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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 459 516
Rank change year-on-year -49 +57 -100
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 309 223 265
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.45% 0.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.52% 3.16% 2.29%
Number of salaries quoted 265 142 144
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £44,238
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -8.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,750 £88,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £58,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.58% -10.38% -

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 8,790 7,059 11,593
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.45% 14.27% 15.50%
Number of salaries quoted 6,014 4,416 6,717
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £79,500 £80,000 £87,348
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £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 1 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Elasticsearch in the UK

Elasticsearch
Top 15 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 1 October 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 -37 294 £60,000 -6.25% 279
UK excluding London -33 221 £55,000 -5.58% 152
Work from Home -25 184 £55,000 -14.06% 169
South East -17 90 £55,000 -26.67% 24
London -79 77 £91,250 +42.58% 154
South West -42 44 £55,000 -12.00% 27
Midlands -15 37 £57,500 -2.54% 21
North of England -54 33 £64,746 +12.60% 43
West Midlands -22 28 £60,000 +1.69% 12
East of England -27 26 £55,000 +10.00% 13
North West -21 18 £47,500 -17.39% 35
East Midlands -26 9 £55,000 - 9
Yorkshire -29 8 £57,500 -11.54% 4
North East -60 7 £75,000 +42.86% 4
Wales - 4 £45,000 - 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 29 (9.39%) Apache
2 28 (9.06%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.27%) Apache Solr
5 5 (1.62%) Apache Pig
5 5 (1.62%) Confluence
6 3 (0.97%) CMS
6 3 (0.97%) DNN
6 3 (0.97%) EPiServer
6 3 (0.97%) Immediacy CMS
6 3 (0.97%) Kentico
6 3 (0.97%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.97%) Sitefinity
6 3 (0.97%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.32%) nginx
7 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 221 (71.52%) Azure
2 179 (57.93%) AWS
3 59 (19.09%) GitHub
4 47 (15.21%) GitHub Copilot
5 40 (12.94%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (9.06%) Serverless
7 27 (8.74%) GCP
8 25 (8.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 24 (7.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 17 (5.50%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (5.18%) Azure Data Factory
12 15 (4.85%) Amazon ECR
12 15 (4.85%) Amazon ECS
12 15 (4.85%) OpenShift
13 13 (4.21%) Azure Key Vault
13 13 (4.21%) Azure Monitor
13 13 (4.21%) Azure Service Bus
13 13 (4.21%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (3.88%) SaaS
15 10 (3.24%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.56%) Internet
2 10 (3.24%) HTTP
3 6 (1.94%) Hyperconnected
4 3 (0.97%) MQTT
4 3 (0.97%) Network Security
4 3 (0.97%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.32%) Firewall
5 1 (0.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (48.54%) Azure SQL Database
2 148 (47.90%) MongoDB
3 45 (14.56%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (7.44%) MySQL
5 21 (6.80%) NoSQL
6 18 (5.83%) Hadoop
6 18 (5.83%) Redis
7 17 (5.50%) Big Data
8 14 (4.53%) DynamoDB
9 13 (4.21%) SQL Server
10 12 (3.88%) Relational Database
11 10 (3.24%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (1.94%) Neo4j
13 5 (1.62%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (1.62%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (1.62%) Apache Hive
13 5 (1.62%) BigQuery
14 4 (1.29%) Electronic Patient Records
14 4 (1.29%) Flink
15 3 (0.97%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 40 (12.94%) Git
2 29 (9.39%) GitLab
3 17 (5.50%) Jenkins
4 16 (5.18%) Cucumber
5 13 (4.21%) SonarQube
6 9 (2.91%) Gatling
6 9 (2.91%) JMeter
6 9 (2.91%) LoadRunner
7 7 (2.27%) JIRA
8 6 (1.94%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.29%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.97%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.97%) Maven
11 2 (0.65%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.65%) Gradle
11 2 (0.65%) JUnit
11 2 (0.65%) Mocha
11 2 (0.65%) Mockito
12 1 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 66 (21.36%) Finance
2 59 (19.09%) Social Skills
3 21 (6.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (6.47%) Retail
5 19 (6.15%) Public Sector
6 16 (5.18%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (3.88%) Banking
8 11 (3.56%) Games
9 4 (1.29%) Health Technology
9 4 (1.29%) Publishing
9 4 (1.29%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.65%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.65%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.65%) Law
