Elasticsearch Job Trends

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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 503 492 397
Rank change year-on-year -11 -95 +3
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 144 268 359
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.43% 0.71%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.13% 2.50% 3.32%
Number of salaries quoted 122 168 247
10th Percentile £52,500 £43,911 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £101,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,750 £69,308 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.80% +6.63% +13.04%

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 6,748 10,705 10,806
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.09% 17.04% 21.49%
Number of salaries quoted 4,347 6,184 8,532
10th Percentile £34,500 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £101,750 £113,910 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -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 6 December 2025.

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 6 December 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 -2 122 £67,000 -10.67% 281
Work from Home +31 81 £65,000 -7.14% 222
London +78 73 £67,000 -18.79% 39
UK excluding London -44 65 £68,750 -0.80% 266
North of England +12 16 £67,500 - 63
Scotland -3 13 £73,801 +6.48% 12
South West +25 12 £67,500 +5.88% 36
North West +21 12 £63,500 -5.93% 35
South East -34 9 £78,750 -4.55% 61
East of England +19 6 £55,000 +10.00% 36
West Midlands +32 4 £69,401 +0.13% 28
Midlands +20 4 £69,401 +6.77% 51
North East +7 3 £73,801 +6.48% 5
Wales 0 3 £73,801 +9.33% 6
Northern Ireland -4 2 £73,801 +6.48% 4
Yorkshire +1 1 £65,000 +10.64% 24

