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 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 458 347
Rank change year-on-year -59 -111 +109
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 185 189 715
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.44% 0.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.58% 2.40% 4.34%
Number of salaries quoted 128 146 470
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £63,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% +20.83% -14.29%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £82,188
90th Percentile £104,125 £95,625 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +27.27% -9.84%

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 7,176 7,878 16,487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.36% 18.54% 18.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4,258 5,146 12,365
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,338 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.27% +10.15% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 23 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Elasticsearch in the UK

Elasticsearch
Top 17 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 23 March 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 -40 157 £73,801 -7.75% 98
UK excluding London -87 90 £67,500 -3.57% 57
London +37 82 £80,000 -11.11% 45
Work from Home -27 61 £71,901 +0.91% 82
South West -4 23 £67,500 -6.90% 11
North of England -53 22 £73,801 +6.48% 10
North West -22 16 £67,500 -0.09% 8
East of England -6 12 £51,250 +2.50% 4
South East -61 12 £60,000 -27.27% 20
Scotland -19 9 £73,801 +6.48% 2
Midlands -51 5 £65,000 - 7
Wales -22 4 £73,801 +9.13% 3
North East -26 4 £73,801 +6.37%
West Midlands 0 3 £73,801 +6.48% 3
Northern Ireland -35 3 £73,801 +6.48%
Yorkshire -45 2 £65,000 -13.33% 2
East Midlands -48 2 £53,750 -17.31% 4

