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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 461 376 313
Rank change year-on-year -85 -63 +173
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 75 176 413
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.54% 0.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.89% 3.28% 4.36%
Number of salaries quoted 59 115 322
10th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +31.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £78,790 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £78,840 - £86,485
UK median annual salary £73,801 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.79% +20.83% -17.24%

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 3,964 5,371 9,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.28% 16.46% 18.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2,379 2,811 7,367
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 15 February 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 15 February 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
North of England -12 22 £67,500 -2.61% 14
South West +3 19 £67,500 +17.39% 15
North West 0 17 £67,500 -1.32% 11
Scotland -24 10 £73,801 +6.48% 4
South East -43 8 £60,000 -27.27% 21
East of England +9 6 £51,250 +2.50% 6
Wales -3 4 £73,801 +66.43% 3
North East -4 4 £73,801 +6.42% 1
West Midlands +14 3 £73,801 +11.98% 6
Midlands -7 3 £73,801 +13.54% 8
Northern Ireland -21 3 £73,801 +6.48% 1
Yorkshire -24 1 £65,000 -18.75% 2
Elasticsearch
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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 7 (9.33%) Apache
2 6 (8.00%) Apache Solr
3 5 (6.67%) Confluence
4 2 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 53 (70.67%) AWS
2 49 (65.33%) Azure
3 26 (34.67%) GCP
4 24 (32.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 22 (29.33%) dbt
6 21 (28.00%) Amazon ECS
7 20 (26.67%) Amazon ECR
7 20 (26.67%) Pulumi
8 16 (21.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 14 (18.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 14 (18.67%) PaaS
9 14 (18.67%) Sentry
10 8 (10.67%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (8.00%) Serverless
12 4 (5.33%) Amazon S3
12 4 (5.33%) AWS CodeBuild
12 4 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (5.33%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (4.00%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 20 (26.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.67%) HTTP
3 1 (1.33%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (1.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (44.00%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (34.67%) Redis
3 20 (26.67%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (18.67%) MongoDB
4 14 (18.67%) Neo4j
5 9 (12.00%) MySQL
6 7 (9.33%) NoSQL
7 4 (5.33%) DynamoDB
8 3 (4.00%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (2.67%) Big Data
9 2 (2.67%) DocumentDB
9 2 (2.67%) Flink
9 2 (2.67%) Looker
10 1 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.33%) Pinecone
10 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
10 1 (1.33%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 17 (22.67%) Git
2 11 (14.67%) GitLab
3 9 (12.00%) Cucumber
4 8 (10.67%) Bitbucket
5 6 (8.00%) Jenkins
5 6 (8.00%) JIRA
5 6 (8.00%) JUnit
6 4 (5.33%) Cypress.io
7 3 (4.00%) REST Assured
7 3 (4.00%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.67%) Appium
8 2 (2.67%) Katalon Studio
8 2 (2.67%) Selenium
9 1 (1.33%) Maven
9 1 (1.33%) mountebank
9 1 (1.33%) PHPUnit
9 1 (1.33%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.33%) Subversion
9 1 (1.33%) TestNG
9 1 (1.33%) WebDriver
General
1 15 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.67%) Games
5 1 (1.33%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 29 (38.67%) Senior
2 24 (32.00%) Software Engineer
3 14 (18.67%) Platform Engineer
3 14 (18.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 11 (14.67%) Developer
5 7 (9.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (8.00%) C Software Engineer
6 6 (8.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 6 (8.00%) Site Engineer
6 6 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Applications Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Backend Developer
7 4 (5.33%) Integration Developer
7 4 (5.33%) Test Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Data Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) JavaScript Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) UI Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) UX Engineer
9 2 (2.67%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (2.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (33.33%) React
2 20 (26.67%) Django
3 17 (22.67%) AngularJS
4 14 (18.67%) Node.js
5 12 (16.00%) MERN Stack
6 8 (10.67%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (9.33%) Apache NiFi
8 6 (8.00%) RESTful
8 6 (8.00%) Vue
9 5 (6.67%) REST
10 4 (5.33%) .NET
10 4 (5.33%) CSS
10 4 (5.33%) Hibernate
10 4 (5.33%) HTML
10 4 (5.33%) JSF
10 4 (5.33%) Kafka
10 4 (5.33%) PrimeFaces
11 3 (4.00%) .NET Core
12 2 (2.67%) ASP.NET Core
12 2 (2.67%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.67%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (9.33%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.00%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.67%) Legacy Code
4 2 (2.67%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.33%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.33%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.33%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.33%) Smart Energy
5 1 (1.33%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 32 (42.67%) Linux
2 20 (26.67%) Unix
3 4 (5.33%) Windows
3 4 (5.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (53.33%) CI/CD
2 33 (44.00%) Software Engineering
3 32 (42.67%) DevOps
4 26 (34.67%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (32.00%) Observability
6 23 (30.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 22 (29.33%) Agile
8 20 (26.67%) Clean Code
9 17 (22.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 16 (21.33%) Open Source
10 16 (21.33%) Service-Level Objective
11 15 (20.00%) Migration
12 14 (18.67%) Platform Engineering
12 14 (18.67%) Prototyping
13 13 (17.33%) Containerisation
13 13 (17.33%) Cybersecurity
13 13 (17.33%) Microservices
14 12 (16.00%) AI
14 12 (16.00%) Machine Learning
14 12 (16.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 56 (74.67%) Python
2 37 (49.33%) Java
3 34 (45.33%) JavaScript
4 24 (32.00%) TypeScript
5 12 (16.00%) C
6 8 (10.67%) SQL
7 6 (8.00%) C#
7 6 (8.00%) PHP
8 4 (5.33%) Bash
8 4 (5.33%) Go
9 1 (1.33%) C++
9 1 (1.33%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 40 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 25 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 14 (18.67%) DV Cleared
4 5 (6.67%) Degree
5 2 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (4.00%) QA
2 2 (2.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.33%) GDPR
3 1 (1.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 41 (54.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.33%) Squid
Systems Management
1 31 (41.33%) Terraform
2 25 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 14 (18.67%) AWS Copilot
3 14 (18.67%) Kibana
4 10 (13.33%) Ansible
5 8 (10.67%) logstash
6 4 (5.33%) Grafana
7 3 (4.00%) Rancher
8 1 (1.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (29.33%) Google
2 6 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.33%) Atlassian
3 4 (5.33%) Oracle
4 2 (2.67%) Confluent
5 1 (1.33%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (1.33%) New Relic