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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 486 425 397
Rank change year-on-year -61 -28 +42
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 249 248 682
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.56% 0.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.10% 3.36% 3.83%
Number of salaries quoted 199 158 440
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,384 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% +20.67% -17.86%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £110,750 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £69,384 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.73% +26.15% -12.46%

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 8,044 7,380 17,790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.60% 16.56% 16.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,228 4,765 12,646
10th Percentile £35,675 £35,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,750 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -10.16%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,751 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £98,750
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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -61 231 £67,500 -2.71% 114
UK excluding London -86 138 £55,000 -20.73% 85
Work from Home -22 134 £55,000 -20.73% 94
London -26 96 £85,000 +25.93% 47
South East -37 45 £57,500 -30.30% 29
East of England -16 26 £52,500 +5.00% 6
South West -37 25 £52,500 -12.50% 4
North of England -33 23 £74,651 +19.44% 23
Midlands -13 15 £55,000 -18.67% 11
North West -3 14 £67,500 +12.50% 15
West Midlands -13 8 £55,000 -13.13% 6
East Midlands -24 7 £55,000 -24.14% 5
Yorkshire -40 6 £75,000 +11.11% 4
Wales -40 3 £45,000 -33.46% 4
North East -48 3 £75,000 +8.09% 4
Northern Ireland -35 1 £73,801 +34.18% 6

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 52 (20.88%) Apache Spark
2 43 (17.27%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (8.43%) Apache
4 8 (3.21%) Apache Solr
5 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.20%) Confluence
7 1 (0.40%) CMS
7 1 (0.40%) DNN
7 1 (0.40%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.40%) Immediacy CMS
7 1 (0.40%) Kentico
7 1 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.40%) Sitefinity
7 1 (0.40%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 175 (70.28%) Azure
2 168 (67.47%) AWS
3 81 (32.53%) GCP
4 34 (13.65%) Snowflake
5 31 (12.45%) dbt
6 27 (10.84%) GitHub
6 27 (10.84%) GitHub Copilot
7 23 (9.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 23 (9.24%) Power Platform
8 22 (8.84%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 21 (8.43%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (6.43%) Serverless
11 14 (5.62%) SaaS
12 13 (5.22%) Amazon ECR
12 13 (5.22%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (4.42%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (4.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 9 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
16 8 (3.21%) Amazon SageMaker
16 8 (3.21%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.41%) Hyperconnected
1 6 (2.41%) Internet
1 6 (2.41%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.61%) HTTP
3 3 (1.20%) MQTT
3 3 (1.20%) Network Security
4 1 (0.40%) BGP
4 1 (0.40%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (37.75%) MongoDB
2 86 (34.54%) Azure SQL Database
3 52 (20.88%) BigQuery
4 34 (13.65%) Looker
5 31 (12.45%) Amazon Redshift
5 31 (12.45%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (12.45%) Tableau
6 25 (10.04%) PostgreSQL
7 23 (9.24%) Data Lake
7 23 (9.24%) MySQL
7 23 (9.24%) Power BI
7 23 (9.24%) Snowflake Schema
8 20 (8.03%) Redis
9 17 (6.83%) NoSQL
10 9 (3.61%) Big Data
10 9 (3.61%) Neo4j
11 8 (3.21%) DynamoDB
11 8 (3.21%) Hadoop
11 8 (3.21%) Relational Database
11 8 (3.21%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 31 (12.45%) MLflow
2 24 (9.64%) GitLab
3 22 (8.84%) Git
4 10 (4.02%) Cucumber
4 10 (4.02%) Jenkins
4 10 (4.02%) SonarQube
5 7 (2.81%) JIRA
6 4 (1.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (1.61%) Gatling
6 4 (1.61%) JMeter
6 4 (1.61%) LoadRunner
7 3 (1.20%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.20%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.80%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.80%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.80%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.40%) Maven
General
1 37 (14.86%) Finance
2 36 (14.46%) Social Skills
3 34 (13.65%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.02%) Banking
5 10 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (3.61%) Retail
7 8 (3.21%) Games
8 7 (2.81%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.81%) Public Sector
9 6 (2.41%) Law
