Elasticsearch Contracts in the UK excluding London

Elastic Elasticsearch
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Elasticsearch skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Elasticsearch over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 277 303 344
Rank change year-on-year +26 +41 +75
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 59 96 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.46% 0.46% 0.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.92% 3.70% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 79 102
10th Percentile £379 £435 £449
25th Percentile £453 £485 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £560 £520
Median % change year-on-year -0.89% +7.74% -1.00%
75th Percentile £625 £734 £600
90th Percentile £663 £825 £700
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% -13.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £78.70 - -
UK median hourly rate £61.60 - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,019 2,594 3,714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.82% 12.49% 15.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,400 1,827 2,673
10th Percentile £315 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £594
90th Percentile £660 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 96 114
10th Percentile £18.74 £13.50 £21.96
25th Percentile £22.98 £18.03 £32.32
Median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%
75th Percentile £65.62 £58.61 £66.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £75.35
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

Elasticsearch
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Elasticsearch as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Elasticsearch in the UK excluding London

Elasticsearch
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Elasticsearch in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Elasticsearch in the UK excluding London

Elasticsearch
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Elasticsearch in the UK excluding London

Elasticsearch
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Elasticsearch in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Elasticsearch in the UK excluding London

Elasticsearch
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Elasticsearch within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South East +44 16 £575 +15.00% 58
Midlands +15 13 £537 -1.24% 35
West Midlands +10 11 £550 - 22
South West +41 9 £600 -25.00% 34
North of England +3 9 £393 -39.54% 40
North West +12 8 £393 -40.68% 24
Scotland +3 8 £525 +6.06% 5
East of England +32 3 - - 36
East Midlands +7 2 £506 +42.13% 12
North East -4 1 £650 +18.18% 6
Wales - 1 - - 2
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UK

