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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 458 448 450
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 -10
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 329 246 500
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.50% 0.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.83% 3.23% 3.13%
Number of salaries quoted 274 162 289
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £49,000 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £101,875 £90,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -7.69%

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 8,596 7,609 15,953
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.69% 15.49% 16.25%
Number of salaries quoted 5,757 4,912 11,158
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,091 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +4.43% -6.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £105,000
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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -6 313 £60,000 -7.69% 58
UK excluding London -19 213 £55,000 -15.38% 45
Work from Home +3 194 £55,000 -18.52% 34
London -4 105 £85,000 +30.77% 28
South East -12 76 £57,500 -30.30% 14
South West -23 39 £52,500 -14.29% 7
North of England -15 35 £57,500 -4.17% 12
East of England -10 32 £55,000 +10.00% 1
Midlands -9 29 £55,000 -6.78% 4
North West 0 21 £47,500 -18.10% 9
West Midlands -6 18 £57,500 -2.54% 2
East Midlands -3 11 £55,000 - 2
Yorkshire -29 9 £57,500 -11.54% 3
Wales -47 5 £45,000 -33.46% 1
North East -56 5 £75,000 +8.09%
Northern Ireland -62 1 £73,801 +34.18%

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 56 (17.02%) Apache Spark
2 38 (11.55%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (8.21%) Apache
4 8 (2.43%) Apache Solr
5 5 (1.52%) Apache Pig
6 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.91%) CMS
7 3 (0.91%) Confluence
7 3 (0.91%) DNN
7 3 (0.91%) EPiServer
7 3 (0.91%) Immediacy CMS
7 3 (0.91%) Kentico
7 3 (0.91%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.91%) Sitefinity
7 3 (0.91%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 240 (72.95%) Azure
2 214 (65.05%) AWS
3 70 (21.28%) GCP
4 49 (14.89%) GitHub
5 48 (14.59%) GitHub Copilot
6 33 (10.03%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (9.73%) dbt
8 29 (8.81%) Snowflake
9 25 (7.60%) Serverless
10 24 (7.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 23 (6.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 23 (6.99%) Power Platform
12 18 (5.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 16 (4.86%) Amazon ECR
13 16 (4.86%) Amazon ECS
14 14 (4.26%) Cloud Computing
14 14 (4.26%) SaaS
15 13 (3.95%) Amazon Kinesis
15 13 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
16 12 (3.65%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.65%) Internet
2 7 (2.13%) Hyperconnected
3 6 (1.82%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.22%) HTTP
5 3 (0.91%) MQTT
5 3 (0.91%) Network Security
6 1 (0.30%) BGP
6 1 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (46.50%) MongoDB
2 150 (45.59%) Azure SQL Database
3 43 (13.07%) BigQuery
4 31 (9.42%) Amazon Redshift
4 31 (9.42%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (8.81%) Looker
6 26 (7.90%) Data Warehouse
6 26 (7.90%) Tableau
7 24 (7.29%) Data Lake
7 24 (7.29%) MySQL
8 23 (6.99%) Power BI
8 23 (6.99%) Snowflake Schema
9 21 (6.38%) NoSQL
10 18 (5.47%) Redis
11 16 (4.86%) Hadoop
12 15 (4.56%) Big Data
13 11 (3.34%) DynamoDB
13 11 (3.34%) Neo4j
14 8 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
14 8 (2.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (8.81%) Git
2 28 (8.51%) GitLab
3 26 (7.90%) MLflow
4 14 (4.26%) Cucumber
5 12 (3.65%) Jenkins
5 12 (3.65%) SonarQube
6 7 (2.13%) JIRA
7 5 (1.52%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (1.22%) Gatling
8 4 (1.22%) JMeter
8 4 (1.22%) LoadRunner
8 4 (1.22%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.91%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.61%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.61%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.30%) Maven
General
1 62 (18.84%) Finance
2 43 (13.07%) Social Skills
3 38 (11.55%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (6.08%) Retail
5 15 (4.56%) Banking
6 14 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (3.95%) Games
8 6 (1.82%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.52%) Health Technology
9 5 (1.52%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.22%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (1.22%) Publishing
10 4 (1.22%) Tech for Good
11 3 (0.91%) Law
