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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 454 503
Rank change year-on-year -57 +49 -69
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 309 230 297
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.47% 0.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.48% 3.24% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 262 147 148
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £47,125
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% +5.26%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,500 £89,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £58,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.98% -10.00% -

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 8,884 7,100 11,736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.65% 14.51% 15.41%
Number of salaries quoted 6,036 4,461 6,954
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £64,244
Median % change year-on-year - -6.61% +2.79%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £86,250
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 22 September 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 22 September 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 -50 295 £60,000 -6.25% 260
UK excluding London -45 219 £55,000 -5.98% 152
Work from Home -28 184 £55,000 -14.06% 156
South East -4 89 £56,250 -30.77% 21
London -88 80 £90,000 +40.63% 124
South West -45 42 £52,500 -16.00% 29
Midlands -16 35 £55,000 -6.78% 20
North of England -48 33 £64,746 +12.60% 48
East of England -27 27 £55,000 +10.00% 15
West Midlands -26 26 £60,000 +1.69% 15
North West -30 18 £47,500 -17.39% 35
East Midlands -20 9 £55,000 - 5
Yorkshire -38 8 £57,500 -0.65% 9
North East -58 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 32 (10.36%) Apache Spark
2 29 (9.39%) Apache
3 13 (4.21%) 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 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.32%) nginx
8 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 223 (72.17%) Azure
2 182 (58.90%) AWS
3 59 (19.09%) GitHub
4 47 (15.21%) GitHub Copilot
5 40 (12.94%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (10.03%) GCP
7 28 (9.06%) Serverless
8 25 (8.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 24 (7.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 17 (5.50%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (4.85%) Amazon ECR
11 15 (4.85%) Amazon ECS
11 15 (4.85%) OpenShift
12 14 (4.53%) Azure Data Factory
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 9 (2.91%) 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 42 (13.59%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (7.12%) MySQL
5 21 (6.80%) NoSQL
6 18 (5.83%) Hadoop
7 17 (5.50%) Big Data
7 17 (5.50%) Redis
8 14 (4.53%) DynamoDB
9 13 (4.21%) SQL Server
10 11 (3.56%) Relational Database
11 10 (3.24%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (2.91%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (2.91%) BigQuery
13 6 (1.94%) Neo4j
14 5 (1.62%) Amazon Athena
14 5 (1.62%) Apache Hive
14 5 (1.62%) Data Lake
15 4 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
15 4 (1.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 39 (12.62%) Git
2 29 (9.39%) GitLab
3 17 (5.50%) Jenkins
4 16 (5.18%) Cucumber
5 13 (4.21%) SonarQube
6 8 (2.59%) Gatling
6 8 (2.59%) JMeter
6 8 (2.59%) LoadRunner
7 7 (2.27%) JIRA
8 6 (1.94%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.29%) MLflow
9 4 (1.29%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.97%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.97%) Maven
11 2 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
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
General
1 64 (20.71%) Finance
2 58 (18.77%) Social Skills
3 20 (6.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 20 (6.47%) Retail
4 18 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (5.83%) Public Sector
5 12 (3.88%) Banking
6 11 (3.56%) Games
7 4 (1.29%) Health Technology
7 4 (1.29%) Publishing
7 4 (1.29%) Tech for Good
8 2 (0.65%) Aerospace
8 2 (0.65%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.65%) Law
8 2 (0.65%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (0.32%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.32%) Police
9 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
9 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 28 (9.06%) Data Engineer
6 24 (7.77%) Software Engineer
7 20 (6.47%) Python Engineer
8 18 (5.83%) Python Data Engineer
9 16 (5.18%) Senior Data Engineer
10 15 (4.85%) Azure Engineer
11 14 (4.53%) Senior Developer
12 12 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (3.88%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (3.88%) Kafka Engineer
12 12 (3.88%) Lead .NET Developer
12 12 (3.88%) Lead Developer
13 11 (3.56%) Azure Data Engineer
13 11 (3.56%) Elasticsearch Engineer
14 10 (3.24%) Lead Data Engineer
14 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 50 (16.18%) Terraform
13 40 (12.94%) Entity Framework
13 40 (12.94%) Kafka
14 33 (10.68%) CSS
14 33 (10.68%) HTML
15 22 (7.12%) REST
16 18 (5.83%) RESTful
17 17 (5.50%) Next.js
18 15 (4.85%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.06%) Greenfield Project
2 27 (8.74%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (3.24%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.91%) Cloud Native
6 8 (2.59%) Public Cloud
7 7 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.94%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.62%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.62%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.62%) Tandem
10 4 (1.29%) Clustering
10 4 (1.29%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.29%) IoT
10 4 (1.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 3 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.65%) Blockchain
12 2 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.65%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.65%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 34 (11.00%) Linux
2 11 (3.56%) CentOS
3 5 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.62%) Unix
4 3 (0.97%) Windows
4 3 (0.97%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.65%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.32%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (58.90%) Agile
2 158 (51.13%) Full-Stack Development
3 152 (49.19%) Microservices
4 100 (32.36%) 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 46 (14.89%) AI
12 38 (12.30%) Analytics
12 38 (12.30%) Mentoring
13 35 (11.33%) Infrastructure as Code
14 34 (11.00%) Stakeholder Management
15 33 (10.68%) Problem-Solving
16 29 (9.39%) Observability
17 28 (9.06%) Containerisation
17 28 (9.06%) Data Engineering
17 28 (9.06%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 179 (57.93%) SQL
2 163 (52.75%) C#
3 100 (32.36%) JavaScript
4 97 (31.39%) Python
4 97 (31.39%) TypeScript
5 29 (9.39%) Java
6 23 (7.44%) Bash
7 21 (6.80%) 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 54 (17.48%) Security Cleared
2 32 (10.36%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.47%) Degree
4 19 (6.15%) DV Cleared
5 14 (4.53%) 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
8 2 (0.65%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.39%) QA
2 9 (2.91%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 4 (1.29%) GDPR
4 2 (0.65%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 95 (30.74%) 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 86 (27.83%) Kubernetes
2 45 (14.56%) Ansible
3 38 (12.30%) Grafana
4 21 (6.80%) 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 2 (0.65%) Argo
10 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%) Rapid7
6 8 (2.59%) AppDynamics
6 8 (2.59%) Dynatrace
7 7 (2.27%) Databricks
8 5 (1.62%) Oracle
9 4 (1.29%) Cloudera
9 4 (1.29%) Dell
9 4 (1.29%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.29%) SAP
10 3 (0.97%) Alterian
10 3 (0.97%) NVIDIA
10 3 (0.97%) Optimizely
10 3 (0.97%) Sitecore
10 3 (0.97%) Tenable
11 2 (0.65%) New Relic
11 2 (0.65%) ServiceNow