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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 528 448 351
Rank change year-on-year -80 -97 +115
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 168 203 663
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.46% 0.79%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.38% 2.48% 4.14%
Number of salaries quoted 125 151 458
10th Percentile £49,150 £47,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £63,630 £47,500
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 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,500 £95,000 £95,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +27.27% -6.38%

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 7,057 8,185 16,027
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.49% 18.67% 18.99%
Number of salaries quoted 4,261 5,199 12,182
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,779 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +9.18% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £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 15 March 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 15 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 -56 139 £73,801 -7.75% 68
UK excluding London -85 85 £67,500 -3.57% 33
London +29 70 £80,000 -11.11% 40
Work from Home -8 61 £73,801 +5.43% 47
South West -7 22 £67,500 -6.90% 9
North of England -54 22 £73,801 +6.48% 8
North West -13 16 £67,500 -0.19% 6
South East -44 11 £62,500 -24.24% 9
Scotland -21 10 £73,801 +6.48% 2
East of England -6 8 £51,250 +2.50% 3
Midlands -29 5 £65,000 - 1
North East -15 4 £73,801 +6.37% 1
Wales -15 4 £73,801 +31.82% 2
West Midlands 0 3 £73,801 +7.79% 1
Northern Ireland -30 3 £73,801 +6.48% 1
Yorkshire -42 2 £65,000 -13.33% 1
East Midlands -46 2 £53,750 -17.31%

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 25 (14.88%) Apache Spark
2 23 (13.69%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (5.95%) Apache
4 7 (4.17%) Apache Solr
5 4 (2.38%) Confluence
6 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.60%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 131 (77.98%) AWS
2 118 (70.24%) Azure
3 83 (49.40%) GCP
4 37 (22.02%) dbt
5 30 (17.86%) Amazon ECS
5 30 (17.86%) AWS CloudFormation
6 29 (17.26%) Amazon ECR
7 25 (14.88%) Pulumi
8 22 (13.10%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 21 (12.50%) Snowflake
10 17 (10.12%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 17 (10.12%) PaaS
10 17 (10.12%) Sentry
11 10 (5.95%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (5.95%) Amazon SageMaker
12 9 (5.36%) Azure Machine Learning
12 9 (5.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 9 (5.36%) Dagster
12 9 (5.36%) Power Platform
12 9 (5.36%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 25 (14.88%) TCP/IP
2 6 (3.57%) HTTP
3 2 (1.19%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (1.19%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (24.40%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (23.21%) Redis
3 38 (22.62%) BigQuery
4 33 (19.64%) MongoDB
5 25 (14.88%) Amazon RDS
6 21 (12.50%) Looker
7 20 (11.90%) Neo4j
8 19 (11.31%) Amazon Redshift
9 18 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
9 18 (10.71%) Tableau
10 17 (10.12%) MySQL
11 12 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (6.55%) NoSQL
13 10 (5.95%) Pinecone
13 10 (5.95%) Weaviate
14 9 (5.36%) Apache Iceberg
14 9 (5.36%) Data Lake
14 9 (5.36%) Delta Lake
14 9 (5.36%) Power BI
14 9 (5.36%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (13.10%) Git
2 19 (11.31%) GitLab
3 18 (10.71%) MLflow
4 9 (5.36%) Cucumber
5 7 (4.17%) Bitbucket
5 7 (4.17%) JIRA
6 6 (3.57%) Jenkins
7 5 (2.98%) JUnit
8 4 (2.38%) Cypress.io
8 4 (2.38%) Gatling
8 4 (2.38%) JMeter
8 4 (2.38%) LoadRunner
9 3 (1.79%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.79%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.19%) Appium
10 2 (1.19%) Katalon Studio
10 2 (1.19%) Selenium
10 2 (1.19%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.60%) JConsole
11 1 (0.60%) SpecFlow
General
1 31 (18.45%) Social Skills
2 16 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (7.14%) Finance
4 10 (5.95%) Banking
5 9 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.57%) Investment Banking
6 6 (3.57%) Law
7 5 (2.98%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.79%) Games
9 2 (1.19%) Front Office
10 1 (0.60%) Advertising
10 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.60%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 70 (41.67%) Senior
2 43 (25.60%) Software Engineer
