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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 453 477
Rank change year-on-year -48 +24 -56
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 318 233 343
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.47% 0.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.60% 3.25% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 270 151 157
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £49,063 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -8.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,000 £95,000 £90,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.56% -8.46% -

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 8,826 7,164 12,247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.00% 14.60% 15.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,992 4,529 7,665
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.92% +3.81% -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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -9 307 £60,000 -6.25% 268
UK excluding London -21 219 £55,000 -7.56% 150
Work from Home -29 191 £55,000 -14.06% 155
London -58 92 £87,500 +36.72% 160
South East -9 88 £57,500 -30.30% 26
South West -45 38 £52,500 -16.00% 29
Midlands -8 35 £55,000 -6.78% 13
North of England -38 33 £57,500 - 41
East of England -22 30 £55,000 +10.00% 8
West Midlands -6 24 £60,000 +1.69% 7
North West -10 18 £47,500 -17.39% 29
East Midlands -24 11 £55,000 - 6
Yorkshire -35 9 £57,500 -11.54% 7
North East -57 6 £75,000 +42.86% 5
Wales - 4 £45,000 - 3

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 47 (14.78%) Apache Spark
2 29 (9.12%) Apache
3 26 (8.18%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.20%) Apache Solr
5 5 (1.57%) Apache Pig
6 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.94%) CMS
7 3 (0.94%) Confluence
7 3 (0.94%) DNN
7 3 (0.94%) EPiServer
7 3 (0.94%) Immediacy CMS
7 3 (0.94%) Kentico
7 3 (0.94%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.94%) Sitefinity
7 3 (0.94%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.31%) nginx
8 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 231 (72.64%) Azure
2 190 (59.75%) AWS
3 53 (16.67%) GitHub
4 49 (15.41%) GitHub Copilot
5 45 (14.15%) GCP
6 41 (12.89%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (8.49%) Serverless
8 25 (7.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 23 (7.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 17 (5.35%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (5.35%) dbt
11 15 (4.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 15 (4.72%) Power Platform
11 15 (4.72%) Snowflake
12 14 (4.40%) SaaS
13 13 (4.09%) Amazon ECR
13 13 (4.09%) Amazon ECS
13 13 (4.09%) OpenShift
14 12 (3.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (3.77%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.77%) Internet
2 7 (2.20%) Hyperconnected
3 5 (1.57%) HTTP
4 3 (0.94%) MQTT
4 3 (0.94%) Network Security
5 2 (0.63%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.31%) BGP
6 1 (0.31%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (47.48%) Azure SQL Database
2 150 (47.17%) MongoDB
3 37 (11.64%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (8.18%) MySQL
5 24 (7.55%) BigQuery
6 22 (6.92%) NoSQL
7 20 (6.29%) Amazon Redshift
8 18 (5.66%) Hadoop
9 17 (5.35%) Big Data
10 16 (5.03%) Data Lake
11 15 (4.72%) Data Warehouse
11 15 (4.72%) Looker
11 15 (4.72%) Milvus
11 15 (4.72%) Power BI
11 15 (4.72%) Snowflake Schema
11 15 (4.72%) Tableau
12 13 (4.09%) DynamoDB
12 13 (4.09%) SQL Server
13 12 (3.77%) Redis
13 12 (3.77%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 39 (12.26%) Git
2 31 (9.75%) GitLab
3 15 (4.72%) Cucumber
3 15 (4.72%) Jenkins
3 15 (4.72%) MLflow
4 12 (3.77%) SonarQube
5 6 (1.89%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.89%) JIRA
6 4 (1.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (1.26%) Gatling
6 4 (1.26%) JMeter
6 4 (1.26%) LoadRunner
6 4 (1.26%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.63%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.63%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.63%) Gradle
7 2 (0.63%) JUnit
7 2 (0.63%) Maven
7 2 (0.63%) Mocha
7 2 (0.63%) Mockito
General
1 65 (20.44%) Finance
2 51 (16.04%) Social Skills
3 29 (9.12%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (6.29%) Retail
5 16 (5.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (4.09%) Banking
6 13 (4.09%) Games
7 8 (2.52%) Public Sector
8 5 (1.57%) Health Technology
9 4 (1.26%) Mandarin Language
9 4 (1.26%) Publishing
9 4 (1.26%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.63%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.63%) Law
11 1 (0.31%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.31%) Police
