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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 526 457 347
Rank change year-on-year -69 -110 +108
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 177 190 760
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.46% 0.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.32% 2.58% 4.45%
Number of salaries quoted 119 156 471
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,625 £63,348 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £71,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% +18.75% -14.29%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £105,500 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +27.27% -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 7,627 7,371 17,093
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.13% 17.97% 18.50%
Number of salaries quoted 4,537 5,169 12,545
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -10.20%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
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 11 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Elasticsearch in the UK

Elasticsearch
Top 17 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 11 April 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 -89 152 £73,801 -6.28% 104
UK excluding London -119 82 £67,500 -3.57% 61
London +11 81 £85,000 +6.25% 47
Work from Home -43 56 £73,801 +5.43% 84
South West -32 24 £67,500 +5.88% 13
North of England -73 21 £73,801 +6.48% 12
North West -37 16 £73,801 +9.33% 10
East of England -35 11 £47,500 -5.00% 4
South East -73 10 £60,000 -27.27% 20
Scotland -21 7 £73,801 +6.48% 2
Midlands -54 4 £60,000 -9.52% 7
North East -29 3 £73,801 +6.37%
Wales -30 3 £73,801 +6.48% 3
West Midlands -17 2 £69,401 +0.13% 3
Northern Ireland -43 2 £73,801 +34.18%
Yorkshire -56 2 £75,000 +7.14% 2
East Midlands -57 2 £53,750 -17.31% 4

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 41 (23.16%) Apache Spark
2 40 (22.60%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (6.21%) Apache
4 6 (3.39%) Apache Solr
5 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.69%) Confluence
7 1 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 148 (83.62%) AWS
2 123 (69.49%) Azure
3 95 (53.67%) GCP
4 44 (24.86%) dbt
5 35 (19.77%) Snowflake
6 27 (15.25%) AWS CloudFormation
7 24 (13.56%) Amazon ECS
8 23 (12.99%) Amazon ECR
8 23 (12.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 23 (12.99%) Power Platform
9 22 (12.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 18 (10.17%) Pulumi
11 10 (5.65%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 10 (5.65%) Amazon SageMaker
11 10 (5.65%) PaaS
11 10 (5.65%) Sentry
12 9 (5.08%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (5.08%) Azure Machine Learning
12 9 (5.08%) Dagster
12 9 (5.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (10.73%) TCP/IP
2 5 (2.82%) HTTP
3 2 (1.13%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (1.13%) Internet
4 1 (0.56%) BGP
4 1 (0.56%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (31.64%) BigQuery
2 37 (20.90%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (19.77%) Looker
4 33 (18.64%) Amazon Redshift
5 32 (18.08%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (18.08%) Redis
5 32 (18.08%) Tableau
6 30 (16.95%) MongoDB
7 23 (12.99%) Data Lake
7 23 (12.99%) Power BI
7 23 (12.99%) Snowflake Schema
8 22 (12.43%) Neo4j
9 18 (10.17%) Amazon RDS
9 18 (10.17%) MySQL
10 17 (9.60%) NoSQL
11 10 (5.65%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (5.65%) Pinecone
11 10 (5.65%) Weaviate
12 9 (5.08%) Apache Iceberg
12 9 (5.08%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 32 (18.08%) MLflow
2 20 (11.30%) GitLab
3 17 (9.60%) Git
4 9 (5.08%) Cucumber
5 7 (3.95%) Bitbucket
6 6 (3.39%) Jenkins
7 5 (2.82%) JIRA
7 5 (2.82%) SonarQube
8 4 (2.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (2.26%) Cypress.io
8 4 (2.26%) Gatling
8 4 (2.26%) JMeter
8 4 (2.26%) LoadRunner
9 3 (1.69%) JUnit
10 2 (1.13%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.56%) Appium
11 1 (0.56%) Katalon Studio
11 1 (0.56%) Maven
11 1 (0.56%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.56%) Selenium
General
1 33 (18.64%) Social Skills
2 32 (18.08%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (5.65%) Banking
3 10 (5.65%) Finance
4 9 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (3.39%) Law
6 5 (2.82%) Investment Banking
6 5 (2.82%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.26%) Mandarin Language
8 3 (1.69%) Games
9 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Front Office
