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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 462 344
Rank change year-on-year -59 -118 +124
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 157 209 647
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.46% 0.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.25% 2.46% 4.27%
Number of salaries quoted 120 146 459
10th Percentile £49,750 £47,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £63,630 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% +20.83% -14.29%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,875 £90,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +27.27% -4.35%

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 6,987 8,501 15,148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.73% 18.60% 19.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4,220 5,045 11,662
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,259 £47,500 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £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 5 March 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 March 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 -46 128 £73,801 -7.75% 117
UK excluding London -87 76 £67,500 -3.57% 72
London +53 69 £80,000 -1.54% 47
Work from Home -28 57 £73,801 +5.43% 85
North of England -38 22 £70,651 +1.94% 11
South West -7 19 £67,500 -6.90% 17
North West -20 17 £67,500 -0.19% 8
Scotland -18 10 £73,801 +6.48% 1
South East -64 9 £60,000 -27.27% 22
East of England 0 6 £47,500 -5.00% 11
Wales -15 4 £73,801 +31.82% 3
North East -17 4 £73,801 +6.37% 1
West Midlands -1 3 £73,801 +7.79% 5
Midlands -16 3 £73,801 +13.54% 9
Northern Ireland -31 3 £73,801 +6.48% 1
Yorkshire -37 1 £65,000 -18.75% 2

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 17 (10.83%) Apache Airflow
1 17 (10.83%) Apache Spark
2 9 (5.73%) Apache
3 7 (4.46%) Apache Solr
4 4 (2.55%) Confluence
5 1 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 121 (77.07%) AWS
2 111 (70.70%) Azure
3 75 (47.77%) GCP
4 32 (20.38%) dbt
5 29 (18.47%) Amazon ECS
5 29 (18.47%) AWS CloudFormation
6 28 (17.83%) Amazon ECR
7 25 (15.92%) Pulumi
8 21 (13.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 17 (10.83%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 17 (10.83%) PaaS
9 17 (10.83%) Sentry
10 16 (10.19%) Snowflake
11 11 (7.01%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (6.37%) Amazon SageMaker
13 9 (5.73%) Azure Machine Learning
13 9 (5.73%) Dagster
13 9 (5.73%) Vertex AI
14 7 (4.46%) Serverless
15 5 (3.18%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 25 (15.92%) TCP/IP
2 6 (3.82%) HTTP
3 1 (0.64%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.64%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (26.11%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (25.48%) Redis
3 35 (22.29%) MongoDB
4 31 (19.75%) BigQuery
5 25 (15.92%) Amazon RDS
6 20 (12.74%) Neo4j
7 16 (10.19%) Looker
8 14 (8.92%) Amazon Redshift
8 14 (8.92%) MySQL
9 13 (8.28%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (8.28%) Tableau
10 11 (7.01%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (7.01%) NoSQL
11 10 (6.37%) Pinecone
11 10 (6.37%) Weaviate
12 9 (5.73%) Apache Iceberg
12 9 (5.73%) Delta Lake
13 5 (3.18%) SQL Server
14 4 (2.55%) Apache Cassandra
14 4 (2.55%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (12.10%) Git
2 18 (11.46%) GitLab
3 13 (8.28%) MLflow
4 9 (5.73%) Cucumber
5 7 (4.46%) Bitbucket
6 6 (3.82%) Jenkins
7 5 (3.18%) JIRA
7 5 (3.18%) JUnit
8 4 (2.55%) Cypress.io
8 4 (2.55%) Gatling
8 4 (2.55%) JMeter
8 4 (2.55%) LoadRunner
9 3 (1.91%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.91%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.27%) Appium
10 2 (1.27%) JConsole
10 2 (1.27%) Katalon Studio
10 2 (1.27%) Selenium
10 2 (1.27%) VisualVM
11 1 (0.64%) TestNG
General
1 33 (21.02%) Social Skills
2 14 (8.92%) Finance
3 10 (6.37%) Banking
4 9 (5.73%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (4.46%) Investment Banking
6 6 (3.82%) Law
7 5 (3.18%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.91%) Front Office
9 1 (0.64%) Advertising
9 1 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Games
9 1 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 61 (38.85%) Senior
2 42 (26.75%) Software Engineer
3 26 (16.56%) Developer
4 19 (12.10%) Platform Engineer
