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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 212 267
Rank change year-on-year -45 +55 -1
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 25 61 121
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.17% 0.79% 0.74%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.13% 5.16% 4.73%
Number of salaries quoted 25 43 108
10th Percentile £43,000 £64,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £81,250 £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 £63,750 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £76,500 - £73,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +20.83% -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 1,174 1,182 2,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 8.18% 15.32% 15.56%
Number of salaries quoted 728 713 1,990
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -3.51%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -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 12 May 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 12 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
Thames Valley -12 7 £55,000 -33.33% 2
Hampshire -18 6 £66,250 -19.70% 4
Kent -30 6 £53,750 - 3
Oxfordshire +5 4 £56,250 -13.46% 1
East Sussex -17 3 £60,000 - 1
Berkshire -21 3 £50,000 -39.39% 1
Surrey -35 2 £51,250 -37.88% 3
West Sussex -19 1 £57,500 - 1
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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 (12.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 19 (76.00%) Azure
2 13 (52.00%) AWS
3 7 (28.00%) GitHub
3 7 (28.00%) GitHub Copilot
4 5 (20.00%) GCP
5 3 (12.00%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (12.00%) Amazon Kinesis
5 3 (12.00%) dbt
5 3 (12.00%) Snowflake
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
6 2 (8.00%) Serverless
7 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Hyperconnected
1 2 (8.00%) Internet
1 2 (8.00%) MQTT
1 2 (8.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (72.00%) MongoDB
2 17 (68.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (12.00%) Flink
3 3 (12.00%) Looker
3 3 (12.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (12.00%) Redis
4 1 (4.00%) MySQL
4 1 (4.00%) Pinecone
4 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (4.00%) Vitess
4 1 (4.00%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Git
2 2 (8.00%) GitLab
2 2 (8.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (4.00%) JIRA
3 1 (4.00%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Finance
2 3 (12.00%) Games
3 2 (8.00%) Retail
4 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 18 (72.00%) Developer
2 17 (68.00%) .NET Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) DBA
5 1 (4.00%) MySQL DBA
5 1 (4.00%) Senior
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Senior SQL Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Senior SQL Server Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) SQL Developer
5 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (72.00%) .NET
1 18 (72.00%) ASP.NET
2 17 (68.00%) .NET Core
2 17 (68.00%) ASP.NET Core
2 17 (68.00%) Node.js
3 9 (36.00%) ASP.NET Web API
3 9 (36.00%) React
4 8 (32.00%) AngularJS
4 8 (32.00%) Blazor
4 8 (32.00%) Vue
5 6 (24.00%) Kafka
6 5 (20.00%) .NET Framework
7 3 (12.00%) Entity Framework
8 2 (8.00%) gRPC
8 2 (8.00%) Keycloak
8 2 (8.00%) Protocol Buffers
8 2 (8.00%) REST
9 1 (4.00%) FastAPI
9 1 (4.00%) Flask
9 1 (4.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (8.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (4.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (4.00%) NHS
2 1 (4.00%) PMI
2 1 (4.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (76.00%) Agile
1 19 (76.00%) Microservices
2 17 (68.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 10 (40.00%) Scrum
4 8 (32.00%) BDD
4 8 (32.00%) Kanban
4 8 (32.00%) TDD
5 6 (24.00%) AI
5 6 (24.00%) Mentoring
6 5 (20.00%) Observability
7 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
7 4 (16.00%) Data Engineering
7 4 (16.00%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (16.00%) High Availability
7 4 (16.00%) Machine Learning
8 3 (12.00%) Analytics
8 3 (12.00%) Containerisation
8 3 (12.00%) Data Architecture
8 3 (12.00%) Data Governance
8 3 (12.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (76.00%) SQL
2 18 (72.00%) C#
3 13 (52.00%) JavaScript
4 11 (44.00%) TypeScript
5 6 (24.00%) Python
6 2 (8.00%) Rust
7 1 (4.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (52.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (56.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (24.00%) Terraform
3 3 (12.00%) Grafana
3 3 (12.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (8.00%) Ansible
4 2 (8.00%) Podman
4 2 (8.00%) Puppet
5 1 (4.00%) Argo
5 1 (4.00%) Graylog
Vendors
1 17 (68.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.00%) Google
3 3 (12.00%) Confluent
4 2 (8.00%) NVIDIA
4 2 (8.00%) Tenable
5 1 (4.00%) Rollbar