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 14 (9.72%) Apache Solr
2 9 (6.25%) Apache
3 6 (4.17%) CMS
4 5 (3.47%) Confluence
5 3 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (2.08%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 95 (65.97%) AWS
2 87 (60.42%) Azure
3 32 (22.22%) GCP
4 24 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
5 22 (15.28%) AWS CloudFormation
5 22 (15.28%) AWS Lambda
5 22 (15.28%) Serverless
6 20 (13.89%) Amazon ECR
6 20 (13.89%) dbt
6 20 (13.89%) Pulumi
7 18 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 12 (8.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 12 (8.33%) PaaS
8 12 (8.33%) Sentry
9 9 (6.25%) Amazon S3
10 7 (4.86%) GitHub
11 6 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (4.17%) Cloudflare
11 6 (4.17%) SaaS
12 4 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 20 (13.89%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.08%) Broadband
3 2 (1.39%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 28 (19.44%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (16.67%) Redis
4 21 (14.58%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (14.58%) Azure SQL Database
5 18 (12.50%) DynamoDB
5 18 (12.50%) MySQL
6 10 (6.94%) Neo4j
7 9 (6.25%) BigQuery
8 5 (3.47%) NoSQL
8 5 (3.47%) SQL Server
9 4 (2.78%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (2.78%) Pinecone
9 4 (2.78%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.69%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.69%) ClickHouse
10 1 (0.69%) DocumentDB
10 1 (0.69%) Event Store
10 1 (0.69%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 31 (21.53%) Git
2 14 (9.72%) GitLab
3 10 (6.94%) JIRA
4 7 (4.86%) Bitbucket
4 7 (4.86%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.86%) JUnit
5 5 (3.47%) Cucumber
5 5 (3.47%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (2.78%) MSBuild
6 4 (2.78%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (2.78%) Visual Studio
7 3 (2.08%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.39%) Appium
8 2 (1.39%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.39%) JConsole
8 2 (1.39%) Katalon Studio
8 2 (1.39%) Selenium
8 2 (1.39%) VisualVM
9 1 (0.69%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.69%) TestNG
General
1 27 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 17 (11.81%) Finance
3 13 (9.03%) Tech for Good
4 12 (8.33%) Health Technology
4 12 (8.33%) Publishing
5 4 (2.78%) Law
5 4 (2.78%) Retail
6 3 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.08%) Banking
6 3 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.08%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.39%) Front Office
7 2 (1.39%) Marketing
8 1 (0.69%) Advertising
8 1 (0.69%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.69%) Games
8 1 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 52 (36.11%) Developer
2 45 (31.25%) Senior
3 29 (20.14%) Software Engineer
4 21 (14.58%) .NET Developer
5 16 (11.11%) Senior Developer
6 12 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
6 12 (8.33%) Python Developer
6 12 (8.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 12 (8.33%) Senior Python Developer
7 11 (7.64%) Site Engineer
7 11 (7.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 9 (6.25%) AWS Developer
8 9 (6.25%) React Developer
9 8 (5.56%) Backend Developer
10 7 (4.86%) Integration Developer
10 7 (4.86%) Software Developer
11 6 (4.17%) C Software Engineer
11 6 (4.17%) Senior Software Developer
11 6 (4.17%) Technical Manager
11 6 (4.17%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (39.58%) React
2 36 (25.00%) Node.js
3 32 (22.22%) AngularJS
4 29 (20.14%) .NET
5 26 (18.06%) Django
6 25 (17.36%) ASP.NET
7 23 (15.97%) .NET Core
7 23 (15.97%) ASP.NET Web API
7 23 (15.97%) Vue
8 22 (15.28%) .NET Framework
8 22 (15.28%) Entity Framework
9 21 (14.58%) ASP.NET MVC
10 20 (13.89%) RESTful
11 13 (9.03%) Elastic Stack
12 12 (8.33%) Swagger
13 9 (6.25%) Kafka
13 9 (6.25%) MERN Stack
13 9 (6.25%) REST
14 7 (4.86%) RabbitMQ
15 6 (4.17%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (9.72%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (6.25%) Algorithms
4 8 (5.56%) Data Structures
5 7 (4.86%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (4.17%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.78%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.08%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.39%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.39%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.39%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.39%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.69%) IoT
10 1 (0.69%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.69%) Smart Energy
10 1 (0.69%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 47 (32.64%) Linux
2 21 (14.58%) Unix
3 15 (10.42%) Windows
4 14 (9.72%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.69%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (43.06%) CI/CD
2 60 (41.67%) Agile
3 46 (31.94%) DevOps
4 45 (31.25%) Microservices
5 43 (29.86%) Software Engineering
6 41 (28.47%) Scrum
7 38 (26.39%) TDD
8 32 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (20.14%) AI
10 28 (19.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 27 (18.75%) Observability
12 26 (18.06%) MVC
13 25 (17.36%) Infrastructure as Code
14 24 (16.67%) Clean Code
15 23 (15.97%) BDD
15 23 (15.97%) Full-Stack Development
16 22 (15.28%) Kanban
17 21 (14.58%) Service-Level Objective
18 18 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
19 17 (11.81%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 92 (63.89%) Python
2 67 (46.53%) JavaScript
3 58 (40.28%) TypeScript
4 45 (31.25%) SQL
5 29 (20.14%) C#
6 27 (18.75%) Java
7 10 (6.94%) PHP
8 8 (5.56%) C
9 4 (2.78%) Bash
10 3 (2.08%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.39%) Go
11 2 (1.39%) Perl
11 2 (1.39%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.69%) C++
Qualifications
1 37 (25.69%) Security Cleared
2 25 (17.36%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 11 (7.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (7.64%) Degree
5 3 (2.08%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.69%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (15.28%) QA
2 6 (4.17%) GDPR
3 4 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.69%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.69%) NIST
4 1 (0.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 58 (40.28%) Docker
2 1 (0.69%) Squid
Systems Management
1 31 (21.53%) Terraform
2 25 (17.36%) Kubernetes
3 20 (13.89%) Kibana
4 13 (9.03%) logstash
5 12 (8.33%) AWS Copilot
6 9 (6.25%) Ansible
7 8 (5.56%) Prometheus
8 7 (4.86%) Grafana
9 1 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.69%) Rancher
Vendors
1 39 (27.08%) Microsoft
2 29 (20.14%) Google
3 6 (4.17%) Atlassian
3 6 (4.17%) Oracle
4 4 (2.78%) Splunk
5 2 (1.39%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.39%) New Relic
5 2 (1.39%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.69%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.69%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.69%) LogRhythm
6 1 (0.69%) OpenAI