Elasticsearch Jobs

Elastic Elasticsearch
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Elasticsearch skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Elasticsearch over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 436 420 412
Rank change year-on-year -16 -8 -166
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 317 620 663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.58% 0.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.99% 3.48% 3.48%
Number of salaries quoted 160 343 411
10th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £43,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,626 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.04% -3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,505 £55,000 £63,650
% change year-on-year +24.55% -13.59% +6.08%

All Database and 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 7,936 17,819 19,039
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.30% 16.74% 21.44%
Number of salaries quoted 4,943 12,136 12,711
10th Percentile £35,050 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,744 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,182 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

Elasticsearch
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Elasticsearch as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Elasticsearch in the UK

Elasticsearch
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Elasticsearch.

Salary trend for Elasticsearch in the UK

Elasticsearch
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

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 6 July 2025. 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 +34 294 £69,384 +6.74% 260
Work from Home +52 240 £69,384 +20.67% 174
UK excluding London -58 174 £68,505 +24.55% 138
London +95 112 £67,500 -12.90% 132
South East +37 72 £82,500 +37.50% 25
East of England +37 35 £50,000 -13.04% 20
North of England -2 25 £60,000 +14.29% 39
North West -15 16 £59,250 +3.04% 34
Scotland -33 14 £63,250 +15.00% 7
South West +88 13 £61,250 +11.36% 29
Midlands +32 8 £67,626 +22.96% 11
Northern Ireland +41 6 £55,000 -42.11% 9
North East +43 5 £69,384 +46.07% 1
West Midlands +34 4 £63,313 +5.52% 5
Yorkshire +31 4 £67,500 +22.73% 5
East Midlands +36 2 £72,500 +45.00% 6
Wales +25 1 £67,626 +39.44%

