Elasticsearch Job Trends in England

Elastic Elasticsearch
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Elasticsearch skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 505 440 358
Rank change year-on-year -65 -82 +94
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 139 173 541
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.44% 0.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.23% 2.33% 3.95%
Number of salaries quoted 111 130 428
10th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £37,125
25th Percentile £52,500 £63,930 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £80,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.75% +33.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £97,125 £97,875
UK median annual salary £73,801 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.79% +20.83% -14.29%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
England

Elasticsearch falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,244 7,418 13,696
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.52% 18.95% 18.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3,955 4,707 11,041
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,125 £87,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -8.49%

Elasticsearch
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Elasticsearch relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Elasticsearch job vacancy trend in England

Elasticsearch
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Elasticsearch.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch in England over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Elasticsearch in England

Elasticsearch
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Elasticsearch within the England region over the 6 months to 14 March 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +31 70 £80,000 -11.11% 45
South West -15 22 £67,500 -6.90% 12
North of England -55 22 £73,801 +6.48% 11
North West -18 16 £67,500 -0.19% 9
South East -46 11 £62,500 -24.24% 21
East of England -1 8 £51,250 +2.50% 7
Midlands -32 5 £65,000 - 7
North East -22 4 £73,801 +6.37% 1
West Midlands +1 3 £73,801 +7.79% 5
East Midlands -40 2 £53,750 -17.31% 2
Yorkshire -40 2 £65,000 -13.33% 1
Elasticsearch
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Elasticsearch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 16 (11.51%) Apache Spark
2 14 (10.07%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (7.19%) Apache
4 7 (5.04%) Apache Solr
5 4 (2.88%) Confluence
6 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.72%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 105 (75.54%) AWS
2 95 (68.35%) Azure
3 60 (43.17%) GCP
4 26 (18.71%) dbt
5 18 (12.95%) AWS CloudFormation
6 17 (12.23%) Amazon ECR
6 17 (12.23%) Amazon ECS
7 14 (10.07%) Pulumi
8 13 (9.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 12 (8.63%) Snowflake
10 10 (7.19%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (6.47%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 9 (6.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 9 (6.47%) PaaS
11 9 (6.47%) Power Platform
11 9 (6.47%) Sentry
12 6 (4.32%) Amazon S3
12 6 (4.32%) Serverless
13 3 (2.16%) AWS CodeBuild
13 3 (2.16%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.07%) TCP/IP
2 6 (4.32%) HTTP
3 2 (1.44%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (1.44%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (23.74%) MongoDB
2 29 (20.86%) BigQuery
3 28 (20.14%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (20.14%) Redis
4 20 (14.39%) Neo4j
5 15 (10.79%) MySQL
6 14 (10.07%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (8.63%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (8.63%) Looker
8 11 (7.91%) NoSQL
9 9 (6.47%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (6.47%) Data Lake
9 9 (6.47%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (6.47%) Power BI
9 9 (6.47%) Snowflake Schema
9 9 (6.47%) Tableau
10 4 (2.88%) SQL Server
11 3 (2.16%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (2.16%) DynamoDB
11 3 (2.16%) Flink
Development Applications
1 21 (15.11%) Git
2 18 (12.95%) GitLab
3 9 (6.47%) Cucumber
3 9 (6.47%) MLflow
4 7 (5.04%) Bitbucket
4 7 (5.04%) JIRA
5 6 (4.32%) Jenkins
6 5 (3.60%) JUnit
7 4 (2.88%) Cypress.io
7 4 (2.88%) Gatling
7 4 (2.88%) JMeter
7 4 (2.88%) LoadRunner
8 3 (2.16%) REST Assured
8 3 (2.16%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.44%) Appium
9 2 (1.44%) Katalon Studio
9 2 (1.44%) Selenium
9 2 (1.44%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.72%) Maven
General
1 25 (17.99%) Social Skills
2 16 (11.51%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (7.19%) Finance
4 9 (6.47%) Banking
5 7 (5.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (4.32%) Investment Banking
6 6 (4.32%) Law
7 5 (3.60%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.16%) Games
9 2 (1.44%) Front Office
10 1 (0.72%) Advertising
10 1 (0.72%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.72%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 47 (33.81%) Senior
2 42 (30.22%) Software Engineer
3 27 (19.42%) Developer
4 12 (8.63%) .NET Developer
4 12 (8.63%) Platform Engineer
5 11 (7.91%) Senior Software Engineer
6 9 (6.47%) C Software Engineer
6 9 (6.47%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 9 (6.47%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 9 (6.47%) Systems Engineer
7 8 (5.76%) Architect
7 8 (5.76%) Principal Engineer
7 8 (5.76%) Test Engineer
8 6 (4.32%) Lead
9 5 (3.60%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 5 (3.60%) Data Engineer
9 5 (3.60%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (3.60%) Principal Software Engineer
9 5 (3.60%) Site Engineer
9 5 (3.60%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (25.18%) React
2 34 (24.46%) Django
3 29 (20.86%) AngularJS
3 29 (20.86%) Node.js
4 18 (12.95%) Kafka
5 17 (12.23%) MERN Stack
6 16 (11.51%) RESTful
7 15 (10.79%) .NET
7 15 (10.79%) Vue
8 14 (10.07%) ASP.NET
9 12 (8.63%) .NET Core
10 10 (7.19%) Entity Framework
11 9 (6.47%) .NET Framework
11 9 (6.47%) LangChain
11 9 (6.47%) LlamaIndex
11 9 (6.47%) pgvector
11 9 (6.47%) PyTorch
11 9 (6.47%) scikit-learn
11 9 (6.47%) TensorFlow
12 8 (5.76%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 31 (22.30%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (15.11%) Algorithms
2 21 (15.11%) Data Structures
3 20 (14.39%) Greenfield Project
4 14 (10.07%) Cloud Native
5 13 (9.35%) Public Cloud
6 12 (8.63%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (6.47%) Clustering
8 3 (2.16%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.16%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.72%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.72%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.72%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.72%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.72%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.72%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.72%) PMI
9 1 (0.72%) Replication
9 1 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.72%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 37 (26.62%) Linux
2 17 (12.23%) Unix
3 5 (3.60%) Windows
3 5 (3.60%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.88%) CentOS
5 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.72%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (44.60%) Software Engineering
2 50 (35.97%) CI/CD
3 48 (34.53%) Microservices
4 47 (33.81%) Agile
4 47 (33.81%) DevOps
5 33 (23.74%) AI
6 31 (22.30%) Data Science
6 31 (22.30%) Machine Learning
7 29 (20.86%) Computer Science
8 26 (18.71%) Analytics
9 25 (17.99%) Observability
10 24 (17.27%) Mentoring
10 24 (17.27%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (15.83%) Containerisation
11 22 (15.83%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (15.83%) Infrastructure as Code
12 21 (15.11%) Cybersecurity
13 17 (12.23%) Data Governance
13 17 (12.23%) Full-Stack Development
13 17 (12.23%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 98 (70.50%) Python
2 47 (33.81%) JavaScript
3 42 (30.22%) Java
4 37 (26.62%) TypeScript
5 36 (25.90%) SQL
6 16 (11.51%) C
6 16 (11.51%) C#
7 7 (5.04%) Bash
8 6 (4.32%) PHP
9 5 (3.60%) Go
10 3 (2.16%) Scala
10 3 (2.16%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.44%) C++
11 2 (1.44%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.72%) Perl
12 1 (0.72%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.72%) Rust
12 1 (0.72%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 39 (28.06%) Security Cleared
2 29 (20.86%) Degree
3 25 (17.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (14.39%) DV Cleared
5 18 (12.95%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.72%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.72%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.19%) GDPR
2 9 (6.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 8 (5.76%) QA
4 5 (3.60%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.44%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.72%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 57 (41.01%) Docker
2 1 (0.72%) Squid
Systems Management
1 46 (33.09%) Kubernetes
2 32 (23.02%) Terraform
3 16 (11.51%) Kibana
4 15 (10.79%) Ansible
4 15 (10.79%) Grafana
5 9 (6.47%) AWS Copilot
6 8 (5.76%) logstash
7 6 (4.32%) Prometheus
8 3 (2.16%) Nagios
8 3 (2.16%) Rancher
9 2 (1.44%) Argo
10 1 (0.72%) Graylog
Vendors
1 38 (27.34%) Google
2 18 (12.95%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.47%) Cloudera
3 9 (6.47%) Databricks
3 9 (6.47%) Dell
4 6 (4.32%) Splunk
5 4 (2.88%) AppDynamics
5 4 (2.88%) Dynatrace
5 4 (2.88%) Oracle
6 3 (2.16%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.16%) Confluent
6 3 (2.16%) Rapid7
6 3 (2.16%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.44%) Rollbar
8 1 (0.72%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.72%) Foundry
8 1 (0.72%) New Relic
8 1 (0.72%) Palantir