10 5 (2.01%) Health Technology
11 4 (1.61%) Mandarin Language
11 4 (1.61%) Publishing
11 4 (1.61%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.40%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 101 (40.56%) Developer
2 86 (34.54%) .NET Developer
3 75 (30.12%) Senior
4 27 (10.84%) Software Engineer
5 23 (9.24%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 23 (9.24%) Systems Engineer
6 21 (8.43%) Lead
7 15 (6.02%) Data Engineer
8 12 (4.82%) DevOps Engineer
8 12 (4.82%) Platform Engineer
9 11 (4.42%) Architect
9 11 (4.42%) Python Engineer
10 10 (4.02%) Consultant
10 10 (4.02%) Lead Data Engineer
10 10 (4.02%) Senior Consultant
10 10 (4.02%) Senior Developer
11 9 (3.61%) Principal Engineer
12 8 (3.21%) Data Consultant
12 8 (3.21%) Engineering Manager
12 8 (3.21%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (39.76%) Node.js
2 92 (36.95%) .NET
3 89 (35.74%) ASP.NET
4 86 (34.54%) ASP.NET Core
5 85 (34.14%) .NET Core
6 62 (24.90%) React
7 46 (18.47%) Kafka
8 43 (17.27%) Vue
9 41 (16.47%) ASP.NET Web API
10 40 (16.06%) AngularJS
11 36 (14.46%) Blazor
12 31 (12.45%) PyTorch
12 31 (12.45%) TensorFlow
13 29 (11.65%) .NET Framework
14 28 (11.24%) Entity Framework
15 26 (10.44%) Django
16 23 (9.24%) CSS
16 23 (9.24%) HTML
16 23 (9.24%) LlamaIndex
16 23 (9.24%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.45%) Greenfield Project
2 29 (11.65%) Cloud Native
3 26 (10.44%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (10.44%) Public Cloud
4 23 (9.24%) Clustering
5 21 (8.43%) Algorithms
5 21 (8.43%) Data Structures
6 9 (3.61%) Linux Command Line
6 9 (3.61%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.61%) Blockchain
7 4 (1.61%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.61%) Web3
8 3 (1.20%) Tandem
8 3 (1.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (0.80%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.80%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.40%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.40%) PMI
10 1 (0.40%) Replication
10 1 (0.40%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (12.45%) Linux
2 12 (4.82%) CentOS
3 9 (3.61%) Unix
4 6 (2.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.61%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.61%) Windows
5 4 (1.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (47.39%) Agile
2 101 (40.56%) Microservices
3 93 (37.35%) Full-Stack Development
4 76 (30.52%) CI/CD
5 72 (28.92%) AI
6 68 (27.31%) DevOps
7 59 (23.69%) Software Engineering
8 58 (23.29%) Data Science
9 51 (20.48%) Machine Learning
10 49 (19.68%) Data Engineering
10 49 (19.68%) Scrum
11 48 (19.28%) Analytics
12 45 (18.07%) Data Pipeline
13 43 (17.27%) TDD
14 40 (16.06%) Computer Science
15 39 (15.66%) Performance Tuning
16 38 (15.26%) Data Modelling
16 38 (15.26%) Use Case
17 36 (14.46%) Business Intelligence
18 34 (13.65%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 131 (52.61%) SQL
2 126 (50.60%) Python
3 92 (36.95%) C#
4 65 (26.10%) JavaScript
5 58 (23.29%) TypeScript
6 40 (16.06%) Java
7 23 (9.24%) Bash
8 18 (7.23%) Scala
9 15 (6.02%) Go
10 9 (3.61%) Rust
11 6 (2.41%) C++
12 4 (1.61%) C
13 3 (1.20%) PHP
14 2 (0.80%) Ruby
14 2 (0.80%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.80%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.40%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 41 (16.47%) Degree
2 31 (12.45%) Security Cleared
3 27 (10.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (5.62%) SC Cleared
5 10 (4.02%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.61%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 23 (9.24%) GDPR
2 13 (5.22%) QA
3 11 (4.42%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.80%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 74 (29.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 70 (28.11%) Kubernetes
2 42 (16.87%) Terraform
3 31 (12.45%) Ansible
4 27 (10.84%) Grafana
5 12 (4.82%) Kibana
6 8 (3.21%) Nagios
6 8 (3.21%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.81%) logstash
8 5 (2.01%) Argo
8 5 (2.01%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (1.20%) Packer
9 3 (1.20%) Podman
9 3 (1.20%) Puppet
10 2 (0.80%) Rancher
11 1 (0.40%) Cilium
11 1 (0.40%) Graylog
11 1 (0.40%) Istio
Vendors
1 85 (34.14%) Microsoft
2 36 (14.46%) Google
3 31 (12.45%) Databricks
4 23 (9.24%) Cloudera
4 23 (9.24%) Dell
5 12 (4.82%) Splunk
6 9 (3.61%) Palantir
7 8 (3.21%) Rapid7
7 8 (3.21%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.61%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.61%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.20%) Confluent
9 3 (1.20%) NVIDIA
9 3 (1.20%) Tenable
10 2 (0.80%) CheckPoint
10 2 (0.80%) New Relic
10 2 (0.80%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.80%) OpenText
10 2 (0.80%) Rollbar
10 2 (0.80%) ServiceNow