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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 107 118
Rank change year-on-year -39 +11 +25
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 15 7 17
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.40% 0.36% 0.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.97% 3.40% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 12
10th Percentile £425 £470 £575
25th Percentile £444 £525 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £640
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -6.25% -8.57%
75th Percentile £594 - £707
90th Percentile £600 £657 £736
England median daily rate £525 £550 £589
% change year-on-year -4.55% -6.62% -1.83%
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 378 206 340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 10.16% 10.70% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 143 245
10th Percentile £350 £296 £355
25th Percentile £413 £369 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £613
90th Percentile £744 £650 £682
England median daily rate £505 £506 £550
% change year-on-year -0.20% -8.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 14 14
10th Percentile £14.77 £44.70 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £65.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £41.71 £67.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.21% +125.00% -60.78%
75th Percentile £51.00 £70.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £57.25 £78.34 £85.00
England median hourly rate £38.38 £42.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.62% +19.99% -36.36%

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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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch in the South West over the 6 months to 9 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Elasticsearch in the South West

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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 September 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
Devon - 7 £600 - 6
Dorset - 3 - -
Somerset - 3 £450 - 1
Gloucestershire -7 1 - - 18
Wiltshire - 1 £500 -
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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 6 (40.00%) Confluence
2 5 (33.33%) Apache Spark
3 2 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 12 (80.00%) AWS
2 8 (53.33%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (13.33%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Big Data
2 3 (20.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (20.00%) HBase
2 3 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (13.33%) Hadoop
4 1 (6.67%) GIS
4 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
4 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (73.33%) Git
2 9 (60.00%) JIRA
3 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (20.00%) JUnit
3 3 (20.00%) Selenium
4 1 (6.67%) GitLab
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 3 (20.00%) Digital Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Data Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Java Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) React Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (60.00%) React
2 8 (53.33%) CSS
2 8 (53.33%) HTML
2 8 (53.33%) Next.js
3 5 (33.33%) Kafka
4 3 (20.00%) Node.js
4 3 (20.00%) Spring
4 3 (20.00%) Spring Boot
5 2 (13.33%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (13.33%) FastAPI
5 2 (13.33%) Flask
5 2 (13.33%) Spring WebFlux
6 1 (6.67%) REST
6 1 (6.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Cloud Native
1 4 (26.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 3 (20.00%) Clustering
3 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Agile
1 12 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (53.33%) SDLC
3 7 (46.67%) Software Engineering
3 7 (46.67%) Test Automation
4 6 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
4 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
5 5 (33.33%) Front End Development
5 5 (33.33%) User Experience
6 4 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (26.67%) UX Design
7 3 (20.00%) Analytics
7 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 3 (20.00%) DevOps
7 3 (20.00%) Load Balancing
7 3 (20.00%) Microservices
7 3 (20.00%) OOD
7 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
7 3 (20.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) SQL
2 9 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (46.67%) TypeScript
4 6 (40.00%) Python
5 4 (26.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) Degree
2 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (26.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (20.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
2 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Argo
2 1 (6.67%) Grafana
2 1 (6.67%) Nagios
2 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) Cloudera