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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 214 167
Rank change year-on-year +55 -47 +27
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 10 26 58
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.29% 0.35% 1.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.40% 3.05% 6.22%
Number of salaries quoted 5 16 36
10th Percentile £50,500 - £48,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -21.43% +55.56%
75th Percentile £75,000 £64,063 £82,500
90th Percentile £80,250 £82,500 -
England median annual salary £64,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -8.57% +3.70% -6.90%

All Database and 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 417 852 932
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 11.93% 11.34% 19.50%
Number of salaries quoted 284 461 743
10th Percentile £31,625 £36,250 £36,285
25th Percentile £37,288 £45,000 £44,192
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £57,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +2.68% +12.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £83,746 £83,750 £84,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +1.56% +6.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Elasticsearch as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Elasticsearch 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 2025. 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 +28 8 £65,000 +18.18% 5
Bristol +40 1 £62,500 +13.64% 1
Somerset - 1 - - 1
Elasticsearch
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) Apache
2 2 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) MongoDB
2 5 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (10.00%) ClickHouse
4 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (10.00%) MySQL
4 1 (10.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) Git
1 7 (70.00%) GitLab
2 4 (40.00%) JUnit
3 2 (20.00%) Bitbucket
3 2 (20.00%) JIRA
4 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 4 (40.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Automotive
2 1 (10.00%) Electronics
2 1 (10.00%) Games
2 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (10.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) React
2 5 (50.00%) Hibernate
3 4 (40.00%) JSF
4 3 (30.00%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (10.00%) .NET
5 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
5 1 (10.00%) Kafka
5 1 (10.00%) MERN Stack
5 1 (10.00%) Node.js
5 1 (10.00%) Pandas
5 1 (10.00%) PrimeFaces
5 1 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (10.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cyberattack
1 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (10.00%) IoT
1 1 (10.00%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Software Engineering
2 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (70.00%) Agile
4 5 (50.00%) Scrum
4 5 (50.00%) Unit Testing
5 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
7 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (10.00%) Data Integration
7 1 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
7 1 (10.00%) Design Patterns
7 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps
7 1 (10.00%) Exploratory Testing
7 1 (10.00%) Kanban
7 1 (10.00%) Line Management
7 1 (10.00%) OWASP
7 1 (10.00%) SDLC
7 1 (10.00%) Secure Coding
7 1 (10.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Java
1 9 (90.00%) JavaScript
1 9 (90.00%) Python
1 9 (90.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (20.00%) C++
3 1 (10.00%) Go
3 1 (10.00%) Rust
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Kibana
2 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Oracle
2 6 (60.00%) Atlassian