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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 479 439 398
Rank change year-on-year -40 -41 +48
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 275 248 685
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.55% 0.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.38% 3.36% 3.84%
Number of salaries quoted 222 158 445
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £67,626 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.43% +12.71% -14.29%
75th Percentile £89,688 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £69,384 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.73% +26.15% -12.46%

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 8,134 7,385 17,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.64% 16.45% 16.34%
Number of salaries quoted 5,319 4,774 12,707
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -9.45%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,751 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £100,000
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 June 2026.

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 20 June 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 -43 258 £60,000 -13.52% 82
UK excluding London -45 161 £55,000 -20.73% 53
Work from Home -6 152 £55,000 -20.73% 61
London -11 100 £85,000 +25.93% 38
South East -34 55 £57,500 -30.30% 24
South West -41 29 £52,500 -12.50% 4
East of England -14 27 £55,000 +10.00% 5
North of England -23 27 £70,901 +18.17% 12
Midlands -15 19 £55,000 -18.67% 7
North West +3 16 £55,000 -8.33% 8
West Midlands -12 10 £55,000 -13.13% 4
East Midlands -25 9 £55,000 -24.14% 3
Yorkshire -36 7 £66,250 -1.85% 1
North East -49 4 £75,000 +8.09% 3
Wales -43 3 £45,000 -33.46% 1
Northern Ireland -36 1 £73,801 +34.18%

