Elasticsearch Job Trends in the South East

Elastic Elasticsearch
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Elasticsearch skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 240 277
Rank change year-on-year -8 +37 -49
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 90 48 70
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.48% 0.54% 0.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.08% 4.43% 3.53%
Number of salaries quoted 89 27 48
10th Percentile £43,750 £56,250 £46,423
25th Percentile £50,000 £61,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% -6.25% +23.08%
75th Percentile £73,750 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £82,500 - £85,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -8.57% -

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,271 1,083 1,984
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 6.73% 12.17% 15.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,026 588 1,143
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,938 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £69,840 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,125 £82,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +3.17%

Elasticsearch
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Elasticsearch job vacancy trend in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Elasticsearch.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch in the South East over the 6 months to 29 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Elasticsearch in the South East

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Elasticsearch within the South East region over the 6 months to 29 September 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
Surrey -5 34 £55,000 -
Hampshire - 21 £67,500 - 1
Kent -7 16 £55,000 -
Thames Valley -24 11 £50,000 -35.48% 4
Berkshire -7 7 £50,000 -39.39% 3
West Sussex -14 6 £57,500 -
Oxfordshire -40 4 £55,000 -15.38% 1
East Sussex -6 2 £75,000 -
Elasticsearch
England

Elasticsearch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (2.22%) Apache Solr
1 2 (2.22%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 73 (81.11%) Azure
2 45 (50.00%) AWS
3 26 (28.89%) GitHub
3 26 (28.89%) GitHub Copilot
4 15 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 12 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (13.33%) Azure Key Vault
5 12 (13.33%) Azure Monitor
5 12 (13.33%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (4.44%) GCP
7 3 (3.33%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.33%) Serverless
8 2 (2.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (2.22%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.22%) SaaS
9 1 (1.11%) OCI
9 1 (1.11%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.00%) HTTP
2 4 (4.44%) Hyperconnected
2 4 (4.44%) Internet
3 3 (3.33%) MQTT
3 3 (3.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (66.67%) MongoDB
2 57 (63.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (13.33%) SQL Server
4 6 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (6.67%) Redis
5 2 (2.22%) MySQL
6 1 (1.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (16.67%) Git
2 9 (10.00%) Gatling
2 9 (10.00%) JMeter
2 9 (10.00%) LoadRunner
3 3 (3.33%) GitLab
3 3 (3.33%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.22%) Claude Code
4 2 (2.22%) JIRA
General
1 19 (21.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 16 (17.78%) Finance
2 16 (17.78%) Social Skills
3 9 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 9 (10.00%) Retail
4 5 (5.56%) Games
Job Titles
1 70 (77.78%) Developer
2 69 (76.67%) .NET Developer
3 18 (20.00%) Lead
4 12 (13.33%) Lead .NET Developer
4 12 (13.33%) Lead Developer
5 11 (12.22%) Senior
6 9 (10.00%) Performance Tester
6 9 (10.00%) Tester
7 7 (7.78%) Senior Performance Tester
7 7 (7.78%) Senior Tester
8 6 (6.67%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 3 (3.33%) Lead Software Engineer
9 3 (3.33%) Senior Software Engineer
10 2 (2.22%) Lead Tester
11 1 (1.11%) Ruby Developer
11 1 (1.11%) Senior Ruby Developer
11 1 (1.11%) Site Engineer
11 1 (1.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 1 (1.11%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (76.67%) .NET
1 69 (76.67%) .NET Core
1 69 (76.67%) ASP.NET
2 57 (63.33%) ASP.NET Core
2 57 (63.33%) Node.js
3 39 (43.33%) Blazor
4 36 (40.00%) AngularJS
5 33 (36.67%) ASP.NET Web API
5 33 (36.67%) React
6 30 (33.33%) Vue
7 22 (24.44%) .NET Framework
8 15 (16.67%) gRPC
8 15 (16.67%) REST
9 9 (10.00%) Terraform
10 6 (6.67%) Entity Framework
10 6 (6.67%) WinForms
10 6 (6.67%) WPF
11 3 (3.33%) Kafka
11 3 (3.33%) Keycloak
11 3 (3.33%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
1 9 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.11%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (86.67%) Microservices
2 62 (68.89%) Agile
3 57 (63.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 39 (43.33%) Scrum
5 32 (35.56%) BDD
5 32 (35.56%) Kanban
5 32 (35.56%) TDD
6 23 (25.56%) Mentoring
7 19 (21.11%) CI/CD
8 16 (17.78%) Event-Driven
9 13 (14.44%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 13 (14.44%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (13.33%) DevOps
10 12 (13.33%) MVC
10 12 (13.33%) People Management
10 12 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
11 9 (10.00%) Fintech
11 9 (10.00%) Programme Delivery
11 9 (10.00%) Runbook
11 9 (10.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 69 (76.67%) C#
2 59 (65.56%) SQL
3 36 (40.00%) TypeScript
4 33 (36.67%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.33%) Python
5 3 (3.33%) Rust
6 2 (2.22%) Ruby
7 1 (1.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 10 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.33%) QA
2 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 40 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (37.78%) Kubernetes
2 12 (13.33%) Grafana
3 10 (11.11%) Ansible
4 9 (10.00%) Kibana
5 3 (3.33%) Podman
5 3 (3.33%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 57 (63.33%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.00%) AppDynamics
2 9 (10.00%) Dynatrace
3 5 (5.56%) Google
4 3 (3.33%) NVIDIA
4 3 (3.33%) Tenable
5 2 (2.22%) New Relic
5 2 (2.22%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.11%) Oracle