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 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 391 386
Rank change year-on-year -17 -5 +21
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 214 161 423
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.49% 0.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.92% 3.59% 3.83%
Number of salaries quoted 190 95 240
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,925 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £55,000 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,626 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.67% +22.96% -13.59%
75th Percentile £73,750 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,629 - £91,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% -3.70%

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 5,463 4,486 11,048
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.75% 13.65% 14.85%
Number of salaries quoted 3,695 2,837 7,583
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £79,350
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 8 July 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 8 July 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
South East -17 76 £57,500 -30.30% 26
South West -28 38 £52,500 -14.29% 10
North of England -30 36 £57,500 -4.17% 26
East of England -21 33 £55,000 +10.00% 6
Midlands -6 27 £55,000 -13.13% 9
North West -3 22 £47,500 -18.80% 16
West Midlands -4 16 £55,000 -6.78% 3
East Midlands -16 11 £55,000 -24.14% 6
Yorkshire -23 9 £57,500 -14.81% 6
North East -44 5 £75,000 +8.09% 4
Wales -48 5 £45,000 -33.46% 2
Northern Ireland -64 1 £73,801 +34.18% 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 11 (5.14%) Apache Spark
2 10 (4.67%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (4.21%) Apache
4 5 (2.34%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.40%) Confluence
6 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 181 (84.58%) Azure
2 130 (60.75%) AWS
3 46 (21.50%) GitHub
3 46 (21.50%) GitHub Copilot
4 33 (15.42%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (9.35%) GCP
6 17 (7.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 14 (6.54%) dbt
8 12 (5.61%) Serverless
9 10 (4.67%) Snowflake
10 9 (4.21%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 7 (3.27%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (3.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (3.27%) Power Platform
12 6 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.80%) SaaS
13 5 (2.34%) Amazon S3
13 5 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (1.87%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 4 (1.87%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.74%) Hyperconnected
1 8 (3.74%) Internet
2 4 (1.87%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.40%) MQTT
3 3 (1.40%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (67.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 144 (67.29%) MongoDB
3 16 (7.48%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (4.67%) Looker
4 10 (4.67%) Neo4j
4 10 (4.67%) Redis
5 9 (4.21%) NoSQL
6 7 (3.27%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (3.27%) BigQuery
6 7 (3.27%) Data Lake
6 7 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (3.27%) DynamoDB
6 7 (3.27%) MySQL
6 7 (3.27%) Power BI
6 7 (3.27%) Snowflake Schema
6 7 (3.27%) Tableau
7 5 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (2.34%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.40%) Big Data
8 3 (1.40%) Flink
Development Applications
1 19 (8.88%) GitLab
2 15 (7.01%) Git
3 14 (6.54%) Cucumber
4 12 (5.61%) SonarQube
5 9 (4.21%) Jenkins
6 7 (3.27%) MLflow
7 5 (2.34%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.87%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.87%) JIRA
8 4 (1.87%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.93%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.47%) Maven
10 1 (0.47%) TeamCity
General
1 38 (17.76%) Finance
2 20 (9.35%) Retail
3 16 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (7.48%) Social Skills
4 13 (6.07%) Games
5 8 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.47%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 159 (74.30%) Developer
2 149 (69.63%) .NET Developer
3 26 (12.15%) Senior
4 19 (8.88%) Software Engineer
5 9 (4.21%) Lead
6 8 (3.74%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (3.27%) Senior Developer
7 7 (3.27%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 7 (3.27%) Systems Engineer
8 6 (2.80%) Python Engineer
8 6 (2.80%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (2.34%) Data Engineer
9 5 (2.34%) Lead Developer
9 5 (2.34%) Test Engineer
10 4 (1.87%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 4 (1.87%) Lead .NET Developer
10 4 (1.87%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 3 (1.40%) Cloud Engineer
11 3 (1.40%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 3 (1.40%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (72.43%) Node.js
2 153 (71.50%) .NET
3 150 (70.09%) ASP.NET
4 147 (68.69%) .NET Core
5 145 (67.76%) ASP.NET Core
6 90 (42.06%) React
7 72 (33.64%) ASP.NET Web API
8 67 (31.31%) Vue
9 65 (30.37%) Blazor
10 64 (29.91%) AngularJS
11 50 (23.36%) .NET Framework
12 41 (19.16%) Entity Framework
13 32 (14.95%) CSS
13 32 (14.95%) HTML
14 16 (7.48%) Kafka
15 11 (5.14%) REST
15 11 (5.14%) WinForms
15 11 (5.14%) WPF
16 10 (4.67%) Elastic Stack
17 9 (4.21%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.35%) Greenfield Project
2 11 (5.14%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.67%) Public Cloud
4 7 (3.27%) Clustering
4 7 (3.27%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.40%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.93%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.47%) NHS
8 1 (0.47%) PMI
8 1 (0.47%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.47%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.94%) Linux
2 4 (1.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (70.56%) Full-Stack Development
2 150 (70.09%) Agile
3 132 (61.68%) Microservices
4 79 (36.92%) Scrum
5 61 (28.50%) CI/CD
6 59 (27.57%) TDD
7 56 (26.17%) DevOps
8 52 (24.30%) BDD
9 51 (23.83%) Kanban
10 28 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (10.75%) AI
12 22 (10.28%) Software Engineering
13 19 (8.88%) Analytics
14 18 (8.41%) Business Intelligence
14 18 (8.41%) Machine Learning
15 17 (7.94%) Observability
15 17 (7.94%) OO
16 16 (7.48%) Mentoring
17 15 (7.01%) Asset Management
17 15 (7.01%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 162 (75.70%) SQL
2 153 (71.50%) C#
3 95 (44.39%) JavaScript
4 85 (39.72%) TypeScript
5 48 (22.43%) Python
6 27 (12.62%) Java
7 10 (4.67%) Go
7 10 (4.67%) Rust
8 9 (4.21%) Bash
9 7 (3.27%) C++
10 4 (1.87%) Scala
11 3 (1.40%) C
11 3 (1.40%) PHP
12 2 (0.93%) Ruby
13 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (14.49%) Security Cleared
2 13 (6.07%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.67%) DV Cleared
4 4 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.87%) Degree
5 2 (0.93%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 7 (3.27%) GDPR
2 4 (1.87%) QA
3 3 (1.40%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.93%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 71 (33.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 72 (33.64%) Kubernetes
2 29 (13.55%) Terraform
3 18 (8.41%) Ansible
4 14 (6.54%) Grafana
5 10 (4.67%) Kibana
6 9 (4.21%) logstash
7 5 (2.34%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.87%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (1.40%) Podman
9 3 (1.40%) Puppet
9 3 (1.40%) Rancher
10 1 (0.47%) Argo
10 1 (0.47%) Graylog
Vendors
1 143 (66.82%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.88%) Google
3 7 (3.27%) Cloudera
3 7 (3.27%) Databricks
3 7 (3.27%) Dell
4 3 (1.40%) Confluent
4 3 (1.40%) NVIDIA
4 3 (1.40%) Tenable
5 2 (0.93%) New Relic
5 2 (0.93%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.47%) Rollbar