Elasticsearch Contract Job Trends in the South West

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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 95 138
Rank change year-on-year -27 +43 +25
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 17 18 18
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.59% 1.08% 0.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.67% 7.29% 5.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 17
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 £575 £775
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £725 £800
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% -9.38% +6.67%
75th Percentile £675 £1,075 £825
90th Percentile - - £835
England median daily rate £550 £600 £663
% change year-on-year -8.33% -9.43% +10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £79.00 - £62.50
England median hourly rate £79.00 £44.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +77.53% -40.67% -

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 255 247 337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 8.89% 14.85% 10.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 181 216
10th Percentile £375 £375 £356
25th Percentile £414 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.35% +9.52% -1.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £727
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 18
10th Percentile £20.66 £25.21 £14.36
25th Percentile £61.38 £25.26 £17.33
Median hourly rate £74.68 £27.13 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +175.32% -32.19% -33.33%
75th Percentile - £68.75 -
90th Percentile - £69.00 £64.75
England median hourly rate £49.36 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year +41.03% -13.58% -32.50%

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 March 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 -9 15 £550 -47.62% 8
Bristol - 2 £680 - 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 (5.88%) Apache
1 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.88%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 13 (76.47%) Azure
2 12 (70.59%) Azure Data Factory
3 10 (58.82%) GitHub
4 4 (23.53%) AWS
5 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.88%) GCP
5 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (70.59%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Hive
2 1 (5.88%) Big Data
2 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.88%) Impala
2 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Power BI
2 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) GitLab
General
1 1 (5.88%) Aerospace
1 1 (5.88%) Law
1 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
1 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (82.35%) Data Engineer
2 13 (76.47%) Senior
2 13 (76.47%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Big Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (76.47%) Kafka
2 12 (70.59%) Keycloak
3 3 (17.65%) React
4 2 (11.76%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (5.88%) Express.js
5 1 (5.88%) Next.js
5 1 (5.88%) NLTK
5 1 (5.88%) Node.js
5 1 (5.88%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 11 (64.71%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) DevOps
2 14 (82.35%) Data Engineering
2 14 (82.35%) Data Pipeline
3 13 (76.47%) Containerisation
3 13 (76.47%) ETL
4 12 (70.59%) Batch Processing
4 12 (70.59%) DataOps
5 11 (64.71%) Data Architecture
6 3 (17.65%) Agile
6 3 (17.65%) Analytics
6 3 (17.65%) Full-Stack Development
7 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
7 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (11.76%) Machine Learning
7 2 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 2 (11.76%) Sprint Planning
7 2 (11.76%) Visualisation
8 1 (5.88%) AI
8 1 (5.88%) Data Governance
8 1 (5.88%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 14 (82.35%) Python
2 12 (70.59%) Go
3 2 (11.76%) Java
3 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.88%) Bicep
4 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (82.35%) Security Cleared
2 13 (76.47%) SC Cleared
3 12 (70.59%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (82.35%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (82.35%) Kubernetes
2 3 (17.65%) Grafana
2 3 (17.65%) Kibana
2 3 (17.65%) Prometheus
3 2 (11.76%) Argo
3 2 (11.76%) Nagios
4 1 (5.88%) Ansible
4 1 (5.88%) logstash
4 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft