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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 467 453 490
Rank change year-on-year -14 +37 -67
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 332 237 358
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.48% 0.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.69% 3.13% 2.73%
Number of salaries quoted 277 156 156
10th Percentile £43,750 £49,375 £47,500
25th Percentile £49,750 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.19% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £90,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -7.69%

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 9,003 7,575 13,119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.48% 15.22% 15.71%
Number of salaries quoted 6,014 4,838 8,600
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.99%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £84,313
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £112,500
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 August 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 August 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 -9 319 £60,000 -6.98% 170
UK excluding London -12 219 £55,000 -15.38% 91
Work from Home -8 197 £55,000 -14.73% 113
London -19 105 £85,000 +32.81% 88
South East -12 84 £57,500 -30.30% 17
South West -45 36 £52,500 -16.00% 23
North of England -28 35 £74,301 +27.01% 28
Midlands -23 32 £55,000 -6.78% 8
East of England -26 32 £55,000 +10.00% 4
West Midlands -19 21 £60,000 +1.69% 6
North West -9 19 £47,500 -17.39% 19
East Midlands -14 11 £55,000 - 2
Yorkshire -26 9 £57,500 -11.54% 8
North East -53 7 £75,000 +8.09% 1
Wales -54 5 £45,000 -33.46% 2
Northern Ireland -75 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 56 (16.87%) Apache Spark
2 36 (10.84%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (8.43%) Apache
4 8 (2.41%) Apache Solr
5 5 (1.51%) Apache Pig
6 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.90%) CMS
7 3 (0.90%) Confluence
7 3 (0.90%) DNN
7 3 (0.90%) EPiServer
7 3 (0.90%) Immediacy CMS
7 3 (0.90%) Kentico
7 3 (0.90%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.90%) Sitefinity
7 3 (0.90%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.30%) nginx
8 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 238 (71.69%) Azure
2 211 (63.55%) AWS
3 65 (19.58%) GCP
4 51 (15.36%) GitHub
5 49 (14.76%) GitHub Copilot
6 38 (11.45%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (9.64%) dbt
8 27 (8.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 27 (8.13%) Serverless
9 25 (7.53%) Snowflake
10 23 (6.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 23 (6.93%) Power Platform
11 22 (6.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 18 (5.42%) Amazon ECR
12 18 (5.42%) Amazon ECS
13 15 (4.52%) AWS Lambda
14 14 (4.22%) Cloud Computing
14 14 (4.22%) SaaS
15 13 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
16 12 (3.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.61%) Internet
2 7 (2.11%) HTTP
2 7 (2.11%) Hyperconnected
2 7 (2.11%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.90%) MQTT
3 3 (0.90%) Network Security
4 1 (0.30%) BGP
4 1 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (46.08%) MongoDB
2 151 (45.48%) Azure SQL Database
3 37 (11.14%) PostgreSQL
4 36 (10.84%) BigQuery
5 28 (8.43%) Amazon Redshift
6 26 (7.83%) MySQL
7 25 (7.53%) Looker
8 24 (7.23%) Data Lake
9 23 (6.93%) Data Warehouse
9 23 (6.93%) Power BI
9 23 (6.93%) Snowflake Schema
9 23 (6.93%) Tableau
10 22 (6.63%) NoSQL
11 20 (6.02%) Redis
12 17 (5.12%) Hadoop
13 16 (4.82%) Big Data
14 13 (3.92%) DynamoDB
15 11 (3.31%) SQL Server
16 10 (3.01%) Relational Database
17 9 (2.71%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 35 (10.54%) Git
2 30 (9.04%) GitLab
3 23 (6.93%) MLflow
4 13 (3.92%) Cucumber
4 13 (3.92%) Jenkins
5 12 (3.61%) SonarQube
6 7 (2.11%) JIRA
7 6 (1.81%) Gatling
7 6 (1.81%) JMeter
7 6 (1.81%) LoadRunner
8 4 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (1.20%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.20%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.90%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.60%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.60%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.30%) Maven
General
1 65 (19.58%) Finance
2 48 (14.46%) Social Skills
3 38 (11.45%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (6.02%) Retail
5 19 (5.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (4.52%) Banking
7 13 (3.92%) Games
8 9 (2.71%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.51%) Health Technology
10 4 (1.20%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.20%) Law
10 4 (1.20%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (1.20%) Publishing
