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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 413 396 451
Rank change year-on-year -17 +55 -76
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 123 203 237
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.47% 0.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.18% 2.69% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 164 170
10th Percentile £374 £438 £450
25th Percentile £466 £485 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £566 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.95% +7.32% -10.87%
75th Percentile £647 £700 £650
90th Percentile £700 £825 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £537 £525 £499
% change year-on-year +2.29% +5.16% -4.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £47.14 - -
25th Percentile £58.98 - -
Median hourly rate £78.70 - -
75th Percentile £79.35 - -
90th Percentile £79.74 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.35 - -

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 5,649 7,536 9,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.33% 17.46% 17.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,829 5,379 6,750
10th Percentile £356 £350 £372
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £751 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 150 171
10th Percentile £19.56 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £25.57 £20.82 £32.30
Median hourly rate £34.99 £40.00 £56.40
Median % change year-on-year -12.53% -29.08% +40.47%
75th Percentile £63.94 £53.29 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.64 £33.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.12% -40.00% +57.14%

Elasticsearch
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Elasticsearch in the UK

Elasticsearch
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Elasticsearch in the UK

Elasticsearch
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Elasticsearch in the UK

Elasticsearch
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Elasticsearch in the UK

Elasticsearch
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Elasticsearch over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Elasticsearch in the UK

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Top 14 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 1 July 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 +8 109 £570 -5.00% 665
London +33 53 £625 +5.22% 334
UK excluding London -19 52 £537 +2.29% 378
Work from Home +20 32 £555 +8.56% 359
Midlands +3 14 £537 +1.08% 42
South East +45 13 £575 +19.29% 108
West Midlands +2 12 £550 - 28
North West +10 10 £393 -39.54% 59
North of England -5 10 £393 -37.12% 74
South West +26 6 £600 -7.69% 64
Scotland -12 6 £450 -7.02% 35
East of England +23 2 £575 -11.54% 42
East Midlands -1 2 £506 +42.13% 14
Wales +8 1 - - 3

