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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 238 275
Rank change year-on-year -7 +37 -35
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 88 54 65
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.50% 0.60% 0.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.58% 4.50% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 87 33 50
10th Percentile £43,750 £56,250 £47,141
25th Percentile £50,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £82,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.30% +17.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £73,750 £83,750 £83,438
90th Percentile £82,500 - £85,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -8.57% +3.70%

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 1,338 1,200 2,058
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.59% 13.23% 15.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,058 643 1,319
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,563 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,750
Median % change year-on-year - +0.46% -4.78%
75th Percentile £71,250 £69,840 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year - -5.51% -2.31%

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

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch in the South East over the 6 months to 1 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 1 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 +1 29 £67,500 -18.18% 2
Hampshire - 21 £67,500 - 4
Kent -6 16 £55,000 - 5
Thames Valley -5 14 £52,500 -36.36% 7
Berkshire +16 8 £50,000 -39.39% 5
West Sussex -10 6 £57,500 - 1
Oxfordshire -32 6 £55,000 -15.38% 2
East Sussex -16 2 £75,000 -
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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 (2.27%) Apache Solr
1 2 (2.27%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 74 (84.09%) Azure
2 40 (45.45%) AWS
3 26 (29.55%) GitHub
3 26 (29.55%) GitHub Copilot
4 16 (18.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 13 (14.77%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (13.64%) Azure Key Vault
6 12 (13.64%) Azure Monitor
6 12 (13.64%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (4.55%) GCP
8 3 (3.41%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.41%) SaaS
8 3 (3.41%) Serverless
9 2 (2.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (2.27%) Anthropic Claude
9 2 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.14%) OCI
10 1 (1.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.55%) HTTP
1 4 (4.55%) Hyperconnected
1 4 (4.55%) Internet
2 3 (3.41%) MQTT
2 3 (3.41%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (68.18%) MongoDB
2 58 (65.91%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (14.77%) SQL Server
4 6 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (6.82%) Redis
5 3 (3.41%) MySQL
6 1 (1.14%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.14%) Vitess
Development Applications
1 16 (18.18%) Git
2 4 (4.55%) Gatling
2 4 (4.55%) JMeter
2 4 (4.55%) LoadRunner
3 3 (3.41%) GitLab
3 3 (3.41%) JIRA
3 3 (3.41%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.27%) Claude Code
5 1 (1.14%) TeamCity
General
1 16 (18.18%) Finance
1 16 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 14 (15.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (10.23%) Retail
4 6 (6.82%) Games
5 4 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.14%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.14%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 72 (81.82%) Developer
2 70 (79.55%) .NET Developer
3 16 (18.18%) Lead
4 12 (13.64%) Lead .NET Developer
4 12 (13.64%) Lead Developer
5 9 (10.23%) Senior
6 6 (6.82%) Software Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) Performance Tester
7 4 (4.55%) Senior Performance Tester
7 4 (4.55%) Senior Tester
7 4 (4.55%) Tester
8 3 (3.41%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 3 (3.41%) Lead Software Engineer
8 3 (3.41%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (2.27%) Senior Developer
10 1 (1.14%) Development Team Leader
10 1 (1.14%) Senior SQL Server Developer
10 1 (1.14%) SQL Developer
10 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Developer
10 1 (1.14%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (80.68%) .NET
1 71 (80.68%) ASP.NET
2 70 (79.55%) .NET Core
3 58 (65.91%) ASP.NET Core
3 58 (65.91%) Node.js
4 39 (44.32%) Blazor
5 36 (40.91%) AngularJS
6 33 (37.50%) ASP.NET Web API
6 33 (37.50%) React
7 30 (34.09%) Vue
8 23 (26.14%) .NET Framework
9 15 (17.05%) gRPC
9 15 (17.05%) REST
10 10 (11.36%) Terraform
11 8 (9.09%) Entity Framework
12 6 (6.82%) WinForms
12 6 (6.82%) WPF
13 4 (4.55%) Kafka
14 3 (3.41%) Keycloak
14 3 (3.41%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.23%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (6.82%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (5.68%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.14%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.14%) NHS
5 1 (1.14%) PMI
5 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (88.64%) Microservices
2 59 (67.05%) Agile
3 58 (65.91%) Full-Stack Development
4 39 (44.32%) Scrum
5 32 (36.36%) BDD
5 32 (36.36%) Kanban
5 32 (36.36%) TDD
6 23 (26.14%) Mentoring
7 16 (18.18%) CI/CD
7 16 (18.18%) Event-Driven
8 13 (14.77%) DevOps
8 13 (14.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 13 (14.77%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (13.64%) MVC
9 12 (13.64%) People Management
9 12 (13.64%) Performance Optimisation
10 9 (10.23%) Asset Management
10 9 (10.23%) DevSecOps
10 9 (10.23%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (10.23%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 71 (80.68%) C#
2 61 (69.32%) SQL
3 36 (40.91%) TypeScript
4 33 (37.50%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.41%) Python
5 3 (3.41%) Rust
6 2 (2.27%) Ruby
7 1 (1.14%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 8 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.64%) QA
2 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 40 (45.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (39.77%) Kubernetes
2 10 (11.36%) Ansible
3 8 (9.09%) Grafana
4 4 (4.55%) Kibana
4 4 (4.55%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.41%) Podman
5 3 (3.41%) Puppet
6 1 (1.14%) Argo
6 1 (1.14%) Graylog
Vendors
1 58 (65.91%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.68%) Google
3 4 (4.55%) AppDynamics
3 4 (4.55%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.41%) NVIDIA
4 3 (3.41%) Tenable
5 2 (2.27%) New Relic
5 2 (2.27%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.14%) Oracle
6 1 (1.14%) Rollbar