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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 439 384
Rank change year-on-year -75 -55 +58
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 217 239 695
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.55% 0.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.75% 3.30% 3.96%
Number of salaries quoted 166 149 442
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 £69,384 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +20.67% -17.86%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £95,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £69,384 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.73% +26.15% -12.00%

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 7,896 7,252 17,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.52% 16.56% 17.03%
Number of salaries quoted 4,994 4,690 12,511
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,000 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,738 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £97,500
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 5 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 5 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 -57 198 £67,500 -2.71% 108
UK excluding London -102 111 £55,000 -20.73% 68
Work from Home -44 104 £55,000 -20.73% 139
London -12 89 £85,000 +24.19% 44
South East -72 30 £57,500 -30.30% 27
South West -35 25 £57,500 -4.17% 10
East of England -27 22 £48,750 -2.50% 7
North of England -54 21 £74,301 +14.31% 16
North West -5 15 £67,500 +12.50% 12
Midlands -31 10 £55,000 -18.67% 5
East Midlands -23 5 £55,000 -24.14% 2
West Midlands -34 5 £55,000 -13.13% 3
Yorkshire -41 5 £75,000 +11.11% 1
Wales -39 2 £59,401 -12.16% 2
Northern Ireland -41 1 £73,801 +34.18%
North East -50 1 - - 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 51 (23.50%) Apache Spark
2 44 (20.28%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (8.76%) Apache
4 9 (4.15%) Apache Solr
5 4 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.38%) Confluence
7 1 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 155 (71.43%) AWS
2 146 (67.28%) Azure
3 84 (38.71%) GCP
4 35 (16.13%) Snowflake
5 31 (14.29%) dbt
6 23 (10.60%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 23 (10.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 23 (10.60%) Power Platform
7 16 (7.37%) GitHub
7 16 (7.37%) GitHub Copilot
8 15 (6.91%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (6.91%) Serverless
9 14 (6.45%) SaaS
10 13 (5.99%) Amazon ECR
10 13 (5.99%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (5.53%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (4.15%) Amazon SageMaker
12 9 (4.15%) Azure Machine Learning
12 9 (4.15%) Dagster
12 9 (4.15%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.76%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.84%) HTTP
3 3 (1.38%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (1.38%) Internet
3 3 (1.38%) MQTT
3 3 (1.38%) Network Security
4 1 (0.46%) BGP
4 1 (0.46%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (29.95%) MongoDB
2 53 (24.42%) Azure SQL Database
2 53 (24.42%) BigQuery
3 35 (16.13%) Looker
4 32 (14.75%) Amazon Redshift
4 32 (14.75%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (14.75%) Tableau
5 27 (12.44%) PostgreSQL
6 26 (11.98%) MySQL
7 23 (10.60%) Data Lake
7 23 (10.60%) Power BI
7 23 (10.60%) Snowflake Schema
8 21 (9.68%) Redis
9 19 (8.76%) NoSQL
10 13 (5.99%) Neo4j
11 9 (4.15%) Apache Iceberg
11 9 (4.15%) Delta Lake
11 9 (4.15%) Pinecone
11 9 (4.15%) Weaviate
12 8 (3.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (14.75%) MLflow
2 25 (11.52%) GitLab
3 22 (10.14%) Git
4 10 (4.61%) Cucumber
4 10 (4.61%) Jenkins
4 10 (4.61%) SonarQube
5 6 (2.76%) JIRA
6 4 (1.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (1.84%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.84%) Gatling
6 4 (1.84%) JMeter
6 4 (1.84%) LoadRunner
7 3 (1.38%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.92%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.92%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.46%) Maven
9 1 (0.46%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.46%) Robot Framework
General
1 35 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
2 34 (15.67%) Social Skills
3 26 (11.98%) Finance
4 14 (6.45%) Banking
5 9 (4.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.23%) Games
7 6 (2.76%) Investment Banking
7 6 (2.76%) Law
7 6 (2.76%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.30%) Health Technology
8 5 (2.30%) Retail
9 4 (1.84%) Mandarin Language
9 4 (1.84%) Publishing
9 4 (1.84%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.46%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 72 (33.18%) Senior
