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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 453 350
Rank change year-on-year -70 -103 +111
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 172 191 683
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.45% 0.80%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.44% 2.42% 4.22%
Number of salaries quoted 126 146 460
10th Percentile £49,250 £48,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £63,660 £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 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £95,000 £95,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +27.27% -8.33%

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 7,040 7,894 16,187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.38% 18.56% 19.03%
Number of salaries quoted 4,207 5,121 12,216
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,744
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,779 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +9.18% -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 19 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 19 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 -43 144 £73,801 -7.75% 101
UK excluding London -78 85 £67,500 -3.57% 62
London +26 74 £80,000 -11.11% 46
Work from Home -40 59 £73,801 +5.43% 83
South West -11 22 £67,500 -6.90% 13
North of England -51 22 £73,801 +6.48% 12
North West -15 16 £67,500 -0.19% 9
South East -59 11 £62,500 -24.24% 19
East of England -16 9 £51,250 +2.50% 5
Scotland -27 9 £73,801 +6.48% 2
Midlands -31 5 £65,000 - 6
Wales -18 4 £73,801 +31.82% 4
North East -23 4 £73,801 +6.37% 1
West Midlands -6 3 £73,801 +6.48% 4
Northern Ireland -31 3 £73,801 +6.48% 1
Yorkshire -37 2 £65,000 -13.33% 2
East Midlands -52 2 £53,750 -17.31% 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 30 (17.44%) Apache Spark
2 28 (16.28%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (6.40%) Apache
4 7 (4.07%) Apache Solr
5 4 (2.33%) Confluence
6 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 136 (79.07%) AWS
2 123 (71.51%) Azure
3 88 (51.16%) GCP
4 41 (23.84%) dbt
5 30 (17.44%) Amazon ECS
5 30 (17.44%) AWS CloudFormation
6 29 (16.86%) Amazon ECR
7 25 (14.53%) Pulumi
7 25 (14.53%) Snowflake
8 23 (13.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 17 (9.88%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 17 (9.88%) PaaS
9 17 (9.88%) Sentry
10 13 (7.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 13 (7.56%) Power Platform
11 10 (5.81%) Amazon SageMaker
12 9 (5.23%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (5.23%) Azure Machine Learning
12 9 (5.23%) Dagster
12 9 (5.23%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 25 (14.53%) TCP/IP
2 6 (3.49%) HTTP
3 2 (1.16%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (1.16%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (25.58%) BigQuery
2 42 (24.42%) PostgreSQL
3 38 (22.09%) Redis
4 32 (18.60%) MongoDB
5 25 (14.53%) Amazon RDS
5 25 (14.53%) Looker
6 23 (13.37%) Amazon Redshift
7 22 (12.79%) Data Warehouse
7 22 (12.79%) Tableau
8 20 (11.63%) Neo4j
9 18 (10.47%) MySQL
10 13 (7.56%) Data Lake
10 13 (7.56%) Power BI
10 13 (7.56%) Snowflake Schema
11 12 (6.98%) Azure SQL Database
11 12 (6.98%) NoSQL
12 10 (5.81%) Pinecone
12 10 (5.81%) Weaviate
13 9 (5.23%) Apache Iceberg
13 9 (5.23%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 22 (12.79%) Git
1 22 (12.79%) MLflow
2 18 (10.47%) GitLab
3 9 (5.23%) Cucumber
4 7 (4.07%) Bitbucket
4 7 (4.07%) JIRA
5 6 (3.49%) Jenkins
6 5 (2.91%) JUnit
7 4 (2.33%) Cypress.io
7 4 (2.33%) Gatling
7 4 (2.33%) JMeter
7 4 (2.33%) LoadRunner
8 3 (1.74%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.74%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.16%) Appium
9 2 (1.16%) Katalon Studio
9 2 (1.16%) Selenium
9 2 (1.16%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.58%) TestNG
General
1 30 (17.44%) Social Skills
2 20 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (5.81%) Finance
4 9 (5.23%) Banking
4 9 (5.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (3.49%) Law
6 5 (2.91%) Investment Banking
6 5 (2.91%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.74%) Games
8 1 (0.58%) Advertising
8 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.58%) Front Office
8 1 (0.58%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.58%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 74 (43.02%) Senior
2 43 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 27 (15.70%) Developer
4 21 (12.21%) Platform Engineer
