Elastic Elasticsearch
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Elasticsearch skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 499 450 479
Rank change year-on-year -49 +29 -55
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 315 234 341
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.47% 0.44%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.58% 3.24% 2.82%
Number of salaries quoted 265 152 153
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -8.57% +6.46%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,625 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £89,375 £88,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.56% -8.46% -

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 8,809 7,228 12,075
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.76% 14.58% 15.43%
Number of salaries quoted 5,956 4,543 7,282
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% +1.90% -4.55%

Elasticsearch
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Elasticsearch relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Elasticsearch job vacancy trend in the UK

Elasticsearch
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Elasticsearch.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Elasticsearch in the UK

Elasticsearch
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Elasticsearch within the UK over the 6 months to 13 September 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
England -21 303 £60,000 -6.25% 202
UK excluding London -27 218 £55,000 -7.56% 125
Work from Home -27 185 £55,000 -14.06% 564
London -57 89 £90,000 +40.63% 109
South East -4 88 £57,500 -30.30% 24
South West -39 40 £52,500 -16.00% 21
Midlands -28 34 £55,000 -6.78% 13
North of England -36 33 £57,500 - 32
East of England -28 29 £55,000 +10.00% 8
West Midlands -17 25 £60,000 +1.69% 11
North West -7 18 £47,500 -17.39% 18
East Midlands -25 9 £55,000 - 2
Yorkshire -37 9 £57,500 -0.65% 9
North East -55 6 £75,000 +42.86% 5
Wales - 4 £45,000 - 3

