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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 526 431 376
Rank change year-on-year -95 -55 +77
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 217 236 698
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.54% 0.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.70% 3.27% 3.99%
Number of salaries quoted 166 151 443
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 £69,384 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +20.67% -17.86%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £69,384 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.73% +26.15% -12.00%

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 8,035 7,215 17,503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.63% 16.64% 17.40%
Number of salaries quoted 5,054 4,708 12,511
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £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 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £97,500
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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -80 199 £67,500 -3.57% 72
UK excluding London -97 111 £55,000 -20.73% 47
Work from Home -34 104 £55,000 -20.73% 52
London -25 90 £85,000 +22.51% 31
South East -55 31 £57,500 -30.30% 22
South West -37 25 £57,500 -4.17% 4
East of England -21 22 £48,750 -2.50% 6
North of England -59 20 £70,901 +18.17% 8
North West -2 14 £67,500 +12.50% 7
Midlands -33 10 £55,000 -18.67% 5
East Midlands -18 5 £55,000 -24.14% 2
West Midlands -32 5 £55,000 -13.13% 3
Yorkshire -45 5 £75,000 +11.11% 1
Wales -32 2 £59,401 -12.16% 2
Northern Ireland -44 1 £73,801 +34.18%
North East -46 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 51 (23.50%) Apache Spark
2 44 (20.28%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (8.76%) Apache
4 9 (4.15%) Apache Solr
5 4 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.38%) Confluence
7 1 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 155 (71.43%) AWS
2 146 (67.28%) Azure
3 85 (39.17%) GCP
4 35 (16.13%) Snowflake
5 31 (14.29%) dbt
6 23 (10.60%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 23 (10.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 23 (10.60%) Power Platform
7 16 (7.37%) GitHub
7 16 (7.37%) GitHub Copilot
8 15 (6.91%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (6.91%) Serverless
9 14 (6.45%) SaaS
10 12 (5.53%) Amazon ECR
10 12 (5.53%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (5.53%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (4.15%) Amazon SageMaker
11 9 (4.15%) Azure Machine Learning
11 9 (4.15%) Dagster
11 9 (4.15%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.76%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.84%) HTTP
3 3 (1.38%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (1.38%) Internet
3 3 (1.38%) MQTT
3 3 (1.38%) Network Security
4 1 (0.46%) BGP
4 1 (0.46%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (29.95%) MongoDB
2 55 (25.35%) BigQuery
3 53 (24.42%) Azure SQL Database
4 35 (16.13%) Looker
5 32 (14.75%) Amazon Redshift
5 32 (14.75%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (14.75%) Tableau
6 27 (12.44%) PostgreSQL
7 25 (11.52%) MySQL
8 23 (10.60%) Data Lake
8 23 (10.60%) Power BI
8 23 (10.60%) Snowflake Schema
9 21 (9.68%) Redis
10 19 (8.76%) NoSQL
11 12 (5.53%) Neo4j
12 10 (4.61%) Pinecone
12 10 (4.61%) Weaviate
13 9 (4.15%) Apache Iceberg
13 9 (4.15%) Delta Lake
14 8 (3.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (14.75%) MLflow
2 24 (11.06%) GitLab
3 21 (9.68%) Git
4 10 (4.61%) Jenkins
4 10 (4.61%) SonarQube
5 9 (4.15%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.76%) JIRA
7 4 (1.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.84%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.84%) Gatling
7 4 (1.84%) JMeter
7 4 (1.84%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.92%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.92%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.92%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.46%) Maven
9 1 (0.46%) PHPUnit
General
1 35 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
2 33 (15.21%) Social Skills
3 25 (11.52%) Finance
4 13 (5.99%) Banking
5 9 (4.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.23%) Games
7 6 (2.76%) Investment Banking
7 6 (2.76%) Law
7 6 (2.76%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.30%) Health Technology
8 5 (2.30%) Retail
9 4 (1.84%) Mandarin Language
9 4 (1.84%) Publishing
9 4 (1.84%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.46%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 73 (33.64%) Senior
2 68 (31.34%) Developer
3 53 (24.42%) .NET Developer
4 34 (15.67%) Software Engineer
