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 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 475 329
Rank change year-on-year -36 -146 +149
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 150 241 631
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.47% 0.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.27% 2.61% 4.35%
Number of salaries quoted 119 145 473
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,625 £62,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% +16.67% -17.24%
75th Percentile £85,625 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £88,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +27.27% -4.35%

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 6,622 9,222 14,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.36% 17.85% 19.87%
Number of salaries quoted 4,092 5,095 11,519
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 2 February 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 2 February 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 -15 124 £70,000 -12.50% 121
London +77 70 £75,000 -10.45% 46
Work from Home -1 70 £67,000 -4.29% 88
UK excluding London -77 68 £67,500 -3.57% 82
North of England -25 20 £67,500 -2.61% 19
South West +2 18 £67,500 +17.39% 17
North West +7 16 £67,500 -1.32% 14
Scotland -28 10 £73,801 +6.48% 2
East of England +7 6 £51,250 +2.50% 6
South East -30 6 £65,000 -21.21% 22
West Midlands +19 3 £73,801 +6.48% 9
Midlands -1 3 £73,801 +13.54% 14
Wales -2 3 £73,801 +29.87% 2
North East -4 3 £73,801 +6.48% 1
Northern Ireland -12 2 £73,801 +6.48%
Yorkshire -20 1 £65,000 -18.75% 4

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 12 (8.00%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (7.33%) Apache Spark
3 10 (6.67%) Apache
4 9 (6.00%) Apache Solr
5 4 (2.67%) Confluence
6 1 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 109 (72.67%) AWS
2 105 (70.00%) Azure
3 56 (37.33%) GCP
4 24 (16.00%) Amazon ECS
4 24 (16.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 22 (14.67%) Amazon ECR
6 20 (13.33%) dbt
6 20 (13.33%) Pulumi
7 16 (10.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 14 (9.33%) Serverless
9 13 (8.67%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (8.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 12 (8.00%) PaaS
10 12 (8.00%) Sentry
11 11 (7.33%) Vertex AI
12 9 (6.00%) Amazon SageMaker
13 8 (5.33%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (5.33%) Azure Machine Learning
13 8 (5.33%) Dagster
13 8 (5.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 20 (13.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.33%) Broadband
2 2 (1.33%) HTTP
3 1 (0.67%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (23.33%) MongoDB
2 32 (21.33%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (20.00%) Redis
4 23 (15.33%) BigQuery
5 20 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
6 19 (12.67%) Neo4j
7 17 (11.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 16 (10.67%) MySQL
9 12 (8.00%) DynamoDB
9 12 (8.00%) Pinecone
10 9 (6.00%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (6.00%) Weaviate
11 8 (5.33%) Apache Iceberg
11 8 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (5.33%) Delta Lake
11 8 (5.33%) Looker
11 8 (5.33%) Tableau
12 7 (4.67%) NoSQL
13 5 (3.33%) SQL Server
14 4 (2.67%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 21 (14.00%) Git
2 17 (11.33%) GitLab
3 9 (6.00%) Cucumber
4 8 (5.33%) MLflow
5 7 (4.67%) Bitbucket
6 6 (4.00%) Jenkins
6 6 (4.00%) JUnit
7 5 (3.33%) JIRA
8 4 (2.67%) Cypress.io
9 3 (2.00%) REST Assured
9 3 (2.00%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.33%) Appium
10 2 (1.33%) JConsole
10 2 (1.33%) Katalon Studio
10 2 (1.33%) Selenium
10 2 (1.33%) VisualVM
11 1 (0.67%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.67%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.67%) TestNG
11 1 (0.67%) WebDriver
General
1 28 (18.67%) Social Skills
2 14 (9.33%) Finance
3 7 (4.67%) Banking
4 6 (4.00%) Health Technology
4 6 (4.00%) Publishing
4 6 (4.00%) Tech for Good
5 5 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.33%) Investment Banking
5 5 (3.33%) Law
6 2 (1.33%) Front Office
6 2 (1.33%) Games
7 1 (0.67%) Advertising
7 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 53 (35.33%) Senior
2 42 (28.00%) Software Engineer
3 41 (27.33%) Developer
4 17 (11.33%) .NET Developer
5 13 (8.67%) Platform Engineer
