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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 554 431 366
Rank change year-on-year -123 -65 +97
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 170 233 730
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.55% 0.76%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.18% 3.20% 4.20%
Number of salaries quoted 112 152 459
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,938 £57,688 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile £90,625 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £96,125 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +27.27% -14.50%

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 7,784 7,276 17,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.65% 17.20% 18.15%
Number of salaries quoted 4,591 5,112 12,595
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,779 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +9.18% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -121 149 £75,000 +3.45% 96
London -18 84 £85,000 +13.33% 43
UK excluding London -150 69 £67,500 -3.57% 52
Work from Home -86 55 £70,000 -3.45% 67
South West -39 23 £67,500 +12.50% 16
North of England -69 18 £75,000 +11.01% 9
North West -32 13 £70,901 +5.04% 8
East of England -40 12 £47,500 -5.00% 6
South East -78 9 £60,000 -27.27% 17
Yorkshire -58 4 £75,000 +7.14% 1
Scotland -33 3 - - 2
Midlands -50 2 £53,750 -18.95% 3
East Midlands -51 2 £53,750 -17.31% 1
Wales -28 1 £73,801 +9.13%
North East -39 1 - -
Northern Ireland -43 1 £73,801 +34.18%

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 46 (27.06%) Apache Spark
2 43 (25.29%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (8.82%) Apache
4 7 (4.12%) Apache Solr
5 4 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.18%) Confluence
7 1 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 139 (81.76%) AWS
2 106 (62.35%) Azure
3 84 (49.41%) GCP
4 35 (20.59%) Snowflake
5 31 (18.24%) dbt
6 23 (13.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 23 (13.53%) Power Platform
7 21 (12.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 14 (8.24%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (7.65%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (7.65%) Serverless
10 12 (7.06%) Amazon ECR
11 11 (6.47%) SaaS
12 9 (5.29%) Amazon S3
12 9 (5.29%) Amazon SageMaker
12 9 (5.29%) Azure Machine Learning
12 9 (5.29%) Dagster
12 9 (5.29%) Vertex AI
13 8 (4.71%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (4.71%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.53%) TCP/IP
2 5 (2.94%) HTTP
3 2 (1.18%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (1.18%) Internet
4 1 (0.59%) BGP
4 1 (0.59%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (32.94%) BigQuery
2 35 (20.59%) Looker
3 33 (19.41%) Amazon Redshift
4 32 (18.82%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (18.82%) Tableau
5 29 (17.06%) PostgreSQL
6 28 (16.47%) MongoDB
7 23 (13.53%) Data Lake
7 23 (13.53%) MySQL
7 23 (13.53%) Power BI
7 23 (13.53%) Snowflake Schema
8 21 (12.35%) Redis
9 19 (11.18%) NoSQL
10 16 (9.41%) Neo4j
11 10 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (5.88%) Pinecone
11 10 (5.88%) Weaviate
12 9 (5.29%) Apache Iceberg
12 9 (5.29%) Delta Lake
13 8 (4.71%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 32 (18.82%) MLflow
2 23 (13.53%) GitLab
3 19 (11.18%) Git
4 10 (5.88%) Cucumber
4 10 (5.88%) Jenkins
5 7 (4.12%) SonarQube
6 6 (3.53%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (2.35%) Gatling
7 4 (2.35%) JIRA
7 4 (2.35%) JMeter
7 4 (2.35%) LoadRunner
8 3 (1.76%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.18%) JUnit
9 2 (1.18%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.59%) Katalon Studio
10 1 (0.59%) Maven
10 1 (0.59%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.59%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.59%) Selenium
General
1 35 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
2 28 (16.47%) Social Skills
3 12 (7.06%) Banking
3 12 (7.06%) Finance
4 9 (5.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (3.53%) Law
6 5 (2.94%) Investment Banking
6 5 (2.94%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.35%) Health Technology
7 4 (2.35%) Mandarin Language
8 3 (1.76%) Games
8 3 (1.76%) Publishing
8 3 (1.76%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.59%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 68 (40.00%) Senior
2 39 (22.94%) Software Engineer
3 25 (14.71%) Developer
4 23 (13.53%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 23 (13.53%) Systems Engineer
