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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 456 331
Rank change year-on-year -53 -125 +151
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 154 232 629
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.45% 0.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.29% 2.53% 4.36%
Number of salaries quoted 122 142 472
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,313 £62,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% +16.67% -17.24%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £88,625 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +27.27% -4.35%

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 6,729 9,168 14,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.35% 17.97% 19.69%
Number of salaries quoted 4,136 5,115 11,472
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,780 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,610 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 6 February 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 6 February 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 -16 127 £70,000 -12.50% 127
London +64 73 £75,000 -7.69% 50
Work from Home +23 71 £67,000 -4.29% 97
UK excluding London -88 68 £67,500 -3.57% 85
North of England -24 20 £67,500 -2.61% 21
South West +11 18 £67,500 +17.39% 18
North West -1 16 £67,500 -1.32% 16
Scotland -19 10 £73,801 +6.48% 3
East of England +9 6 £51,250 +2.50% 5
South East -43 6 £65,000 -21.21% 23
West Midlands +20 3 £73,801 +6.48% 7
Wales -2 3 £73,801 +29.87% 3
Midlands -2 3 £73,801 +13.54% 11
North East -10 3 £73,801 +6.48% 1
Northern Ireland -18 2 £73,801 +6.48% 1
Yorkshire -20 1 £65,000 -18.75% 4

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 13 (8.44%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (7.79%) Apache Spark
3 10 (6.49%) Apache
4 9 (5.84%) Apache Solr
5 4 (2.60%) Confluence
6 1 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 113 (73.38%) AWS
2 108 (70.13%) Azure
3 59 (38.31%) GCP
4 24 (15.58%) Amazon ECS
4 24 (15.58%) AWS CloudFormation
5 22 (14.29%) Amazon ECR
6 20 (12.99%) dbt
6 20 (12.99%) Pulumi
7 16 (10.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 14 (9.09%) Serverless
9 13 (8.44%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (7.79%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 12 (7.79%) PaaS
10 12 (7.79%) Sentry
10 12 (7.79%) Vertex AI
11 10 (6.49%) Amazon SageMaker
12 9 (5.84%) Azure Machine Learning
12 9 (5.84%) Dagster
12 9 (5.84%) Snowflake
13 8 (5.19%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (12.99%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.95%) HTTP
3 2 (1.30%) Broadband
4 1 (0.65%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.65%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (22.73%) MongoDB
2 32 (20.78%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (19.48%) Redis
4 26 (16.88%) BigQuery
5 20 (12.99%) Amazon RDS
6 19 (12.34%) Neo4j
7 17 (11.04%) Azure SQL Database
8 16 (10.39%) MySQL
9 13 (8.44%) Pinecone
10 12 (7.79%) DynamoDB
11 10 (6.49%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (6.49%) Weaviate
12 9 (5.84%) Apache Iceberg
12 9 (5.84%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (5.84%) Delta Lake
12 9 (5.84%) Looker
12 9 (5.84%) Tableau
13 7 (4.55%) NoSQL
14 5 (3.25%) SQL Server
15 4 (2.60%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 21 (13.64%) Git
2 17 (11.04%) GitLab
3 9 (5.84%) Cucumber
3 9 (5.84%) MLflow
4 7 (4.55%) Bitbucket
5 6 (3.90%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.90%) JUnit
6 5 (3.25%) JIRA
7 4 (2.60%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.95%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.95%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.30%) Appium
9 2 (1.30%) JConsole
9 2 (1.30%) Katalon Studio
9 2 (1.30%) Selenium
9 2 (1.30%) VisualVM
10 1 (0.65%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.65%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.65%) TestNG
10 1 (0.65%) WebDriver
General
1 28 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 14 (9.09%) Finance
3 7 (4.55%) Banking
4 6 (3.90%) Health Technology
4 6 (3.90%) Publishing
4 6 (3.90%) Tech for Good
5 5 (3.25%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.25%) Investment Banking
5 5 (3.25%) Law
6 2 (1.30%) Front Office
6 2 (1.30%) Games
6 2 (1.30%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.65%) Advertising
7 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 55 (35.71%) Senior
2 42 (27.27%) Software Engineer
3 41 (26.62%) Developer
