Elasticsearch Contract Job Trends

Elastic Elasticsearch
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Elasticsearch skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 493 404 389
Rank change year-on-year -89 -15 +57
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 153 119 205
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.40% 0.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.01% 2.15% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 91 168
10th Percentile £406 £393 £438
25th Percentile £463 £483 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £570 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.68% -5.00% +17.07%
75th Percentile £572 £644 £700
90th Percentile £708 £713 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £537 £525
% change year-on-year -6.89% +2.29% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £33.13 £47.14 -
25th Percentile £37.06 £58.98 -
Median hourly rate £44.75 £78.70 -
Median % change year-on-year -43.14% - -
75th Percentile £53.06 £79.35 -
90th Percentile £57.38 £79.74 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £79.35 -

All Database & BI 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 7,615 5,528 7,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.18% 18.67% 17.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,085 3,753 5,342
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £650
90th Percentile £700 £755 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 102 154
10th Percentile £14.85 £19.72 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.00 £20.82
Median hourly rate £41.36 £34.99 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.19% -12.53% -31.73%
75th Percentile £69.11 £65.90 £54.03
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.58 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +20.89% -9.60% -37.94%

Elasticsearch
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Elasticsearch relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Elasticsearch job vacancy trend in the UK

Elasticsearch
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Elasticsearch in the UK

Elasticsearch
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Elasticsearch.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Elasticsearch over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Elasticsearch in the UK

Elasticsearch
Top 12 Contract Job 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 15 June 2026. 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 -84 128 £521 -9.08% 86
London -48 69 £521 -16.72% 36
UK excluding London -117 51 £500 -6.89% 55
Work from Home -46 32 £488 -12.16% 59
Midlands -51 17 £500 -6.89% 6
West Midlands -55 17 £500 -9.09% 3
North West -38 12 £519 +32.00% 9
North of England -73 12 £519 +32.00% 13
South East -66 10 £488 -15.22% 22
South West -27 7 £500 -16.67% 9
Scotland -18 4 £547 +21.56% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £675 -

