Elasticsearch Jobs

Elastic Elasticsearch
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Elasticsearch skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Elasticsearch over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 439 352 420
Rank change year-on-year -87 +68 -171
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 291 772 727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.77% 0.74%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.92% 4.24% 3.43%
Number of salaries quoted 138 450 423
10th Percentile £50,000 £37,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £76,250 £86,375
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +27.27% -12.00% +4.17%

All Database and 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 7,417 18,221 21,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.59% 18.21% 21.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,660 12,506 13,213
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,725 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

Elasticsearch
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Elasticsearch as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Elasticsearch in the UK

Elasticsearch
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Elasticsearch.

Salary trend for Elasticsearch in the UK

Elasticsearch
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Elasticsearch in the UK

Elasticsearch
Top 17 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 23 May 2025. 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 -16 276 £75,000 +25.00% 926
Work from Home -22 218 £75,000 +36.36% 536
UK excluding London -120 158 £70,000 +27.27% 858
London +70 105 £75,000 -1.64% 198
South East +29 68 £82,500 +43.48% 247
East of England +23 32 £53,750 -2.27% 115
North of England -32 23 £63,813 +27.63% 189
North West -40 15 £60,000 +26.32% 104
South West +75 11 £60,000 +9.09% 109
Midlands +5 9 £67,626 +28.81% 140
Scotland -32 8 £56,500 +2.73% 40
Northern Ireland +38 6 £55,000 -42.11% 16
North East +43 5 £69,384 +46.07% 18
West Midlands +19 5 £63,313 +15.11% 78
Yorkshire +30 3 £70,000 +33.33% 67
East Midlands +16 2 £72,500 +38.10% 52
Wales +18 1 £67,626 +42.37% 20

