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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 441 379
Rank change year-on-year +66 -62 -37
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch 207 254 607
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.45% 0.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.84% 2.57% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 179 464
10th Percentile £438 £450 £450
25th Percentile £487 £481 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% -14.58% +20.00%
75th Percentile £700 £638 £700
90th Percentile £825 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £47.69
25th Percentile - - £48.28
Median hourly rate - - £49.50
75th Percentile - - £51.75
90th Percentile - - £52.95
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 7,300 9,902 17,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.95% 17.66% 19.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,235 7,035 12,303
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.46% -0.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £754 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 179 180
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.45
25th Percentile £20.77 £33.70 £21.69
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +69.81%
75th Percentile £56.88 £73.75 £63.60
90th Percentile £72.75 £80.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £58.59 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.26% +67.40% +42.86%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +71 168 £622 +13.09% 128
UK excluding London +45 102 £550 +10.00% 80
London +61 79 £600 +7.87% 62
Work from Home +44 56 £558 +11.60% 104
North of England +36 29 £648 +3.60% 21
Midlands +40 23 £525 -16.83% 14
South East +9 18 £482 -5.02% 16
Scotland +14 17 £484 +0.10% 6
West Midlands +23 15 £550 -12.87% 10
North West +28 13 £663 +21.56% 15
South West +14 12 £800 +24.27% 10
Yorkshire +26 11 £625 +42.86% 6
East Midlands - 7 £356 - 4
North East +10 5 £550 -21.43%
East of England +1 2 £650 - 6
Wales +16 1 £1,000 +105.13% 3

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 19 (9.18%) Confluence
2 18 (8.70%) OpenStack
3 7 (3.38%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.42%) JBoss
5 4 (1.93%) Apache
6 2 (0.97%) nginx
7 1 (0.48%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.48%) CMS
7 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 57 (27.54%) AWS
2 47 (22.71%) OpenShift
3 41 (19.81%) Azure
4 25 (12.08%) Amazon S3
5 20 (9.66%) GCP
6 17 (8.21%) Serverless
7 16 (7.73%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (7.25%) GitHub
9 13 (6.28%) Slack
10 12 (5.80%) Amazon ECR
10 12 (5.80%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (5.80%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (4.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 9 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (4.35%) Kong
12 9 (4.35%) Route 53
13 7 (3.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 6 (2.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.18%) DNS
2 13 (6.28%) Firewall
2 13 (6.28%) TCP/IP
2 13 (6.28%) VPN
3 12 (5.80%) HTTP
4 6 (2.90%) Reverse Proxy
5 5 (2.42%) DHCP
6 4 (1.93%) 5G
6 4 (1.93%) Diameter Protocol
6 4 (1.93%) LTE
6 4 (1.93%) NAS
6 4 (1.93%) SAN
7 3 (1.45%) BIG-IP
7 3 (1.45%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (1.45%) FTP
7 3 (1.45%) ICMP
7 3 (1.45%) POP3
7 3 (1.45%) SMTP
7 3 (1.45%) SSH
7 3 (1.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (14.98%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (8.70%) MySQL
3 16 (7.73%) NoSQL
4 14 (6.76%) MongoDB
5 11 (5.31%) Big Data
5 11 (5.31%) Relational Database
6 10 (4.83%) DynamoDB
6 10 (4.83%) Redis
6 10 (4.83%) SQL Server
7 8 (3.86%) Apache Cassandra
8 7 (3.38%) Hadoop
9 5 (2.42%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (2.42%) Oracle Database
9 5 (2.42%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.93%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.93%) DataStax
10 4 (1.93%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.45%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.45%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 63 (30.43%) Jenkins
2 29 (14.01%) GitLab
3 24 (11.59%) JIRA
4 23 (11.11%) Git
5 15 (7.25%) Artifactory
6 13 (6.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 10 (4.83%) CircleCI
7 10 (4.83%) Travis CI
8 9 (4.35%) Cypress.io
8 9 (4.35%) Subversion
9 8 (3.86%) Bitbucket
9 8 (3.86%) webpack
10 7 (3.38%) SonarQube
10 7 (3.38%) TeamCity
11 6 (2.90%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (2.42%) Bitbucket Server
12 5 (2.42%) CA Release Automation
12 5 (2.42%) JMeter
12 5 (2.42%) Maven
12 5 (2.42%) NeoLoad
General
1 25 (12.08%) Banking
2 20 (9.66%) Public Sector
3 19 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (9.18%) Finance
4 14 (6.76%) Social Skills
5 7 (3.38%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.42%) Retail
7 3 (1.45%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.45%) Public Speaking
7 3 (1.45%) Retail Banking
8 2 (0.97%) Legal
8 2 (0.97%) Military
9 1 (0.48%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (0.48%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.48%) Police
Job Titles
1 36 (17.39%) SIEM Engineer
