Elasticsearch Contracts

Elastic Elasticsearch
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Elasticsearch skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Elasticsearch over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 371 429 388
Rank change year-on-year +58 -41 -67
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 223 293 588
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.49% 0.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.05% 2.74% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 215 445
10th Percentile £431 £450 £446
25th Percentile £495 £486 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +20.00%
75th Percentile £825 £638 £700
90th Percentile - £715 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £580 £515 £518
% change year-on-year +12.62% -0.48% +8.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £48.08
25th Percentile - - £49.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £51.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.73%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Elasticsearch is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,303 10,680 17,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.82% 17.99% 20.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,212 7,592 12,729
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £767 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 185 188
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £32.40 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +35.29% +57.52%
75th Percentile £58.81 £70.25 £60.44
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.19 £69.34
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -27.27% +57.14% +45.83%

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 2 May 2024.

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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Top 16 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 2 May 2024. 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 +92 186 £645 +17.27% 152
London +83 103 £600 +5.77% 62
UK excluding London +44 97 £580 +12.62% 98
Work from Home +47 66 £624 +23.77% 175
North of England +32 25 £650 +13.04% 27
Midlands +39 20 £544 -9.38% 18
South East +19 18 £500 -2.91% 26
Scotland +18 18 £495 +3.23% 4
West Midlands +28 15 £550 -8.33% 12
South West +38 14 £800 +30.61% 11
North West +26 13 £663 +33.84% 17
Yorkshire +25 7 £645 +47.43% 9
East Midlands +21 5 £356 - 5
North East +7 5 £550 -8.33% 1
Wales +18 1 £1,000 +105.13% 4
East of England +9 1 £600 +14.29% 6

