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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 488 450 486
Rank change year-on-year -38 +36 -57
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 327 239 354
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.48% 0.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.70% 3.23% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 271 156 159
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £49,250 £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 £97,500 £93,125 £91,500
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 8,830 7,399 12,621
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.04% 14.80% 15.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,978 4,742 7,982
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,750 £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 £106,250 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% -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 1 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 1 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 -26 316 £60,000 -6.25% 248
UK excluding London -21 220 £55,000 -7.56% 146
Work from Home -5 193 £55,000 -14.06% 153
London -51 99 £85,000 +32.81% 145
South East -7 88 £57,500 -30.30% 27
South West -48 37 £52,500 -16.00% 26
Midlands -15 34 £55,000 -6.78% 11
North of England -27 33 £57,500 - 40
East of England -18 32 £55,000 +10.00% 8
West Midlands -3 23 £60,000 +1.69% 7
North West -10 18 £47,500 -17.39% 29
East Midlands -10 11 £55,000 - 4
Yorkshire -32 9 £57,500 -11.54% 6
North East -55 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 56 (17.13%) Apache Spark
2 34 (10.40%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (8.87%) Apache
4 7 (2.14%) Apache Solr
5 5 (1.53%) Apache Pig
6 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.92%) CMS
7 3 (0.92%) DNN
7 3 (0.92%) EPiServer
7 3 (0.92%) Immediacy CMS
7 3 (0.92%) Kentico
7 3 (0.92%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.92%) Sitefinity
7 3 (0.92%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.61%) Confluence
9 1 (0.31%) nginx
9 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 237 (72.48%) Azure
2 200 (61.16%) AWS
3 53 (16.21%) GCP
3 53 (16.21%) GitHub
4 49 (14.98%) GitHub Copilot
5 41 (12.54%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (8.26%) Serverless
7 25 (7.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 25 (7.65%) dbt
8 23 (7.03%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 23 (7.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 23 (7.03%) Power Platform
8 23 (7.03%) Snowflake
9 17 (5.20%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (4.28%) SaaS
11 13 (3.98%) Amazon ECR
11 13 (3.98%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (3.98%) OpenShift
12 12 (3.67%) Azure Key Vault
12 12 (3.67%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.67%) Internet
2 7 (2.14%) Hyperconnected
3 6 (1.83%) HTTP
4 3 (0.92%) MQTT
4 3 (0.92%) Network Security
5 2 (0.61%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.31%) BGP
6 1 (0.31%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (46.18%) Azure SQL Database
2 150 (45.87%) MongoDB
3 36 (11.01%) PostgreSQL
4 32 (9.79%) BigQuery
5 28 (8.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 26 (7.95%) MySQL
7 24 (7.34%) Data Lake
8 23 (7.03%) Data Warehouse
8 23 (7.03%) Looker
8 23 (7.03%) Milvus
8 23 (7.03%) Power BI
8 23 (7.03%) Snowflake Schema
8 23 (7.03%) Tableau
9 22 (6.73%) NoSQL
10 18 (5.50%) Hadoop
11 17 (5.20%) Big Data
12 14 (4.28%) SQL Server
13 13 (3.98%) DynamoDB
14 12 (3.67%) Redis
14 12 (3.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 39 (11.93%) Git
2 32 (9.79%) GitLab
3 23 (7.03%) MLflow
4 15 (4.59%) Cucumber
4 15 (4.59%) Jenkins
5 12 (3.67%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.83%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.83%) JIRA
7 5 (1.53%) Gatling
7 5 (1.53%) JMeter
7 5 (1.53%) LoadRunner
8 4 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (1.22%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.61%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.61%) Gradle
9 2 (0.61%) JUnit
9 2 (0.61%) Maven
9 2 (0.61%) Mocha
9 2 (0.61%) Mockito
9 2 (0.61%) TeamCity
General
1 65 (19.88%) Finance
2 51 (15.60%) Social Skills
3 38 (11.62%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (6.12%) Retail
5 17 (5.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (3.98%) Banking
6 13 (3.98%) Games
7 8 (2.45%) Public Sector
8 5 (1.53%) Health Technology
9 4 (1.22%) Mandarin Language
9 4 (1.22%) Publishing
9 4 (1.22%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.61%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.61%) Law