5 23 (10.60%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 23 (10.60%) Systems Engineer
6 18 (8.29%) Lead
7 14 (6.45%) Data Engineer
8 13 (5.99%) Platform Engineer
9 11 (5.07%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (5.07%) Python Engineer
10 10 (4.61%) Architect
10 10 (4.61%) Consultant
10 10 (4.61%) Lead Data Engineer
10 10 (4.61%) Principal Engineer
10 10 (4.61%) Senior Consultant
10 10 (4.61%) Senior Software Engineer
11 9 (4.15%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
11 9 (4.15%) Data Consultant
12 8 (3.69%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (31.80%) Node.js
2 58 (26.73%) .NET
3 55 (25.35%) ASP.NET
4 53 (24.42%) .NET Core
4 53 (24.42%) ASP.NET Core
5 47 (21.66%) React
6 45 (20.74%) Kafka
7 32 (14.75%) PyTorch
7 32 (14.75%) TensorFlow
8 29 (13.36%) AngularJS
8 29 (13.36%) Vue
9 28 (12.90%) Django
10 24 (11.06%) ASP.NET Web API
11 23 (10.60%) LangChain
11 23 (10.60%) LlamaIndex
11 23 (10.60%) pgvector
11 23 (10.60%) scikit-learn
12 21 (9.68%) Blazor
13 20 (9.22%) Entity Framework
13 20 (9.22%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.82%) Cloud Native
2 28 (12.90%) Distributed Systems
2 28 (12.90%) Greenfield Project
2 28 (12.90%) Public Cloud
3 23 (10.60%) Algorithms
3 23 (10.60%) Clustering
3 23 (10.60%) Data Structures
4 10 (4.61%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.15%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.84%) Blockchain
6 4 (1.84%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.84%) Web3
7 3 (1.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (0.92%) Legacy Code
8 2 (0.92%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.46%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.46%) PMI
9 1 (0.46%) Replication
9 1 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.46%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 30 (13.82%) Linux
2 11 (5.07%) CentOS
3 8 (3.69%) Unix
4 5 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.84%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.84%) Windows
5 4 (1.84%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (40.09%) Agile
2 75 (34.56%) Microservices
3 72 (33.18%) AI
4 71 (32.72%) CI/CD
5 64 (29.49%) DevOps
6 62 (28.57%) Software Engineering
7 61 (28.11%) Full-Stack Development
8 60 (27.65%) Data Science
9 54 (24.88%) Machine Learning
10 49 (22.58%) Data Engineering
11 47 (21.66%) Analytics
11 47 (21.66%) Data Pipeline
12 44 (20.28%) Computer Science
13 37 (17.05%) Performance Tuning
13 37 (17.05%) Use Case
14 35 (16.13%) Business Intelligence
14 35 (16.13%) Data Modelling
14 35 (16.13%) Generative AI
15 33 (15.21%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
16 32 (14.75%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 129 (59.45%) Python
2 100 (46.08%) SQL
3 58 (26.73%) C#
4 52 (23.96%) JavaScript
5 45 (20.74%) TypeScript
6 44 (20.28%) Java
7 23 (10.60%) Bash
8 18 (8.29%) Go
9 17 (7.83%) Scala
10 9 (4.15%) Rust
11 8 (3.69%) C
12 6 (2.76%) C++
13 4 (1.84%) PHP
14 2 (0.92%) Ruby
14 2 (0.92%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.92%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.46%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 45 (20.74%) Degree
2 33 (15.21%) Security Cleared
3 29 (13.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (6.91%) SC Cleared
5 13 (5.99%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.84%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.46%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 23 (10.60%) GDPR
2 11 (5.07%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.07%) QA
3 2 (0.92%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 65 (29.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 61 (28.11%) Kubernetes
2 42 (19.35%) Terraform
3 30 (13.82%) Ansible
4 26 (11.98%) Grafana
5 12 (5.53%) Kibana
6 8 (3.69%) Prometheus
7 7 (3.23%) logstash
7 7 (3.23%) Nagios
8 5 (2.30%) Argo
8 5 (2.30%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (1.38%) Packer
9 3 (1.38%) Podman
9 3 (1.38%) Puppet
9 3 (1.38%) Rancher
10 1 (0.46%) Cilium
10 1 (0.46%) Graylog
10 1 (0.46%) Istio
Vendors
1 53 (24.42%) Microsoft
2 36 (16.59%) Google
3 32 (14.75%) Databricks
4 23 (10.60%) Cloudera
4 23 (10.60%) Dell
5 10 (4.61%) Palantir
5 10 (4.61%) Splunk
6 7 (3.23%) Rapid7
6 7 (3.23%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.84%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.84%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.38%) Confluent
8 3 (1.38%) NVIDIA
8 3 (1.38%) Tenable
9 2 (0.92%) New Relic
9 2 (0.92%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.92%) Rollbar
10 1 (0.46%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.46%) OpenText
10 1 (0.46%) ServiceNow