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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 480 436 486
Rank change year-on-year -44 +50 -56
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 327 238 360
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.48% 0.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.68% 3.19% 2.79%
Number of salaries quoted 271 155 163
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £49,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £69,308
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.66% +6.63%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,750 £92,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.56% -0.83% -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 8,878 7,459 12,920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.15% 14.93% 15.47%
Number of salaries quoted 5,989 4,779 8,366
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £95,000 £106,250 £113,750
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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -8 316 £60,000 -6.25% 84
UK excluding London -17 219 £55,000 -7.56% 61
Work from Home +6 194 £55,000 -14.06% 56
London -54 100 £85,000 +32.81% 34
South East -1 86 £57,500 -30.30% 7
South West -45 38 £52,500 -16.00% 20
Midlands -7 34 £55,000 -6.78% 3
North of England -30 33 £57,500 - 17
East of England -22 32 £55,000 +10.00% 3
West Midlands -9 23 £60,000 +1.69% 2
North West 0 18 £47,500 -17.39% 10
East Midlands -10 11 £55,000 - 1
Yorkshire -31 9 £57,500 -11.54% 5
North East -57 6 £75,000 +42.86% 2
Wales - 4 £45,000 - 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 57 (17.43%) Apache Spark
2 34 (10.40%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (8.87%) Apache
4 7 (2.14%) Apache Solr
5 5 (1.53%) Apache Pig
6 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.92%) CMS
7 3 (0.92%) DNN
7 3 (0.92%) EPiServer
7 3 (0.92%) Immediacy CMS
7 3 (0.92%) Kentico
7 3 (0.92%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.92%) Sitefinity
7 3 (0.92%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.61%) Confluence
9 1 (0.31%) nginx
9 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 237 (72.48%) Azure
2 200 (61.16%) AWS
3 53 (16.21%) GCP
3 53 (16.21%) GitHub
4 49 (14.98%) GitHub Copilot
5 41 (12.54%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (8.26%) Serverless
7 25 (7.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 25 (7.65%) dbt
8 23 (7.03%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 23 (7.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 23 (7.03%) Power Platform
8 23 (7.03%) Snowflake
9 17 (5.20%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (4.28%) SaaS
11 13 (3.98%) Amazon ECR
11 13 (3.98%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (3.67%) Azure Key Vault
12 12 (3.67%) Azure Monitor
12 12 (3.67%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.67%) Internet
2 7 (2.14%) Hyperconnected
3 5 (1.53%) HTTP
4 3 (0.92%) MQTT
4 3 (0.92%) Network Security
5 2 (0.61%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.31%) BGP
6 1 (0.31%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (46.18%) Azure SQL Database
1 151 (46.18%) MongoDB
2 36 (11.01%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (9.79%) BigQuery
4 28 (8.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 26 (7.95%) MySQL
6 24 (7.34%) Data Lake
7 23 (7.03%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (7.03%) Looker
7 23 (7.03%) Power BI
7 23 (7.03%) Snowflake Schema
7 23 (7.03%) Tableau
8 21 (6.42%) NoSQL
9 18 (5.50%) Hadoop
10 17 (5.20%) Big Data
11 14 (4.28%) SQL Server
12 13 (3.98%) DynamoDB
12 13 (3.98%) Redis
13 12 (3.67%) Relational Database
14 6 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 39 (11.93%) Git
2 33 (10.09%) GitLab
3 23 (7.03%) MLflow
4 15 (4.59%) Cucumber
4 15 (4.59%) Jenkins
5 12 (3.67%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.83%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.83%) JIRA
7 4 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.22%) Gatling
7 4 (1.22%) JMeter
7 4 (1.22%) LoadRunner
7 4 (1.22%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.61%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.61%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.61%) Gradle
8 2 (0.61%) JUnit
8 2 (0.61%) Maven
8 2 (0.61%) Mockito
8 2 (0.61%) TeamCity
General
1 66 (20.18%) Finance
2 51 (15.60%) Social Skills
3 38 (11.62%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (6.12%) Retail
5 16 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (4.28%) Banking
7 13 (3.98%) Games
8 7 (2.14%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.53%) Health Technology
10 4 (1.22%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (1.22%) Publishing
10 4 (1.22%) Tech for Good