11 1 (0.31%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.31%) Police
11 1 (0.31%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 177 (54.13%) Developer
2 161 (49.24%) .NET Developer
3 75 (22.94%) Senior
4 35 (10.70%) Lead
5 27 (8.26%) Data Engineer
6 24 (7.34%) Software Engineer
7 23 (7.03%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 23 (7.03%) Systems Engineer
8 20 (6.12%) Python Engineer
9 16 (4.89%) DevOps Engineer
9 16 (4.89%) Python Data Engineer
10 14 (4.28%) Senior Data Engineer
10 14 (4.28%) Senior Developer
11 12 (3.67%) Lead .NET Developer
11 12 (3.67%) Lead Data Engineer
11 12 (3.67%) Lead Developer
12 11 (3.36%) Administrator
12 11 (3.36%) Linux Engineer
12 11 (3.36%) Linux Systems Administrator
12 11 (3.36%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (51.38%) .NET
2 165 (50.46%) ASP.NET
3 158 (48.32%) .NET Core
4 155 (47.40%) Node.js
5 151 (46.18%) ASP.NET Core
6 98 (29.97%) React
7 76 (23.24%) ASP.NET Web API
8 74 (22.63%) Blazor
9 72 (22.02%) Vue
10 68 (20.80%) AngularJS
11 61 (18.65%) Kafka
12 56 (17.13%) .NET Framework
13 47 (14.37%) Terraform
14 44 (13.46%) Entity Framework
15 32 (9.79%) CSS
15 32 (9.79%) HTML
16 25 (7.65%) LangChain
16 25 (7.65%) pgvector
17 23 (7.03%) LlamaIndex
17 23 (7.03%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.79%) Greenfield Project
2 27 (8.26%) Cloud Native
3 26 (7.95%) Public Cloud
4 23 (7.03%) Clustering
4 23 (7.03%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (3.06%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.75%) Algorithms
6 9 (2.75%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.53%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.53%) 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 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 2 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 35 (10.70%) Linux
2 15 (4.59%) CentOS
3 7 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.22%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.22%) Windows
4 4 (1.22%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.92%) Unix
6 1 (0.31%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (52.91%) Agile
2 159 (48.62%) Full-Stack Development
3 157 (48.01%) Microservices
4 95 (29.05%) DevOps
5 94 (28.75%) Scrum
6 89 (27.22%) CI/CD
7 72 (22.02%) TDD
8 66 (20.18%) AI
9 61 (18.65%) BDD
10 56 (17.13%) Kanban
11 55 (16.82%) Analytics
12 51 (15.60%) Software Engineering
13 49 (14.98%) Data Engineering
14 46 (14.07%) Data Pipeline
15 45 (13.76%) Data Modelling
16 41 (12.54%) Performance Tuning
17 40 (12.23%) Machine Learning
18 38 (11.62%) Business Intelligence
18 38 (11.62%) Use Case
19 35 (10.70%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 195 (59.63%) SQL
2 168 (51.38%) C#
3 112 (34.25%) Python
4 97 (29.66%) JavaScript
5 94 (28.75%) TypeScript
6 25 (7.65%) Java
7 21 (6.42%) Bash
8 16 (4.89%) Go
8 16 (4.89%) Scala
9 11 (3.36%) Rust
10 8 (2.45%) C++
11 2 (0.61%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.61%) PHP
11 2 (0.61%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.61%) Ruby
11 2 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (12.84%) Security Cleared
2 25 (7.65%) Degree
2 25 (7.65%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (4.28%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.45%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.53%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.53%) PhD
7 4 (1.22%) Postgraduate
8 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (9.48%) QA
2 23 (7.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 23 (7.03%) GDPR
3 11 (3.36%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.61%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 95 (29.05%) Docker
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 91 (27.83%) Kubernetes
2 44 (13.46%) Ansible
3 35 (10.70%) Grafana
4 15 (4.59%) Kibana
5 12 (3.67%) logstash
6 11 (3.36%) Nagios
7 10 (3.06%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.53%) Argo
9 3 (0.92%) Packer
9 3 (0.92%) Podman
9 3 (0.92%) Puppet
10 2 (0.61%) 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 (45.26%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.03%) Cloudera
2 23 (7.03%) Databricks
2 23 (7.03%) Dell
2 23 (7.03%) Google
3 13 (3.98%) Splunk
4 12 (3.67%) Red Hat
5 11 (3.36%) Rapid7
6 5 (1.53%) AppDynamics
6 5 (1.53%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.53%) Oracle
7 4 (1.22%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.22%) SAP
8 3 (0.92%) Alterian
8 3 (0.92%) NVIDIA
8 3 (0.92%) Optimizely
8 3 (0.92%) Sitecore
8 3 (0.92%) Tenable
9 2 (0.61%) CheckPoint
9 2 (0.61%) OpenText