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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 493 390
Rank change year-on-year -3 -103 -4
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 147 266 362
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.42% 0.72%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.20% 2.50% 3.33%
Number of salaries quoted 121 164 250
10th Percentile £52,500 £43,911 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,750
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +6.46% -6.07%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £103,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £69,308 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.00% +6.63% +13.04%

All Database and 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 6,670 10,658 10,865
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.29% 16.68% 21.49%
Number of salaries quoted 4,305 6,142 8,584
10th Percentile £34,500 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,950 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025. 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 +16 122 £67,000 -9.15% 109
Work from Home +37 82 £65,000 -7.14% 83
London +86 73 £67,000 -18.79% 37
UK excluding London -33 68 £70,000 +1.00% 90
North of England +18 16 £67,500 - 17
Scotland +3 16 £73,801 +6.48% 2
South West +20 13 £67,500 +5.88% 15
North West +27 12 £63,500 -5.93% 12
South East -29 8 £82,500 - 29
East of England +22 6 £55,000 +10.00% 5
West Midlands +47 4 £69,401 +0.13% 14
Midlands +35 4 £69,401 +6.77% 19
North East +9 3 £73,801 +6.48% 2
Wales +2 3 £73,801 +9.33% 3
Northern Ireland -2 2 £73,801 +6.48%
Yorkshire +2 1 £65,000 +10.64% 4

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 Solr
2 9 (6.12%) Apache
3 6 (4.08%) CMS
4 5 (3.40%) Confluence
5 3 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (2.04%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 95 (64.63%) AWS
2 87 (59.18%) Azure
3 30 (20.41%) GCP
4 25 (17.01%) Amazon ECS
5 23 (15.65%) AWS Lambda
5 23 (15.65%) Serverless
6 22 (14.97%) AWS CloudFormation
7 20 (13.61%) Amazon ECR
7 20 (13.61%) dbt
7 20 (13.61%) Pulumi
8 19 (12.93%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 12 (8.16%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 12 (8.16%) PaaS
9 12 (8.16%) Sentry
10 10 (6.80%) Amazon S3
11 7 (4.76%) GitHub
12 6 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (4.08%) Cloudflare
12 6 (4.08%) SaaS
13 4 (2.72%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (13.61%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.04%) Broadband
3 2 (1.36%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (25.85%) MongoDB
2 28 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (16.33%) Redis
4 21 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
5 18 (12.24%) DynamoDB
5 18 (12.24%) MySQL
6 10 (6.80%) Neo4j
7 7 (4.76%) BigQuery
8 6 (4.08%) Relational Database
9 5 (3.40%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (3.40%) NoSQL
9 5 (3.40%) SQL Server
10 3 (2.04%) Pinecone
11 2 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (1.36%) InterSystems Cache
11 2 (1.36%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.68%) ClickHouse
12 1 (0.68%) DocumentDB
12 1 (0.68%) Event Store
Development Applications
1 33 (22.45%) Git
2 15 (10.20%) GitLab
3 10 (6.80%) JIRA
4 8 (5.44%) Jenkins
5 7 (4.76%) Bitbucket
5 7 (4.76%) JUnit
6 5 (3.40%) Cucumber
6 5 (3.40%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (2.72%) MSBuild
7 4 (2.72%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (2.72%) Visual Studio
8 3 (2.04%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.36%) Appium
9 2 (1.36%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.36%) JConsole
9 2 (1.36%) Katalon Studio
9 2 (1.36%) Selenium
9 2 (1.36%) VisualVM
10 1 (0.68%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.68%) TestNG
General
1 28 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 20 (13.61%) Finance
3 13 (8.84%) Tech for Good
4 12 (8.16%) Health Technology
4 12 (8.16%) Publishing
5 7 (4.76%) Law
6 6 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.72%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.72%) Banking
7 4 (2.72%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.72%) Marketing
7 4 (2.72%) Retail
8 2 (1.36%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.36%) Front Office
9 1 (0.68%) Advertising
