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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 366 441 386
Rank change year-on-year +75 -55 -55
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 213 274 592
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.48% 0.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.93% 2.68% 3.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 197 449
10th Percentile £421 £450 £450
25th Percentile £482 £481 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £520 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -13.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £748 £638 £700
90th Percentile £825 £725 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £504 £516
% change year-on-year +9.18% -2.42% +8.68%
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 7,263 10,212 17,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.07% 17.88% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,202 7,271 12,451
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 180 194
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.37
25th Percentile £20.98 £32.30 £22.43
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +69.81%
75th Percentile £61.60 £73.75 £64.94
90th Percentile £74.00 £82.55 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £56.95 £35.00
% change year-on-year -29.76% +62.71% +43.44%

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 15 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 15 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 +72 176 £600 +11.11% 135
UK excluding London +44 97 £550 +9.18% 89
London +72 91 £550 - 52
Work from Home +47 60 £558 +11.60% 175
North of England +28 29 £648 +12.61% 23
Midlands +49 23 £525 -16.83% 18
South East +15 17 £485 -5.83% 19
Scotland +24 16 £495 +1.54% 4
West Midlands +28 15 £550 -12.87% 12
North West +24 13 £663 +29.27% 15
Yorkshire +28 11 £625 +42.86% 8
South West +25 10 £800 +24.27% 12
East Midlands - 7 £356 - 6
North East +6 5 £550 -21.43%
Wales +21 1 £1,000 +105.13% 3
East of England +6 1 £600 +14.29% 9

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 20 (9.39%) OpenStack
2 14 (6.57%) Confluence
3 6 (2.82%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.82%) nginx
4 5 (2.35%) JBoss
5 4 (1.88%) Apache
5 4 (1.88%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.47%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.47%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 63 (29.58%) AWS
2 41 (19.25%) Azure
3 38 (17.84%) OpenShift
4 28 (13.15%) Amazon S3
5 19 (8.92%) Amazon EC2
6 18 (8.45%) GCP
7 17 (7.98%) Serverless
8 15 (7.04%) GitHub
9 13 (6.10%) Slack
10 12 (5.63%) Amazon ECR
10 12 (5.63%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (5.16%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (4.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (4.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 9 (4.23%) Azure Sentinel
13 9 (4.23%) Kong
13 9 (4.23%) Route 53
14 8 (3.76%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 19 (8.92%) DNS
2 14 (6.57%) TCP/IP
3 13 (6.10%) Firewall
3 13 (6.10%) HTTP
3 13 (6.10%) VPN
4 6 (2.82%) Reverse Proxy
5 5 (2.35%) DHCP
6 4 (1.88%) 5G
6 4 (1.88%) Diameter Protocol
6 4 (1.88%) FTP
6 4 (1.88%) ICMP
6 4 (1.88%) LTE
6 4 (1.88%) NAS
6 4 (1.88%) POP3
6 4 (1.88%) SAN
6 4 (1.88%) SMTP
6 4 (1.88%) SSH
7 3 (1.41%) BIG-IP
7 3 (1.41%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (1.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (14.55%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (7.98%) MySQL
3 15 (7.04%) NoSQL
4 14 (6.57%) MongoDB
5 10 (4.69%) Relational Database
5 10 (4.69%) SQL Server
6 9 (4.23%) DynamoDB
6 9 (4.23%) Redis
7 8 (3.76%) Amazon Aurora
7 8 (3.76%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (3.29%) Big Data
9 6 (2.82%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (2.82%) Hadoop
10 5 (2.35%) Oracle Database
10 5 (2.35%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.88%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (1.88%) MariaDB
12 3 (1.41%) BigQuery
12 3 (1.41%) InfluxDB
13 2 (0.94%) DataStax
Development Applications
1 74 (34.74%) Jenkins
2 29 (13.62%) GitLab
3 20 (9.39%) Git
4 19 (8.92%) JIRA
5 15 (7.04%) Artifactory
5 15 (7.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 10 (4.69%) CircleCI
6 10 (4.69%) Maven
6 10 (4.69%) Travis CI
7 9 (4.23%) SonarQube
7 9 (4.23%) Subversion
8 8 (3.76%) Bitbucket
8 8 (3.76%) Cypress.io
8 8 (3.76%) webpack
9 7 (3.29%) Selenium
9 7 (3.29%) TeamCity
10 6 (2.82%) Postman
10 6 (2.82%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (2.35%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (2.35%) CA Release Automation
General
1 24 (11.27%) Banking
2 19 (8.92%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (8.45%) Finance
3 18 (8.45%) Public Sector
4 12 (5.63%) Social Skills
5 5 (2.35%) Retail
5 5 (2.35%) Telecoms
6 4 (1.88%) Public Speaking
7 3 (1.41%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.41%) Retail Banking
8 2 (0.94%) Legal
8 2 (0.94%) Military
9 1 (0.47%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (0.47%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.47%) Police
