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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 441 420 437
Rank change year-on-year -21 +17 -72
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 220 123 183
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.35% 0.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.12% 3.07% 2.78%
Number of salaries quoted 200 63 101
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,911
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,875 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -14.81% +3.85%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -8.57% +3.70%

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 5,342 4,007 6,576
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.18% 11.53% 12.70%
Number of salaries quoted 3,850 2,477 3,425
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,900 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,125 £37,500 £41,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +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 7 October 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 7 October 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 East 0 90 £55,000 -26.67% 35
South West -41 43 £55,000 -12.00% 24
Midlands -6 37 £57,500 -2.54% 24
North of England -41 33 £57,500 +2.22% 48
West Midlands -21 28 £60,000 +1.69% 12
East of England -35 26 £55,000 +10.00% 16
North West -15 18 £47,500 -15.56% 37
East Midlands -22 9 £55,000 - 12
Yorkshire -27 8 £57,500 -11.54% 8
North East -63 7 £75,000 +42.86% 3
Wales - 4 £45,000 - 6
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 8 (3.64%) Apache
2 5 (2.27%) Confluence
3 3 (1.36%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.45%) nginx
4 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 187 (85.00%) Azure
2 124 (56.36%) AWS
3 46 (20.91%) GitHub
4 45 (20.45%) GitHub Copilot
5 39 (17.73%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (10.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 13 (5.91%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (5.45%) Azure Key Vault
8 12 (5.45%) Azure Monitor
8 12 (5.45%) Azure Service Bus
9 11 (5.00%) Serverless
10 7 (3.18%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (3.18%) GCP
11 6 (2.73%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 6 (2.73%) OpenShift
12 5 (2.27%) SaaS
13 3 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.36%) Azure AKS
13 3 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.55%) HTTP
2 6 (2.73%) Hyperconnected
2 6 (2.73%) Internet
3 3 (1.36%) MQTT
3 3 (1.36%) Network Security
4 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (63.18%) Azure SQL Database
2 135 (61.36%) MongoDB
3 25 (11.36%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (5.45%) SQL Server
5 9 (4.09%) DynamoDB
6 7 (3.18%) Redis
7 6 (2.73%) MySQL
8 5 (2.27%) Neo4j
8 5 (2.27%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.36%) ClickHouse
9 3 (1.36%) GIS
10 2 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.91%) Big Data
10 2 (0.91%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.45%) DocumentDB
11 1 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.45%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 25 (11.36%) Git
2 15 (6.82%) GitLab
3 12 (5.45%) Cucumber
4 11 (5.00%) SonarQube
5 9 (4.09%) Gatling
5 9 (4.09%) Jenkins
5 9 (4.09%) JMeter
5 9 (4.09%) LoadRunner
6 6 (2.73%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.27%) JIRA
8 4 (1.82%) Robot Framework
9 3 (1.36%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.91%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.91%) Mocha
General
1 37 (16.82%) Finance
2 23 (10.45%) Social Skills
3 20 (9.09%) Retail
4 19 (8.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (6.36%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.00%) Games
7 8 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (0.91%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.45%) Police
Job Titles
1 164 (74.55%) Developer
2 151 (68.64%) .NET Developer
3 34 (15.45%) Senior
4 18 (8.18%) Lead
5 17 (7.73%) Software Engineer
6 14 (6.36%) Azure Engineer
7 13 (5.91%) Azure Data Engineer
7 13 (5.91%) Data Engineer
7 13 (5.91%) Elasticsearch Engineer
7 13 (5.91%) Kafka Engineer
7 13 (5.91%) Python Data Engineer
7 13 (5.91%) Python Engineer
7 13 (5.91%) Senior Data Engineer
8 12 (5.45%) Lead .NET Developer
8 12 (5.45%) Lead Developer
9 9 (4.09%) Performance Tester
9 9 (4.09%) Senior Developer
9 9 (4.09%) Tester
10 7 (3.18%) Senior Performance Tester
10 7 (3.18%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (70.00%) .NET
2 151 (68.64%) ASP.NET
3 148 (67.27%) .NET Core
4 140 (63.64%) Node.js
5 139 (63.18%) ASP.NET Core
6 90 (40.91%) React
7 71 (32.27%) Blazor
8 70 (31.82%) ASP.NET Web API
9 64 (29.09%) Vue
10 61 (27.73%) AngularJS
11 48 (21.82%) .NET Framework
12 37 (16.82%) Entity Framework
13 32 (14.55%) CSS
13 32 (14.55%) HTML
14 24 (10.91%) Terraform
15 19 (8.64%) REST
16 16 (7.27%) Kafka
16 16 (7.27%) Keycloak
17 15 (6.82%) gRPC
18 11 (5.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
2 14 (6.36%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.91%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.82%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.91%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.45%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.45%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.45%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.45%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.64%) Linux
2 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.45%) Solaris
2 1 (0.45%) Unix
2 1 (0.45%) Windows
2 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (68.64%) Agile
2 148 (67.27%) Full-Stack Development
3 139 (63.18%) Microservices
4 80 (36.36%) Scrum
5 66 (30.00%) CI/CD
6 65 (29.55%) DevOps
7 56 (25.45%) TDD
8 50 (22.73%) BDD
8 50 (22.73%) Kanban
9 26 (11.82%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (11.36%) Mentoring
11 21 (9.55%) Software Engineering
12 17 (7.73%) Analytics
12 17 (7.73%) Decision-Making
13 16 (7.27%) Event-Driven
13 16 (7.27%) Infrastructure as Code
13 16 (7.27%) OO
14 15 (6.82%) Performance Optimisation
14 15 (6.82%) Workflow
15 14 (6.36%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 155 (70.45%) C#
2 154 (70.00%) SQL
3 90 (40.91%) JavaScript
4 84 (38.18%) TypeScript
5 41 (18.64%) Python
6 22 (10.00%) Go
7 19 (8.64%) Java
8 10 (4.55%) Rust
9 9 (4.09%) Bash
10 7 (3.18%) C++
11 3 (1.36%) PHP
12 2 (0.91%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.91%) Ruby
13 1 (0.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 45 (20.45%) Security Cleared
2 29 (13.18%) SC Cleared
3 18 (8.18%) DV Cleared
4 13 (5.91%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.27%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.45%) QA
2 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 68 (30.91%) Docker
2 2 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 62 (28.18%) Kubernetes
2 24 (10.91%) Ansible
3 20 (9.09%) Grafana
4 18 (8.18%) Kibana
5 10 (4.55%) logstash
6 3 (1.36%) Podman
6 3 (1.36%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.36%) Puppet
6 3 (1.36%) Rancher
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 136 (61.82%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.00%) Google
3 9 (4.09%) AppDynamics
3 9 (4.09%) Dynatrace
4 3 (1.36%) NVIDIA
4 3 (1.36%) Tenable
5 2 (0.91%) New Relic
5 2 (0.91%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.91%) Oracle
5 2 (0.91%) VMware
6 1 (0.45%) Red Hat