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 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 452 421 404
Rank change year-on-year -31 -17 -40
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 219 129 267
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.37% 0.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.88% 3.07% 3.63%
Number of salaries quoted 197 69 109
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,500 - £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -8.57% +6.46%

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 5,639 4,196 7,346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.87% 12.15% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,951 2,625 4,202
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £39,250 £41,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -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 7 September 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 7 September 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 -8 88 £57,500 -30.30% 22
South West -51 38 £52,500 -16.00% 27
Midlands -9 35 £55,000 -6.78% 13
North of England -40 33 £57,500 - 32
East of England -29 30 £55,000 +10.00% 7
West Midlands -12 24 £60,000 +1.69% 9
North West -8 18 £47,500 -17.39% 21
East Midlands -20 11 £55,000 - 4
Yorkshire -39 9 £57,500 -11.54% 6
North East -62 6 £75,000 +42.86% 5
Wales - 4 £45,000 - 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 8 (3.65%) Apache
2 7 (3.20%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.28%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.83%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.37%) Confluence
6 1 (0.46%) nginx
6 1 (0.46%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 188 (85.84%) Azure
2 123 (56.16%) AWS
3 47 (21.46%) GitHub
3 47 (21.46%) GitHub Copilot
4 41 (18.72%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (11.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 12 (5.48%) Azure Key Vault
6 12 (5.48%) Azure Monitor
6 12 (5.48%) Azure Service Bus
6 12 (5.48%) Serverless
7 11 (5.02%) GCP
8 9 (4.11%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (3.20%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (2.74%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 6 (2.74%) SaaS
11 5 (2.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (2.28%) dbt
11 5 (2.28%) OpenShift
11 5 (2.28%) Power Platform
11 5 (2.28%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.20%) Hyperconnected
1 7 (3.20%) Internet
2 5 (2.28%) HTTP
3 3 (1.37%) MQTT
3 3 (1.37%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (65.75%) Azure SQL Database
2 139 (63.47%) MongoDB
3 19 (8.68%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (5.94%) SQL Server
5 8 (3.65%) DynamoDB
6 6 (2.74%) Neo4j
6 6 (2.74%) Redis
7 5 (2.28%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (2.28%) BigQuery
7 5 (2.28%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.28%) Looker
7 5 (2.28%) Milvus
7 5 (2.28%) MySQL
7 5 (2.28%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.28%) Power BI
7 5 (2.28%) Snowflake Schema
7 5 (2.28%) Tableau
8 3 (1.37%) ClickHouse
9 2 (0.91%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 22 (10.05%) Git
2 16 (7.31%) GitLab
3 12 (5.48%) Cucumber
4 11 (5.02%) SonarQube
5 9 (4.11%) Jenkins
6 6 (2.74%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.28%) MLflow
8 4 (1.83%) Gatling
8 4 (1.83%) JIRA
8 4 (1.83%) JMeter
8 4 (1.83%) LoadRunner
8 4 (1.83%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.91%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.91%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.91%) Mocha
10 1 (0.46%) TeamCity
General
1 38 (17.35%) Finance
2 20 (9.13%) Retail
2 20 (9.13%) Social Skills
3 14 (6.39%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (6.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (5.94%) Games
5 6 (2.74%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.46%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.46%) Health Technology
6 1 (0.46%) Police
Job Titles
1 165 (75.34%) Developer
2 156 (71.23%) .NET Developer
3 33 (15.07%) Senior
4 18 (8.22%) Software Engineer
5 16 (7.31%) Lead
6 12 (5.48%) Lead .NET Developer
6 12 (5.48%) Lead Developer
7 11 (5.02%) Python Engineer
8 10 (4.57%) Azure Engineer
9 9 (4.11%) Azure Data Engineer
9 9 (4.11%) Data Engineer
9 9 (4.11%) Elasticsearch Engineer
9 9 (4.11%) Kafka Engineer
9 9 (4.11%) Python Data Engineer
9 9 (4.11%) Senior Data Engineer
9 9 (4.11%) Senior Developer
10 6 (2.74%) Senior Software Engineer
11 5 (2.28%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 5 (2.28%) Systems Engineer
12 4 (1.83%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (73.06%) .NET
2 157 (71.69%) ASP.NET
3 153 (69.86%) .NET Core
4 147 (67.12%) Node.js
5 144 (65.75%) ASP.NET Core
6 88 (40.18%) React
7 72 (32.88%) Blazor
8 71 (32.42%) ASP.NET Web API
9 66 (30.14%) Vue
10 63 (28.77%) AngularJS
11 50 (22.83%) .NET Framework
12 40 (18.26%) Entity Framework
13 31 (14.16%) CSS
13 31 (14.16%) HTML
14 23 (10.50%) Terraform
15 19 (8.68%) REST
16 18 (8.22%) Kafka
17 15 (6.85%) gRPC
18 12 (5.48%) Keycloak
19 11 (5.02%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.13%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (4.11%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (4.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (3.65%) Public Cloud
4 7 (3.20%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.28%) Clustering
7 3 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.46%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.46%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.46%) NHS
8 1 (0.46%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.46%) PMI
8 1 (0.46%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.76%) Linux
2 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.46%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (68.95%) Full-Stack Development
2 147 (67.12%) Agile
3 141 (64.38%) Microservices
4 81 (36.99%) Scrum
5 63 (28.77%) DevOps
6 61 (27.85%) CI/CD
7 57 (26.03%) TDD
8 51 (23.29%) BDD
8 51 (23.29%) Kanban
9 25 (11.42%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (10.50%) Mentoring
11 20 (9.13%) Software Engineering
12 19 (8.68%) Analytics
13 17 (7.76%) AI
14 16 (7.31%) Business Intelligence
14 16 (7.31%) Event-Driven
15 15 (6.85%) Asset Management
15 15 (6.85%) Data Pipeline
15 15 (6.85%) OO
15 15 (6.85%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 161 (73.52%) SQL
2 160 (73.06%) C#
3 88 (40.18%) JavaScript
4 84 (38.36%) TypeScript
5 40 (18.26%) Python
6 17 (7.76%) Java
7 16 (7.31%) Go
8 10 (4.57%) Rust
9 9 (4.11%) Bash
10 7 (3.20%) C++
11 2 (0.91%) PHP
11 2 (0.91%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.91%) Ruby
11 2 (0.91%) Scala
12 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (16.44%) Security Cleared
2 22 (10.05%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.94%) DV Cleared
4 9 (4.11%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.37%) Degree
6 1 (0.46%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.48%) QA
2 5 (2.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 5 (2.28%) GDPR
3 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 71 (32.42%) Docker
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 66 (30.14%) Kubernetes
2 23 (10.50%) Ansible
3 16 (7.31%) Grafana
4 12 (5.48%) Kibana
5 8 (3.65%) logstash
6 4 (1.83%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.37%) Podman
7 3 (1.37%) Puppet
8 2 (0.91%) Rancher
9 1 (0.46%) Argo
9 1 (0.46%) Graylog
9 1 (0.46%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 141 (64.38%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.48%) Google
3 5 (2.28%) Cloudera
3 5 (2.28%) Databricks
3 5 (2.28%) Dell
4 4 (1.83%) AppDynamics
4 4 (1.83%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.37%) NVIDIA
5 3 (1.37%) Tenable
6 2 (0.91%) New Relic
6 2 (0.91%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.91%) Oracle
7 1 (0.46%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.46%) Rollbar
7 1 (0.46%) VMware