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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 489 504 395
Rank change year-on-year +15 -109 -12
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 160 265 366
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.40% 0.72%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.35% 2.44% 3.34%
Number of salaries quoted 130 164 253
10th Percentile £52,500 £44,238 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,250 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £103,000
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 6,814 10,870 10,973
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.59% 16.41% 21.44%
Number of salaries quoted 4,425 6,261 8,677
10th Percentile £34,250 £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 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £113,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -

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 29 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 29 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 +15 132 £65,000 -13.33% 97
Work from Home +48 90 £65,000 -7.14% 68
UK excluding London -26 79 £67,500 -2.61% 77
London +82 75 £66,000 -20.00% 31
Scotland -1 19 £73,801 +6.48% 2
North of England +32 18 £65,000 -3.70% 14
North West +40 14 £63,500 -5.93% 11
South West +24 13 £67,500 +5.88% 15
South East -10 12 £75,000 -9.09% 24
East of England +29 8 £52,500 +5.00% 6
West Midlands +54 4 £69,401 +0.13% 11
Midlands +44 4 £69,401 +6.77% 15
North East +12 3 £73,801 +6.48% 2
Wales +3 3 £73,801 +9.33% 1
Northern Ireland +2 2 £73,801 +6.48%
Yorkshire +1 1 £65,000 +10.64% 2

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 (8.75%) Apache Solr
2 9 (5.63%) Apache
3 6 (3.75%) CMS
4 5 (3.13%) Confluence
5 4 (2.50%) IIS
6 3 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.88%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 103 (64.38%) AWS
2 90 (56.25%) Azure
3 32 (20.00%) GCP
4 27 (16.88%) Amazon ECS
5 25 (15.63%) AWS Lambda
5 25 (15.63%) Serverless
6 22 (13.75%) AWS CloudFormation
7 20 (12.50%) Amazon ECR
7 20 (12.50%) dbt
7 20 (12.50%) Pulumi
8 19 (11.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 12 (7.50%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 12 (7.50%) PaaS
9 12 (7.50%) Sentry
10 11 (6.88%) Amazon S3
11 10 (6.25%) Cloudflare
12 7 (4.38%) GitHub
13 6 (3.75%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (3.75%) SaaS
14 5 (3.13%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.88%) Broadband
3 2 (1.25%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (24.38%) MongoDB
2 30 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (17.50%) Redis
4 23 (14.38%) MySQL
5 21 (13.13%) Amazon RDS
5 21 (13.13%) Azure SQL Database
6 19 (11.88%) DynamoDB
7 10 (6.25%) Neo4j
7 10 (6.25%) SQL Server
8 7 (4.38%) BigQuery
8 7 (4.38%) NoSQL
8 7 (4.38%) Relational Database
9 6 (3.75%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.88%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.88%) InterSystems Cache
10 3 (1.88%) Pinecone
10 3 (1.88%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.63%) ClickHouse
11 1 (0.63%) DocumentDB
11 1 (0.63%) Event Store
Development Applications
1 40 (25.00%) Git
2 16 (10.00%) GitLab
3 11 (6.88%) JIRA
4 10 (6.25%) Jenkins
5 8 (5.00%) Bitbucket
6 7 (4.38%) JUnit
7 5 (3.13%) Cucumber
7 5 (3.13%) Octopus Deploy
8 4 (2.50%) MSBuild
8 4 (2.50%) NUnit
8 4 (2.50%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (2.50%) TeamCity
8 4 (2.50%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.88%) Jasmine
9 3 (1.88%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.25%) Appium
10 2 (1.25%) JConsole
10 2 (1.25%) Katalon Studio
10 2 (1.25%) Selenium
10 2 (1.25%) VisualVM
General
1 31 (19.38%) Social Skills
2 24 (15.00%) Finance
3 14 (8.75%) Tech for Good
4 13 (8.13%) Health Technology
4 13 (8.13%) Publishing
5 10 (6.25%) Law
6 9 (5.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.75%) Banking
7 6 (3.75%) Marketing
8 5 (3.13%) Games
8 5 (3.13%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.50%) Retail
10 2 (1.25%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.25%) Automotive
10 2 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.25%) Front Office
11 1 (0.63%) Advertising
11 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 62 (38.75%) Developer