6 12 (8.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 11 (7.33%) Senior Software Engineer
8 9 (6.00%) C Software Engineer
8 9 (6.00%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (5.33%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
9 8 (5.33%) Consultant
9 8 (5.33%) Data Consultant
9 8 (5.33%) Senior Consultant
9 8 (5.33%) Senior Developer
9 8 (5.33%) Site Engineer
9 8 (5.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 7 (4.67%) Backend Developer
10 7 (4.67%) Integration Developer
10 7 (4.67%) Principal Engineer
11 6 (4.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (35.33%) React
2 37 (24.67%) AngularJS
2 37 (24.67%) Node.js
3 32 (21.33%) Django
4 22 (14.67%) Vue
5 20 (13.33%) RESTful
6 19 (12.67%) .NET
7 18 (12.00%) .NET Core
8 17 (11.33%) ASP.NET
8 17 (11.33%) ASP.NET Web API
8 17 (11.33%) MERN Stack
9 16 (10.67%) Entity Framework
10 15 (10.00%) .NET Framework
10 15 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
11 14 (9.33%) Elastic Stack
12 9 (6.00%) PyTorch
13 8 (5.33%) Faiss
13 8 (5.33%) TensorFlow
13 8 (5.33%) vLLM
14 7 (4.67%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 25 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
3 14 (9.33%) Algorithms
3 14 (9.33%) Data Structures
4 12 (8.00%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (7.33%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.33%) Cloud Native
6 5 (3.33%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.67%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (1.33%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.33%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.33%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.67%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.67%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.67%) Smart Energy
10 1 (0.67%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 44 (29.33%) Linux
2 22 (14.67%) Unix
3 8 (5.33%) Windows
3 8 (5.33%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.33%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (43.33%) CI/CD
2 60 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 53 (35.33%) DevOps
4 47 (31.33%) Agile
4 47 (31.33%) Microservices
5 34 (22.67%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (22.00%) AI
7 31 (20.67%) Clean Code
7 31 (20.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 29 (19.33%) Computer Science
9 28 (18.67%) Machine Learning
9 28 (18.67%) Observability
10 27 (18.00%) Scrum
11 25 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 25 (16.67%) TDD
12 24 (16.00%) Data Science
12 24 (16.00%) Open Source
13 23 (15.33%) Full-Stack Development
14 20 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
14 20 (13.33%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 107 (71.33%) Python
2 61 (40.67%) JavaScript
3 50 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 48 (32.00%) Java
5 42 (28.00%) SQL
6 21 (14.00%) C#
7 16 (10.67%) C
8 15 (10.00%) Bash
8 15 (10.00%) Go
9 9 (6.00%) PHP
10 8 (5.33%) Scala
11 2 (1.33%) C++
11 2 (1.33%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.33%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.67%) Perl
12 1 (0.67%) Rust
12 1 (0.67%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 48 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 28 (18.67%) Degree
3 26 (17.33%) SC Cleared
4 21 (14.00%) DV Cleared
5 17 (11.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.33%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.00%) QA
2 3 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.67%) GDPR
3 1 (0.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 65 (43.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.67%) Squid
Systems Management
1 38 (25.33%) Kubernetes
2 36 (24.00%) Terraform
3 17 (11.33%) Ansible
3 17 (11.33%) Kibana
4 14 (9.33%) logstash
5 12 (8.00%) AWS Copilot
6 10 (6.67%) Grafana
7 7 (4.67%) Prometheus
8 3 (2.00%) Rancher
9 2 (1.33%) Nagios
10 1 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 35 (23.33%) Google
2 28 (18.67%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.00%) Palantir
4 8 (5.33%) Databricks
5 5 (3.33%) Oracle
6 4 (2.67%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.67%) Splunk
7 3 (2.00%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.33%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.67%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.67%) Foundry
9 1 (0.67%) New Relic
9 1 (0.67%) OpenAI