Elasticsearch
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (3.44%) nginx
2 8 (2.75%) Tomcat
3 7 (2.41%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.06%) IIS
5 5 (1.72%) Confluence
6 3 (1.03%) Apache Solr
6 3 (1.03%) CMS
7 1 (0.34%) Apache
7 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Maya
Cloud Services
1 214 (73.54%) AWS
2 137 (47.08%) Azure
3 89 (30.58%) Serverless
4 88 (30.24%) AWS Lambda
5 76 (26.12%) Amazon S3
6 72 (24.74%) AWS Step Functions
7 67 (23.02%) AWS CloudFormation
8 50 (17.18%) Amazon EKS
9 34 (11.68%) Azure DevOps
10 31 (10.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 30 (10.31%) Azure Service Bus
11 30 (10.31%) SonarCloud
12 27 (9.28%) GCP
13 22 (7.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 19 (6.53%) Amazon ElastiCache
15 17 (5.84%) Amazon ECS
15 17 (5.84%) SaaS
16 15 (5.15%) Amazon ECR
16 15 (5.15%) Cloud Computing
17 13 (4.47%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 72 (24.74%) Broadband
2 11 (3.78%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.69%) Internet
3 2 (0.69%) VPN
4 1 (0.34%) Firewall
4 1 (0.34%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.34%) SSH
4 1 (0.34%) tcpdump
4 1 (0.34%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (29.21%) DynamoDB
2 36 (12.37%) MongoDB
3 34 (11.68%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (8.59%) Redis
5 24 (8.25%) MySQL
6 19 (6.53%) Amazon RDS
6 19 (6.53%) Azure SQL Database
7 15 (5.15%) SQL Server
8 12 (4.12%) NoSQL
9 11 (3.78%) Relational Database
10 9 (3.09%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (2.41%) Hadoop
12 5 (1.72%) Data Mining
13 3 (1.03%) Apache Ignite
13 3 (1.03%) Data Lake
13 3 (1.03%) Event Store
13 3 (1.03%) HBase
14 2 (0.69%) Big Data
14 2 (0.69%) Power BI
14 2 (0.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 56 (19.24%) Git
2 33 (11.34%) Octopus Deploy
3 30 (10.31%) MSBuild
3 30 (10.31%) Team Foundation Server
3 30 (10.31%) Visual Studio
4 20 (6.87%) Jenkins
5 15 (5.15%) GitLab
6 12 (4.12%) Bitbucket
7 9 (3.09%) Cucumber
7 9 (3.09%) JUnit
7 9 (3.09%) Maven
8 8 (2.75%) JIRA
8 8 (2.75%) Mockito
8 8 (2.75%) Postman
8 8 (2.75%) Selenium
8 8 (2.75%) SonarQube
8 8 (2.75%) TestNG
9 6 (2.06%) Jasmine
9 6 (2.06%) NUnit
9 6 (2.06%) TeamCity
General
1 66 (22.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 65 (22.34%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (15.46%) Social Skills
4 35 (12.03%) Finance
5 24 (8.25%) Retail
6 14 (4.81%) Publishing
7 12 (4.12%) Health Technology
7 12 (4.12%) Tech for Good
8 11 (3.78%) Public Sector
9 9 (3.09%) Law
10 8 (2.75%) Manufacturing
11 6 (2.06%) Banking
11 6 (2.06%) Marketing
12 4 (1.37%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.37%) Games
13 3 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.69%) Advertising
14 2 (0.69%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.34%) Automotive
15 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 167 (57.39%) Developer
2 118 (40.55%) Senior
3 96 (32.99%) Senior Developer
4 72 (24.74%) AWS Developer
5 56 (19.24%) Software Developer
6 34 (11.68%) Architect
7 30 (10.31%) Technical Architect
8 19 (6.53%) .NET Developer
9 16 (5.50%) Software Engineer
10 14 (4.81%) Site Engineer
10 14 (4.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 12 (4.12%) Java Engineer
12 10 (3.44%) Lead
13 9 (3.09%) Platform Engineer
14 8 (2.75%) Full-Stack Developer
15 7 (2.41%) Applications Engineer
15 7 (2.41%) Python Developer
16 6 (2.06%) DevOps Engineer
16 6 (2.06%) Senior Python Developer
16 6 (2.06%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (41.58%) React
2 116 (39.86%) .NET
3 79 (27.15%) Node.js
4 77 (26.46%) GraphQL
5 72 (24.74%) Serverless Framework
6 55 (18.90%) ASP.NET
7 49 (16.84%) Pandas
8 48 (16.49%) REST
9 45 (15.46%) CSS
10 43 (14.78%) HTML
11 36 (12.37%) RESTful
12 33 (11.34%) JSON
13 31 (10.65%) Bootstrap
14 30 (10.31%) gRPC
14 30 (10.31%) XML
15 29 (9.97%) AngularJS
16 28 (9.62%) Kafka
17 25 (8.59%) .NET Core
18 23 (7.90%) Vue
19 20 (6.87%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 49 (16.84%) Cyberattack
2 10 (3.44%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (3.44%) Mobile App
3 8 (2.75%) Life Science
4 4 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.03%) AS400
5 3 (1.03%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.03%) Legacy Code
6 2 (0.69%) 3D Graphics
6 2 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.69%) Low-Code
6 2 (0.69%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.69%) Online Games
6 2 (0.69%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.34%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.34%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.34%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.34%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.34%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.34%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 93 (31.96%) Linux
2 49 (16.84%) Android
3 14 (4.81%) Unix
4 9 (3.09%) Windows
5 6 (2.06%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.37%) CentOS
7 2 (0.69%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.69%) VMS
8 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (62.20%) Agile
2 174 (59.79%) CI/CD
3 104 (35.74%) Event-Driven
4 102 (35.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 94 (32.30%) Artificial Intelligence
6 93 (31.96%) Mentoring
7 89 (30.58%) Continuous Integration
8 86 (29.55%) Clean Code
9 84 (28.87%) Design Patterns
10 80 (27.49%) Software Engineering
11 67 (23.02%) Kanban
12 64 (21.99%) Containerisation
12 64 (21.99%) Microservices
13 63 (21.65%) MVC
14 62 (21.31%) DevOps
15 61 (20.96%) Mathematics
16 60 (20.62%) OO
16 60 (20.62%) OOP
17 55 (18.90%) Problem-Solving
18 52 (17.87%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 205 (70.45%) JavaScript
2 185 (63.57%) Python
3 121 (41.58%) TypeScript
4 91 (31.27%) Java
5 66 (22.68%) C#
5 66 (22.68%) SQL
6 53 (18.21%) Go
7 52 (17.87%) C++
8 49 (16.84%) Rust
9 9 (3.09%) Bash
10 5 (1.72%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.03%) R
12 2 (0.69%) C
12 2 (0.69%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.69%) PHP
13 1 (0.34%) Perl
13 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.34%) Ruby
13 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.34%) VB
Qualifications
1 76 (26.12%) Security Cleared
2 72 (24.74%) AWS Certification
3 54 (18.56%) DV Cleared
4 20 (6.87%) SC Cleared
5 17 (5.84%) Degree
6 5 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.69%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.34%) PhD
8 1 (0.34%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (11.34%) GDPR
2 28 (9.62%) QA
3 3 (1.03%) SLA
4 2 (0.69%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.34%) NIST
5 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 129 (44.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.34%) Squid
2 1 (0.34%) Xen
Systems Management
1 82 (28.18%) Terraform
2 81 (27.84%) Kubernetes
3 71 (24.40%) Ansible
4 19 (6.53%) Grafana
5 18 (6.19%) Kibana
6 14 (4.81%) Prometheus
7 11 (3.78%) AWS Copilot
8 9 (3.09%) Kustomize
9 8 (2.75%) Packer
10 6 (2.06%) logstash
11 4 (1.37%) Nagios
12 3 (1.03%) Puppet
13 1 (0.34%) Argo
13 1 (0.34%) Bugsnag
13 1 (0.34%) Check_MK
13 1 (0.34%) Control-M
13 1 (0.34%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.34%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (11.34%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.19%) Google
3 13 (4.47%) Red Hat
4 10 (3.44%) Splunk
5 9 (3.09%) Atlassian
6 8 (2.75%) Oracle
6 8 (2.75%) Rollbar
7 6 (2.06%) New Relic
8 4 (1.37%) Databricks
8 4 (1.37%) Rapid7
8 4 (1.37%) WSO2
9 3 (1.03%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.69%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.69%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.34%) BigPanda
11 1 (0.34%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.34%) Okta
11 1 (0.34%) Optimizely
11 1 (0.34%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.34%) Talend