2 50 (31.25%) Senior
3 31 (19.38%) Software Engineer
4 28 (17.50%) .NET Developer
5 22 (13.75%) Senior Developer
6 14 (8.75%) Python Developer
6 14 (8.75%) Senior Python Developer
6 14 (8.75%) Site Engineer
6 14 (8.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 12 (7.50%) Platform Engineer
7 12 (7.50%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 9 (5.63%) AWS Developer
8 9 (5.63%) React Developer
9 8 (5.00%) Backend Developer
9 8 (5.00%) Integration Developer
9 8 (5.00%) Lead
10 7 (4.38%) Java Engineer
10 7 (4.38%) Java Software Engineer
10 7 (4.38%) Software Developer
11 6 (3.75%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (39.38%) React
2 39 (24.38%) .NET
3 36 (22.50%) AngularJS
3 36 (22.50%) Node.js
4 32 (20.00%) ASP.NET
5 27 (16.88%) RESTful
5 27 (16.88%) Vue
6 26 (16.25%) .NET Core
7 25 (15.63%) .NET Framework
8 24 (15.00%) Django
8 24 (15.00%) Entity Framework
9 23 (14.38%) ASP.NET Web API
10 21 (13.13%) ASP.NET MVC
11 16 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
12 14 (8.75%) REST
13 13 (8.13%) Kafka
13 13 (8.13%) Swagger
14 12 (7.50%) HTML
15 11 (6.88%) CSS
16 9 (5.63%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (8.75%) Linux Command Line
3 11 (6.88%) Cloud Native
4 9 (5.63%) Algorithms
5 6 (3.75%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.75%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.50%) Online Games
7 4 (2.50%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.88%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.25%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.25%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.63%) IoT
10 1 (0.63%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.63%) Smart Energy
10 1 (0.63%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 51 (31.88%) Linux
2 21 (13.13%) Unix
3 18 (11.25%) Windows
4 14 (8.75%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.88%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (45.63%) CI/CD
2 69 (43.13%) Agile
3 48 (30.00%) DevOps
3 48 (30.00%) Software Engineering
4 47 (29.38%) Microservices
4 47 (29.38%) Scrum
5 41 (25.63%) TDD
6 34 (21.25%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (20.00%) MVC
8 31 (19.38%) AI
8 31 (19.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 29 (18.13%) Observability
10 28 (17.50%) Full-Stack Development
11 25 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
12 24 (15.00%) Clean Code
12 24 (15.00%) Service-Level Objective
13 23 (14.38%) BDD
14 22 (13.75%) Kanban
15 19 (11.88%) Continuous Delivery
15 19 (11.88%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 96 (60.00%) Python
2 72 (45.00%) JavaScript
3 64 (40.00%) TypeScript
4 51 (31.88%) SQL
5 37 (23.13%) C#
6 34 (21.25%) Java
7 11 (6.88%) PHP
8 8 (5.00%) C
9 5 (3.13%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.50%) Bash
11 3 (1.88%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.25%) Go
12 2 (1.25%) Perl
12 2 (1.25%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.63%) C++
13 1 (0.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 38 (23.75%) Security Cleared
2 24 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.50%) DV Cleared
4 9 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (5.63%) Degree
5 3 (1.88%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.88%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (15.00%) QA
2 6 (3.75%) GDPR
3 4 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.63%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.63%) NIST
4 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 63 (39.38%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) Squid
Systems Management
1 38 (23.75%) Terraform
2 32 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 22 (13.75%) Kibana
4 14 (8.75%) logstash
5 12 (7.50%) AWS Copilot
6 11 (6.88%) Prometheus
7 10 (6.25%) Grafana
8 9 (5.63%) Ansible
9 1 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.63%) Rancher
Vendors
1 43 (26.88%) Microsoft
2 27 (16.88%) Google
3 7 (4.38%) Atlassian
3 7 (4.38%) Oracle
3 7 (4.38%) Splunk
4 4 (2.50%) Red Hat
4 4 (2.50%) Rollbar
5 3 (1.88%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.25%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.25%) New Relic
7 1 (0.63%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.63%) LogRhythm
7 1 (0.63%) OpenAI