Elasticsearch Contract Job Trends in the South West

Elastic Elasticsearch
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Elasticsearch skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 104 137
Rank change year-on-year -24 +33 +31
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 14 13 15
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.45% 0.76% 0.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.58% 5.51% 4.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 15
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 £575 £775
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £800
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -25.00% +31.96%
75th Percentile £575 £1,075 £825
90th Percentile £585 - £840
England median daily rate £550 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £79.00 £78.70 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% - -
England median hourly rate £58.50 £61.60 -
% change year-on-year -5.03% - -

All Database & BI Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 306 236 318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 9.73% 13.80% 9.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 178 217
10th Percentile £350 £356 £358
25th Percentile £409 £424 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £606 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £729 £725
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 12 14
10th Percentile £18.45 £25.31 £14.36
25th Percentile £32.50 £52.56 £15.67
Median hourly rate £51.00 £68.75 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.82% +71.88% -38.46%
75th Percentile £74.68 £70.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £51.00 £33.11 £40.00
% change year-on-year +54.03% -17.23% -28.19%

Elasticsearch
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Elasticsearch job vacancy trend in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 9 April 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
Gloucestershire -2 13 £550 -35.29% 9
Bristol -21 1 - - 1
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (7.14%) Apache
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) Azure
1 10 (71.43%) Azure Data Factory
2 8 (57.14%) GitHub
3 3 (21.43%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (71.43%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) GitLab
General
1 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) Data Engineer
1 11 (78.57%) Senior
1 11 (78.57%) Senior Data Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (78.57%) Kafka
2 10 (71.43%) Keycloak
3 3 (21.43%) React
4 1 (7.14%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
3 1 (7.14%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Data Engineering
1 13 (92.86%) DevOps
2 12 (85.71%) Containerisation
3 11 (78.57%) Data Pipeline
3 11 (78.57%) ETL
4 10 (71.43%) Batch Processing
4 10 (71.43%) DataOps
5 9 (64.29%) Data Architecture
6 4 (28.57%) Analytics
7 3 (21.43%) Agile
7 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
7 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (21.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (21.43%) Sprint Planning
8 1 (7.14%) Dashboard Development
8 1 (7.14%) Data Ingestion
8 1 (7.14%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 1 (7.14%) Decision-Making
8 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
8 1 (7.14%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) Python
2 10 (71.43%) Go
3 3 (21.43%) Java
3 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (71.43%) Azure Certification
1 10 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 10 (71.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (85.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 4 (28.57%) Grafana
2 4 (28.57%) Prometheus
3 3 (21.43%) Argo
3 3 (21.43%) Nagios
4 1 (7.14%) Ansible
4 1 (7.14%) Kibana
4 1 (7.14%) logstash
4 1 (7.14%) Terraform