Elasticsearch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 26 (16.99%) nginx
2 16 (10.46%) Apache Spark
3 11 (7.19%) Tomcat
4 10 (6.54%) WebLogic
5 8 (5.23%) Apache
6 7 (4.58%) Confluence
7 5 (3.27%) OpenStack
8 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (1.31%) IIS
10 1 (0.65%) Liferay
10 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.65%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (3.27%) Magento
2 1 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 64 (41.83%) AWS
2 27 (17.65%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 19 (12.42%) GCP
3 19 (12.42%) Serverless
4 18 (11.76%) Azure
5 12 (7.84%) Amazon S3
5 12 (7.84%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (6.54%) PaaS
7 9 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (5.88%) IaaS
7 9 (5.88%) Route 53
7 9 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (4.58%) OpenShift
9 5 (3.27%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.96%) Amazon Neptune
10 3 (1.96%) GitHub
10 3 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.31%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.31%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (12.42%) DNS
2 18 (11.76%) Firewall
2 18 (11.76%) VPN
3 13 (8.50%) HTTP
4 11 (7.19%) TCP/IP
5 9 (5.88%) DHCP
5 9 (5.88%) OpenVPN
5 9 (5.88%) SMTP
6 4 (2.61%) MQTT
6 4 (2.61%) Network Security
7 3 (1.96%) DSL
8 2 (1.31%) Multicast
8 2 (1.31%) NaaS
8 2 (1.31%) NAS
8 2 (1.31%) SAN
8 2 (1.31%) WAN
9 1 (0.65%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (18.30%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (7.84%) Relational Database
3 11 (7.19%) MySQL
4 10 (6.54%) Big Data
5 9 (5.88%) NoSQL
6 8 (5.23%) Hadoop
7 7 (4.58%) MongoDB
7 7 (4.58%) Redis
8 6 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (3.92%) Oracle Database
8 6 (3.92%) SQL Server
9 5 (3.27%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (2.61%) Flink
10 4 (2.61%) GIS
11 3 (1.96%) HBase
11 3 (1.96%) RDBMS
12 2 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (1.31%) InfluxDB
12 2 (1.31%) OLAP
12 2 (1.31%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 20 (13.07%) Git
2 12 (7.84%) JIRA
3 11 (7.19%) SonarQube
4 10 (6.54%) GitLab
4 10 (6.54%) Jenkins
5 7 (4.58%) Bitbucket
6 5 (3.27%) JUnit
7 3 (1.96%) Gatling
7 3 (1.96%) JMeter
7 3 (1.96%) LoadRunner
7 3 (1.96%) Selenium
8 2 (1.31%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.31%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.65%) git-flow
9 1 (0.65%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.65%) Postman
General
1 29 (18.95%) Social Skills
2 17 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 7 (4.58%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (4.58%) Finance
4 6 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.96%) Banking
5 3 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.31%) Back Office
6 2 (1.31%) Billing
6 2 (1.31%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.65%) Front Office
7 1 (0.65%) Legal
7 1 (0.65%) Marketing
7 1 (0.65%) Military
7 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.65%) Police
Job Titles
1 41 (26.80%) Developer
2 18 (11.76%) Architect
3 16 (10.46%) Software Engineer
4 13 (8.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (8.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 13 (8.50%) Java Developer
5 12 (7.84%) Senior
6 10 (6.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (6.54%) Technical Architect
7 9 (5.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 9 (5.88%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (5.23%) Java Engineer
8 8 (5.23%) Lead
9 7 (4.58%) Elasticsearch Engineer
9 7 (4.58%) SIEM Engineer
10 6 (3.92%) AWS Architect
10 6 (3.92%) Backend Developer
10 6 (3.92%) NetApp Engineer
10 6 (3.92%) Site Engineer
10 6 (3.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (29.41%) Kafka
2 33 (21.57%) Spring
3 26 (16.99%) Node.js
4 25 (16.34%) Elastic Stack
5 21 (13.73%) REST
6 20 (13.07%) Spring Boot
7 19 (12.42%) WireMock
8 15 (9.80%) React
9 10 (6.54%) OpenID
10 9 (5.88%) LDAP
11 7 (4.58%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (4.58%) RESTful
12 6 (3.92%) gRPC
12 6 (3.92%) Swagger
13 5 (3.27%) AngularJS
13 5 (3.27%) GraphQL
13 5 (3.27%) Java SE
13 5 (3.27%) JSON
13 5 (3.27%) Keycloak
13 5 (3.27%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.80%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (8.50%) Cloud Native
3 12 (7.84%) Clustering
4 9 (5.88%) Legacy Applications
4 9 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (5.88%) PKI
5 8 (5.23%) Enterprise Storage
5 8 (5.23%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.27%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.61%) Client/Server
7 4 (2.61%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.96%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.31%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.31%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.31%) W3C
10 1 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 43 (28.10%) Linux
2 19 (12.42%) Windows
3 17 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 9 (5.88%) Solaris
4 9 (5.88%) Windows Server 2008
5 8 (5.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (4.58%) Windows Server 2003
6 7 (4.58%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (4.58%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (3.92%) Unix
8 3 (1.96%) VMS
9 2 (1.31%) Debian
9 2 (1.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (41.18%) DevOps
2 37 (24.18%) CI/CD
3 34 (22.22%) Agile
4 23 (15.03%) Containerisation
4 23 (15.03%) Performance Tuning
5 21 (13.73%) AI
5 21 (13.73%) Full-Stack Development
5 21 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (13.07%) Microservices
7 19 (12.42%) Software Engineering
8 18 (11.76%) Observability
8 18 (11.76%) Roadmaps
9 16 (10.46%) Test Automation
10 15 (9.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 14 (9.15%) Cybersecurity
11 14 (9.15%) Data Modelling
11 14 (9.15%) Decision-Making
11 14 (9.15%) Incident Response
12 13 (8.50%) Data Ingestion
12 13 (8.50%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 64 (41.83%) Java
2 47 (30.72%) Python
3 30 (19.61%) SQL
4 21 (13.73%) JavaScript
5 17 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 11 (7.19%) Bash
6 11 (7.19%) Rust
7 10 (6.54%) PL/SQL
7 10 (6.54%) PowerShell
8 8 (5.23%) Scala
9 7 (4.58%) Shell Script
10 6 (3.92%) Go
11 5 (3.27%) PHP
12 4 (2.61%) C#
13 3 (1.96%) SPARQL
14 2 (1.31%) C++
14 2 (1.31%) Groovy
14 2 (1.31%) Ruby
14 2 (1.31%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.65%) C
Qualifications
1 84 (54.90%) Security Cleared
2 63 (41.18%) SC Cleared
3 27 (17.65%) DV Cleared
4 20 (13.07%) Degree
5 11 (7.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (4.58%) AWS Certification
6 7 (4.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.23%) QA
2 3 (1.96%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
System Software
1 50 (32.68%) Docker
2 18 (11.76%) VMware ESXi
3 17 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (5.88%) Active Directory
4 9 (5.88%) BitLocker
4 9 (5.88%) Hyper-V
4 9 (5.88%) Microsoft App-V
4 9 (5.88%) Squid
5 7 (4.58%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (3.27%) Varnish
7 3 (1.96%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 58 (37.91%) Kubernetes
2 34 (22.22%) Ansible
3 33 (21.57%) Terraform
4 29 (18.95%) Grafana
5 28 (18.30%) Prometheus
6 25 (16.34%) Kibana
7 18 (11.76%) Puppet
8 13 (8.50%) logstash
9 9 (5.88%) FortiGate
9 9 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (5.88%) vCenter Server
9 9 (5.88%) vMotion
10 8 (5.23%) Consul
11 7 (4.58%) Oracle RMAN
12 6 (3.92%) Nagios
13 4 (2.61%) Argo
13 4 (2.61%) Podman
14 2 (1.31%) Amdocs OSS
14 2 (1.31%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 22 (14.38%) Oracle
2 18 (11.76%) Dynatrace
2 18 (11.76%) Red Hat
2 18 (11.76%) VMware
3 14 (9.15%) Microsoft
4 11 (7.19%) IBM
5 9 (5.88%) Citrix
6 7 (4.58%) Atlassian
7 6 (3.92%) NetApp
8 5 (3.27%) Adobe
8 5 (3.27%) Splunk
9 4 (2.61%) Google
9 4 (2.61%) NVIDIA
9 4 (2.61%) Tenable
10 3 (1.96%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.96%) HP
10 3 (1.96%) Symantec
11 2 (1.31%) Amdocs
11 2 (1.31%) Dell
11 2 (1.31%) Salesforce