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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 505 466 342
Rank change year-on-year -39 -124 +77
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 140 261 408
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.47% 0.80%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.11% 2.64% 3.81%
Number of salaries quoted 117 163 275
10th Percentile £52,500 £44,129 £37,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £101,500 £87,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +16.67% +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 6,640 9,900 10,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.22% 17.85% 20.94%
Number of salaries quoted 4,210 5,626 8,263
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,759 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% +4.60% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £95,050
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -

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 31 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 31 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 -27 119 £67,500 -15.63% 489
Work from Home +16 75 £65,000 -7.14% 399
London +72 71 £67,000 -18.79% 72
UK excluding London -78 62 £67,500 -3.57% 458
North of England -3 18 £67,500 -2.61% 103
North West +13 14 £67,500 -2.61% 61
South West +14 13 £67,500 +17.39% 62
Scotland -8 10 £73,801 +6.48% 30
East of England +14 6 £51,250 +2.50% 65
South East -40 6 £70,000 -15.15% 103
West Midlands +26 4 £69,401 +0.13% 42
Midlands +14 4 £69,401 +6.77% 83
North East +6 3 £73,801 +6.48% 4
Wales +1 3 £73,801 +9.33% 14
Northern Ireland -3 2 £73,801 +6.48% 5
Yorkshire -3 1 £65,000 +23.81% 38

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 (8.57%) Apache Solr
2 9 (6.43%) Apache
3 6 (4.29%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (4.29%) Apache Spark
4 5 (3.57%) Confluence
5 3 (2.14%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 97 (69.29%) AWS
2 88 (62.86%) Azure
3 40 (28.57%) GCP
4 23 (16.43%) Amazon ECS
4 23 (16.43%) AWS CloudFormation
5 21 (15.00%) Amazon ECR
5 21 (15.00%) Serverless
6 20 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (14.29%) dbt
6 20 (14.29%) Pulumi
7 17 (12.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 12 (8.57%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 12 (8.57%) PaaS
8 12 (8.57%) Sentry
9 7 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (5.00%) Amazon S3
10 6 (4.29%) Vertex AI
11 4 (2.86%) GitHub
11 4 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.86%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 20 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.14%) Broadband
3 2 (1.43%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 31 (22.14%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (19.29%) Redis
4 20 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (12.86%) Azure SQL Database
5 18 (12.86%) DynamoDB
6 15 (10.71%) MySQL
6 15 (10.71%) Neo4j
7 14 (10.00%) BigQuery
8 7 (5.00%) Pinecone
9 6 (4.29%) NoSQL
10 5 (3.57%) SQL Server
11 4 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (2.86%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (2.86%) Weaviate
12 3 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (2.14%) Delta Lake
12 3 (2.14%) Looker
12 3 (2.14%) Relational Database
12 3 (2.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (17.14%) Git
2 15 (10.71%) GitLab
3 7 (5.00%) Bitbucket
3 7 (5.00%) JUnit
4 6 (4.29%) Cucumber
4 6 (4.29%) JIRA
5 5 (3.57%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.14%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.14%) MLflow
6 3 (2.14%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.43%) Appium
7 2 (1.43%) JConsole
7 2 (1.43%) Katalon Studio
7 2 (1.43%) Selenium
7 2 (1.43%) VisualVM
8 1 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.71%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.71%) TestNG
8 1 (0.71%) WebDriver
General
1 26 (18.57%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.00%) Finance
3 12 (8.57%) Health Technology
3 12 (8.57%) Publishing
3 12 (8.57%) Tech for Good
4 5 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.86%) Banking
6 3 (2.14%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.43%) Front Office
7 2 (1.43%) Games
7 2 (1.43%) Law
8 1 (0.71%) Advertising
8 1 (0.71%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.71%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (35.00%) Senior
