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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 479 458 469
Rank change year-on-year -21 +11 -44
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 329 246 365
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.49% 0.44%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.68% 3.28% 2.82%
Number of salaries quoted 273 163 166
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £49,750 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £69,308
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.66% +3.44%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £101,500 £89,500 £91,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

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 8,937 7,504 12,927
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.31% 15.04% 15.57%
Number of salaries quoted 6,000 4,801 8,467
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £112,500
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 20 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Elasticsearch in the UK

Elasticsearch
Top 15 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 20 August 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 -18 318 £60,000 -6.25% 184
UK excluding London -21 220 £55,000 -8.33% 103
Work from Home -7 195 £55,000 -14.06% 112
London -49 101 £85,000 +32.81% 100
South East -3 87 £57,500 -30.30% 19
South West -45 37 £52,500 -20.75% 25
North of England -18 34 £66,250 +15.22% 31
Midlands 0 33 £55,000 -6.78% 8
East of England -18 32 £55,000 +10.00% 8
West Midlands -10 22 £60,000 +1.69% 4
North West -8 19 £47,500 -17.39% 23
East Midlands -16 11 £55,000 - 4
Yorkshire -26 9 £57,500 -11.54% 7
North East -55 6 £75,000 +23.07% 1
Wales -59 4 £45,000 -33.46% 1

