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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 454 334
Rank change year-on-year -62 -120 +147
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 156 232 622
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.47% 0.83%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.27% 2.57% 4.26%
Number of salaries quoted 123 148 460
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,625 £63,750 £47,188
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 £109,000 £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 6,868 9,010 14,584
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.12% 18.32% 19.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,181 5,078 11,458
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,500 £48,703 £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 £87,348 £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 18 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 18 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 -32 127 £73,801 -7.75% 105
UK excluding London -92 74 £67,500 -6.90% 72
London +47 70 £80,000 -7.25% 39
Work from Home -12 66 £73,801 +5.43% 83
North of England -30 22 £67,500 -2.61% 15
South West +8 18 £67,500 +17.39% 18
North West -4 17 £67,500 -2.61% 12
Scotland -18 10 £73,801 +6.48% 3
South East -41 8 £60,000 -27.27% 18
East of England +7 6 £51,250 +2.50% 6
Wales -5 4 £73,801 +66.43% 3
North East -7 4 £73,801 +6.37% 1
West Midlands +12 3 £73,801 +6.48% 7
Midlands -2 3 £73,801 +13.54% 9
Northern Ireland -24 3 £73,801 +6.48% 1
Yorkshire -26 1 £65,000 -18.75% 2

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 (8.97%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (7.69%) Apache Spark
3 9 (5.77%) Apache
3 9 (5.77%) Apache Solr
4 4 (2.56%) Confluence
5 1 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 115 (73.72%) AWS
2 112 (71.79%) Azure
3 69 (44.23%) GCP
4 29 (18.59%) Amazon ECS
4 29 (18.59%) AWS CloudFormation
5 28 (17.95%) Amazon ECR
6 27 (17.31%) dbt
7 25 (16.03%) Pulumi
8 20 (12.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 17 (10.90%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 17 (10.90%) PaaS
9 17 (10.90%) Sentry
10 11 (7.05%) Snowflake
10 11 (7.05%) Vertex AI
11 10 (6.41%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (6.41%) Amazon SageMaker
12 9 (5.77%) Azure Machine Learning
12 9 (5.77%) Dagster
12 9 (5.77%) Serverless
13 7 (4.49%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 25 (16.03%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.56%) HTTP
3 1 (0.64%) Broadband
3 1 (0.64%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.64%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (25.64%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (24.36%) Redis
3 35 (22.44%) MongoDB
4 27 (17.31%) BigQuery
5 25 (16.03%) Amazon RDS
6 19 (12.18%) Neo4j
7 17 (10.90%) MySQL
8 14 (8.97%) Azure SQL Database
9 12 (7.69%) Pinecone
10 11 (7.05%) Looker
11 10 (6.41%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (6.41%) Weaviate
12 9 (5.77%) Apache Iceberg
12 9 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (5.77%) Delta Lake
12 9 (5.77%) NoSQL
12 9 (5.77%) Tableau
13 7 (4.49%) DynamoDB
14 5 (3.21%) SQL Server
15 4 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 22 (14.10%) Git
2 17 (10.90%) GitLab
3 9 (5.77%) Cucumber
3 9 (5.77%) MLflow
4 7 (4.49%) Bitbucket
5 6 (3.85%) Jenkins
6 5 (3.21%) JIRA
6 5 (3.21%) JUnit
7 4 (2.56%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.92%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.92%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.28%) Appium
9 2 (1.28%) Gatling
9 2 (1.28%) JConsole
9 2 (1.28%) JMeter
9 2 (1.28%) Katalon Studio
9 2 (1.28%) LoadRunner
9 2 (1.28%) Selenium
9 2 (1.28%) VisualVM
10 1 (0.64%) Subversion
General
1 32 (20.51%) Social Skills
2 14 (8.97%) Finance
3 9 (5.77%) Banking
4 7 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (3.85%) Investment Banking
6 5 (3.21%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.21%) Law
7 3 (1.92%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.28%) Front Office
8 2 (1.28%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.28%) Publishing
8 2 (1.28%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.64%) Advertising
9 1 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Games
9 1 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 56 (35.90%) Senior
2 41 (26.28%) Software Engineer
3 35 (22.44%) Developer
4 18 (11.54%) Platform Engineer
