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 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 457 369 304
Rank change year-on-year -88 -65 +171
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 88 129 538
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.49% 0.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.97% 2.94% 4.77%
Number of salaries quoted 61 110 340
10th Percentile £48,750 £49,875 £35,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +27.27% -10.93%
75th Percentile £78,790 £83,750 £73,750
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 4,466 4,389 11,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.93% 16.83% 17.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2,581 2,948 8,144
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +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 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -8.00%

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 30 March 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 30 March 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 -24 23 £67,500 -6.90% 13
North of England -59 21 £73,801 +6.48% 12
North West -28 16 £67,500 - 10
East of England -28 12 £51,250 +2.50% 4
South East -60 11 £62,500 -24.24% 20
Scotland -33 9 £73,801 +6.48% 2
Midlands -36 5 £65,000 - 7
North East -20 4 £73,801 +6.37%
Wales -24 4 £73,801 +7.79% 3
West Midlands -11 3 £73,801 +6.48% 3
Northern Ireland -35 3 £73,801 +18.74%
East Midlands -47 2 £53,750 -17.31% 4
Yorkshire -53 1 - - 2
Elasticsearch
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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 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 10 (11.36%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (6.82%) Apache
4 5 (5.68%) Apache Solr
5 4 (4.55%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 65 (73.86%) AWS
2 56 (63.64%) Azure
3 33 (37.50%) GCP
4 30 (34.09%) dbt
5 24 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
6 21 (23.86%) Amazon ECS
7 20 (22.73%) Amazon ECR
7 20 (22.73%) Pulumi
8 17 (19.32%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 14 (15.91%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 14 (15.91%) PaaS
9 14 (15.91%) Sentry
10 10 (11.36%) Snowflake
11 9 (10.23%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (9.09%) Amazon S3
13 7 (7.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (7.95%) Power Platform
13 7 (7.95%) Serverless
14 4 (4.55%) AWS CodeBuild
14 4 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 20 (22.73%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.27%) Hyperconnected
2 2 (2.27%) Internet
3 1 (1.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (30.68%) Redis
3 20 (22.73%) Amazon RDS
4 19 (21.59%) MongoDB
5 15 (17.05%) Neo4j
6 10 (11.36%) Looker
7 9 (10.23%) NoSQL
8 8 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (9.09%) MySQL
9 7 (7.95%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (7.95%) BigQuery
9 7 (7.95%) Data Lake
9 7 (7.95%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (7.95%) Power BI
9 7 (7.95%) Snowflake Schema
9 7 (7.95%) Tableau
10 4 (4.55%) DynamoDB
11 3 (3.41%) DocumentDB
11 3 (3.41%) Flink
12 2 (2.27%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 14 (15.91%) Git
2 13 (14.77%) GitLab
3 8 (9.09%) Cucumber
4 7 (7.95%) Bitbucket
4 7 (7.95%) MLflow
5 5 (5.68%) JIRA
5 5 (5.68%) JUnit
6 4 (4.55%) Cypress.io
6 4 (4.55%) Jenkins
7 3 (3.41%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.27%) Appium
8 2 (2.27%) Katalon Studio
8 2 (2.27%) REST Assured
8 2 (2.27%) Selenium
9 1 (1.14%) Maven
9 1 (1.14%) PHPUnit
9 1 (1.14%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.14%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.14%) TestNG
9 1 (1.14%) WebDriver
General
1 15 (17.05%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.77%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (3.41%) Games
5 1 (1.14%) Finance
5 1 (1.14%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 37 (42.05%) Senior
2 23 (26.14%) Software Engineer
3 18 (20.45%) Platform Engineer
4 15 (17.05%) Developer
5 14 (15.91%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 7 (7.95%) .NET Developer
6 7 (7.95%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (7.95%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 7 (7.95%) Systems Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) C Software Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) Site Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Applications Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Data Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Python Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Test Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) UI Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (28.41%) React
2 22 (25.00%) Node.js
3 20 (22.73%) Django
4 18 (20.45%) AngularJS
5 12 (13.64%) MERN Stack
6 11 (12.50%) Kafka
7 8 (9.09%) .NET
7 8 (9.09%) ASP.NET
7 8 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (9.09%) Vue
8 7 (7.95%) .NET Core
8 7 (7.95%) ASP.NET Core
8 7 (7.95%) LangChain
8 7 (7.95%) LlamaIndex
8 7 (7.95%) pgvector
8 7 (7.95%) PyTorch
8 7 (7.95%) scikit-learn
8 7 (7.95%) TensorFlow
9 6 (6.82%) Apache NiFi
10 5 (5.68%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.91%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 10 (11.36%) Public Cloud
4 8 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (7.95%) Clustering
6 2 (2.27%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.14%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.14%) e-Learning
7 1 (1.14%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.14%) NHS
7 1 (1.14%) PMI
7 1 (1.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 30 (34.09%) Linux
2 20 (22.73%) Unix
3 2 (2.27%) Windows
3 2 (2.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (47.73%) CI/CD
2 33 (37.50%) DevOps
3 29 (32.95%) Software Engineering
4 25 (28.41%) Observability
4 25 (28.41%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (27.27%) Agile
6 23 (26.14%) Infrastructure as Code
7 22 (25.00%) AI
8 21 (23.86%) Clean Code
8 21 (23.86%) Machine Learning
9 19 (21.59%) Migration
10 18 (20.45%) Platform Engineering
11 17 (19.32%) Open Source
12 16 (18.18%) Analytics
12 16 (18.18%) Service-Level Objective
12 16 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 14 (15.91%) Data Science
13 14 (15.91%) Microservices
13 14 (15.91%) Prototyping
14 13 (14.77%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 65 (73.86%) Python
2 34 (38.64%) Java
3 32 (36.36%) JavaScript
4 27 (30.68%) TypeScript
5 21 (23.86%) SQL
6 12 (13.64%) C
7 10 (11.36%) C#
8 4 (4.55%) Go
8 4 (4.55%) PHP
8 4 (4.55%) Scala
9 3 (3.41%) Bash
10 1 (1.14%) C++
10 1 (1.14%) Rust
10 1 (1.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (44.32%) Security Cleared
2 24 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 14 (15.91%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.68%) Degree
5 2 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 7 (7.95%) GDPR
2 4 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.27%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.14%) QA
System Software
1 45 (51.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (37.50%) Terraform
2 32 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 14 (15.91%) AWS Copilot
4 12 (13.64%) Kibana
5 8 (9.09%) Ansible
5 8 (9.09%) logstash
6 5 (5.68%) Grafana
7 3 (3.41%) Rancher
8 2 (2.27%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.14%) Argo
9 1 (1.14%) Graylog
Vendors
1 24 (27.27%) Google
2 9 (10.23%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.95%) Cloudera
3 7 (7.95%) Databricks
3 7 (7.95%) Dell
4 3 (3.41%) Atlassian
4 3 (3.41%) Confluent
4 3 (3.41%) Oracle
5 1 (1.14%) Rollbar