11 1 (0.32%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.32%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.32%) Police
11 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 177 (57.28%) Developer
2 157 (50.81%) .NET Developer
3 58 (18.77%) Senior
4 37 (11.97%) Lead
5 31 (10.03%) Data Engineer
6 24 (7.77%) Software Engineer
7 23 (7.44%) Python Engineer
8 21 (6.80%) Python Data Engineer
9 18 (5.83%) Senior Data Engineer
10 17 (5.50%) Azure Engineer
11 14 (4.53%) Elasticsearch Engineer
11 14 (4.53%) Kafka Engineer
11 14 (4.53%) Senior Developer
12 13 (4.21%) Azure Data Engineer
13 12 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
13 12 (3.88%) Lead .NET Developer
13 12 (3.88%) Lead Developer
14 11 (3.56%) DevOps Engineer
15 10 (3.24%) Lead Data Engineer
15 10 (3.24%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (52.43%) .NET
2 159 (51.46%) ASP.NET
3 154 (49.84%) .NET Core
4 148 (47.90%) Node.js
5 147 (47.57%) ASP.NET Core
6 101 (32.69%) React
7 76 (24.60%) ASP.NET Web API
8 73 (23.62%) Blazor
9 71 (22.98%) Vue
10 66 (21.36%) AngularJS
11 54 (17.48%) .NET Framework
12 49 (15.86%) Terraform
13 40 (12.94%) Entity Framework
14 38 (12.30%) Kafka
15 33 (10.68%) CSS
15 33 (10.68%) HTML
16 22 (7.12%) REST
17 18 (5.83%) RESTful
18 17 (5.50%) Next.js
19 16 (5.18%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.06%) Distributed Systems
1 28 (9.06%) Greenfield Project
2 16 (5.18%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (3.24%) Onboarding
4 7 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (1.94%) Enterprise Cloud
6 5 (1.62%) Algorithms
6 5 (1.62%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.62%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.62%) Tandem
7 4 (1.29%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (1.29%) IoT
7 4 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.29%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (0.65%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.65%) PKI
9 1 (0.32%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.32%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 34 (11.00%) Linux
2 10 (3.24%) CentOS
3 5 (1.62%) Unix
4 4 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.65%) Windows
5 2 (0.65%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.32%) Solaris
6 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (59.22%) Agile
2 158 (51.13%) Full-Stack Development
3 152 (49.19%) Microservices
4 101 (32.69%) DevOps
5 96 (31.07%) CI/CD
6 94 (30.42%) Scrum
7 72 (23.30%) TDD
8 60 (19.42%) BDD
9 55 (17.80%) Kanban
10 49 (15.86%) Software Engineering
11 43 (13.92%) AI
12 38 (12.30%) Mentoring
13 36 (11.65%) Analytics
14 35 (11.33%) Problem-Solving
15 34 (11.00%) Infrastructure as Code
15 34 (11.00%) Stakeholder Management
16 29 (9.39%) Observability
17 27 (8.74%) Containerisation
18 26 (8.41%) Data Pipeline
19 25 (8.09%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 176 (56.96%) SQL
2 163 (52.75%) C#
3 100 (32.36%) JavaScript
4 97 (31.39%) TypeScript
5 96 (31.07%) Python
6 29 (9.39%) Java
7 23 (7.44%) Bash
7 23 (7.44%) Go
8 13 (4.21%) Scala
9 12 (3.88%) Rust
10 9 (2.91%) C++
11 4 (1.29%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.65%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.65%) PHP
12 2 (0.65%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.65%) Ruby
13 1 (0.32%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 57 (18.45%) Security Cleared
2 34 (11.00%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.12%) DV Cleared
4 19 (6.15%) Degree
5 16 (5.18%) Azure Certification
6 13 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.62%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.62%) PhD
8 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.32%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.39%) QA
2 10 (3.24%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.65%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 94 (30.42%) Docker
2 2 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 85 (27.51%) Kubernetes
2 44 (14.24%) Ansible
3 40 (12.94%) Grafana
4 23 (7.44%) Kibana
5 18 (5.83%) logstash
6 11 (3.56%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.91%) Nagios
8 3 (0.97%) Packer
8 3 (0.97%) Podman
8 3 (0.97%) Puppet
8 3 (0.97%) Rancher
9 1 (0.32%) Argo
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 144 (46.60%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.47%) Google
3 12 (3.88%) Splunk
4 10 (3.24%) Red Hat
5 9 (2.91%) AppDynamics
5 9 (2.91%) Dynatrace
5 9 (2.91%) Rapid7
6 5 (1.62%) Oracle
7 4 (1.29%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.29%) SAP
8 3 (0.97%) Alterian
8 3 (0.97%) Databricks
8 3 (0.97%) NVIDIA
8 3 (0.97%) Optimizely
8 3 (0.97%) Sitecore
8 3 (0.97%) Tenable
9 2 (0.65%) CheckPoint
9 2 (0.65%) OpenText
9 2 (0.65%) Sony
9 2 (0.65%) VMware