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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 511 460 373
Rank change year-on-year -51 -87 +27
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 136 266 368
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.46% 0.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.04% 2.59% 3.44%
Number of salaries quoted 115 168 246
10th Percentile £52,500 £44,673 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,875 £101,875
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 6,671 10,272 10,691
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.48% 17.61% 21.64%
Number of salaries quoted 4,276 5,945 8,289
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,549
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,900 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +6.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,979 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,555 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.10% -4.45% -

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 14 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 14 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 -18 115 £67,000 -13.55% 326
Work from Home +28 77 £65,000 -7.14% 220
London +81 67 £67,000 -18.79% 47
UK excluding London -67 62 £70,000 +1.00% 306
North of England +6 18 £67,500 - 70
North West +18 14 £65,500 -2.96% 40
South West +8 12 £67,500 +5.88% 39
Scotland 0 10 £73,801 +6.48% 17
South East -29 8 £75,000 -9.09% 72
East of England +15 5 £55,000 +10.00% 41
West Midlands +26 4 £69,401 +0.13% 39
Midlands +16 4 £69,401 +6.77% 61
North East -1 3 £73,801 +6.48% 4
Wales -2 3 £73,801 +9.33% 7
Northern Ireland -5 2 £73,801 +6.48% 3
Yorkshire -1 1 £65,000 +10.64% 27

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 12 (8.82%) Apache Solr
2 9 (6.62%) Apache
3 5 (3.68%) Confluence
4 4 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.94%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.21%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 93 (68.38%) AWS
2 80 (58.82%) Azure
3 34 (25.00%) GCP
4 23 (16.91%) AWS CloudFormation
5 22 (16.18%) Amazon ECS
5 22 (16.18%) Serverless
6 21 (15.44%) AWS Lambda
7 20 (14.71%) Amazon ECR
7 20 (14.71%) dbt
7 20 (14.71%) Pulumi
8 18 (13.24%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 12 (8.82%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 12 (8.82%) PaaS
9 12 (8.82%) Sentry
10 8 (5.88%) Amazon S3
11 7 (5.15%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (5.15%) GitHub
12 4 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (2.94%) Vercel
12 4 (2.94%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 20 (14.71%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.21%) Broadband
3 2 (1.47%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 29 (21.32%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (17.65%) Redis
4 21 (15.44%) Amazon RDS
5 19 (13.97%) DynamoDB
6 18 (13.24%) Azure SQL Database
6 18 (13.24%) MySQL
7 11 (8.09%) Neo4j
8 10 (7.35%) BigQuery
9 7 (5.15%) NoSQL
10 5 (3.68%) Pinecone
10 5 (3.68%) SQL Server
11 4 (2.94%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (2.21%) Relational Database
13 2 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (1.47%) DocumentDB
13 2 (1.47%) Weaviate
14 1 (0.74%) Big Data
14 1 (0.74%) ClickHouse
14 1 (0.74%) Looker
Development Applications
1 28 (20.59%) Git
2 14 (10.29%) GitLab
3 9 (6.62%) JIRA
4 7 (5.15%) Bitbucket
4 7 (5.15%) JUnit
5 5 (3.68%) Cucumber
5 5 (3.68%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.21%) MSBuild
6 3 (2.21%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (2.21%) REST Assured
6 3 (2.21%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (2.21%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.47%) Appium
7 2 (1.47%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.47%) JConsole
7 2 (1.47%) Katalon Studio
7 2 (1.47%) Selenium
7 2 (1.47%) VisualVM
8 1 (0.74%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.74%) SpecFlow
General
1 25 (18.38%) Social Skills
2 13 (9.56%) Finance
2 13 (9.56%) Tech for Good
3 12 (8.82%) Health Technology
3 12 (8.82%) Publishing
4 3 (2.21%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.21%) Retail
5 2 (1.47%) Banking
5 2 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.47%) Front Office
5 2 (1.47%) Games
5 2 (1.47%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.74%) Advertising
