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

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 433 434 348
Rank change year-on-year +1 -86 +57
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 94 177 206
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.37% 0.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.47% 2.90% 3.22%
Number of salaries quoted 67 110 138
10th Percentile £48,250 £43,911 £44,400
25th Percentile £56,250 £54,375 £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 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -

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 3,809 6,103 6,392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.46% 12.85% 21.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,579 3,105 5,002
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £67,975
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 12 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 12 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% 9
South East -12 22 £75,000 -9.09% 23
North of England -11 18 £65,000 - 45
North West +9 13 £57,500 -4.17% 37
South West +21 11 £67,500 +17.39% 15
East of England +14 11 £50,000 -24.53% 10
Midlands +49 5 £65,000 +1.96% 16
West Midlands +44 5 £65,000 -6.22% 11
North East +6 3 £73,801 +6.48%
Wales +2 3 £73,801 +9.33% 2
Yorkshire +6 2 £65,000 - 8
Northern Ireland +5 2 £73,801 +6.48% 1
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 (9.57%) Apache Solr
2 7 (7.45%) IIS
3 6 (6.38%) Apache
4 4 (4.26%) CMS
4 4 (4.26%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 48 (51.06%) AWS
2 45 (47.87%) Azure
3 20 (21.28%) Amazon ECS
4 19 (20.21%) GCP
5 16 (17.02%) Amazon ECR
5 16 (17.02%) AWS CloudFormation
5 16 (17.02%) dbt
5 16 (17.02%) Pulumi
6 11 (11.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 11 (11.70%) Cloudflare
7 10 (10.64%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 10 (10.64%) PaaS
7 10 (10.64%) Sentry
8 9 (9.57%) Amazon S3
8 9 (9.57%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (9.57%) Serverless
9 7 (7.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 7 (7.45%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (7.45%) Azure Service Bus
9 7 (7.45%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (17.02%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.13%) Broadband
2 2 (2.13%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (23.40%) PostgreSQL
1 22 (23.40%) Redis
2 21 (22.34%) MySQL
3 17 (18.09%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (12.77%) MongoDB
4 12 (12.77%) SQL Server
5 7 (7.45%) Apache Cassandra
5 7 (7.45%) Relational Database
6 6 (6.38%) NoSQL
7 4 (4.26%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (4.26%) InterSystems Cache
7 4 (4.26%) Neo4j
7 4 (4.26%) RDBMS
8 3 (3.19%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.06%) Big Data
9 1 (1.06%) ClickHouse
9 1 (1.06%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 44 (46.81%) Git
2 10 (10.64%) GitLab
3 9 (9.57%) Jenkins
4 8 (8.51%) JIRA
5 7 (7.45%) JUnit
5 7 (7.45%) MSBuild
5 7 (7.45%) NUnit
5 7 (7.45%) Octopus Deploy
5 7 (7.45%) Team Foundation Server
5 7 (7.45%) TeamCity
5 7 (7.45%) Visual Studio
6 6 (6.38%) Jasmine
7 4 (4.26%) Bitbucket
7 4 (4.26%) Cucumber
8 3 (3.19%) REST Assured
9 2 (2.13%) Appium
9 2 (2.13%) Katalon Studio
9 2 (2.13%) Selenium
9 2 (2.13%) Subversion
10 1 (1.06%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (22.34%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.83%) Finance
3 12 (12.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 12 (12.77%) Law
4 8 (8.51%) Marketing
5 7 (7.45%) Games
5 7 (7.45%) Retail
6 6 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (5.32%) Banking
8 4 (4.26%) Automotive
8 4 (4.26%) Investment Banking
9 3 (3.19%) Aerospace
10 2 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.06%) Advertising
11 1 (1.06%) Electronics
11 1 (1.06%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.06%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 32 (34.04%) Senior
2 23 (24.47%) Software Engineer
3 21 (22.34%) Developer
4 11 (11.70%) Site Engineer
4 11 (11.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 10 (10.64%) Java Engineer
5 10 (10.64%) Java Software Engineer
5 10 (10.64%) Platform Engineer
5 10 (10.64%) Senior Developer
5 10 (10.64%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 9 (9.57%) .NET Developer
7 8 (8.51%) Architect
8 7 (7.45%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (7.45%) Technical Architect
9 6 (6.38%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (6.38%) Senior .NET Developer
9 6 (6.38%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (5.32%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 5 (5.32%) Integration Developer
10 5 (5.32%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (28.72%) .NET
2 22 (23.40%) React
3 19 (20.21%) CSS
3 19 (20.21%) HTML
3 19 (20.21%) REST
4 18 (19.15%) ASP.NET
5 16 (17.02%) Django
5 16 (17.02%) RESTful
6 12 (12.77%) AngularJS
6 12 (12.77%) Kafka
7 11 (11.70%) ASP.NET Core
7 11 (11.70%) Elastic Stack
7 11 (11.70%) HTML5
8 10 (10.64%) CSS3
9 8 (8.51%) Bootstrap
9 8 (8.51%) Spring
9 8 (8.51%) Vue
10 7 (7.45%) gRPC
10 7 (7.45%) JSON
10 7 (7.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.64%) Cloud Native
1 10 (10.64%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.32%) Online Games
4 4 (4.26%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.26%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.26%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.19%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.13%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.13%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.06%) Animation
7 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.06%) IoT
7 1 (1.06%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.06%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.06%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.06%) Smart Energy
7 1 (1.06%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 35 (37.23%) Linux
2 16 (17.02%) Unix
3 13 (13.83%) Windows
4 8 (8.51%) Windows Server
5 4 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (4.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (61.70%) CI/CD
2 36 (38.30%) Software Engineering
3 31 (32.98%) Agile
4 30 (31.91%) DevOps
5 29 (30.85%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (24.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 22 (23.40%) Observability
8 20 (21.28%) AI
8 20 (21.28%) Microservices
8 20 (21.28%) Service-Level Objective
9 19 (20.21%) Clean Code
9 19 (20.21%) MVC
10 16 (17.02%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (15.96%) Machine Learning
11 15 (15.96%) Mentoring
12 13 (13.83%) Open Source
13 12 (12.77%) Scrum
13 12 (12.77%) SDLC
14 11 (11.70%) Migration
15 10 (10.64%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 48 (51.06%) Python
2 40 (42.55%) JavaScript
3 30 (31.91%) Java
4 25 (26.60%) SQL
5 24 (25.53%) C#
6 23 (24.47%) TypeScript
7 6 (6.38%) PHP
7 6 (6.38%) PowerShell
8 5 (5.32%) Bash
9 3 (3.19%) C
9 3 (3.19%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 26 (27.66%) Security Cleared
2 20 (21.28%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.32%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.26%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.13%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.13%) Degree
6 1 (1.06%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.70%) GDPR
2 6 (6.38%) QA
3 2 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.13%) NIST
3 2 (2.13%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.06%) Data Quality
System Software
1 42 (44.68%) Docker
2 2 (2.13%) Squid
Systems Management
1 28 (29.79%) Terraform
2 18 (19.15%) Kibana
3 16 (17.02%) Kubernetes
4 10 (10.64%) AWS Copilot
5 6 (6.38%) logstash
6 5 (5.32%) Ansible
6 5 (5.32%) Grafana
7 4 (4.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (19.15%) Microsoft
2 16 (17.02%) Google
3 11 (11.70%) Rollbar
4 7 (7.45%) Atlassian
4 7 (7.45%) Oracle
5 6 (6.38%) Splunk
6 4 (4.26%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.13%) LogRhythm
7 2 (2.13%) New Relic
8 1 (1.06%) CA Agile Central