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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 412 412 363
Rank change year-on-year 0 -49 +15
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 127 253 227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.46% 0.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.06% 3.56% 3.27%
Number of salaries quoted 68 110 156
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,938 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.23% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £82,813 £82,188 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £81,875
UK median annual salary £64,000 £70,000 £65,750
% change year-on-year -8.57% +6.46% -6.07%

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 4,157 7,115 6,933
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.08% 12.84% 20.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,586 3,843 5,535
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £41,263 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.51% +1.60% +4.17%

Elasticsearch
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Elasticsearch as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Elasticsearch 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 18 September 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 18 September 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
South East +33 51 £81,250 +12.07% 47
East of England +5 27 £50,000 -18.37% 16
North of England +1 14 £57,500 - 30
Scotland -33 14 £55,750 -17.41% 14
North West -5 11 £57,500 -4.17% 21
South West +60 10 £62,500 +13.64% 14
Midlands +42 6 £59,000 +18.00% 33
Northern Ireland - 5 £55,000 - 1
West Midlands +39 3 £59,000 -3.67% 19
Yorkshire +22 2 £57,875 +2.89% 8
East Midlands +29 1 - - 12
North East +19 1 £52,500 - 1
Elasticsearch
UK

Elasticsearch
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (8.66%) IIS
2 8 (6.30%) Apache Solr
3 6 (4.72%) CMS
4 5 (3.94%) nginx
4 5 (3.94%) Tomcat
5 3 (2.36%) Apache
6 2 (1.57%) Confluence
7 1 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 72 (56.69%) AWS
1 72 (56.69%) Azure
2 36 (28.35%) Amazon EKS
2 36 (28.35%) AWS CloudFormation
3 17 (13.39%) Cloudflare
4 16 (12.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 16 (12.60%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (12.60%) Azure Service Bus
4 16 (12.60%) SonarCloud
5 7 (5.51%) Amazon S3
5 7 (5.51%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (5.51%) Serverless
6 6 (4.72%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (4.72%) SaaS
7 5 (3.94%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 5 (3.94%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 5 (3.94%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (3.15%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (3.15%) Azure AKS
8 4 (3.15%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.57%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (20.47%) MySQL
2 19 (14.96%) SQL Server
3 13 (10.24%) MongoDB
4 11 (8.66%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (7.87%) Relational Database
6 7 (5.51%) Redis
7 6 (4.72%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (4.72%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (3.94%) NoSQL
9 4 (3.15%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (3.15%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (3.15%) InterSystems Cache
9 4 (3.15%) RDBMS
10 3 (2.36%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.79%) ClickHouse
11 1 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.79%) Event Store
11 1 (0.79%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 54 (42.52%) Git
2 17 (13.39%) Octopus Deploy
3 16 (12.60%) MSBuild
3 16 (12.60%) Team Foundation Server
3 16 (12.60%) Visual Studio
4 13 (10.24%) Jenkins
5 11 (8.66%) NUnit
5 11 (8.66%) TeamCity
6 10 (7.87%) Jasmine
7 9 (7.09%) GitLab
7 9 (7.09%) JUnit
8 7 (5.51%) Bitbucket
9 6 (4.72%) Cucumber
10 5 (3.94%) JIRA
10 5 (3.94%) Maven
10 5 (3.94%) Mockito
10 5 (3.94%) Postman
10 5 (3.94%) Selenium
10 5 (3.94%) SonarQube
10 5 (3.94%) TestNG
General
1 48 (37.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 46 (36.22%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (18.11%) Social Skills
4 22 (17.32%) Finance
5 14 (11.02%) Retail
6 12 (9.45%) Law
