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

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 471 499 415
Rank change year-on-year +28 -84 -110
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 211 257 388
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.37% 0.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.05% 2.33% 3.19%
Number of salaries quoted 141 148 276
10th Percentile £52,500 £43,911 £48,875
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £58,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £69,654 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% -0.49% +3.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £87,500 £101,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £69,308 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.63% +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 6,923 11,017 12,167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.14% 15.81% 21.47%
Number of salaries quoted 4,302 6,269 9,656
10th Percentile £32,775 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,780 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.84% +3.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%

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 October 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 October 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 +82 188 £65,000 -8.77% 164
Work from Home +81 150 £64,000 -7.66% 238
UK excluding London +7 122 £61,250 -11.63% 135
London +89 84 £65,000 -21.21% 56
South East +16 44 £75,000 -6.25% 50
East of England +29 26 £50,000 -18.37% 14
Scotland -8 16 £56,500 -18.48% 6
North of England -7 15 £57,500 -4.17% 22
North West -3 11 £57,500 -4.17% 17
South West +37 10 £66,250 +15.22% 13
Midlands +32 7 £65,000 +30.00% 21
West Midlands +52 5 £65,000 -6.22% 12
Northern Ireland +12 3 £55,000 -20.64% 4
Yorkshire +11 2 £65,000 +15.56% 4
North East +8 2 £63,151 -8.88% 1
Wales +2 1 £73,801 +9.33% 5

