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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 471 446 468
Rank change year-on-year -25 +22 -26
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 330 245 403
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.50% 0.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.70% 3.22% 2.91%
Number of salaries quoted 275 162 212
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £43,766
25th Percentile £49,750 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,500 £91,125 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -11.54%

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 8,914 7,608 13,843
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.71% 15.42% 15.90%
Number of salaries quoted 5,934 4,905 9,345
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +0.83% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £111,250
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 30 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Elasticsearch in the UK

Elasticsearch
Top 16 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 30 July 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 -8 316 £60,000 -7.69% 123
UK excluding London -26 214 £55,000 -15.38% 76
Work from Home -14 195 £55,000 -15.38% 86
London -17 107 £85,000 +30.77% 62
South East -12 81 £57,500 -30.30% 22
North of England -22 35 £74,301 +23.84% 23
South West -40 35 £52,500 -16.00% 11
East of England -25 32 £55,000 +10.00% 5
Midlands -11 30 £55,000 -6.78% 8
North West +2 19 £47,500 -18.10% 16
West Midlands -10 19 £60,000 +1.69% 6
East Midlands -11 11 £55,000 - 2
Yorkshire -23 9 £57,500 -11.54% 6
North East -48 7 £75,000 +8.09% 1
Wales -55 5 £45,000 -33.46% 1
Northern Ireland -72 1 £73,801 +34.18%

