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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 466 323
Rank change year-on-year -40 -143 +162
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 148 244 572
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.46% 0.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.26% 2.60% 4.22%
Number of salaries quoted 118 148 417
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,313 £62,188 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £70,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% +14.75% -15.86%
75th Percentile £83,125 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £88,750 £100,500
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 6,551 9,380 13,568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.45% 17.82% 20.06%
Number of salaries quoted 4,087 5,182 10,683
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,223
25th Percentile £43,078 £47,500 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +11.11% -6.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
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 26 January 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 26 January 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 -26 123 £67,500 -15.63% 109
London +66 71 £74,401 -11.16% 42
Work from Home +16 71 £65,000 -7.14% 83
UK excluding London -105 66 £67,500 -3.57% 80
North of England -3 20 £67,500 -2.61% 17
North West +15 16 £67,500 -1.32% 14
South West +4 16 £67,500 +17.39% 14
Scotland -18 10 £73,801 +6.48% 6
East of England +4 6 £51,250 +2.50% 5
South East -38 6 £65,000 -21.21% 23
West Midlands +25 3 £73,801 +6.48% 11
Midlands +4 3 £73,801 +13.54% 13
Wales +3 3 £73,801 +29.87% 2
North East -3 3 £73,801 +6.48%
Northern Ireland -14 2 £73,801 +6.48%
Yorkshire -10 1 £65,000 -18.75% 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 11 (7.43%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (6.76%) Apache
2 10 (6.76%) Apache Spark
3 9 (6.08%) Apache Solr
4 4 (2.70%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 109 (73.65%) AWS
2 101 (68.24%) Azure
3 54 (36.49%) GCP
4 24 (16.22%) Amazon ECS
4 24 (16.22%) AWS CloudFormation
5 22 (14.86%) Amazon ECR
6 20 (13.51%) dbt
6 20 (13.51%) Pulumi
7 16 (10.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 16 (10.81%) Serverless
8 15 (10.14%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (8.11%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 12 (8.11%) PaaS
9 12 (8.11%) Sentry
10 10 (6.76%) Vertex AI
11 8 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (5.41%) Amazon SageMaker
12 7 (4.73%) Azure Machine Learning
12 7 (4.73%) Dagster
12 7 (4.73%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 20 (13.51%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.35%) Broadband
2 2 (1.35%) HTTP
3 1 (0.68%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.68%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (22.97%) MongoDB
2 32 (21.62%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (19.59%) Redis
4 22 (14.86%) BigQuery
5 20 (13.51%) Amazon RDS
6 19 (12.84%) Neo4j
7 17 (11.49%) Azure SQL Database
8 16 (10.81%) MySQL
9 14 (9.46%) DynamoDB
10 11 (7.43%) Pinecone
11 8 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (5.41%) Weaviate
12 7 (4.73%) Apache Iceberg
12 7 (4.73%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (4.73%) Delta Lake
12 7 (4.73%) Looker
12 7 (4.73%) NoSQL
12 7 (4.73%) Tableau
13 5 (3.38%) SQL Server
14 4 (2.70%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 21 (14.19%) Git
2 17 (11.49%) GitLab
3 9 (6.08%) Cucumber
4 7 (4.73%) Bitbucket
4 7 (4.73%) MLflow
5 6 (4.05%) Jenkins
5 6 (4.05%) JUnit
6 5 (3.38%) JIRA
7 4 (2.70%) Cypress.io
8 3 (2.03%) REST Assured
8 3 (2.03%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.35%) Appium
9 2 (1.35%) JConsole
9 2 (1.35%) Katalon Studio
9 2 (1.35%) Selenium
9 2 (1.35%) VisualVM
10 1 (0.68%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.68%) Subversion
10 1 (0.68%) TestNG
10 1 (0.68%) WebDriver
General
1 27 (18.24%) Social Skills
2 14 (9.46%) Finance
3 8 (5.41%) Health Technology
3 8 (5.41%) Publishing
3 8 (5.41%) Tech for Good
4 6 (4.05%) Banking
5 5 (3.38%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.70%) Investment Banking
6 4 (2.70%) Law
7 2 (1.35%) Front Office
7 2 (1.35%) Games
8 1 (0.68%) Advertising
8 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.68%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 52 (35.14%) Senior
