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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 479 500 399
Rank change year-on-year +21 -101 -34
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 171 252 348
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.38% 0.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.47% 2.38% 3.08%
Number of salaries quoted 138 150 245
10th Percentile £52,500 £43,911 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +3.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £98,250 £87,500 £104,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £69,308 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.61% +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 6,913 10,597 11,311
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.13% 15.82% 21.50%
Number of salaries quoted 4,491 5,993 8,923
10th Percentile £33,500 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,750
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 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £113,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.41% -3.18% -

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 18 November 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 18 November 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 +30 142 £65,000 -13.33% 182
Work from Home +59 102 £65,000 -6.22% 171
UK excluding London +1 89 £67,500 -2.61% 107
London +64 77 £65,000 -21.21% 76
Scotland +1 21 £73,801 +6.48% 5
North of England +30 18 £65,000 -3.21% 32
South East -4 18 £75,000 -9.09% 23
North West +27 13 £57,500 -4.17% 25
South West +28 11 £67,500 +17.39% 18
East of England +19 11 £50,000 -23.08% 10
West Midlands +51 5 £65,000 -6.22% 11
Midlands +39 5 £65,000 +1.96% 17
Wales +5 3 £73,801 +9.33% 2
North East +3 3 £73,801 +6.48% 1
Yorkshire +13 2 £65,000 - 7
Northern Ireland +2 2 £73,801 +6.48%

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 (8.19%) Apache Solr
2 10 (5.85%) Apache
3 6 (3.51%) CMS
3 6 (3.51%) IIS
4 5 (2.92%) Confluence
5 3 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.75%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.58%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 103 (60.23%) AWS
2 88 (51.46%) Azure
3 29 (16.96%) AWS Lambda
3 29 (16.96%) GCP
3 29 (16.96%) Serverless
4 27 (15.79%) Amazon ECS
5 20 (11.70%) Amazon ECR
5 20 (11.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 20 (11.70%) dbt
5 20 (11.70%) Pulumi
6 18 (10.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 13 (7.60%) Amazon S3
8 12 (7.02%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 12 (7.02%) Cloudflare
8 12 (7.02%) PaaS
8 12 (7.02%) Sentry
9 7 (4.09%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (4.09%) GitHub
10 6 (3.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (3.51%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 20 (11.70%) TCP/IP
2 5 (2.92%) Broadband
3 2 (1.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (23.39%) MongoDB
2 30 (17.54%) Redis
3 29 (16.96%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (15.20%) MySQL
5 21 (12.28%) Amazon RDS
5 21 (12.28%) Azure SQL Database
5 21 (12.28%) DynamoDB
6 15 (8.77%) SQL Server
7 8 (4.68%) Relational Database
8 7 (4.09%) Apache Cassandra
8 7 (4.09%) NoSQL
9 6 (3.51%) Neo4j
10 5 (2.92%) BigQuery
11 4 (2.34%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (2.34%) InterSystems Cache
11 4 (2.34%) RDBMS
12 3 (1.75%) Pinecone
13 1 (0.58%) Big Data
13 1 (0.58%) ClickHouse
13 1 (0.58%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 48 (28.07%) Git
2 17 (9.94%) GitLab
3 12 (7.02%) Jenkins
3 12 (7.02%) JIRA
4 8 (4.68%) JUnit
5 7 (4.09%) Bitbucket
5 7 (4.09%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (3.51%) MSBuild
6 6 (3.51%) NUnit
6 6 (3.51%) Team Foundation Server
6 6 (3.51%) TeamCity
6 6 (3.51%) Visual Studio
7 5 (2.92%) Jasmine
8 4 (2.34%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.75%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.17%) Appium
10 2 (1.17%) JConsole
10 2 (1.17%) Katalon Studio
10 2 (1.17%) Selenium
10 2 (1.17%) VisualVM
General
1 32 (18.71%) Social Skills
2 26 (15.20%) Finance
3 16 (9.36%) Tech for Good
4 15 (8.77%) Health Technology
4 15 (8.77%) Publishing
5 13 (7.60%) Law
6 12 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (4.68%) Marketing
8 7 (4.09%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (4.09%) Banking
9 6 (3.51%) Games
9 6 (3.51%) Investment Banking
9 6 (3.51%) Retail
10 4 (2.34%) Automotive
