confluence
1 6 (37.50%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 6 (37.50%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (37.50%) Amazon EKS
2 6 (37.50%) Amazon S3
2 6 (37.50%) AWS
2 6 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (37.50%) Route 53
2 6 (37.50%) Serverless
2 6 (37.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) DNS
1 6 (37.50%) Firewall
1 6 (37.50%) OpenVPN
1 6 (37.50%) TCP/IP
1 6 (37.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (62.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Bitbucket
1 6 (37.50%) JIRA
1 6 (37.50%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (37.50%) Documentation Skills
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Developer
2 8 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (37.50%) Architect
4 5 (31.25%) Technical Architect
5 2 (12.50%) AWS Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Backend Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (62.50%) Kafka
1 10 (62.50%) Node.js
1 10 (62.50%) Spring
1 10 (62.50%) WireMock
2 6 (37.50%) LDAP
2 6 (37.50%) OpenID
3 2 (12.50%) REST
3 2 (12.50%) RESTful
3 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 1 (6.25%) Playwright
4 1 (6.25%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 7 (43.75%) DevOps
3 6 (37.50%) Decision-Making
3 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (37.50%) Roadmaps
4 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven
5 1 (6.25%) Agile
5 1 (6.25%) CI/CD
5 1 (6.25%) Clean Code
5 1 (6.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (6.25%) Event-Driven Programming
5 1 (6.25%) Front End Development
5 1 (6.25%) Microservices
5 1 (6.25%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (6.25%) Scrum
5 1 (6.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Java
2 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (93.75%) SC Cleared
1 15 (93.75%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Squid
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Consul
1 6 (37.50%) FortiGate
1 6 (37.50%) Grafana
1 6 (37.50%) Kubernetes
1 6 (37.50%) Prometheus
1 6 (37.50%) Single Sign-On
1 6 (37.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Atlassian
1 6 (37.50%) Dynatrace
1 6 (37.50%) Red Hat
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