7 8 (6.30%) Games
7 8 (6.30%) Marketing
8 6 (4.72%) Manufacturing
9 5 (3.94%) Banking
9 5 (3.94%) Public Sector
10 4 (3.15%) Aerospace
10 4 (3.15%) Automotive
10 4 (3.15%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.79%) Electronics
12 1 (0.79%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 59 (46.46%) Developer
2 36 (28.35%) Software Developer
3 21 (16.54%) Software Engineer
4 18 (14.17%) Senior
5 16 (12.60%) Architect
5 16 (12.60%) Technical Architect
6 15 (11.81%) Senior Developer
7 14 (11.02%) Java Engineer
8 11 (8.66%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (7.87%) .NET Developer
9 10 (7.87%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (7.09%) Java Software Engineer
11 7 (5.51%) Senior .NET Developer
12 6 (4.72%) Web Manager
13 5 (3.94%) C# Developer
13 5 (3.94%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 5 (3.94%) Lead
13 5 (3.94%) Site Engineer
13 5 (3.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 4 (3.15%) Full-Stack C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (61.42%) .NET
2 42 (33.07%) Node.js
3 36 (28.35%) Pandas
4 32 (25.20%) CSS
4 32 (25.20%) HTML
4 32 (25.20%) REST
5 31 (24.41%) ASP.NET
6 26 (20.47%) React
7 25 (19.69%) RESTful
8 18 (14.17%) Kafka
9 17 (13.39%) Bootstrap
10 16 (12.60%) gRPC
10 16 (12.60%) JSON
10 16 (12.60%) XML
11 15 (11.81%) ASP.NET Core
11 15 (11.81%) HTML5
12 14 (11.02%) AngularJS
12 14 (11.02%) CSS3
13 13 (10.24%) Spring
14 12 (9.45%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 36 (28.35%) Cyberattack
2 9 (7.09%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.72%) Mobile App
4 5 (3.94%) Life Science
4 5 (3.94%) Online Games
5 4 (3.15%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.15%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.15%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.36%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.57%) 3D Graphics
7 2 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.57%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.79%) Animation
8 1 (0.79%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.79%) IoT
8 1 (0.79%) Smart Energy
8 1 (0.79%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 57 (44.88%) Linux
2 36 (28.35%) Android
3 15 (11.81%) Windows
4 10 (7.87%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (3.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (65.35%) CI/CD
2 66 (51.97%) Agile
2 66 (51.97%) Software Engineering
3 54 (42.52%) Design Patterns
4 45 (35.43%) Containerisation
5 43 (33.86%) OO
6 42 (33.07%) Mathematics
7 41 (32.28%) OOP
8 38 (29.92%) OWASP
8 38 (29.92%) Secure Coding
9 37 (29.13%) MVC
9 37 (29.13%) Statistics
10 36 (28.35%) Android Development
10 36 (28.35%) Collaborative Working
10 36 (28.35%) Kanban
10 36 (28.35%) Line Management
11 31 (24.41%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (19.69%) Microservices
13 22 (17.32%) Artificial Intelligence
14 21 (16.54%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 88 (69.29%) JavaScript
2 68 (53.54%) Java
3 66 (51.97%) Python
4 37 (29.13%) C#
4 37 (29.13%) C++
5 36 (28.35%) Go
5 36 (28.35%) Rust
6 34 (26.77%) SQL
7 26 (20.47%) TypeScript
8 8 (6.30%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.94%) Bash
10 4 (3.15%) PHP
11 3 (2.36%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 47 (37.01%) Security Cleared
2 38 (29.92%) DV Cleared
3 7 (5.51%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.15%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.15%) Degree
5 2 (1.57%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.79%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (15.75%) GDPR
2 6 (4.72%) QA
3 2 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.57%) NIST
3 2 (1.57%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.79%) Data Quality
System Software
1 77 (60.63%) Docker
2 2 (1.57%) Squid
Systems Management
1 56 (44.09%) Terraform
2 53 (41.73%) Kubernetes
3 45 (35.43%) Ansible
4 12 (9.45%) Kibana
5 5 (3.94%) Kustomize
5 5 (3.94%) Packer
6 4 (3.15%) Grafana
6 4 (3.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (18.90%) Microsoft
2 15 (11.81%) Rollbar
3 9 (7.09%) Red Hat
4 7 (5.51%) Oracle
5 6 (4.72%) Atlassian
5 6 (4.72%) Splunk
6 3 (2.36%) New Relic
7 2 (1.57%) LogRhythm
7 2 (1.57%) WSO2
8 1 (0.79%) Google
8 1 (0.79%) Talend