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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 536 453 364
Rank change year-on-year -83 -89 +87
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 179 188 734
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.45% 0.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.31% 2.55% 4.26%
Number of salaries quoted 120 147 469
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £54,375 £62,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% +20.83% -14.29%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £105,250 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +31.82% -12.00%

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 7,749 7,361 17,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.94% 17.69% 18.21%
Number of salaries quoted 4,548 5,180 12,612
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
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 18 April 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 18 April 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 -83 154 £75,000 -6.25% 96
London +20 83 £85,000 +7.94% 43
UK excluding London -104 82 £67,500 -6.90% 55
Work from Home -51 55 £73,801 +1.79% 76
South West -29 25 £67,500 +5.88% 15
North of England -64 21 £73,801 +6.37% 10
North West -26 16 £73,801 +9.33% 8
East of England -36 12 £47,500 -5.00% 4
South East -70 10 £60,000 -27.27% 16
Scotland -26 7 £73,801 +16.68% 1
Wales -24 3 £73,801 +9.13% 1
North East -32 3 £73,801 +6.37%
Northern Ireland -41 2 £73,801 +34.18%
Midlands -46 2 £53,750 -17.31% 8
East Midlands -55 2 £53,750 -17.31% 4
Yorkshire -67 2 £75,000 +7.14% 2

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 42 (23.46%) Apache Spark
2 41 (22.91%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (7.26%) Apache
4 6 (3.35%) Apache Solr
5 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.12%) Confluence
7 1 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 149 (83.24%) AWS
2 123 (68.72%) Azure
3 95 (53.07%) GCP
4 42 (23.46%) dbt
5 35 (19.55%) Snowflake
6 25 (13.97%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (12.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 23 (12.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 23 (12.85%) Power Platform
8 22 (12.29%) Amazon ECS
9 21 (11.73%) Amazon ECR
10 16 (8.94%) Pulumi
11 10 (5.59%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 10 (5.59%) Amazon SageMaker
11 10 (5.59%) PaaS
11 10 (5.59%) Sentry
12 9 (5.03%) Azure Machine Learning
12 9 (5.03%) Dagster
12 9 (5.03%) Vertex AI
13 8 (4.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.50%) TCP/IP
2 5 (2.79%) HTTP
3 2 (1.12%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (1.12%) Internet
4 1 (0.56%) BGP
4 1 (0.56%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (32.40%) BigQuery
2 36 (20.11%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (19.55%) Looker
4 33 (18.44%) Amazon Redshift
5 32 (17.88%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (17.88%) Tableau
6 30 (16.76%) Redis
7 29 (16.20%) MongoDB
8 23 (12.85%) Data Lake
8 23 (12.85%) Power BI
8 23 (12.85%) Snowflake Schema
9 22 (12.29%) Neo4j
10 19 (10.61%) MySQL
11 18 (10.06%) NoSQL
12 16 (8.94%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (5.59%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (5.59%) Pinecone
13 10 (5.59%) Weaviate
14 9 (5.03%) Apache Iceberg
14 9 (5.03%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 32 (17.88%) MLflow
2 21 (11.73%) GitLab
3 17 (9.50%) Git
4 11 (6.15%) Cucumber
5 8 (4.47%) Jenkins
6 7 (3.91%) SonarQube
7 6 (3.35%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (2.23%) Cypress.io
8 4 (2.23%) Gatling
8 4 (2.23%) JIRA
8 4 (2.23%) JMeter
8 4 (2.23%) LoadRunner
9 2 (1.12%) JUnit
9 2 (1.12%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.56%) Appium
10 1 (0.56%) Katalon Studio
10 1 (0.56%) Maven
10 1 (0.56%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.56%) Selenium
General
1 33 (18.44%) Analytical Skills
2 32 (17.88%) Social Skills
3 10 (5.59%) Banking
3 10 (5.59%) Finance
4 9 (5.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (3.35%) Law
6 5 (2.79%) Investment Banking
6 5 (2.79%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.23%) Mandarin Language
8 3 (1.68%) Games
9 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Front Office
9 1 (0.56%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 79 (44.13%) Senior
2 46 (25.70%) Software Engineer