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 56 (16.97%) Apache Spark
2 37 (11.21%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (8.48%) Apache
4 8 (2.42%) Apache Solr
5 5 (1.52%) Apache Pig
6 4 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.91%) CMS
7 3 (0.91%) Confluence
7 3 (0.91%) DNN
7 3 (0.91%) EPiServer
7 3 (0.91%) Immediacy CMS
7 3 (0.91%) Kentico
7 3 (0.91%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.91%) Sitefinity
7 3 (0.91%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 237 (71.82%) Azure
2 212 (64.24%) AWS
3 68 (20.61%) GCP
4 51 (15.45%) GitHub
5 49 (14.85%) GitHub Copilot
6 36 (10.91%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (10.00%) dbt
8 27 (8.18%) Serverless
8 27 (8.18%) Snowflake
9 26 (7.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 23 (6.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 23 (6.97%) Power Platform
11 21 (6.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 17 (5.15%) Amazon ECR
12 17 (5.15%) Amazon ECS
13 15 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
14 14 (4.24%) Cloud Computing
14 14 (4.24%) SaaS
15 13 (3.94%) Amazon Kinesis
15 13 (3.94%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.64%) Internet
2 7 (2.12%) Hyperconnected
2 7 (2.12%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.82%) HTTP
4 3 (0.91%) MQTT
4 3 (0.91%) Network Security
5 1 (0.30%) BGP
5 1 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (46.36%) MongoDB
2 151 (45.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 39 (11.82%) BigQuery
4 34 (10.30%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (8.79%) Amazon Redshift
6 27 (8.18%) Looker
7 24 (7.27%) Data Lake
7 24 (7.27%) Data Warehouse
7 24 (7.27%) MySQL
7 24 (7.27%) Tableau
8 23 (6.97%) Power BI
8 23 (6.97%) Snowflake Schema
9 22 (6.67%) NoSQL
10 20 (6.06%) Redis
11 17 (5.15%) Hadoop
12 16 (4.85%) Big Data
13 13 (3.94%) DynamoDB
14 10 (3.03%) SQL Server
15 9 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
15 9 (2.73%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (9.70%) Git
2 29 (8.79%) GitLab
3 24 (7.27%) MLflow
4 13 (3.94%) Cucumber
5 12 (3.64%) Jenkins
5 12 (3.64%) SonarQube
6 7 (2.12%) JIRA
7 6 (1.82%) Gatling
7 6 (1.82%) JMeter
7 6 (1.82%) LoadRunner
8 4 (1.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (1.21%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.21%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.91%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.61%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.61%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.30%) Maven
General
1 64 (19.39%) Finance
2 48 (14.55%) Social Skills
3 38 (11.52%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (6.06%) Retail
5 18 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (4.55%) Banking
7 13 (3.94%) Games
8 8 (2.42%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.52%) Health Technology
9 5 (1.52%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.21%) Law
10 4 (1.21%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (1.21%) Publishing
10 4 (1.21%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.30%) Front Office
11 1 (0.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 173 (52.42%) Developer
2 157 (47.58%) .NET Developer
3 77 (23.33%) Senior
4 32 (9.70%) Lead
5 25 (7.58%) Data Engineer
6 23 (6.97%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 23 (6.97%) Systems Engineer
7 20 (6.06%) Software Engineer
8 18 (5.45%) Python Engineer
9 14 (4.24%) DevOps Engineer
9 14 (4.24%) Senior Developer
10 13 (3.94%) Python Data Engineer
11 12 (3.64%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (3.33%) Lead Data Engineer
13 10 (3.03%) Administrator
13 10 (3.03%) Linux Administrator
13 10 (3.03%) Linux DevOps Engineer
13 10 (3.03%) Linux Engineer
13 10 (3.03%) Linux Systems Administrator
13 10 (3.03%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (49.70%) .NET
2 161 (48.79%) ASP.NET
3 157 (47.58%) Node.js
4 154 (46.67%) .NET Core
5 151 (45.76%) ASP.NET Core
6 97 (29.39%) React
7 76 (23.03%) ASP.NET Web API
8 72 (21.82%) Vue
9 70 (21.21%) Blazor
10 66 (20.00%) AngularJS
11 58 (17.58%) Kafka
12 56 (16.97%) .NET Framework
13 44 (13.33%) Entity Framework
14 31 (9.39%) CSS
14 31 (9.39%) HTML
15 24 (7.27%) PyTorch
15 24 (7.27%) TensorFlow
16 23 (6.97%) Django
16 23 (6.97%) LlamaIndex
16 23 (6.97%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 38 (11.52%) Greenfield Project
2 30 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 30 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (7.58%) Public Cloud
4 23 (6.97%) Clustering
5 15 (4.55%) Algorithms
5 15 (4.55%) Data Structures
6 9 (2.73%) Linux Command Line
6 9 (2.73%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.52%) Tandem
8 4 (1.21%) Blockchain
8 4 (1.21%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.21%) IoT
8 4 (1.21%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.21%) Web3
9 3 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.91%) Product Ownership
9 3 (0.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 35 (10.61%) Linux
2 14 (4.24%) CentOS
3 9 (2.73%) Unix
4 6 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.21%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.21%) Windows
5 4 (1.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (55.45%) Agile
2 160 (48.48%) Microservices
3 158 (47.88%) Full-Stack Development
4 93 (28.18%) DevOps
5 92 (27.88%) Scrum
6 90 (27.27%) CI/CD
7 75 (22.73%) TDD
8 69 (20.91%) AI
9 60 (18.18%) BDD
10 58 (17.58%) Analytics
11 56 (16.97%) Kanban
12 52 (15.76%) Software Engineering
13 51 (15.45%) Data Engineering
14 47 (14.24%) Machine Learning
15 46 (13.94%) Data Pipeline
16 45 (13.64%) Data Science
17 43 (13.03%) Performance Tuning
18 42 (12.73%) Data Modelling
19 39 (11.82%) Business Intelligence
19 39 (11.82%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 194 (58.79%) SQL
2 164 (49.70%) C#
3 121 (36.67%) Python
4 98 (29.70%) JavaScript
5 93 (28.18%) TypeScript
6 27 (8.18%) Java
7 20 (6.06%) Bash
8 15 (4.55%) Scala
9 14 (4.24%) Go
10 11 (3.33%) Rust
11 8 (2.42%) C++
12 2 (0.61%) PHP
12 2 (0.61%) Ruby
12 2 (0.61%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (10.91%) Security Cleared
2 30 (9.09%) Degree
3 20 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (5.76%) SC Cleared
5 11 (3.33%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.52%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.52%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.52%) PhD
7 4 (1.21%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 23 (6.97%) GDPR
1 23 (6.97%) QA
2 13 (3.94%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.61%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 98 (29.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 90 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 48 (14.55%) Terraform
3 36 (10.91%) Ansible
4 34 (10.30%) Grafana
5 17 (5.15%) Kibana
6 12 (3.64%) logstash
7 10 (3.03%) Nagios
8 9 (2.73%) Prometheus
9 5 (1.52%) Argo
9 5 (1.52%) AWS Copilot
10 3 (0.91%) Packer
10 3 (0.91%) Podman
10 3 (0.91%) Puppet
11 2 (0.61%) Rancher
12 1 (0.30%) Cilium
12 1 (0.30%) Graylog
12 1 (0.30%) Istio
Vendors
1 148 (44.85%) Microsoft
2 37 (11.21%) Google
3 24 (7.27%) Databricks
4 23 (6.97%) Cloudera
4 23 (6.97%) Dell
5 13 (3.94%) Splunk
6 10 (3.03%) Rapid7
6 10 (3.03%) Red Hat
7 6 (1.82%) AppDynamics
7 6 (1.82%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.21%) SAP
9 3 (0.91%) Alterian
9 3 (0.91%) Confluent
9 3 (0.91%) NVIDIA
9 3 (0.91%) Optimizely
9 3 (0.91%) Sitecore
9 3 (0.91%) Tenable
10 2 (0.61%) New Relic
10 2 (0.61%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.61%) Rollbar