2 68 (31.34%) Developer
3 53 (24.42%) .NET Developer
4 31 (14.29%) Software Engineer
5 23 (10.60%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 23 (10.60%) Systems Engineer
6 18 (8.29%) Lead
7 14 (6.45%) Data Engineer
8 13 (5.99%) Platform Engineer
9 12 (5.53%) DevOps Engineer
10 11 (5.07%) Python Engineer
11 10 (4.61%) Architect
11 10 (4.61%) Consultant
11 10 (4.61%) Lead Data Engineer
11 10 (4.61%) Senior Consultant
12 9 (4.15%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
12 9 (4.15%) Data Consultant
12 9 (4.15%) Principal Engineer
12 9 (4.15%) Senior Software Engineer
13 8 (3.69%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (31.80%) Node.js
2 58 (26.73%) .NET
3 55 (25.35%) ASP.NET
4 53 (24.42%) .NET Core
4 53 (24.42%) ASP.NET Core
5 48 (22.12%) React
6 45 (20.74%) Kafka
7 32 (14.75%) PyTorch
7 32 (14.75%) TensorFlow
8 30 (13.82%) AngularJS
8 30 (13.82%) Vue
9 26 (11.98%) Django
10 24 (11.06%) ASP.NET Web API
11 23 (10.60%) LangChain
11 23 (10.60%) LlamaIndex
11 23 (10.60%) pgvector
11 23 (10.60%) scikit-learn
12 21 (9.68%) Blazor
13 20 (9.22%) Entity Framework
14 19 (8.76%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.82%) Cloud Native
2 28 (12.90%) Public Cloud
3 26 (11.98%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (11.98%) Greenfield Project
4 23 (10.60%) Clustering
5 21 (9.68%) Algorithms
5 21 (9.68%) Data Structures
6 10 (4.61%) Product Ownership
7 9 (4.15%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.84%) Blockchain
8 4 (1.84%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.84%) Web3
9 3 (1.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (0.92%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.92%) Security Operations Centre
11 1 (0.46%) e-Learning
11 1 (0.46%) PMI
11 1 (0.46%) Replication
11 1 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.46%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 31 (14.29%) Linux
2 12 (5.53%) CentOS
3 8 (3.69%) Unix
4 5 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.84%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.84%) Windows
5 4 (1.84%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (39.63%) Agile
2 72 (33.18%) AI
2 72 (33.18%) CI/CD
2 72 (33.18%) Microservices
3 64 (29.49%) DevOps
4 61 (28.11%) Full-Stack Development
4 61 (28.11%) Software Engineering
5 59 (27.19%) Data Science
6 53 (24.42%) Machine Learning
7 48 (22.12%) Data Engineering
8 47 (21.66%) Analytics
9 46 (21.20%) Data Pipeline
10 41 (18.89%) Computer Science
11 37 (17.05%) Performance Tuning
11 37 (17.05%) Use Case
12 35 (16.13%) Business Intelligence
12 35 (16.13%) Data Modelling
12 35 (16.13%) Generative AI
13 32 (14.75%) Observability
13 32 (14.75%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 129 (59.45%) Python
2 99 (45.62%) SQL
3 58 (26.73%) C#
4 52 (23.96%) JavaScript
5 46 (21.20%) TypeScript
6 45 (20.74%) Java
7 24 (11.06%) Bash
8 18 (8.29%) Go
9 17 (7.83%) Scala
10 9 (4.15%) Rust
11 8 (3.69%) C
12 6 (2.76%) C++
13 4 (1.84%) PHP
14 2 (0.92%) Ruby
14 2 (0.92%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.92%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.46%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 42 (19.35%) Degree
2 33 (15.21%) Security Cleared
3 26 (11.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (6.45%) SC Cleared
5 13 (5.99%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.84%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.46%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 23 (10.60%) GDPR
2 12 (5.53%) QA
3 11 (5.07%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.92%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 66 (30.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 62 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 43 (19.82%) Terraform
3 31 (14.29%) Ansible
4 27 (12.44%) Grafana
5 12 (5.53%) Kibana
6 8 (3.69%) Nagios
6 8 (3.69%) Prometheus
7 7 (3.23%) logstash
8 5 (2.30%) Argo
8 5 (2.30%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (1.38%) Packer
9 3 (1.38%) Podman
9 3 (1.38%) Puppet
9 3 (1.38%) Rancher
10 1 (0.46%) Cilium
10 1 (0.46%) Graylog
10 1 (0.46%) Istio
Vendors
1 53 (24.42%) Microsoft
2 34 (15.67%) Google
3 32 (14.75%) Databricks
4 23 (10.60%) Cloudera
4 23 (10.60%) Dell
5 11 (5.07%) Splunk
6 10 (4.61%) Palantir
7 8 (3.69%) Rapid7
7 8 (3.69%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.84%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.84%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.38%) Confluent
9 3 (1.38%) NVIDIA
9 3 (1.38%) Tenable
10 2 (0.92%) New Relic
10 2 (0.92%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.92%) Rollbar
11 1 (0.46%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.46%) OpenText
11 1 (0.46%) ServiceNow