5 17 (10.83%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 12 (7.64%) Senior Software Engineer
7 11 (7.01%) .NET Developer
8 9 (5.73%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
8 9 (5.73%) C Software Engineer
8 9 (5.73%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (5.73%) Consultant
8 9 (5.73%) Data Consultant
8 9 (5.73%) Principal Engineer
8 9 (5.73%) Senior Consultant
9 8 (5.10%) Architect
9 8 (5.10%) Lead
9 8 (5.10%) Site Engineer
9 8 (5.10%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 8 (5.10%) Test Engineer
10 5 (3.18%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (27.39%) Django
2 39 (24.84%) React
3 32 (20.38%) AngularJS
4 29 (18.47%) Node.js
5 17 (10.83%) MERN Stack
5 17 (10.83%) RESTful
6 16 (10.19%) Vue
7 13 (8.28%) .NET
7 13 (8.28%) Elastic Stack
7 13 (8.28%) Kafka
7 13 (8.28%) PyTorch
7 13 (8.28%) TensorFlow
8 12 (7.64%) .NET Core
9 11 (7.01%) ASP.NET
9 11 (7.01%) ASP.NET Web API
10 10 (6.37%) Entity Framework
11 9 (5.73%) .NET Framework
11 9 (5.73%) ASP.NET MVC
11 9 (5.73%) Faiss
11 9 (5.73%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 34 (21.66%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (12.74%) Algorithms
2 20 (12.74%) Data Structures
2 20 (12.74%) Linux Command Line
3 18 (11.46%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (8.28%) Product Ownership
5 9 (5.73%) Cloud Native
5 9 (5.73%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.55%) Clustering
6 4 (2.55%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (1.27%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.64%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.64%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.64%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.64%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.64%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.64%) Smart Energy
8 1 (0.64%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 46 (29.30%) Linux
2 28 (17.83%) Unix
3 4 (2.55%) Windows
3 4 (2.55%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.91%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (43.95%) CI/CD
2 64 (40.76%) Software Engineering
3 60 (38.22%) DevOps
4 50 (31.85%) Microservices
5 48 (30.57%) Agile
6 36 (22.93%) Computer Science
6 36 (22.93%) Observability
7 35 (22.29%) AI
7 35 (22.29%) Machine Learning
8 34 (21.66%) Clean Code
8 34 (21.66%) Infrastructure as Code
9 32 (20.38%) Data Science
10 30 (19.11%) Open Source
10 30 (19.11%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (16.56%) Mentoring
12 23 (14.65%) Containerisation
13 22 (14.01%) Analytics
13 22 (14.01%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 21 (13.38%) Cybersecurity
14 21 (13.38%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 112 (71.34%) Python
2 54 (34.39%) Java
3 53 (33.76%) JavaScript
4 40 (25.48%) SQL
5 39 (24.84%) TypeScript
6 16 (10.19%) Bash
6 16 (10.19%) C
7 15 (9.55%) C#
7 15 (9.55%) Go
8 10 (6.37%) Scala
9 6 (3.82%) PHP
10 3 (1.91%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.27%) C++
12 1 (0.64%) Perl
12 1 (0.64%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.64%) Rust
12 1 (0.64%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 52 (33.12%) Security Cleared
2 35 (22.29%) Degree
3 30 (19.11%) SC Cleared
4 23 (14.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (12.74%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.37%) QA
2 5 (3.18%) GDPR
3 4 (2.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 4 (2.55%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.27%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.64%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 74 (47.13%) Docker
2 1 (0.64%) Squid
Systems Management
1 43 (27.39%) Kubernetes
2 41 (26.11%) Terraform
3 21 (13.38%) Kibana
4 17 (10.83%) AWS Copilot
5 16 (10.19%) Grafana
6 15 (9.55%) Ansible
7 14 (8.92%) logstash
8 8 (5.10%) Prometheus
9 3 (1.91%) Nagios
9 3 (1.91%) Rancher
Vendors
1 46 (29.30%) Google
2 19 (12.10%) Microsoft
3 13 (8.28%) Databricks
4 10 (6.37%) Palantir
5 6 (3.82%) Splunk
6 4 (2.55%) AppDynamics
6 4 (2.55%) Cloudera
6 4 (2.55%) Dell
6 4 (2.55%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.55%) Oracle
7 3 (1.91%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.91%) Confluent
7 3 (1.91%) Rapid7
7 3 (1.91%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.64%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.64%) Foundry
8 1 (0.64%) New Relic