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

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 433 420 350
Rank change year-on-year -13 -70 +49
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 94 190 211
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.40% 0.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.34% 3.06% 3.26%
Number of salaries quoted 70 115 143
10th Percentile £47,950 £43,911 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,313 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.22% +6.63% +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,790 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year -7.14% +1.82% +1.85%

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 4,023 6,205 6,470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.67% 12.92% 20.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,509 3,206 5,110
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -1.64%

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 October 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 October 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
South East -6 25 £75,000 -6.25% 52
Scotland -10 20 £73,801 +6.48% 12
North of England -19 18 £64,250 +7.08% 27
North West -17 12 £57,500 -4.17% 21
East of England +20 11 £50,000 -23.08% 10
South West +27 9 £66,250 +15.22% 22
Midlands +41 6 £65,000 +4.00% 16
West Midlands +44 5 £65,000 -6.22% 9
North East +16 4 £73,801 +6.48%
Wales +3 3 £73,801 +9.33% 3
Northern Ireland +6 2 £73,801 +6.48% 1
Yorkshire 0 2 £65,000 +15.56% 6
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 (9.57%) Apache Solr
1 9 (9.57%) IIS
2 5 (5.32%) Apache
3 4 (4.26%) CMS
3 4 (4.26%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 46 (48.94%) AWS
2 44 (46.81%) Azure
3 20 (21.28%) Amazon ECS
4 19 (20.21%) GCP
5 16 (17.02%) Amazon ECR
5 16 (17.02%) AWS CloudFormation
5 16 (17.02%) dbt
5 16 (17.02%) Pulumi
6 13 (13.83%) Cloudflare
7 11 (11.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 10 (10.64%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 10 (10.64%) PaaS
8 10 (10.64%) Sentry
9 9 (9.57%) Amazon S3
9 9 (9.57%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (9.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 9 (9.57%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (9.57%) Azure Service Bus
9 9 (9.57%) Serverless
9 9 (9.57%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (17.02%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.13%) Broadband
3 1 (1.06%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (24.47%) MySQL
2 22 (23.40%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (23.40%) Redis
3 17 (18.09%) Amazon RDS
4 15 (15.96%) SQL Server
5 14 (14.89%) MongoDB
6 8 (8.51%) Relational Database
7 6 (6.38%) Apache Cassandra
7 6 (6.38%) NoSQL
8 4 (4.26%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (4.26%) InterSystems Cache
8 4 (4.26%) RDBMS
9 3 (3.19%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.06%) ClickHouse
10 1 (1.06%) DocumentDB
10 1 (1.06%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 48 (51.06%) Git
2 10 (10.64%) GitLab
3 9 (9.57%) Jenkins
3 9 (9.57%) MSBuild
3 9 (9.57%) NUnit
3 9 (9.57%) Octopus Deploy
3 9 (9.57%) Team Foundation Server
3 9 (9.57%) TeamCity
3 9 (9.57%) Visual Studio
4 8 (8.51%) Jasmine
4 8 (8.51%) JIRA
5 7 (7.45%) JUnit
6 4 (4.26%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.13%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.13%) REST Assured
7 2 (2.13%) Subversion
8 1 (1.06%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (1.06%) mountebank
8 1 (1.06%) rollup.js
8 1 (1.06%) Vite
General
1 21 (22.34%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.96%) Finance
3 12 (12.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 12 (12.77%) Law
4 9 (9.57%) Retail
5 8 (8.51%) Games
5 8 (8.51%) Marketing
6 6 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (5.32%) Banking
8 4 (4.26%) Automotive
8 4 (4.26%) Investment Banking
9 3 (3.19%) Aerospace
10 2 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.06%) Advertising
11 1 (1.06%) Electronics
11 1 (1.06%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.06%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 32 (34.04%) Senior
