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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 543 424 360
Rank change year-on-year -119 -64 +97
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 172 227 730
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.54% 0.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.20% 3.09% 4.22%
Number of salaries quoted 114 147 463
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +20.83% -14.29%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +27.27% -12.46%

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 7,814 7,356 17,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.82% 17.47% 18.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4,598 5,159 12,585
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,250 £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% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £76,250
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 25 April 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 25 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 -114 152 £75,000 - 85
London -5 84 £85,000 +9.68% 39
UK excluding London -144 72 £67,500 -3.57% 51
Work from Home -98 51 £70,000 -3.45% 89
South West -38 25 £67,500 +5.88% 11
North of England -53 18 £74,301 +9.87% 9
North West -40 14 £67,500 - 7
East of England -49 12 £47,500 -5.00% 6
South East -87 10 £60,000 -27.27% 17
Scotland -26 3 - - 3
Yorkshire -59 3 £75,000 +7.14% 2
Midlands -55 2 £53,750 -18.95% 5
East Midlands -64 2 £53,750 -17.31% 2
Wales -26 1 £73,801 +9.13% 1
Northern Ireland -41 1 £73,801 +34.18%
North East -45 1 - -

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 44 (25.58%) Apache Spark
2 42 (24.42%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (8.14%) Apache
4 6 (3.49%) Apache Solr
5 4 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.16%) Confluence
7 1 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 142 (82.56%) AWS
2 114 (66.28%) Azure
3 86 (50.00%) GCP
4 35 (20.35%) Snowflake
5 31 (18.02%) dbt
6 23 (13.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 23 (13.37%) Power Platform
7 19 (11.05%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 14 (8.14%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (7.56%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (6.98%) Amazon ECR
11 10 (5.81%) Serverless
12 9 (5.23%) Amazon SageMaker
12 9 (5.23%) Azure Machine Learning
12 9 (5.23%) Dagster
12 9 (5.23%) SaaS
12 9 (5.23%) Vertex AI
13 8 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (4.65%) Amazon S3
14 7 (4.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.49%) TCP/IP
2 5 (2.91%) HTTP
3 2 (1.16%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (1.16%) Internet
4 1 (0.58%) BGP
4 1 (0.58%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (33.72%) BigQuery
2 35 (20.35%) Looker
3 33 (19.19%) Amazon Redshift
4 32 (18.60%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (18.60%) Tableau
5 28 (16.28%) MongoDB
6 27 (15.70%) PostgreSQL
7 23 (13.37%) Data Lake
7 23 (13.37%) Power BI
7 23 (13.37%) Snowflake Schema
8 22 (12.79%) MySQL
9 21 (12.21%) Neo4j
10 20 (11.63%) Redis
11 18 (10.47%) NoSQL
12 10 (5.81%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (5.81%) Pinecone
12 10 (5.81%) Weaviate
13 9 (5.23%) Apache Iceberg
13 9 (5.23%) Delta Lake
14 6 (3.49%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 32 (18.60%) MLflow
2 23 (13.37%) GitLab
3 19 (11.05%) Git
4 11 (6.40%) Cucumber
5 9 (5.23%) Jenkins
6 7 (4.07%) SonarQube
7 6 (3.49%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (2.33%) Cypress.io
8 4 (2.33%) Gatling
8 4 (2.33%) JIRA
8 4 (2.33%) JMeter
8 4 (2.33%) LoadRunner
9 2 (1.16%) JUnit
9 2 (1.16%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.58%) Katalon Studio
10 1 (0.58%) Maven
10 1 (0.58%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.58%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.58%) Selenium
General
1 34 (19.77%) Analytical Skills
2 28 (16.28%) Social Skills
3 12 (6.98%) Banking
3 12 (6.98%) Finance
4 9 (5.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (3.49%) Law
6 5 (2.91%) Investment Banking
6 5 (2.91%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.33%) Mandarin Language
8 3 (1.74%) Games
9 2 (1.16%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.58%) Front Office
10 1 (0.58%) Publishing
10 1 (0.58%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 68 (39.53%) Senior
2 46 (26.74%) Software Engineer
3 23 (13.37%) Developer
