Elasticsearch Job Trends

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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 499 509 412
Rank change year-on-year +10 -97 -56
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 172 251 360
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.37% 0.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.49% 2.36% 3.15%
Number of salaries quoted 139 149 248
10th Percentile £52,500 £43,911 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £55,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £98,000 £87,500 £101,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £69,308 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.61% +6.63% +13.04%

All Database and 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 6,906 10,638 11,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.04% 15.65% 21.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,528 6,040 9,012
10th Percentile £33,500 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,787
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,348 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,875 £113,979 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 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
England +35 142 £65,000 -16.13% 203
Work from Home +49 102 £65,000 -6.22% 153
UK excluding London 0 90 £67,500 -2.61% 117
London +75 77 £65,000 -21.21% 89
Scotland +5 22 £73,801 +6.48% 5
North of England +23 18 £65,000 -3.21% 44
South East -18 18 £75,000 -9.09% 26
North West +27 13 £57,500 -4.17% 36
East of England +28 11 £50,000 -23.08% 9
South West +23 11 £67,500 +17.39% 18
Midlands +46 5 £65,000 +1.96% 13
West Midlands +40 5 £65,000 -6.22% 10
North East +5 3 £73,801 +6.48%
Wales +4 3 £73,801 +9.33% 2
Yorkshire +10 2 £65,000 - 8
Northern Ireland +4 2 £73,801 +6.48%

