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

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 476 347
Rank change year-on-year -31 -129 +60
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 139 259 419
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.46% 0.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.08% 2.61% 3.86%
Number of salaries quoted 116 161 286
10th Percentile £52,500 £43,911 £37,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £50,000
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 £83,438
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £100,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +16.67% +4.35%

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 6,685 9,931 10,866
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.14% 17.82% 20.89%
Number of salaries quoted 4,237 5,651 8,403
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 27 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 27 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 -8 118 £67,000 -16.25% 274
Work from Home +28 74 £65,000 -7.14% 200
London +57 69 £67,000 -18.79% 54
UK excluding London -78 63 £67,500 -3.57% 239
North of England +3 18 £67,500 -2.61% 54
North West +7 14 £67,500 -1.32% 36
South West -1 14 £67,500 +17.39% 33
Scotland -9 10 £73,801 +6.48% 14
East of England +19 6 £51,250 +2.50% 31
South East -41 6 £70,000 -15.15% 59
West Midlands +27 4 £69,401 +0.13% 24
Midlands +18 4 £69,401 +6.77% 41
North East +11 3 £73,801 +6.48% 2
Wales -6 3 £73,801 +9.33% 8
Northern Ireland -7 2 £73,801 +6.48% 2
Yorkshire 0 1 £65,000 +23.81% 16

