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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 524 465 352
Rank change year-on-year -59 -113 +122
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 158 201 657
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.46% 0.79%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.30% 2.43% 4.13%
Number of salaries quoted 116 148 460
10th Percentile £49,750 £47,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £63,348 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% +20.83% -14.29%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £109,375 £90,000 £97,500
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 6,855 8,261 15,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.50% 18.74% 19.05%
Number of salaries quoted 4,134 5,200 12,242
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,779 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +9.18% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -46 129 £73,801 -7.75% 104
UK excluding London -79 78 £67,500 -3.57% 68
London +36 67 £80,000 -1.54% 42
Work from Home -26 55 £73,801 +5.43% 75
North of England -35 21 £73,801 +6.48% 12
South West -8 20 £67,500 -6.90% 10
North West -18 16 £67,500 -0.19% 8
Scotland -15 10 £73,801 +6.48% 3
South East -58 10 £60,000 -27.27% 25
East of England -6 7 £47,500 -5.00% 10
Wales -12 4 £73,801 +31.82% 4
North East -19 4 £73,801 +6.37% 1
West Midlands +1 3 £73,801 +7.79% 4
Midlands -27 3 £73,801 +13.54% 7
Northern Ireland -29 3 £73,801 +6.48% 1
Yorkshire -39 1 £65,000 -18.75% 3

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 22 (13.92%) Apache Spark
2 21 (13.29%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (5.70%) Apache
4 7 (4.43%) Apache Solr
5 4 (2.53%) Confluence
6 1 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 123 (77.85%) AWS
2 111 (70.25%) Azure
3 79 (50.00%) GCP
4 36 (22.78%) dbt
5 29 (18.35%) Amazon ECS
5 29 (18.35%) AWS CloudFormation
6 28 (17.72%) Amazon ECR
7 25 (15.82%) Pulumi
8 21 (13.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 20 (12.66%) Snowflake
10 17 (10.76%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 17 (10.76%) PaaS
10 17 (10.76%) Sentry
11 11 (6.96%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (6.33%) Amazon SageMaker
13 9 (5.70%) Azure Machine Learning
13 9 (5.70%) Dagster
13 9 (5.70%) Vertex AI
14 8 (5.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 8 (5.06%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 25 (15.82%) TCP/IP
2 6 (3.80%) HTTP
3 1 (0.63%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.63%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (25.95%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (25.32%) Redis
3 35 (22.15%) BigQuery
4 30 (18.99%) MongoDB
5 25 (15.82%) Amazon RDS
6 20 (12.66%) Looker
6 20 (12.66%) Neo4j
7 18 (11.39%) Amazon Redshift
8 17 (10.76%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (10.76%) Tableau
9 15 (9.49%) MySQL
10 11 (6.96%) NoSQL
11 10 (6.33%) Pinecone
11 10 (6.33%) Weaviate
12 9 (5.70%) Apache Iceberg
12 9 (5.70%) Delta Lake
13 8 (5.06%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (5.06%) Data Lake
13 8 (5.06%) Power BI
13 8 (5.06%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (12.66%) Git
2 17 (10.76%) GitLab
2 17 (10.76%) MLflow
3 9 (5.70%) Cucumber
4 7 (4.43%) Bitbucket
5 6 (3.80%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.80%) JIRA
6 5 (3.16%) JUnit
7 4 (2.53%) Cypress.io
7 4 (2.53%) Gatling
7 4 (2.53%) JMeter
7 4 (2.53%) LoadRunner
8 3 (1.90%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.90%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.27%) Appium
9 2 (1.27%) JConsole
9 2 (1.27%) Katalon Studio
9 2 (1.27%) Selenium
9 2 (1.27%) VisualVM
10 1 (0.63%) TestNG
General
1 30 (18.99%) Social Skills
2 14 (8.86%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (6.96%) Finance
4 10 (6.33%) Banking
5 9 (5.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (4.43%) Investment Banking
7 6 (3.80%) Law
8 5 (3.16%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.90%) Front Office
10 1 (0.63%) Advertising
10 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Games
10 1 (0.63%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 66 (41.77%) Senior
2 42 (26.58%) Software Engineer
3 24 (15.19%) Developer
4 20 (12.66%) Platform Engineer