11 3 (0.92%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.92%) Law
12 1 (0.31%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.31%) Front Office
12 1 (0.31%) Police
12 1 (0.31%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 177 (54.13%) Developer
2 161 (49.24%) .NET Developer
3 74 (22.63%) Senior
4 35 (10.70%) Lead
5 27 (8.26%) Data Engineer
6 24 (7.34%) Software Engineer
7 23 (7.03%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 23 (7.03%) Systems Engineer
8 21 (6.42%) Python Engineer
9 16 (4.89%) DevOps Engineer
9 16 (4.89%) Python Data Engineer
10 14 (4.28%) Senior Data Engineer
10 14 (4.28%) Senior Developer
11 12 (3.67%) Lead .NET Developer
11 12 (3.67%) Lead Data Engineer
11 12 (3.67%) Lead Developer
12 11 (3.36%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (3.36%) DevOps Administrator
12 11 (3.36%) Linux DevOps Engineer
12 11 (3.36%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (51.38%) .NET
2 165 (50.46%) ASP.NET
3 158 (48.32%) .NET Core
4 156 (47.71%) Node.js
5 151 (46.18%) ASP.NET Core
6 98 (29.97%) React
7 76 (23.24%) ASP.NET Web API
8 74 (22.63%) Blazor
9 72 (22.02%) Vue
10 68 (20.80%) AngularJS
11 61 (18.65%) Kafka
12 56 (17.13%) .NET Framework
13 47 (14.37%) Terraform
14 44 (13.46%) Entity Framework
15 32 (9.79%) CSS
15 32 (9.79%) HTML
16 25 (7.65%) LangChain
16 25 (7.65%) pgvector
17 23 (7.03%) LlamaIndex
17 23 (7.03%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.79%) Greenfield Project
2 28 (8.56%) Cloud Native
3 25 (7.65%) Public Cloud
4 23 (7.03%) Clustering
4 23 (7.03%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (3.06%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.75%) Algorithms
6 9 (2.75%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.53%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.53%) Tandem
10 4 (1.22%) Blockchain
10 4 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.22%) IoT
10 4 (1.22%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.22%) Web3
11 3 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 2 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 34 (10.40%) Linux
2 15 (4.59%) CentOS
3 7 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.22%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.22%) Windows
4 4 (1.22%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.92%) Unix
6 1 (0.31%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (52.60%) Agile
2 159 (48.62%) Full-Stack Development
3 158 (48.32%) Microservices
4 95 (29.05%) DevOps
5 94 (28.75%) Scrum
6 88 (26.91%) CI/CD
7 72 (22.02%) TDD
8 67 (20.49%) AI
9 61 (18.65%) BDD
10 57 (17.43%) Analytics
11 56 (17.13%) Kanban
12 51 (15.60%) Software Engineering
13 49 (14.98%) Data Engineering
14 46 (14.07%) Data Modelling
14 46 (14.07%) Data Pipeline
15 42 (12.84%) Machine Learning
15 42 (12.84%) Performance Tuning
16 39 (11.93%) Use Case
17 38 (11.62%) Business Intelligence
18 36 (11.01%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 194 (59.33%) SQL
2 168 (51.38%) C#
3 113 (34.56%) Python
4 97 (29.66%) JavaScript
5 94 (28.75%) TypeScript
6 25 (7.65%) Java
7 21 (6.42%) Bash
8 17 (5.20%) Scala
9 16 (4.89%) Go
10 11 (3.36%) Rust
11 8 (2.45%) C++
12 2 (0.61%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.61%) PHP
12 2 (0.61%) Ruby
12 2 (0.61%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (12.23%) Security Cleared
2 25 (7.65%) Degree
3 23 (7.03%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (4.28%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.45%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.53%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.53%) PhD
8 4 (1.22%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (9.48%) QA
2 23 (7.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 23 (7.03%) GDPR
3 11 (3.36%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.61%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 96 (29.36%) Docker
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 92 (28.13%) Kubernetes
2 43 (13.15%) Ansible
3 34 (10.40%) Grafana
4 14 (4.28%) Kibana
5 12 (3.67%) logstash
6 11 (3.36%) Nagios
7 10 (3.06%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.53%) Argo
9 3 (0.92%) Packer
9 3 (0.92%) Podman
9 3 (0.92%) Puppet
10 2 (0.61%) Rancher
11 1 (0.31%) Cilium
11 1 (0.31%) Graylog
11 1 (0.31%) Istio
11 1 (0.31%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 148 (45.26%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.03%) Cloudera
2 23 (7.03%) Databricks
2 23 (7.03%) Dell
2 23 (7.03%) Google
3 13 (3.98%) Splunk
4 12 (3.67%) Red Hat
5 11 (3.36%) Rapid7
6 4 (1.22%) AppDynamics
6 4 (1.22%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.22%) OpenAI
6 4 (1.22%) Oracle
6 4 (1.22%) SAP
7 3 (0.92%) Alterian
7 3 (0.92%) NVIDIA
7 3 (0.92%) Optimizely
7 3 (0.92%) Sitecore
7 3 (0.92%) Tenable
8 2 (0.61%) New Relic
8 2 (0.61%) ServiceNow