11 1 (0.31%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 177 (55.66%) Developer
2 161 (50.63%) .NET Developer
3 66 (20.75%) Senior
4 35 (11.01%) Lead
5 28 (8.81%) Data Engineer
6 24 (7.55%) Software Engineer
7 20 (6.29%) Python Engineer
8 17 (5.35%) Python Data Engineer
9 16 (5.03%) DevOps Engineer
10 15 (4.72%) Senior Data Engineer
10 15 (4.72%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 15 (4.72%) Systems Engineer
11 13 (4.09%) Senior Developer
12 12 (3.77%) Lead .NET Developer
12 12 (3.77%) Lead Data Engineer
12 12 (3.77%) Lead Developer
13 11 (3.46%) DevOps Administrator
13 11 (3.46%) Linux DevOps Engineer
13 11 (3.46%) Linux Engineer
13 11 (3.46%) Linux Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (52.52%) .NET
2 164 (51.57%) ASP.NET
3 158 (49.69%) .NET Core
4 154 (48.43%) Node.js
5 151 (47.48%) ASP.NET Core
6 99 (31.13%) React
7 76 (23.90%) ASP.NET Web API
8 74 (23.27%) Blazor
9 72 (22.64%) Vue
10 68 (21.38%) AngularJS
11 55 (17.30%) .NET Framework
12 53 (16.67%) Kafka
13 46 (14.47%) Terraform
14 43 (13.52%) Entity Framework
15 33 (10.38%) CSS
15 33 (10.38%) HTML
16 21 (6.60%) REST
17 18 (5.66%) RESTful
18 17 (5.35%) LangChain
18 17 (5.35%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 32 (10.06%) Greenfield Project
2 22 (6.92%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (5.97%) Cloud Native
4 18 (5.66%) Public Cloud
5 15 (4.72%) Clustering
6 10 (3.14%) Onboarding
7 9 (2.83%) Algorithms
7 9 (2.83%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.83%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.57%) Tandem
10 4 (1.26%) Blockchain
10 4 (1.26%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.26%) IoT
10 4 (1.26%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.26%) Web3
11 3 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 2 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 35 (11.01%) Linux
2 15 (4.72%) CentOS
3 7 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.26%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.26%) Windows
4 4 (1.26%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.94%) Unix
6 1 (0.31%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (54.09%) Agile
2 159 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 157 (49.37%) Microservices
4 96 (30.19%) DevOps
5 94 (29.56%) Scrum
6 87 (27.36%) CI/CD
7 72 (22.64%) TDD
8 61 (19.18%) BDD
9 57 (17.92%) AI
10 56 (17.61%) Kanban
11 51 (16.04%) Software Engineering
12 47 (14.78%) Analytics
13 41 (12.89%) Data Engineering
14 39 (12.26%) Data Pipeline
15 37 (11.64%) Data Modelling
16 35 (11.01%) Mentoring
17 34 (10.69%) Stakeholder Management
18 33 (10.38%) Infrastructure as Code
19 32 (10.06%) Performance Tuning
20 31 (9.75%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 187 (58.81%) SQL
2 167 (52.52%) C#
3 104 (32.70%) Python
4 98 (30.82%) JavaScript
5 95 (29.87%) TypeScript
6 25 (7.86%) Java
7 21 (6.60%) Bash
8 17 (5.35%) Go
9 15 (4.72%) Scala
10 11 (3.46%) Rust
11 8 (2.52%) C++
12 2 (0.63%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.63%) PHP
12 2 (0.63%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.63%) Ruby
13 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (13.84%) Security Cleared
2 27 (8.49%) SC Cleared
3 25 (7.86%) Degree
4 16 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (4.72%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.83%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.57%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.57%) PhD
8 4 (1.26%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (9.75%) QA
2 15 (4.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 15 (4.72%) GDPR
3 11 (3.46%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.63%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 94 (29.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 90 (28.30%) Kubernetes
2 44 (13.84%) Ansible
3 34 (10.69%) Grafana
4 14 (4.40%) Kibana
5 12 (3.77%) logstash
6 11 (3.46%) Nagios
7 10 (3.14%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.57%) Argo
9 3 (0.94%) Packer
9 3 (0.94%) Podman
9 3 (0.94%) Puppet
10 2 (0.63%) Rancher
11 1 (0.31%) Cilium
11 1 (0.31%) Graylog
11 1 (0.31%) Istio
11 1 (0.31%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 148 (46.54%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.23%) Google
3 15 (4.72%) Cloudera
3 15 (4.72%) Databricks
3 15 (4.72%) Dell
4 13 (4.09%) Splunk
5 12 (3.77%) Red Hat
6 11 (3.46%) Rapid7
7 5 (1.57%) Oracle
8 4 (1.26%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.26%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.26%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.26%) SAP
9 3 (0.94%) Alterian
9 3 (0.94%) NVIDIA
9 3 (0.94%) Optimizely
9 3 (0.94%) Sitecore
9 3 (0.94%) Tenable
10 2 (0.63%) CheckPoint
10 2 (0.63%) Sony