3 23 (13.37%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 23 (13.37%) Systems Engineer
4 13 (7.56%) Senior Software Engineer
5 12 (6.98%) Platform Engineer
6 11 (6.40%) Data Engineer
6 11 (6.40%) DevOps Engineer
6 11 (6.40%) Lead
6 11 (6.40%) Principal Engineer
7 10 (5.81%) .NET Developer
7 10 (5.81%) Architect
7 10 (5.81%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (5.23%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
8 9 (5.23%) C Software Engineer
8 9 (5.23%) Consultant
8 9 (5.23%) Data Consultant
8 9 (5.23%) Python Engineer
8 9 (5.23%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (22.67%) Kafka
2 35 (20.35%) React
3 32 (18.60%) PyTorch
3 32 (18.60%) TensorFlow
4 31 (18.02%) Django
5 27 (15.70%) AngularJS
6 26 (15.12%) Node.js
7 23 (13.37%) LangChain
7 23 (13.37%) LlamaIndex
7 23 (13.37%) pgvector
7 23 (13.37%) scikit-learn
8 21 (12.21%) RESTful
9 17 (9.88%) MERN Stack
9 17 (9.88%) Vue
10 14 (8.14%) .NET
11 12 (6.98%) ASP.NET
12 11 (6.40%) Elastic Stack
13 10 (5.81%) .NET Core
14 9 (5.23%) Faiss
14 9 (5.23%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 29 (16.86%) Cloud Native
1 29 (16.86%) Public Cloud
2 28 (16.28%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (15.12%) Algorithms
3 26 (15.12%) Data Structures
3 26 (15.12%) Greenfield Project
4 23 (13.37%) Clustering
5 10 (5.81%) Product Ownership
6 9 (5.23%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (2.33%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.33%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.33%) Web3
8 3 (1.74%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.58%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.58%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.58%) NHS
9 1 (0.58%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.58%) PMI
9 1 (0.58%) Replication
9 1 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (16.28%) Linux
2 11 (6.40%) CentOS
3 8 (4.65%) Unix
4 4 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.33%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.33%) Windows
4 4 (2.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (41.28%) Software Engineering
2 59 (34.30%) AI
2 59 (34.30%) Data Science
3 58 (33.72%) CI/CD
4 54 (31.40%) DevOps
5 52 (30.23%) Machine Learning
6 48 (27.91%) Microservices
7 47 (27.33%) Agile
8 45 (26.16%) Computer Science
9 44 (25.58%) Analytics
9 44 (25.58%) Data Engineering
9 44 (25.58%) Data Pipeline
10 35 (20.35%) Generative AI
11 33 (19.19%) Performance Tuning
11 33 (19.19%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 33 (19.19%) Use Case
12 32 (18.60%) Business Intelligence
12 32 (18.60%) Feature Engineering
12 32 (18.60%) Presales
13 31 (18.02%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 131 (76.16%) Python
2 55 (31.98%) SQL
3 54 (31.40%) Java
4 42 (24.42%) JavaScript
5 40 (23.26%) TypeScript
6 23 (13.37%) Bash
7 19 (11.05%) Go
8 16 (9.30%) C
8 16 (9.30%) C#
9 13 (7.56%) Scala
10 6 (3.49%) C++
11 5 (2.91%) Rust
12 3 (1.74%) PHP
12 3 (1.74%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.16%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.58%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 46 (26.74%) Degree
2 38 (22.09%) Security Cleared
3 30 (17.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (12.21%) DV Cleared
5 11 (6.40%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.33%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.58%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (13.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 23 (13.37%) GDPR
2 9 (5.23%) Data Quality
3 8 (4.65%) QA
4 2 (1.16%) Accessibility
System Software
1 60 (34.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 58 (33.72%) Kubernetes
2 39 (22.67%) Terraform
3 26 (15.12%) Ansible
4 23 (13.37%) Grafana
5 16 (9.30%) Kibana
6 10 (5.81%) logstash
7 7 (4.07%) Nagios
8 5 (2.91%) Argo
8 5 (2.91%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (2.91%) Prometheus
9 4 (2.33%) Rancher
10 2 (1.16%) Packer
11 1 (0.58%) Cilium
11 1 (0.58%) Graylog
11 1 (0.58%) Istio
Vendors
1 35 (20.35%) Google
2 32 (18.60%) Databricks
3 23 (13.37%) Cloudera
3 23 (13.37%) Dell
4 10 (5.81%) Microsoft
4 10 (5.81%) Palantir
4 10 (5.81%) Splunk
5 7 (4.07%) Rapid7
5 7 (4.07%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.33%) AppDynamics
6 4 (2.33%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.74%) Confluent
8 2 (1.16%) Oracle
8 2 (1.16%) Rollbar
9 1 (0.58%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.58%) Foundry