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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 439 406 350
Rank change year-on-year -33 -56 +85
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 68 197 201
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.44% 0.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.81% 3.13% 3.28%
Number of salaries quoted 49 127 139
10th Percentile £52,500 £43,911 £44,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% +6.63% +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,790 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £81,750 - £83,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,750
% change year-on-year -3.57% +6.46% -6.07%

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 3,754 6,299 6,128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.94% 14.18% 21.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,464 3,308 4,823
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,711 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,790 £82,500 £82,548
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 2 December 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 2 December 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
North of England +18 16 £67,500 - 16
Scotland +3 16 £73,801 +6.48% 2
South West +20 13 £67,500 +5.88% 15
North West +27 12 £63,500 -5.93% 11
South East -29 8 £82,500 - 29
East of England +22 6 £55,000 +10.00% 5
West Midlands +47 4 £69,401 +0.13% 14
Midlands +35 4 £69,401 +6.77% 18
North East +9 3 £73,801 +6.48% 2
Wales +2 3 £73,801 +9.33% 3
Northern Ireland -2 2 £73,801 +6.48%
Yorkshire +2 1 £65,000 +10.64% 4
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 (13.24%) Apache Solr
2 6 (8.82%) Apache
3 5 (7.35%) Confluence
4 4 (5.88%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 42 (61.76%) Azure
2 40 (58.82%) AWS
3 19 (27.94%) Amazon ECS
4 18 (26.47%) AWS CloudFormation
4 18 (26.47%) GCP
5 16 (23.53%) Amazon ECR
5 16 (23.53%) dbt
5 16 (23.53%) Pulumi
6 11 (16.18%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 10 (14.71%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 10 (14.71%) PaaS
7 10 (14.71%) Sentry
8 7 (10.29%) Amazon S3
8 7 (10.29%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (10.29%) Serverless
9 4 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (5.88%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (23.53%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.94%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (32.35%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (25.00%) Redis
3 11 (16.18%) MongoDB
3 11 (16.18%) MySQL
4 7 (10.29%) Neo4j
5 5 (7.35%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (7.35%) Relational Database
6 4 (5.88%) NoSQL
7 3 (4.41%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (2.94%) InterSystems Cache
8 2 (2.94%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.47%) Big Data
9 1 (1.47%) ClickHouse
9 1 (1.47%) DocumentDB
9 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (38.24%) Git
2 10 (14.71%) GitLab
3 7 (10.29%) JIRA
3 7 (10.29%) JUnit
4 6 (8.82%) Bitbucket
4 6 (8.82%) Jenkins
5 5 (7.35%) Cucumber
6 4 (5.88%) MSBuild
6 4 (5.88%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (5.88%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (5.88%) Visual Studio
7 3 (4.41%) REST Assured
8 2 (2.94%) Appium
8 2 (2.94%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.94%) Katalon Studio
8 2 (2.94%) Selenium
9 1 (1.47%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.47%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.47%) Subversion
9 1 (1.47%) WebDriver
General
1 17 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.82%) Finance
2 6 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (8.82%) Law
3 4 (5.88%) Marketing
3 4 (5.88%) Retail
4 3 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.94%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.94%) Banking
5 2 (2.94%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.47%) Advertising
6 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Games
6 1 (1.47%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 21 (30.88%) Senior
2 19 (27.94%) Software Engineer
3 10 (14.71%) Platform Engineer
3 10 (14.71%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 9 (13.24%) Site Engineer
4 9 (13.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 6 (8.82%) Developer
6 5 (7.35%) Architect
6 5 (7.35%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (7.35%) Java Engineer
6 5 (7.35%) Java Software Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Backend Developer
7 4 (5.88%) C Software Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Integration Developer
7 4 (5.88%) Technical Architect
7 4 (5.88%) Technical Manager
7 4 (5.88%) Web Manager
8 3 (4.41%) Lead
9 2 (2.94%) Lead Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (23.53%) Django
1 16 (23.53%) React
2 11 (16.18%) REST
3 8 (11.76%) .NET
4 7 (10.29%) AngularJS
4 7 (10.29%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (10.29%) Kafka
4 7 (10.29%) Node.js
5 6 (8.82%) Apache NiFi
5 6 (8.82%) Hibernate
5 6 (8.82%) JSF
5 6 (8.82%) MERN Stack
6 5 (7.35%) CSS
6 5 (7.35%) HTML
6 5 (7.35%) RESTful
7 4 (5.88%) ASP.NET
7 4 (5.88%) gRPC
7 4 (5.88%) JSON
7 4 (5.88%) Spring
7 4 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.71%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (8.82%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (7.35%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.41%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.94%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.94%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.94%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.47%) IoT
6 1 (1.47%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.47%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.47%) Smart Energy
6 1 (1.47%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 34 (50.00%) Linux
2 16 (23.53%) Unix
3 10 (14.71%) Windows
4 8 (11.76%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.94%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (63.24%) CI/CD
2 30 (44.12%) Software Engineering
3 26 (38.24%) DevOps
4 23 (33.82%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (29.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 19 (27.94%) Agile
6 19 (27.94%) Observability
7 18 (26.47%) Service-Level Objective
8 17 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 16 (23.53%) Clean Code
10 14 (20.59%) AI
10 14 (20.59%) Microservices
11 12 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
11 12 (17.65%) Open Source
12 11 (16.18%) Migration
13 10 (14.71%) Platform Engineering
13 10 (14.71%) Prototyping
14 9 (13.24%) Containerisation
14 9 (13.24%) Machine Learning
15 8 (11.76%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 46 (67.65%) Python
2 28 (41.18%) JavaScript
3 26 (38.24%) Java
4 17 (25.00%) TypeScript
5 12 (17.65%) SQL
6 8 (11.76%) C#
7 6 (8.82%) C
8 5 (7.35%) PHP
9 3 (4.41%) Bash
9 3 (4.41%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.47%) Go
10 1 (1.47%) Perl
Qualifications
1 28 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 19 (27.94%) SC Cleared
3 8 (11.76%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.94%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.47%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.82%) GDPR
2 4 (5.88%) QA
3 1 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.47%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.47%) NIST
3 1 (1.47%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 37 (54.41%) Docker
2 1 (1.47%) Squid
Systems Management
1 20 (29.41%) Terraform
2 16 (23.53%) Kibana
3 14 (20.59%) Kubernetes
4 10 (14.71%) AWS Copilot
5 6 (8.82%) Ansible
5 6 (8.82%) logstash
6 3 (4.41%) Grafana
7 2 (2.94%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.47%) Rancher
Vendors
1 16 (23.53%) Google
2 9 (13.24%) Microsoft
3 7 (10.29%) Atlassian
3 7 (10.29%) Oracle
4 3 (4.41%) Splunk
5 2 (2.94%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.47%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.47%) LogRhythm
6 1 (1.47%) New Relic