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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 428 424 364
Rank change year-on-year -4 -60 +47
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 90 184 190
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.39% 0.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.30% 2.95% 3.03%
Number of salaries quoted 64 115 134
10th Percentile £47,875 £43,911 £43,600
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +6.63% +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,790 £83,125 £78,750
90th Percentile £83,375 £84,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year -7.14% +1.82% +1.85%

All Database and 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 3,905 6,239 6,272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.66% 13.21% 20.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2,613 3,170 4,930
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £67,900
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%

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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 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
Scotland +2 22 £73,801 +6.48% 5
North of England +33 18 £65,000 -3.70% 27
South East -12 18 £75,000 -9.09% 25
North West +13 13 £57,500 -9.80% 21
South West +25 11 £67,500 +17.39% 19
East of England +20 11 £50,000 -23.08% 9
Midlands +46 5 £65,000 +1.96% 18
West Midlands +43 5 £65,000 -6.22% 12
North East +1 3 £73,801 +6.48% 1
Wales +1 3 £73,801 +9.33% 2
Yorkshire +9 2 £65,000 - 6
Northern Ireland +3 2 £73,801 +6.48%
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 9 (10.00%) Apache Solr
2 6 (6.67%) Apache
2 6 (6.67%) IIS
3 4 (4.44%) CMS
3 4 (4.44%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 47 (52.22%) AWS
2 43 (47.78%) Azure
3 21 (23.33%) Amazon ECS
4 18 (20.00%) GCP
5 17 (18.89%) AWS CloudFormation
6 16 (17.78%) Amazon ECR
6 16 (17.78%) dbt
6 16 (17.78%) Pulumi
7 11 (12.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 10 (11.11%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 10 (11.11%) Amazon S3
8 10 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (11.11%) Cloudflare
8 10 (11.11%) PaaS
8 10 (11.11%) Sentry
8 10 (11.11%) Serverless
9 6 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (6.67%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (17.78%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.22%) Broadband
2 2 (2.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (25.56%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (24.44%) Redis
3 19 (21.11%) MySQL
4 17 (18.89%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (13.33%) MongoDB
6 10 (11.11%) SQL Server
7 7 (7.78%) Apache Cassandra
7 7 (7.78%) Relational Database
8 6 (6.67%) NoSQL
9 4 (4.44%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (4.44%) DynamoDB
9 4 (4.44%) InterSystems Cache
9 4 (4.44%) Neo4j
9 4 (4.44%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.11%) Big Data
10 1 (1.11%) ClickHouse
10 1 (1.11%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 40 (44.44%) Git
2 10 (11.11%) GitLab
3 9 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 7 (7.78%) JIRA
4 7 (7.78%) JUnit
5 6 (6.67%) MSBuild
5 6 (6.67%) NUnit
5 6 (6.67%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (6.67%) Team Foundation Server
5 6 (6.67%) TeamCity
5 6 (6.67%) Visual Studio
6 5 (5.56%) Jasmine
7 4 (4.44%) Bitbucket
7 4 (4.44%) Cucumber
8 3 (3.33%) REST Assured
9 2 (2.22%) Appium
9 2 (2.22%) Katalon Studio
9 2 (2.22%) Selenium
10 1 (1.11%) SonarQube
10 1 (1.11%) Subversion
General
1 22 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.44%) Finance
3 12 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 12 (13.33%) Law
4 8 (8.89%) Marketing
5 6 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.67%) Games
5 6 (6.67%) Retail
6 5 (5.56%) Banking
7 4 (4.44%) Automotive
7 4 (4.44%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.33%) Aerospace
9 2 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.11%) Advertising
10 1 (1.11%) Electronics
10 1 (1.11%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.11%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 29 (32.22%) Senior
2 22 (24.44%) Software Engineer
3 19 (21.11%) Developer
4 11 (12.22%) Site Engineer
4 11 (12.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 10 (11.11%) Java Engineer
5 10 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
5 10 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
5 10 (11.11%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 9 (10.00%) .NET Developer
7 8 (8.89%) Senior Developer
8 7 (7.78%) Architect
9 6 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (6.67%) Senior .NET Developer
9 6 (6.67%) Technical Architect
10 5 (5.56%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 5 (5.56%) Integration Developer
10 5 (5.56%) Lead
10 5 (5.56%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (26.67%) .NET
2 21 (23.33%) React
3 18 (20.00%) REST
4 16 (17.78%) ASP.NET
4 16 (17.78%) CSS
4 16 (17.78%) Django
4 16 (17.78%) HTML
5 15 (16.67%) RESTful
6 11 (12.22%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (12.22%) Kafka
7 10 (11.11%) AngularJS
7 10 (11.11%) ASP.NET Core
8 9 (10.00%) CSS3
8 9 (10.00%) HTML5
9 8 (8.89%) Node.js
9 8 (8.89%) Spring
10 7 (7.78%) Vue
11 6 (6.67%) Apache NiFi
11 6 (6.67%) gRPC
11 6 (6.67%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 10 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.56%) Online Games
4 4 (4.44%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.44%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.44%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.22%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.11%) IoT
7 1 (1.11%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.11%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.11%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.11%) Smart Energy
7 1 (1.11%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 35 (38.89%) Linux
2 16 (17.78%) Unix
3 13 (14.44%) Windows
4 8 (8.89%) Windows Server
5 4 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (4.44%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (63.33%) CI/CD
2 36 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 30 (33.33%) Agile
4 29 (32.22%) DevOps
5 28 (31.11%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (25.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 22 (24.44%) Observability
8 20 (22.22%) AI
8 20 (22.22%) Service-Level Objective
9 19 (21.11%) Microservices
10 18 (20.00%) Clean Code
11 16 (17.78%) Infrastructure as Code
11 16 (17.78%) MVC
12 15 (16.67%) Machine Learning
13 13 (14.44%) Mentoring
13 13 (14.44%) Open Source
14 12 (13.33%) Migration
14 12 (13.33%) Scrum
14 12 (13.33%) SDLC
15 10 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 49 (54.44%) Python
2 36 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 30 (33.33%) Java
4 22 (24.44%) C#
4 22 (24.44%) SQL
4 22 (24.44%) TypeScript
5 6 (6.67%) PHP
5 6 (6.67%) PowerShell
6 5 (5.56%) Bash
7 3 (3.33%) C
7 3 (3.33%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.22%) Perl
Qualifications
1 26 (28.89%) Security Cleared
2 20 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.56%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.44%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.22%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.22%) Degree
6 1 (1.11%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.11%) GDPR
2 6 (6.67%) QA
3 2 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.22%) NIST
3 2 (2.22%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 41 (45.56%) Docker
2 2 (2.22%) Squid
Systems Management
1 27 (30.00%) Terraform
2 18 (20.00%) Kibana
3 17 (18.89%) Kubernetes
4 10 (11.11%) AWS Copilot
5 6 (6.67%) logstash
6 5 (5.56%) Ansible
6 5 (5.56%) Grafana
7 4 (4.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (17.78%) Google
1 16 (17.78%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.89%) Rollbar
3 7 (7.78%) Atlassian
3 7 (7.78%) Oracle
4 6 (6.67%) Splunk
5 4 (4.44%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.22%) LogRhythm
6 2 (2.22%) New Relic
7 1 (1.11%) CA Agile Central