2 43 (29.05%) Developer
3 40 (27.03%) Software Engineer
4 17 (11.49%) .NET Developer
5 13 (8.78%) Platform Engineer
6 12 (8.11%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 10 (6.76%) Senior Developer
8 9 (6.08%) C Software Engineer
8 9 (6.08%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (6.08%) Senior Software Engineer
9 8 (5.41%) Python Developer
9 8 (5.41%) Senior Python Developer
9 8 (5.41%) Site Engineer
9 8 (5.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 7 (4.73%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
10 7 (4.73%) Consultant
10 7 (4.73%) Data Consultant
10 7 (4.73%) Integration Developer
10 7 (4.73%) Principal Engineer
10 7 (4.73%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (37.16%) React
2 37 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 35 (23.65%) Node.js
4 32 (21.62%) Django
5 22 (14.86%) RESTful
5 22 (14.86%) Vue
6 19 (12.84%) .NET
7 18 (12.16%) .NET Core
8 17 (11.49%) ASP.NET
8 17 (11.49%) ASP.NET Web API
8 17 (11.49%) MERN Stack
9 16 (10.81%) Entity Framework
10 15 (10.14%) .NET Framework
10 15 (10.14%) ASP.NET MVC
11 14 (9.46%) Elastic Stack
12 8 (5.41%) PyTorch
12 8 (5.41%) Swagger
13 7 (4.73%) Apache NiFi
13 7 (4.73%) Faiss
13 7 (4.73%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 24 (16.22%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (10.14%) Linux Command Line
3 14 (9.46%) Algorithms
3 14 (9.46%) Data Structures
4 12 (8.11%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (6.76%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.38%) Cloud Native
6 5 (3.38%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.70%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.03%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (1.35%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.35%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.35%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.68%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.68%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.68%) Smart Energy
10 1 (0.68%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 44 (29.73%) Linux
2 22 (14.86%) Unix
3 8 (5.41%) Windows
3 8 (5.41%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.35%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (43.24%) CI/CD
2 58 (39.19%) Software Engineering
3 53 (35.81%) DevOps
4 49 (33.11%) Agile
5 46 (31.08%) Microservices
6 34 (22.97%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (20.95%) AI
7 31 (20.95%) Infrastructure as Code
8 30 (20.27%) Clean Code
9 29 (19.59%) Scrum
10 28 (18.92%) Computer Science
10 28 (18.92%) Observability
11 27 (18.24%) TDD
12 26 (17.57%) Machine Learning
13 25 (16.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 24 (16.22%) Data Science
15 23 (15.54%) Full-Stack Development
15 23 (15.54%) Open Source
16 20 (13.51%) Cybersecurity
16 20 (13.51%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 106 (71.62%) Python
2 61 (41.22%) JavaScript
3 52 (35.14%) TypeScript
4 45 (30.41%) Java
5 41 (27.70%) SQL
6 21 (14.19%) C#
7 16 (10.81%) C
8 14 (9.46%) Bash
8 14 (9.46%) Go
9 9 (6.08%) PHP
10 7 (4.73%) Scala
11 2 (1.35%) C++
11 2 (1.35%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.35%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.68%) Perl
12 1 (0.68%) Rust
12 1 (0.68%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 46 (31.08%) Security Cleared
2 27 (18.24%) Degree
3 24 (16.22%) SC Cleared
4 21 (14.19%) DV Cleared
5 17 (11.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.35%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.49%) QA
2 3 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.68%) GDPR
3 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 63 (42.57%) Docker
2 1 (0.68%) Squid
Systems Management
1 35 (23.65%) Kubernetes
2 34 (22.97%) Terraform
3 17 (11.49%) Ansible
3 17 (11.49%) Kibana
4 14 (9.46%) logstash
5 12 (8.11%) AWS Copilot
6 10 (6.76%) Grafana
7 7 (4.73%) Prometheus
8 3 (2.03%) Rancher
9 2 (1.35%) Nagios
10 1 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 35 (23.65%) Google
2 28 (18.92%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.41%) Palantir
4 7 (4.73%) Databricks
5 5 (3.38%) Oracle
6 4 (2.70%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.70%) Splunk
7 3 (2.03%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.35%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.68%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.68%) Foundry
9 1 (0.68%) New Relic
9 1 (0.68%) OpenAI