Elasticsearch Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Elastic Elasticsearch
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 259 278 327
Rank change year-on-year +19 +49 +7
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 45 67 152
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.45% 0.44% 0.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.14% 2.30% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 57 112
10th Percentile £484 £408 £450
25th Percentile £523 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £622 £508
Median % change year-on-year -8.36% +22.56% -11.74%
75th Percentile £628 £825 £582
90th Percentile £688 - £650
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% -13.58%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,098 2,911 4,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 21.18% 18.97% 19.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,488 2,137 3,601
10th Percentile £363 £356 £386
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £675 £650 £650
90th Percentile £838 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 37 79
10th Percentile £22.50 £20.06 £22.16
25th Percentile £30.00 £22.61 £43.57
Median hourly rate £63.00 £40.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.50% -39.39% +46.67%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £70.25 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Elasticsearch as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Elasticsearch trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Elasticsearch.

Elasticsearch daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Elasticsearch over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Elasticsearch daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Elasticsearch.

Elasticsearch hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 6 (13.33%) JBoss
3 3 (6.67%) Tomcat
4 2 (4.44%) nginx
4 2 (4.44%) OpenStack
5 1 (2.22%) Apache
5 1 (2.22%) Confluence
5 1 (2.22%) DataSynapse
Cloud Services
1 26 (57.78%) AWS
2 9 (20.00%) Azure
2 9 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 9 (20.00%) OpenShift
3 6 (13.33%) Amazon S3
4 5 (11.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 5 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (11.11%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 5 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (11.11%) Serverless
5 4 (8.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (8.89%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (8.89%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (8.89%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 4 (8.89%) AWS CodeBuild
5 4 (8.89%) AWS CodePipeline
5 4 (8.89%) AWS Fargate
5 4 (8.89%) Route 53
6 3 (6.67%) GCP
6 3 (6.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.89%) Firewall
2 1 (2.22%) SAN
2 1 (2.22%) SSL
2 1 (2.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (20.00%) Big Data
2 9 (20.00%) Hadoop
3 7 (15.56%) Relational Database
4 6 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (11.11%) NoSQL
6 4 (8.89%) Data Lake
6 4 (8.89%) Neo4j
6 4 (8.89%) RDBMS
7 3 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (6.67%) Couchbase
7 3 (6.67%) OLTP
8 2 (4.44%) InfluxDB
8 2 (4.44%) MongoDB
8 2 (4.44%) Redis
8 2 (4.44%) SAP HANA
9 1 (2.22%) DynamoDB
9 1 (2.22%) MySQL
9 1 (2.22%) ObjectStore
Development Applications
1 13 (28.89%) Git
2 11 (24.44%) Jenkins
3 7 (15.56%) JIRA
4 6 (13.33%) SonarQube
5 5 (11.11%) Artifactory
5 5 (11.11%) GitLab
6 4 (8.89%) Selenium
7 3 (6.67%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (6.67%) CA Release Automation
7 3 (6.67%) JUnit
7 3 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (6.67%) TeamCity
8 1 (2.22%) Bitbucket
8 1 (2.22%) JMeter
8 1 (2.22%) Postman
8 1 (2.22%) REST Assured
8 1 (2.22%) TestNG
8 1 (2.22%) Travis CI
General
1 13 (28.89%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.78%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (13.33%) Banking
4 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.44%) Finance
6 1 (2.22%) Front Office
6 1 (2.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (24.44%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 10 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
2 10 (22.22%) Developer
3 6 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (13.33%) Lead
3 6 (13.33%) Senior
4 4 (8.89%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Java Developer
4 4 (8.89%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Software Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) AWS Developer
5 3 (6.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) DBA
5 3 (6.67%) Lead Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Lead Java Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Python Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 2 (4.44%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (4.44%) Ruby Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 6 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (13.33%) Kafka
2 6 (13.33%) Node.js
2 6 (13.33%) Spring Boot
3 5 (11.11%) AWS CDK
3 5 (11.11%) RESTful
4 4 (8.89%) React
4 4 (8.89%) REST
5 3 (6.67%) AngularJS
5 3 (6.67%) GraphQL
5 3 (6.67%) JSP
5 3 (6.67%) LDAP
5 3 (6.67%) OpenAPI
5 3 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (6.67%) Struts
5 3 (6.67%) Swagger
6 2 (4.44%) Django
6 2 (4.44%) FastAPI
6 2 (4.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.67%) Grid Computing
2 3 (6.67%) iPad
2 3 (6.67%) Replication
3 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.22%) Equities
3 1 (2.22%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.22%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 19 (42.22%) Linux
2 17 (37.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (20.00%) Windows
4 6 (13.33%) Windows Server
5 3 (6.67%) Ubuntu
5 3 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (64.44%) CI/CD
2 20 (44.44%) Agile
3 18 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 18 (40.00%) Microservices
4 15 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 13 (28.89%) Migration
6 11 (24.44%) DevOps
7 10 (22.22%) Analytics
8 9 (20.00%) Observability
9 8 (17.78%) Scrum
10 7 (15.56%) Batch Processing
10 7 (15.56%) Software Engineering
10 7 (15.56%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
12 5 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
12 5 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
13 4 (8.89%) Continuous Integration
13 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure as Code
13 4 (8.89%) Performance Tuning
13 4 (8.89%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 19 (42.22%) Python
2 13 (28.89%) Java
3 12 (26.67%) SQL
4 8 (17.78%) Bash
4 8 (17.78%) JavaScript
4 8 (17.78%) TypeScript
5 5 (11.11%) PowerShell
6 3 (6.67%) C
6 3 (6.67%) C#
6 3 (6.67%) C++
6 3 (6.67%) Groovy
6 3 (6.67%) Perl
6 3 (6.67%) PL/SQL
6 3 (6.67%) Scala
7 2 (4.44%) Ruby
8 1 (2.22%) Go
Qualifications
1 10 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.89%) DV Cleared
4 3 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (6.67%) Degree
5 1 (2.22%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.22%) CEH
5 1 (2.22%) CISSP
5 1 (2.22%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.22%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (2.22%) QA
1 1 (2.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (37.78%) Docker
2 6 (13.33%) Active Directory
3 3 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (4.44%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (4.44%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 31 (68.89%) Kubernetes
2 16 (35.56%) Ansible
2 16 (35.56%) Grafana
3 13 (28.89%) Kibana
3 13 (28.89%) Terraform
4 11 (24.44%) Argo
5 5 (11.11%) logstash
5 5 (11.11%) Progress Chef
6 3 (6.67%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (4.44%) Consul
7 2 (4.44%) Prometheus
8 1 (2.22%) HP Data Protector
8 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 5 (11.11%) Splunk
2 4 (8.89%) Red Hat
3 3 (6.67%) AppDynamics
3 3 (6.67%) Imperva
3 3 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.67%) TIBCO
3 3 (6.67%) VMware
4 2 (4.44%) Dynatrace
4 2 (4.44%) Google
4 2 (4.44%) IBM
4 2 (4.44%) SAP
5 1 (2.22%) Dell
5 1 (2.22%) EMC
5 1 (2.22%) HP
5 1 (2.22%) OpenAI