Elasticsearch Job Trends

Elastic Elasticsearch
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Elasticsearch skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 448 480 424
Rank change year-on-year +32 -56 -134
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 233 331 394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.43% 0.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.26% 2.78% 3.01%
Number of salaries quoted 151 153 304
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £70,000 £66,750
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +4.87% -4.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,500 £101,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.23% - +8.33%

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 7,151 11,908 13,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.56% 15.35% 21.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4,471 7,165 10,436
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,759 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% +0.41% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% +4.21%

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

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +112 212 £64,000 -8.57% 167
Work from Home +127 174 £64,000 -7.66% 153
UK excluding London -26 126 £59,000 -9.23% 118
London +130 101 £64,000 -22.42% 76
South East +25 51 £81,250 +16.07% 46
East of England +12 27 £50,000 -18.37% 8
North of England +1 14 £57,500 - 22
Scotland -30 13 £56,500 -16.30% 11
North West -5 11 £57,500 -4.17% 18
South West +58 10 £62,500 +13.64% 8
Midlands +42 6 £59,000 +18.00% 21
Northern Ireland - 5 £55,000 -
West Midlands +47 3 £59,000 -3.67% 13
Yorkshire +14 2 £57,875 +2.89% 3
East Midlands +22 1 - - 7
North East +11 1 £52,500 - 1

