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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 156 211
Rank change year-on-year -38 +55 -44
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 42 10 27
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.41% 0.29% 0.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.71% 2.43% 3.20%
Number of salaries quoted 25 5 16
10th Percentile - £50,500 -
25th Percentile £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +13.64% -18.52%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £64,063
90th Percentile - £80,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -8.57% +3.70%

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 735 411 845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.19% 11.80% 11.34%
Number of salaries quoted 474 278 448
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,125 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,650 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +2.68%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +1.56%

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

Elasticsearch
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch in the South West over the 6 months to 21 September 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 21 September 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 -36 31 £85,000 +30.77% 27
Devon - 11 £45,000 - 5
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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 9 (21.43%) Apache
2 3 (7.14%) Confluence
3 1 (2.38%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 33 (78.57%) Azure
2 25 (59.52%) AWS
3 11 (26.19%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (14.29%) GitHub
4 6 (14.29%) GitHub Copilot
5 4 (9.52%) OpenShift
6 3 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (7.14%) Azure AKS
6 3 (7.14%) GCP
6 3 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.38%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (40.48%) MongoDB
2 15 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (30.95%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (7.14%) DynamoDB
4 3 (7.14%) MySQL
4 3 (7.14%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.76%) Big Data
5 2 (4.76%) GIS
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.38%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.38%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 12 (28.57%) GitLab
2 9 (21.43%) Cucumber
2 9 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 9 (21.43%) SonarQube
3 6 (14.29%) Git
4 3 (7.14%) Bitbucket
4 3 (7.14%) JIRA
5 1 (2.38%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.38%) Mocha
General
1 7 (16.67%) Finance
2 6 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (14.29%) Games
3 4 (9.52%) Social Skills
4 3 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (42.86%) Developer
2 13 (30.95%) .NET Developer
3 11 (26.19%) Azure Data Engineer
3 11 (26.19%) Azure Engineer
3 11 (26.19%) Data Engineer
3 11 (26.19%) Elasticsearch Engineer
3 11 (26.19%) Kafka Engineer
3 11 (26.19%) Python Data Engineer
3 11 (26.19%) Python Engineer
3 11 (26.19%) Senior
3 11 (26.19%) Senior Data Engineer
4 10 (23.81%) Software Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Digital Developer
6 2 (4.76%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 1 (2.38%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Principal Software Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Python Developer
7 1 (2.38%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (33.33%) Node.js
1 14 (33.33%) Vue
2 13 (30.95%) .NET
2 13 (30.95%) .NET Core
2 13 (30.95%) ASP.NET
2 13 (30.95%) ASP.NET Core
2 13 (30.95%) Terraform
3 12 (28.57%) React
4 11 (26.19%) Kafka
4 11 (26.19%) Keycloak
5 10 (23.81%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (21.43%) Apache NiFi
7 7 (16.67%) .NET Framework
7 7 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
7 7 (16.67%) Blazor
8 6 (14.29%) AngularJS
9 5 (11.90%) Next.js
10 4 (9.52%) RESTful
11 3 (7.14%) CSS
11 3 (7.14%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (26.19%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (7.14%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (57.14%) DevOps
2 22 (52.38%) Full-Stack Development
3 18 (42.86%) Microservices
4 17 (40.48%) CI/CD
5 15 (35.71%) Agile
6 14 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (33.33%) Software Engineering
7 12 (28.57%) Collaborative Culture
7 12 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
8 11 (26.19%) Analytics
8 11 (26.19%) Data Security
8 11 (26.19%) Decision-Making
8 11 (26.19%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 11 (26.19%) ETL
8 11 (26.19%) ETL Development
8 11 (26.19%) Workflow
9 8 (19.05%) Scrum
9 8 (19.05%) Test Automation
10 6 (14.29%) Service Delivery
11 5 (11.90%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 27 (64.29%) Python
2 20 (47.62%) Go
2 20 (47.62%) JavaScript
2 20 (47.62%) SQL
2 20 (47.62%) TypeScript
3 13 (30.95%) C#
3 13 (30.95%) Java
4 9 (21.43%) Bash
5 8 (19.05%) C++
5 8 (19.05%) Rust
Qualifications
1 27 (64.29%) Security Cleared
2 15 (35.71%) DV Cleared
2 15 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 11 (26.19%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.38%) Degree
System Software
1 8 (19.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (30.95%) Ansible
2 10 (23.81%) Kubernetes
3 9 (21.43%) Grafana
3 9 (21.43%) Kibana
3 9 (21.43%) logstash
4 3 (7.14%) Rancher
Vendors
1 13 (30.95%) Microsoft
2 6 (14.29%) Google