Elasticsearch Job Trends in the South West

Elastic Elasticsearch
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Elasticsearch skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 173 199
Rank change year-on-year +12 +26 -4
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 15 15 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.29% 0.36% 0.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.28% 2.14% 2.65%
Number of salaries quoted 8 3 19
10th Percentile - £54,250 £32,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £55,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -5.74% +10.91%
75th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £77,850
90th Percentile £78,500 £85,250 £90,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £80,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.63% +33.33% -14.29%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 457 702 869
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 8.90% 17.00% 18.23%
Number of salaries quoted 264 338 666
10th Percentile £34,000 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,375 £81,625 £84,403
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -6.29%

Elasticsearch
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Elasticsearch job vacancy trend in the South West

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Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Elasticsearch.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Elasticsearch

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Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch in the South West over the 6 months to 16 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Elasticsearch in the South West

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Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Elasticsearch within the South West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Gloucestershire +29 15 £67,500 -22.86% 13
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 8 (53.33%) Apache
2 5 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (86.67%) AWS
2 7 (46.67%) Azure
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
3 3 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) MongoDB
1 6 (40.00%) Neo4j
2 2 (13.33%) Big Data
2 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (60.00%) GitLab
2 6 (40.00%) Cucumber
2 6 (40.00%) Git
3 5 (33.33%) Bitbucket
3 5 (33.33%) JIRA
3 5 (33.33%) JUnit
4 3 (20.00%) Cypress.io
4 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 3 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
1 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (6.67%) Games
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) C Software Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Test Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (80.00%) React
2 8 (53.33%) Apache NiFi
3 6 (40.00%) AngularJS
3 6 (40.00%) MERN Stack
4 5 (33.33%) Hibernate
4 5 (33.33%) JSF
5 4 (26.67%) PrimeFaces
6 3 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (20.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 9 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (40.00%) Agile
3 6 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (33.33%) Scrum
4 5 (33.33%) Unit Testing
5 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
6 3 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
6 3 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
6 3 (20.00%) DevOps
6 3 (20.00%) Microservices
6 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Development
7 1 (6.67%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Java
1 15 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 15 (100.00%) Python
1 15 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 6 (40.00%) C
3 3 (20.00%) Bash
4 1 (6.67%) C++
4 1 (6.67%) Go
4 1 (6.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 11 (73.33%) Security Cleared
2 9 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (60.00%) Kibana
2 6 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (20.00%) Ansible
3 3 (20.00%) Grafana
3 3 (20.00%) logstash
3 3 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Atlassian
1 6 (40.00%) Oracle