Job Titles
1 43 (20.19%) SIEM Engineer
2 29 (13.62%) Developer
3 26 (12.21%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (8.92%) Architect
5 18 (8.45%) Lead
6 16 (7.51%) Analyst
7 15 (7.04%) Senior
8 12 (5.63%) AWS Engineer
9 11 (5.16%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (4.69%) Technical Leader
11 9 (4.23%) Senior DevOps
11 9 (4.23%) Site Engineer
11 9 (4.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 9 (4.23%) SOC Analyst
12 8 (3.76%) AWS DevOps
12 8 (3.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.76%) Support Engineer
13 7 (3.29%) Java Developer
13 7 (3.29%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (40.38%) Elastic Stack
2 34 (15.96%) Kafka
3 26 (12.21%) React
4 20 (9.39%) Spring Boot
5 18 (8.45%) .NET
5 18 (8.45%) JSON
5 18 (8.45%) Node.js
6 16 (7.51%) Spring
7 13 (6.10%) AWS CDK
7 13 (6.10%) CSS
7 13 (6.10%) HTML
7 13 (6.10%) XML
8 11 (5.16%) YAML
9 10 (4.69%) Redux
10 9 (4.23%) Middleware
10 9 (4.23%) RabbitMQ
10 9 (4.23%) REST
11 8 (3.76%) Express.js
11 8 (3.76%) RESTful
12 7 (3.29%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.51%) Onboarding
2 12 (5.63%) Linux Command Line
3 11 (5.16%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.16%) Cyber Threat
4 10 (4.69%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (4.69%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.23%) Cyber Defence
5 9 (4.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 9 (4.23%) Data Structures
6 8 (3.76%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (2.82%) PKI
9 4 (1.88%) CCTV
9 4 (1.88%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.88%) Fat Client
9 4 (1.88%) Thin Client
10 2 (0.94%) CBDC
10 2 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.94%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.47%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 66 (30.99%) Linux
2 37 (17.37%) Windows
3 28 (13.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (10.33%) Ubuntu
5 17 (7.98%) CentOS
5 17 (7.98%) Windows Server
6 9 (4.23%) Unix
7 4 (1.88%) Oracle Linux
7 4 (1.88%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.47%) Android
8 1 (0.47%) Fedora
8 1 (0.47%) Rocky
8 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (39.91%) DevOps
2 78 (36.62%) CI/CD
3 53 (24.88%) SIEM
4 52 (24.41%) Agile
5 50 (23.47%) Observability
6 43 (20.19%) Infrastructure as Code
7 39 (18.31%) Containerisation
8 33 (15.49%) Microservices
9 30 (14.08%) Test Automation
10 24 (11.27%) Software Engineering
11 21 (9.86%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (8.92%) Analytics
12 19 (8.92%) Continuous Integration
12 19 (8.92%) Incident Response
12 19 (8.92%) Task Automation
13 17 (7.98%) Collaborative Working
13 17 (7.98%) Cybersecurity
14 15 (7.04%) API Development
14 15 (7.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 14 (6.57%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 67 (31.46%) Python
2 50 (23.47%) Java
3 33 (15.49%) Bash
4 30 (14.08%) PowerShell
5 24 (11.27%) Shell Script
6 21 (9.86%) JavaScript
7 18 (8.45%) C#
8 17 (7.98%) SQL
9 16 (7.51%) TypeScript
10 13 (6.10%) C++
11 10 (4.69%) Go
12 8 (3.76%) Groovy
12 8 (3.76%) Perl
12 8 (3.76%) R
13 5 (2.35%) C
14 4 (1.88%) PHP
15 3 (1.41%) ActionScript
16 2 (0.94%) U-SQL
17 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 79 (37.09%) Security Cleared
2 49 (23.00%) DV Cleared
3 41 (19.25%) SC Cleared
4 12 (5.63%) Degree
5 9 (4.23%) CEH
5 9 (4.23%) CISSP
5 9 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.47%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.47%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.47%) PhD
7 1 (0.47%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.45%) QA
2 4 (1.88%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.94%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (0.94%) GDPR
4 1 (0.47%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.47%) NIST
4 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 57 (26.76%) Docker
2 20 (9.39%) Active Directory
3 10 (4.69%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (4.23%) iptables
5 5 (2.35%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 3 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.47%) KVM
Systems Management
1 92 (43.19%) Kibana
2 76 (35.68%) Kubernetes
3 69 (32.39%) Ansible
4 59 (27.70%) Grafana
4 59 (27.70%) logstash
5 52 (24.41%) Prometheus
6 31 (14.55%) Terraform
7 18 (8.45%) Puppet
8 16 (7.51%) Progress Chef
9 10 (4.69%) Argo
9 10 (4.69%) Docker Swarm
9 10 (4.69%) Istio
10 9 (4.23%) BladeLogic
10 9 (4.23%) ITRS Geneos
10 9 (4.23%) ZABBIX
11 5 (2.35%) Graylog
11 5 (2.35%) Nagios
11 5 (2.35%) QRadar
11 5 (2.35%) vCenter Server
12 4 (1.88%) Packer
Vendors
1 29 (13.62%) Splunk
2 26 (12.21%) Microsoft
3 25 (11.74%) Red Hat
4 18 (8.45%) Oracle
5 13 (6.10%) Amdocs
5 13 (6.10%) VMware
6 9 (4.23%) Altiris
6 9 (4.23%) Citrix
6 9 (4.23%) Dynatrace
7 8 (3.76%) AppDynamics
8 6 (2.82%) Google
9 5 (2.35%) ArcSight
10 4 (1.88%) Veeam
11 3 (1.41%) F5
11 3 (1.41%) MKS
12 2 (0.94%) Confluent
12 2 (0.94%) Databricks
12 2 (0.94%) ServiceNow
13 1 (0.47%) IBM
13 1 (0.47%) Sitecore