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 11 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 499 440 380
Rank change year-on-year -59 -60 +72
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 238 251 690
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.57% 0.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.96% 3.40% 3.90%
Number of salaries quoted 186 159 443
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,384 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% +20.67% -17.86%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £76,875
90th Percentile £108,750 £95,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £69,384 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.73% +26.15% -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 8,029 7,379 17,693
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.69% 16.69% 16.62%
Number of salaries quoted 5,126 4,749 12,601
10th Percentile £35,500 £36,197 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,960 £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 £82,751 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £97,500
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 11 June 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 11 June 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 -59 219 £65,000 -6.32% 84
UK excluding London -71 128 £55,000 -20.73% 56
Work from Home -35 122 £55,000 -20.73% 69
London -14 94 £85,000 +24.19% 32
South East -52 36 £56,250 -31.82% 22
South West -32 26 £57,500 -4.17% 8
East of England -22 24 £48,750 -2.50% 5
North of England -29 24 £70,901 +13.44% 13
North West +8 15 £67,500 +12.50% 10
Midlands -13 14 £55,000 -18.67% 5
East Midlands -17 7 £55,000 -24.14% 3
West Midlands -18 7 £55,000 -13.13% 2
Yorkshire -40 6 £75,000 +11.11% 1
Wales -39 3 £45,000 -33.46%
North East -44 3 £75,000 +8.09% 2
Northern Ireland -39 1 £73,801 +34.18%

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 51 (21.43%) Apache Spark
2 44 (18.49%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (7.98%) Apache
4 8 (3.36%) Apache Solr
5 4 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.26%) Confluence
7 1 (0.42%) CMS
7 1 (0.42%) DNN
7 1 (0.42%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.42%) Immediacy CMS
7 1 (0.42%) Kentico
7 1 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.42%) Sitefinity
7 1 (0.42%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 167 (70.17%) Azure
2 166 (69.75%) AWS
3 83 (34.87%) GCP
4 35 (14.71%) Snowflake
5 31 (13.03%) dbt
6 23 (9.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 23 (9.66%) Power Platform
7 22 (9.24%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 22 (9.24%) GitHub
7 22 (9.24%) GitHub Copilot
8 19 (7.98%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (6.72%) Serverless
10 14 (5.88%) SaaS
11 13 (5.46%) Amazon ECR
11 13 (5.46%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (5.04%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (3.78%) Amazon SageMaker
13 9 (3.78%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (3.78%) Azure Machine Learning
13 9 (3.78%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.52%) TCP/IP
2 5 (2.10%) Hyperconnected
2 5 (2.10%) Internet
3 4 (1.68%) HTTP
4 3 (1.26%) MQTT
4 3 (1.26%) Network Security
5 1 (0.42%) BGP
5 1 (0.42%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (34.87%) MongoDB
2 74 (31.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 53 (22.27%) BigQuery
4 35 (14.71%) Looker
5 32 (13.45%) Amazon Redshift
5 32 (13.45%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (13.45%) Tableau
6 26 (10.92%) PostgreSQL
7 24 (10.08%) MySQL
8 23 (9.66%) Data Lake
8 23 (9.66%) Power BI
8 23 (9.66%) Snowflake Schema
9 20 (8.40%) Redis
10 18 (7.56%) NoSQL
11 12 (5.04%) Neo4j
12 9 (3.78%) Apache Iceberg
12 9 (3.78%) Delta Lake
12 9 (3.78%) DynamoDB
12 9 (3.78%) Pinecone
12 9 (3.78%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 32 (13.45%) MLflow
2 25 (10.50%) GitLab
3 22 (9.24%) Git
4 10 (4.20%) Cucumber
4 10 (4.20%) Jenkins
4 10 (4.20%) SonarQube
5 7 (2.94%) JIRA
6 4 (1.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (1.68%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.68%) Gatling
6 4 (1.68%) JMeter
6 4 (1.68%) LoadRunner
7 3 (1.26%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.84%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.84%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.42%) Maven
9 1 (0.42%) Robot Framework
General
1 35 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
2 34 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 29 (12.18%) Finance
4 15 (6.30%) Banking
5 9 (3.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (3.36%) Retail
7 7 (2.94%) Games
7 7 (2.94%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.94%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.52%) Law
