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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 453 374 328
Rank change year-on-year -79 -46 +154
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 78 150 448
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.53% 0.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.92% 3.12% 4.26%
Number of salaries quoted 58 114 330
10th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £54,188 £62,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +27.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £78,790 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile - - £86,587
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 4,061 4,812 10,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.87% 17.01% 18.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2,394 2,927 7,978
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,779 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.43% +9.18% -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 9 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 9 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
North of England -35 21 £73,801 +6.48% 12
South West -8 20 £67,500 -6.90% 10
North West -18 16 £67,500 -0.19% 8
Scotland -15 10 £73,801 +6.48% 3
South East -58 10 £60,000 -27.27% 25
East of England -6 7 £47,500 -5.00% 10
Wales -12 4 £73,801 +31.82% 4
North East -19 4 £73,801 +6.37% 1
West Midlands +1 3 £73,801 +7.79% 4
Midlands -27 3 £73,801 +13.54% 7
Northern Ireland -29 3 £73,801 +6.48% 1
Yorkshire -39 1 £65,000 -18.75% 3
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 6 (7.69%) Apache
2 5 (6.41%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (6.41%) Apache Solr
3 4 (5.13%) Apache Spark
3 4 (5.13%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 57 (73.08%) AWS
2 47 (60.26%) Azure
3 29 (37.18%) GCP
4 25 (32.05%) dbt
5 24 (30.77%) AWS CloudFormation
6 21 (26.92%) Amazon ECS
7 20 (25.64%) Amazon ECR
7 20 (25.64%) Pulumi
8 17 (21.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 14 (17.95%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 14 (17.95%) PaaS
9 14 (17.95%) Sentry
10 9 (11.54%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (8.97%) Serverless
12 6 (7.69%) Amazon S3
13 5 (6.41%) Snowflake
14 4 (5.13%) AWS CodeBuild
14 4 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (5.13%) Cloud Computing
15 3 (3.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 20 (25.64%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.56%) HTTP
3 1 (1.28%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (1.28%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (43.59%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (34.62%) Redis
3 20 (25.64%) Amazon RDS
4 15 (19.23%) MongoDB
4 15 (19.23%) Neo4j
5 9 (11.54%) NoSQL
6 8 (10.26%) MySQL
7 5 (6.41%) Looker
8 4 (5.13%) DynamoDB
9 3 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (3.85%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (3.85%) DocumentDB
9 3 (3.85%) Flink
10 2 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (2.56%) Big Data
10 2 (2.56%) BigQuery
10 2 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (2.56%) Power BI
10 2 (2.56%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (2.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (17.95%) Git
2 12 (15.38%) GitLab
3 9 (11.54%) Cucumber
4 7 (8.97%) Bitbucket
5 6 (7.69%) Jenkins
6 5 (6.41%) JIRA
6 5 (6.41%) JUnit
7 4 (5.13%) Cypress.io
8 3 (3.85%) REST Assured
8 3 (3.85%) SonarQube
9 2 (2.56%) Appium
9 2 (2.56%) Katalon Studio
9 2 (2.56%) MLflow
9 2 (2.56%) Selenium
10 1 (1.28%) Maven
10 1 (1.28%) PHPUnit
10 1 (1.28%) SpecFlow
10 1 (1.28%) Subversion
10 1 (1.28%) TestNG
10 1 (1.28%) WebDriver
General
1 15 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 7 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.28%) Advertising
4 1 (1.28%) Games
4 1 (1.28%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 32 (41.03%) Senior
2 24 (30.77%) Software Engineer
3 16 (20.51%) Platform Engineer
4 14 (17.95%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 9 (11.54%) Developer
6 7 (8.97%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (8.97%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (7.69%) C Software Engineer
7 6 (7.69%) Site Engineer
7 6 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) Applications Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) Test Engineer
9 3 (3.85%) JavaScript Engineer
9 3 (3.85%) UI Engineer
9 3 (3.85%) UX Engineer
10 2 (2.56%) AWS Engineer
10 2 (2.56%) Integration Developer
10 2 (2.56%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 2 (2.56%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (32.05%) React
2 20 (25.64%) Django
3 17 (21.79%) AngularJS
4 15 (19.23%) Node.js
5 12 (15.38%) MERN Stack
6 8 (10.26%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (8.97%) Kafka
8 6 (7.69%) Apache NiFi
8 6 (7.69%) REST
8 6 (7.69%) RESTful
8 6 (7.69%) Vue
9 4 (5.13%) .NET
9 4 (5.13%) CSS
9 4 (5.13%) HTML
10 3 (3.85%) .NET Core
10 3 (3.85%) Hibernate
10 3 (3.85%) JSF
10 3 (3.85%) PrimeFaces
11 2 (2.56%) scikit-learn
11 2 (2.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.95%) Linux Command Line
2 8 (10.26%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 5 (6.41%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.56%) Clustering
5 2 (2.56%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.28%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.28%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.28%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.28%) NHS
6 1 (1.28%) PMI
6 1 (1.28%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 30 (38.46%) Linux
2 20 (25.64%) Unix
3 2 (2.56%) Windows
3 2 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 33 (42.31%) DevOps
3 31 (39.74%) Software Engineering
4 26 (33.33%) Observability
5 24 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (29.49%) Infrastructure as Code
7 22 (28.21%) Agile
8 20 (25.64%) Clean Code
9 17 (21.79%) Migration
9 17 (21.79%) Open Source
9 17 (21.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 16 (20.51%) Platform Engineering
10 16 (20.51%) Service-Level Objective
11 15 (19.23%) AI
12 14 (17.95%) Machine Learning
12 14 (17.95%) Prototyping
13 13 (16.67%) Microservices
14 12 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
15 11 (14.10%) Containerisation
15 11 (14.10%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 58 (74.36%) Python
2 36 (46.15%) Java
3 32 (41.03%) JavaScript
4 25 (32.05%) TypeScript
5 12 (15.38%) C
6 10 (12.82%) SQL
7 6 (7.69%) C#
8 4 (5.13%) Bash
8 4 (5.13%) Go
8 4 (5.13%) PHP
9 2 (2.56%) Scala
10 1 (1.28%) C++
10 1 (1.28%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.28%) Rust
Qualifications
1 39 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 24 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 14 (17.95%) DV Cleared
4 5 (6.41%) Degree
5 2 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.28%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.13%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.85%) GDPR
2 3 (3.85%) QA
3 2 (2.56%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 42 (53.85%) Docker
2 1 (1.28%) Squid
Systems Management
1 33 (42.31%) Terraform
2 29 (37.18%) Kubernetes
3 14 (17.95%) AWS Copilot
4 13 (16.67%) Kibana
5 8 (10.26%) Ansible
5 8 (10.26%) logstash
6 5 (6.41%) Grafana
7 3 (3.85%) Rancher
8 2 (2.56%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.28%) Argo
9 1 (1.28%) Graylog
Vendors
1 23 (29.49%) Google
2 4 (5.13%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.85%) Atlassian
3 3 (3.85%) Confluent
3 3 (3.85%) Oracle
4 2 (2.56%) Cloudera
4 2 (2.56%) Databricks
4 2 (2.56%) Dell
5 1 (1.28%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (1.28%) New Relic