10 4 (1.20%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.30%) Front Office
11 1 (0.30%) Police
11 1 (0.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 173 (52.11%) Developer
2 158 (47.59%) .NET Developer
3 79 (23.80%) Senior
4 33 (9.94%) Lead
5 26 (7.83%) Data Engineer
6 23 (6.93%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 23 (6.93%) Systems Engineer
7 22 (6.63%) Software Engineer
8 19 (5.72%) Python Engineer
9 16 (4.82%) DevOps Engineer
10 14 (4.22%) Python Data Engineer
10 14 (4.22%) Senior Developer
11 12 (3.61%) Lead Data Engineer
11 12 (3.61%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (3.31%) DevOps Administrator
12 11 (3.31%) DevOps Systems Engineer
12 11 (3.31%) Linux DevOps Engineer
12 11 (3.31%) Linux Systems Engineer
12 11 (3.31%) Linux/Unix DevOps
12 11 (3.31%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (49.70%) .NET
2 162 (48.80%) ASP.NET
3 157 (47.29%) Node.js
4 155 (46.69%) .NET Core
5 151 (45.48%) ASP.NET Core
6 98 (29.52%) React
7 76 (22.89%) ASP.NET Web API
8 72 (21.69%) Vue
9 71 (21.39%) Blazor
10 68 (20.48%) AngularJS
11 59 (17.77%) Kafka
12 56 (16.87%) .NET Framework
13 44 (13.25%) Entity Framework
14 32 (9.64%) CSS
14 32 (9.64%) HTML
15 23 (6.93%) LangChain
15 23 (6.93%) LlamaIndex
15 23 (6.93%) pgvector
15 23 (6.93%) scikit-learn
15 23 (6.93%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 36 (10.84%) Greenfield Project
2 30 (9.04%) Cloud Native
3 28 (8.43%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (7.53%) Public Cloud
5 23 (6.93%) Clustering
6 13 (3.92%) Algorithms
6 13 (3.92%) Data Structures
7 10 (3.01%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.41%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.51%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.51%) Tandem
11 4 (1.20%) Blockchain
11 4 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.20%) IoT
11 4 (1.20%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.20%) Web3
12 3 (0.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 2 (0.60%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 38 (11.45%) Linux
2 15 (4.52%) CentOS
3 8 (2.41%) Unix
4 7 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.20%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.20%) Windows
5 4 (1.20%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.30%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (54.52%) Agile
2 160 (48.19%) Microservices
3 158 (47.59%) Full-Stack Development
4 97 (29.22%) DevOps
5 93 (28.01%) CI/CD
6 92 (27.71%) Scrum
7 75 (22.59%) TDD
8 67 (20.18%) AI
9 60 (18.07%) BDD
10 57 (17.17%) Analytics
11 56 (16.87%) Kanban
12 53 (15.96%) Software Engineering
13 50 (15.06%) Data Engineering
14 46 (13.86%) Data Pipeline
15 44 (13.25%) Machine Learning
16 43 (12.95%) Data Modelling
17 42 (12.65%) Performance Tuning
18 41 (12.35%) Data Science
19 38 (11.45%) Business Intelligence
19 38 (11.45%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 194 (58.43%) SQL
2 165 (49.70%) C#
3 120 (36.14%) Python
4 98 (29.52%) JavaScript
5 95 (28.61%) TypeScript
6 27 (8.13%) Java
7 21 (6.33%) Bash
8 14 (4.22%) Go
8 14 (4.22%) Scala
9 11 (3.31%) Rust
10 8 (2.41%) C++
11 2 (0.60%) PHP
11 2 (0.60%) Ruby
11 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (11.75%) Security Cleared
2 27 (8.13%) Degree
3 22 (6.63%) SC Cleared
4 18 (5.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.61%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.81%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.51%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.51%) PhD
8 4 (1.20%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.83%) QA
2 23 (6.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 23 (6.93%) GDPR
3 13 (3.92%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.90%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 98 (29.52%) Docker
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 91 (27.41%) Kubernetes
2 51 (15.36%) Terraform
3 40 (12.05%) Ansible
4 35 (10.54%) Grafana
5 17 (5.12%) Kibana
6 12 (3.61%) logstash
7 11 (3.31%) Nagios
8 9 (2.71%) Prometheus
9 5 (1.51%) Argo
9 5 (1.51%) AWS Copilot
10 3 (0.90%) Packer
10 3 (0.90%) Podman
10 3 (0.90%) Puppet
11 2 (0.60%) Rancher
12 1 (0.30%) Cilium
12 1 (0.30%) Graylog
12 1 (0.30%) Istio
12 1 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 148 (44.58%) Microsoft
2 34 (10.24%) Google
3 23 (6.93%) Cloudera
3 23 (6.93%) Databricks
3 23 (6.93%) Dell
4 13 (3.92%) Splunk
5 12 (3.61%) Red Hat
6 11 (3.31%) Rapid7
7 6 (1.81%) AppDynamics
7 6 (1.81%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.20%) SAP
9 3 (0.90%) Alterian
9 3 (0.90%) NVIDIA
9 3 (0.90%) Optimizely
9 3 (0.90%) Sitecore
9 3 (0.90%) Tenable
10 2 (0.60%) Confluent
10 2 (0.60%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.60%) Rollbar
10 2 (0.60%) ServiceNow