Elasticsearch Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Elastic Elasticsearch
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Elasticsearch skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 91 119
Rank change year-on-year -11 +28 +58
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 15 18 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.86% 0.95% 0.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.92% 5.63% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 3
10th Percentile £400 £514 £486
25th Percentile £538 £545 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £619 £635 £634
90th Percentile £625 - £659
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -1.84%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 305 320 345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 17.39% 16.81% 16.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 210 239
10th Percentile £297 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £360 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £510
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -3.19% +2.00%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £600
90th Percentile £625 £714 £700
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 4
10th Percentile £30.70 £34.04 £24.19
25th Percentile £32.74 £34.20 £24.47
Median hourly rate £34.43 £34.47 £28.15
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +22.46% -
75th Percentile £35.24 £34.73 £32.05
90th Percentile £35.69 £34.89 £33.87
England median hourly rate £38.23 £33.93 £55.00
% change year-on-year +12.67% -38.31% +25.05%

Elasticsearch
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Elasticsearch as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Elasticsearch in the West Midlands

Elasticsearch
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Elasticsearch in the West Midlands

Elasticsearch
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Elasticsearch within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 September 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
Birmingham - 9 £300 - 2
Worcestershire - 4 £600 -
Shropshire - 1 - -
Elasticsearch
England

Elasticsearch
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (13.33%) Apache
1 2 (13.33%) Confluence
1 2 (13.33%) IIS
2 1 (6.67%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (13.33%) AWS
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DSL
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
1 2 (13.33%) Tableau
2 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
2 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Git
1 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) GitLab
2 2 (13.33%) JMeter
2 2 (13.33%) Postman
2 2 (13.33%) REST Assured
2 2 (13.33%) Selenium
2 2 (13.33%) TestNG
2 2 (13.33%) Travis CI
3 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
3 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (6.67%) CA Release Automation
3 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
3 1 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (6.67%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Security Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) SIEM Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Elasticsearch Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Search Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) SOC Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Support Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Security Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Security Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Software Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Software Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (13.33%) .NET
2 2 (13.33%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (13.33%) HTML
2 2 (13.33%) Kafka
2 2 (13.33%) Middleware
2 2 (13.33%) Web Services
3 1 (6.67%) Lucene
3 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
1 2 (13.33%) Replication
2 1 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (6.67%) MISP
2 1 (6.67%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Unix
2 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Data Ingestion
2 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (40.00%) SIEM
4 5 (33.33%) Visualisation
5 4 (26.67%) Agile
5 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
5 4 (26.67%) Data Modelling
5 4 (26.67%) DevOps
5 4 (26.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (26.67%) Incident Response
5 4 (26.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 4 (26.67%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (20.00%) Analytics
6 3 (20.00%) Case Management
6 3 (20.00%) Change Management
6 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
6 3 (20.00%) Data Engineering
7 2 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Python
2 7 (46.67%) Bash
3 2 (13.33%) C#
3 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (13.33%) SQL
4 1 (6.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (40.00%) DV Cleared
3 5 (33.33%) Degree
4 3 (20.00%) CEH
4 3 (20.00%) CISSP
4 3 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (13.33%) ISTQB
5 2 (13.33%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (13.33%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.67%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
2 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (80.00%) Kibana
2 8 (53.33%) logstash
3 6 (40.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (13.33%) Ansible
4 2 (13.33%) Grafana
5 1 (6.67%) Fluentd
5 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
5 1 (6.67%) Puppet
5 1 (6.67%) QRadar
5 1 (6.67%) Rsyslog
5 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Splunk
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) AppDynamics
3 1 (6.67%) IBM
3 1 (6.67%) Red Hat