5 17 (10.90%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 14 (8.97%) .NET Developer
7 11 (7.05%) Senior Software Engineer
8 9 (5.77%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
8 9 (5.77%) C Software Engineer
8 9 (5.77%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (5.77%) Consultant
8 9 (5.77%) Data Consultant
8 9 (5.77%) Senior Consultant
9 8 (5.13%) Lead
9 8 (5.13%) Principal Engineer
9 8 (5.13%) Site Engineer
9 8 (5.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 7 (4.49%) Architect
10 7 (4.49%) Backend Developer
10 7 (4.49%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (28.21%) React
2 41 (26.28%) Django
3 35 (22.44%) AngularJS
4 33 (21.15%) Node.js
5 19 (12.18%) Vue
6 18 (11.54%) RESTful
7 17 (10.90%) MERN Stack
8 16 (10.26%) .NET
9 15 (9.62%) .NET Core
10 14 (8.97%) ASP.NET
10 14 (8.97%) ASP.NET Web API
11 13 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
11 13 (8.33%) Entity Framework
12 12 (7.69%) .NET Framework
12 12 (7.69%) ASP.NET MVC
13 9 (5.77%) Faiss
13 9 (5.77%) PyTorch
13 9 (5.77%) TensorFlow
13 9 (5.77%) vLLM
14 8 (5.13%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 30 (19.23%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (12.82%) Linux Command Line
3 18 (11.54%) Algorithms
3 18 (11.54%) Data Structures
4 16 (10.26%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (8.33%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.21%) Cloud Native
6 5 (3.21%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.56%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (1.92%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.28%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.64%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.64%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.64%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.64%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.64%) Smart Energy
10 1 (0.64%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 49 (31.41%) Linux
2 28 (17.95%) Unix
3 7 (4.49%) Windows
3 7 (4.49%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.92%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 64 (41.03%) Software Engineering
3 60 (38.46%) DevOps
4 50 (32.05%) Agile
4 50 (32.05%) Microservices
5 36 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 35 (22.44%) Clean Code
7 34 (21.79%) AI
7 34 (21.79%) Computer Science
7 34 (21.79%) Observability
8 33 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (19.87%) Machine Learning
10 29 (18.59%) Open Source
11 26 (16.67%) Data Science
12 25 (16.03%) Containerisation
13 24 (15.38%) Mentoring
13 24 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 23 (14.74%) TDD
15 21 (13.46%) Cybersecurity
16 20 (12.82%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 112 (71.79%) Python
2 59 (37.82%) JavaScript
3 54 (34.62%) Java
4 43 (27.56%) TypeScript
5 39 (25.00%) SQL
6 18 (11.54%) C#
7 16 (10.26%) Bash
7 16 (10.26%) C
8 15 (9.62%) Go
9 9 (5.77%) PHP
9 9 (5.77%) Scala
10 3 (1.92%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.28%) C++
12 1 (0.64%) Perl
12 1 (0.64%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.64%) Rust
12 1 (0.64%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 52 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 33 (21.15%) Degree
3 30 (19.23%) SC Cleared
4 21 (13.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (12.82%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.69%) QA
2 3 (1.92%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.28%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.64%) GDPR
4 1 (0.64%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 74 (47.44%) Docker
2 1 (0.64%) Squid
Systems Management
1 42 (26.92%) Kubernetes
1 42 (26.92%) Terraform
2 19 (12.18%) Kibana
3 18 (11.54%) Ansible
4 17 (10.90%) AWS Copilot
5 14 (8.97%) Grafana
5 14 (8.97%) logstash
6 8 (5.13%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.92%) Nagios
7 3 (1.92%) Rancher
Vendors
1 45 (28.85%) Google
2 25 (16.03%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.41%) Palantir
4 9 (5.77%) Databricks
5 6 (3.85%) Splunk
6 4 (2.56%) Oracle
7 3 (1.92%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.92%) Rapid7
7 3 (1.92%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.28%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.28%) Confluent
8 2 (1.28%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.64%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.64%) Foundry
9 1 (0.64%) New Relic