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 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 211 276
Rank change year-on-year -51 +65 -23
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 32 66 119
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.22% 0.84% 0.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.72% 5.70% 4.51%
Number of salaries quoted 32 45 107
10th Percentile £42,625 £57,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £67,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £82,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.30% +43.48% -11.54%
75th Percentile £72,500 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,000 - £73,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £69,384 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.71% +15.64% -14.29%

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 1,178 1,158 2,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 8.18% 14.82% 14.68%
Number of salaries quoted 777 671 2,026
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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
Thames Valley -20 8 £55,000 -33.33% 8
Kent -25 8 £55,000 - 3
Hampshire -33 7 £67,500 -18.18% 6
East Sussex -10 5 £60,000 -
Berkshire -7 4 £50,000 -39.39% 7
Oxfordshire -9 4 £56,250 -13.46% 1
West Sussex -19 2 £57,500 - 1
Surrey -24 2 £51,250 -37.88% 4
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England

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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 3 (9.38%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (6.25%) Apache Solr
2 2 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 25 (78.13%) Azure
2 17 (53.13%) AWS
3 10 (31.25%) GitHub
3 10 (31.25%) GitHub Copilot
4 6 (18.75%) GCP
5 3 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (9.38%) Amazon Kinesis
5 3 (9.38%) dbt
5 3 (9.38%) Entra ID
5 3 (9.38%) SaaS
5 3 (9.38%) Serverless
5 3 (9.38%) Snowflake
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (6.25%) Anthropic Claude
6 2 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) MQTT
1 3 (9.38%) Network Security
2 2 (6.25%) Hyperconnected
2 2 (6.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (71.88%) MongoDB
2 22 (68.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (9.38%) Flink
3 3 (9.38%) Looker
3 3 (9.38%) MySQL
3 3 (9.38%) NoSQL
3 3 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (9.38%) Redis
4 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.13%) Vitess
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Git
2 3 (9.38%) GitLab
2 3 (9.38%) JIRA
2 3 (9.38%) SonarQube
3 2 (6.25%) Claude Code
4 1 (3.13%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (21.88%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Finance
3 3 (9.38%) Games
3 3 (9.38%) Retail
4 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 24 (75.00%) Developer
2 22 (68.75%) .NET Developer
3 3 (9.38%) Data Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Senior
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Developer
5 1 (3.13%) DBA
5 1 (3.13%) Development Team Leader
5 1 (3.13%) Lead
5 1 (3.13%) MySQL DBA
5 1 (3.13%) Ruby Developer
5 1 (3.13%) Senior Ruby Developer
5 1 (3.13%) Senior SQL Developer
5 1 (3.13%) Senior SQL Server Developer
5 1 (3.13%) SQL Developer
5 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Developer
5 1 (3.13%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (71.88%) .NET
1 23 (71.88%) ASP.NET
2 22 (68.75%) .NET Core
2 22 (68.75%) ASP.NET Core
2 22 (68.75%) Node.js
3 13 (40.63%) ASP.NET Web API
3 13 (40.63%) React
4 11 (34.38%) Blazor
5 10 (31.25%) AngularJS
5 10 (31.25%) Vue
6 8 (25.00%) .NET Framework
7 7 (21.88%) Kafka
8 4 (12.50%) Entity Framework
9 3 (9.38%) gRPC
9 3 (9.38%) Keycloak
9 3 (9.38%) Protocol Buffers
9 3 (9.38%) REST
10 2 (6.25%) Ruby on Rails
10 2 (6.25%) WinForms
10 2 (6.25%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (9.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.13%) Legacy Code
2 1 (3.13%) NHS
2 1 (3.13%) PMI
2 1 (3.13%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (78.13%) Agile
2 24 (75.00%) Microservices
3 22 (68.75%) Full-Stack Development
4 14 (43.75%) Scrum
5 11 (34.38%) BDD
5 11 (34.38%) Kanban
5 11 (34.38%) TDD
6 8 (25.00%) AI
6 8 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 6 (18.75%) Observability
8 5 (15.63%) CI/CD
8 5 (15.63%) Roadmaps
9 4 (12.50%) Event-Driven
9 4 (12.50%) High Availability
9 4 (12.50%) Machine Learning
10 3 (9.38%) Analytics
10 3 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
10 3 (9.38%) Data Governance
10 3 (9.38%) Software Delivery
10 3 (9.38%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (75.00%) SQL
2 23 (71.88%) C#
3 16 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 13 (40.63%) TypeScript
5 6 (18.75%) Python
6 3 (9.38%) Rust
7 2 (6.25%) Ruby
8 1 (3.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
1 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (43.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (46.88%) Kubernetes
2 7 (21.88%) Terraform
3 4 (12.50%) Grafana
3 4 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 3 (9.38%) Ansible
4 3 (9.38%) Podman
4 3 (9.38%) Puppet
5 1 (3.13%) Argo
5 1 (3.13%) Graylog
Vendors
1 22 (68.75%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.63%) Google
3 3 (9.38%) Confluent
3 3 (9.38%) NVIDIA
3 3 (9.38%) Tenable
4 2 (6.25%) New Relic
4 2 (6.25%) OpenAI
5 1 (3.13%) Rollbar