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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 122 144
Rank change year-on-year +7 +22 +3
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 7 18 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.35% 0.68% 0.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.24% 5.25% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 7
10th Percentile £479 - £613
25th Percentile £544 £575 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £630 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -10.00% +15.23%
75th Percentile £671 £701 £738
90th Percentile £695 £735 £773
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
England median hourly rate £68.00 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +51.52%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 216 343 396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 10.94% 12.94% 12.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 243 278
10th Percentile £313 £365 £400
25th Percentile £375 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -5.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £675
90th Percentile £650 £683 £729
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 15 25
10th Percentile £27.15 - £27.81
25th Percentile - £17.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £30.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +116.67% -60.00% +31.90%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £78.00
90th Percentile £74.50 £85.00 £83.79
England median hourly rate £44.25 £36.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +22.07% -34.09% +22.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Elasticsearch as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Elasticsearch 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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 2025. 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
Bristol - 5 £615 - 1
Gloucestershire +2 2 £600 -4.76% 5
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) Apache
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) Azure AKS
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Big Data
1 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
General
1 2 (28.57%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) SIEM Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) SOC Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (42.86%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (28.57%) Express.js
3 2 (28.57%) Next.js
3 2 (28.57%) Node.js
3 2 (28.57%) React
4 1 (14.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Analytics
1 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (42.86%) Data Ingestion
1 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (42.86%) Visualisation
2 2 (28.57%) API Management
2 2 (28.57%) Case Management
2 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
2 2 (28.57%) Dashboard Development
2 2 (28.57%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (28.57%) High Availability
2 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
2 2 (28.57%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (28.57%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Bash
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Bicep
2 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (71.43%) DV Cleared
3 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Kibana
2 5 (71.43%) logstash
3 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
4 2 (28.57%) Grafana
4 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
5 1 (14.29%) Ansible
5 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft