Elasticsearch Job Trends in South Wales

Elastic Elasticsearch
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Elasticsearch skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 57 47
Rank change year-on-year -3 -10 +48
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 3 9 23
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 0.39% 1.43% 3.74%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.48% 6.38% 15.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 8
10th Percentile - - £50,875
25th Percentile £68,813 £41,594 £57,963
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £56,826 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.87% -12.58% +18.18%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £72,038
90th Percentile - - £78,750
Wales median annual salary £73,801 £56,826 £65,000
% change year-on-year +29.87% -12.58% +18.18%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 67 141 147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 8.66% 22.38% 23.90%
Number of salaries quoted 36 99 94
10th Percentile £35,625 £23,750 £38,250
25th Percentile £41,500 £31,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £44,344 £52,301
Median % change year-on-year +24.03% -15.21% +4.60%
75th Percentile £62,372 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,270 £74,144 £72,850
Wales median annual salary £53,750 £47,307 £47,500
% change year-on-year +13.62% -0.41% -2.06%

Elasticsearch
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Elasticsearch relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Elasticsearch job vacancy trend in South Wales

Elasticsearch
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Elasticsearch.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Elasticsearch within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Cardiff +7 3 £73,801 +29.87% 1
Elasticsearch
Wales

Elasticsearch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon ECR
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) dbt
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) Pulumi
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (66.67%) PaaS
2 2 (66.67%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (100.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Prototyping
3 1 (33.33%) Application Performance Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google