12 1 (0.30%) Front Office
12 1 (0.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 168 (51.06%) Developer
2 153 (46.50%) .NET Developer
3 76 (23.10%) Senior
4 28 (8.51%) Lead
5 26 (7.90%) Software Engineer
6 23 (6.99%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 23 (6.99%) Systems Engineer
7 22 (6.69%) Data Engineer
8 16 (4.86%) Python Engineer
9 14 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (3.65%) Platform Engineer
10 12 (3.65%) Python Data Engineer
10 12 (3.65%) Senior Developer
11 10 (3.04%) Consultant
11 10 (3.04%) Lead Data Engineer
12 9 (2.74%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (2.74%) DevOps Administrator
12 9 (2.74%) DevOps Systems Engineer
12 9 (2.74%) Linux DevOps Engineer
12 9 (2.74%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (48.63%) .NET
1 160 (48.63%) Node.js
2 157 (47.72%) ASP.NET
3 151 (45.90%) .NET Core
4 150 (45.59%) ASP.NET Core
5 99 (30.09%) React
6 76 (23.10%) ASP.NET Web API
7 72 (21.88%) Vue
8 70 (21.28%) AngularJS
9 67 (20.36%) Blazor
10 56 (17.02%) .NET Framework
11 55 (16.72%) Kafka
12 44 (13.37%) Entity Framework
13 31 (9.42%) CSS
13 31 (9.42%) HTML
14 26 (7.90%) PyTorch
14 26 (7.90%) TensorFlow
15 24 (7.29%) Django
16 23 (6.99%) LangChain
16 23 (6.99%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 40 (12.16%) Greenfield Project
2 30 (9.12%) Cloud Native
3 28 (8.51%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (7.60%) Public Cloud
5 23 (6.99%) Clustering
6 17 (5.17%) Algorithms
6 17 (5.17%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.74%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (2.74%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (1.52%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.52%) Tandem
9 4 (1.22%) Blockchain
9 4 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.22%) IoT
9 4 (1.22%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.22%) Web3
10 3 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 34 (10.33%) Linux
2 14 (4.26%) CentOS
3 8 (2.43%) Unix
4 6 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.22%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.22%) Windows
5 4 (1.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (54.41%) Agile
2 158 (48.02%) Microservices
3 157 (47.72%) Full-Stack Development
4 90 (27.36%) Scrum
5 88 (26.75%) CI/CD
5 88 (26.75%) DevOps
6 72 (21.88%) TDD
7 71 (21.58%) AI
8 60 (18.24%) BDD
8 60 (18.24%) Software Engineering
9 56 (17.02%) Kanban
10 55 (16.72%) Analytics
11 51 (15.50%) Data Engineering
12 49 (14.89%) Machine Learning
13 48 (14.59%) Data Science
14 46 (13.98%) Data Pipeline
15 41 (12.46%) Business Intelligence
15 41 (12.46%) Data Modelling
15 41 (12.46%) Performance Tuning
16 40 (12.16%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 194 (58.97%) SQL
2 160 (48.63%) C#
3 127 (38.60%) Python
4 102 (31.00%) JavaScript
5 94 (28.57%) TypeScript
6 36 (10.94%) Java
7 22 (6.69%) Bash
8 16 (4.86%) Scala
9 15 (4.56%) Go
10 11 (3.34%) Rust
11 8 (2.43%) C++
12 4 (1.22%) C
13 3 (0.91%) PHP
14 2 (0.61%) Ruby
14 2 (0.61%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (12.16%) Security Cleared
2 35 (10.64%) Degree
3 23 (6.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (5.78%) SC Cleared
5 14 (4.26%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.52%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.52%) PhD
7 4 (1.22%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.22%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 23 (6.99%) GDPR
2 19 (5.78%) QA
3 12 (3.65%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.61%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 98 (29.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 95 (28.88%) Kubernetes
2 50 (15.20%) Terraform
3 36 (10.94%) Ansible
4 31 (9.42%) Grafana
5 14 (4.26%) Kibana
6 10 (3.04%) logstash
6 10 (3.04%) Nagios
7 8 (2.43%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.52%) Argo
8 5 (1.52%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (0.91%) Packer
9 3 (0.91%) Podman
9 3 (0.91%) Puppet
10 2 (0.61%) Rancher
11 1 (0.30%) Cilium
11 1 (0.30%) Graylog
11 1 (0.30%) Istio
Vendors
1 148 (44.98%) Microsoft
2 38 (11.55%) Google
3 26 (7.90%) Databricks
4 23 (6.99%) Cloudera
4 23 (6.99%) Dell
5 13 (3.95%) Splunk
6 10 (3.04%) Rapid7
6 10 (3.04%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.22%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.22%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.22%) SAP
8 3 (0.91%) Alterian
8 3 (0.91%) Confluent
8 3 (0.91%) NVIDIA
8 3 (0.91%) Optimizely
8 3 (0.91%) Palantir
8 3 (0.91%) Sitecore
8 3 (0.91%) Tenable
9 2 (0.61%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.61%) Rollbar