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 13 (6.16%) Apache Solr
2 11 (5.21%) IIS
3 9 (4.27%) Apache
4 6 (2.84%) CMS
5 5 (2.37%) Confluence
6 4 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (1.42%) Apache Spark
7 3 (1.42%) nginx
7 3 (1.42%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 139 (65.88%) AWS
2 113 (53.55%) Azure
3 49 (23.22%) AWS CloudFormation
4 44 (20.85%) Amazon EKS
5 34 (16.11%) AWS Lambda
5 34 (16.11%) Serverless
6 17 (8.06%) Cloudflare
6 17 (8.06%) GCP
7 16 (7.58%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (7.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 14 (6.64%) Amazon S3
10 10 (4.74%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 10 (4.74%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (4.74%) dbt
11 9 (4.27%) Amazon ECR
11 9 (4.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 9 (4.27%) Azure Service Bus
11 9 (4.27%) Pulumi
11 9 (4.27%) SaaS
11 9 (4.27%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.27%) TCP/IP
2 5 (2.37%) Broadband
3 1 (0.47%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (20.38%) MongoDB
2 33 (15.64%) MySQL
3 25 (11.85%) DynamoDB
3 25 (11.85%) SQL Server
4 23 (10.90%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (9.95%) Azure SQL Database
6 19 (9.00%) Redis
7 13 (6.16%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (4.74%) Relational Database
9 6 (2.84%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (2.84%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.90%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (1.90%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.90%) InterSystems Cache
10 4 (1.90%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.42%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.42%) Pinecone
12 1 (0.47%) ClickHouse
12 1 (0.47%) Event Store
12 1 (0.47%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 59 (27.96%) Git
2 17 (8.06%) GitLab
2 17 (8.06%) Jenkins
3 14 (6.64%) JIRA
4 11 (5.21%) JUnit
4 11 (5.21%) NUnit
4 11 (5.21%) TeamCity
5 10 (4.74%) Bitbucket
5 10 (4.74%) Jasmine
5 10 (4.74%) Octopus Deploy
6 9 (4.27%) MSBuild
6 9 (4.27%) Team Foundation Server
6 9 (4.27%) Visual Studio
7 5 (2.37%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.90%) Postman
8 4 (1.90%) Selenium
8 4 (1.90%) TestNG
9 3 (1.42%) Maven
9 3 (1.42%) Mockito
9 3 (1.42%) SonarQube
General
1 51 (24.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 49 (23.22%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (16.11%) Finance
4 32 (15.17%) Social Skills
5 20 (9.48%) Tech for Good
6 19 (9.00%) Health Technology
6 19 (9.00%) Publishing
7 13 (6.16%) Law
8 9 (4.27%) Retail
9 8 (3.79%) Games
9 8 (3.79%) Marketing
10 7 (3.32%) Banking
11 6 (2.84%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.90%) Automotive
12 4 (1.90%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.42%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.42%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.95%) Advertising
14 2 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.95%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 116 (54.98%) Developer
2 51 (24.17%) Senior
3 48 (22.75%) Software Developer
4 38 (18.01%) Senior Developer
5 30 (14.22%) .NET Developer
6 24 (11.37%) Software Engineer
7 17 (8.06%) Python Developer
7 17 (8.06%) Senior Python Developer
8 12 (5.69%) Java Engineer
9 11 (5.21%) AWS Developer
9 11 (5.21%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (4.74%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (4.74%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (4.27%) Architect
11 9 (4.27%) Java Software Engineer
11 9 (4.27%) Lead
11 9 (4.27%) React Developer
11 9 (4.27%) Site Engineer
11 9 (4.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 9 (4.27%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (45.02%) .NET
2 76 (36.02%) Node.js
3 74 (35.07%) React
4 45 (21.33%) ASP.NET
5 42 (19.91%) RESTful
6 39 (18.48%) Pandas
7 34 (16.11%) AngularJS
8 32 (15.17%) Vue
9 29 (13.74%) .NET Core
10 27 (12.80%) .NET Framework
10 27 (12.80%) REST
11 26 (12.32%) Entity Framework
11 26 (12.32%) HTML
12 25 (11.85%) CSS
13 24 (11.37%) ASP.NET Web API
14 22 (10.43%) Swagger
15 21 (9.95%) ASP.NET MVC
15 21 (9.95%) Kafka
16 18 (8.53%) Elastic Stack
17 15 (7.11%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 39 (18.48%) Cyberattack
2 13 (6.16%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.79%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (3.32%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.32%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.84%) Algorithms
5 6 (2.84%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.37%) Online Games
7 4 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.90%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.42%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.42%) Life Science
8 3 (1.42%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.95%) 3D Graphics
9 2 (0.95%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.95%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.47%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 84 (39.81%) Linux
2 39 (18.48%) Android
3 21 (9.95%) Windows
4 16 (7.58%) Windows Server
5 9 (4.27%) Unix
6 5 (2.37%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (57.35%) Agile
2 115 (54.50%) CI/CD
3 79 (37.44%) Software Engineering
4 61 (28.91%) Kanban
5 56 (26.54%) Scrum
6 54 (25.59%) Containerisation
6 54 (25.59%) Design Patterns
7 49 (23.22%) MVC
7 49 (23.22%) OO
7 49 (23.22%) TDD
8 48 (22.75%) Microservices
9 44 (20.85%) Mathematics
10 42 (19.91%) OOP
11 41 (19.43%) OWASP
11 41 (19.43%) Secure Coding
12 40 (18.96%) DevOps
12 40 (18.96%) Statistics
13 39 (18.48%) Android Development
13 39 (18.48%) Collaborative Working
13 39 (18.48%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 122 (57.82%) Python
2 121 (57.35%) JavaScript
3 74 (35.07%) Java
3 74 (35.07%) TypeScript
4 62 (29.38%) SQL
5 51 (24.17%) C#
6 40 (18.96%) C++
6 40 (18.96%) Go
7 39 (18.48%) Rust
8 11 (5.21%) PHP
9 7 (3.32%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.84%) Bash
11 3 (1.42%) Perl
11 3 (1.42%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.95%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 62 (29.38%) Security Cleared
2 43 (20.38%) DV Cleared
3 18 (8.53%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (3.32%) Degree
5 5 (2.37%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.90%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (14.69%) QA
2 13 (6.16%) GDPR
3 5 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.42%) SLA
5 2 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.95%) NIST
5 2 (0.95%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.47%) Data Quality
System Software
1 99 (46.92%) Docker
2 2 (0.95%) Squid
Systems Management
1 75 (35.55%) Terraform
2 66 (31.28%) Kubernetes
3 52 (24.64%) Ansible
4 23 (10.90%) Kibana
5 11 (5.21%) logstash
5 11 (5.21%) Prometheus
6 9 (4.27%) Grafana
7 7 (3.32%) AWS Copilot
8 3 (1.42%) Kustomize
8 3 (1.42%) Packer
9 1 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 55 (26.07%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.11%) Rollbar
3 13 (6.16%) Google
4 9 (4.27%) Oracle
5 8 (3.79%) Atlassian
5 8 (3.79%) Red Hat
5 8 (3.79%) Splunk
6 3 (1.42%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.42%) New Relic
6 3 (1.42%) WSO2
7 2 (0.95%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.95%) LogRhythm
8 1 (0.47%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.47%) Databricks
8 1 (0.47%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.47%) Talend