9 5 (2.10%) Health Technology
10 4 (1.68%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (1.68%) Publishing
10 4 (1.68%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.42%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 88 (36.97%) Developer
2 74 (31.09%) Senior
3 73 (30.67%) .NET Developer
4 30 (12.61%) Software Engineer
5 23 (9.66%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 23 (9.66%) Systems Engineer
6 18 (7.56%) Lead
7 14 (5.88%) Data Engineer
8 12 (5.04%) DevOps Engineer
8 12 (5.04%) Platform Engineer
9 11 (4.62%) Architect
9 11 (4.62%) Consultant
9 11 (4.62%) Python Engineer
9 11 (4.62%) Senior Consultant
10 10 (4.20%) Lead Data Engineer
10 10 (4.20%) Senior Developer
11 9 (3.78%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
11 9 (3.78%) Data Consultant
11 9 (3.78%) Principal Engineer
12 8 (3.36%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (36.97%) Node.js
2 79 (33.19%) .NET
3 76 (31.93%) ASP.NET
4 74 (31.09%) ASP.NET Core
5 72 (30.25%) .NET Core
6 60 (25.21%) React
7 46 (19.33%) Kafka
8 38 (15.97%) AngularJS
8 38 (15.97%) Vue
9 35 (14.71%) ASP.NET Web API
10 32 (13.45%) PyTorch
10 32 (13.45%) TensorFlow
11 29 (12.18%) Blazor
12 27 (11.34%) Entity Framework
13 26 (10.92%) Django
14 23 (9.66%) .NET Framework
14 23 (9.66%) LangChain
14 23 (9.66%) LlamaIndex
14 23 (9.66%) pgvector
14 23 (9.66%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.61%) Greenfield Project
2 29 (12.18%) Cloud Native
3 27 (11.34%) Public Cloud
4 26 (10.92%) Distributed Systems
5 23 (9.66%) Clustering
6 21 (8.82%) Algorithms
6 21 (8.82%) Data Structures
7 10 (4.20%) Product Ownership
8 9 (3.78%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.68%) Blockchain
9 4 (1.68%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.68%) Web3
10 3 (1.26%) Tandem
10 3 (1.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 2 (0.84%) Legacy Code
11 2 (0.84%) Security Operations Centre
12 1 (0.42%) NHS
12 1 (0.42%) PMI
12 1 (0.42%) Replication
12 1 (0.42%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (13.03%) Linux
2 12 (5.04%) CentOS
3 9 (3.78%) Unix
4 6 (2.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.68%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.68%) Windows
5 4 (1.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (45.38%) Agile
2 89 (37.39%) Microservices
3 82 (34.45%) Full-Stack Development
4 76 (31.93%) CI/CD
5 73 (30.67%) AI
6 67 (28.15%) DevOps
7 60 (25.21%) Software Engineering
8 59 (24.79%) Data Science
9 53 (22.27%) Machine Learning
10 48 (20.17%) Data Engineering
11 46 (19.33%) Analytics
11 46 (19.33%) Data Pipeline
12 42 (17.65%) Computer Science
13 41 (17.23%) Scrum
14 38 (15.97%) TDD
15 37 (15.55%) Business Intelligence
15 37 (15.55%) Performance Tuning
15 37 (15.55%) Use Case
16 35 (14.71%) Data Modelling
16 35 (14.71%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 131 (55.04%) Python
2 121 (50.84%) SQL
3 79 (33.19%) C#
4 63 (26.47%) JavaScript
5 55 (23.11%) TypeScript
6 46 (19.33%) Java
7 24 (10.08%) Bash
8 17 (7.14%) Go
8 17 (7.14%) Scala
9 9 (3.78%) Rust
10 8 (3.36%) C
11 6 (2.52%) C++
12 3 (1.26%) PHP
13 2 (0.84%) Ruby
13 2 (0.84%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.84%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.42%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 43 (18.07%) Degree
2 34 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 27 (11.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (5.88%) DV Cleared
4 14 (5.88%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.68%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 23 (9.66%) GDPR
2 12 (5.04%) QA
3 11 (4.62%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.84%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 72 (30.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 68 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 42 (17.65%) Terraform
3 31 (13.03%) Ansible
4 27 (11.34%) Grafana
5 12 (5.04%) Kibana
6 8 (3.36%) Nagios
6 8 (3.36%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.94%) logstash
8 5 (2.10%) Argo
8 5 (2.10%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (1.26%) Packer
9 3 (1.26%) Podman
9 3 (1.26%) Puppet
9 3 (1.26%) Rancher
10 1 (0.42%) Cilium
10 1 (0.42%) Graylog
10 1 (0.42%) Istio
Vendors
1 73 (30.67%) Microsoft
2 35 (14.71%) Google
3 32 (13.45%) Databricks
4 23 (9.66%) Cloudera
4 23 (9.66%) Dell
5 12 (5.04%) Splunk
6 10 (4.20%) Palantir
7 8 (3.36%) Rapid7
7 8 (3.36%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.68%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.68%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.26%) Confluent
9 3 (1.26%) NVIDIA
9 3 (1.26%) Tenable
10 2 (0.84%) CheckPoint
10 2 (0.84%) New Relic
10 2 (0.84%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.84%) OpenText
10 2 (0.84%) Rollbar
10 2 (0.84%) ServiceNow