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 18 (14.63%) Apache
2 16 (13.01%) JBoss
3 13 (10.57%) Apache Spark
4 10 (8.13%) Confluence
5 9 (7.32%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (2.44%) nginx
6 3 (2.44%) OpenStack
6 3 (2.44%) Tomcat
7 2 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (1.63%) Apache Solr
7 2 (1.63%) IIS
8 1 (0.81%) DataSynapse
8 1 (0.81%) Gunicorn
8 1 (0.81%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.81%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 58 (47.15%) AWS
2 31 (25.20%) OpenShift
3 21 (17.07%) GCP
4 19 (15.45%) Azure
5 11 (8.94%) Serverless
6 10 (8.13%) Amazon S3
6 10 (8.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 10 (8.13%) PaaS
7 9 (7.32%) IaaS
8 8 (6.50%) GitHub
9 7 (5.69%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (3.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 4 (3.25%) Apigee
11 4 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (2.44%) AWS CodePipeline
12 3 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 2 (1.63%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (1.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.57%) DNS
2 10 (8.13%) Firewall
3 9 (7.32%) DHCP
3 9 (7.32%) SMTP
3 9 (7.32%) VPN
4 2 (1.63%) Network Security
5 1 (0.81%) DSL
5 1 (0.81%) DSLAM
5 1 (0.81%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.81%) MQTT
5 1 (0.81%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.81%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.81%) SAN
5 1 (0.81%) SNMP
5 1 (0.81%) SSH
5 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.81%) Telnet
5 1 (0.81%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (24.39%) Big Data
2 22 (17.89%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (17.07%) Hadoop
4 18 (14.63%) Relational Database
5 13 (10.57%) RDBMS
6 12 (9.76%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (6.50%) MongoDB
8 7 (5.69%) Data Lake
9 6 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (4.07%) SQL Server
11 4 (3.25%) Neo4j
11 4 (3.25%) NoSQL
12 3 (2.44%) MySQL
12 3 (2.44%) SAP HANA
13 2 (1.63%) Amazon Aurora
13 2 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (1.63%) DynamoDB
13 2 (1.63%) Oracle Database
13 2 (1.63%) Pentaho
13 2 (1.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (30.08%) Jenkins
2 30 (24.39%) Git
3 29 (23.58%) JIRA
4 19 (15.45%) SonarQube
5 16 (13.01%) Sonatype Nexus
6 13 (10.57%) Bitbucket Server
6 13 (10.57%) CA Release Automation
6 13 (10.57%) TeamCity
7 11 (8.94%) GitLab
8 8 (6.50%) Bitbucket
8 8 (6.50%) Selenium
9 7 (5.69%) Artifactory
10 5 (4.07%) Postman
11 3 (2.44%) JMeter
11 3 (2.44%) JUnit
11 3 (2.44%) REST Assured
11 3 (2.44%) TestNG
11 3 (2.44%) Travis CI
12 1 (0.81%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.81%) Poetry
General
1 27 (21.95%) Social Skills
2 17 (13.82%) Banking
2 17 (13.82%) Finance
3 12 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.13%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.88%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.25%) Legal
7 3 (2.44%) Law
8 2 (1.63%) Retail
9 1 (0.81%) Back Office
9 1 (0.81%) Front Office
9 1 (0.81%) Marketing
9 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (17.89%) Senior
2 20 (16.26%) Developer
3 15 (12.20%) Data Engineer
3 15 (12.20%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 14 (11.38%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (7.32%) Architect
5 9 (7.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (6.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 8 (6.50%) 3rd Line Support
6 8 (6.50%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 8 (6.50%) Support Engineer
7 7 (5.69%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (5.69%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 7 (5.69%) Infrastructure Support
7 7 (5.69%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 6 (4.88%) Lead
8 6 (4.88%) Senior Data Engineer
9 5 (4.07%) AWS DevOps
9 5 (4.07%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (4.07%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (28.46%) Elastic Stack
2 20 (16.26%) Spring Boot
3 19 (15.45%) Apache NiFi
3 19 (15.45%) Kafka
4 12 (9.76%) OpenTelemetry
5 10 (8.13%) RabbitMQ
5 10 (8.13%) RESTful
6 9 (7.32%) Spring
7 7 (5.69%) .NET
7 7 (5.69%) OpenAPI
7 7 (5.69%) Swagger
8 6 (4.88%) HTML
8 6 (4.88%) Node.js
8 6 (4.88%) React
8 6 (4.88%) REST
9 4 (3.25%) ASP.NET
9 4 (3.25%) ASP.NET Core
9 4 (3.25%) Spring Security
9 4 (3.25%) Web Services
10 3 (2.44%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.94%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (7.32%) Clustering
2 9 (7.32%) Data Centre
2 9 (7.32%) PKI
2 9 (7.32%) Public Cloud
3 7 (5.69%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.88%) Replication
5 5 (4.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (4.07%) Grid Computing
6 4 (3.25%) Fixed Income
6 4 (3.25%) Private Cloud
6 4 (3.25%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.63%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.63%) Equities
7 2 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.63%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.81%) Video on Demand
8 1 (0.81%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 50 (40.65%) Linux
2 32 (26.02%) Windows
3 31 (25.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (16.26%) Windows Server
5 5 (4.07%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (3.25%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (2.44%) CentOS
8 1 (0.81%) Debian
8 1 (0.81%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.81%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (40.65%) DevOps
2 49 (39.84%) CI/CD
3 37 (30.08%) Microservices
4 35 (28.46%) Agile
5 33 (26.83%) Analytics
6 30 (24.39%) Migration
6 30 (24.39%) Observability
7 29 (23.58%) Containerisation
8 18 (14.63%) Software Engineering
9 17 (13.82%) Machine Learning
10 16 (13.01%) Deployment Automation
11 14 (11.38%) Code Quality
11 14 (11.38%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (11.38%) Test Automation
12 13 (10.57%) Build Automation
12 13 (10.57%) Continuous Integration
12 13 (10.57%) Data Ingestion
12 13 (10.57%) Data Pipeline
12 13 (10.57%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (8.94%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 49 (39.84%) Python
2 25 (20.33%) Java
3 22 (17.89%) PowerShell
4 14 (11.38%) SQL
5 13 (10.57%) Perl
6 12 (9.76%) C#
7 10 (8.13%) TypeScript
8 9 (7.32%) Bash
8 9 (7.32%) JavaScript
9 5 (4.07%) C++
10 3 (2.44%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.44%) Ruby
11 2 (1.63%) Go
12 1 (0.81%) Bicep
12 1 (0.81%) C
12 1 (0.81%) Clojure
12 1 (0.81%) Groovy
12 1 (0.81%) Scala
Qualifications
1 45 (36.59%) Security Cleared
2 27 (21.95%) DV Cleared
3 24 (19.51%) SC Cleared
4 18 (14.63%) Degree
5 6 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.44%) CEH
6 3 (2.44%) CISSP
6 3 (2.44%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.63%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.81%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.81%) OCP
8 1 (0.81%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.07%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.44%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.44%) QA
3 2 (1.63%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.81%) SLA
4 1 (0.81%) WCAG
System Software
1 60 (48.78%) Docker
2 31 (25.20%) Active Directory
3 12 (9.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (7.32%) BitLocker
4 9 (7.32%) Hyper-V
4 9 (7.32%) Microsoft App-V
4 9 (7.32%) Terminal Services
4 9 (7.32%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (3.25%) Platform Symphony
6 3 (2.44%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 3 (2.44%) Lustre
6 3 (2.44%) vCloud
6 3 (2.44%) VMware Workstation
6 3 (2.44%) vSphere
7 1 (0.81%) FreeRADIUS
7 1 (0.81%) iptables
Systems Management
1 76 (61.79%) Kubernetes
2 49 (39.84%) Kibana
3 34 (27.64%) Ansible
4 29 (23.58%) Grafana
5 25 (20.33%) Terraform
6 24 (19.51%) logstash
7 16 (13.01%) Progress Chef
8 15 (12.20%) Argo
9 11 (8.94%) Puppet
10 10 (8.13%) Nagios
11 9 (7.32%) vCenter Server
11 9 (7.32%) vMotion
12 8 (6.50%) ITRS Geneos
13 6 (4.88%) Prometheus
14 3 (2.44%) Consul
14 3 (2.44%) Karpenter
14 3 (2.44%) Podman
15 1 (0.81%) Graylog
15 1 (0.81%) Proxmox
15 1 (0.81%) QRadar
Vendors
1 23 (18.70%) Microsoft
1 23 (18.70%) Splunk
2 18 (14.63%) Red Hat
3 15 (12.20%) Google
4 14 (11.38%) Cloudera
5 13 (10.57%) AppDynamics
5 13 (10.57%) VMware
6 10 (8.13%) HP
7 9 (7.32%) Citrix
7 9 (7.32%) Symantec
8 6 (4.88%) Foundry
8 6 (4.88%) Palantir
9 5 (4.07%) IBM
9 5 (4.07%) TIBCO
10 4 (3.25%) Oracle
11 3 (2.44%) Dynatrace
11 3 (2.44%) SAP
11 3 (2.44%) Solace
12 1 (0.81%) Databricks
12 1 (0.81%) Palo Alto