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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 509 467 371
Rank change year-on-year -42 -96 +45
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 138 261 376
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.47% 0.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.06% 2.61% 3.57%
Number of salaries quoted 116 163 247
10th Percentile £52,500 £44,129 £37,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £79,092 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £69,654 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.09% +11.45% +8.70%

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 6,709 10,010 10,526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.24% 17.84% 20.99%
Number of salaries quoted 4,242 5,731 8,131
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,270
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,779 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +4.63% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £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 25 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 25 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 -10 118 £67,000 -16.25% 231
Work from Home +25 74 £65,000 -7.14% 169
London +75 69 £67,000 -18.79% 54
UK excluding London -70 63 £67,500 -3.09% 193
North of England +5 18 £67,500 -1.32% 43
South West +10 14 £67,500 +5.88% 27
North West +9 14 £67,500 - 31
Scotland -12 10 £73,801 +6.48% 13
East of England +23 6 £50,000 - 23
South East -33 6 £70,000 -15.15% 49
West Midlands +27 4 £69,401 +0.13% 19
Midlands +12 4 £69,401 +6.77% 34
North East +10 3 £73,801 +6.48% 2
Wales +2 3 £73,801 +9.33% 7
Northern Ireland -5 2 £73,801 +6.48%
Yorkshire -6 1 £65,000 +23.81% 10

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 (8.70%) Apache Solr
2 9 (6.52%) Apache
3 5 (3.62%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.62%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.62%) Confluence
4 3 (2.17%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 96 (69.57%) AWS
2 84 (60.87%) Azure
3 36 (26.09%) GCP
4 23 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
4 23 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 22 (15.94%) Serverless
6 21 (15.22%) Amazon ECR
6 21 (15.22%) AWS Lambda
7 20 (14.49%) dbt
7 20 (14.49%) Pulumi
8 18 (13.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 12 (8.70%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 12 (8.70%) PaaS
9 12 (8.70%) Sentry
10 8 (5.80%) Amazon S3
11 7 (5.07%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (3.62%) Vertex AI
13 4 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (2.90%) SaaS
13 4 (2.90%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 20 (14.49%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.17%) Broadband
3 2 (1.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (24.64%) MongoDB
2 30 (21.74%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (18.12%) Redis
4 21 (15.22%) Amazon RDS
5 19 (13.77%) DynamoDB
6 18 (13.04%) Azure SQL Database
7 16 (11.59%) MySQL
8 15 (10.87%) Neo4j
9 11 (7.97%) BigQuery
10 7 (5.07%) NoSQL
11 6 (4.35%) Pinecone
12 5 (3.62%) SQL Server
13 4 (2.90%) Apache Cassandra
14 3 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (2.17%) Relational Database
14 3 (2.17%) Weaviate
15 2 (1.45%) Apache Iceberg
15 2 (1.45%) Delta Lake
15 2 (1.45%) DocumentDB
15 2 (1.45%) Looker
Development Applications
1 24 (17.39%) Git
2 15 (10.87%) GitLab
3 7 (5.07%) Bitbucket
3 7 (5.07%) JUnit
4 6 (4.35%) Cucumber
4 6 (4.35%) JIRA
5 5 (3.62%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.17%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.17%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.45%) Appium
7 2 (1.45%) JConsole
7 2 (1.45%) Katalon Studio
7 2 (1.45%) MLflow
7 2 (1.45%) Selenium
7 2 (1.45%) VisualVM
8 1 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.72%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.72%) TestNG
8 1 (0.72%) WebDriver
General
1 26 (18.84%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.14%) Finance
3 13 (9.42%) Tech for Good
4 12 (8.70%) Health Technology
4 12 (8.70%) Publishing
5 4 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.17%) Banking
7 2 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.45%) Front Office
7 2 (1.45%) Games
7 2 (1.45%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.72%) Advertising
8 1 (0.72%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.72%) Law
8 1 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 47 (34.06%) Senior
2 46 (33.33%) Developer
