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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 439 413 365
Rank change year-on-year -26 -48 +58
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 79 194 205
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.42% 0.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.07% 3.01% 3.32%
Number of salaries quoted 57 125 143
10th Percentile £51,000 £43,911 £44,000
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 £67,250 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.93% +7.69% -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 3,824 6,435 6,173
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.19% 13.91% 20.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2,546 3,376 4,861
10th Percentile £30,500 £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 £78,790 £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 29 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 29 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 -1 19 £73,801 +6.48% 2
North of England +32 18 £65,000 -3.70% 14
North West +40 14 £63,500 -5.93% 11
South West +24 13 £67,500 +5.88% 15
South East -10 12 £75,000 -9.09% 24
East of England +29 8 £52,500 +5.00% 6
West Midlands +54 4 £69,401 +0.13% 12
Midlands +44 4 £69,401 +6.77% 16
North East +12 3 £73,801 +6.48% 2
Wales +3 3 £73,801 +9.33% 1
Northern Ireland +2 2 £73,801 +6.48%
Yorkshire +1 1 £65,000 +10.64% 2
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 (11.39%) Apache Solr
2 6 (7.59%) Apache
3 5 (6.33%) Confluence
4 4 (5.06%) CMS
4 4 (5.06%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 46 (58.23%) AWS
2 44 (55.70%) Azure
3 20 (25.32%) Amazon ECS
4 19 (24.05%) GCP
5 18 (22.78%) AWS CloudFormation
6 16 (20.25%) Amazon ECR
6 16 (20.25%) dbt
6 16 (20.25%) Pulumi
7 11 (13.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 10 (12.66%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 10 (12.66%) PaaS
8 10 (12.66%) Sentry
9 8 (10.13%) Amazon S3
9 8 (10.13%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (10.13%) Cloudflare
9 8 (10.13%) Serverless
10 4 (5.06%) Azure AKS
10 4 (5.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (5.06%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 16 (20.25%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.53%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (29.11%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (25.32%) Redis
3 17 (21.52%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (20.25%) MySQL
5 12 (15.19%) MongoDB
6 7 (8.86%) Neo4j
7 6 (7.59%) Apache Cassandra
7 6 (7.59%) NoSQL
7 6 (7.59%) Relational Database
7 6 (7.59%) SQL Server
8 3 (3.80%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (3.80%) DynamoDB
8 3 (3.80%) InterSystems Cache
8 3 (3.80%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.27%) Big Data
9 1 (1.27%) ClickHouse
9 1 (1.27%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 33 (41.77%) Git
2 10 (12.66%) GitLab
3 7 (8.86%) Jenkins
3 7 (8.86%) JIRA
3 7 (8.86%) JUnit
4 6 (7.59%) Bitbucket
5 5 (6.33%) Cucumber
6 4 (5.06%) MSBuild
6 4 (5.06%) NUnit
6 4 (5.06%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (5.06%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (5.06%) TeamCity
6 4 (5.06%) Visual Studio
7 3 (3.80%) Jasmine
7 3 (3.80%) REST Assured
8 2 (2.53%) Appium
8 2 (2.53%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.53%) Katalon Studio
8 2 (2.53%) Selenium
9 1 (1.27%) Subversion
General
1 20 (25.32%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.66%) Finance
3 9 (11.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (11.39%) Law
4 6 (7.59%) Marketing
5 5 (6.33%) Games
6 4 (5.06%) Banking
6 4 (5.06%) Retail
7 3 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.80%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.53%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.53%) Automotive
9 1 (1.27%) Advertising
9 1 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.27%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 25 (31.65%) Senior
2 21 (26.58%) Software Engineer
3 14 (17.72%) Developer
4 10 (12.66%) Platform Engineer
4 10 (12.66%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 10 (12.66%) Site Engineer
4 10 (12.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 7 (8.86%) .NET Developer
5 7 (8.86%) Java Engineer
5 7 (8.86%) Java Software Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Architect
6 5 (6.33%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Integration Developer
7 4 (5.06%) Backend Developer
7 4 (5.06%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (5.06%) Lead
7 4 (5.06%) Senior .NET Developer
7 4 (5.06%) Senior Developer
7 4 (5.06%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (25.32%) React
2 17 (21.52%) .NET
3 16 (20.25%) Django
4 14 (17.72%) REST
5 11 (13.92%) AngularJS
5 11 (13.92%) ASP.NET
5 11 (13.92%) CSS
5 11 (13.92%) HTML
5 11 (13.92%) RESTful
6 9 (11.39%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (11.39%) Kafka
7 7 (8.86%) ASP.NET Core
7 7 (8.86%) Node.js
8 6 (7.59%) Apache NiFi
8 6 (7.59%) CSS3
8 6 (7.59%) Hibernate
8 6 (7.59%) HTML5
8 6 (7.59%) JSF
8 6 (7.59%) MERN Stack
8 6 (7.59%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.66%) Linux Command Line
2 8 (10.13%) Cloud Native
3 6 (7.59%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.06%) Online Games
4 4 (5.06%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.80%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.80%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.53%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.27%) IoT
7 1 (1.27%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.27%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.27%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.27%) Smart Energy
7 1 (1.27%) Smart Meter
7 1 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (44.30%) Linux
2 16 (20.25%) Unix
3 12 (15.19%) Windows
4 8 (10.13%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.80%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (63.29%) CI/CD
2 34 (43.04%) Software Engineering
3 27 (34.18%) DevOps
4 25 (31.65%) Agile
4 25 (31.65%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (26.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 20 (25.32%) Observability
7 19 (24.05%) Service-Level Objective
8 17 (21.52%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (21.52%) Microservices
9 16 (20.25%) AI
9 16 (20.25%) Clean Code
10 13 (16.46%) Open Source
11 12 (15.19%) Cybersecurity
11 12 (15.19%) Machine Learning
12 11 (13.92%) Migration
12 11 (13.92%) MVC
12 11 (13.92%) Scrum
13 10 (12.66%) Platform Engineering
13 10 (12.66%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 48 (60.76%) Python
2 33 (41.77%) JavaScript
3 29 (36.71%) Java
4 21 (26.58%) TypeScript
5 17 (21.52%) SQL
6 16 (20.25%) C#
7 6 (7.59%) C
7 6 (7.59%) PHP
8 4 (5.06%) PowerShell
9 3 (3.80%) Bash
10 2 (2.53%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.27%) Go
11 1 (1.27%) Perl
Qualifications
1 28 (35.44%) Security Cleared
2 19 (24.05%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.13%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.80%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.53%) Degree
6 1 (1.27%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.59%) GDPR
2 5 (6.33%) QA
3 1 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.27%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.27%) NIST
3 1 (1.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 40 (50.63%) Docker
2 1 (1.27%) Squid
Systems Management
1 25 (31.65%) Terraform
2 18 (22.78%) Kubernetes
3 16 (20.25%) Kibana
4 10 (12.66%) AWS Copilot
5 6 (7.59%) Ansible
5 6 (7.59%) logstash
6 4 (5.06%) Grafana
7 3 (3.80%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.27%) Rancher
Vendors
1 16 (20.25%) Google
2 13 (16.46%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.86%) Atlassian
3 7 (8.86%) Oracle
4 4 (5.06%) Rollbar
4 4 (5.06%) Splunk
5 3 (3.80%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.27%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.27%) LogRhythm
6 1 (1.27%) New Relic