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 20 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 298 344
Rank change year-on-year +3 +46 +2
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 50 106 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.49% 0.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.38% 3.94% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 86 72
10th Percentile £349 £411 £426
25th Percentile £402 £466 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £606 £645 £579
90th Percentile £635 £697 £699
UK median daily rate £573 £600 £508
% change year-on-year -4.58% +18.23% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £78.83 - -
25th Percentile £79.03 - -
Median hourly rate £79.35 - -
75th Percentile £79.68 - -
90th Percentile £79.87 - -
UK median hourly rate £78.70 - -

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 2,104 2,687 3,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.61% 12.53% 14.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,426 1,866 2,350
10th Percentile £313 £314 £331
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £551 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £661 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 114 108
10th Percentile £18.67 £13.78 £21.19
25th Percentile £22.62 £17.68 £29.28
Median hourly rate £31.85 £33.47 £55.70
Median % change year-on-year -4.84% -39.92% +59.14%
75th Percentile £65.63 £51.12 £73.72
90th Percentile £72.25 £71.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £40.00 £58.59
% change year-on-year -12.50% -31.73% +36.39%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 +45 14 £575 +19.29% 84
Midlands -2 13 £537 +2.29% 43
West Midlands +7 11 £550 - 30
North West +11 8 £393 -40.68% 57
North of England -6 8 £393 -39.07% 74
South West +36 7 £600 -11.11% 58
Scotland -11 5 £450 -7.02% 33
East of England +33 2 £575 -11.54% 31
East Midlands +1 2 £506 +42.13% 13
Wales +3 1 - - 6
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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 10 (20.00%) JBoss
2 8 (16.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (14.00%) Apache
4 3 (6.00%) Confluence
5 2 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (4.00%) IIS
6 1 (2.00%) Apache Spark
6 1 (2.00%) Gunicorn
6 1 (2.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 28 (56.00%) AWS
2 21 (42.00%) OpenShift
3 10 (20.00%) GCP
4 9 (18.00%) PaaS
5 8 (16.00%) IaaS
6 4 (8.00%) Azure
7 2 (4.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (4.00%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.00%) Apigee
7 2 (4.00%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.00%) GitHub
7 2 (4.00%) Serverless
8 1 (2.00%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (2.00%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (2.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 1 (2.00%) dbt
8 1 (2.00%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 9 (18.00%) DNS
2 8 (16.00%) DHCP
2 8 (16.00%) Firewall
2 8 (16.00%) SMTP
2 8 (16.00%) VPN
3 1 (2.00%) DSL
3 1 (2.00%) Ethernet
3 1 (2.00%) Network Security
3 1 (2.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (20.00%) Big Data
1 10 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 9 (18.00%) RDBMS
3 8 (16.00%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (10.00%) MongoDB
5 4 (8.00%) NoSQL
6 3 (6.00%) Hadoop
6 3 (6.00%) SQL Server
7 2 (4.00%) Flink
7 2 (4.00%) Tableau
8 1 (2.00%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (2.00%) DynamoDB
8 1 (2.00%) InfluxDB
8 1 (2.00%) Metadata
8 1 (2.00%) Neo4j
8 1 (2.00%) ObjectStore
8 1 (2.00%) Oracle Database
8 1 (2.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (32.00%) Git
2 14 (28.00%) Jenkins
3 13 (26.00%) JIRA
4 10 (20.00%) Bitbucket Server
4 10 (20.00%) CA Release Automation
4 10 (20.00%) SonarQube
4 10 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 10 (20.00%) TeamCity
5 4 (8.00%) GitLab
6 3 (6.00%) JMeter
6 3 (6.00%) Postman
6 3 (6.00%) REST Assured
6 3 (6.00%) Selenium
6 3 (6.00%) TestNG
6 3 (6.00%) Travis CI
7 1 (2.00%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.00%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.00%) Poetry
General
1 10 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 7 (14.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.00%) Banking