9 1 (0.56%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 80 (45.20%) Senior
2 44 (24.86%) Software Engineer
3 23 (12.99%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 23 (12.99%) Systems Engineer
4 21 (11.86%) Developer
5 16 (9.04%) Platform Engineer
6 13 (7.34%) Senior Software Engineer
7 10 (5.65%) .NET Developer
7 10 (5.65%) Principal Engineer
7 10 (5.65%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 9 (5.08%) Architect
8 9 (5.08%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
8 9 (5.08%) C Software Engineer
8 9 (5.08%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (5.08%) Consultant
8 9 (5.08%) Data Consultant
8 9 (5.08%) Data Engineer
8 9 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (5.08%) Senior Consultant
9 8 (4.52%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (23.73%) Django
2 36 (20.34%) Kafka
3 34 (19.21%) React
4 32 (18.08%) PyTorch
4 32 (18.08%) TensorFlow
5 27 (15.25%) AngularJS
6 25 (14.12%) Node.js
7 23 (12.99%) LangChain
7 23 (12.99%) LlamaIndex
7 23 (12.99%) pgvector
7 23 (12.99%) scikit-learn
8 19 (10.73%) RESTful
9 17 (9.60%) MERN Stack
10 14 (7.91%) Vue
11 13 (7.34%) .NET
12 12 (6.78%) ASP.NET
13 11 (6.21%) Elastic Stack
14 10 (5.65%) .NET Core
15 9 (5.08%) Faiss
15 9 (5.08%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 34 (19.21%) Distributed Systems
2 30 (16.95%) Cloud Native
3 29 (16.38%) Public Cloud
4 24 (13.56%) Algorithms
4 24 (13.56%) Data Structures
4 24 (13.56%) Greenfield Project
5 23 (12.99%) Clustering
6 13 (7.34%) Linux Command Line
7 10 (5.65%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.26%) Blockchain
8 4 (2.26%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.26%) Web3
9 3 (1.69%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.56%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.56%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.56%) NHS
10 1 (0.56%) PMI
10 1 (0.56%) Replication
10 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 39 (22.03%) Linux
2 21 (11.86%) Unix
3 9 (5.08%) CentOS
4 4 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.26%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.26%) Windows
4 4 (2.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (37.85%) Software Engineering
2 66 (37.29%) CI/CD
3 61 (34.46%) DevOps
4 57 (32.20%) AI
4 57 (32.20%) Data Science
5 52 (29.38%) Machine Learning
6 47 (26.55%) Microservices
7 46 (25.99%) Agile
8 43 (24.29%) Analytics
8 43 (24.29%) Data Engineering
9 42 (23.73%) Computer Science
9 42 (23.73%) Data Pipeline
10 37 (20.90%) Observability
11 35 (19.77%) Generative AI
11 35 (19.77%) Infrastructure as Code
12 33 (18.64%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
12 33 (18.64%) Use Case
13 32 (18.08%) Business Intelligence
13 32 (18.08%) Performance Tuning
13 32 (18.08%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 135 (76.27%) Python
2 53 (29.94%) SQL
3 52 (29.38%) Java
4 40 (22.60%) JavaScript
5 37 (20.90%) TypeScript
6 19 (10.73%) Bash
7 18 (10.17%) Go
8 16 (9.04%) C
9 15 (8.47%) C#
10 13 (7.34%) Scala
11 4 (2.26%) C++
12 3 (1.69%) Rust
12 3 (1.69%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.13%) PHP
13 2 (1.13%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.56%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 48 (27.12%) Security Cleared
2 43 (24.29%) Degree
3 27 (15.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (12.99%) SC Cleared
5 20 (11.30%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.26%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.56%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (12.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 23 (12.99%) GDPR
2 8 (4.52%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.82%) QA
4 2 (1.13%) Accessibility
System Software
1 71 (40.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 56 (31.64%) Kubernetes
2 47 (26.55%) Terraform
3 21 (11.86%) Ansible
4 19 (10.73%) Grafana
5 17 (9.60%) Kibana
6 10 (5.65%) AWS Copilot
6 10 (5.65%) logstash
7 5 (2.82%) Argo
7 5 (2.82%) Nagios
7 5 (2.82%) Prometheus
8 4 (2.26%) Rancher
9 1 (0.56%) Cilium
9 1 (0.56%) Graylog
9 1 (0.56%) Istio
9 1 (0.56%) Packer
Vendors
1 46 (25.99%) Google
2 32 (18.08%) Databricks
3 23 (12.99%) Cloudera
3 23 (12.99%) Dell
4 10 (5.65%) Microsoft
4 10 (5.65%) Palantir
5 8 (4.52%) Splunk
6 5 (2.82%) Rapid7
6 5 (2.82%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.26%) AppDynamics
7 4 (2.26%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.69%) Confluent
8 3 (1.69%) Oracle
9 2 (1.13%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.13%) Rollbar
10 1 (0.56%) Foundry