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 (8.63%) Apache Solr
2 9 (6.47%) Apache
3 6 (4.32%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (4.32%) Apache Spark
4 5 (3.60%) Confluence
5 3 (2.16%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 96 (69.06%) AWS
2 86 (61.87%) Azure
3 38 (27.34%) GCP
4 23 (16.55%) Amazon ECS
4 23 (16.55%) AWS CloudFormation
5 22 (15.83%) Serverless
6 21 (15.11%) Amazon ECR
6 21 (15.11%) AWS Lambda
7 20 (14.39%) dbt
7 20 (14.39%) Pulumi
8 17 (12.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 12 (8.63%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 12 (8.63%) PaaS
9 12 (8.63%) Sentry
10 8 (5.76%) Amazon S3
11 7 (5.04%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (4.32%) Vertex AI
13 4 (2.88%) Amazon SageMaker
13 4 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (2.88%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 20 (14.39%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.16%) Broadband
3 2 (1.44%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (25.18%) MongoDB
2 31 (22.30%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (19.42%) Redis
4 21 (15.11%) Amazon RDS
5 19 (13.67%) DynamoDB
6 18 (12.95%) Azure SQL Database
7 16 (11.51%) MySQL
8 15 (10.79%) Neo4j
9 12 (8.63%) BigQuery
10 7 (5.04%) NoSQL
10 7 (5.04%) Pinecone
11 5 (3.60%) SQL Server
12 4 (2.88%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (2.88%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (2.88%) Weaviate
13 3 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (2.16%) Delta Lake
13 3 (2.16%) Looker
13 3 (2.16%) Relational Database
13 3 (2.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (17.27%) Git
2 15 (10.79%) GitLab
3 7 (5.04%) Bitbucket
3 7 (5.04%) JUnit
4 6 (4.32%) Cucumber
4 6 (4.32%) JIRA
5 5 (3.60%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.16%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.16%) MLflow
6 3 (2.16%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.44%) Appium
7 2 (1.44%) JConsole
7 2 (1.44%) Katalon Studio
7 2 (1.44%) Selenium
7 2 (1.44%) VisualVM
8 1 (0.72%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.72%) Subversion
8 1 (0.72%) TestNG
8 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (18.71%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.07%) Finance
3 13 (9.35%) Tech for Good
4 12 (8.63%) Health Technology
4 12 (8.63%) Publishing
5 5 (3.60%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.88%) Banking
7 3 (2.16%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.44%) Front Office
8 2 (1.44%) Games
8 2 (1.44%) Law
9 1 (0.72%) Advertising
9 1 (0.72%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 48 (34.53%) Senior
2 46 (33.09%) Developer
3 33 (23.74%) Software Engineer
4 18 (12.95%) .NET Developer
5 15 (10.79%) Senior Developer
6 13 (9.35%) Platform Engineer
7 12 (8.63%) Python Developer
7 12 (8.63%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 12 (8.63%) Senior Python Developer
8 9 (6.47%) AWS Developer
8 9 (6.47%) C Software Engineer
9 8 (5.76%) Site Engineer
9 8 (5.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 7 (5.04%) Backend Developer
10 7 (5.04%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (5.04%) Integration Developer
10 7 (5.04%) Software Developer
11 6 (4.32%) React Developer
11 6 (4.32%) Senior Software Developer
11 6 (4.32%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (41.73%) React
2 35 (25.18%) AngularJS
2 35 (25.18%) Node.js
3 26 (18.71%) Django
4 22 (15.83%) Vue
5 21 (15.11%) .NET
6 20 (14.39%) RESTful
7 19 (13.67%) .NET Core
7 19 (13.67%) ASP.NET
7 19 (13.67%) ASP.NET Web API
8 18 (12.95%) .NET Framework
8 18 (12.95%) ASP.NET MVC
8 18 (12.95%) Entity Framework
9 13 (9.35%) Elastic Stack
9 13 (9.35%) MERN Stack
10 12 (8.63%) Swagger
11 7 (5.04%) Kafka
11 7 (5.04%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (4.32%) Apache NiFi
13 5 (3.60%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.67%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (10.07%) Linux Command Line
3 8 (5.76%) Algorithms
3 8 (5.76%) Data Structures
4 7 (5.04%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (4.32%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.60%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.88%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.16%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.44%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.44%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.44%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.44%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.72%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.72%) IoT
10 1 (0.72%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.72%) Smart Energy
10 1 (0.72%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 45 (32.37%) Linux
2 21 (15.11%) Unix
3 11 (7.91%) Windows
3 11 (7.91%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.72%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (43.88%) CI/CD
2 52 (37.41%) Agile
3 47 (33.81%) Software Engineering
4 45 (32.37%) DevOps
5 40 (28.78%) Microservices
6 38 (27.34%) Scrum
7 34 (24.46%) TDD
8 31 (22.30%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (20.14%) Infrastructure as Code
9 28 (20.14%) Observability
10 27 (19.42%) AI
10 27 (19.42%) Clean Code
11 25 (17.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 22 (15.83%) Full-Stack Development
13 21 (15.11%) MVC
14 20 (14.39%) BDD
14 20 (14.39%) Service-Level Objective
15 19 (13.67%) Data Science
15 19 (13.67%) Machine Learning
15 19 (13.67%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 97 (69.78%) Python
2 62 (44.60%) JavaScript
3 57 (41.01%) TypeScript
4 38 (27.34%) SQL
5 34 (24.46%) Java
6 23 (16.55%) C#
7 12 (8.63%) C
8 8 (5.76%) Bash
8 8 (5.76%) PHP
9 7 (5.04%) Go
10 3 (2.16%) Scala
11 2 (1.44%) Perl
11 2 (1.44%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.72%) C++
12 1 (0.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 41 (29.50%) Security Cleared
2 25 (17.99%) SC Cleared
3 16 (11.51%) DV Cleared
4 15 (10.79%) Degree
5 10 (7.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.16%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (14.39%) QA
2 4 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.16%) 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 57 (41.01%) Docker
2 1 (0.72%) Squid
Systems Management
1 30 (21.58%) Terraform
2 28 (20.14%) Kubernetes
3 19 (13.67%) Kibana
4 12 (8.63%) Ansible
4 12 (8.63%) AWS Copilot
4 12 (8.63%) logstash
5 7 (5.04%) Grafana
5 7 (5.04%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.44%) Rancher
7 1 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.72%) Nagios
Vendors
1 33 (23.74%) Microsoft
2 29 (20.86%) Google
3 6 (4.32%) Atlassian
3 6 (4.32%) Oracle
4 3 (2.16%) Databricks
4 3 (2.16%) Palantir
4 3 (2.16%) Splunk
5 2 (1.44%) 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