Elasticsearch
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (15.25%) JBoss
2 8 (13.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (10.17%) Apache
4 3 (5.08%) Confluence
4 3 (5.08%) Tomcat
5 2 (3.39%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (3.39%) IIS
6 1 (1.69%) Apache Spark
6 1 (1.69%) Gunicorn
6 1 (1.69%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 36 (61.02%) AWS
2 23 (38.98%) OpenShift
3 12 (20.34%) GCP
4 10 (16.95%) PaaS
5 8 (13.56%) IaaS
6 7 (11.86%) Azure
7 5 (8.47%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 5 (8.47%) Amazon S3
7 5 (8.47%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 5 (8.47%) AWS CodePipeline
7 5 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (8.47%) Serverless
8 4 (6.78%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (6.78%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (6.78%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 4 (6.78%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (6.78%) AWS CodeBuild
8 4 (6.78%) AWS Fargate
8 4 (6.78%) Route 53
9 2 (3.39%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (18.64%) Firewall
2 9 (15.25%) DNS
3 8 (13.56%) DHCP
3 8 (13.56%) SMTP
3 8 (13.56%) VPN
4 1 (1.69%) DSL
4 1 (1.69%) Network Security
4 1 (1.69%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.64%) Big Data
2 10 (16.95%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (15.25%) Relational Database
4 8 (13.56%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (13.56%) RDBMS
5 5 (8.47%) MongoDB
5 5 (8.47%) SQL Server
6 4 (6.78%) Hadoop
6 4 (6.78%) NoSQL
7 3 (5.08%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (3.39%) Flink
8 2 (3.39%) InfluxDB
8 2 (3.39%) Tableau
9 1 (1.69%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.69%) Metadata
9 1 (1.69%) Neo4j
9 1 (1.69%) ObjectStore
9 1 (1.69%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (30.51%) Git
2 16 (27.12%) Jenkins
3 12 (20.34%) JIRA
4 9 (15.25%) Bitbucket Server
4 9 (15.25%) CA Release Automation
4 9 (15.25%) SonarQube
4 9 (15.25%) Sonatype Nexus
4 9 (15.25%) TeamCity
5 6 (10.17%) GitLab
6 3 (5.08%) Artifactory
6 3 (5.08%) JMeter
6 3 (5.08%) Postman
6 3 (5.08%) REST Assured
6 3 (5.08%) Selenium
6 3 (5.08%) TestNG
6 3 (5.08%) Travis CI
7 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.69%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.69%) Poetry
General
1 13 (22.03%) Public Sector
2 8 (13.56%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.39%) Banking
4 2 (3.39%) Finance
5 1 (1.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (16.95%) Developer
2 9 (15.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (13.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 8 (13.56%) 3rd Line Support
3 8 (13.56%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 8 (13.56%) Senior
3 8 (13.56%) Support Engineer
4 7 (11.86%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (11.86%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 7 (11.86%) Data Engineer
4 7 (11.86%) Infrastructure Support
4 7 (11.86%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 6 (10.17%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (8.47%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Senior Data Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Data Architect
8 3 (5.08%) Python Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (32.20%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (18.64%) Spring Boot
3 10 (16.95%) Kafka
4 9 (15.25%) Apache NiFi
5 5 (8.47%) AWS CDK
5 5 (8.47%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (6.78%) RESTful
6 4 (6.78%) Spring
6 4 (6.78%) Web Services
7 3 (5.08%) Flask
7 3 (5.08%) Keycloak
8 2 (3.39%) .NET
8 2 (3.39%) Celery
8 2 (3.39%) FastAPI
8 2 (3.39%) HTML
8 2 (3.39%) Middleware
8 2 (3.39%) OpenAPI
8 2 (3.39%) pytest
8 2 (3.39%) React
8 2 (3.39%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.56%) Clustering
1 8 (13.56%) Data Centre
1 8 (13.56%) PKI
2 4 (6.78%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (6.78%) Replication
3 3 (5.08%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.39%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.69%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.69%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 20 (33.90%) Linux
2 19 (32.20%) Windows
3 11 (18.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (18.64%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.08%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (3.39%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (52.54%) CI/CD
2 25 (42.37%) DevOps
3 16 (27.12%) Agile
4 14 (23.73%) Microservices
5 13 (22.03%) Containerisation
6 12 (20.34%) Migration
7 10 (16.95%) Analytics
7 10 (16.95%) Code Quality
7 10 (16.95%) Continuous Integration
7 10 (16.95%) Machine Learning
8 9 (15.25%) Artificial Intelligence
8 9 (15.25%) Build Automation
8 9 (15.25%) Data Ingestion
8 9 (15.25%) Deployment Automation
8 9 (15.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (15.25%) Software Engineering
8 9 (15.25%) Test Automation
9 8 (13.56%) Software Deployment
10 7 (11.86%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 27 (45.76%) Python
2 10 (16.95%) Java
2 10 (16.95%) PowerShell
3 9 (15.25%) Bash
3 9 (15.25%) Perl
4 7 (11.86%) JavaScript
5 6 (10.17%) TypeScript
6 3 (5.08%) C
6 3 (5.08%) Go
6 3 (5.08%) Groovy
6 3 (5.08%) SQL
7 2 (3.39%) C#
8 1 (1.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 33 (55.93%) Security Cleared
2 25 (42.37%) DV Cleared
3 15 (25.42%) Degree
4 9 (15.25%) SC Cleared
5 5 (8.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (5.08%) CEH
6 3 (5.08%) CISSP
6 3 (5.08%) ISTQB
7 2 (3.39%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.69%) OCP
8 1 (1.69%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.78%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.08%) QA
3 2 (3.39%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.39%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (55.93%) Docker
2 19 (32.20%) Active Directory
3 8 (13.56%) BitLocker
3 8 (13.56%) Hyper-V
3 8 (13.56%) Microsoft App-V
3 8 (13.56%) Terminal Services
3 8 (13.56%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (13.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (5.08%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 42 (71.19%) Kubernetes
2 28 (47.46%) Kibana
3 14 (23.73%) Ansible
4 12 (20.34%) logstash
5 9 (15.25%) Progress Chef
6 8 (13.56%) Nagios
6 8 (13.56%) Puppet
6 8 (13.56%) vCenter Server
6 8 (13.56%) vMotion
7 7 (11.86%) Grafana
8 5 (8.47%) Prometheus
9 4 (6.78%) Terraform
10 3 (5.08%) SCCM
10 3 (5.08%) SCOM
10 3 (5.08%) SCSM
11 1 (1.69%) QRadar
Vendors
1 13 (22.03%) Microsoft
1 13 (22.03%) Splunk
2 10 (16.95%) Google
3 9 (15.25%) AppDynamics
3 9 (15.25%) Red Hat
4 8 (13.56%) Citrix
4 8 (13.56%) HP
4 8 (13.56%) Symantec
4 8 (13.56%) VMware
5 6 (10.17%) Cloudera
6 2 (3.39%) Imperva
7 1 (1.69%) IBM
7 1 (1.69%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.69%) Oracle