9 1 (0.68%) Games
9 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 53 (36.05%) Developer
2 45 (30.61%) Senior
3 29 (19.73%) Software Engineer
4 21 (14.29%) .NET Developer
5 17 (11.56%) Senior Developer
6 13 (8.84%) Python Developer
6 13 (8.84%) Senior Python Developer
7 12 (8.16%) Platform Engineer
7 12 (8.16%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 12 (8.16%) Site Engineer
7 12 (8.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 9 (6.12%) AWS Developer
8 9 (6.12%) React Developer
9 8 (5.44%) Backend Developer
10 7 (4.76%) Integration Developer
10 7 (4.76%) Lead
10 7 (4.76%) Software Developer
11 6 (4.08%) C Software Engineer
11 6 (4.08%) Technical Manager
11 6 (4.08%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (39.46%) React
2 36 (24.49%) Node.js
3 32 (21.77%) AngularJS
4 30 (20.41%) .NET
5 25 (17.01%) ASP.NET
6 24 (16.33%) Django
7 23 (15.65%) .NET Core
7 23 (15.65%) ASP.NET Web API
7 23 (15.65%) Vue
8 22 (14.97%) .NET Framework
8 22 (14.97%) Entity Framework
9 21 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
10 20 (13.61%) RESTful
11 13 (8.84%) Elastic Stack
12 12 (8.16%) Swagger
13 11 (7.48%) Kafka
13 11 (7.48%) REST
14 9 (6.12%) MERN Stack
15 7 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
16 6 (4.08%) JSF
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.88%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (9.52%) Linux Command Line
3 8 (5.44%) Algorithms
3 8 (5.44%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.08%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.40%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (3.40%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.04%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.04%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.36%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.36%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.68%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.68%) IoT
8 1 (0.68%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.68%) Smart Energy
8 1 (0.68%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 49 (33.33%) Linux
2 21 (14.29%) Unix
3 16 (10.88%) Windows
4 14 (9.52%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (44.90%) CI/CD
2 62 (42.18%) Agile
3 46 (31.29%) DevOps
4 44 (29.93%) Microservices
4 44 (29.93%) Software Engineering
5 42 (28.57%) Scrum
6 39 (26.53%) TDD
7 32 (21.77%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (19.73%) AI
8 29 (19.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 28 (19.05%) Observability
10 26 (17.69%) MVC
11 25 (17.01%) Infrastructure as Code
12 24 (16.33%) Clean Code
13 23 (15.65%) BDD
13 23 (15.65%) Full-Stack Development
13 23 (15.65%) Service-Level Objective
14 22 (14.97%) Kanban
15 18 (12.24%) Cybersecurity
15 18 (12.24%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 93 (63.27%) Python
2 67 (45.58%) JavaScript
3 59 (40.14%) TypeScript
4 46 (31.29%) SQL
5 31 (21.09%) Java
6 29 (19.73%) C#
7 10 (6.80%) PHP
8 8 (5.44%) C
9 4 (2.72%) Bash
9 4 (2.72%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.36%) Go
10 2 (1.36%) Perl
10 2 (1.36%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.68%) C++
11 1 (0.68%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 38 (25.85%) Security Cleared
2 24 (16.33%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.16%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (5.44%) Degree
5 3 (2.04%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.36%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.97%) QA
2 6 (4.08%) GDPR
3 4 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.68%) NIST
4 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 59 (40.14%) Docker
2 1 (0.68%) Squid
Systems Management
1 32 (21.77%) Terraform
2 27 (18.37%) Kubernetes
3 21 (14.29%) Kibana
4 13 (8.84%) logstash
5 12 (8.16%) AWS Copilot
6 9 (6.12%) Ansible
6 9 (6.12%) Prometheus
7 8 (5.44%) Grafana
8 1 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.68%) Rancher
Vendors
1 39 (26.53%) Microsoft
2 27 (18.37%) Google
3 7 (4.76%) Atlassian
3 7 (4.76%) Oracle
4 5 (3.40%) Splunk
5 3 (2.04%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.36%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.36%) New Relic
7 1 (0.68%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.68%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.68%) LogRhythm
7 1 (0.68%) OpenAI