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 53 (19.27%) Apache Spark
2 42 (15.27%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (9.09%) Apache
4 8 (2.91%) Apache Solr
5 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.09%) Confluence
7 1 (0.36%) CMS
7 1 (0.36%) DNN
7 1 (0.36%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.36%) Immediacy CMS
7 1 (0.36%) Kentico
7 1 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.36%) Sitefinity
7 1 (0.36%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 195 (70.91%) Azure
2 181 (65.82%) AWS
3 81 (29.45%) GCP
4 33 (12.00%) GitHub
4 33 (12.00%) GitHub Copilot
4 33 (12.00%) Snowflake
5 31 (11.27%) dbt
6 25 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (8.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 23 (8.36%) Power Platform
8 22 (8.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 18 (6.55%) Serverless
10 14 (5.09%) SaaS
11 13 (4.73%) Amazon ECR
11 13 (4.73%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (4.36%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (4.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 11 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (2.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (2.91%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.55%) Hyperconnected
1 7 (2.55%) Internet
2 6 (2.18%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.45%) HTTP
4 3 (1.09%) MQTT
4 3 (1.09%) Network Security
5 1 (0.36%) BGP
5 1 (0.36%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (41.09%) MongoDB
2 104 (37.82%) Azure SQL Database
3 51 (18.55%) BigQuery
4 33 (12.00%) Looker
5 31 (11.27%) Amazon Redshift
6 30 (10.91%) Data Warehouse
6 30 (10.91%) Tableau
7 27 (9.82%) PostgreSQL
8 24 (8.73%) MySQL
9 23 (8.36%) Data Lake
9 23 (8.36%) Power BI
9 23 (8.36%) Snowflake Schema
10 21 (7.64%) Redis
11 18 (6.55%) NoSQL
12 12 (4.36%) Big Data
13 10 (3.64%) DynamoDB
13 10 (3.64%) Hadoop
14 9 (3.27%) Neo4j
15 8 (2.91%) Relational Database
16 7 (2.55%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 30 (10.91%) MLflow
2 27 (9.82%) GitLab
3 24 (8.73%) Git
4 12 (4.36%) Cucumber
4 12 (4.36%) Jenkins
4 12 (4.36%) SonarQube
5 7 (2.55%) JIRA
6 4 (1.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (1.45%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.45%) Gatling
6 4 (1.45%) JMeter
6 4 (1.45%) LoadRunner
7 3 (1.09%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.73%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.73%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.73%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.36%) Maven
General
1 41 (14.91%) Finance
2 40 (14.55%) Social Skills
3 36 (13.09%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (5.45%) Banking
5 13 (4.73%) Retail
6 11 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (3.64%) Games
8 7 (2.55%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.55%) Public Sector
9 6 (2.18%) Law
10 5 (1.82%) Health Technology
11 4 (1.45%) Mandarin Language
11 4 (1.45%) Publishing
11 4 (1.45%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.36%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 121 (44.00%) Developer
2 104 (37.82%) .NET Developer
3 77 (28.00%) Senior
4 29 (10.55%) Software Engineer
5 24 (8.73%) Lead
6 23 (8.36%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 23 (8.36%) Systems Engineer
7 16 (5.82%) Data Engineer
8 12 (4.36%) Architect
8 12 (4.36%) DevOps Engineer
8 12 (4.36%) Platform Engineer
9 11 (4.00%) Python Engineer
9 11 (4.00%) Senior Developer
10 10 (3.64%) Lead Data Engineer
11 9 (3.27%) Consultant
11 9 (3.27%) Principal Engineer
11 9 (3.27%) Senior Consultant
12 8 (2.91%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (2.91%) Engineering Manager
12 8 (2.91%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (42.55%) Node.js
2 111 (40.36%) .NET
3 108 (39.27%) ASP.NET
4 104 (37.82%) ASP.NET Core
5 103 (37.45%) .NET Core
6 72 (26.18%) React
7 52 (18.91%) Vue
8 50 (18.18%) ASP.NET Web API
9 49 (17.82%) AngularJS
10 46 (16.73%) Kafka
11 44 (16.00%) Blazor
12 33 (12.00%) .NET Framework
12 33 (12.00%) Entity Framework
13 30 (10.91%) PyTorch
13 30 (10.91%) TensorFlow
14 27 (9.82%) Django
15 26 (9.45%) CSS
15 26 (9.45%) HTML
16 23 (8.36%) RESTful
16 23 (8.36%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 35 (12.73%) Greenfield Project
2 29 (10.55%) Cloud Native
3 27 (9.82%) Public Cloud
4 26 (9.45%) Distributed Systems
5 23 (8.36%) Clustering
6 21 (7.64%) Algorithms
6 21 (7.64%) Data Structures
7 9 (3.27%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (2.91%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.45%) Blockchain
9 4 (1.45%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.45%) Web3
10 3 (1.09%) Tandem
10 3 (1.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 2 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.73%) Legacy Code
11 2 (0.73%) Security Operations Centre
12 1 (0.36%) IoT
12 1 (0.36%) PMI
12 1 (0.36%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 33 (12.00%) Linux
2 12 (4.36%) CentOS
3 9 (3.27%) Unix
4 6 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.45%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.45%) Windows
5 4 (1.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (49.82%) Agile
2 120 (43.64%) Microservices
3 112 (40.73%) Full-Stack Development
4 82 (29.82%) CI/CD
5 75 (27.27%) DevOps
6 72 (26.18%) AI
7 62 (22.55%) Software Engineering
8 58 (21.09%) Scrum
9 57 (20.73%) Data Science
10 51 (18.55%) Analytics
10 51 (18.55%) Data Engineering
10 51 (18.55%) Machine Learning
10 51 (18.55%) TDD
11 45 (16.36%) Data Pipeline
12 41 (14.91%) Data Modelling
12 41 (14.91%) Performance Tuning
13 40 (14.55%) BDD
13 40 (14.55%) Use Case
14 39 (14.18%) Computer Science
15 38 (13.82%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 149 (54.18%) SQL
2 129 (46.91%) Python
3 111 (40.36%) C#
4 75 (27.27%) JavaScript
5 69 (25.09%) TypeScript
6 41 (14.91%) Java
7 24 (8.73%) Bash
8 19 (6.91%) Scala
9 16 (5.82%) Go
10 10 (3.64%) Rust
11 7 (2.55%) C++
12 4 (1.45%) C
13 3 (1.09%) PHP
14 2 (0.73%) Ruby
14 2 (0.73%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.73%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.36%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 40 (14.55%) Degree
2 34 (12.36%) Security Cleared
3 27 (9.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (5.09%) SC Cleared
5 11 (4.00%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.45%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 23 (8.36%) GDPR
2 14 (5.09%) QA
3 11 (4.00%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.73%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 80 (29.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 78 (28.36%) Kubernetes
2 46 (16.73%) Terraform
3 35 (12.73%) Ansible
4 29 (10.55%) Grafana
5 14 (5.09%) Kibana
6 9 (3.27%) logstash
7 8 (2.91%) Nagios
7 8 (2.91%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.82%) Argo
8 5 (1.82%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (1.09%) Packer
9 3 (1.09%) Podman
9 3 (1.09%) Puppet
9 3 (1.09%) Rancher
10 1 (0.36%) Cilium
10 1 (0.36%) Graylog
10 1 (0.36%) Istio
Vendors
1 103 (37.45%) Microsoft
2 38 (13.82%) Google
3 30 (10.91%) Databricks
4 23 (8.36%) Cloudera
4 23 (8.36%) Dell
5 12 (4.36%) Splunk
6 8 (2.91%) Palantir
6 8 (2.91%) Rapid7
6 8 (2.91%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.45%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.45%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.09%) Confluent
8 3 (1.09%) NVIDIA
8 3 (1.09%) Tenable
9 2 (0.73%) CheckPoint
9 2 (0.73%) New Relic
9 2 (0.73%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.73%) OpenText
9 2 (0.73%) Rollbar
9 2 (0.73%) ServiceNow