2 22 (23.40%) Developer
3 21 (22.34%) Software Engineer
4 12 (12.77%) Senior Developer
5 11 (11.70%) Platform Engineer
5 11 (11.70%) Site Engineer
5 11 (11.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 10 (10.64%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 9 (9.57%) .NET Developer
7 9 (9.57%) Architect
7 9 (9.57%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (9.57%) Java Engineer
7 9 (9.57%) Java Software Engineer
7 9 (9.57%) Technical Architect
8 8 (8.51%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (6.38%) Senior .NET Developer
10 5 (5.32%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 5 (5.32%) Integration Developer
10 5 (5.32%) Lead
11 4 (4.26%) Lead Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (34.04%) .NET
2 23 (24.47%) CSS
2 23 (24.47%) HTML
2 23 (24.47%) React
3 22 (23.40%) ASP.NET
4 21 (22.34%) REST
5 18 (19.15%) RESTful
6 16 (17.02%) Django
7 13 (13.83%) ASP.NET Core
7 13 (13.83%) HTML5
7 13 (13.83%) Kafka
8 12 (12.77%) CSS3
9 11 (11.70%) AngularJS
10 10 (10.64%) Bootstrap
11 9 (9.57%) gRPC
11 9 (9.57%) JSON
11 9 (9.57%) Vue
11 9 (9.57%) XML
12 8 (8.51%) Elastic Stack
12 8 (8.51%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.64%) Cloud Native
1 10 (10.64%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.32%) Online Games
4 4 (4.26%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.26%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.26%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.19%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.13%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.13%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.13%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.06%) 3D Graphics
7 1 (1.06%) Animation
7 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.06%) IoT
7 1 (1.06%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.06%) Smart Energy
7 1 (1.06%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 37 (39.36%) Linux
2 16 (17.02%) Unix
3 14 (14.89%) Windows
4 9 (9.57%) Windows Server
5 4 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (4.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (62.77%) CI/CD
2 33 (35.11%) Software Engineering
3 32 (34.04%) Agile
4 31 (32.98%) DevOps
4 31 (32.98%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (24.47%) MVC
5 23 (24.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 22 (23.40%) Observability
7 21 (22.34%) AI
7 21 (22.34%) Microservices
8 20 (21.28%) Service-Level Objective
9 19 (20.21%) Clean Code
10 16 (17.02%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (17.02%) Machine Learning
10 16 (17.02%) Mentoring
11 13 (13.83%) Open Source
11 13 (13.83%) Scrum
12 12 (12.77%) Migration
12 12 (12.77%) SDLC
13 11 (11.70%) Mobile First
Programming Languages
1 44 (46.81%) Python
2 42 (44.68%) JavaScript
3 28 (29.79%) C#
4 27 (28.72%) Java
5 26 (27.66%) SQL
6 23 (24.47%) TypeScript
7 6 (6.38%) PHP
7 6 (6.38%) PowerShell
8 4 (4.26%) Bash
9 3 (3.19%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.13%) Perl
11 1 (1.06%) C++
Qualifications
1 24 (25.53%) Security Cleared
2 22 (23.40%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.26%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.19%) Degree
5 2 (2.13%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.13%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.06%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.83%) GDPR
2 6 (6.38%) QA
3 2 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.13%) NIST
3 2 (2.13%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.06%) Data Quality
System Software
1 43 (45.74%) Docker
2 2 (2.13%) Squid
Systems Management
1 29 (30.85%) Terraform
2 16 (17.02%) Kibana
3 12 (12.77%) Kubernetes
4 10 (10.64%) AWS Copilot
5 5 (5.32%) Ansible
6 4 (4.26%) Grafana
6 4 (4.26%) Prometheus
7 3 (3.19%) logstash
Vendors
1 21 (22.34%) Microsoft
2 16 (17.02%) Google
3 13 (13.83%) Rollbar
4 8 (8.51%) Oracle
5 7 (7.45%) Atlassian
6 6 (6.38%) Splunk
7 4 (4.26%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.13%) LogRhythm
8 2 (2.13%) New Relic
9 1 (1.06%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (1.06%) WSO2