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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 436 411 367
Rank change year-on-year -25 -44 +44
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 85 194 194
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.40% 0.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.19% 2.99% 3.09%
Number of salaries quoted 63 125 137
10th Percentile £48,750 £43,911 £44,200
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £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 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £82,500 - £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 3,882 6,488 6,277
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.51% 13.46% 20.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2,613 3,393 4,942
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £68,750
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 22 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 22 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 +9 20 £73,801 +6.48% 4
North of England +23 19 £65,000 -3.70% 29
South East -14 15 £75,000 -9.09% 23
North West +29 14 £60,500 -10.37% 24
South West +30 13 £67,500 +5.88% 18
East of England +18 9 £50,000 - 9
Midlands +53 4 £69,401 +6.77% 14
West Midlands +53 4 £69,401 +0.13% 10
North East +15 3 £73,801 +6.48% 1
Wales +5 3 £73,801 +9.33% 2
Yorkshire +12 2 £65,000 +10.64% 5
Northern Ireland +6 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 (10.59%) Apache Solr
2 6 (7.06%) Apache
3 5 (5.88%) IIS
4 4 (4.71%) CMS
4 4 (4.71%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 46 (54.12%) AWS
2 44 (51.76%) Azure
3 20 (23.53%) Amazon ECS
4 18 (21.18%) GCP
5 17 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 16 (18.82%) Amazon ECR
6 16 (18.82%) dbt
6 16 (18.82%) Pulumi
7 11 (12.94%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 10 (11.76%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 10 (11.76%) PaaS
8 10 (11.76%) Sentry
9 9 (10.59%) Cloudflare
10 7 (8.24%) Amazon S3
10 7 (8.24%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (8.24%) Serverless
11 5 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (5.88%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (18.82%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (25.88%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (24.71%) Redis
3 18 (21.18%) MySQL
4 17 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (12.94%) MongoDB
6 9 (10.59%) SQL Server
7 7 (8.24%) Neo4j
8 6 (7.06%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (7.06%) NoSQL
8 6 (7.06%) Relational Database
9 4 (4.71%) InterSystems Cache
10 3 (3.53%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (3.53%) RDBMS
11 2 (2.35%) DynamoDB
12 1 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (1.18%) Big Data
12 1 (1.18%) ClickHouse
12 1 (1.18%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 37 (43.53%) Git
2 10 (11.76%) GitLab
3 8 (9.41%) Jenkins
4 7 (8.24%) JIRA
4 7 (8.24%) JUnit
5 5 (5.88%) Cucumber
5 5 (5.88%) MSBuild
5 5 (5.88%) NUnit
5 5 (5.88%) Octopus Deploy
5 5 (5.88%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (5.88%) TeamCity
5 5 (5.88%) Visual Studio
6 4 (4.71%) Bitbucket
6 4 (4.71%) Jasmine
7 3 (3.53%) REST Assured
8 2 (2.35%) Appium
8 2 (2.35%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.35%) Katalon Studio
8 2 (2.35%) Selenium
9 1 (1.18%) Subversion
General
1 20 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.94%) Finance
3 10 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (11.76%) Law
4 7 (8.24%) Marketing
5 5 (5.88%) Games
5 5 (5.88%) Retail
6 4 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.71%) Automotive
6 4 (4.71%) Banking
7 3 (3.53%) Aerospace
7 3 (3.53%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.18%) Advertising
8 1 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.18%) Electronics
8 1 (1.18%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.18%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 26 (30.59%) Senior
2 22 (25.88%) Software Engineer
3 16 (18.82%) Developer
4 10 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
4 10 (11.76%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 10 (11.76%) Site Engineer
4 10 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 9 (10.59%) Java Engineer
5 9 (10.59%) Java Software Engineer
6 8 (9.41%) .NET Developer
7 6 (7.06%) Architect
8 5 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (5.88%) Integration Developer
8 5 (5.88%) Lead
8 5 (5.88%) Senior .NET Developer
8 5 (5.88%) Senior Developer
8 5 (5.88%) Technical Architect
9 4 (4.71%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 4 (4.71%) Lead Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (24.71%) .NET
1 21 (24.71%) React
2 16 (18.82%) Django
2 16 (18.82%) REST
3 14 (16.47%) ASP.NET
3 14 (16.47%) CSS
3 14 (16.47%) HTML
4 13 (15.29%) RESTful
5 12 (14.12%) AngularJS
6 10 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (11.76%) Kafka
7 9 (10.59%) ASP.NET Core
8 8 (9.41%) CSS3
8 8 (9.41%) HTML5
9 7 (8.24%) Node.js
9 7 (8.24%) Spring
10 6 (7.06%) Apache NiFi
10 6 (7.06%) Hibernate
10 6 (7.06%) MERN Stack
10 6 (7.06%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.76%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (10.59%) Cloud Native
3 6 (7.06%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.71%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.71%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.71%) Online Games
5 3 (3.53%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.53%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.35%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.35%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.18%) IoT
7 1 (1.18%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.18%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.18%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.18%) Smart Energy
7 1 (1.18%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 34 (40.00%) Linux
2 16 (18.82%) Unix
3 12 (14.12%) Windows
4 8 (9.41%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.53%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (61.18%) CI/CD
2 35 (41.18%) Software Engineering
3 28 (32.94%) DevOps
4 26 (30.59%) Agile
4 26 (30.59%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (25.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 21 (24.71%) Observability
7 19 (22.35%) Service-Level Objective
8 17 (20.00%) AI
8 17 (20.00%) Microservices
9 16 (18.82%) Clean Code
9 16 (18.82%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (16.47%) Machine Learning
10 14 (16.47%) MVC
11 13 (15.29%) Open Source
12 12 (14.12%) Cybersecurity
12 12 (14.12%) Migration
13 11 (12.94%) Scrum
14 10 (11.76%) Mentoring
14 10 (11.76%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 47 (55.29%) Python
2 35 (41.18%) JavaScript
3 30 (35.29%) Java
4 22 (25.88%) TypeScript
5 20 (23.53%) C#
5 20 (23.53%) SQL
6 6 (7.06%) C
6 6 (7.06%) PHP
7 5 (5.88%) PowerShell
8 4 (4.71%) Bash
9 3 (3.53%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 28 (32.94%) Security Cleared
2 19 (22.35%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.41%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.53%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.35%) Degree
6 1 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.41%) GDPR
2 6 (7.06%) QA
3 2 (2.35%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.18%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.18%) NIST
System Software
1 42 (49.41%) Docker
2 2 (2.35%) Squid
Systems Management
1 25 (29.41%) Terraform
2 18 (21.18%) Kubernetes
3 17 (20.00%) Kibana
4 10 (11.76%) AWS Copilot
5 6 (7.06%) logstash
6 5 (5.88%) Ansible
7 4 (4.71%) Grafana
8 3 (3.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (18.82%) Google
2 14 (16.47%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.24%) Atlassian
3 7 (8.24%) Oracle
3 7 (8.24%) Rollbar
4 4 (4.71%) Splunk
5 3 (3.53%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.35%) New Relic
7 1 (1.18%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.18%) LogRhythm