5 17 (10.76%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 12 (7.59%) Senior Software Engineer
7 9 (5.70%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
7 9 (5.70%) C Software Engineer
7 9 (5.70%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (5.70%) Consultant
7 9 (5.70%) Data Consultant
7 9 (5.70%) Principal Engineer
7 9 (5.70%) Senior Consultant
8 8 (5.06%) .NET Developer
8 8 (5.06%) Architect
8 8 (5.06%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 8 (5.06%) Site Engineer
8 8 (5.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 8 (5.06%) Systems Engineer
8 8 (5.06%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (27.22%) Django
2 36 (22.78%) React
3 29 (18.35%) AngularJS
4 25 (15.82%) Node.js
5 18 (11.39%) Kafka
6 17 (10.76%) MERN Stack
6 17 (10.76%) PyTorch
6 17 (10.76%) RESTful
6 17 (10.76%) TensorFlow
7 13 (8.23%) Elastic Stack
7 13 (8.23%) Vue
8 11 (6.96%) .NET
9 9 (5.70%) .NET Core
9 9 (5.70%) ASP.NET
9 9 (5.70%) Faiss
9 9 (5.70%) vLLM
10 8 (5.06%) LangChain
10 8 (5.06%) LlamaIndex
10 8 (5.06%) pgvector
10 8 (5.06%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 35 (22.15%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (12.66%) Algorithms
2 20 (12.66%) Data Structures
2 20 (12.66%) Linux Command Line
3 18 (11.39%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (8.23%) Cloud Native
4 13 (8.23%) Product Ownership
4 13 (8.23%) Public Cloud
5 8 (5.06%) Clustering
6 3 (1.90%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (1.27%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.63%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.63%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.63%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.63%) NHS
8 1 (0.63%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.63%) PMI
8 1 (0.63%) Replication
8 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 47 (29.75%) Linux
2 28 (17.72%) Unix
3 4 (2.53%) Windows
3 4 (2.53%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.90%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (43.67%) CI/CD
2 64 (40.51%) Software Engineering
3 58 (36.71%) DevOps
4 46 (29.11%) Agile
5 45 (28.48%) Microservices
6 40 (25.32%) AI
7 39 (24.68%) Machine Learning
8 37 (23.42%) Data Science
9 36 (22.78%) Computer Science
9 36 (22.78%) Observability
10 35 (22.15%) Clean Code
11 34 (21.52%) Infrastructure as Code
12 30 (18.99%) Open Source
12 30 (18.99%) Problem-Solving
13 26 (16.46%) Analytics
14 25 (15.82%) Data Engineering
15 23 (14.56%) Containerisation
15 23 (14.56%) Mentoring
16 22 (13.92%) Data Pipeline
16 22 (13.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 117 (74.05%) Python
2 54 (34.18%) Java
3 48 (30.38%) JavaScript
4 40 (25.32%) SQL
5 36 (22.78%) TypeScript
6 16 (10.13%) Bash
6 16 (10.13%) C
7 15 (9.49%) Go
8 13 (8.23%) C#
9 11 (6.96%) Scala
10 6 (3.80%) PHP
11 3 (1.90%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.27%) C++
13 1 (0.63%) Perl
13 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.63%) Rust
13 1 (0.63%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (32.28%) Security Cleared
2 35 (22.15%) Degree
3 29 (18.35%) SC Cleared
4 23 (14.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (12.66%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.63%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.70%) GDPR
2 8 (5.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 8 (5.06%) QA
3 4 (2.53%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.27%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 75 (47.47%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) Squid
Systems Management
1 45 (28.48%) Kubernetes
2 43 (27.22%) Terraform
3 21 (13.29%) Kibana
4 17 (10.76%) AWS Copilot
4 17 (10.76%) Grafana
5 15 (9.49%) Ansible
6 14 (8.86%) logstash
7 9 (5.70%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.90%) Nagios
8 3 (1.90%) Rancher
9 1 (0.63%) Argo
9 1 (0.63%) Graylog
Vendors
1 46 (29.11%) Google
2 17 (10.76%) Databricks
3 14 (8.86%) Microsoft
4 10 (6.33%) Palantir
5 8 (5.06%) Cloudera
5 8 (5.06%) Dell
6 6 (3.80%) Splunk
7 4 (2.53%) AppDynamics
7 4 (2.53%) Dynatrace
7 4 (2.53%) Oracle
8 3 (1.90%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.90%) Confluent
8 3 (1.90%) Rapid7
8 3 (1.90%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.63%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.63%) Foundry
9 1 (0.63%) New Relic
9 1 (0.63%) Rollbar