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 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 255 252 223
Rank change year-on-year -3 -29 +108
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 22 66 52
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.25% 0.58% 0.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.14% 3.60% 3.12%
Number of salaries quoted 19 45 33
10th Percentile £56,250 £45,347 £49,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £73,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +23.08% +13.04%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile - £86,500 £83,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £73,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.86% +5.36% +3.70%

All Database and 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 1,027 1,835 1,669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 11.52% 16.15% 21.47%
Number of salaries quoted 598 1,006 1,206
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £36,000
25th Percentile £38,313 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £68,500 £71,250 £69,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +5.69% -1.60%

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

Elasticsearch
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 2 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Elasticsearch in the South East

Elasticsearch
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 2 November 2025. 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
Thames Valley -12 18 £78,750 -4.55% 13
Oxfordshire +20 8 £58,750 +30.61% 6
Berkshire -10 8 £82,500 - 6
Buckinghamshire +9 2 £75,000 - 1
West Sussex - 2 £63,750 - 1
Hampshire +37 1 £75,000 -4.76% 8
Kent +10 1 - - 7
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 6 (27.27%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 10 (45.45%) Azure
2 9 (40.91%) AWS
3 8 (36.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 8 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (36.36%) Azure Service Bus
3 8 (36.36%) SonarCloud
4 7 (31.82%) Cloudflare
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (4.55%) Google Ads
5 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Broadband
1 1 (4.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (40.91%) MySQL
1 9 (40.91%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.09%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 20 (90.91%) Git
2 8 (36.36%) MSBuild
2 8 (36.36%) Octopus Deploy
2 8 (36.36%) Team Foundation Server
2 8 (36.36%) Visual Studio
3 7 (31.82%) NUnit
3 7 (31.82%) TeamCity
4 6 (27.27%) Jasmine
5 3 (13.64%) JIRA
6 2 (9.09%) Cucumber
6 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
6 2 (9.09%) REST Assured
6 2 (9.09%) Subversion
7 1 (4.55%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (4.55%) mountebank
7 1 (4.55%) rollup.js
7 1 (4.55%) SpecFlow
7 1 (4.55%) TestNG
7 1 (4.55%) Vite
7 1 (4.55%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (36.36%) Retail
2 6 (27.27%) Games
3 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Advertising
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Senior
2 9 (40.91%) Architect
2 9 (40.91%) Developer
2 9 (40.91%) Senior Developer
3 8 (36.36%) Technical Architect
4 6 (27.27%) .NET Developer
4 6 (27.27%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (27.27%) Senior .NET Developer
4 6 (27.27%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (22.73%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 2 (9.09%) DBA
6 2 (9.09%) MySQL DBA
7 1 (4.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 1 (4.55%) HTML Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Software Architect
7 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Test Automation Specialist
7 1 (4.55%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (72.73%) CSS
1 16 (72.73%) HTML
2 15 (68.18%) .NET
2 15 (68.18%) ASP.NET
3 10 (45.45%) REST
4 9 (40.91%) Bootstrap
5 8 (36.36%) gRPC
5 8 (36.36%) HTML5
5 8 (36.36%) JSON
5 8 (36.36%) React
5 8 (36.36%) XML
6 7 (31.82%) AngularJS
6 7 (31.82%) ASP.NET Core
6 7 (31.82%) CSS3
6 7 (31.82%) Vue
7 6 (27.27%) Jest
7 6 (27.27%) RESTful
8 1 (4.55%) Playwright
8 1 (4.55%) Tailwind CSS
8 1 (4.55%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Online Games
2 1 (4.55%) Animation
2 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) MVC
2 11 (50.00%) DevOps
3 10 (45.45%) CI/CD
4 9 (40.91%) Event-Driven
4 9 (40.91%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 9 (40.91%) Microservices
4 9 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (36.36%) Agile
5 8 (36.36%) API Integration
5 8 (36.36%) Code Quality
5 8 (36.36%) Data Encryption
5 8 (36.36%) Design Patterns
5 8 (36.36%) Mobile First
5 8 (36.36%) Performance Optimisation
5 8 (36.36%) Performance Testing
5 8 (36.36%) Technical Leadership
6 7 (31.82%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (27.27%) Scrum
8 5 (22.73%) Mentoring
9 4 (18.18%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 17 (77.27%) JavaScript
2 16 (72.73%) C#
3 12 (54.55%) SQL
4 9 (40.91%) TypeScript
5 2 (9.09%) Java
6 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (36.36%) GDPR
2 3 (13.64%) QA
System Software
1 9 (40.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (31.82%) Terraform
2 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (45.45%) Rollbar
2 7 (31.82%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.55%) CA Agile Central