6 1 (0.74%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.74%) Law
6 1 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 49 (36.03%) Developer
2 46 (33.82%) Senior
3 28 (20.59%) Software Engineer
4 18 (13.24%) .NET Developer
5 15 (11.03%) Senior Developer
6 13 (9.56%) Platform Engineer
7 12 (8.82%) Python Developer
7 12 (8.82%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 12 (8.82%) Senior Python Developer
8 9 (6.62%) AWS Developer
8 9 (6.62%) React Developer
8 9 (6.62%) Site Engineer
8 9 (6.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 7 (5.15%) Backend Developer
9 7 (5.15%) Integration Developer
9 7 (5.15%) Software Developer
10 6 (4.41%) C Software Engineer
10 6 (4.41%) Senior React Developer
10 6 (4.41%) Senior Software Developer
10 6 (4.41%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (40.44%) React
2 34 (25.00%) Node.js
3 29 (21.32%) AngularJS
4 26 (19.12%) Django
5 23 (16.91%) .NET
6 21 (15.44%) ASP.NET
7 20 (14.71%) RESTful
7 20 (14.71%) Vue
8 19 (13.97%) .NET Core
8 19 (13.97%) ASP.NET Web API
9 18 (13.24%) .NET Framework
9 18 (13.24%) ASP.NET MVC
9 18 (13.24%) Entity Framework
10 13 (9.56%) Elastic Stack
11 12 (8.82%) Swagger
12 9 (6.62%) MERN Stack
13 7 (5.15%) Kafka
13 7 (5.15%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (5.15%) REST
14 6 (4.41%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.24%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (10.29%) Linux Command Line
3 8 (5.88%) Algorithms
3 8 (5.88%) Data Structures
4 7 (5.15%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (3.68%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.94%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.94%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.21%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.47%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.47%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.47%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.74%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.74%) IoT
9 1 (0.74%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.74%) Smart Energy
9 1 (0.74%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 44 (32.35%) Linux
2 21 (15.44%) Unix
3 11 (8.09%) Windows
3 11 (8.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (42.65%) CI/CD
2 55 (40.44%) Agile
3 47 (34.56%) DevOps
4 42 (30.88%) Software Engineering
5 41 (30.15%) Microservices
6 38 (27.94%) Scrum
7 34 (25.00%) TDD
8 32 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (20.59%) Observability
10 27 (19.85%) Infrastructure as Code
11 26 (19.12%) AI
11 26 (19.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 25 (18.38%) Clean Code
13 23 (16.91%) MVC
14 20 (14.71%) BDD
14 20 (14.71%) Full-Stack Development
14 20 (14.71%) Service-Level Objective
15 19 (13.97%) Kanban
16 18 (13.24%) Open Source
17 16 (11.76%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 90 (66.18%) Python
2 61 (44.85%) JavaScript
3 56 (41.18%) TypeScript
4 39 (28.68%) SQL
5 26 (19.12%) Java
6 25 (18.38%) C#
7 11 (8.09%) PHP
8 8 (5.88%) C
9 5 (3.68%) Bash
9 5 (3.68%) Go
10 2 (1.47%) Perl
10 2 (1.47%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.74%) C++
11 1 (0.74%) Scala
11 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 37 (27.21%) Security Cleared
2 25 (18.38%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.82%) Degree
3 12 (8.82%) DV Cleared
4 11 (8.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.21%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (16.18%) QA
2 5 (3.68%) GDPR
3 4 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.74%) NIST
4 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 52 (38.24%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) Squid
Systems Management
1 30 (22.06%) Terraform
2 23 (16.91%) Kubernetes
3 19 (13.97%) Kibana
4 12 (8.82%) AWS Copilot
4 12 (8.82%) logstash
5 11 (8.09%) Ansible
6 7 (5.15%) Prometheus
7 6 (4.41%) Grafana
8 2 (1.47%) Rancher
9 1 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 33 (24.26%) Microsoft
2 29 (21.32%) Google
3 6 (4.41%) Atlassian
3 6 (4.41%) Oracle
4 2 (1.47%) Splunk
5 1 (0.74%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (0.74%) Databricks
5 1 (0.74%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.74%) LogRhythm
5 1 (0.74%) New Relic
5 1 (0.74%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.74%) Palantir
5 1 (0.74%) Red Hat