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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 462 514
Rank change year-on-year -54 +52 -95
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 310 223 259
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.45% 0.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.56% 3.17% 2.25%
Number of salaries quoted 268 141 143
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £44,129
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -8.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £88,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -11.54% -

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 8,703 7,035 11,495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.37% 14.17% 15.49%
Number of salaries quoted 5,925 4,378 6,627
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £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 5 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Elasticsearch in the UK

Elasticsearch
Top 15 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 5 October 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 -32 293 £60,000 -6.25% 393
UK excluding London -39 219 £55,000 -4.35% 322
Work from Home -24 183 £55,000 -14.06% 352
South East -7 90 £55,000 -26.67% 52
London -88 78 £91,250 +42.58% 160
South West -41 43 £55,000 -12.00% 51
Midlands -20 37 £57,500 -2.54% 34
North of England -35 32 £57,500 +2.22% 69
West Midlands -11 28 £60,000 +1.69% 20
East of England -34 26 £55,000 +10.00% 29
North West -26 17 £47,500 -15.56% 45
East Midlands -32 9 £55,000 - 14
Yorkshire -37 8 £57,500 -11.54% 13
North East -56 7 £75,000 +42.86% 11
Wales - 4 £45,000 - 27

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 28 (9.03%) Apache Spark
2 27 (8.71%) Apache
3 9 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.94%) Apache Solr
5 5 (1.61%) Apache Pig
5 5 (1.61%) Confluence
6 3 (0.97%) CMS
6 3 (0.97%) DNN
6 3 (0.97%) EPiServer
6 3 (0.97%) Immediacy CMS
6 3 (0.97%) Kentico
6 3 (0.97%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.97%) Sitefinity
6 3 (0.97%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.32%) nginx
7 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 219 (70.65%) Azure
2 175 (56.45%) AWS
3 59 (19.03%) GitHub
4 47 (15.16%) GitHub Copilot
5 40 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (8.71%) Serverless
7 25 (8.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 25 (8.06%) GCP
8 23 (7.42%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 17 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (5.48%) OpenShift
10 16 (5.16%) Azure Data Factory
11 15 (4.84%) Amazon ECR
11 15 (4.84%) Amazon ECS
12 13 (4.19%) Azure Key Vault
12 13 (4.19%) Azure Monitor
12 13 (4.19%) Azure Service Bus
12 13 (4.19%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (3.87%) SaaS
14 10 (3.23%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.55%) HTTP
1 11 (3.55%) Internet
2 6 (1.94%) Hyperconnected
3 5 (1.61%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.97%) Firewall
4 3 (0.97%) MQTT
4 3 (0.97%) Network Security
5 2 (0.65%) DNS
6 1 (0.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (48.39%) Azure SQL Database
2 147 (47.42%) MongoDB
3 48 (15.48%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (9.03%) MySQL
5 21 (6.77%) Redis
6 20 (6.45%) NoSQL
7 18 (5.81%) Hadoop
8 17 (5.48%) Big Data
9 14 (4.52%) DynamoDB
10 13 (4.19%) SQL Server
11 12 (3.87%) Relational Database
12 10 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (1.61%) Apache Hive
13 5 (1.61%) Neo4j
14 4 (1.29%) Electronic Patient Records
14 4 (1.29%) Flink
15 3 (0.97%) ClickHouse
15 3 (0.97%) GIS
Development Applications
1 45 (14.52%) Git
2 29 (9.35%) GitLab
3 15 (4.84%) Jenkins
4 14 (4.52%) Cucumber
5 11 (3.55%) SonarQube
6 10 (3.23%) Gatling
6 10 (3.23%) JMeter
6 10 (3.23%) LoadRunner
7 7 (2.26%) JIRA
8 6 (1.94%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.29%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.97%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.97%) Maven
11 2 (0.65%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.65%) Gradle
11 2 (0.65%) JUnit
11 2 (0.65%) Mocha
11 2 (0.65%) Mockito
12 1 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 71 (22.90%) Finance
2 59 (19.03%) Social Skills
3 22 (7.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (6.45%) Public Sector
4 20 (6.45%) Retail
5 14 (4.52%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.87%) Banking
7 11 (3.55%) Games
8 4 (1.29%) Health Technology
8 4 (1.29%) Publishing
8 4 (1.29%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.65%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.65%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.65%) Law
