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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 400 376 433
Rank change year-on-year -24 +57 -47
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 130 221 292
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.51% 0.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.34% 3.02% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 184 214
10th Percentile £393 £429 £450
25th Percentile £513 £491 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £825 £638
90th Percentile £700 - £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £555 £555 £513
% change year-on-year - +8.29% -
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 5,553 7,314 10,646
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.95% 16.86% 17.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,835 5,221 7,562
10th Percentile £357 £350 £375
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.74%
75th Percentile £643 £650 £663
90th Percentile £763 £765 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 144 188
10th Percentile £19.84 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £23.88 £20.98 £34.35
Median hourly rate £32.81 £40.00 £58.59
Median % change year-on-year -17.98% -31.73% +37.86%
75th Percentile £65.31 £58.81 £72.80
90th Percentile £75.50 £72.50 £80.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% -27.27% +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

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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 4 May 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 4 May 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 4 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
England -8 110 £575 -10.85% 315
UK excluding London +33 59 £555 - 224
London -10 47 £608 +2.27% 123
Work from Home +26 44 £570 -6.25% 288
South East +39 16 £575 +15.81% 65
Midlands +7 13 £537 -1.24% 34
West Midlands +12 11 £550 - 23
South West +36 9 £600 -25.00% 33
North of England +1 9 £393 -39.54% 50
North West +10 8 £393 -40.68% 31
Scotland +3 8 £525 +6.06% 8
East of England +37 3 - - 38
East Midlands +9 2 £506 +42.13% 10
Wales +7 1 - - 2
North East -5 1 £650 +18.18% 7

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 16 (12.31%) Apache Spark
2 13 (10.00%) Apache
2 13 (10.00%) JBoss
3 9 (6.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (4.62%) Confluence
4 6 (4.62%) Tomcat
5 4 (3.08%) nginx
6 3 (2.31%) OpenStack
7 2 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (1.54%) IIS
8 1 (0.77%) DataSynapse
8 1 (0.77%) Gunicorn
8 1 (0.77%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 70 (53.85%) AWS
2 32 (24.62%) OpenShift
3 23 (17.69%) GCP
4 22 (16.92%) Azure
5 13 (10.00%) Amazon S3
6 11 (8.46%) PaaS
6 11 (8.46%) Serverless
7 10 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 9 (6.92%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (6.92%) IaaS
9 8 (6.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (6.15%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 8 (6.15%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (6.15%) AWS CodeDeploy
9 8 (6.15%) AWS CodePipeline
9 8 (6.15%) GitHub
10 7 (5.38%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (5.38%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (5.38%) AWS CodeBuild
11 6 (4.62%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.77%) Firewall
2 13 (10.00%) DNS
3 9 (6.92%) DHCP
3 9 (6.92%) SMTP
3 9 (6.92%) VPN
4 2 (1.54%) Network Security
5 1 (0.77%) DSL
5 1 (0.77%) DSLAM
5 1 (0.77%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.77%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.77%) SAN
5 1 (0.77%) SNMP
5 1 (0.77%) SSH
5 1 (0.77%) SSL
5 1 (0.77%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.77%) Telnet
5 1 (0.77%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (20.77%) Big Data
1 27 (20.77%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (16.15%) Hadoop
3 15 (11.54%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (11.54%) Relational Database
4 10 (7.69%) RDBMS
5 9 (6.92%) MongoDB
6 8 (6.15%) SQL Server
7 7 (5.38%) NoSQL
8 5 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (3.08%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (3.08%) Data Lake
9 4 (3.08%) Neo4j
10 3 (2.31%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (2.31%) InfluxDB
10 3 (2.31%) Redis
10 3 (2.31%) SAP HANA
11 2 (1.54%) MySQL
11 2 (1.54%) OLTP
11 2 (1.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (26.15%) Jenkins
2 30 (23.08%) Git
3 22 (16.92%) JIRA
4 16 (12.31%) SonarQube
5 13 (10.00%) GitLab
5 13 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 10 (7.69%) Artifactory
6 10 (7.69%) Bitbucket Server
6 10 (7.69%) CA Release Automation
6 10 (7.69%) TeamCity
7 9 (6.92%) Bitbucket
8 8 (6.15%) Selenium
9 5 (3.85%) Postman
10 3 (2.31%) JMeter
10 3 (2.31%) JUnit
10 3 (2.31%) REST Assured
10 3 (2.31%) TestNG
10 3 (2.31%) Travis CI
11 1 (0.77%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.77%) Poetry
General
1 26 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.85%) Banking
3 17 (13.08%) Finance
4 14 (10.77%) Public Sector
5 11 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.08%) Legal
7 3 (2.31%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.31%) Law
8 1 (0.77%) Back Office
8 1 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.77%) Dutch Language
8 1 (0.77%) Front Office
8 1 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.77%) Retail
8 1 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (17.69%) Developer