3 32 (23.19%) Software Engineer
4 18 (13.04%) .NET Developer
5 15 (10.87%) Senior Developer
6 13 (9.42%) Platform Engineer
7 12 (8.70%) Python Developer
7 12 (8.70%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 12 (8.70%) Senior Python Developer
8 9 (6.52%) AWS Developer
8 9 (6.52%) C Software Engineer
8 9 (6.52%) Site Engineer
8 9 (6.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 7 (5.07%) Backend Developer
9 7 (5.07%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (5.07%) Integration Developer
9 7 (5.07%) Software Developer
10 6 (4.35%) React Developer
10 6 (4.35%) Senior React Developer
10 6 (4.35%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (41.30%) React
2 35 (25.36%) Node.js
3 34 (24.64%) AngularJS
4 26 (18.84%) Django
5 21 (15.22%) .NET
5 21 (15.22%) Vue
6 20 (14.49%) RESTful
7 19 (13.77%) .NET Core
7 19 (13.77%) ASP.NET
7 19 (13.77%) ASP.NET Web API
8 18 (13.04%) .NET Framework
8 18 (13.04%) ASP.NET MVC
8 18 (13.04%) Entity Framework
9 13 (9.42%) Elastic Stack
9 13 (9.42%) MERN Stack
10 12 (8.70%) Swagger
11 7 (5.07%) Kafka
11 7 (5.07%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (4.35%) Apache NiFi
13 5 (3.62%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.04%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (10.14%) Linux Command Line
3 8 (5.80%) Algorithms
3 8 (5.80%) Data Structures
4 7 (5.07%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (3.62%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.62%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.90%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.17%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.45%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.45%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.45%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.45%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.72%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.72%) IoT
9 1 (0.72%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.72%) Smart Energy
9 1 (0.72%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 45 (32.61%) Linux
2 21 (15.22%) Unix
3 11 (7.97%) Windows
3 11 (7.97%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.72%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (43.48%) CI/CD
2 52 (37.68%) Agile
3 46 (33.33%) DevOps
3 46 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 39 (28.26%) Microservices
5 38 (27.54%) Scrum
6 34 (24.64%) TDD
7 31 (22.46%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (20.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 28 (20.29%) Observability
9 26 (18.84%) Clean Code
9 26 (18.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 25 (18.12%) AI
11 21 (15.22%) Full-Stack Development
11 21 (15.22%) MVC
12 20 (14.49%) BDD
12 20 (14.49%) Service-Level Objective
13 19 (13.77%) Cybersecurity
13 19 (13.77%) Kanban
13 19 (13.77%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 97 (70.29%) Python
2 61 (44.20%) JavaScript
3 57 (41.30%) TypeScript
4 38 (27.54%) SQL
5 32 (23.19%) Java
6 23 (16.67%) C#
7 12 (8.70%) C
8 8 (5.80%) PHP
9 7 (5.07%) Bash
10 6 (4.35%) Go
11 2 (1.45%) Perl
11 2 (1.45%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.45%) Scala
12 1 (0.72%) C++
12 1 (0.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 41 (29.71%) Security Cleared
2 25 (18.12%) SC Cleared
3 16 (11.59%) DV Cleared
4 14 (10.14%) Degree
5 11 (7.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.17%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (14.49%) QA
2 4 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.17%) GDPR
4 1 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.72%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.72%) NIST
4 1 (0.72%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 56 (40.58%) Docker
2 1 (0.72%) Squid
Systems Management
1 31 (22.46%) Terraform
2 28 (20.29%) Kubernetes
3 19 (13.77%) Kibana
4 12 (8.70%) Ansible
4 12 (8.70%) AWS Copilot
4 12 (8.70%) logstash
5 7 (5.07%) Grafana
5 7 (5.07%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.45%) Rancher
7 1 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.72%) Nagios
Vendors
1 33 (23.91%) Microsoft
2 29 (21.01%) Google
3 6 (4.35%) Atlassian
3 6 (4.35%) Oracle
4 3 (2.17%) Splunk
5 2 (1.45%) Databricks
5 2 (1.45%) Palantir
5 2 (1.45%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.72%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.72%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.72%) LogRhythm
6 1 (0.72%) New Relic
6 1 (0.72%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.72%) Rapid7