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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 452 337
Rank change year-on-year -78 -115 +134
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 147 225 626
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.46% 0.83%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.14% 2.53% 4.26%
Number of salaries quoted 115 147 462
10th Percentile £50,500 £47,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £56,875 £63,750 £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 £83,750
90th Percentile £108,000 £90,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +31.82% -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 6,855 8,908 14,705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.96% 18.36% 19.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4,172 5,094 11,520
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,499 £47,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £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 21 February 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 21 February 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 -41 118 £73,801 -7.75% 98
UK excluding London -89 73 £67,500 -6.90% 73
London +48 62 £80,000 -7.25% 31
Work from Home -19 56 £73,801 +3.58% 78
North of England -41 21 £67,500 -2.61% 16
South West -2 18 £67,500 -6.90% 18
North West -16 16 £67,500 -1.32% 12
Scotland -8 10 £73,801 +6.48% 3
South East -63 9 £60,000 -27.27% 18
East of England +5 5 £47,500 -5.00% 7
Wales -6 4 £73,801 +66.43% 3
North East -15 4 £73,801 +6.37% 1
West Midlands +2 3 £73,801 +6.48% 6
Midlands -10 3 £73,801 +13.54% 8
Northern Ireland -27 3 £73,801 +6.48% 1
Yorkshire -30 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 14 (9.52%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (8.16%) Apache Spark
3 9 (6.12%) Apache
4 6 (4.08%) Apache Solr
5 4 (2.72%) Confluence
6 1 (0.68%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 110 (74.83%) AWS
2 105 (71.43%) Azure
3 69 (46.94%) GCP
4 29 (19.73%) Amazon ECS
4 29 (19.73%) AWS CloudFormation
5 28 (19.05%) Amazon ECR
5 28 (19.05%) dbt
6 25 (17.01%) Pulumi
7 20 (13.61%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 17 (11.56%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 17 (11.56%) PaaS
8 17 (11.56%) Sentry
9 12 (8.16%) Snowflake
10 11 (7.48%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (6.80%) Amazon SageMaker
11 10 (6.80%) Vertex AI
12 9 (6.12%) Azure Machine Learning
12 9 (6.12%) Dagster
13 6 (4.08%) Serverless
14 5 (3.40%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 25 (17.01%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.72%) HTTP
3 1 (0.68%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.68%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (27.89%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (26.53%) Redis
3 33 (22.45%) MongoDB
4 26 (17.69%) BigQuery
5 25 (17.01%) Amazon RDS
6 19 (12.93%) Neo4j
7 14 (9.52%) MySQL
8 12 (8.16%) Looker
9 11 (7.48%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (7.48%) Pinecone
10 10 (6.80%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (6.80%) NoSQL
10 10 (6.80%) Weaviate
11 9 (6.12%) Apache Iceberg
11 9 (6.12%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (6.12%) Delta Lake
11 9 (6.12%) Tableau
12 5 (3.40%) SQL Server
13 4 (2.72%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (2.72%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (12.93%) Git
2 17 (11.56%) GitLab
3 9 (6.12%) Cucumber
3 9 (6.12%) MLflow
4 7 (4.76%) Bitbucket
5 6 (4.08%) Jenkins
6 5 (3.40%) JIRA
6 5 (3.40%) JUnit
7 4 (2.72%) Cypress.io
8 3 (2.04%) REST Assured
8 3 (2.04%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.36%) Appium
9 2 (1.36%) Gatling
9 2 (1.36%) JConsole
9 2 (1.36%) JMeter
9 2 (1.36%) Katalon Studio
9 2 (1.36%) LoadRunner
9 2 (1.36%) Selenium
9 2 (1.36%) VisualVM
10 1 (0.68%) Subversion
General
1 33 (22.45%) Social Skills
2 13 (8.84%) Finance
3 9 (6.12%) Banking
4 7 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (4.08%) Investment Banking
6 5 (3.40%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.40%) Law
7 3 (2.04%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.36%) Front Office
9 1 (0.68%) Advertising
9 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Games
9 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 53 (36.05%) Senior
2 41 (27.89%) Software Engineer
3 26 (17.69%) Developer
4 18 (12.24%) Platform Engineer
