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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 115 117
Rank change year-on-year -20 +2 +27
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 20 10 22
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.54% 0.51% 0.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.48% 4.39% 6.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 17
10th Percentile £425 £497 -
25th Percentile £481 £581 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% -10.34%
75th Percentile £700 £680 £738
90th Percentile - £695 £1,075
England median daily rate £483 £550 £602
% change year-on-year -12.27% -8.56% +0.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £68.00 -
% change year-on-year -4.41% - -

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 365 228 334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 9.86% 11.52% 13.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 157 223
10th Percentile £361 £311 £353
25th Percentile £425 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £675 £588 £621
90th Percentile £750 £668 £701
England median daily rate £510 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -0.49% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 12 16
10th Percentile £17.17 £22.73 -
25th Percentile £35.21 £55.13 £17.50
Median hourly rate £41.71 £65.00 £28.56
Median % change year-on-year -35.83% +127.57% -60.87%
75th Percentile £55.31 - £71.50
90th Percentile £74.68 £76.25 £85.00
England median hourly rate £41.71 £42.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -0.68% +19.99% -33.33%

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 October 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 October 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 - 4
Gloucestershire -1 4 £700 +12.00% 14
Somerset - 4 £450 -
Dorset - 3 - -
Wiltshire - 2 £506 - 2
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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 (30.00%) Apache Spark
1 6 (30.00%) Confluence
2 3 (15.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 13 (65.00%) Azure
2 12 (60.00%) AWS
3 7 (35.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (15.00%) GCP
5 1 (5.00%) Figma
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) Big Data
2 4 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (15.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (15.00%) Hadoop
3 3 (15.00%) HBase
3 3 (15.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.00%) GIS
4 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
4 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (55.00%) Git
2 9 (45.00%) JIRA
3 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (15.00%) JUnit
3 3 (15.00%) Selenium
General
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Developer
2 7 (35.00%) Data Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 4 (20.00%) Python Data Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Python Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Senior
3 4 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Digital Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Java Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) React Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Digital Product Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Product Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (50.00%) Kafka
2 8 (40.00%) CSS
2 8 (40.00%) HTML
2 8 (40.00%) Next.js
2 8 (40.00%) React
3 4 (20.00%) Keycloak
4 3 (15.00%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (15.00%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (15.00%) Node.js
4 3 (15.00%) Spring
4 3 (15.00%) Spring Boot
5 2 (10.00%) FastAPI
5 2 (10.00%) Flask
5 2 (10.00%) Spring WebFlux
6 1 (5.00%) REST
6 1 (5.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (20.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.00%) Clustering
3 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) Agile
2 12 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (40.00%) Analytics
3 8 (40.00%) SDLC
4 7 (35.00%) Data Pipeline
4 7 (35.00%) Data Security
4 7 (35.00%) DevOps
4 7 (35.00%) ETL
4 7 (35.00%) Software Engineering
4 7 (35.00%) Test Automation
5 6 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
5 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (30.00%) User Experience
6 5 (25.00%) Computer Science
6 5 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 5 (25.00%) Front End Development
6 5 (25.00%) UX Design
7 4 (20.00%) ETL Development
7 4 (20.00%) Scrum
7 4 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 14 (70.00%) SQL
2 10 (50.00%) Python
3 8 (40.00%) JavaScript
4 7 (35.00%) TypeScript
5 4 (20.00%) Go
6 3 (15.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (45.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (40.00%) DV Cleared
4 5 (25.00%) Degree
5 4 (20.00%) Azure Certification
5 4 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (15.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) Cloudera