4 2 (4.00%) Finance
5 1 (2.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (18.00%) Senior
2 8 (16.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 8 (16.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 8 (16.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 8 (16.00%) Data Engineer
2 8 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (16.00%) Support Engineer
3 7 (14.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (14.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 7 (14.00%) Developer
3 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 6 (12.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (6.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Python Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Python Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (38.00%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (24.00%) Spring Boot
3 9 (18.00%) Apache NiFi
4 7 (14.00%) Kafka
5 4 (8.00%) RESTful
5 4 (8.00%) Spring
5 4 (8.00%) Web Services
6 3 (6.00%) Flask
6 3 (6.00%) Keycloak
7 2 (4.00%) AWS CDK
7 2 (4.00%) Celery
7 2 (4.00%) Django
7 2 (4.00%) FastAPI
7 2 (4.00%) HTML
7 2 (4.00%) Middleware
7 2 (4.00%) OpenAPI
7 2 (4.00%) PySpark
7 2 (4.00%) pytest
7 2 (4.00%) Spring Security
7 2 (4.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.00%) Clustering
1 8 (16.00%) Data Centre
1 8 (16.00%) PKI
2 5 (10.00%) Replication
3 2 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.00%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 19 (38.00%) Linux
2 18 (36.00%) Windows
3 10 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (18.00%) Windows Server
5 3 (6.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (2.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (46.00%) CI/CD
1 23 (46.00%) DevOps
2 13 (26.00%) Analytics
3 12 (24.00%) Agile
3 12 (24.00%) Microservices
3 12 (24.00%) Migration
4 11 (22.00%) Code Quality
5 10 (20.00%) Build Automation
5 10 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
5 10 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
5 10 (20.00%) Machine Learning
6 9 (18.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 8 (16.00%) Containerisation
7 8 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (16.00%) Software Deployment
7 8 (16.00%) Visualisation
8 7 (14.00%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (14.00%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 24 (48.00%) Python
2 10 (20.00%) Perl
2 10 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 7 (14.00%) Java
4 6 (12.00%) Bash
5 4 (8.00%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.00%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.00%) SQL
7 2 (4.00%) C#
8 1 (2.00%) C
8 1 (2.00%) Go
8 1 (2.00%) Groovy
8 1 (2.00%) Ruby
8 1 (2.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (54.00%) Security Cleared
2 22 (44.00%) DV Cleared
3 13 (26.00%) Degree
4 6 (12.00%) SC Cleared
5 3 (6.00%) CEH
5 3 (6.00%) CISSP
5 3 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (6.00%) ISTQB
6 2 (4.00%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.00%) OCP
7 1 (2.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.00%) QA
3 2 (4.00%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.00%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (2.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (60.00%) Docker
2 20 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 8 (16.00%) BitLocker
3 8 (16.00%) Hyper-V
3 8 (16.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 8 (16.00%) Terminal Services
3 8 (16.00%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 35 (70.00%) Kubernetes
2 25 (50.00%) Kibana
3 13 (26.00%) Ansible
4 10 (20.00%) Progress Chef
5 9 (18.00%) logstash
5 9 (18.00%) Puppet
6 8 (16.00%) Nagios
6 8 (16.00%) vCenter Server
6 8 (16.00%) vMotion
7 5 (10.00%) Grafana
8 3 (6.00%) Prometheus
8 3 (6.00%) Terraform
9 1 (2.00%) QRadar
9 1 (2.00%) SCCM
9 1 (2.00%) SCOM
9 1 (2.00%) SCSM
Vendors
1 13 (26.00%) Splunk
2 11 (22.00%) Microsoft
3 10 (20.00%) AppDynamics
3 10 (20.00%) Red Hat
4 8 (16.00%) Citrix
4 8 (16.00%) Google
4 8 (16.00%) HP
4 8 (16.00%) Symantec
4 8 (16.00%) VMware
5 6 (12.00%) Cloudera
6 1 (2.00%) IBM
6 1 (2.00%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.00%) Oracle