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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 374 313
Rank change year-on-year -117 -61 +149
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 86 150 560
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.53% 0.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.73% 3.37% 4.82%
Number of salaries quoted 61 94 341
10th Percentile £40,000 £48,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £56,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +27.27% -12.91%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,790 - £86,485
UK median annual salary £74,651 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.64% +16.67% -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 4,969 4,448 11,615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.58% 15.60% 16.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2,901 2,937 8,141
10th Percentile £34,500 £32,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £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 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 May 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 May 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 West -31 25 £57,500 -4.17% 15
North of England -67 19 £74,651 +10.59% 9
South East -64 16 £60,000 -27.27% 16
East of England -21 15 £47,500 -5.00% 6
North West -23 13 £70,901 +11.22% 8
Midlands -44 6 £55,000 -18.67% 5
Yorkshire -50 5 £75,000 +7.14% 1
East Midlands -27 4 £55,000 -20.00% 2
Scotland -16 2 - - 3
Wales -29 2 £59,401 -12.16% 1
West Midlands -35 2 £57,500 -14.97% 3
Northern Ireland -38 1 £73,801 +34.18%
North East -48 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 (12.79%) Apache Spark
2 10 (11.63%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (8.14%) Apache
4 4 (4.65%) Apache Solr
5 2 (2.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 63 (73.26%) AWS
2 53 (61.63%) Azure
3 20 (23.26%) GCP
4 14 (16.28%) dbt
5 10 (11.63%) Snowflake
6 9 (10.47%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (10.47%) Serverless
7 8 (9.30%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (9.30%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 8 (9.30%) GitHub
7 8 (9.30%) GitHub Copilot
8 7 (8.14%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (8.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 7 (8.14%) Power Platform
9 6 (6.98%) Amazon S3
10 5 (5.81%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (4.65%) AWS CodeBuild
11 4 (4.65%) PaaS
11 4 (4.65%) Pulumi
11 4 (4.65%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.65%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.33%) Hyperconnected
2 2 (2.33%) Internet
2 2 (2.33%) MQTT
2 2 (2.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (40.70%) MongoDB
2 24 (27.91%) Azure SQL Database
3 16 (18.60%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (15.12%) Neo4j
5 11 (12.79%) NoSQL
5 11 (12.79%) Redis
6 10 (11.63%) Looker
7 8 (9.30%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (8.14%) BigQuery
8 7 (8.14%) Data Lake
8 7 (8.14%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (8.14%) MySQL
8 7 (8.14%) Power BI
8 7 (8.14%) Snowflake Schema
8 7 (8.14%) Tableau
9 5 (5.81%) DynamoDB
10 4 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (4.65%) DocumentDB
11 3 (3.49%) Big Data
11 3 (3.49%) Flink
Development Applications
1 17 (19.77%) GitLab
2 12 (13.95%) Git
3 9 (10.47%) Cucumber
4 8 (9.30%) SonarQube
5 7 (8.14%) MLflow
6 6 (6.98%) Bitbucket
6 6 (6.98%) Jenkins
7 3 (3.49%) Cypress.io
7 3 (3.49%) JIRA
8 1 (1.16%) JUnit
8 1 (1.16%) Maven
8 1 (1.16%) PHPUnit
8 1 (1.16%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (19.77%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (12.79%) Social Skills
3 5 (5.81%) Finance
3 5 (5.81%) Games
4 4 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.16%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.16%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (36.05%) Developer
2 24 (27.91%) .NET Developer
3 22 (25.58%) Software Engineer
4 20 (23.26%) Senior
5 8 (9.30%) Platform Engineer
6 7 (8.14%) Senior Software Engineer
6 7 (8.14%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 7 (8.14%) Systems Engineer
7 5 (5.81%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) C Software Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) Principal Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) Python Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.49%) Applications Engineer
9 3 (3.49%) Data Engineer
9 3 (3.49%) JavaScript Engineer
9 3 (3.49%) Principal Architect
9 3 (3.49%) UI Engineer
9 3 (3.49%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (46.51%) Node.js
2 30 (34.88%) React
3 28 (32.56%) .NET
4 25 (29.07%) ASP.NET
5 24 (27.91%) .NET Core
5 24 (27.91%) ASP.NET Core
6 22 (25.58%) AngularJS
7 19 (22.09%) Vue
8 13 (15.12%) Kafka
9 10 (11.63%) CSS
9 10 (11.63%) HTML
10 9 (10.47%) ASP.NET Web API
10 9 (10.47%) Entity Framework
10 9 (10.47%) MERN Stack
11 8 (9.30%) Blazor
12 7 (8.14%) Apache NiFi
12 7 (8.14%) LangChain
12 7 (8.14%) LlamaIndex
12 7 (8.14%) pgvector
12 7 (8.14%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.95%) Cloud Native
2 11 (12.79%) Public Cloud
3 7 (8.14%) Clustering
4 5 (5.81%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.81%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.16%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.16%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.16%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.16%) NHS
6 1 (1.16%) PMI
6 1 (1.16%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.16%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (16.28%) Linux
2 4 (4.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (40.70%) Agile
2 33 (38.37%) CI/CD
3 31 (36.05%) Full-Stack Development
4 27 (31.40%) Microservices
5 26 (30.23%) DevOps
5 26 (30.23%) Software Engineering
6 24 (27.91%) AI
7 21 (24.42%) Machine Learning
8 19 (22.09%) Analytics
8 19 (22.09%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (18.60%) Observability
10 14 (16.28%) Data Science
11 12 (13.95%) Collaborative Culture
11 12 (13.95%) Containerisation
11 12 (13.95%) Data Engineering
11 12 (13.95%) Scrum
12 11 (12.79%) Cybersecurity
12 11 (12.79%) Data Management
12 11 (12.79%) Performance Tuning
12 11 (12.79%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 48 (55.81%) Python
2 41 (47.67%) SQL
3 36 (41.86%) JavaScript
4 35 (40.70%) TypeScript
5 31 (36.05%) Java
6 29 (33.72%) C#
7 9 (10.47%) C
8 7 (8.14%) Go
9 6 (6.98%) Bash
9 6 (6.98%) Rust
10 4 (4.65%) C++
10 4 (4.65%) Scala
11 3 (3.49%) PHP
12 1 (1.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (30.23%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.95%) DV Cleared
3 10 (11.63%) SC Cleared
4 8 (9.30%) Degree
5 5 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.16%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 7 (8.14%) GDPR
2 3 (3.49%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 32 (37.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (43.02%) Kubernetes
2 23 (26.74%) Terraform
3 12 (13.95%) Ansible
4 10 (11.63%) Grafana
5 9 (10.47%) Kibana
6 7 (8.14%) logstash
7 4 (4.65%) AWS Copilot
7 4 (4.65%) Prometheus
7 4 (4.65%) Rancher
8 2 (2.33%) Podman
8 2 (2.33%) Puppet
9 1 (1.16%) Argo
9 1 (1.16%) Graylog
Vendors
1 24 (27.91%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.63%) Google
3 7 (8.14%) Cloudera
3 7 (8.14%) Databricks
3 7 (8.14%) Dell
4 3 (3.49%) Confluent
5 2 (2.33%) NVIDIA
5 2 (2.33%) Tenable
6 1 (1.16%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.16%) Oracle
6 1 (1.16%) Rollbar