5 17 (9.88%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 13 (7.56%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 13 (7.56%) Systems Engineer
7 12 (6.98%) .NET Developer
8 11 (6.40%) Senior Software Engineer
9 9 (5.23%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
9 9 (5.23%) C Software Engineer
9 9 (5.23%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (5.23%) Consultant
9 9 (5.23%) Data Consultant
9 9 (5.23%) Principal Engineer
9 9 (5.23%) Senior Consultant
10 8 (4.65%) Architect
10 8 (4.65%) Site Engineer
10 8 (4.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 8 (4.65%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (27.33%) Django
2 36 (20.93%) React
3 30 (17.44%) AngularJS
4 29 (16.86%) Node.js
5 23 (13.37%) Kafka
6 22 (12.79%) PyTorch
6 22 (12.79%) TensorFlow
7 18 (10.47%) RESTful
8 17 (9.88%) MERN Stack
9 15 (8.72%) .NET
9 15 (8.72%) Vue
10 14 (8.14%) ASP.NET
11 13 (7.56%) Elastic Stack
11 13 (7.56%) LangChain
11 13 (7.56%) LlamaIndex
11 13 (7.56%) pgvector
11 13 (7.56%) scikit-learn
12 12 (6.98%) .NET Core
13 10 (5.81%) Entity Framework
14 9 (5.23%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 35 (20.35%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (12.79%) Algorithms
2 22 (12.79%) Data Structures
2 22 (12.79%) Greenfield Project
3 20 (11.63%) Linux Command Line
4 18 (10.47%) Cloud Native
4 18 (10.47%) Public Cloud
5 13 (7.56%) Clustering
6 11 (6.40%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.74%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.58%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.58%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.58%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.58%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.58%) NHS
8 1 (0.58%) PMI
8 1 (0.58%) Replication
8 1 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.58%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 49 (28.49%) Linux
2 28 (16.28%) Unix
3 5 (2.91%) CentOS
3 5 (2.91%) Windows
3 5 (2.91%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.58%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (40.70%) CI/CD
2 67 (38.95%) Software Engineering
3 59 (34.30%) DevOps
4 50 (29.07%) Microservices
5 49 (28.49%) Agile
6 47 (27.33%) AI
7 45 (26.16%) Data Science
8 44 (25.58%) Machine Learning
9 39 (22.67%) Computer Science
9 39 (22.67%) Observability
10 36 (20.93%) Clean Code
10 36 (20.93%) Infrastructure as Code
11 31 (18.02%) Analytics
11 31 (18.02%) Data Engineering
12 30 (17.44%) Open Source
12 30 (17.44%) Problem-Solving
13 29 (16.86%) Data Pipeline
14 25 (14.53%) Containerisation
14 25 (14.53%) Generative AI
15 24 (13.95%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 129 (75.00%) Python
2 52 (30.23%) Java
3 48 (27.91%) SQL
4 47 (27.33%) JavaScript
5 38 (22.09%) TypeScript
6 17 (9.88%) Bash
6 17 (9.88%) C#
7 16 (9.30%) C
8 15 (8.72%) Go
9 12 (6.98%) Scala
10 6 (3.49%) PHP
11 3 (1.74%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.16%) C++
12 2 (1.16%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.58%) Perl
13 1 (0.58%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.58%) Rust
13 1 (0.58%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 51 (29.65%) Security Cleared
2 40 (23.26%) Degree
3 29 (16.86%) SC Cleared
4 27 (15.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (11.63%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.58%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.58%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.14%) GDPR
2 13 (7.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 8 (4.65%) QA
4 6 (3.49%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.16%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.58%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 78 (45.35%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Squid
Systems Management
1 50 (29.07%) Kubernetes
2 45 (26.16%) Terraform
3 21 (12.21%) Kibana
4 18 (10.47%) Grafana
5 17 (9.88%) Ansible
5 17 (9.88%) AWS Copilot
6 12 (6.98%) logstash
7 7 (4.07%) Prometheus
8 4 (2.33%) Nagios
9 3 (1.74%) Rancher
10 2 (1.16%) Argo
11 1 (0.58%) Graylog
Vendors
1 51 (29.65%) Google
2 22 (12.79%) Databricks
3 17 (9.88%) Microsoft
4 13 (7.56%) Cloudera
4 13 (7.56%) Dell
5 10 (5.81%) Palantir
6 7 (4.07%) Splunk
7 4 (2.33%) AppDynamics
7 4 (2.33%) Dynatrace
7 4 (2.33%) Oracle
7 4 (2.33%) Rapid7
7 4 (2.33%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.74%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.74%) Confluent
9 2 (1.16%) Rollbar
10 1 (0.58%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.58%) Foundry
10 1 (0.58%) New Relic