2 46 (32.86%) Developer
3 35 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 18 (12.86%) .NET Developer
5 15 (10.71%) Senior Developer
6 13 (9.29%) Platform Engineer
7 12 (8.57%) Python Developer
7 12 (8.57%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 12 (8.57%) Senior Python Developer
8 9 (6.43%) AWS Developer
8 9 (6.43%) C Software Engineer
9 8 (5.71%) Site Engineer
9 8 (5.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 7 (5.00%) Backend Developer
10 7 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (5.00%) Integration Developer
10 7 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
10 7 (5.00%) Software Developer
11 6 (4.29%) React Developer
11 6 (4.29%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (41.43%) React
2 35 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 35 (25.00%) Node.js
3 28 (20.00%) Django
4 22 (15.71%) Vue
5 21 (15.00%) .NET
5 21 (15.00%) RESTful
6 19 (13.57%) .NET Core
6 19 (13.57%) ASP.NET
6 19 (13.57%) ASP.NET Web API
7 18 (12.86%) .NET Framework
7 18 (12.86%) ASP.NET MVC
7 18 (12.86%) Entity Framework
8 13 (9.29%) Elastic Stack
8 13 (9.29%) MERN Stack
9 12 (8.57%) Swagger
10 6 (4.29%) Apache NiFi
10 6 (4.29%) Kafka
10 6 (4.29%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (3.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
3 10 (7.14%) Algorithms
3 10 (7.14%) Data Structures
4 8 (5.71%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (4.29%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.57%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.86%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.14%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.43%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.43%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.43%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.71%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.71%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.71%) Smart Energy
10 1 (0.71%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 45 (32.14%) Linux
2 21 (15.00%) Unix
3 11 (7.86%) Windows
3 11 (7.86%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.71%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (43.57%) CI/CD
2 53 (37.86%) Agile
3 48 (34.29%) Software Engineering
4 46 (32.86%) DevOps
5 42 (30.00%) Microservices
6 38 (27.14%) Scrum
7 34 (24.29%) TDD
8 31 (22.14%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 28 (20.00%) Observability
10 27 (19.29%) AI
10 27 (19.29%) Clean Code
11 25 (17.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 22 (15.71%) Full-Stack Development
13 21 (15.00%) MVC
14 20 (14.29%) BDD
14 20 (14.29%) Computer Science
14 20 (14.29%) Data Science
14 20 (14.29%) Service-Level Objective
15 19 (13.57%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 98 (70.00%) Python
2 62 (44.29%) JavaScript
3 56 (40.00%) TypeScript
4 37 (26.43%) SQL
5 34 (24.29%) Java
6 23 (16.43%) C#
7 12 (8.57%) C
8 8 (5.71%) Bash
8 8 (5.71%) PHP
9 7 (5.00%) Go
10 3 (2.14%) Scala
11 2 (1.43%) Perl
11 2 (1.43%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.71%) C++
12 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 41 (29.29%) Security Cleared
2 25 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 17 (12.14%) Degree
4 16 (11.43%) DV Cleared
5 12 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.14%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (14.29%) QA
2 4 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.14%) GDPR
4 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.71%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.71%) NIST
4 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 57 (40.71%) Docker
2 1 (0.71%) Squid
Systems Management
1 30 (21.43%) Terraform
2 28 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 18 (12.86%) Kibana
4 12 (8.57%) Ansible
4 12 (8.57%) AWS Copilot
4 12 (8.57%) logstash
5 7 (5.00%) Grafana
5 7 (5.00%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.43%) Rancher
7 1 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.71%) Nagios
Vendors
1 33 (23.57%) Microsoft
2 31 (22.14%) Google
3 6 (4.29%) Atlassian
3 6 (4.29%) Oracle
4 3 (2.14%) Databricks
4 3 (2.14%) Palantir
4 3 (2.14%) Splunk
5 2 (1.43%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.71%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.71%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.71%) LogRhythm
6 1 (0.71%) New Relic
6 1 (0.71%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.71%) Rapid7