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 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 215 232
Rank change year-on-year -44 +17 +72
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 8 64 97
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.071% 0.78% 0.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.84% 4.35% 4.47%
Number of salaries quoted 7 49 86
10th Percentile £42,000 £77,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,375 £81,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £82,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £83,750 £73,125
90th Percentile £76,000 £85,000 £91,250
England median annual salary £73,801 £80,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.75% +33.33% -17.24%

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 951 1,471 2,170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 8.40% 17.83% 17.49%
Number of salaries quoted 538 774 1,706
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,250 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,813 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% +6.93% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,125 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 16 February 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 16 February 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
West Sussex - 3 £63,750 - 1
Hampshire +19 2 £70,000 -15.15% 5
East Sussex -4 2 £60,000 -
Kent - 1 £27,500 - 3
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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 2 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (25.00%) dbt
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
2 2 (25.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (12.50%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) HTTP
2 1 (12.50%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (12.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (37.50%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (37.50%) MongoDB
3 2 (25.00%) Flink
3 2 (25.00%) Looker
3 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (25.00%) Redis
4 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (12.50%) Pinecone
4 1 (12.50%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
1 3 (37.50%) REST Assured
2 2 (25.00%) Appium
2 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) JUnit
2 2 (25.00%) Katalon Studio
2 2 (25.00%) Selenium
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) mountebank
3 1 (12.50%) SpecFlow
3 1 (12.50%) Subversion
3 1 (12.50%) TestNG
3 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Advertising
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Test Automation Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Kafka
1 3 (37.50%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) Playwright
3 1 (12.50%) .NET
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (12.50%) Blazor
3 1 (12.50%) FastAPI
3 1 (12.50%) Flask
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js
3 1 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (12.50%) React
3 1 (12.50%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) AI Agents
1 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Microservices
2 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (37.50%) AI
3 3 (37.50%) API Testing
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Data Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (37.50%) Machine Learning
3 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
4 2 (25.00%) BDD
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (25.00%) Data Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (25.00%) Data Science
4 2 (25.00%) Generative AI
4 2 (25.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) Python
3 2 (25.00%) C#
3 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Confluent
1 2 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft