Elasticsearch Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Elastic Elasticsearch
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Elasticsearch skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 485 372 301
Rank change year-on-year -113 -71 +168
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 80 125 553
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.48% 0.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.69% 2.86% 4.80%
Number of salaries quoted 54 107 343
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,400 £35,000
25th Percentile £51,563 £60,125 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +27.27% -12.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile - - £86,485
UK median annual salary £73,801 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.79% +20.83% -14.29%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 4,722 4,367 11,517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.90% 16.91% 17.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,716 2,972 8,242
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,565 £31,750
25th Percentile £40,500 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -10.20%

Elasticsearch
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Elasticsearch relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Elasticsearch job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Elasticsearch
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Elasticsearch.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Elasticsearch in the UK excluding London

Elasticsearch
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Elasticsearch within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 April 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
South West -15 23 £67,500 +5.88% 13
North of England -84 20 £73,801 +6.48% 12
North West -39 15 £70,651 +4.67% 10
East of England -30 11 £47,500 -5.00% 4
South East -61 10 £60,000 -27.27% 20
Scotland -14 7 £73,801 +6.48% 2
Midlands -50 4 £60,000 -7.69% 7
Wales -28 3 £73,801 +6.48% 3
North East -34 3 £73,801 +6.37%
West Midlands -23 2 £69,401 +0.13% 3
Northern Ireland -41 2 £73,801 +34.18%
Yorkshire -61 2 £75,000 +7.14% 2
East Midlands -61 2 £53,750 -17.31% 4
Elasticsearch
UK

Elasticsearch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (13.75%) Apache Spark
2 10 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (7.50%) Apache
4 4 (5.00%) Apache Solr
5 3 (3.75%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 60 (75.00%) AWS
2 47 (58.75%) Azure
3 27 (33.75%) GCP
4 24 (30.00%) dbt
5 18 (22.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 15 (18.75%) Amazon ECS
7 14 (17.50%) Amazon ECR
7 14 (17.50%) Pulumi
8 12 (15.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 10 (12.50%) Snowflake
10 8 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (10.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 8 (10.00%) PaaS
10 8 (10.00%) Sentry
11 7 (8.75%) Amazon S3
11 7 (8.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (8.75%) Power Platform
11 7 (8.75%) Serverless
12 4 (5.00%) AWS CodeBuild
12 4 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 14 (17.50%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.50%) Hyperconnected
2 2 (2.50%) Internet
3 1 (1.25%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (32.50%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (26.25%) Redis
3 19 (23.75%) MongoDB
4 16 (20.00%) Neo4j
5 14 (17.50%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (12.50%) Looker
6 10 (12.50%) NoSQL
7 8 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (8.75%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (8.75%) BigQuery
8 7 (8.75%) Data Lake
8 7 (8.75%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (8.75%) Power BI
8 7 (8.75%) Snowflake Schema
8 7 (8.75%) Tableau
9 6 (7.50%) MySQL
10 4 (5.00%) DocumentDB
10 4 (5.00%) DynamoDB
11 3 (3.75%) Flink
12 2 (2.50%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 13 (16.25%) GitLab
2 10 (12.50%) Git
3 8 (10.00%) Cucumber
4 7 (8.75%) MLflow
5 6 (7.50%) Bitbucket
6 4 (5.00%) Cypress.io
6 4 (5.00%) Jenkins
6 4 (5.00%) JIRA
6 4 (5.00%) SonarQube
7 3 (3.75%) JUnit
8 1 (1.25%) Appium
8 1 (1.25%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (1.25%) Maven
8 1 (1.25%) PHPUnit
8 1 (1.25%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.25%) Selenium
8 1 (1.25%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
1 14 (17.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (3.75%) Games
4 1 (1.25%) Finance
4 1 (1.25%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 32 (40.00%) Senior
2 24 (30.00%) Software Engineer
3 13 (16.25%) Developer
4 12 (15.00%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (10.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 7 (8.75%) .NET Developer
6 7 (8.75%) Senior Software Engineer
6 7 (8.75%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 7 (8.75%) Systems Engineer
7 6 (7.50%) C Software Engineer
7 6 (7.50%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (7.50%) Site Engineer
7 6 (7.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Applications Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Python Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Test Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) UI Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (31.25%) React
2 21 (26.25%) Node.js
3 18 (22.50%) AngularJS
4 14 (17.50%) Django
5 12 (15.00%) MERN Stack
6 11 (13.75%) Kafka
7 9 (11.25%) .NET
7 9 (11.25%) Vue
8 8 (10.00%) ASP.NET
8 8 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (8.75%) .NET Core
9 7 (8.75%) ASP.NET Core
9 7 (8.75%) LangChain
9 7 (8.75%) LlamaIndex
9 7 (8.75%) pgvector
9 7 (8.75%) PyTorch
9 7 (8.75%) scikit-learn
9 7 (8.75%) TensorFlow
10 6 (7.50%) Apache NiFi
11 5 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 10 (12.50%) Public Cloud
3 9 (11.25%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (8.75%) Clustering
6 1 (1.25%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.25%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.25%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.25%) NHS
6 1 (1.25%) PMI
6 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (26.25%) Linux
2 14 (17.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (42.50%) CI/CD
2 29 (36.25%) DevOps
3 28 (35.00%) Software Engineering
4 22 (27.50%) Agile
5 21 (26.25%) AI
5 21 (26.25%) Observability
6 20 (25.00%) Machine Learning
7 18 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (21.25%) Analytics
8 17 (21.25%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (18.75%) Clean Code
10 14 (17.50%) Data Science
11 13 (16.25%) Data Engineering
11 13 (16.25%) Full-Stack Development
11 13 (16.25%) Microservices
11 13 (16.25%) Migration
11 13 (16.25%) Platform Engineering
12 12 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
12 12 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
12 12 (15.00%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 57 (71.25%) Python
2 33 (41.25%) Java
3 30 (37.50%) JavaScript
4 28 (35.00%) TypeScript
5 21 (26.25%) SQL
6 12 (15.00%) C
7 11 (13.75%) C#
8 5 (6.25%) Go
9 4 (5.00%) Bash
9 4 (5.00%) Scala
10 2 (2.50%) C++
10 2 (2.50%) PHP
10 2 (2.50%) Rust
11 1 (1.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (42.50%) Security Cleared
2 18 (22.50%) SC Cleared
3 14 (17.50%) DV Cleared
4 6 (7.50%) Degree
5 3 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.25%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 7 (8.75%) GDPR
2 4 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 37 (46.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 28 (35.00%) Terraform
3 11 (13.75%) Kibana
4 8 (10.00%) AWS Copilot
4 8 (10.00%) logstash
5 7 (8.75%) Ansible
6 6 (7.50%) Grafana
7 3 (3.75%) Rancher
8 2 (2.50%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.25%) Argo
9 1 (1.25%) Graylog
Vendors
1 18 (22.50%) Google
2 7 (8.75%) Cloudera
2 7 (8.75%) Databricks
2 7 (8.75%) Dell
2 7 (8.75%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.75%) Confluent
4 2 (2.50%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.50%) Oracle
5 1 (1.25%) Rollbar