Elasticsearch Job Trends in Scotland

Elastic Elasticsearch
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Elasticsearch skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 131 118
Rank change year-on-year -9 -13 +86
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 1 7 184
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.030% 0.35% 2.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.41% 2.05% 10.09%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 12
10th Percentile - £52,725 -
25th Percentile - £53,063 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £63,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.00% -
75th Percentile - £72,500 £63,750
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £69,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.43% +16.67% -14.29%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 244 341 1,823
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 7.38% 16.95% 28.78%
Number of salaries quoted 71 173 474
10th Percentile £27,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £74,375 £71,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,534 £76,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

Elasticsearch
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Elasticsearch job vacancy trend in Scotland

Elasticsearch
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Elasticsearch.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Elasticsearch within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
Edinburgh +2 1 - -
Elasticsearch
UK

Elasticsearch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (100.00%) NestJS
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes