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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 470 502 393
Rank change year-on-year +32 -109 -34
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 167 265 357
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.39% 0.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.42% 2.42% 3.19%
Number of salaries quoted 137 163 248
10th Percentile £52,500 £44,129 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £55,000
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 £98,500 £87,500 £105,375
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 6,899 10,936 11,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.94% 15.96% 21.45%
Number of salaries quoted 4,521 6,294 8,851
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,750
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 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £112,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -

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 22 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 22 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 +27 139 £65,000 -13.33% 165
Work from Home +64 96 £65,000 -7.14% 148
UK excluding London -25 85 £67,500 -2.61% 100
London +81 77 £65,000 -21.21% 68
Scotland +9 20 £73,801 +6.48% 4
North of England +23 19 £65,000 -3.70% 29
South East -14 15 £75,000 -9.09% 23
North West +29 14 £60,500 -10.37% 24
South West +30 13 £67,500 +5.88% 18
East of England +18 9 £50,000 - 9
West Midlands +53 4 £69,401 +0.13% 10
Midlands +53 4 £69,401 +6.77% 14
North East +15 3 £73,801 +6.48% 1
Wales +5 3 £73,801 +9.33% 2
Yorkshire +12 2 £65,000 +10.64% 5
Northern Ireland +6 2 £73,801 +6.48% 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 14 (8.38%) Apache Solr
2 10 (5.99%) Apache
3 6 (3.59%) CMS
4 5 (2.99%) Confluence
4 5 (2.99%) IIS
5 3 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.80%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 104 (62.28%) AWS
2 89 (53.29%) Azure
3 29 (17.37%) GCP
4 27 (16.17%) Amazon ECS
4 27 (16.17%) AWS Lambda
4 27 (16.17%) Serverless
5 21 (12.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 20 (11.98%) Amazon ECR
6 20 (11.98%) dbt
6 20 (11.98%) Pulumi
7 18 (10.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 12 (7.19%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 12 (7.19%) PaaS
8 12 (7.19%) Sentry
9 11 (6.59%) Amazon S3
9 11 (6.59%) Cloudflare
10 7 (4.19%) GitHub
11 6 (3.59%) SaaS
12 5 (2.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (2.99%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 20 (11.98%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.80%) Broadband
3 2 (1.20%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (23.35%) MongoDB
2 29 (17.37%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (17.37%) Redis
3 25 (14.97%) MySQL
4 21 (12.57%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (12.57%) Azure SQL Database
5 20 (11.98%) DynamoDB
6 13 (7.78%) SQL Server
7 10 (5.99%) Neo4j
8 7 (4.19%) NoSQL
8 7 (4.19%) Relational Database
9 6 (3.59%) Apache Cassandra
10 5 (2.99%) BigQuery
11 4 (2.40%) InterSystems Cache
12 3 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (1.80%) Pinecone
12 3 (1.80%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.60%) ClickHouse
13 1 (0.60%) DocumentDB
13 1 (0.60%) Event Store
Development Applications
1 45 (26.95%) Git
2 17 (10.18%) GitLab
3 12 (7.19%) JIRA
4 11 (6.59%) Jenkins
5 8 (4.79%) JUnit
6 7 (4.19%) Bitbucket
7 6 (3.59%) Octopus Deploy
8 5 (2.99%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.99%) MSBuild
8 5 (2.99%) NUnit
8 5 (2.99%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (2.99%) TeamCity
8 5 (2.99%) Visual Studio
9 4 (2.40%) Jasmine
10 3 (1.80%) REST Assured
11 2 (1.20%) Appium
11 2 (1.20%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.20%) JConsole
11 2 (1.20%) Katalon Studio
11 2 (1.20%) VisualVM
General
1 30 (17.96%) Social Skills
2 24 (14.37%) Finance
3 16 (9.58%) Tech for Good
4 15 (8.98%) Health Technology
4 15 (8.98%) Publishing
5 11 (6.59%) Law
6 10 (5.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.19%) Marketing
8 6 (3.59%) Banking
9 5 (2.99%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (2.99%) Games
9 5 (2.99%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.99%) Retail
10 4 (2.40%) Automotive
11 3 (1.80%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.20%) Front Office
13 1 (0.60%) Advertising
13 1 (0.60%) Electronics
13 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 66 (39.52%) Developer