5 13 (7.65%) Data Engineer
5 13 (7.65%) Platform Engineer
6 12 (7.06%) Lead
6 12 (7.06%) Principal Engineer
7 11 (6.47%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (6.47%) Senior Software Engineer
8 10 (5.88%) .NET Developer
8 10 (5.88%) Architect
8 10 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
8 10 (5.88%) Python Engineer
9 9 (5.29%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
9 9 (5.29%) Consultant
9 9 (5.29%) Data Consultant
9 9 (5.29%) Lead Data Engineer
9 9 (5.29%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (24.12%) Kafka
2 32 (18.82%) PyTorch
2 32 (18.82%) React
2 32 (18.82%) TensorFlow
3 29 (17.06%) Django
4 26 (15.29%) Node.js
5 23 (13.53%) LangChain
5 23 (13.53%) LlamaIndex
5 23 (13.53%) pgvector
5 23 (13.53%) scikit-learn
6 22 (12.94%) AngularJS
6 22 (12.94%) RESTful
7 16 (9.41%) Vue
8 15 (8.82%) .NET
9 12 (7.06%) ASP.NET
9 12 (7.06%) MERN Stack
10 11 (6.47%) Elastic Stack
11 10 (5.88%) .NET Core
12 9 (5.29%) Faiss
12 9 (5.29%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 30 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 29 (17.06%) Distributed Systems
2 29 (17.06%) Public Cloud
3 24 (14.12%) Algorithms
3 24 (14.12%) Data Structures
3 24 (14.12%) Greenfield Project
4 23 (13.53%) Clustering
5 10 (5.88%) Product Ownership
6 9 (5.29%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (2.35%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.35%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.35%) Web3
8 3 (1.76%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.59%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.59%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.59%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.59%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.59%) Replication
9 1 (0.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (16.47%) Linux
2 11 (6.47%) CentOS
3 8 (4.71%) Unix
4 4 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.35%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.35%) Windows
4 4 (2.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (38.24%) Software Engineering
2 62 (36.47%) AI
3 60 (35.29%) CI/CD
3 60 (35.29%) Data Science
4 53 (31.18%) Machine Learning
5 52 (30.59%) DevOps
6 49 (28.82%) Agile
7 46 (27.06%) Data Pipeline
7 46 (27.06%) Microservices
8 45 (26.47%) Analytics
8 45 (26.47%) Data Engineering
9 44 (25.88%) Computer Science
10 35 (20.59%) Generative AI
11 34 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
12 33 (19.41%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
12 33 (19.41%) Use Case
13 32 (18.82%) Business Intelligence
13 32 (18.82%) Feature Engineering
13 32 (18.82%) Presales
14 31 (18.24%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 129 (75.88%) Python
2 56 (32.94%) SQL
3 50 (29.41%) Java
4 37 (21.76%) JavaScript
4 37 (21.76%) TypeScript
5 23 (13.53%) Bash
6 19 (11.18%) Go
7 16 (9.41%) C#
8 13 (7.65%) Scala
9 12 (7.06%) C
10 5 (2.94%) C++
10 5 (2.94%) Rust
11 3 (1.76%) PHP
11 3 (1.76%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.18%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.59%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 45 (26.47%) Degree
2 34 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 29 (17.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (9.41%) DV Cleared
5 12 (7.06%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.35%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.59%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (13.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 23 (13.53%) GDPR
2 10 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.88%) QA
3 2 (1.18%) Accessibility
System Software
1 55 (32.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 52 (30.59%) Kubernetes
2 40 (23.53%) Terraform
3 27 (15.88%) Ansible
4 23 (13.53%) Grafana
5 16 (9.41%) Kibana
6 10 (5.88%) logstash
7 7 (4.12%) Nagios
8 5 (2.94%) Argo
8 5 (2.94%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (2.94%) Prometheus
9 4 (2.35%) Rancher
10 3 (1.76%) Packer
11 1 (0.59%) Cilium
11 1 (0.59%) Graylog
11 1 (0.59%) Istio
Vendors
1 33 (19.41%) Google
2 32 (18.82%) Databricks
3 23 (13.53%) Cloudera
3 23 (13.53%) Dell
4 10 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 10 (5.88%) Palantir
4 10 (5.88%) Splunk
5 7 (4.12%) Rapid7
5 7 (4.12%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.35%) AppDynamics
6 4 (2.35%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.76%) Confluent
8 2 (1.18%) Oracle
8 2 (1.18%) Rollbar
9 1 (0.59%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.59%) Foundry