4 17 (11.04%) .NET Developer
5 13 (8.44%) Platform Engineer
6 12 (7.79%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 11 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
8 9 (5.84%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
8 9 (5.84%) C Software Engineer
8 9 (5.84%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (5.84%) Consultant
8 9 (5.84%) Data Consultant
8 9 (5.84%) Senior Consultant
9 8 (5.19%) Senior Developer
9 8 (5.19%) Site Engineer
9 8 (5.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 7 (4.55%) Backend Developer
10 7 (4.55%) Integration Developer
10 7 (4.55%) Lead
10 7 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (34.42%) React
2 37 (24.03%) AngularJS
2 37 (24.03%) Node.js
3 34 (22.08%) Django
4 22 (14.29%) Vue
5 21 (13.64%) RESTful
6 19 (12.34%) .NET
7 18 (11.69%) .NET Core
8 17 (11.04%) ASP.NET
8 17 (11.04%) ASP.NET Web API
8 17 (11.04%) MERN Stack
9 16 (10.39%) Entity Framework
10 15 (9.74%) .NET Framework
10 15 (9.74%) ASP.NET MVC
11 14 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
12 10 (6.49%) PyTorch
13 9 (5.84%) Faiss
13 9 (5.84%) TensorFlow
13 9 (5.84%) vLLM
14 7 (4.55%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 27 (17.53%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (10.39%) Algorithms
2 16 (10.39%) Data Structures
3 15 (9.74%) Linux Command Line
4 14 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (7.79%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.25%) Cloud Native
6 5 (3.25%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.60%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.95%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (1.30%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.30%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.30%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.65%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.65%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.65%) Smart Energy
10 1 (0.65%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 44 (28.57%) Linux
2 22 (14.29%) Unix
3 8 (5.19%) Windows
3 8 (5.19%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.30%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (43.51%) CI/CD
2 62 (40.26%) Software Engineering
3 54 (35.06%) DevOps
4 49 (31.82%) Agile
4 49 (31.82%) Microservices
5 34 (22.08%) AI
5 34 (22.08%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (20.78%) Clean Code
6 32 (20.78%) Computer Science
7 31 (20.13%) Infrastructure as Code
8 29 (18.83%) Machine Learning
9 28 (18.18%) Observability
10 27 (17.53%) Scrum
11 26 (16.88%) Data Science
12 25 (16.23%) Open Source
12 25 (16.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 25 (16.23%) TDD
13 23 (14.94%) Full-Stack Development
14 21 (13.64%) Mentoring
15 20 (12.99%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 110 (71.43%) Python
2 61 (39.61%) JavaScript
3 50 (32.47%) TypeScript
4 49 (31.82%) Java
5 43 (27.92%) SQL
6 21 (13.64%) C#
7 16 (10.39%) Bash
7 16 (10.39%) C
7 16 (10.39%) Go
8 9 (5.84%) PHP
8 9 (5.84%) Scala
9 2 (1.30%) C++
9 2 (1.30%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.30%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.65%) Perl
10 1 (0.65%) Rust
10 1 (0.65%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 48 (31.17%) Security Cleared
2 31 (20.13%) Degree
3 26 (16.88%) SC Cleared
4 21 (13.64%) DV Cleared
5 19 (12.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.30%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.74%) QA
2 3 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.65%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.65%) GDPR
3 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 66 (42.86%) Docker
2 1 (0.65%) Squid
Systems Management
1 38 (24.68%) Kubernetes
2 36 (23.38%) Terraform
3 18 (11.69%) Kibana
4 17 (11.04%) Ansible
5 14 (9.09%) logstash
6 12 (7.79%) AWS Copilot
7 11 (7.14%) Grafana
8 7 (4.55%) Prometheus
9 3 (1.95%) Rancher
10 2 (1.30%) Nagios
11 1 (0.65%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 37 (24.03%) Google
2 28 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.49%) Palantir
4 9 (5.84%) Databricks
5 5 (3.25%) Oracle
6 4 (2.60%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.60%) Splunk
7 3 (1.95%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.30%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.65%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.65%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.65%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.65%) Foundry
9 1 (0.65%) New Relic
9 1 (0.65%) OpenAI