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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 483 446 491
Rank change year-on-year -37 +45 -50
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 331 245 358
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.49% 0.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.69% 3.22% 2.70%
Number of salaries quoted 275 163 162
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £44,269
25th Percentile £49,750 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £81,875
90th Percentile £102,500 £91,000 £92,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -7.69%

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 8,963 7,616 13,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.59% 15.35% 15.80%
Number of salaries quoted 5,984 4,888 8,735
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,327
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £112,500
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 5 August 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 5 August 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 -5 317 £60,000 -7.69% 183
UK excluding London -23 215 £55,000 -15.38% 99
Work from Home +1 196 £55,000 -15.38% 123
London -38 107 £85,000 +32.81% 96
South East -8 82 £57,500 -30.30% 21
North of England -22 35 £74,301 +23.84% 30
South West -35 35 £52,500 -16.00% 23
East of England -22 32 £55,000 +10.00% 4
Midlands -10 30 £55,000 -6.78% 10
North West +6 19 £47,500 -18.10% 20
West Midlands -16 19 £60,000 +1.69% 8
East Midlands -13 11 £55,000 - 2
Yorkshire -26 9 £57,500 -11.54% 9
North East -50 7 £75,000 +8.09% 1
Wales -47 5 £45,000 -33.46% 2
Northern Ireland -81 1 £73,801 +34.18% 2

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 57 (17.22%) Apache Spark
2 38 (11.48%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (8.46%) Apache
4 8 (2.42%) Apache Solr
5 5 (1.51%) Apache Pig
6 4 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.91%) CMS
7 3 (0.91%) Confluence
7 3 (0.91%) DNN
7 3 (0.91%) EPiServer
7 3 (0.91%) Immediacy CMS
7 3 (0.91%) Kentico
7 3 (0.91%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.91%) Sitefinity
7 3 (0.91%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 236 (71.30%) Azure
2 212 (64.05%) AWS
3 67 (20.24%) GCP
4 51 (15.41%) GitHub
5 49 (14.80%) GitHub Copilot
6 36 (10.88%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (9.97%) dbt
8 27 (8.16%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 27 (8.16%) Serverless
8 27 (8.16%) Snowflake
9 23 (6.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 23 (6.95%) Power Platform
10 21 (6.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 18 (5.44%) Amazon ECR
11 18 (5.44%) Amazon ECS
12 15 (4.53%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (4.23%) Cloud Computing
13 14 (4.23%) SaaS
14 13 (3.93%) Amazon Kinesis
14 13 (3.93%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.63%) Internet
2 7 (2.11%) Hyperconnected
2 7 (2.11%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.81%) HTTP
4 3 (0.91%) MQTT
4 3 (0.91%) Network Security
5 1 (0.30%) BGP
5 1 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (46.22%) MongoDB
2 151 (45.62%) Azure SQL Database
3 37 (11.18%) BigQuery
4 36 (10.88%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (8.76%) Amazon Redshift
6 27 (8.16%) Looker
7 26 (7.85%) MySQL
8 24 (7.25%) Data Lake
8 24 (7.25%) Data Warehouse
8 24 (7.25%) Tableau
9 23 (6.95%) NoSQL
9 23 (6.95%) Power BI
9 23 (6.95%) Snowflake Schema
10 20 (6.04%) Redis
11 17 (5.14%) Hadoop
12 16 (4.83%) Big Data
13 13 (3.93%) DynamoDB
14 10 (3.02%) Relational Database
14 10 (3.02%) SQL Server
15 9 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 33 (9.97%) Git
2 30 (9.06%) GitLab
3 24 (7.25%) MLflow
4 13 (3.93%) Cucumber
5 12 (3.63%) Jenkins
5 12 (3.63%) SonarQube
6 7 (2.11%) JIRA
7 6 (1.81%) Gatling
7 6 (1.81%) JMeter
7 6 (1.81%) LoadRunner
8 4 (1.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (1.21%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.21%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.91%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.60%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.60%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.30%) Maven
General
1 65 (19.64%) Finance
2 48 (14.50%) Social Skills
3 38 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (6.04%) Retail
5 18 (5.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (4.53%) Banking
7 13 (3.93%) Games
8 8 (2.42%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.51%) Health Technology
10 4 (1.21%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.21%) Law
10 4 (1.21%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (1.21%) Publishing
10 4 (1.21%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.30%) Front Office
11 1 (0.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 173 (52.27%) Developer
2 157 (47.43%) .NET Developer
3 78 (23.56%) Senior
4 32 (9.67%) Lead
5 26 (7.85%) Data Engineer
6 23 (6.95%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 23 (6.95%) Systems Engineer
7 21 (6.34%) Software Engineer
8 18 (5.44%) Python Engineer
9 15 (4.53%) DevOps Engineer
10 14 (4.23%) Senior Developer
11 13 (3.93%) Python Data Engineer
12 12 (3.63%) Lead Data Engineer
12 12 (3.63%) Platform Engineer
13 11 (3.32%) DevOps Administrator
13 11 (3.32%) DevOps Systems Engineer
13 11 (3.32%) Linux DevOps Administrator
13 11 (3.32%) Linux DevOps Engineer
13 11 (3.32%) Linux Systems Engineer
13 11 (3.32%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (49.55%) .NET
2 161 (48.64%) ASP.NET
3 157 (47.43%) Node.js
4 154 (46.53%) .NET Core
5 151 (45.62%) ASP.NET Core
6 98 (29.61%) React
7 76 (22.96%) ASP.NET Web API
8 72 (21.75%) Vue
9 70 (21.15%) Blazor
10 67 (20.24%) AngularJS
11 59 (17.82%) Kafka
12 56 (16.92%) .NET Framework
13 44 (13.29%) Entity Framework
14 32 (9.67%) CSS
14 32 (9.67%) HTML
15 24 (7.25%) PyTorch
15 24 (7.25%) TensorFlow
16 23 (6.95%) LangChain
16 23 (6.95%) pgvector
16 23 (6.95%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 36 (10.88%) Greenfield Project
2 30 (9.06%) Cloud Native
3 28 (8.46%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (7.55%) Public Cloud
5 23 (6.95%) Clustering
6 13 (3.93%) Algorithms
6 13 (3.93%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.72%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (2.72%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.51%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.51%) Tandem
9 4 (1.21%) Blockchain
9 4 (1.21%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.21%) IoT
9 4 (1.21%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.21%) Web3
10 3 (0.91%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 37 (11.18%) Linux
2 15 (4.53%) CentOS
3 9 (2.72%) Unix
4 6 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.21%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.21%) Windows
5 4 (1.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (54.98%) Agile
2 158 (47.73%) Full-Stack Development
2 158 (47.73%) Microservices
3 94 (28.40%) DevOps
4 92 (27.79%) CI/CD
4 92 (27.79%) Scrum
5 75 (22.66%) TDD
6 69 (20.85%) AI
7 60 (18.13%) BDD
8 58 (17.52%) Analytics
9 56 (16.92%) Kanban
10 52 (15.71%) Data Engineering
10 52 (15.71%) Software Engineering
11 47 (14.20%) Data Pipeline
12 46 (13.90%) Machine Learning
13 43 (12.99%) Data Science
14 42 (12.69%) Data Modelling
14 42 (12.69%) Performance Tuning
15 39 (11.78%) Business Intelligence
15 39 (11.78%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 194 (58.61%) SQL
2 164 (49.55%) C#
3 121 (36.56%) Python
4 99 (29.91%) JavaScript
5 95 (28.70%) TypeScript
6 27 (8.16%) Java
7 21 (6.34%) Bash
8 15 (4.53%) Scala
9 14 (4.23%) Go
10 11 (3.32%) Rust
11 8 (2.42%) C++
12 2 (0.60%) PHP
12 2 (0.60%) Ruby
12 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (10.88%) Security Cleared
2 28 (8.46%) Degree
3 19 (5.74%) SC Cleared
4 18 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.32%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.51%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.51%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.51%) PhD
7 4 (1.21%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.55%) QA
2 23 (6.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 23 (6.95%) GDPR
3 14 (4.23%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.91%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 98 (29.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 91 (27.49%) Kubernetes
2 50 (15.11%) Terraform
3 38 (11.48%) Ansible
4 35 (10.57%) Grafana
5 17 (5.14%) Kibana
6 12 (3.63%) logstash
7 11 (3.32%) Nagios
8 9 (2.72%) Prometheus
9 5 (1.51%) Argo
9 5 (1.51%) AWS Copilot
10 3 (0.91%) Packer
10 3 (0.91%) Podman
10 3 (0.91%) Puppet
11 2 (0.60%) Rancher
12 1 (0.30%) Cilium
12 1 (0.30%) Graylog
12 1 (0.30%) Istio
Vendors
1 148 (44.71%) Microsoft
2 35 (10.57%) Google
3 24 (7.25%) Databricks
4 23 (6.95%) Cloudera
4 23 (6.95%) Dell
5 14 (4.23%) Splunk
6 11 (3.32%) Rapid7
6 11 (3.32%) Red Hat
7 6 (1.81%) AppDynamics
7 6 (1.81%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.21%) SAP
9 3 (0.91%) Alterian
9 3 (0.91%) Confluent
9 3 (0.91%) NVIDIA
9 3 (0.91%) Optimizely
9 3 (0.91%) Sitecore
9 3 (0.91%) Tenable
10 2 (0.60%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.60%) Rollbar
10 2 (0.60%) ServiceNow