Elasticsearch Contracts

Elastic Elasticsearch
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 388 380 425
Rank change year-on-year -8 +45 -32
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 131 226 304
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.52% 0.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.36% 3.09% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 188 223
10th Percentile £393 £434 £450
25th Percentile £513 £498 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% -13.93%
75th Percentile £638 £825 £638
90th Percentile £700 - £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £555 £560 £520
% change year-on-year -0.89% +7.74% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £43.20 - -
25th Percentile £49.11 - -
Median hourly rate £61.60 - -
75th Percentile £71.46 - -
90th Percentile £75.81 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £78.70 - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,544 7,303 10,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.96% 16.75% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,832 5,193 7,664
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.78%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £660
90th Percentile £763 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 144 183
10th Percentile £20.09 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.25 £20.98 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.11 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.23% -33.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.55 £70.88
90th Percentile £74.75 £72.50 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
% change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%

Elasticsearch
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Elasticsearch as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Elasticsearch in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Elasticsearch.

Daily rate trend for Elasticsearch in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Elasticsearch in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Elasticsearch.

Hourly rate trend for Elasticsearch in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Elasticsearch over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Elasticsearch in the UK

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Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England -11 111 £588 -8.91% 184
UK excluding London +17 59 £555 -0.89% 99
London -20 49 £608 +1.25% 88
Work from Home +28 45 £570 -8.36% 179
South East +41 16 £575 +15.00% 23
Midlands +17 13 £537 -1.24% 17
West Midlands +12 11 £550 - 13
South West +40 9 £600 -25.00% 17
North of England +12 9 £393 -39.54% 25
North West +6 8 £393 -40.68% 17
Scotland -1 8 £525 +6.06% 3
East of England +35 3 - - 14
East Midlands +7 2 £506 +42.13% 4
North East -4 1 £650 +18.18% 4
Wales - 1 - -

Elasticsearch
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 17 (12.98%) Apache Spark
2 13 (9.92%) Apache
2 13 (9.92%) JBoss
3 9 (6.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (4.58%) Confluence
4 6 (4.58%) Tomcat
5 4 (3.05%) nginx
6 3 (2.29%) OpenStack
7 2 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (1.53%) IIS
8 1 (0.76%) DataSynapse
8 1 (0.76%) Gunicorn
8 1 (0.76%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 71 (54.20%) AWS
2 32 (24.43%) OpenShift
3 23 (17.56%) Azure
3 23 (17.56%) GCP
4 13 (9.92%) Amazon S3
5 11 (8.40%) PaaS
5 11 (8.40%) Serverless
6 10 (7.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 9 (6.87%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (6.87%) IaaS
8 8 (6.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (6.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 8 (6.11%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (6.11%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 8 (6.11%) AWS CodePipeline
8 8 (6.11%) GitHub
9 7 (5.34%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (5.34%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (5.34%) AWS CodeBuild
10 6 (4.58%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.69%) Firewall
2 13 (9.92%) DNS
3 9 (6.87%) DHCP
3 9 (6.87%) SMTP
3 9 (6.87%) VPN
4 2 (1.53%) Network Security
5 1 (0.76%) DSL
5 1 (0.76%) DSLAM
5 1 (0.76%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.76%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.76%) SAN
5 1 (0.76%) SNMP
5 1 (0.76%) SSH
5 1 (0.76%) SSL
5 1 (0.76%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.76%) Telnet
5 1 (0.76%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (21.37%) Big Data
2 27 (20.61%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (16.79%) Hadoop
4 16 (12.21%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (11.45%) Relational Database
6 10 (7.63%) RDBMS
7 9 (6.87%) MongoDB
8 8 (6.11%) NoSQL
8 8 (6.11%) SQL Server
9 6 (4.58%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (3.82%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (3.05%) Data Lake
11 4 (3.05%) Neo4j
12 3 (2.29%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (2.29%) Couchbase
12 3 (2.29%) InfluxDB
12 3 (2.29%) OLTP
12 3 (2.29%) Redis
12 3 (2.29%) SAP HANA
13 2 (1.53%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 34 (25.95%) Jenkins
2 31 (23.66%) Git
3 22 (16.79%) JIRA
4 16 (12.21%) SonarQube
5 13 (9.92%) GitLab
5 13 (9.92%) Sonatype Nexus
6 10 (7.63%) Artifactory
6 10 (7.63%) Bitbucket Server
6 10 (7.63%) CA Release Automation
6 10 (7.63%) TeamCity
7 9 (6.87%) Bitbucket
8 8 (6.11%) Selenium
9 5 (3.82%) Postman
10 3 (2.29%) JMeter
10 3 (2.29%) JUnit
10 3 (2.29%) REST Assured
10 3 (2.29%) TestNG
10 3 (2.29%) Travis CI
11 1 (0.76%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.76%) Poetry
General
1 26 (19.85%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.74%) Banking
3 17 (12.98%) Finance
4 14 (10.69%) Public Sector
5 11 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.05%) Legal
7 3 (2.29%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.29%) Law
8 1 (0.76%) Back Office
8 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Dutch Language
8 1 (0.76%) Front Office
8 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Retail
8 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (18.32%) Developer
2 19 (14.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (14.50%) Senior
3 18 (13.74%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 12 (9.16%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (8.40%) Data Engineer
6 10 (7.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (7.63%) Lead
7 9 (6.87%) AWS DevOps
8 8 (6.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 8 (6.11%) 3rd Line Support
8 8 (6.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 8 (6.11%) Architect
8 8 (6.11%) Support Engineer
9 7 (5.34%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (5.34%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
9 7 (5.34%) Infrastructure Support
9 7 (5.34%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) Java Developer
10 6 (4.58%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (22.90%) Elastic Stack
2 21 (16.03%) Kafka
3 17 (12.98%) Spring Boot
4 15 (11.45%) Apache NiFi
4 15 (11.45%) OpenTelemetry
5 12 (9.16%) RabbitMQ
5 12 (9.16%) RESTful
6 9 (6.87%) React
6 9 (6.87%) Spring
7 8 (6.11%) .NET
8 7 (5.34%) AWS CDK
8 7 (5.34%) Node.js
8 7 (5.34%) OpenAPI
8 7 (5.34%) Swagger
9 5 (3.82%) ASP.NET
9 5 (3.82%) HTML
9 5 (3.82%) REST
10 4 (3.05%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (3.05%) Spring Security
10 4 (3.05%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.87%) Clustering
1 9 (6.87%) Data Centre
1 9 (6.87%) PKI
2 8 (6.11%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (6.11%) Public Cloud
2 8 (6.11%) Replication
3 6 (4.58%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.58%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (3.82%) Grid Computing
4 5 (3.82%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.29%) iPad
5 3 (2.29%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.53%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.53%) Equities
6 2 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.53%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.76%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.76%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 50 (38.17%) Linux
2 34 (25.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 32 (24.43%) Windows
4 23 (17.56%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.82%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (3.05%) Ubuntu
6 4 (3.05%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (2.29%) CentOS
8 1 (0.76%) Debian
8 1 (0.76%) SUSE
8 1 (0.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (51.15%) CI/CD
2 51 (38.93%) DevOps
3 39 (29.77%) Containerisation
4 36 (27.48%) Agile
4 36 (27.48%) Microservices
5 30 (22.90%) Migration
6 25 (19.08%) Observability
7 24 (18.32%) Analytics
8 19 (14.50%) Test Automation
9 18 (13.74%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (10.69%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (10.69%) Software Engineering
11 13 (9.92%) Deployment Automation
12 12 (9.16%) Data Ingestion
12 12 (9.16%) Machine Learning
13 11 (8.40%) Artificial Intelligence
13 11 (8.40%) Code Quality
13 11 (8.40%) Computer Science
13 11 (8.40%) Continuous Integration
13 11 (8.40%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 50 (38.17%) Python
2 28 (21.37%) Java
3 21 (16.03%) PowerShell
4 20 (15.27%) SQL
5 17 (12.98%) Bash
6 15 (11.45%) JavaScript
7 13 (9.92%) C#
8 12 (9.16%) TypeScript
9 10 (7.63%) Perl
10 5 (3.82%) C++
10 5 (3.82%) Scala
11 4 (3.05%) Go
11 4 (3.05%) Groovy
12 3 (2.29%) C
12 3 (2.29%) PL/SQL
12 3 (2.29%) Ruby
13 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (35.11%) Security Cleared
2 27 (20.61%) DV Cleared
3 23 (17.56%) Degree
4 21 (16.03%) SC Cleared
5 11 (8.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.29%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.29%) CEH
6 3 (2.29%) CISSP
6 3 (2.29%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.53%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.76%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.76%) OCP
8 1 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.82%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.29%) QA
3 2 (1.53%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.53%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.76%) GDPR
4 1 (0.76%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.76%) SLA
4 1 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 62 (47.33%) Docker
2 27 (20.61%) Active Directory
3 15 (11.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (6.87%) BitLocker
4 9 (6.87%) Hyper-V
4 9 (6.87%) Microsoft App-V
4 9 (6.87%) Terminal Services
4 9 (6.87%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (4.58%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 4 (3.05%) Platform Symphony
7 3 (2.29%) Lustre
7 3 (2.29%) vCloud
7 3 (2.29%) VMware Workstation
7 3 (2.29%) vSphere
8 1 (0.76%) FreeRADIUS
8 1 (0.76%) iptables
Systems Management
1 91 (69.47%) Kubernetes
2 45 (34.35%) Kibana
3 41 (31.30%) Ansible
4 33 (25.19%) Grafana
5 29 (22.14%) Terraform
6 22 (16.79%) logstash
7 18 (13.74%) Argo
8 13 (9.92%) Progress Chef
9 11 (8.40%) Prometheus
10 10 (7.63%) Nagios
10 10 (7.63%) Puppet
11 9 (6.87%) vCenter Server
11 9 (6.87%) vMotion
12 5 (3.82%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (2.29%) Consul
13 3 (2.29%) Karpenter
13 3 (2.29%) Podman
13 3 (2.29%) SCCM
13 3 (2.29%) SCOM
13 3 (2.29%) SCSM
Vendors
1 23 (17.56%) Microsoft
2 21 (16.03%) Splunk
3 17 (12.98%) Google
4 16 (12.21%) VMware
5 15 (11.45%) Red Hat
6 10 (7.63%) AppDynamics
6 10 (7.63%) HP
7 9 (6.87%) Citrix
7 9 (6.87%) Cloudera
7 9 (6.87%) Symantec
8 5 (3.82%) IBM
8 5 (3.82%) TIBCO
9 3 (2.29%) Dynatrace
9 3 (2.29%) Imperva
9 3 (2.29%) SAP
10 2 (1.53%) Foundry
10 2 (1.53%) Palantir
11 1 (0.76%) Huawei
11 1 (0.76%) Oracle
11 1 (0.76%) Pega