3 28 (16.67%) Developer
4 21 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
5 17 (10.12%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 12 (7.14%) .NET Developer
6 12 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
7 9 (5.36%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
7 9 (5.36%) C Software Engineer
7 9 (5.36%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (5.36%) Consultant
7 9 (5.36%) Data Consultant
7 9 (5.36%) Principal Engineer
7 9 (5.36%) Senior Consultant
7 9 (5.36%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 9 (5.36%) Systems Engineer
8 8 (4.76%) Architect
8 8 (4.76%) Site Engineer
8 8 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 8 (4.76%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (26.79%) Django
2 37 (22.02%) React
3 31 (18.45%) AngularJS
4 30 (17.86%) Node.js
5 20 (11.90%) Kafka
6 18 (10.71%) PyTorch
6 18 (10.71%) RESTful
6 18 (10.71%) TensorFlow
7 17 (10.12%) MERN Stack
8 16 (9.52%) .NET
9 15 (8.93%) Vue
10 14 (8.33%) ASP.NET
11 13 (7.74%) .NET Core
11 13 (7.74%) Elastic Stack
12 10 (5.95%) Entity Framework
13 9 (5.36%) .NET Framework
13 9 (5.36%) ASP.NET Web API
13 9 (5.36%) LangChain
13 9 (5.36%) pgvector
13 9 (5.36%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 35 (20.83%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 21 (12.50%) Data Structures
3 20 (11.90%) Greenfield Project
3 20 (11.90%) Linux Command Line
4 14 (8.33%) Cloud Native
4 14 (8.33%) Public Cloud
5 12 (7.14%) Product Ownership
6 9 (5.36%) Clustering
7 3 (1.79%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.60%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.60%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.60%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.60%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.60%) NHS
8 1 (0.60%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.60%) PMI
8 1 (0.60%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 49 (29.17%) Linux
2 28 (16.67%) Unix
3 5 (2.98%) CentOS
3 5 (2.98%) Windows
3 5 (2.98%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 66 (39.29%) Software Engineering
3 60 (35.71%) DevOps
4 50 (29.76%) Agile
4 50 (29.76%) Microservices
5 42 (25.00%) AI
6 40 (23.81%) Data Science
6 40 (23.81%) Machine Learning
7 38 (22.62%) Computer Science
7 38 (22.62%) Observability
8 36 (21.43%) Clean Code
8 36 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
9 30 (17.86%) Open Source
9 30 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (16.07%) Analytics
11 26 (15.48%) Data Engineering
12 25 (14.88%) Containerisation
13 24 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
13 24 (14.29%) Mentoring
14 22 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 122 (72.62%) Python
2 53 (31.55%) Java
3 49 (29.17%) JavaScript
4 45 (26.79%) SQL
5 38 (22.62%) TypeScript
6 18 (10.71%) C#
7 17 (10.12%) Bash
8 16 (9.52%) C
9 15 (8.93%) Go
10 12 (7.14%) Scala
11 6 (3.57%) PHP
12 3 (1.79%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.19%) C++
13 2 (1.19%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.60%) Perl
14 1 (0.60%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.60%) Rust
14 1 (0.60%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 51 (30.36%) Security Cleared
2 38 (22.62%) Degree
3 29 (17.26%) SC Cleared
4 25 (14.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (11.90%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.60%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.95%) GDPR
2 9 (5.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 9 (5.36%) QA
3 5 (2.98%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.19%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 79 (47.02%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Squid
Systems Management
1 50 (29.76%) Kubernetes
2 45 (26.79%) Terraform
3 21 (12.50%) Kibana
4 18 (10.71%) Grafana
5 17 (10.12%) Ansible
5 17 (10.12%) AWS Copilot
6 13 (7.74%) logstash
7 8 (4.76%) Prometheus
8 4 (2.38%) Nagios
9 3 (1.79%) Rancher
10 2 (1.19%) Argo
11 1 (0.60%) Graylog
Vendors
1 49 (29.17%) Google
2 18 (10.71%) Databricks
2 18 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.95%) Palantir
4 9 (5.36%) Cloudera
4 9 (5.36%) Dell
5 7 (4.17%) Splunk
6 4 (2.38%) AppDynamics
6 4 (2.38%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.38%) Oracle
6 4 (2.38%) Rapid7
6 4 (2.38%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.79%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.79%) Confluent
8 2 (1.19%) Rollbar
9 1 (0.60%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.60%) Foundry
9 1 (0.60%) New Relic