3 23 (12.85%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 23 (12.85%) Systems Engineer
4 22 (12.29%) Developer
5 16 (8.94%) Platform Engineer
6 13 (7.26%) Senior Software Engineer
7 10 (5.59%) .NET Developer
7 10 (5.59%) Data Engineer
7 10 (5.59%) Principal Engineer
7 10 (5.59%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 9 (5.03%) Architect
8 9 (5.03%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
8 9 (5.03%) C Software Engineer
8 9 (5.03%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (5.03%) Consultant
8 9 (5.03%) Data Consultant
8 9 (5.03%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (5.03%) Lead
8 9 (5.03%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (23.46%) Django
2 37 (20.67%) Kafka
3 34 (18.99%) React
4 32 (17.88%) PyTorch
4 32 (17.88%) TensorFlow
5 27 (15.08%) AngularJS
6 26 (14.53%) Node.js
7 23 (12.85%) LangChain
7 23 (12.85%) LlamaIndex
7 23 (12.85%) pgvector
7 23 (12.85%) scikit-learn
8 20 (11.17%) RESTful
9 17 (9.50%) MERN Stack
9 17 (9.50%) Vue
10 13 (7.26%) .NET
11 12 (6.70%) ASP.NET
11 12 (6.70%) Elastic Stack
12 10 (5.59%) .NET Core
13 9 (5.03%) Faiss
13 9 (5.03%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 33 (18.44%) Distributed Systems
2 30 (16.76%) Cloud Native
3 29 (16.20%) Public Cloud
4 26 (14.53%) Algorithms
4 26 (14.53%) Data Structures
4 26 (14.53%) Greenfield Project
5 23 (12.85%) Clustering
6 14 (7.82%) Linux Command Line
7 10 (5.59%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.23%) Blockchain
8 4 (2.23%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.23%) Web3
9 3 (1.68%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.56%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.56%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.56%) NHS
10 1 (0.56%) PMI
10 1 (0.56%) Replication
10 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 37 (20.67%) Linux
2 19 (10.61%) Unix
3 9 (5.03%) CentOS
4 4 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.23%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.23%) Windows
4 4 (2.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (39.11%) Software Engineering
2 65 (36.31%) CI/CD
3 62 (34.64%) DevOps
4 58 (32.40%) AI
4 58 (32.40%) Data Science
5 52 (29.05%) Machine Learning
6 48 (26.82%) Microservices
7 46 (25.70%) Agile
8 44 (24.58%) Computer Science
8 44 (24.58%) Data Engineering
9 43 (24.02%) Analytics
9 43 (24.02%) Data Pipeline
10 36 (20.11%) Observability
11 35 (19.55%) Generative AI
12 33 (18.44%) Infrastructure as Code
12 33 (18.44%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
12 33 (18.44%) Use Case
13 32 (17.88%) Business Intelligence
13 32 (17.88%) Performance Tuning
13 32 (17.88%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 137 (76.54%) Python
2 54 (30.17%) SQL
3 53 (29.61%) Java
4 42 (23.46%) JavaScript
5 39 (21.79%) TypeScript
6 21 (11.73%) Bash
7 19 (10.61%) Go
8 16 (8.94%) C
9 15 (8.38%) C#
10 13 (7.26%) Scala
11 6 (3.35%) C++
12 5 (2.79%) Rust
13 3 (1.68%) PHP
13 3 (1.68%) Shell Script
14 2 (1.12%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.56%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 48 (26.82%) Security Cleared
2 45 (25.14%) Degree
3 29 (16.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (11.73%) DV Cleared
4 21 (11.73%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.23%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.56%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (12.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 23 (12.85%) GDPR
2 9 (5.03%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.79%) QA
4 2 (1.12%) Accessibility
System Software
1 69 (38.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 56 (31.28%) Kubernetes
2 47 (26.26%) Terraform
3 23 (12.85%) Ansible
4 21 (11.73%) Grafana
5 17 (9.50%) Kibana
6 11 (6.15%) logstash
7 10 (5.59%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (2.79%) Argo
8 5 (2.79%) Nagios
8 5 (2.79%) Prometheus
9 4 (2.23%) Rancher
10 1 (0.56%) Cilium
10 1 (0.56%) Graylog
10 1 (0.56%) Istio
10 1 (0.56%) Packer
Vendors
1 46 (25.70%) Google
2 32 (17.88%) Databricks
3 23 (12.85%) Cloudera
3 23 (12.85%) Dell
4 10 (5.59%) Microsoft
4 10 (5.59%) Palantir
5 8 (4.47%) Splunk
6 5 (2.79%) Rapid7
6 5 (2.79%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.23%) AppDynamics
7 4 (2.23%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.68%) Confluent
9 2 (1.12%) Oracle
9 2 (1.12%) Rollbar
10 1 (0.56%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.56%) Foundry