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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 464 443 456
Rank change year-on-year -21 +13 -17
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 334 246 443
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.50% 0.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.87% 3.24% 2.94%
Number of salaries quoted 278 162 239
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £43,911
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 £82,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £91,125 £93,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -7.69%

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 8,638 7,598 15,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.63% 15.44% 16.07%
Number of salaries quoted 5,790 4,900 10,387
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,622 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.03% +1.04% -4.76%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,313 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £107,500
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 21 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 21 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 +27 318 £60,000 -7.69% 79
UK excluding London -16 216 £55,000 -15.38% 47
Work from Home -3 194 £55,000 -18.52% 40
London +8 107 £85,000 +30.77% 47
South East -20 77 £57,500 -30.30% 15
South West -29 39 £52,500 -14.29% 8
North of England -11 37 £67,500 +12.50% 13
East of England -8 32 £55,000 +10.00% 1
Midlands -12 29 £55,000 -6.78% 3
North West +1 21 £47,500 -18.10% 10
West Midlands -7 18 £57,500 -2.54% 2
East Midlands -12 11 £55,000 - 1
Yorkshire -31 9 £57,500 -11.54% 3
North East -44 7 £75,000 +8.09%
Wales -52 5 £45,000 -33.46% 1
Northern Ireland -71 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 (16.77%) Apache Spark
2 38 (11.38%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (8.08%) Apache
4 8 (2.40%) Apache Solr
5 5 (1.50%) Apache Pig
6 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.90%) CMS
7 3 (0.90%) Confluence
7 3 (0.90%) DNN
7 3 (0.90%) EPiServer
7 3 (0.90%) Immediacy CMS
7 3 (0.90%) Kentico
7 3 (0.90%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.90%) Sitefinity
7 3 (0.90%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 243 (72.75%) Azure
2 218 (65.27%) AWS
3 71 (21.26%) GCP
4 50 (14.97%) GitHub
5 49 (14.67%) GitHub Copilot
6 33 (9.88%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (9.58%) dbt
8 29 (8.68%) Snowflake
9 27 (8.08%) Serverless
10 24 (7.19%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 23 (6.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 23 (6.89%) Power Platform
12 18 (5.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 17 (5.09%) Amazon ECR
13 17 (5.09%) Amazon ECS
14 15 (4.49%) AWS Lambda
15 14 (4.19%) Cloud Computing
15 14 (4.19%) SaaS
16 13 (3.89%) Amazon Kinesis
17 12 (3.59%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.59%) Internet
2 7 (2.10%) Hyperconnected
3 6 (1.80%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.50%) HTTP
5 3 (0.90%) MQTT
5 3 (0.90%) Network Security
6 1 (0.30%) BGP
6 1 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (45.81%) MongoDB
2 151 (45.21%) Azure SQL Database
3 43 (12.87%) BigQuery
4 31 (9.28%) Amazon Redshift
4 31 (9.28%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (8.68%) Looker
6 26 (7.78%) Data Warehouse
6 26 (7.78%) Tableau
7 25 (7.49%) MySQL
8 24 (7.19%) Data Lake
9 23 (6.89%) Power BI
9 23 (6.89%) Snowflake Schema
10 21 (6.29%) NoSQL
11 19 (5.69%) Redis
12 16 (4.79%) Hadoop
13 15 (4.49%) Big Data
14 13 (3.89%) DynamoDB
15 11 (3.29%) Neo4j
16 8 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
16 8 (2.40%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (9.28%) Git
2 30 (8.98%) GitLab
3 26 (7.78%) MLflow
4 14 (4.19%) Cucumber
5 12 (3.59%) Jenkins
5 12 (3.59%) SonarQube
6 7 (2.10%) JIRA
7 5 (1.50%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.50%) Gatling
7 5 (1.50%) JMeter
7 5 (1.50%) LoadRunner
8 4 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (1.20%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.90%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.60%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.60%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.30%) Maven
General
1 63 (18.86%) Finance
2 44 (13.17%) Social Skills
3 38 (11.38%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (5.99%) Retail
5 16 (4.79%) Banking
6 15 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (3.89%) Games
8 7 (2.10%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.50%) Health Technology
9 5 (1.50%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.20%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (1.20%) Publishing
