Elasticsearch Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Elastic Elasticsearch
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Elasticsearch skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 107 132
Rank change year-on-year -10 +25 +44
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 1 14 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.061% 0.62% 0.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.38% 3.98% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 7
10th Percentile - £429 £474
25th Percentile - £458 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £482 £520
Median % change year-on-year +8.92% -7.31% -0.95%
75th Percentile - £495 £565
90th Percentile - £510 £635
South East median daily rate £575 £482 £518
% change year-on-year +19.29% -6.86% -8.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 265 352 385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.13% 15.69% 13.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 215 277
10th Percentile £325 £363 £340
25th Percentile £406 £425 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.29% -5.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £660 £700
South East median daily rate £460 £500 £536
% change year-on-year -8.00% -6.67% +7.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 13 10
10th Percentile £13.25 £26.24 £31.68
25th Percentile £18.95 £48.18 £32.30
Median hourly rate £24.00 £61.60 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -61.04% +90.59% +61.60%
75th Percentile £32.05 - £61.00
90th Percentile £38.56 £64.10 £72.72
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -56.36% +10.00% +122.22%

Elasticsearch
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Elasticsearch as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Elasticsearch in the Thames Valley

Elasticsearch
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Elasticsearch.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Elasticsearch within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 3 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
Berkshire -2 1 £525 +8.92% 2
Elasticsearch
South East

Elasticsearch
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Jinja
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) logstash
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google