Elasticsearch
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (3.47%) IIS
2 9 (2.84%) nginx
3 8 (2.52%) Tomcat
4 6 (1.89%) Apache Solr
4 6 (1.89%) CMS
4 6 (1.89%) Confluence
5 5 (1.58%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.95%) Apache
7 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Maya
2 1 (0.32%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 229 (72.24%) AWS
2 141 (44.48%) Azure
3 97 (30.60%) Serverless
4 96 (30.28%) AWS Lambda
5 81 (25.55%) Amazon S3
6 72 (22.71%) AWS Step Functions
7 65 (20.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 51 (16.09%) Amazon EKS
9 32 (10.09%) Azure DevOps
10 29 (9.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 28 (8.83%) Azure Service Bus
11 28 (8.83%) SonarCloud
12 24 (7.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 22 (6.94%) GCP
14 19 (5.99%) Amazon ElastiCache
15 18 (5.68%) Amazon ECS
16 17 (5.36%) Cloud Computing
16 17 (5.36%) Cloudflare
17 15 (4.73%) SaaS
18 12 (3.79%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 72 (22.71%) Broadband
2 11 (3.47%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.63%) Internet
4 1 (0.32%) Firewall
4 1 (0.32%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.32%) SSH
4 1 (0.32%) tcpdump
4 1 (0.32%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (28.08%) DynamoDB
2 41 (12.93%) MongoDB
3 35 (11.04%) MySQL
4 34 (10.73%) PostgreSQL
5 30 (9.46%) Redis
6 23 (7.26%) SQL Server
7 22 (6.94%) Azure SQL Database
8 20 (6.31%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (3.79%) NoSQL
9 12 (3.79%) Relational Database
10 9 (2.84%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (1.58%) Hadoop
12 4 (1.26%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (1.26%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.26%) Event Store
12 4 (1.26%) InterSystems Cache
12 4 (1.26%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.63%) Apache Ignite
13 2 (0.63%) HBase
13 2 (0.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 71 (22.40%) Git
2 32 (10.09%) Octopus Deploy
3 28 (8.83%) MSBuild
3 28 (8.83%) Team Foundation Server
3 28 (8.83%) Visual Studio
4 26 (8.20%) Jenkins
5 15 (4.73%) Bitbucket
5 15 (4.73%) JIRA
6 14 (4.42%) GitLab
7 11 (3.47%) JUnit
7 11 (3.47%) NUnit
7 11 (3.47%) TeamCity
8 10 (3.15%) Jasmine
9 9 (2.84%) Cucumber
9 9 (2.84%) Maven
10 8 (2.52%) Mockito
10 8 (2.52%) Postman
10 8 (2.52%) Selenium
10 8 (2.52%) SonarQube
10 8 (2.52%) TestNG
General
1 73 (23.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 66 (20.82%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (15.14%) Social Skills
4 40 (12.62%) Finance
5 23 (7.26%) Retail
6 17 (5.36%) Publishing
7 16 (5.05%) Tech for Good
8 15 (4.73%) Health Technology
8 15 (4.73%) Law
9 11 (3.47%) Marketing
10 10 (3.15%) Public Sector
11 9 (2.84%) Manufacturing
12 8 (2.52%) Games
13 6 (1.89%) Banking
14 5 (1.58%) Aerospace
14 5 (1.58%) Automotive
15 4 (1.26%) Investment Banking
16 3 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
17 2 (0.63%) Advertising
18 1 (0.32%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 189 (59.62%) Developer
2 124 (39.12%) Senior
3 106 (33.44%) Senior Developer
4 72 (22.71%) AWS Developer
5 57 (17.98%) Software Developer
6 30 (9.46%) .NET Developer
6 30 (9.46%) Architect
7 28 (8.83%) Technical Architect
8 22 (6.94%) Software Engineer
9 19 (5.99%) Java Engineer
10 18 (5.68%) Site Engineer
10 18 (5.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 13 (4.10%) Full-Stack Developer
12 11 (3.47%) Lead
13 10 (3.15%) Python Developer
13 10 (3.15%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 9 (2.84%) Java Software Engineer
14 9 (2.84%) Senior .NET Developer
14 9 (2.84%) Senior Python Developer
15 8 (2.52%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (43.22%) React
2 131 (41.32%) .NET
3 79 (24.92%) Node.js
4 76 (23.97%) GraphQL
5 72 (22.71%) Serverless Framework
6 65 (20.50%) ASP.NET
7 53 (16.72%) REST
8 50 (15.77%) CSS
9 49 (15.46%) Pandas
9 49 (15.46%) RESTful
10 48 (15.14%) HTML
11 35 (11.04%) AngularJS
12 32 (10.09%) .NET Core
13 31 (9.78%) Kafka
14 30 (9.46%) JSON
14 30 (9.46%) Vue
15 29 (9.15%) Bootstrap
16 28 (8.83%) .NET Framework
16 28 (8.83%) gRPC
16 28 (8.83%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (15.46%) Cyberattack
2 10 (3.15%) Cloud Native
3 9 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (2.84%) Mobile App
4 8 (2.52%) Life Science
5 6 (1.89%) Online Games
6 5 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.26%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.26%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.26%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.95%) AS400
9 2 (0.63%) 3D Graphics
9 2 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.63%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.63%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.32%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.32%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.32%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.32%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 94 (29.65%) Linux
2 49 (15.46%) Android
3 16 (5.05%) Windows
4 13 (4.10%) Unix
5 9 (2.84%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.58%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (62.78%) Agile
2 188 (59.31%) CI/CD
3 102 (32.18%) Event-Driven
4 100 (31.55%) Artificial Intelligence
4 100 (31.55%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 96 (30.28%) Mentoring
6 90 (28.39%) Continuous Integration
7 89 (28.08%) Software Engineering
8 86 (27.13%) Clean Code
9 82 (25.87%) Design Patterns
10 71 (22.40%) MVC
11 70 (22.08%) Kanban
12 69 (21.77%) Microservices
13 62 (19.56%) Containerisation
14 60 (18.93%) DevOps
14 60 (18.93%) Mathematics
14 60 (18.93%) OO
14 60 (18.93%) OOP
15 57 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
16 52 (16.40%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 216 (68.14%) JavaScript
2 195 (61.51%) Python
3 136 (42.90%) TypeScript
4 100 (31.55%) Java
5 80 (25.24%) SQL
6 77 (24.29%) C#
7 51 (16.09%) C++
7 51 (16.09%) Go
8 49 (15.46%) Rust
9 9 (2.84%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.89%) Bash
10 6 (1.89%) PHP
11 4 (1.26%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.95%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.63%) Ruby
14 1 (0.32%) C
14 1 (0.32%) Perl
14 1 (0.32%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.32%) R
14 1 (0.32%) VB
Qualifications
1 77 (24.29%) Security Cleared
2 72 (22.71%) AWS Certification
3 54 (17.03%) DV Cleared
4 19 (5.99%) SC Cleared
5 16 (5.05%) Degree
6 7 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.26%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.63%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.32%) PhD
9 1 (0.32%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (10.09%) GDPR
1 32 (10.09%) QA
2 5 (1.58%) SLA
3 2 (0.63%) HIPAA
3 2 (0.63%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.32%) NIST
System Software
1 135 (42.59%) Docker
2 2 (0.63%) Squid
3 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.32%) Xen
Systems Management
1 90 (28.39%) Terraform
2 87 (27.44%) Kubernetes
3 67 (21.14%) Ansible
4 22 (6.94%) Kibana
5 17 (5.36%) Grafana
6 16 (5.05%) Prometheus
7 11 (3.47%) AWS Copilot
8 9 (2.84%) Kustomize
9 8 (2.52%) logstash
9 8 (2.52%) Packer
10 1 (0.32%) Argo
10 1 (0.32%) Bugsnag
10 1 (0.32%) Check_MK
10 1 (0.32%) Control-M
10 1 (0.32%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.32%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.32%) Puppet
10 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (13.56%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.36%) Google
3 15 (4.73%) Rollbar
4 12 (3.79%) Red Hat
5 11 (3.47%) Atlassian
6 10 (3.15%) Oracle
6 10 (3.15%) Splunk
7 6 (1.89%) New Relic
8 4 (1.26%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.26%) Databricks
8 4 (1.26%) WSO2
9 3 (0.95%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.63%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.63%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.32%) BigPanda
11 1 (0.32%) LogRhythm
11 1 (0.32%) Optimizely
11 1 (0.32%) SaltStack
11 1 (0.32%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.32%) Talend