Elasticsearch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 47 (14.92%) Apache Spark
2 30 (9.52%) Apache
3 26 (8.25%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.22%) Apache Solr
5 5 (1.59%) Apache Pig
6 4 (1.27%) Confluence
6 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.95%) CMS
7 3 (0.95%) DNN
7 3 (0.95%) EPiServer
7 3 (0.95%) Immediacy CMS
7 3 (0.95%) Kentico
7 3 (0.95%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.95%) Sitefinity
7 3 (0.95%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.32%) nginx
8 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 227 (72.06%) Azure
2 190 (60.32%) AWS
3 52 (16.51%) GitHub
4 47 (14.92%) GitHub Copilot
5 42 (13.33%) GCP
6 40 (12.70%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (8.57%) Serverless
8 25 (7.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 24 (7.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 17 (5.40%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (5.40%) dbt
11 15 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 15 (4.76%) Power Platform
11 15 (4.76%) Snowflake
12 13 (4.13%) Amazon ECR
12 13 (4.13%) Amazon ECS
12 13 (4.13%) OpenShift
12 13 (4.13%) SaaS
13 12 (3.81%) Azure Key Vault
13 12 (3.81%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.49%) Internet
2 7 (2.22%) HTTP
3 6 (1.90%) Hyperconnected
4 3 (0.95%) MQTT
4 3 (0.95%) Network Security
4 3 (0.95%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.32%) BGP
5 1 (0.32%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (46.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 146 (46.35%) MongoDB
3 39 (12.38%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (7.62%) MySQL
5 22 (6.98%) BigQuery
5 22 (6.98%) NoSQL
6 20 (6.35%) Amazon Redshift
7 18 (5.71%) Hadoop
8 17 (5.40%) Big Data
9 16 (5.08%) Data Lake
10 15 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
10 15 (4.76%) Looker
10 15 (4.76%) Milvus
10 15 (4.76%) Power BI
10 15 (4.76%) Snowflake Schema
10 15 (4.76%) Tableau
11 13 (4.13%) DynamoDB
11 13 (4.13%) Redis
12 12 (3.81%) Relational Database
12 12 (3.81%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 38 (12.06%) Git
2 31 (9.84%) GitLab
3 16 (5.08%) Cucumber
3 16 (5.08%) Jenkins
4 15 (4.76%) MLflow
5 13 (4.13%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.90%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.90%) Gatling
6 6 (1.90%) JIRA
6 6 (1.90%) JMeter
6 6 (1.90%) LoadRunner
7 4 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.27%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.63%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.63%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.63%) Gradle
8 2 (0.63%) JUnit
8 2 (0.63%) Maven
8 2 (0.63%) Mocha
8 2 (0.63%) Mockito
General
1 63 (20.00%) Finance
2 51 (16.19%) Social Skills
3 29 (9.21%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (6.35%) Retail
5 18 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (3.81%) Banking
6 12 (3.81%) Public Sector
7 11 (3.49%) Games
8 4 (1.27%) Health Technology
8 4 (1.27%) Mandarin Language
8 4 (1.27%) Publishing
8 4 (1.27%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.63%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.63%) Law
10 1 (0.32%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.32%) Police
10 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 173 (54.92%) Developer
2 157 (49.84%) .NET Developer
3 67 (21.27%) Senior
4 36 (11.43%) Lead
5 29 (9.21%) Data Engineer
6 24 (7.62%) Software Engineer
7 22 (6.98%) Python Engineer
8 18 (5.71%) Python Data Engineer
9 16 (5.08%) Senior Data Engineer
10 15 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
10 15 (4.76%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 15 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
11 12 (3.81%) Lead .NET Developer
11 12 (3.81%) Lead Data Engineer
11 12 (3.81%) Lead Developer
11 12 (3.81%) Senior Developer
12 11 (3.49%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (3.49%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (3.49%) Kafka Engineer
13 10 (3.17%) DevOps Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (51.43%) .NET
2 159 (50.48%) ASP.NET
3 154 (48.89%) .NET Core
4 150 (47.62%) Node.js
5 147 (46.67%) ASP.NET Core
6 99 (31.43%) React
7 75 (23.81%) ASP.NET Web API
8 73 (23.17%) Blazor
9 71 (22.54%) Vue
10 66 (20.95%) AngularJS
11 53 (16.83%) .NET Framework
11 53 (16.83%) Kafka
12 46 (14.60%) Terraform
13 41 (13.02%) Entity Framework
14 33 (10.48%) CSS
14 33 (10.48%) HTML
15 21 (6.67%) REST
16 17 (5.40%) LangChain
16 17 (5.40%) pgvector
16 17 (5.40%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.52%) Greenfield Project
2 23 (7.30%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (6.03%) Cloud Native
4 18 (5.71%) Public Cloud
5 15 (4.76%) Clustering
6 10 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (3.17%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.22%) Algorithms
7 7 (2.22%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.59%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.59%) Tandem
10 4 (1.27%) Blockchain
10 4 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.27%) IoT
10 4 (1.27%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.27%) Web3
11 3 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.95%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 2 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 34 (10.79%) Linux
2 14 (4.44%) CentOS
3 7 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.27%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.27%) Unix
4 4 (1.27%) Windows
4 4 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.32%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (54.29%) Agile
2 156 (49.52%) Full-Stack Development
3 152 (48.25%) Microservices
4 96 (30.48%) DevOps
5 93 (29.52%) Scrum
6 89 (28.25%) CI/CD
7 71 (22.54%) TDD
8 60 (19.05%) BDD
9 58 (18.41%) AI
10 55 (17.46%) Kanban
11 49 (15.56%) Software Engineering
12 48 (15.24%) Analytics
13 41 (13.02%) Data Engineering
14 40 (12.70%) Data Pipeline
15 37 (11.75%) Data Modelling
16 35 (11.11%) Mentoring
17 34 (10.79%) Stakeholder Management
18 33 (10.48%) Infrastructure as Code
19 31 (9.84%) Machine Learning
19 31 (9.84%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 183 (58.10%) SQL
2 162 (51.43%) C#
3 104 (33.02%) Python
4 99 (31.43%) JavaScript
5 95 (30.16%) TypeScript
6 26 (8.25%) Java
7 21 (6.67%) Bash
8 19 (6.03%) Go
9 15 (4.76%) Scala
10 12 (3.81%) Rust
11 9 (2.86%) C++
12 2 (0.63%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.63%) PHP
12 2 (0.63%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 48 (15.24%) Security Cleared
2 30 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 23 (7.30%) Degree
4 16 (5.08%) DV Cleared
5 14 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (3.17%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.59%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.59%) PhD
8 4 (1.27%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.52%) QA
2 15 (4.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 15 (4.76%) GDPR
3 11 (3.49%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.63%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 92 (29.21%) Docker
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 86 (27.30%) Kubernetes
2 44 (13.97%) Ansible
3 35 (11.11%) Grafana
4 17 (5.40%) Kibana
5 14 (4.44%) logstash
6 10 (3.17%) Nagios
7 9 (2.86%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.27%) Argo
9 3 (0.95%) Packer
9 3 (0.95%) Podman
9 3 (0.95%) Puppet
10 2 (0.63%) Rancher
11 1 (0.32%) Cilium
11 1 (0.32%) Istio
11 1 (0.32%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 144 (45.71%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.35%) Google
3 15 (4.76%) Cloudera
3 15 (4.76%) Databricks
3 15 (4.76%) Dell
4 12 (3.81%) Splunk
5 11 (3.49%) Red Hat
6 10 (3.17%) Rapid7
7 6 (1.90%) AppDynamics
7 6 (1.90%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.59%) Oracle
9 4 (1.27%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.27%) SAP
10 3 (0.95%) Alterian
10 3 (0.95%) NVIDIA
10 3 (0.95%) Optimizely
10 3 (0.95%) Sitecore
10 3 (0.95%) Tenable
11 2 (0.63%) New Relic
11 2 (0.63%) ServiceNow