10 1 (0.32%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.32%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.32%) Police
10 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 177 (57.10%) Developer
2 157 (50.65%) .NET Developer
3 60 (19.35%) Senior
4 37 (11.94%) Lead
5 31 (10.00%) Data Engineer
6 23 (7.42%) Python Engineer
7 21 (6.77%) Python Data Engineer
8 20 (6.45%) Software Engineer
9 18 (5.81%) Senior Data Engineer
10 17 (5.48%) Azure Engineer
11 15 (4.84%) Administrator
12 14 (4.52%) Elasticsearch Engineer
12 14 (4.52%) Kafka Engineer
12 14 (4.52%) Senior Developer
13 13 (4.19%) Azure Data Engineer
13 13 (4.19%) DevOps Engineer
14 12 (3.87%) Cloud Engineer
14 12 (3.87%) Lead .NET Developer
14 12 (3.87%) Lead Developer
15 11 (3.55%) Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (52.26%) .NET
2 159 (51.29%) ASP.NET
3 154 (49.68%) .NET Core
4 147 (47.42%) ASP.NET Core
4 147 (47.42%) Node.js
5 100 (32.26%) React
6 76 (24.52%) ASP.NET Web API
7 73 (23.55%) Blazor
8 69 (22.26%) Vue
9 66 (21.29%) AngularJS
10 54 (17.42%) .NET Framework
11 49 (15.81%) Terraform
12 40 (12.90%) Entity Framework
13 38 (12.26%) Kafka
14 33 (10.65%) CSS
14 33 (10.65%) HTML
15 21 (6.77%) REST
16 17 (5.48%) Next.js
16 17 (5.48%) RESTful
17 16 (5.16%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.03%) Distributed Systems
2 26 (8.39%) Greenfield Project
3 16 (5.16%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (3.23%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.90%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.94%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.61%) Tandem
9 4 (1.29%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.29%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.29%) IoT
9 4 (1.29%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 3 (0.97%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.97%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.65%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.65%) PKI
12 1 (0.32%) Blockchain
12 1 (0.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 39 (12.58%) Linux
2 12 (3.87%) CentOS
3 5 (1.61%) Unix
4 4 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.65%) Rocky
5 2 (0.65%) Windows
5 2 (0.65%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.32%) Solaris
6 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (59.03%) Agile
2 156 (50.32%) Full-Stack Development
3 150 (48.39%) Microservices
4 99 (31.94%) DevOps
5 97 (31.29%) CI/CD
6 94 (30.32%) Scrum
7 72 (23.23%) TDD
8 60 (19.35%) BDD
9 55 (17.74%) Kanban
10 44 (14.19%) Software Engineering
11 43 (13.87%) AI
12 37 (11.94%) Mentoring
13 36 (11.61%) Analytics
13 36 (11.61%) Infrastructure as Code
14 34 (10.97%) Stakeholder Management
15 33 (10.65%) Problem-Solving
16 31 (10.00%) Observability
17 29 (9.35%) Containerisation
18 26 (8.39%) Data Pipeline
19 25 (8.06%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 179 (57.74%) SQL
2 163 (52.58%) C#
3 98 (31.61%) JavaScript
4 95 (30.65%) TypeScript
5 94 (30.32%) Python
6 27 (8.71%) Java
7 23 (7.42%) Bash
8 22 (7.10%) Go
9 13 (4.19%) Scala
10 10 (3.23%) Rust
11 7 (2.26%) C++
12 4 (1.29%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.65%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.65%) PHP
13 2 (0.65%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.65%) Ruby
14 1 (0.32%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 56 (18.06%) Security Cleared
2 35 (11.29%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.10%) DV Cleared
4 17 (5.48%) Degree
5 16 (5.16%) Azure Certification
6 11 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.61%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.61%) PhD
8 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.32%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (10.00%) QA
2 10 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.65%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 96 (30.97%) Docker
2 2 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 87 (28.06%) Kubernetes
2 44 (14.19%) Ansible
3 42 (13.55%) Grafana
4 22 (7.10%) Kibana
5 16 (5.16%) logstash
6 11 (3.55%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.90%) Nagios
8 3 (0.97%) Argo
8 3 (0.97%) Packer
8 3 (0.97%) Podman
8 3 (0.97%) Puppet
8 3 (0.97%) Rancher
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 144 (46.45%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.81%) Google
3 12 (3.87%) Red Hat
3 12 (3.87%) Splunk
4 10 (3.23%) AppDynamics
4 10 (3.23%) Dynatrace
5 9 (2.90%) Rapid7
6 5 (1.61%) Oracle
7 4 (1.29%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.29%) SAP
8 3 (0.97%) Alterian
8 3 (0.97%) Databricks
8 3 (0.97%) NVIDIA
8 3 (0.97%) Optimizely
8 3 (0.97%) Sitecore
8 3 (0.97%) Tenable
9 2 (0.65%) CheckPoint
9 2 (0.65%) New Relic
9 2 (0.65%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.65%) Sony