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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 434 362
Rank change year-on-year -77 -72 +96
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 204 231 725
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.53% 0.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.57% 3.06% 4.17%
Number of salaries quoted 151 152 457
10th Percentile £43,750 £48,875 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £96,125 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.86% +27.27% -12.00%

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 7,930 7,552 17,374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.77% 17.20% 17.99%
Number of salaries quoted 4,796 5,097 12,530
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 11 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Elasticsearch in the UK

Elasticsearch
Top 17 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 11 May 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 -66 184 £67,500 -6.90% 92
UK excluding London -104 102 £57,500 -17.86% 54
Work from Home -31 91 £57,500 -19.30% 73
London -11 85 £85,000 +22.51% 40
South West -32 25 £57,500 -4.17% 15
South East -55 25 £57,500 -30.30% 16
North of England -53 21 £70,901 +5.04% 8
East of England -23 19 £50,000 - 6
North West -11 15 £67,500 +5.88% 7
Midlands -40 8 £55,000 -18.67% 5
Yorkshire -47 5 £75,000 +7.14% 1
West Midlands -24 4 £57,500 -14.97% 3
East Midlands -30 4 £55,000 -20.00% 2
Wales -27 2 £59,401 -12.16% 1
Scotland -9 1 - - 4
Northern Ireland -40 1 £73,801 +34.18%
North East -46 1 - -

