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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 456 449 423
Rank change year-on-year -7 -26 +20
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 315 248 605
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.54% 0.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.75% 3.35% 3.47%
Number of salaries quoted 259 160 383
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,750 £56,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,626 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.28% +12.71% -11.11%
75th Percentile £84,375 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £104,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £68,505 £55,000
% change year-on-year -19.71% +24.55% -13.25%

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 8,401 7,414 17,415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.75% 16.03% 16.47%
Number of salaries quoted 5,571 4,801 12,414
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.73%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £100,000
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 29 June 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 29 June 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 -5 298 £60,000 -13.52% 87
UK excluding London -38 195 £55,000 -19.71% 56
Work from Home +22 183 £55,000 -20.73% 50
London +10 107 £85,000 +25.93% 40
South East -25 68 £56,250 -31.82% 24
South West -45 34 £52,500 -14.29% 10
North of England -48 33 £70,901 +18.17% 13
East of England -12 32 £55,000 +10.00% 4
Midlands -17 24 £55,000 -18.67% 5
North West +5 20 £55,000 -7.17% 9
West Midlands -9 14 £55,000 -13.13% 3
East Midlands -10 10 £55,000 -24.14% 2
Yorkshire -25 8 £57,500 -14.81% 1
North East -48 5 £75,000 +8.09% 3
Wales -37 4 £45,000 -33.46%
Northern Ireland -36 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 55 (17.46%) Apache Spark
2 42 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (8.89%) Apache
4 8 (2.54%) Apache Solr
5 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.95%) CMS
6 3 (0.95%) Confluence
6 3 (0.95%) DNN
6 3 (0.95%) EPiServer
6 3 (0.95%) Immediacy CMS
6 3 (0.95%) Kentico
6 3 (0.95%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.95%) Sitefinity
6 3 (0.95%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.32%) Apache Pig
7 1 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 229 (72.70%) Azure
2 206 (65.40%) AWS
3 80 (25.40%) GCP
4 43 (13.65%) GitHub
4 43 (13.65%) GitHub Copilot
5 32 (10.16%) Snowflake
6 31 (9.84%) dbt
7 30 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (7.30%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 23 (7.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 23 (7.30%) Power Platform
9 21 (6.67%) Serverless
10 15 (4.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 14 (4.44%) Amazon ECR
11 14 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
11 14 (4.44%) SaaS
12 13 (4.13%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (3.81%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (2.86%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.86%) Internet
2 8 (2.54%) Hyperconnected
3 6 (1.90%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.27%) HTTP
5 3 (0.95%) MQTT
5 3 (0.95%) Network Security
6 1 (0.32%) BGP
6 1 (0.32%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (44.76%) MongoDB
2 135 (42.86%) Azure SQL Database
3 50 (15.87%) BigQuery
4 32 (10.16%) Amazon Redshift
4 32 (10.16%) Looker
5 29 (9.21%) Data Warehouse
5 29 (9.21%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (9.21%) Tableau
6 25 (7.94%) MySQL
7 24 (7.62%) Data Lake
8 23 (7.30%) Power BI
8 23 (7.30%) Snowflake Schema
9 20 (6.35%) Redis
10 19 (6.03%) NoSQL
11 14 (4.44%) Big Data
12 12 (3.81%) DynamoDB
12 12 (3.81%) Hadoop
13 11 (3.49%) Neo4j
14 8 (2.54%) Relational Database
15 7 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 29 (9.21%) GitLab
1 29 (9.21%) MLflow
2 27 (8.57%) Git
3 15 (4.76%) Cucumber
4 13 (4.13%) Jenkins
4 13 (4.13%) SonarQube
5 7 (2.22%) JIRA
6 5 (1.59%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.27%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.27%) Gatling
7 4 (1.27%) JMeter
7 4 (1.27%) LoadRunner
7 4 (1.27%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.63%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.63%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.32%) Maven
General
1 53 (16.83%) Finance
2 43 (13.65%) Social Skills
3 37 (11.75%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (5.40%) Retail
5 15 (4.76%) Banking
6 12 (3.81%) Games
6 12 (3.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.22%) Public Sector
8 6 (1.90%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.59%) Health Technology
9 5 (1.59%) Law
10 4 (1.27%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (1.27%) Publishing
