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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 467 330
Rank change year-on-year -33 -137 +125
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 142 247 488
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.46% 0.87%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.20% 2.59% 4.24%
Number of salaries quoted 117 154 349
10th Percentile £51,250 £44,238 £36,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £81,125
90th Percentile £107,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +27.27% -8.33%

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 6,449 9,520 11,515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.88% 17.80% 20.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,106 5,323 8,972
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,750 £47,500 £45,303
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £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 12 January 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 12 January 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 -2 120 £67,500 -15.63% 149
Work from Home +10 76 £65,000 -7.14% 95
London +79 74 £73,801 -13.18% 44
UK excluding London -78 60 £67,500 -3.57% 114
North of England -5 17 £67,500 -2.61% 24
North West +20 13 £67,500 -2.61% 17
South West +11 13 £67,500 +17.39% 16
Scotland -13 10 £73,801 +6.48% 3
East of England +15 6 £51,250 +2.50% 15
South East -39 6 £65,000 -21.21% 37
West Midlands +18 3 £73,801 +6.48% 8
Midlands +6 3 £73,801 +13.54% 16
North East +2 3 £73,801 +6.48% 1
Wales -5 3 £73,801 +29.87% 4
Northern Ireland -12 2 £73,801 +6.48% 1
Yorkshire -10 1 £65,000 +23.81% 6

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 9 (6.34%) Apache
1 9 (6.34%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (6.34%) Apache Solr
2 8 (5.63%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.52%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 103 (72.54%) AWS
2 91 (64.08%) Azure
3 46 (32.39%) GCP
4 23 (16.20%) Amazon ECS
4 23 (16.20%) AWS CloudFormation
5 21 (14.79%) Amazon ECR
5 21 (14.79%) Serverless
6 20 (14.08%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (14.08%) dbt
6 20 (14.08%) Pulumi
7 17 (11.97%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 12 (8.45%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 12 (8.45%) PaaS
8 12 (8.45%) Sentry
9 8 (5.63%) Vertex AI
10 7 (4.93%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (4.93%) Amazon S3
11 6 (4.23%) Amazon SageMaker
12 5 (3.52%) Dagster
12 5 (3.52%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 20 (14.08%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.11%) Broadband
3 2 (1.41%) HTTP
4 1 (0.70%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.70%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (26.06%) MongoDB
2 31 (21.83%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (19.72%) Redis
4 20 (14.08%) Amazon RDS
4 20 (14.08%) Azure SQL Database
5 18 (12.68%) BigQuery
5 18 (12.68%) DynamoDB
6 15 (10.56%) Neo4j
7 12 (8.45%) MySQL
8 9 (6.34%) Pinecone
9 6 (4.23%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (4.23%) NoSQL
9 6 (4.23%) Weaviate
10 5 (3.52%) Apache Iceberg
10 5 (3.52%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (3.52%) Delta Lake
10 5 (3.52%) Looker
10 5 (3.52%) SQL Server
10 5 (3.52%) Tableau
11 4 (2.82%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 20 (14.08%) Git
2 15 (10.56%) GitLab
3 7 (4.93%) Bitbucket
3 7 (4.93%) JUnit
4 6 (4.23%) Cucumber
4 6 (4.23%) JIRA
5 5 (3.52%) MLflow
6 4 (2.82%) Jenkins
7 3 (2.11%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.11%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.41%) Appium
8 2 (1.41%) JConsole
8 2 (1.41%) Katalon Studio
8 2 (1.41%) Selenium
8 2 (1.41%) VisualVM
9 1 (0.70%) mountebank
9 1 (0.70%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.70%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.70%) Subversion
9 1 (0.70%) TestNG
General
1 23 (16.20%) Social Skills
2 14 (9.86%) Finance
3 12 (8.45%) Health Technology
3 12 (8.45%) Publishing
3 12 (8.45%) Tech for Good
4 5 (3.52%) Banking
5 4 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.82%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.11%) Law
7 2 (1.41%) Front Office
7 2 (1.41%) Games
8 1 (0.70%) Advertising
8 1 (0.70%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 52 (36.62%) Senior
2 48 (33.80%) Developer