2 52 (31.14%) Senior
3 30 (17.96%) Software Engineer
4 29 (17.37%) .NET Developer
5 25 (14.97%) Senior Developer
6 15 (8.98%) Python Developer
6 15 (8.98%) Senior Python Developer
7 14 (8.38%) Site Engineer
7 14 (8.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 12 (7.19%) Platform Engineer
8 12 (7.19%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 9 (5.39%) AWS Developer
9 9 (5.39%) Java Engineer
9 9 (5.39%) Java Software Engineer
9 9 (5.39%) Lead
9 9 (5.39%) React Developer
10 8 (4.79%) Backend Developer
10 8 (4.79%) Integration Developer
10 8 (4.79%) Software Developer
11 7 (4.19%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (40.12%) React
2 43 (25.75%) .NET
3 36 (21.56%) AngularJS
3 36 (21.56%) Node.js
4 35 (20.96%) ASP.NET
5 29 (17.37%) RESTful
6 28 (16.77%) Vue
7 27 (16.17%) .NET Core
8 26 (15.57%) .NET Framework
9 25 (14.97%) Entity Framework
10 23 (13.77%) ASP.NET Web API
11 22 (13.17%) Django
12 21 (12.57%) ASP.NET MVC
13 16 (9.58%) Elastic Stack
13 16 (9.58%) REST
14 15 (8.98%) HTML
14 15 (8.98%) Swagger
15 14 (8.38%) CSS
16 13 (7.78%) Kafka
17 9 (5.39%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.38%) Distributed Systems
1 14 (8.38%) Linux Command Line
2 13 (7.78%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.19%) Algorithms
3 7 (4.19%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.40%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.40%) Online Games
5 3 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.80%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.80%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.20%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.20%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (1.20%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.60%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.60%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.60%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.60%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 51 (30.54%) Linux
2 21 (12.57%) Unix
3 18 (10.78%) Windows
4 14 (8.38%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.80%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (44.91%) CI/CD
2 72 (43.11%) Agile
3 50 (29.94%) Scrum
4 49 (29.34%) DevOps
5 47 (28.14%) Software Engineering
6 46 (27.54%) Microservices
7 43 (25.75%) TDD
8 35 (20.96%) MVC
8 35 (20.96%) Problem-Solving
9 32 (19.16%) AI
10 31 (18.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 29 (17.37%) Full-Stack Development
11 29 (17.37%) Observability
12 25 (14.97%) Service-Level Objective
13 24 (14.37%) Clean Code
14 23 (13.77%) BDD
14 23 (13.77%) Infrastructure as Code
15 22 (13.17%) Continuous Delivery
15 22 (13.17%) Kanban
16 19 (11.38%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 96 (57.49%) Python
2 74 (44.31%) JavaScript
3 68 (40.72%) TypeScript
4 54 (32.34%) SQL
5 41 (24.55%) C#
6 36 (21.56%) Java
7 11 (6.59%) PHP
8 8 (4.79%) C
9 6 (3.59%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.99%) Bash
11 3 (1.80%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.80%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.20%) Perl
13 1 (0.60%) C++
13 1 (0.60%) Go
13 1 (0.60%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 39 (23.35%) Security Cleared
2 24 (14.37%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.78%) DV Cleared
4 7 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (4.19%) Degree
5 3 (1.80%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.80%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (16.17%) QA
2 8 (4.79%) GDPR
3 4 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.20%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.20%) SLA
5 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.60%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.60%) NIST
System Software
1 65 (38.92%) Docker
2 2 (1.20%) Squid
Systems Management
1 38 (22.75%) Terraform
2 32 (19.16%) Kubernetes
3 23 (13.77%) Kibana
4 13 (7.78%) logstash
5 12 (7.19%) AWS Copilot
6 10 (5.99%) Prometheus
7 9 (5.39%) Grafana
8 8 (4.79%) Ansible
9 1 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 44 (26.35%) Microsoft
2 25 (14.97%) Google
3 8 (4.79%) Atlassian
3 8 (4.79%) Oracle
4 7 (4.19%) Rollbar
4 7 (4.19%) Splunk
5 4 (2.40%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.80%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.80%) New Relic
7 2 (1.20%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.60%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.60%) LogRhythm
8 1 (0.60%) OpenAI