11 3 (1.75%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.17%) Front Office
13 1 (0.58%) Electronics
13 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 69 (40.35%) Developer
2 55 (32.16%) Senior
3 30 (17.54%) .NET Developer
4 29 (16.96%) Software Engineer
5 28 (16.37%) Senior Developer
6 15 (8.77%) Python Developer
6 15 (8.77%) Senior Python Developer
6 15 (8.77%) Site Engineer
6 15 (8.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 12 (7.02%) Platform Engineer
7 12 (7.02%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 11 (6.43%) AWS Developer
9 10 (5.85%) Java Engineer
9 10 (5.85%) Java Software Engineer
10 9 (5.26%) Lead
10 9 (5.26%) React Developer
11 8 (4.68%) Backend Developer
11 8 (4.68%) Integration Developer
11 8 (4.68%) Software Developer
12 7 (4.09%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (38.01%) React
2 46 (26.90%) .NET
3 37 (21.64%) ASP.NET
3 37 (21.64%) Node.js
4 33 (19.30%) AngularJS
5 31 (18.13%) RESTful
6 29 (16.96%) Vue
7 27 (15.79%) .NET Core
8 26 (15.20%) .NET Framework
9 25 (14.62%) Entity Framework
10 23 (13.45%) ASP.NET Web API
11 22 (12.87%) Django
12 21 (12.28%) ASP.NET MVC
13 19 (11.11%) REST
14 18 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
15 17 (9.94%) HTML
16 16 (9.36%) CSS
17 15 (8.77%) Swagger
18 14 (8.19%) Kafka
19 10 (5.85%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.19%) Cloud Native
1 14 (8.19%) Distributed Systems
1 14 (8.19%) Linux Command Line
2 8 (4.68%) Algorithms
3 7 (4.09%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.92%) Online Games
5 4 (2.34%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.34%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.75%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.17%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.17%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (1.17%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.58%) IoT
8 1 (0.58%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.58%) Smart Energy
8 1 (0.58%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 53 (30.99%) Linux
2 21 (12.28%) Unix
3 19 (11.11%) Windows
4 14 (8.19%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.92%) Ubuntu
6 4 (2.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (46.78%) CI/CD
2 77 (45.03%) Agile
3 51 (29.82%) DevOps
3 51 (29.82%) Scrum
4 47 (27.49%) Microservices
5 46 (26.90%) Software Engineering
6 44 (25.73%) TDD
7 37 (21.64%) MVC
7 37 (21.64%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (21.05%) AI
9 32 (18.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 30 (17.54%) Full-Stack Development
10 30 (17.54%) Observability
11 26 (15.20%) Clean Code
11 26 (15.20%) Service-Level Objective
12 23 (13.45%) BDD
12 23 (13.45%) Continuous Delivery
12 23 (13.45%) Infrastructure as Code
12 23 (13.45%) Mentoring
13 22 (12.87%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 97 (56.73%) Python
2 74 (43.27%) JavaScript
3 66 (38.60%) TypeScript
4 56 (32.75%) SQL
5 42 (24.56%) C#
6 35 (20.47%) Java
7 11 (6.43%) PHP
8 7 (4.09%) PowerShell
9 6 (3.51%) Bash
10 4 (2.34%) C
11 3 (1.75%) Perl
11 3 (1.75%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.75%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.58%) C++
12 1 (0.58%) Go
12 1 (0.58%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 25 (14.62%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.26%) DV Cleared
4 7 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (4.09%) Degree
5 5 (2.92%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.34%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (15.79%) QA
2 10 (5.85%) GDPR
3 5 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.17%) NIST
4 2 (1.17%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.17%) SLA
5 1 (0.58%) Data Quality
System Software
1 64 (37.43%) Docker
2 2 (1.17%) Squid
Systems Management
1 40 (23.39%) Terraform
2 30 (17.54%) Kubernetes
3 25 (14.62%) Kibana
4 14 (8.19%) logstash
5 12 (7.02%) AWS Copilot
6 11 (6.43%) Prometheus
7 10 (5.85%) Grafana
8 8 (4.68%) Ansible
9 1 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 46 (26.90%) Microsoft
2 25 (14.62%) Google
3 9 (5.26%) Splunk
4 8 (4.68%) Atlassian
4 8 (4.68%) Oracle
4 8 (4.68%) Rollbar
5 5 (2.92%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.75%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.75%) New Relic
7 2 (1.17%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.17%) LogRhythm
8 1 (0.58%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.58%) Databricks
8 1 (0.58%) OpenAI