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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 105 147
Rank change year-on-year -21 +42 +16
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 11 8 11
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.32% 0.47% 0.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.37% 3.81% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 11
10th Percentile £508 £550 £630
25th Percentile £519 £575 £750
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £800
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -25.00% +24.27%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £825
90th Percentile - £750 £850
England median daily rate £521 £575 £622
% change year-on-year -9.48% -7.56% +13.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £79.00 £79.35 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% - -
England median hourly rate £58.50 £78.70 -
% change year-on-year -25.67% - -

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 326 210 324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 9.61% 12.46% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 150 229
10th Percentile £325 £331 £350
25th Percentile £409 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £594 £630 £600
90th Percentile £694 £677 £695
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 11 19
10th Percentile £14.00 £25.75 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £66.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £70.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.43% +75.00% -38.46%
75th Percentile £51.00 - £55.75
90th Percentile £74.68 £78.70 £85.00
England median hourly rate £41.36 £31.85 £40.00
% change year-on-year +29.86% -20.39% -31.09%

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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 28 May 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 +1 6 £550 -24.14% 8
Dorset - 3 - -
Wiltshire -13 1 £500 -16.67%
Bristol -23 1 - -
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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 (36.36%) Apache Spark
2 1 (9.09%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Apache Cassandra
1 3 (27.27%) Big Data
1 3 (27.27%) HBase
1 3 (27.27%) NoSQL
1 3 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
2 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
1 3 (27.27%) GitLab
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
1 3 (27.27%) JIRA
1 3 (27.27%) JUnit
1 3 (27.27%) Selenium
General
1 1 (9.09%) Aerospace
1 1 (9.09%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Data Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Senior
1 4 (36.36%) Senior Data Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Java Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) Kafka
2 3 (27.27%) Keycloak
2 3 (27.27%) React
2 3 (27.27%) Spring
2 3 (27.27%) Spring Boot
3 2 (18.18%) Spring WebFlux
4 1 (9.09%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (9.09%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Cloud Native
2 3 (27.27%) Clustering
3 2 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
4 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
4 1 (9.09%) Replication
4 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Containerisation
2 6 (54.55%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) Data Engineering
2 6 (54.55%) DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
4 4 (36.36%) Analytics
4 4 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (36.36%) ETL
5 3 (27.27%) Batch Processing
5 3 (27.27%) DataOps
5 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (27.27%) High Availability
5 3 (27.27%) Load Balancing
5 3 (27.27%) Microservices
5 3 (27.27%) OO
5 3 (27.27%) OOD
5 3 (27.27%) Roadmaps
5 3 (27.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
5 3 (27.27%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Java
1 6 (54.55%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) Go
2 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) Azure Certification
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Kubernetes
2 4 (36.36%) Grafana
2 4 (36.36%) Prometheus
3 3 (27.27%) Argo
3 3 (27.27%) Nagios
4 1 (9.09%) Ansible
4 1 (9.09%) Kibana
4 1 (9.09%) logstash
4 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Cloudera