10 4 (1.20%) Tech for Good
11 3 (0.90%) Law
12 1 (0.30%) Front Office
12 1 (0.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 171 (51.20%) Developer
2 154 (46.11%) .NET Developer
3 79 (23.65%) Senior
4 28 (8.38%) Lead
5 26 (7.78%) Software Engineer
6 23 (6.89%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 23 (6.89%) Systems Engineer
7 22 (6.59%) Data Engineer
8 16 (4.79%) Python Engineer
9 15 (4.49%) DevOps Engineer
10 14 (4.19%) Senior Developer
11 12 (3.59%) Platform Engineer
11 12 (3.59%) Python Data Engineer
12 10 (2.99%) Administrator
12 10 (2.99%) Cloud Engineer
12 10 (2.99%) DevOps Administrator
12 10 (2.99%) Lead Data Engineer
12 10 (2.99%) Linux Administrator
12 10 (2.99%) Linux Engineer
12 10 (2.99%) Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (48.20%) .NET
2 160 (47.90%) Node.js
3 158 (47.31%) ASP.NET
4 151 (45.21%) .NET Core
4 151 (45.21%) ASP.NET Core
5 101 (30.24%) React
6 76 (22.75%) ASP.NET Web API
7 72 (21.56%) Vue
8 70 (20.96%) AngularJS
9 67 (20.06%) Blazor
10 56 (16.77%) .NET Framework
10 56 (16.77%) Kafka
11 44 (13.17%) Entity Framework
12 31 (9.28%) CSS
12 31 (9.28%) HTML
13 26 (7.78%) PyTorch
13 26 (7.78%) TensorFlow
14 24 (7.19%) Django
15 23 (6.89%) LlamaIndex
15 23 (6.89%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 40 (11.98%) Greenfield Project
2 30 (8.98%) Cloud Native
3 29 (8.68%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (7.49%) Public Cloud
5 23 (6.89%) Clustering
6 17 (5.09%) Algorithms
6 17 (5.09%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.69%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (2.69%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.50%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (1.50%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.50%) Tandem
9 4 (1.20%) Blockchain
9 4 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.20%) IoT
9 4 (1.20%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.20%) Web3
10 3 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 35 (10.48%) Linux
2 15 (4.49%) CentOS
3 8 (2.40%) Unix
4 6 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.20%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.20%) Windows
5 4 (1.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (54.49%) Agile
2 159 (47.60%) Microservices
3 158 (47.31%) Full-Stack Development
4 92 (27.54%) Scrum
5 91 (27.25%) CI/CD
6 89 (26.65%) DevOps
7 75 (22.46%) TDD
8 71 (21.26%) AI
9 61 (18.26%) Software Engineering
10 60 (17.96%) BDD
11 56 (16.77%) Kanban
12 55 (16.47%) Analytics
13 51 (15.27%) Data Engineering
14 49 (14.67%) Machine Learning
15 48 (14.37%) Data Science
16 46 (13.77%) Data Pipeline
17 42 (12.57%) Performance Tuning
18 41 (12.28%) Business Intelligence
18 41 (12.28%) Data Modelling
19 40 (11.98%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 196 (58.68%) SQL
2 161 (48.20%) C#
3 130 (38.92%) Python
4 102 (30.54%) JavaScript
5 96 (28.74%) TypeScript
6 36 (10.78%) Java
7 23 (6.89%) Bash
8 16 (4.79%) Scala
9 15 (4.49%) Go
10 11 (3.29%) Rust
11 8 (2.40%) C++
12 4 (1.20%) C
13 3 (0.90%) PHP
14 2 (0.60%) Ruby
14 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 41 (12.28%) Security Cleared
2 35 (10.48%) Degree
3 23 (6.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (5.99%) SC Cleared
5 14 (4.19%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.50%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.50%) PhD
7 4 (1.20%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.20%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 23 (6.89%) GDPR
2 20 (5.99%) QA
3 12 (3.59%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.60%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 101 (30.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 98 (29.34%) Kubernetes
2 51 (15.27%) Terraform
3 37 (11.08%) Ansible
4 34 (10.18%) Grafana
5 16 (4.79%) Kibana
6 11 (3.29%) logstash
6 11 (3.29%) Nagios
7 9 (2.69%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.50%) Argo
8 5 (1.50%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (0.90%) Packer
9 3 (0.90%) Podman
9 3 (0.90%) Puppet
10 2 (0.60%) Rancher
11 1 (0.30%) Cilium
11 1 (0.30%) Graylog
11 1 (0.30%) Istio
Vendors
1 148 (44.31%) Microsoft
2 38 (11.38%) Google
3 26 (7.78%) Databricks
4 23 (6.89%) Cloudera
4 23 (6.89%) Dell
5 14 (4.19%) Splunk
6 11 (3.29%) Rapid7
6 11 (3.29%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.50%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.50%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.20%) SAP
9 3 (0.90%) Alterian
9 3 (0.90%) Confluent
9 3 (0.90%) NVIDIA
9 3 (0.90%) Optimizely
9 3 (0.90%) Palantir
9 3 (0.90%) Sitecore
9 3 (0.90%) Tenable
10 2 (0.60%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.60%) Rollbar