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 39 (21.08%) Apache Spark
2 38 (20.54%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (4.86%) Apache
4 7 (3.78%) Apache Solr
5 4 (2.16%) Confluence
6 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 149 (80.54%) AWS
2 135 (72.97%) Azure
3 99 (53.51%) GCP
4 51 (27.57%) dbt
5 35 (18.92%) Snowflake
6 31 (16.76%) Amazon ECS
6 31 (16.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 30 (16.22%) Amazon ECR
8 25 (13.51%) Pulumi
9 24 (12.97%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 23 (12.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 23 (12.43%) Power Platform
11 17 (9.19%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 17 (9.19%) PaaS
11 17 (9.19%) Sentry
12 10 (5.41%) Amazon SageMaker
13 9 (4.86%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (4.86%) Azure Machine Learning
13 9 (4.86%) Dagster
13 9 (4.86%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 26 (14.05%) TCP/IP
2 6 (3.24%) HTTP
3 2 (1.08%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (1.08%) Internet
4 1 (0.54%) BGP
4 1 (0.54%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (29.19%) BigQuery
2 42 (22.70%) PostgreSQL
3 38 (20.54%) Redis
4 35 (18.92%) Looker
5 33 (17.84%) Amazon Redshift
6 32 (17.30%) Data Warehouse
6 32 (17.30%) MongoDB
6 32 (17.30%) Tableau
7 25 (13.51%) Amazon RDS
8 23 (12.43%) Data Lake
8 23 (12.43%) Power BI
8 23 (12.43%) Snowflake Schema
9 20 (10.81%) Neo4j
10 19 (10.27%) MySQL
11 13 (7.03%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (6.49%) NoSQL
13 10 (5.41%) Pinecone
13 10 (5.41%) Weaviate
14 9 (4.86%) Apache Iceberg
14 9 (4.86%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 32 (17.30%) MLflow
2 23 (12.43%) Git
3 20 (10.81%) GitLab
4 9 (4.86%) Cucumber
5 7 (3.78%) Bitbucket
5 7 (3.78%) JIRA
6 6 (3.24%) Jenkins
7 5 (2.70%) JUnit
8 4 (2.16%) Cypress.io
8 4 (2.16%) Gatling
8 4 (2.16%) JMeter
8 4 (2.16%) LoadRunner
9 3 (1.62%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.62%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.08%) Appium
10 2 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (1.08%) Katalon Studio
10 2 (1.08%) Selenium
10 2 (1.08%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.54%) TestNG
General
1 32 (17.30%) Social Skills
2 30 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (6.49%) Finance
4 10 (5.41%) Banking
5 9 (4.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.24%) Law
7 5 (2.70%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.70%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.62%) Games
9 2 (1.08%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.54%) Advertising
10 1 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Front Office
10 1 (0.54%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 84 (45.41%) Senior
2 41 (22.16%) Software Engineer
3 28 (15.14%) Developer
4 23 (12.43%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 23 (12.43%) Systems Engineer
5 22 (11.89%) Platform Engineer
6 17 (9.19%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 13 (7.03%) .NET Developer
8 11 (5.95%) Senior Software Engineer
9 9 (4.86%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
9 9 (4.86%) C Software Engineer
9 9 (4.86%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (4.86%) Consultant
9 9 (4.86%) Data Consultant
9 9 (4.86%) Principal Engineer
9 9 (4.86%) Senior Consultant
10 8 (4.32%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (4.32%) Site Engineer
10 8 (4.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 8 (4.32%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (25.41%) Django
2 36 (19.46%) React
3 34 (18.38%) Kafka
4 32 (17.30%) PyTorch
4 32 (17.30%) TensorFlow
5 31 (16.76%) Node.js
6 30 (16.22%) AngularJS
7 23 (12.43%) LangChain
7 23 (12.43%) LlamaIndex
7 23 (12.43%) pgvector
7 23 (12.43%) scikit-learn
8 18 (9.73%) RESTful
9 17 (9.19%) MERN Stack
10 16 (8.65%) .NET
11 15 (8.11%) ASP.NET
11 15 (8.11%) Vue
12 13 (7.03%) .NET Core
13 11 (5.95%) Elastic Stack
13 11 (5.95%) Entity Framework
14 9 (4.86%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 33 (17.84%) Distributed Systems
2 28 (15.14%) Cloud Native
2 28 (15.14%) Public Cloud
3 23 (12.43%) Clustering
4 22 (11.89%) Algorithms
4 22 (11.89%) Data Structures
4 22 (11.89%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (10.81%) Linux Command Line
6 11 (5.95%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.62%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.08%) Blockchain
8 2 (1.08%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.08%) Web3
9 1 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.54%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.54%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.54%) NHS
9 1 (0.54%) PMI
9 1 (0.54%) Replication
9 1 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 49 (26.49%) Linux
2 28 (15.14%) Unix
3 7 (3.78%) CentOS
4 6 (3.24%) Windows
4 6 (3.24%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.08%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (40.54%) CI/CD
2 67 (36.22%) Software Engineering
3 62 (33.51%) DevOps
4 58 (31.35%) AI
5 56 (30.27%) Data Science
6 55 (29.73%) Machine Learning
7 50 (27.03%) Agile
7 50 (27.03%) Microservices
8 42 (22.70%) Analytics
9 41 (22.16%) Data Engineering
10 39 (21.08%) Data Pipeline
10 39 (21.08%) Infrastructure as Code
10 39 (21.08%) Observability
11 38 (20.54%) Computer Science
12 36 (19.46%) Clean Code
13 35 (18.92%) Generative AI
14 33 (17.84%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
14 33 (17.84%) Use Case
15 32 (17.30%) Business Intelligence
15 32 (17.30%) Feature Engineering
Programming Languages
1 140 (75.68%) Python
2 57 (30.81%) SQL
3 52 (28.11%) Java
4 47 (25.41%) JavaScript
5 38 (20.54%) TypeScript
6 18 (9.73%) Bash
6 18 (9.73%) C#
7 16 (8.65%) C
7 16 (8.65%) Go
8 13 (7.03%) Scala
9 6 (3.24%) PHP
10 3 (1.62%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.08%) C++
11 2 (1.08%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.54%) Perl
12 1 (0.54%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.54%) Rust
12 1 (0.54%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 51 (27.57%) Security Cleared
2 39 (21.08%) Degree
3 29 (15.68%) SC Cleared
4 25 (13.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (10.81%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.08%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.54%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (12.97%) GDPR
2 23 (12.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 9 (4.86%) QA
4 6 (3.24%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.08%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 81 (43.78%) Docker
2 1 (0.54%) Squid
Systems Management
1 54 (29.19%) Kubernetes
2 48 (25.95%) Terraform
3 19 (10.27%) Ansible
3 19 (10.27%) Kibana
4 18 (9.73%) Grafana
5 17 (9.19%) AWS Copilot
6 10 (5.41%) logstash
7 6 (3.24%) Prometheus
8 5 (2.70%) Nagios
9 3 (1.62%) Argo
9 3 (1.62%) Rancher
10 1 (0.54%) Cilium
10 1 (0.54%) Graylog
10 1 (0.54%) Istio
Vendors
1 51 (27.57%) Google
2 32 (17.30%) Databricks
3 23 (12.43%) Cloudera
3 23 (12.43%) Dell
4 18 (9.73%) Microsoft
5 10 (5.41%) Palantir
6 8 (4.32%) Splunk
7 5 (2.70%) Rapid7
7 5 (2.70%) Red Hat
8 4 (2.16%) AppDynamics
8 4 (2.16%) Dynatrace
8 4 (2.16%) Oracle
9 3 (1.62%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.62%) Confluent
10 2 (1.08%) Rollbar
11 1 (0.54%) CA Agile Central
11 1 (0.54%) Foundry
11 1 (0.54%) New Relic