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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 460 371 305
Rank change year-on-year -89 -66 +172
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 65 191 361
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.54% 0.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.71% 3.41% 4.58%
Number of salaries quoted 50 121 274
10th Percentile £48,250 £47,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +27.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £78,790 £83,750 £71,250
90th Percentile - - £83,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -15.79%

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 3,809 5,600 7,889
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.70% 15.75% 19.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2,382 2,895 6,085
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,873
25th Percentile £39,250 £42,500 £41,250
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 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £81,125 £82,500 £81,250
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 22 January 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 22 January 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 +3 19 £67,500 -2.61% 26
South West +15 16 £67,500 +17.39% 24
North West +11 15 £67,500 -1.32% 17
Scotland -22 10 £73,801 +6.48% 6
East of England +9 6 £51,250 +2.50% 11
South East -34 6 £65,000 -21.21% 33
West Midlands +25 3 £73,801 +6.48% 5
Midlands +4 3 £73,801 +13.54% 12
North East +2 3 £73,801 +6.48% 1
Wales -2 3 £73,801 +29.87% 4
Northern Ireland -11 2 £73,801 +6.48% 1
Yorkshire -14 1 £65,000 -18.75% 8
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 8 (12.31%) Apache
2 6 (9.23%) Apache Solr
3 5 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 46 (70.77%) AWS
2 42 (64.62%) Azure
3 20 (30.77%) AWS CloudFormation
3 20 (30.77%) GCP
4 17 (26.15%) Amazon ECS
5 16 (24.62%) Amazon ECR
5 16 (24.62%) dbt
5 16 (24.62%) Pulumi
6 12 (18.46%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 10 (15.38%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 10 (15.38%) PaaS
7 10 (15.38%) Sentry
8 6 (9.23%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (7.69%) Serverless
10 4 (6.15%) Amazon S3
10 4 (6.15%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (4.62%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (4.62%) Azure AKS
11 3 (4.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (4.62%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (24.62%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.08%) HTTP
3 1 (1.54%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (1.54%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (30.77%) Redis
3 16 (24.62%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (21.54%) Neo4j
5 12 (18.46%) MongoDB
6 8 (12.31%) MySQL
7 6 (9.23%) NoSQL
8 4 (6.15%) DynamoDB
9 3 (4.62%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (3.08%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (3.08%) Big Data
10 2 (3.08%) DocumentDB
11 1 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (1.54%) Pinecone
11 1 (1.54%) Relational Database
11 1 (1.54%) SQL Server
11 1 (1.54%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 16 (24.62%) Git
2 12 (18.46%) GitLab
3 9 (13.85%) Cucumber
4 8 (12.31%) Bitbucket
5 7 (10.77%) JUnit
6 6 (9.23%) Jenkins
6 6 (9.23%) JIRA
7 4 (6.15%) Cypress.io
8 3 (4.62%) REST Assured
8 3 (4.62%) SonarQube
9 2 (3.08%) Appium
9 2 (3.08%) Katalon Studio
9 2 (3.08%) Selenium
10 1 (1.54%) mountebank
10 1 (1.54%) PHPUnit
10 1 (1.54%) SpecFlow
10 1 (1.54%) Subversion
10 1 (1.54%) TestNG
10 1 (1.54%) WebDriver
General
1 13 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.08%) Games
4 1 (1.54%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 22 (33.85%) Senior
1 22 (33.85%) Software Engineer
2 10 (15.38%) Platform Engineer
2 10 (15.38%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 9 (13.85%) Developer
4 7 (10.77%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (9.23%) C Software Engineer
5 6 (9.23%) Site Engineer
5 6 (9.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Applications Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Backend Developer
6 4 (6.15%) Integration Developer
6 4 (6.15%) Test Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) JavaScript Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) UI Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) UX Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) .NET Developer
8 2 (3.08%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (36.92%) React
2 16 (24.62%) AngularJS
2 16 (24.62%) Django
3 12 (18.46%) MERN Stack
4 11 (16.92%) Node.js
5 8 (12.31%) Apache NiFi
5 8 (12.31%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (9.23%) Vue
7 5 (7.69%) RESTful
8 4 (6.15%) .NET
8 4 (6.15%) Hibernate
8 4 (6.15%) JSF
8 4 (6.15%) PrimeFaces
8 4 (6.15%) REST
9 3 (4.62%) .NET Core
9 3 (4.62%) CSS
9 3 (4.62%) HTML
10 2 (3.08%) ASP.NET Core
10 2 (3.08%) Kafka
10 2 (3.08%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.38%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (10.77%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.62%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.08%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.54%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.54%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.54%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.54%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.54%) Smart Energy
5 1 (1.54%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 29 (44.62%) Linux
2 16 (24.62%) Unix
3 4 (6.15%) Windows
3 4 (6.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (55.38%) CI/CD
2 31 (47.69%) Software Engineering
3 27 (41.54%) DevOps
4 26 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (29.23%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (27.69%) Observability
7 17 (26.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 16 (24.62%) Agile
8 16 (24.62%) Clean Code
8 16 (24.62%) Service-Level Objective
9 13 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
10 12 (18.46%) Microservices
10 12 (18.46%) Open Source
11 11 (16.92%) Migration
12 10 (15.38%) Machine Learning
12 10 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
12 10 (15.38%) Prototyping
12 10 (15.38%) Test Automation
13 9 (13.85%) AI
14 8 (12.31%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 48 (73.85%) Python
2 31 (47.69%) JavaScript
3 30 (46.15%) Java
4 22 (33.85%) TypeScript
5 12 (18.46%) C
6 8 (12.31%) SQL
7 6 (9.23%) C#
8 5 (7.69%) PHP
9 4 (6.15%) Bash
9 4 (6.15%) Go
10 1 (1.54%) C++
10 1 (1.54%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.54%) Rust
Qualifications
1 34 (52.31%) Security Cleared
2 19 (29.23%) SC Cleared
3 15 (23.08%) DV Cleared
4 4 (6.15%) Degree
5 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.62%) QA
2 1 (1.54%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.54%) GDPR
2 1 (1.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 34 (52.31%) Docker
2 1 (1.54%) Squid
Systems Management
1 22 (33.85%) Terraform
2 19 (29.23%) Kubernetes
3 14 (21.54%) Kibana
4 10 (15.38%) Ansible
4 10 (15.38%) AWS Copilot
5 8 (12.31%) logstash
6 3 (4.62%) Grafana
6 3 (4.62%) Rancher
Vendors
1 16 (24.62%) Google
2 6 (9.23%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.69%) Atlassian
3 5 (7.69%) Oracle
4 1 (1.54%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.54%) New Relic