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 12 (5.15%) Apache Solr
2 11 (4.72%) IIS
3 9 (3.86%) CMS
4 8 (3.43%) nginx
4 8 (3.43%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.72%) Apache
5 4 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.29%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (0.86%) Maya
2 1 (0.43%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 161 (69.10%) AWS
2 124 (53.22%) Azure
3 52 (22.32%) AWS CloudFormation
4 51 (21.89%) Amazon EKS
5 42 (18.03%) AWS Lambda
5 42 (18.03%) Serverless
6 20 (8.58%) Cloudflare
7 17 (7.30%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (6.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 16 (6.87%) Azure Service Bus
8 16 (6.87%) SonarCloud
9 14 (6.01%) Amazon S3
10 13 (5.58%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 13 (5.58%) SaaS
11 10 (4.29%) GCP
12 8 (3.43%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 8 (3.43%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (3.00%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (3.00%) GitHub
14 6 (2.58%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.15%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (18.03%) MongoDB
2 34 (14.59%) DynamoDB
2 34 (14.59%) MySQL
3 23 (9.87%) SQL Server
4 21 (9.01%) Azure SQL Database
5 19 (8.15%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (5.15%) Redis
6 12 (5.15%) Relational Database
7 9 (3.86%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (3.86%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (3.43%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (1.72%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (1.72%) InterSystems Cache
9 4 (1.72%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.29%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.29%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.29%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.86%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.86%) Event Store
Development Applications
1 63 (27.04%) Git
2 22 (9.44%) Jenkins
3 18 (7.73%) Octopus Deploy
4 16 (6.87%) MSBuild
4 16 (6.87%) Team Foundation Server
4 16 (6.87%) Visual Studio
5 15 (6.44%) GitLab
6 13 (5.58%) Bitbucket
6 13 (5.58%) JUnit
7 12 (5.15%) JIRA
8 11 (4.72%) NUnit
8 11 (4.72%) TeamCity
9 10 (4.29%) Jasmine
10 9 (3.86%) Cucumber
10 9 (3.86%) Postman
11 8 (3.43%) Maven
11 8 (3.43%) Mockito
11 8 (3.43%) Selenium
11 8 (3.43%) SonarQube
11 8 (3.43%) TestNG
General
1 65 (27.90%) Analytical Skills
2 61 (26.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 40 (17.17%) Finance
4 39 (16.74%) Social Skills
5 28 (12.02%) Tech for Good
6 27 (11.59%) Health Technology
6 27 (11.59%) Publishing
7 15 (6.44%) Law
8 14 (6.01%) Retail
9 9 (3.86%) Manufacturing
10 8 (3.43%) Games
10 8 (3.43%) Marketing
10 8 (3.43%) Public Sector
11 7 (3.00%) Banking
12 5 (2.15%) Investment Banking
13 4 (1.72%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.72%) Automotive
13 4 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.86%) Advertising
15 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 132 (56.65%) Developer
2 62 (26.61%) Software Developer
3 50 (21.46%) Senior
4 47 (20.17%) Senior Developer
5 31 (13.30%) .NET Developer
6 21 (9.01%) Python Developer
6 21 (9.01%) Senior Python Developer
7 20 (8.58%) Software Engineer
8 18 (7.73%) Architect
8 18 (7.73%) Java Engineer
9 16 (6.87%) Technical Architect
10 13 (5.58%) Full-Stack Developer
10 13 (5.58%) Senior Software Developer
11 11 (4.72%) AWS Developer
12 10 (4.29%) Lead
12 10 (4.29%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 9 (3.86%) Java Software Engineer
13 9 (3.86%) React Developer
13 9 (3.86%) Web Manager
14 8 (3.43%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (48.50%) .NET
2 84 (36.05%) React
3 83 (35.62%) Node.js
4 58 (24.89%) RESTful
5 52 (22.32%) ASP.NET
6 49 (21.03%) Pandas
7 38 (16.31%) REST
8 36 (15.45%) AngularJS
9 35 (15.02%) Swagger
10 34 (14.59%) HTML
11 33 (14.16%) CSS
11 33 (14.16%) Vue
12 30 (12.88%) .NET Core
13 28 (12.02%) .NET Framework
13 28 (12.02%) Kafka
14 27 (11.59%) Entity Framework
15 24 (10.30%) ASP.NET Web API
16 21 (9.01%) ASP.NET MVC
17 19 (8.15%) Elastic Stack
18 18 (7.73%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 49 (21.03%) Cyberattack
2 13 (5.58%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.43%) Life Science
4 7 (3.00%) Mobile App
4 7 (3.00%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.15%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.15%) Online Games
6 4 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.72%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.86%) 3D Graphics
8 2 (0.86%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.86%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.86%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.86%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.43%) Animation
9 1 (0.43%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.43%) Smart Energy
9 1 (0.43%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 81 (34.76%) Linux
2 49 (21.03%) Android
3 20 (8.58%) Windows
4 15 (6.44%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.15%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (58.80%) Agile
2 115 (49.36%) CI/CD
3 84 (36.05%) Software Engineering
4 70 (30.04%) Kanban
5 68 (29.18%) Design Patterns
6 66 (28.33%) Containerisation
7 61 (26.18%) Scrum
8 60 (25.75%) MVC
8 60 (25.75%) OO
9 57 (24.46%) Mathematics
9 57 (24.46%) OOP
10 55 (23.61%) TDD
11 53 (22.75%) Microservices
12 52 (22.32%) OWASP
13 51 (21.89%) Secure Coding
14 50 (21.46%) Statistics
15 49 (21.03%) Android Development
15 49 (21.03%) Collaborative Working
15 49 (21.03%) Line Management
16 42 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 138 (59.23%) JavaScript
2 133 (57.08%) Python
3 91 (39.06%) Java
4 83 (35.62%) TypeScript
5 67 (28.76%) SQL
6 58 (24.89%) C#
7 51 (21.89%) Go
8 50 (21.46%) C++
9 49 (21.03%) Rust
10 10 (4.29%) PowerShell
11 7 (3.00%) PHP
12 6 (2.58%) Bash
13 3 (1.29%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.86%) Perl
14 2 (0.86%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.43%) R
15 1 (0.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 66 (28.33%) Security Cleared
2 53 (22.75%) DV Cleared
3 10 (4.29%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.00%) Degree
5 5 (2.15%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.72%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (16.31%) QA
2 20 (8.58%) GDPR
3 5 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.72%) SLA
5 2 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.86%) NIST
5 2 (0.86%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
System Software
1 115 (49.36%) Docker
2 2 (0.86%) Squid
Systems Management
1 83 (35.62%) Kubernetes
2 82 (35.19%) Terraform
3 64 (27.47%) Ansible
4 18 (7.73%) Kibana
5 9 (3.86%) Prometheus
6 8 (3.43%) Grafana
6 8 (3.43%) Kustomize
6 8 (3.43%) Packer
7 6 (2.58%) logstash
8 1 (0.43%) Bugsnag
8 1 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 55 (23.61%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.44%) Rollbar
3 13 (5.58%) Red Hat
4 9 (3.86%) Splunk
5 8 (3.43%) Oracle
6 7 (3.00%) Atlassian
6 7 (3.00%) Google
7 4 (1.72%) New Relic
7 4 (1.72%) WSO2
8 3 (1.29%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.29%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.86%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.86%) LogRhythm
10 1 (0.43%) Databricks
10 1 (0.43%) Talend