3 37 (26.06%) Software Engineer
4 20 (14.08%) .NET Developer
5 15 (10.56%) Senior Developer
6 13 (9.15%) Platform Engineer
7 12 (8.45%) Python Developer
7 12 (8.45%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 12 (8.45%) Senior Python Developer
8 9 (6.34%) AWS Developer
8 9 (6.34%) C Software Engineer
9 8 (5.63%) Senior Software Engineer
9 8 (5.63%) Site Engineer
9 8 (5.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 7 (4.93%) Backend Developer
10 7 (4.93%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (4.93%) Integration Developer
10 7 (4.93%) Software Developer
11 6 (4.23%) Principal Engineer
11 6 (4.23%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (42.25%) React
2 37 (26.06%) Node.js
3 36 (25.35%) AngularJS
4 30 (21.13%) Django
5 23 (16.20%) Vue
6 22 (15.49%) .NET
6 22 (15.49%) RESTful
7 21 (14.79%) .NET Core
8 20 (14.08%) ASP.NET
8 20 (14.08%) ASP.NET Web API
9 19 (13.38%) Entity Framework
10 18 (12.68%) .NET Framework
10 18 (12.68%) ASP.NET MVC
11 13 (9.15%) MERN Stack
12 12 (8.45%) Elastic Stack
12 12 (8.45%) Swagger
13 6 (4.23%) Apache NiFi
13 6 (4.23%) Kafka
13 6 (4.23%) PyTorch
13 6 (4.23%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 22 (15.49%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (9.86%) Linux Command Line
3 12 (8.45%) Algorithms
3 12 (8.45%) Data Structures
4 10 (7.04%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (5.63%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.52%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.82%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.11%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.41%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.41%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.41%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.70%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.70%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.70%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.70%) Smart Energy
10 1 (0.70%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 42 (29.58%) Linux
2 21 (14.79%) Unix
3 8 (5.63%) Windows
3 8 (5.63%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.70%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (42.96%) CI/CD
2 57 (40.14%) Agile
3 50 (35.21%) Software Engineering
4 47 (33.10%) DevOps
5 45 (31.69%) Microservices
6 38 (26.76%) Scrum
7 34 (23.94%) TDD
8 31 (21.83%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (20.42%) Clean Code
10 28 (19.72%) AI
10 28 (19.72%) Infrastructure as Code
10 28 (19.72%) Observability
11 25 (17.61%) Full-Stack Development
11 25 (17.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 24 (16.90%) Computer Science
12 24 (16.90%) Data Science
13 23 (16.20%) Machine Learning
14 21 (14.79%) Open Source
15 20 (14.08%) BDD
15 20 (14.08%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 99 (69.72%) Python
2 60 (42.25%) JavaScript
3 56 (39.44%) TypeScript
4 41 (28.87%) SQL
5 36 (25.35%) Java
6 24 (16.90%) C#
7 12 (8.45%) C
8 9 (6.34%) Bash
8 9 (6.34%) Go
9 8 (5.63%) PHP
10 5 (3.52%) Scala
11 2 (1.41%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.70%) C++
12 1 (0.70%) Perl
12 1 (0.70%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.70%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 40 (28.17%) Security Cleared
2 24 (16.90%) SC Cleared
3 22 (15.49%) Degree
4 16 (11.27%) DV Cleared
5 14 (9.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.11%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (14.08%) QA
2 3 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.70%) GDPR
3 1 (0.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 56 (39.44%) Docker
2 1 (0.70%) Squid
Systems Management
1 30 (21.13%) Terraform
2 28 (19.72%) Kubernetes
3 17 (11.97%) Kibana
4 12 (8.45%) Ansible
4 12 (8.45%) AWS Copilot
4 12 (8.45%) logstash
5 7 (4.93%) Grafana
5 7 (4.93%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.41%) Rancher
7 1 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.70%) Nagios
Vendors
1 33 (23.24%) Google
2 31 (21.83%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.23%) Atlassian
3 6 (4.23%) Oracle
3 6 (4.23%) Palantir
4 5 (3.52%) Databricks
5 2 (1.41%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.41%) Splunk
6 1 (0.70%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.70%) Foundry
6 1 (0.70%) New Relic
6 1 (0.70%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.70%) Rapid7