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 (23.04%) Apache Spark
2 43 (21.08%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (7.35%) Apache
4 7 (3.43%) Apache Solr
5 4 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.98%) Confluence
7 1 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 156 (76.47%) AWS
2 142 (69.61%) Azure
3 87 (42.65%) GCP
4 35 (17.16%) Snowflake
5 31 (15.20%) dbt
6 23 (11.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 23 (11.27%) Power Platform
7 21 (10.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 16 (7.84%) Serverless
9 14 (6.86%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (6.37%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (6.37%) GitHub
10 13 (6.37%) GitHub Copilot
11 12 (5.88%) Amazon ECR
12 11 (5.39%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (5.39%) SaaS
13 9 (4.41%) Amazon S3
13 9 (4.41%) Amazon SageMaker
13 9 (4.41%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (4.41%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.94%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.96%) HTTP
3 3 (1.47%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (1.47%) Internet
4 2 (0.98%) MQTT
4 2 (0.98%) Network Security
5 1 (0.49%) BGP
5 1 (0.49%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (27.94%) BigQuery
1 57 (27.94%) MongoDB
2 43 (21.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 35 (17.16%) Looker
4 33 (16.18%) Amazon Redshift
5 32 (15.69%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (15.69%) Tableau
6 28 (13.73%) PostgreSQL
7 23 (11.27%) Data Lake
7 23 (11.27%) MySQL
7 23 (11.27%) Power BI
7 23 (11.27%) Snowflake Schema
8 21 (10.29%) Redis
9 19 (9.31%) NoSQL
10 16 (7.84%) Neo4j
11 10 (4.90%) Pinecone
11 10 (4.90%) Weaviate
12 9 (4.41%) Apache Iceberg
12 9 (4.41%) Delta Lake
12 9 (4.41%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 32 (15.69%) MLflow
2 24 (11.76%) GitLab
3 20 (9.80%) Git
4 9 (4.41%) Cucumber
4 9 (4.41%) Jenkins
5 8 (3.92%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.94%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.96%) Gatling
7 4 (1.96%) JIRA
7 4 (1.96%) JMeter
7 4 (1.96%) LoadRunner
8 3 (1.47%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.98%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.49%) JUnit
10 1 (0.49%) Maven
10 1 (0.49%) PHPUnit
General
1 35 (17.16%) Analytical Skills
2 30 (14.71%) Social Skills
3 21 (10.29%) Finance
4 13 (6.37%) Banking
5 9 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.94%) Games
6 6 (2.94%) Investment Banking
6 6 (2.94%) Law
7 5 (2.45%) Health Technology
7 5 (2.45%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.45%) Retail
8 4 (1.96%) Mandarin Language
8 4 (1.96%) Publishing
8 4 (1.96%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.49%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 68 (33.33%) Senior
2 57 (27.94%) Developer
3 43 (21.08%) .NET Developer
4 39 (19.12%) Software Engineer
5 23 (11.27%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 23 (11.27%) Systems Engineer
6 13 (6.37%) Data Engineer
6 13 (6.37%) Lead
6 13 (6.37%) Platform Engineer
7 12 (5.88%) Principal Engineer
8 11 (5.39%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (5.39%) Senior Software Engineer
9 10 (4.90%) Architect
9 10 (4.90%) Python Engineer
10 9 (4.41%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
10 9 (4.41%) Consultant
10 9 (4.41%) Data Consultant
10 9 (4.41%) Lead Data Engineer
10 9 (4.41%) Senior Consultant
11 8 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (28.92%) Node.js
2 48 (23.53%) .NET
3 47 (23.04%) React
4 45 (22.06%) ASP.NET
5 43 (21.08%) .NET Core
5 43 (21.08%) ASP.NET Core
5 43 (21.08%) Kafka
6 32 (15.69%) AngularJS
6 32 (15.69%) PyTorch
6 32 (15.69%) TensorFlow
7 30 (14.71%) Django
8 25 (12.25%) Vue
9 23 (11.27%) LangChain
9 23 (11.27%) LlamaIndex
9 23 (11.27%) pgvector
9 23 (11.27%) RESTful
9 23 (11.27%) scikit-learn
10 19 (9.31%) ASP.NET Web API
11 17 (8.33%) Blazor
12 15 (7.35%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 30 (14.71%) Cloud Native
1 30 (14.71%) Distributed Systems
1 30 (14.71%) Greenfield Project
2 29 (14.22%) Public Cloud
3 25 (12.25%) Algorithms
3 25 (12.25%) Data Structures
4 23 (11.27%) Clustering
5 10 (4.90%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.92%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.96%) Blockchain
7 4 (1.96%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.96%) Web3
8 2 (0.98%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (0.98%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.49%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.49%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.49%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.49%) PMI
9 1 (0.49%) Replication
9 1 (0.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (14.22%) Linux
2 11 (5.39%) CentOS
3 7 (3.43%) Unix
4 4 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.96%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.96%) Windows
4 4 (1.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (38.73%) Agile
2 73 (35.78%) Microservices
3 68 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 65 (31.86%) AI
4 65 (31.86%) Software Engineering
5 61 (29.90%) Data Science
6 60 (29.41%) DevOps
7 53 (25.98%) Machine Learning
8 51 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 46 (22.55%) Computer Science
9 46 (22.55%) Data Engineering
9 46 (22.55%) Data Pipeline
10 45 (22.06%) Analytics
11 35 (17.16%) Generative AI
11 35 (17.16%) Performance Tuning
12 34 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
12 34 (16.67%) Use Case
13 33 (16.18%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
14 32 (15.69%) Data Modelling
14 32 (15.69%) Feature Engineering
Programming Languages
1 132 (64.71%) Python
2 88 (43.14%) SQL
3 50 (24.51%) JavaScript
4 49 (24.02%) C#
5 48 (23.53%) Java
6 47 (23.04%) TypeScript
7 22 (10.78%) Bash
8 19 (9.31%) Go
9 14 (6.86%) Scala
10 12 (5.88%) C
11 7 (3.43%) Rust
12 5 (2.45%) C++
13 3 (1.47%) PHP
14 2 (0.98%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.98%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.49%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 47 (23.04%) Degree
2 35 (17.16%) Security Cleared
3 31 (15.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (7.35%) DV Cleared
5 14 (6.86%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.96%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.49%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (11.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 23 (11.27%) GDPR
2 11 (5.39%) QA
3 10 (4.90%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.98%) Accessibility
System Software
1 68 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 65 (31.86%) Kubernetes
2 41 (20.10%) Terraform
3 28 (13.73%) Ansible
4 24 (11.76%) Grafana
5 13 (6.37%) Kibana
6 7 (3.43%) logstash
6 7 (3.43%) Nagios
6 7 (3.43%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.45%) Argo
7 5 (2.45%) AWS Copilot
8 4 (1.96%) Rancher
9 3 (1.47%) Packer
10 2 (0.98%) Podman
10 2 (0.98%) Puppet
11 1 (0.49%) Cilium
11 1 (0.49%) Graylog
11 1 (0.49%) Istio
Vendors
1 43 (21.08%) Microsoft
2 37 (18.14%) Google
3 32 (15.69%) Databricks
4 23 (11.27%) Cloudera
4 23 (11.27%) Dell
5 10 (4.90%) Palantir
6 9 (4.41%) Splunk
7 7 (3.43%) Rapid7
7 7 (3.43%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.96%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.96%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.47%) Confluent
10 2 (0.98%) NVIDIA
10 2 (0.98%) Oracle
10 2 (0.98%) Rollbar
10 2 (0.98%) Tenable
11 1 (0.49%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.49%) Foundry