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 56 (17.02%) Apache Spark
2 35 (10.64%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (8.51%) Apache
4 8 (2.43%) Apache Solr
5 5 (1.52%) Apache Pig
6 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.91%) CMS
7 3 (0.91%) DNN
7 3 (0.91%) EPiServer
7 3 (0.91%) Immediacy CMS
7 3 (0.91%) Kentico
7 3 (0.91%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.91%) Sitefinity
7 3 (0.91%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.61%) Confluence
9 1 (0.30%) nginx
9 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 237 (72.04%) Azure
2 204 (62.01%) AWS
3 56 (17.02%) GCP
4 52 (15.81%) GitHub
5 49 (14.89%) GitHub Copilot
6 41 (12.46%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (8.21%) Serverless
8 26 (7.90%) dbt
9 25 (7.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 24 (7.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 24 (7.29%) Snowflake
11 23 (6.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 23 (6.99%) Power Platform
12 16 (4.86%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (4.26%) SaaS
14 13 (3.95%) Amazon ECR
14 13 (3.95%) Amazon ECS
15 12 (3.65%) Azure Key Vault
15 12 (3.65%) Azure Monitor
15 12 (3.65%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.65%) Internet
2 7 (2.13%) Hyperconnected
3 6 (1.82%) HTTP
4 3 (0.91%) MQTT
4 3 (0.91%) Network Security
5 2 (0.61%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.30%) BGP
6 1 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (46.20%) MongoDB
2 151 (45.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 35 (10.64%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (10.33%) BigQuery
5 28 (8.51%) Amazon Redshift
6 26 (7.90%) MySQL
7 24 (7.29%) Data Lake
7 24 (7.29%) Looker
8 23 (6.99%) Data Warehouse
8 23 (6.99%) Power BI
8 23 (6.99%) Snowflake Schema
8 23 (6.99%) Tableau
9 22 (6.69%) NoSQL
10 17 (5.17%) Hadoop
11 16 (4.86%) Big Data
12 14 (4.26%) Redis
12 14 (4.26%) SQL Server
13 13 (3.95%) DynamoDB
14 12 (3.65%) Relational Database
15 7 (2.13%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 38 (11.55%) Git
2 32 (9.73%) GitLab
3 23 (6.99%) MLflow
4 14 (4.26%) Cucumber
4 14 (4.26%) Jenkins
5 12 (3.65%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.82%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.82%) JIRA
7 5 (1.52%) Gatling
7 5 (1.52%) JMeter
7 5 (1.52%) LoadRunner
8 4 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (1.22%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.61%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.61%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.61%) Mocha
9 2 (0.61%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.30%) Gradle
10 1 (0.30%) Maven
10 1 (0.30%) Mockito
General
1 65 (19.76%) Finance
2 50 (15.20%) Social Skills
3 38 (11.55%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (6.08%) Retail
5 16 (4.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (4.26%) Banking
7 13 (3.95%) Games
8 8 (2.43%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.52%) Health Technology
10 4 (1.22%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (1.22%) Publishing
10 4 (1.22%) Tech for Good
11 3 (0.91%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.91%) Law
12 1 (0.30%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.30%) Front Office
12 1 (0.30%) Police
12 1 (0.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 176 (53.50%) Developer
2 161 (48.94%) .NET Developer
3 75 (22.80%) Senior
4 35 (10.64%) Lead
5 26 (7.90%) Data Engineer
6 25 (7.60%) Software Engineer
7 23 (6.99%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 23 (6.99%) Systems Engineer
8 20 (6.08%) Python Engineer
9 16 (4.86%) DevOps Engineer
10 15 (4.56%) Python Data Engineer
11 14 (4.26%) Senior Developer
12 12 (3.65%) Lead .NET Developer
12 12 (3.65%) Lead Data Engineer
12 12 (3.65%) Lead Developer
12 12 (3.65%) Senior Data Engineer
13 11 (3.34%) DevOps Systems Engineer
13 11 (3.34%) Linux DevOps Administrator
13 11 (3.34%) Linux Engineer
13 11 (3.34%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (51.06%) .NET
2 165 (50.15%) ASP.NET
3 158 (48.02%) .NET Core
4 157 (47.72%) Node.js
5 151 (45.90%) ASP.NET Core
6 99 (30.09%) React
7 76 (23.10%) ASP.NET Web API
8 74 (22.49%) Blazor
9 72 (21.88%) Vue
10 68 (20.67%) AngularJS
11 60 (18.24%) Kafka
12 56 (17.02%) .NET Framework
13 48 (14.59%) Terraform
14 44 (13.37%) Entity Framework
15 32 (9.73%) CSS
15 32 (9.73%) HTML
16 24 (7.29%) LangChain
16 24 (7.29%) pgvector
17 23 (6.99%) PyTorch
17 23 (6.99%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 34 (10.33%) Greenfield Project
2 29 (8.81%) Cloud Native
3 25 (7.60%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (7.60%) Public Cloud
4 23 (6.99%) Clustering
5 11 (3.34%) Algorithms
5 11 (3.34%) Data Structures
6 10 (3.04%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.52%) Tandem
10 4 (1.22%) Blockchain
10 4 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.22%) IoT
10 4 (1.22%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.22%) Web3
11 3 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 2 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 34 (10.33%) Linux
2 15 (4.56%) CentOS
3 7 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.22%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.22%) Windows
4 4 (1.22%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.91%) Unix
6 1 (0.30%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (52.89%) Agile
2 160 (48.63%) Microservices
3 159 (48.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 95 (28.88%) DevOps
5 93 (28.27%) Scrum
6 88 (26.75%) CI/CD
7 71 (21.58%) TDD
8 67 (20.36%) AI
9 60 (18.24%) BDD
10 56 (17.02%) Analytics
10 56 (17.02%) Kanban
11 54 (16.41%) Software Engineering
12 49 (14.89%) Data Engineering
13 46 (13.98%) Data Pipeline
14 44 (13.37%) Data Modelling
15 43 (13.07%) Machine Learning
16 41 (12.46%) Performance Tuning
17 38 (11.55%) Data Science
17 38 (11.55%) Mentoring
17 38 (11.55%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 194 (58.97%) SQL
2 168 (51.06%) C#
3 115 (34.95%) Python
4 98 (29.79%) JavaScript
5 96 (29.18%) TypeScript
6 24 (7.29%) Java
7 21 (6.38%) Bash
8 15 (4.56%) Go
8 15 (4.56%) Scala
9 11 (3.34%) Rust
10 8 (2.43%) C++
11 2 (0.61%) PHP
11 2 (0.61%) Ruby
11 2 (0.61%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.30%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (11.55%) Security Cleared
2 26 (7.90%) Degree
3 21 (6.38%) SC Cleared
4 17 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (3.95%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.13%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.52%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.52%) PhD
8 4 (1.22%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.12%) QA
2 23 (6.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 23 (6.99%) GDPR
3 12 (3.65%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.61%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 96 (29.18%) Docker
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 92 (27.96%) Kubernetes
2 43 (13.07%) Ansible
3 34 (10.33%) Grafana
4 15 (4.56%) Kibana
5 12 (3.65%) logstash
6 11 (3.34%) Nagios
7 9 (2.74%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.52%) Argo
9 3 (0.91%) Packer
9 3 (0.91%) Podman
9 3 (0.91%) Puppet
10 2 (0.61%) Rancher
11 1 (0.30%) Cilium
11 1 (0.30%) Graylog
11 1 (0.30%) Istio
11 1 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 148 (44.98%) Microsoft
2 26 (7.90%) Google
3 23 (6.99%) Cloudera
3 23 (6.99%) Databricks
3 23 (6.99%) Dell
4 13 (3.95%) Splunk
5 12 (3.65%) Red Hat
6 11 (3.34%) Rapid7
7 5 (1.52%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.52%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.22%) SAP
9 3 (0.91%) Alterian
9 3 (0.91%) NVIDIA
9 3 (0.91%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.91%) Optimizely
9 3 (0.91%) Oracle
9 3 (0.91%) Sitecore
9 3 (0.91%) Tenable
10 2 (0.61%) Rollbar
10 2 (0.61%) ServiceNow