2 26 (12.56%) DevOps Engineer
3 24 (11.59%) Developer
4 20 (9.66%) Lead
5 17 (8.21%) Architect
6 16 (7.73%) Analyst
7 14 (6.76%) Senior
8 12 (5.80%) Site Engineer
8 12 (5.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 11 (5.31%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (4.83%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (4.83%) Technical Leader
11 9 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
11 9 (4.35%) SOC Analyst
12 8 (3.86%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (3.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.86%) Support Engineer
13 7 (3.38%) Automation Engineer
13 7 (3.38%) DevOps Automation Engineer
13 7 (3.38%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (42.03%) Elastic Stack
2 38 (18.36%) Kafka
3 28 (13.53%) React
4 21 (10.14%) Node.js
5 19 (9.18%) .NET
6 18 (8.70%) JSON
6 18 (8.70%) Spring Boot
7 14 (6.76%) Spring
8 13 (6.28%) AWS CDK
8 13 (6.28%) CSS
8 13 (6.28%) HTML
8 13 (6.28%) XML
9 11 (5.31%) YAML
10 9 (4.35%) Middleware
10 9 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
11 8 (3.86%) Express.js
11 8 (3.86%) Redux
11 8 (3.86%) RESTful
12 7 (3.38%) GraphQL
12 7 (3.38%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.73%) Onboarding
2 15 (7.25%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.80%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (5.31%) Cyber Threat
5 10 (4.83%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (4.83%) Management Information System
6 9 (4.35%) Cyber Defence
6 9 (4.35%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 9 (4.35%) Data Structures
7 8 (3.86%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (2.90%) PKI
9 4 (1.93%) Fat Client
9 4 (1.93%) Thin Client
10 2 (0.97%) CBDC
10 2 (0.97%) CCTV
10 2 (0.97%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.97%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 66 (31.88%) Linux
2 36 (17.39%) Windows
3 26 (12.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (10.63%) Ubuntu
5 18 (8.70%) Windows Server
6 15 (7.25%) CentOS
7 6 (2.90%) Unix
8 4 (1.93%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (1.93%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.48%) Android
9 1 (0.48%) Fedora
9 1 (0.48%) Rocky
9 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (43.00%) DevOps
2 73 (35.27%) CI/CD
3 59 (28.50%) Agile
4 46 (22.22%) SIEM
5 42 (20.29%) Observability
6 41 (19.81%) Containerisation
7 38 (18.36%) Infrastructure as Code
8 37 (17.87%) Microservices
9 31 (14.98%) Test Automation
10 28 (13.53%) Software Engineering
11 21 (10.14%) Incident Response
11 21 (10.14%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (10.14%) Task Automation
12 20 (9.66%) Analytics
12 20 (9.66%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 19 (9.18%) Collaborative Working
13 19 (9.18%) Continuous Integration
14 17 (8.21%) Cybersecurity
14 17 (8.21%) Full Stack Development
15 16 (7.73%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 70 (33.82%) Python
2 50 (24.15%) Java
3 37 (17.87%) Bash
4 28 (13.53%) PowerShell
5 25 (12.08%) JavaScript
6 23 (11.11%) Shell Script
7 19 (9.18%) C#
8 18 (8.70%) TypeScript
9 17 (8.21%) SQL
10 13 (6.28%) C++
10 13 (6.28%) Go
11 10 (4.83%) Groovy
12 9 (4.35%) Perl
13 8 (3.86%) R
14 5 (2.42%) C
15 4 (1.93%) PHP
15 4 (1.93%) Ruby
16 3 (1.45%) ActionScript
17 2 (0.97%) U-SQL
18 1 (0.48%) Rust
Qualifications
1 75 (36.23%) Security Cleared
2 46 (22.22%) DV Cleared
3 40 (19.32%) SC Cleared
4 12 (5.80%) Degree
5 9 (4.35%) CEH
5 9 (4.35%) CISSP
5 9 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.48%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.48%) PhD
7 1 (0.48%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.70%) QA
2 4 (1.93%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.97%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (0.97%) GDPR
4 1 (0.48%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.48%) NIST
4 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 54 (26.09%) Docker
2 21 (10.14%) Active Directory
3 9 (4.35%) iptables
4 8 (3.86%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.42%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 3 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.48%) KVM
Systems Management
1 98 (47.34%) Kibana
2 78 (37.68%) Kubernetes
3 65 (31.40%) Ansible
4 60 (28.99%) logstash
5 58 (28.02%) Grafana
6 49 (23.67%) Prometheus
7 26 (12.56%) Terraform
8 19 (9.18%) Puppet
9 16 (7.73%) Progress Chef
10 13 (6.28%) Argo
10 13 (6.28%) Istio
11 10 (4.83%) Docker Swarm
12 9 (4.35%) BladeLogic
12 9 (4.35%) ITRS Geneos
13 8 (3.86%) ZABBIX
14 5 (2.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (2.42%) vCenter Server
15 4 (1.93%) QRadar
15 4 (1.93%) Red Hat Satellite
15 4 (1.93%) yum
Vendors
1 27 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 26 (12.56%) Splunk
3 23 (11.11%) Red Hat
4 18 (8.70%) Oracle
5 13 (6.28%) Amdocs
5 13 (6.28%) VMware
6 9 (4.35%) Altiris
6 9 (4.35%) Citrix
6 9 (4.35%) Dynatrace
7 8 (3.86%) AppDynamics
8 6 (2.90%) Google
9 4 (1.93%) ArcSight
9 4 (1.93%) Confluent
9 4 (1.93%) Veeam
10 3 (1.45%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.45%) F5
11 2 (0.97%) Databricks
11 2 (0.97%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.48%) IBM
12 1 (0.48%) Sitecore