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 14 (8.14%) Apache Solr
2 10 (5.81%) Apache
3 6 (3.49%) CMS
3 6 (3.49%) IIS
4 5 (2.91%) Confluence
5 3 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.74%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.58%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 104 (60.47%) AWS
2 89 (51.74%) Azure
3 30 (17.44%) GCP
4 29 (16.86%) AWS Lambda
4 29 (16.86%) Serverless
5 27 (15.70%) Amazon ECS
6 20 (11.63%) Amazon ECR
6 20 (11.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 20 (11.63%) dbt
6 20 (11.63%) Pulumi
7 18 (10.47%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 13 (7.56%) Amazon S3
9 12 (6.98%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 12 (6.98%) Cloudflare
9 12 (6.98%) PaaS
9 12 (6.98%) Sentry
10 7 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (4.07%) GitHub
10 7 (4.07%) SaaS
11 6 (3.49%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 20 (11.63%) TCP/IP
2 5 (2.91%) Broadband
3 2 (1.16%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (23.26%) MongoDB
2 30 (17.44%) Redis
3 29 (16.86%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (15.12%) MySQL
5 21 (12.21%) Amazon RDS
5 21 (12.21%) Azure SQL Database
5 21 (12.21%) DynamoDB
6 15 (8.72%) SQL Server
7 8 (4.65%) Relational Database
8 7 (4.07%) Apache Cassandra
8 7 (4.07%) NoSQL
9 6 (3.49%) Neo4j
10 5 (2.91%) BigQuery
11 4 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (2.33%) InterSystems Cache
11 4 (2.33%) RDBMS
12 3 (1.74%) Pinecone
13 1 (0.58%) Big Data
13 1 (0.58%) ClickHouse
13 1 (0.58%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 48 (27.91%) Git
2 17 (9.88%) GitLab
3 12 (6.98%) Jenkins
3 12 (6.98%) JIRA
4 8 (4.65%) JUnit
5 7 (4.07%) Bitbucket
5 7 (4.07%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (3.49%) MSBuild
6 6 (3.49%) NUnit
6 6 (3.49%) Team Foundation Server
6 6 (3.49%) TeamCity
6 6 (3.49%) Visual Studio
7 5 (2.91%) Jasmine
8 4 (2.33%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.74%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.16%) Appium
10 2 (1.16%) JConsole
10 2 (1.16%) Katalon Studio
10 2 (1.16%) Selenium
10 2 (1.16%) VisualVM
General
1 32 (18.60%) Social Skills
2 26 (15.12%) Finance
3 16 (9.30%) Tech for Good
4 15 (8.72%) Health Technology
4 15 (8.72%) Publishing
5 13 (7.56%) Law
6 12 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (4.65%) Marketing
8 7 (4.07%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (4.07%) Banking
9 6 (3.49%) Games
9 6 (3.49%) Investment Banking
9 6 (3.49%) Retail
10 4 (2.33%) Automotive
11 3 (1.74%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.16%) Front Office
13 1 (0.58%) Electronics
13 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 69 (40.12%) Developer
2 56 (32.56%) Senior
3 30 (17.44%) .NET Developer
3 30 (17.44%) Software Engineer
4 28 (16.28%) Senior Developer
5 15 (8.72%) Python Developer
5 15 (8.72%) Senior Python Developer
5 15 (8.72%) Site Engineer
5 15 (8.72%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 12 (6.98%) Platform Engineer
6 12 (6.98%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 11 (6.40%) AWS Developer
8 10 (5.81%) Java Engineer
8 10 (5.81%) Java Software Engineer
9 9 (5.23%) Lead
9 9 (5.23%) React Developer
10 8 (4.65%) Backend Developer
10 8 (4.65%) Integration Developer
10 8 (4.65%) Software Developer
11 7 (4.07%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (38.37%) React
2 47 (27.33%) .NET
3 37 (21.51%) ASP.NET
3 37 (21.51%) Node.js
4 34 (19.77%) AngularJS
5 31 (18.02%) RESTful
6 29 (16.86%) Vue
7 28 (16.28%) .NET Core
8 26 (15.12%) .NET Framework
9 25 (14.53%) Entity Framework
10 24 (13.95%) ASP.NET Web API
11 22 (12.79%) Django
12 21 (12.21%) ASP.NET MVC
13 19 (11.05%) REST
14 18 (10.47%) Elastic Stack
15 17 (9.88%) HTML
16 16 (9.30%) CSS
17 15 (8.72%) Kafka
17 15 (8.72%) Swagger
18 10 (5.81%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.14%) Cloud Native
1 14 (8.14%) Distributed Systems
1 14 (8.14%) Linux Command Line
2 8 (4.65%) Algorithms
3 7 (4.07%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.91%) Online Games
5 4 (2.33%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.33%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.74%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.16%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.16%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (1.16%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.58%) IoT
8 1 (0.58%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.58%) Smart Energy
8 1 (0.58%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 53 (30.81%) Linux
2 21 (12.21%) Unix
3 19 (11.05%) Windows
4 14 (8.14%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.91%) Ubuntu
6 4 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (46.51%) CI/CD
2 78 (45.35%) Agile
3 51 (29.65%) DevOps
3 51 (29.65%) Scrum
4 48 (27.91%) Microservices
5 47 (27.33%) Software Engineering
6 45 (26.16%) TDD
7 38 (22.09%) MVC
8 37 (21.51%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (20.93%) AI
10 32 (18.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 30 (17.44%) Full-Stack Development
11 30 (17.44%) Observability
12 27 (15.70%) Clean Code
13 26 (15.12%) Service-Level Objective
14 23 (13.37%) BDD
14 23 (13.37%) Continuous Delivery
14 23 (13.37%) Infrastructure as Code
14 23 (13.37%) Mentoring
15 22 (12.79%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 97 (56.40%) Python
2 75 (43.60%) JavaScript
3 66 (38.37%) TypeScript
4 57 (33.14%) SQL
5 43 (25.00%) C#
6 35 (20.35%) Java
7 11 (6.40%) PHP
8 7 (4.07%) PowerShell
9 6 (3.49%) Bash
10 4 (2.33%) C
11 3 (1.74%) Perl
11 3 (1.74%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.74%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.58%) C++
12 1 (0.58%) Go
12 1 (0.58%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (20.93%) Security Cleared
2 25 (14.53%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.23%) DV Cleared
4 7 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (4.07%) Degree
5 5 (2.91%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.33%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (15.70%) QA
2 10 (5.81%) GDPR
3 5 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.16%) NIST
4 2 (1.16%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.16%) SLA
5 1 (0.58%) Data Quality
System Software
1 64 (37.21%) Docker
2 2 (1.16%) Squid
Systems Management
1 40 (23.26%) Terraform
2 30 (17.44%) Kubernetes
3 25 (14.53%) Kibana
4 14 (8.14%) logstash
5 12 (6.98%) AWS Copilot
6 11 (6.40%) Prometheus
7 10 (5.81%) Grafana
8 8 (4.65%) Ansible
9 1 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 47 (27.33%) Microsoft
2 25 (14.53%) Google
3 9 (5.23%) Splunk
4 8 (4.65%) Atlassian
4 8 (4.65%) Oracle
4 8 (4.65%) Rollbar
5 5 (2.91%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.74%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.74%) New Relic
7 2 (1.16%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.16%) LogRhythm
8 1 (0.58%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.58%) Databricks
8 1 (0.58%) OpenAI