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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 412 422
Rank change year-on-year -13 +10 -52
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 218 148 269
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.43% 0.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.81% 3.28% 3.32%
Number of salaries quoted 196 87 105
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,344
25th Percentile £48,750 £53,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £73,750 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,770 - £87,094
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.98% -4.44% -

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 5,716 4,518 8,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.50% 13.13% 13.56%
Number of salaries quoted 3,930 2,858 4,991
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £41,500 £40,871 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% 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 August 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 August 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 -1 84 £57,500 -30.30% 19
South West -38 36 £52,500 -16.00% 18
North of England -36 35 £74,301 +23.84% 29
East of England -24 32 £55,000 +10.00% 5
Midlands -10 31 £55,000 -6.78% 9
West Midlands -16 20 £60,000 +1.69% 6
North West -5 19 £47,500 -18.10% 19
East Midlands -17 11 £55,000 - 3
Yorkshire -17 9 £57,500 -11.54% 9
North East -49 7 £75,000 +8.09% 1
Wales -56 5 £45,000 -33.46% 2
Northern Ireland -77 1 £73,801 +34.18%
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 (5.05%) Apache Spark
2 10 (4.59%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (3.67%) Apache
4 5 (2.29%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.38%) Confluence
6 1 (0.46%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 183 (83.94%) Azure
2 129 (59.17%) AWS
3 47 (21.56%) GitHub
3 47 (21.56%) GitHub Copilot
4 37 (16.97%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (10.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 19 (8.72%) GCP
7 14 (6.42%) dbt
7 14 (6.42%) Serverless
8 10 (4.59%) Snowflake
9 9 (4.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 9 (4.13%) Azure Key Vault
9 9 (4.13%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (4.13%) Azure Service Bus
10 7 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (3.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (3.21%) Power Platform
11 6 (2.75%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.75%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (2.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.21%) Hyperconnected
1 7 (3.21%) Internet
2 4 (1.83%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.38%) HTTP
3 3 (1.38%) MQTT
3 3 (1.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (66.06%) Azure SQL Database
2 142 (65.14%) MongoDB
3 20 (9.17%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (5.05%) Redis
5 10 (4.59%) Looker
5 10 (4.59%) SQL Server
6 8 (3.67%) DynamoDB
6 8 (3.67%) NoSQL
7 7 (3.21%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (3.21%) BigQuery
7 7 (3.21%) Data Lake
7 7 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (3.21%) Neo4j
7 7 (3.21%) Power BI
7 7 (3.21%) Snowflake Schema
7 7 (3.21%) Tableau
8 5 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.29%) MySQL
9 3 (1.38%) ClickHouse
9 3 (1.38%) Flink
Development Applications
1 18 (8.26%) Git
2 17 (7.80%) GitLab
3 12 (5.50%) Cucumber
4 11 (5.05%) SonarQube
5 8 (3.67%) Jenkins
6 7 (3.21%) MLflow
7 4 (1.83%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.83%) JIRA
7 4 (1.83%) Robot Framework
8 3 (1.38%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.38%) Gatling
8 3 (1.38%) JMeter
8 3 (1.38%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.92%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.46%) Maven
10 1 (0.46%) TeamCity
General
1 38 (17.43%) Finance
2 20 (9.17%) Retail
2 20 (9.17%) Social Skills
3 16 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (5.96%) Games
6 3 (1.38%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.46%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 162 (74.31%) Developer
2 153 (70.18%) .NET Developer
3 33 (15.14%) Senior
4 15 (6.88%) Software Engineer
5 14 (6.42%) Lead
6 10 (4.59%) Lead Developer
6 10 (4.59%) Python Engineer
7 9 (4.13%) Data Engineer
7 9 (4.13%) Lead .NET Developer
7 9 (4.13%) Senior Developer
8 8 (3.67%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (3.21%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 7 (3.21%) Systems Engineer
10 6 (2.75%) Azure Data Engineer
10 6 (2.75%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (2.75%) Elasticsearch Engineer
10 6 (2.75%) Kafka Engineer
10 6 (2.75%) Python Data Engineer
10 6 (2.75%) Senior Data Engineer
11 4 (1.83%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (72.02%) .NET
2 154 (70.64%) ASP.NET
3 150 (68.81%) .NET Core
3 150 (68.81%) Node.js
4 144 (66.06%) ASP.NET Core
5 87 (39.91%) React
6 71 (32.57%) ASP.NET Web API
7 69 (31.65%) Blazor
8 66 (30.28%) Vue
9 62 (28.44%) AngularJS
10 50 (22.94%) .NET Framework
11 40 (18.35%) Entity Framework
12 30 (13.76%) CSS
12 30 (13.76%) HTML
13 20 (9.17%) Kafka
14 16 (7.34%) REST
15 12 (5.50%) gRPC
16 11 (5.05%) WinForms
16 11 (5.05%) WPF
17 9 (4.13%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.17%) Greenfield Project
2 11 (5.05%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.13%) Public Cloud
4 8 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.21%) Clustering
5 7 (3.21%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.46%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.46%) NHS
9 1 (0.46%) PMI
9 1 (0.46%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.46%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.80%) Linux
2 4 (1.83%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (69.72%) Agile
2 150 (68.81%) Full-Stack Development
3 137 (62.84%) Microservices
4 81 (37.16%) Scrum
5 62 (28.44%) CI/CD
5 62 (28.44%) DevOps
6 61 (27.98%) TDD
7 52 (23.85%) BDD
8 51 (23.39%) Kanban
9 25 (11.47%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (10.55%) Analytics
11 22 (10.09%) AI
12 21 (9.63%) Mentoring
13 18 (8.26%) Business Intelligence
13 18 (8.26%) Machine Learning
14 17 (7.80%) Data Pipeline
14 17 (7.80%) Observability
14 17 (7.80%) Software Engineering
15 15 (6.88%) OO
15 15 (6.88%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 160 (73.39%) SQL
2 157 (72.02%) C#
3 89 (40.83%) JavaScript
4 84 (38.53%) TypeScript
5 45 (20.64%) Python
6 19 (8.72%) Java
7 13 (5.96%) Go
8 10 (4.59%) Rust
9 8 (3.67%) Bash
10 7 (3.21%) C++
11 4 (1.83%) Scala
12 2 (0.92%) PHP
12 2 (0.92%) Ruby
13 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (14.22%) Security Cleared
2 17 (7.80%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.59%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.75%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.38%) Degree
6 1 (0.46%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.13%) QA
2 7 (3.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 7 (3.21%) GDPR
3 3 (1.38%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 74 (33.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 67 (30.73%) Kubernetes
2 25 (11.47%) Terraform
3 17 (7.80%) Ansible
4 16 (7.34%) Grafana
5 12 (5.50%) Kibana
6 8 (3.67%) logstash
7 5 (2.29%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.83%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (1.38%) Podman
9 3 (1.38%) Puppet
10 2 (0.92%) Rancher
11 1 (0.46%) Argo
11 1 (0.46%) Graylog
Vendors
1 141 (64.68%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.72%) Google
3 7 (3.21%) Cloudera
3 7 (3.21%) Databricks
3 7 (3.21%) Dell
4 3 (1.38%) AppDynamics
4 3 (1.38%) Confluent
4 3 (1.38%) Dynatrace
4 3 (1.38%) NVIDIA
4 3 (1.38%) Tenable
5 2 (0.92%) New Relic
5 2 (0.92%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.46%) Rollbar