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 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 144 248
Rank change year-on-year -42 +104 -77
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 34 10 31
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.43% 0.34% 0.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.20% 2.13% 2.44%
Number of salaries quoted 19 4 31
10th Percentile - £49,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £53,125 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £61,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +11.36% -22.54%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,188 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £71,125 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £69,384 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.52% +15.64% -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 654 469 1,270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 8.22% 15.72% 12.49%
Number of salaries quoted 365 304 912
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,952
Median % change year-on-year - +3.87% +0.48%
75th Percentile £66,250 £68,216 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,738 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +7.76% -10.77%

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 28 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Elasticsearch in the South West

Elasticsearch
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 28 June 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 -16 27 £55,000 -8.33% 8
Devon - 6 £45,000 - 1
Wiltshire - 1 £57,500 -
Elasticsearch
England

Elasticsearch
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 (26.47%) Apache
2 4 (11.76%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.94%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 23 (67.65%) AWS
2 20 (58.82%) Azure
3 6 (17.65%) GitHub
3 6 (17.65%) GitHub Copilot
4 5 (14.71%) Amazon S3
5 2 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (5.88%) Azure AKS
5 2 (5.88%) GCP
5 2 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (5.88%) OpenShift
5 2 (5.88%) Serverless
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (44.12%) MongoDB
2 12 (35.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (8.82%) Big Data
5 2 (5.88%) DynamoDB
5 2 (5.88%) MySQL
5 2 (5.88%) Neo4j
5 2 (5.88%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 15 (44.12%) GitLab
2 10 (29.41%) Cucumber
3 9 (26.47%) Jenkins
3 9 (26.47%) SonarQube
4 3 (8.82%) Bitbucket
4 3 (8.82%) Git
5 1 (2.94%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.94%) JIRA
5 1 (2.94%) Maven
General
1 6 (17.65%) Finance
1 6 (17.65%) Games
2 5 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (44.12%) Developer
2 12 (35.29%) .NET Developer
3 11 (32.35%) Software Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Python Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Senior
6 3 (8.82%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Data Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Elasticsearch Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (2.94%) Lead
8 1 (2.94%) Lead Developer
8 1 (2.94%) Python Developer
8 1 (2.94%) Senior Data Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.94%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (55.88%) Node.js
2 14 (41.18%) Vue
3 12 (35.29%) .NET
3 12 (35.29%) .NET Core
3 12 (35.29%) ASP.NET
3 12 (35.29%) ASP.NET Core
4 9 (26.47%) AngularJS
4 9 (26.47%) Apache NiFi
4 9 (26.47%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (26.47%) React
5 6 (17.65%) .NET Framework
5 6 (17.65%) ASP.NET Web API
5 6 (17.65%) Blazor
6 4 (11.76%) OAuth
6 4 (11.76%) OpenID
7 3 (8.82%) RESTful
8 2 (5.88%) MERN Stack
9 1 (2.94%) Django
9 1 (2.94%) FastAPI
9 1 (2.94%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.88%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (52.94%) Full-Stack Development
2 16 (47.06%) CI/CD
2 16 (47.06%) Microservices
3 14 (41.18%) Software Engineering
4 13 (38.24%) DevOps
5 11 (32.35%) Collaborative Culture
5 11 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (29.41%) Agile
7 6 (17.65%) Scrum
8 5 (14.71%) Analytics
8 5 (14.71%) Service Delivery
9 4 (11.76%) AI
9 4 (11.76%) Data Management
9 4 (11.76%) Data Science
9 4 (11.76%) Machine Learning
9 4 (11.76%) Migration
9 4 (11.76%) MLOps
9 4 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
9 4 (11.76%) SDLC
10 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 21 (61.76%) Python
2 17 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 17 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 16 (47.06%) Java
4 14 (41.18%) SQL
5 12 (35.29%) C#
6 9 (26.47%) Bash
7 8 (23.53%) Go
8 7 (20.59%) C++
8 7 (20.59%) Rust
9 4 (11.76%) Scala
10 2 (5.88%) C
Qualifications
1 17 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (20.59%) DV Cleared
3 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (38.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (52.94%) Kubernetes
2 14 (41.18%) Terraform
3 11 (32.35%) Ansible
4 10 (29.41%) Grafana
4 10 (29.41%) Kibana
5 9 (26.47%) logstash
6 2 (5.88%) Rancher
7 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 6 (17.65%) Google