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 25 (11.21%) OpenStack
2 10 (4.48%) Confluence
3 6 (2.69%) nginx
4 5 (2.24%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.24%) JBoss
4 5 (2.24%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.90%) Apache
6 1 (0.45%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.45%) Camunda
6 1 (0.45%) CMS
6 1 (0.45%) FileNet
Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (26.91%) AWS
2 37 (16.59%) Azure
3 35 (15.70%) OpenShift
4 28 (12.56%) Amazon S3
5 19 (8.52%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (7.62%) Serverless
6 17 (7.62%) Slack
7 13 (5.83%) GCP
7 13 (5.83%) GitHub
8 12 (5.38%) Amazon ECR
8 12 (5.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (5.38%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (4.93%) Amazon SQS
10 10 (4.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 9 (4.04%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (4.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 9 (4.04%) Azure Sentinel
11 9 (4.04%) Route 53
12 8 (3.59%) AWS Fargate
13 6 (2.69%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.17%) DNS
2 11 (4.93%) TCP/IP
3 10 (4.48%) Firewall
3 10 (4.48%) HTTP
3 10 (4.48%) VPN
4 5 (2.24%) DHCP
5 4 (1.79%) 5G
5 4 (1.79%) Diameter Protocol
5 4 (1.79%) FTP
5 4 (1.79%) ICMP
5 4 (1.79%) LTE
5 4 (1.79%) NAS
5 4 (1.79%) POP3
5 4 (1.79%) SAN
5 4 (1.79%) SMTP
5 4 (1.79%) SSH
6 3 (1.35%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.45%) DSL
7 1 (0.45%) Network Security
7 1 (0.45%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (13.45%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (7.62%) MySQL
3 16 (7.17%) NoSQL
4 15 (6.73%) MongoDB
5 10 (4.48%) Relational Database
6 9 (4.04%) DynamoDB
6 9 (4.04%) Redis
7 8 (3.59%) Amazon Aurora
7 8 (3.59%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (3.59%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.69%) Big Data
9 5 (2.24%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (2.24%) Hadoop
9 5 (2.24%) Oracle Database
9 5 (2.24%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.79%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (1.79%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.35%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.35%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 76 (34.08%) Jenkins
2 24 (10.76%) GitLab
3 15 (6.73%) Artifactory
3 15 (6.73%) Git
3 15 (6.73%) JIRA
4 13 (5.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 9 (4.04%) Maven
5 9 (4.04%) SonarQube
5 9 (4.04%) Subversion
6 8 (3.59%) Cypress.io
6 8 (3.59%) webpack
7 7 (3.14%) Bitbucket
7 7 (3.14%) CircleCI
7 7 (3.14%) Selenium
7 7 (3.14%) TeamCity
7 7 (3.14%) Travis CI
8 6 (2.69%) Postman
8 6 (2.69%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (2.24%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (2.24%) CA Release Automation
General
1 20 (8.97%) Banking
2 18 (8.07%) Public Sector
3 16 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (7.17%) Finance
4 10 (4.48%) Social Skills
5 5 (2.24%) Public Speaking
5 5 (2.24%) Retail
6 4 (1.79%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.35%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.35%) Retail Banking
8 2 (0.90%) Legal
8 2 (0.90%) Military
9 1 (0.45%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (0.45%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.45%) Police
Job Titles
1 56 (25.11%) SIEM Engineer
2 30 (13.45%) Developer
3 24 (10.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (8.97%) Architect
5 19 (8.52%) Lead
6 17 (7.62%) Senior
7 16 (7.17%) Analyst
8 13 (5.83%) Technical Leader
9 12 (5.38%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (5.38%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (4.04%) Senior DevOps
10 9 (4.04%) SOC Analyst
11 8 (3.59%) AWS DevOps
11 8 (3.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.59%) Java Developer
11 8 (3.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.59%) Support Engineer
12 7 (3.14%) Consultant
12 7 (3.14%) Site Engineer
12 7 (3.14%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (37.67%) Elastic Stack
2 31 (13.90%) Kafka
3 25 (11.21%) React
4 21 (9.42%) Spring Boot
5 18 (8.07%) .NET
5 18 (8.07%) Node.js
6 17 (7.62%) Spring
7 15 (6.73%) JSON
8 13 (5.83%) AWS CDK
8 13 (5.83%) CSS
8 13 (5.83%) HTML
9 10 (4.48%) Redux
9 10 (4.48%) REST
9 10 (4.48%) XML
10 9 (4.04%) Middleware
11 8 (3.59%) Express.js
11 8 (3.59%) GraphQL
11 8 (3.59%) RabbitMQ
11 8 (3.59%) YAML
12 7 (3.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.52%) Onboarding
2 12 (5.38%) Linux Command Line
3 11 (4.93%) Cyber Threat
4 10 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (4.48%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.04%) Cloud Native
5 9 (4.04%) Cyber Defence
5 9 (4.04%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 8 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.69%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.69%) PKI
8 5 (2.24%) CCTV
8 5 (2.24%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.79%) Fat Client
9 4 (1.79%) Thin Client
10 3 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.90%) CBDC
11 2 (0.90%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.45%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 71 (31.84%) Linux
2 36 (16.14%) Windows
3 33 (14.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (9.87%) CentOS
4 22 (9.87%) Ubuntu
5 15 (6.73%) Windows Server
6 10 (4.48%) Unix
7 4 (1.79%) Oracle Linux
7 4 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.45%) Android
8 1 (0.45%) Fedora
8 1 (0.45%) Rocky
8 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (35.87%) CI/CD
1 80 (35.87%) DevOps
2 67 (30.04%) Observability
3 66 (29.60%) SIEM
4 50 (22.42%) Agile
5 45 (20.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 35 (15.70%) Containerisation
7 31 (13.90%) Microservices
8 29 (13.00%) Test Automation
9 21 (9.42%) Software Engineering
10 20 (8.97%) Analytics
11 19 (8.52%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (7.62%) Cybersecurity
12 17 (7.62%) Incident Response
13 16 (7.17%) Continuous Integration
14 15 (6.73%) Full Stack Development
14 15 (6.73%) Migration
15 14 (6.28%) API Development
15 14 (6.28%) Task Automation
16 13 (5.83%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 67 (30.04%) Python
2 50 (22.42%) Java
3 30 (13.45%) Bash
4 29 (13.00%) Shell Script
5 26 (11.66%) PowerShell
6 22 (9.87%) JavaScript
7 19 (8.52%) SQL
8 18 (8.07%) C#
9 14 (6.28%) TypeScript
10 13 (5.83%) C++
11 9 (4.04%) Go
12 8 (3.59%) Perl
12 8 (3.59%) R
13 7 (3.14%) Groovy
14 6 (2.69%) PHP
15 5 (2.24%) C
16 2 (0.90%) U-SQL
17 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.45%) Ruby
17 1 (0.45%) Rust
Qualifications
1 90 (40.36%) Security Cleared
2 62 (27.80%) DV Cleared
3 39 (17.49%) SC Cleared
4 13 (5.83%) Degree
5 10 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.04%) CEH
6 9 (4.04%) CISSP
7 4 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.45%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.45%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.45%) PhD
8 1 (0.45%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.73%) QA
2 4 (1.79%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.90%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (0.90%) GDPR
4 1 (0.45%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.45%) NIST
4 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 55 (24.66%) Docker
2 20 (8.97%) Active Directory
3 15 (6.73%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (4.04%) iptables
5 5 (2.24%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.45%) KVM
Systems Management
1 88 (39.46%) Kibana
2 72 (32.29%) Kubernetes
3 69 (30.94%) Ansible
4 60 (26.91%) Grafana
4 60 (26.91%) logstash
5 53 (23.77%) Prometheus
6 27 (12.11%) Terraform
7 15 (6.73%) Puppet
8 13 (5.83%) Progress Chef
9 10 (4.48%) ZABBIX
10 9 (4.04%) BladeLogic
10 9 (4.04%) ITRS Geneos
11 8 (3.59%) Argo
11 8 (3.59%) Istio
12 7 (3.14%) Docker Swarm
13 6 (2.69%) Graylog
13 6 (2.69%) Nagios
14 5 (2.24%) Icinga
14 5 (2.24%) QRadar
14 5 (2.24%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 29 (13.00%) Red Hat
2 27 (12.11%) Splunk
3 24 (10.76%) Microsoft
4 21 (9.42%) Oracle
5 16 (7.17%) Amdocs
6 13 (5.83%) VMware
7 9 (4.04%) Altiris
7 9 (4.04%) Citrix
7 9 (4.04%) Dynatrace
8 8 (3.59%) AppDynamics
9 6 (2.69%) Google
10 5 (2.24%) ArcSight
11 4 (1.79%) Veeam
12 3 (1.35%) MKS
13 2 (0.90%) Databricks
13 2 (0.90%) ServiceNow
14 1 (0.45%) Genesys
14 1 (0.45%) IBM
14 1 (0.45%) KANA
14 1 (0.45%) Sitecore