2 19 (14.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (14.62%) Senior
3 18 (13.85%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 12 (9.23%) AWS Engineer
5 10 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 10 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (7.69%) Lead
6 9 (6.92%) AWS DevOps
7 8 (6.15%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 8 (6.15%) 3rd Line Support
7 8 (6.15%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 8 (6.15%) Architect
7 8 (6.15%) Support Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
8 7 (5.38%) Infrastructure Support
8 7 (5.38%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 6 (4.62%) Lead Developer
10 5 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (23.85%) Elastic Stack
2 20 (15.38%) Kafka
3 17 (13.08%) Spring Boot
4 15 (11.54%) Apache NiFi
4 15 (11.54%) OpenTelemetry
5 12 (9.23%) RabbitMQ
5 12 (9.23%) RESTful
6 9 (6.92%) React
6 9 (6.92%) Spring
7 8 (6.15%) .NET
8 7 (5.38%) AWS CDK
8 7 (5.38%) Node.js
8 7 (5.38%) OpenAPI
8 7 (5.38%) Swagger
9 5 (3.85%) ASP.NET
9 5 (3.85%) HTML
9 5 (3.85%) REST
10 4 (3.08%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (3.08%) Spring Security
10 4 (3.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.92%) Clustering
1 9 (6.92%) Data Centre
1 9 (6.92%) Distributed Systems
1 9 (6.92%) PKI
2 8 (6.15%) Public Cloud
3 7 (5.38%) Replication
4 6 (4.62%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.85%) Grid Computing
5 5 (3.85%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.31%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.54%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.54%) Equities
7 2 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.54%) iPad
7 2 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.54%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.77%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.77%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 50 (38.46%) Linux
2 34 (26.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 32 (24.62%) Windows
4 23 (17.69%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (3.08%) Ubuntu
6 4 (3.08%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (2.31%) CentOS
8 1 (0.77%) Debian
8 1 (0.77%) SUSE
8 1 (0.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (51.54%) CI/CD
2 52 (40.00%) DevOps
3 38 (29.23%) Containerisation
4 36 (27.69%) Microservices
5 35 (26.92%) Agile
6 30 (23.08%) Migration
7 26 (20.00%) Observability
8 24 (18.46%) Analytics
9 19 (14.62%) Test Automation
10 18 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (11.54%) Software Engineering
12 14 (10.77%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
14 12 (9.23%) Machine Learning
15 11 (8.46%) Artificial Intelligence
15 11 (8.46%) Code Quality
15 11 (8.46%) Computer Science
15 11 (8.46%) Continuous Integration
15 11 (8.46%) Data Ingestion
15 11 (8.46%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 49 (37.69%) Python
2 27 (20.77%) Java
3 21 (16.15%) PowerShell
4 19 (14.62%) SQL
5 16 (12.31%) Bash
6 15 (11.54%) JavaScript
7 13 (10.00%) C#
8 12 (9.23%) TypeScript
9 10 (7.69%) Perl
10 5 (3.85%) C++
11 4 (3.08%) Go
11 4 (3.08%) Groovy
12 3 (2.31%) C
12 3 (2.31%) PL/SQL
12 3 (2.31%) Ruby
12 3 (2.31%) Scala
13 1 (0.77%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (35.38%) Security Cleared
2 27 (20.77%) DV Cleared
3 23 (17.69%) Degree
4 21 (16.15%) SC Cleared
5 11 (8.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.31%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.31%) CEH
6 3 (2.31%) CISSP
6 3 (2.31%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.54%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.77%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.77%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.77%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.77%) OCP
8 1 (0.77%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.85%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.31%) QA
3 2 (1.54%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.54%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.77%) GDPR
4 1 (0.77%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.77%) SLA
4 1 (0.77%) WCAG
System Software
1 61 (46.92%) Docker
2 27 (20.77%) Active Directory
3 14 (10.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (6.92%) BitLocker
4 9 (6.92%) Hyper-V
4 9 (6.92%) Microsoft App-V
4 9 (6.92%) Terminal Services
4 9 (6.92%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (4.62%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 4 (3.08%) Platform Symphony
7 3 (2.31%) Lustre
7 3 (2.31%) vCloud
7 3 (2.31%) VMware Workstation
7 3 (2.31%) vSphere
8 1 (0.77%) FreeRADIUS
8 1 (0.77%) iptables
Systems Management
1 90 (69.23%) Kubernetes
2 46 (35.38%) Kibana
3 40 (30.77%) Ansible
4 33 (25.38%) Grafana
5 29 (22.31%) Terraform
6 23 (17.69%) logstash
7 18 (13.85%) Argo
8 13 (10.00%) Progress Chef
9 11 (8.46%) Prometheus
10 10 (7.69%) Nagios
10 10 (7.69%) Puppet
11 9 (6.92%) vCenter Server
11 9 (6.92%) vMotion
12 5 (3.85%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (2.31%) Consul
13 3 (2.31%) Karpenter
13 3 (2.31%) Podman
13 3 (2.31%) SCCM
13 3 (2.31%) SCOM
13 3 (2.31%) SCSM
Vendors
1 23 (17.69%) Microsoft
2 21 (16.15%) Splunk
3 17 (13.08%) Google
4 15 (11.54%) Red Hat
4 15 (11.54%) VMware
5 10 (7.69%) AppDynamics
5 10 (7.69%) HP
6 9 (6.92%) Citrix
6 9 (6.92%) Cloudera
6 9 (6.92%) Symantec
7 5 (3.85%) IBM
7 5 (3.85%) TIBCO
8 3 (2.31%) Dynatrace
8 3 (2.31%) Imperva
8 3 (2.31%) SAP
9 2 (1.54%) Foundry
9 2 (1.54%) Palantir
10 1 (0.77%) Huawei
10 1 (0.77%) Oracle
10 1 (0.77%) Pega