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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 106 126
Rank change year-on-year -39 +20 +14
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 8 5 18
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.22% 0.26% 0.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.24% 2.36% 5.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 13
10th Percentile £433 £451 £575
25th Percentile £444 £479 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £494 £600 £725
90th Percentile £498 £615 £768
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.54% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £79.35 -
England median hourly rate £58.00 £78.70 -
% change year-on-year -26.30% - -

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 357 212 331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 9.94% 11.13% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 152 240
10th Percentile £350 £301 £363
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £740 £675 £680
England median daily rate £500 £515 £540
% change year-on-year -2.91% -4.63% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 11 13
10th Percentile £14.00 £36.00 -
25th Percentile £17.75 £65.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £70.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +133.33% -54.55%
75th Percentile £46.43 £73.75 £71.50
90th Percentile £51.00 £78.70 £85.00
England median hourly rate £38.50 £34.65 £37.50
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.60% -31.82%

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 10 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
Dorset - 3 - -
Somerset - 2 £450 -
Wiltshire -12 1 £500 -16.67%
Devon - 1 - - 2
Gloucestershire - 1 - - 16
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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 4 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Big Data
2 3 (37.50%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (37.50%) HBase
2 3 (37.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
3 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
3 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Git
2 4 (50.00%) JIRA
3 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
3 3 (37.50%) JUnit
3 3 (37.50%) Selenium
4 1 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Java Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Python Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Python Developer
3 1 (12.50%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Kafka
2 3 (37.50%) React
2 3 (37.50%) Spring
2 3 (37.50%) Spring Boot
3 2 (25.00%) CSS
3 2 (25.00%) HTML
3 2 (25.00%) Next.js
3 2 (25.00%) Node.js
3 2 (25.00%) Spring WebFlux
4 1 (12.50%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (12.50%) FastAPI
4 1 (12.50%) Flask
4 1 (12.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (37.50%) Clustering
3 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
4 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) SDLC
4 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
4 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (37.50%) Load Balancing
4 3 (37.50%) Microservices
4 3 (37.50%) OO
4 3 (37.50%) OOD
4 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
4 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Analytics
5 2 (25.00%) Clean Code
5 2 (25.00%) DevOps
5 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven
5 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven Programming
5 2 (25.00%) High Availability
5 2 (25.00%) Scrum
5 2 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) Python
3 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Argo
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) Nagios
2 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Cloudera