10 4 (1.27%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.32%) Front Office
11 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 153 (48.57%) Developer
2 136 (43.17%) .NET Developer
3 79 (25.08%) Senior
4 30 (9.52%) Software Engineer
5 26 (8.25%) Lead
6 23 (7.30%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 23 (7.30%) Systems Engineer
7 19 (6.03%) Data Engineer
8 13 (4.13%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (4.13%) Python Engineer
9 12 (3.81%) Platform Engineer
9 12 (3.81%) Senior Developer
10 11 (3.49%) Architect
11 10 (3.17%) Lead Data Engineer
12 9 (2.86%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (2.86%) Consultant
12 9 (2.86%) Engineering Manager
12 9 (2.86%) Principal Engineer
12 9 (2.86%) Python Data Engineer
12 9 (2.86%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (46.35%) Node.js
2 143 (45.40%) .NET
3 140 (44.44%) ASP.NET
4 135 (42.86%) ASP.NET Core
5 134 (42.54%) .NET Core
6 91 (28.89%) React
7 67 (21.27%) ASP.NET Web API
7 67 (21.27%) Vue
8 64 (20.32%) AngularJS
9 58 (18.41%) Blazor
10 49 (15.56%) Kafka
11 47 (14.92%) .NET Framework
12 41 (13.02%) Entity Framework
13 30 (9.52%) CSS
13 30 (9.52%) HTML
14 29 (9.21%) PyTorch
14 29 (9.21%) TensorFlow
15 27 (8.57%) Django
16 24 (7.62%) RESTful
17 23 (7.30%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 41 (13.02%) Greenfield Project
2 30 (9.52%) Cloud Native
3 27 (8.57%) Public Cloud
4 26 (8.25%) Distributed Systems
5 23 (7.30%) Clustering
6 21 (6.67%) Algorithms
6 21 (6.67%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (2.54%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.59%) Tandem
10 4 (1.27%) Blockchain
10 4 (1.27%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.27%) Web3
11 3 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.95%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.95%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 2 (0.63%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (0.63%) IoT
12 2 (0.63%) Legacy Code
12 2 (0.63%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 35 (11.11%) Linux
2 13 (4.13%) CentOS
3 9 (2.86%) Unix
4 6 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.27%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.27%) Windows
5 4 (1.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (53.02%) Agile
2 148 (46.98%) Microservices
3 143 (45.40%) Full-Stack Development
4 89 (28.25%) CI/CD
5 84 (26.67%) DevOps
6 78 (24.76%) Scrum
7 72 (22.86%) AI
8 65 (20.63%) Software Engineering
8 65 (20.63%) TDD
9 55 (17.46%) Data Science
10 54 (17.14%) Analytics
11 53 (16.83%) BDD
11 53 (16.83%) Data Engineering
12 50 (15.87%) Machine Learning
13 49 (15.56%) Kanban
14 46 (14.60%) Data Pipeline
15 42 (13.33%) Data Modelling
15 42 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
16 41 (13.02%) Use Case
17 40 (12.70%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 181 (57.46%) SQL
2 143 (45.40%) C#
3 134 (42.54%) Python
4 94 (29.84%) JavaScript
5 87 (27.62%) TypeScript
6 42 (13.33%) Java
7 25 (7.94%) Bash
8 19 (6.03%) Scala
9 17 (5.40%) Go
10 11 (3.49%) Rust
11 8 (2.54%) C++
12 4 (1.27%) C
13 3 (0.95%) PHP
14 2 (0.63%) Ruby
14 2 (0.63%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.63%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.32%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 39 (12.38%) Degree
2 38 (12.06%) Security Cleared
3 27 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (4.76%) SC Cleared
5 12 (3.81%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.27%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.32%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.32%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.32%) PhD
7 1 (0.32%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 23 (7.30%) GDPR
2 16 (5.08%) QA
3 12 (3.81%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.63%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 93 (29.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 92 (29.21%) Kubernetes
2 50 (15.87%) Terraform
3 38 (12.06%) Ansible
4 31 (9.84%) Grafana
5 15 (4.76%) Kibana
6 10 (3.17%) logstash
7 9 (2.86%) Nagios
8 8 (2.54%) Prometheus
9 5 (1.59%) Argo
9 5 (1.59%) AWS Copilot
10 3 (0.95%) Packer
10 3 (0.95%) Podman
10 3 (0.95%) Puppet
10 3 (0.95%) Rancher
11 1 (0.32%) Cilium
11 1 (0.32%) Graylog
11 1 (0.32%) Istio
Vendors
1 133 (42.22%) Microsoft
2 40 (12.70%) Google
3 29 (9.21%) Databricks
4 23 (7.30%) Cloudera
4 23 (7.30%) Dell
5 13 (4.13%) Splunk
6 9 (2.86%) Rapid7
6 9 (2.86%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.22%) Palantir
8 4 (1.27%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.27%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.95%) Alterian
9 3 (0.95%) Confluent
9 3 (0.95%) NVIDIA
9 3 (0.95%) Optimizely
9 3 (0.95%) Sitecore
9 3 (0.95%) Tenable
10 2 (0.63%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.63%) Rollbar
10 2 (0.63%) SAP