5 17 (11.56%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 11 (7.48%) .NET Developer
6 11 (7.48%) Senior Software Engineer
7 9 (6.12%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
7 9 (6.12%) C Software Engineer
7 9 (6.12%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (6.12%) Consultant
7 9 (6.12%) Data Consultant
7 9 (6.12%) Senior Consultant
8 8 (5.44%) Lead
8 8 (5.44%) Principal Engineer
8 8 (5.44%) Site Engineer
8 8 (5.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 7 (4.76%) Architect
10 6 (4.08%) Test Engineer
11 5 (3.40%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (27.89%) Django
2 38 (25.85%) React
3 32 (21.77%) AngularJS
4 27 (18.37%) Node.js
5 17 (11.56%) MERN Stack
6 16 (10.88%) RESTful
6 16 (10.88%) Vue
7 13 (8.84%) .NET
7 13 (8.84%) Elastic Stack
8 12 (8.16%) .NET Core
9 11 (7.48%) ASP.NET
9 11 (7.48%) ASP.NET Web API
10 10 (6.80%) Entity Framework
11 9 (6.12%) .NET Framework
11 9 (6.12%) ASP.NET MVC
11 9 (6.12%) Faiss
11 9 (6.12%) Kafka
11 9 (6.12%) PyTorch
11 9 (6.12%) TensorFlow
11 9 (6.12%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 30 (20.41%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (13.61%) Linux Command Line
3 18 (12.24%) Algorithms
3 18 (12.24%) Data Structures
4 16 (10.88%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (8.84%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.40%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.72%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.72%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.36%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.36%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.68%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.68%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.68%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.68%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.68%) Smart Energy
9 1 (0.68%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 46 (31.29%) Linux
2 28 (19.05%) Unix
3 4 (2.72%) Windows
3 4 (2.72%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.04%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (45.58%) CI/CD
2 61 (41.50%) Software Engineering
3 59 (40.14%) DevOps
4 47 (31.97%) Microservices
5 45 (30.61%) Agile
6 35 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 35 (23.81%) Observability
7 34 (23.13%) Clean Code
7 34 (23.13%) Computer Science
8 30 (20.41%) AI
8 30 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (19.73%) Machine Learning
9 29 (19.73%) Open Source
10 25 (17.01%) Data Science
11 24 (16.33%) Mentoring
12 23 (15.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 22 (14.97%) Containerisation
14 21 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
15 20 (13.61%) Service-Level Objective
16 19 (12.93%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 106 (72.11%) Python
2 54 (36.73%) Java
3 53 (36.05%) JavaScript
4 38 (25.85%) TypeScript
5 36 (24.49%) SQL
6 16 (10.88%) Bash
6 16 (10.88%) C
7 15 (10.20%) C#
7 15 (10.20%) Go
8 9 (6.12%) Scala
9 6 (4.08%) PHP
10 3 (2.04%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.36%) C++
12 1 (0.68%) Perl
12 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.68%) Rust
12 1 (0.68%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 52 (35.37%) Security Cleared
2 33 (22.45%) Degree
3 30 (20.41%) SC Cleared
4 21 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (13.61%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.80%) QA
2 4 (2.72%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.36%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.68%) GDPR
4 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 72 (48.98%) Docker
2 1 (0.68%) Squid
Systems Management
1 42 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 42 (28.57%) Terraform
2 19 (12.93%) Kibana
3 17 (11.56%) AWS Copilot
4 15 (10.20%) Ansible
5 14 (9.52%) Grafana
5 14 (9.52%) logstash
6 8 (5.44%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.04%) Nagios
7 3 (2.04%) Rancher
Vendors
1 45 (30.61%) Google
2 19 (12.93%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.80%) Palantir
4 9 (6.12%) Databricks
5 6 (4.08%) Splunk
6 4 (2.72%) Oracle
7 3 (2.04%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.04%) Confluent
7 3 (2.04%) Rapid7
7 3 (2.04%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.36%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.36%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.68%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.68%) Foundry
9 1 (0.68%) New Relic