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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 456 485
Rank change year-on-year -39 +29 -47
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 318 233 321
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.47% 0.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.55% 3.23% 2.67%
Number of salaries quoted 265 150 156
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £47,497
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -8.57% +6.46%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,125 £89,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.78% -9.23% -

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 8,968 7,204 12,024
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.72% 14.58% 15.39%
Number of salaries quoted 6,068 4,540 7,155
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.51% +1.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.77% +0.95% -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 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 19 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 -44 305 £60,000 -6.25% 294
UK excluding London -45 223 £55,000 -6.78% 160
Work from Home -31 186 £55,000 -14.06% 174
South East -8 90 £57,500 -30.30% 22
London -85 86 £91,250 +42.58% 158
South West -42 43 £52,500 -16.00% 29
Midlands -18 35 £55,000 -6.78% 21
North of England -51 33 £64,746 +12.60% 48
East of England -24 29 £55,000 +10.00% 12
West Midlands -22 26 £60,000 +1.69% 13
North West -11 18 £47,500 -17.39% 32
East Midlands -28 9 £55,000 - 8
Yorkshire -37 8 £57,500 -0.65% 10
North East -62 7 £75,000 +42.86% 6
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 39 (12.26%) Apache Spark
2 29 (9.12%) Apache
3 19 (5.97%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.20%) Apache Solr
5 5 (1.57%) Apache Pig
5 5 (1.57%) Confluence
6 3 (0.94%) CMS
6 3 (0.94%) DNN
6 3 (0.94%) EPiServer
6 3 (0.94%) Immediacy CMS
6 3 (0.94%) Kentico
6 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.94%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.94%) Sitefinity
6 3 (0.94%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.31%) nginx
7 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 230 (72.33%) Azure
2 189 (59.43%) AWS
3 58 (18.24%) GitHub
4 47 (14.78%) GitHub Copilot
5 41 (12.89%) Azure DevOps
6 37 (11.64%) GCP
7 28 (8.81%) Serverless
8 26 (8.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 24 (7.55%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 17 (5.35%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (4.72%) Amazon ECR
11 15 (4.72%) Amazon ECS
12 14 (4.40%) Azure Data Factory
12 14 (4.40%) OpenShift
13 13 (4.09%) Azure Key Vault
13 13 (4.09%) Azure Monitor
13 13 (4.09%) Azure Service Bus
13 13 (4.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 12 (3.77%) dbt
14 12 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.46%) Internet
2 9 (2.83%) HTTP
3 6 (1.89%) Hyperconnected
4 4 (1.26%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.94%) MQTT
5 3 (0.94%) Network Security
6 1 (0.31%) BGP
6 1 (0.31%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.31%) Firewall
6 1 (0.31%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (47.48%) Azure SQL Database
2 148 (46.54%) MongoDB
3 41 (12.89%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (7.23%) MySQL
5 21 (6.60%) NoSQL
6 18 (5.66%) Hadoop
7 17 (5.35%) Big Data
8 16 (5.03%) Redis
9 15 (4.72%) Amazon Redshift
9 15 (4.72%) BigQuery
10 14 (4.40%) DynamoDB
11 13 (4.09%) SQL Server
12 11 (3.46%) Data Lake
12 11 (3.46%) Relational Database
13 10 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (3.14%) Looker
13 10 (3.14%) Milvus
13 10 (3.14%) Power BI
13 10 (3.14%) Snowflake Schema
13 10 (3.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (12.58%) Git
2 31 (9.75%) GitLab
3 17 (5.35%) Jenkins
4 16 (5.03%) Cucumber
5 13 (4.09%) SonarQube
6 10 (3.14%) MLflow
7 8 (2.52%) Gatling
7 8 (2.52%) JMeter
7 8 (2.52%) LoadRunner
8 7 (2.20%) JIRA
9 6 (1.89%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.26%) Robot Framework
11 3 (0.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.94%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.94%) Maven
12 2 (0.63%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.63%) Gradle
12 2 (0.63%) JUnit
12 2 (0.63%) Mocha
12 2 (0.63%) Mockito
General
1 65 (20.44%) Finance
2 58 (18.24%) Social Skills
3 24 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (6.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (6.29%) Retail
5 17 (5.35%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.09%) Banking
7 11 (3.46%) Games
8 4 (1.26%) Health Technology
8 4 (1.26%) Publishing
8 4 (1.26%) Tech for Good
9 3 (0.94%) Mandarin Language
10 2 (0.63%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.63%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.63%) Law
11 1 (0.31%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.31%) Police
11 1 (0.31%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.31%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 177 (55.66%) Developer
2 158 (49.69%) .NET Developer
3 64 (20.13%) Senior
4 36 (11.32%) Lead
5 28 (8.81%) Data Engineer
6 24 (7.55%) Software Engineer
7 21 (6.60%) Python Engineer
8 18 (5.66%) Python Data Engineer
9 16 (5.03%) Senior Data Engineer
10 15 (4.72%) Azure Engineer
11 14 (4.40%) DevOps Engineer
11 14 (4.40%) Senior Developer
12 12 (3.77%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (3.77%) Kafka Engineer
12 12 (3.77%) Lead .NET Developer
12 12 (3.77%) Lead Developer
13 11 (3.46%) Azure Data Engineer
13 11 (3.46%) Elasticsearch Engineer
14 10 (3.14%) DevOps Systems Engineer
14 10 (3.14%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (51.26%) .NET
2 160 (50.31%) ASP.NET
3 155 (48.74%) .NET Core
4 150 (47.17%) Node.js
5 148 (46.54%) ASP.NET Core
6 101 (31.76%) React
7 76 (23.90%) ASP.NET Web API
8 73 (22.96%) Blazor
9 71 (22.33%) Vue
10 66 (20.75%) AngularJS
11 54 (16.98%) .NET Framework
12 52 (16.35%) Terraform
13 47 (14.78%) Kafka
14 41 (12.89%) Entity Framework
15 34 (10.69%) CSS
15 34 (10.69%) HTML
16 22 (6.92%) REST
17 18 (5.66%) RESTful
18 17 (5.35%) Next.js
19 16 (5.03%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.81%) Greenfield Project
2 26 (8.18%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (4.72%) Cloud Native
4 14 (4.40%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (4.40%) Public Cloud
5 10 (3.14%) Clustering
5 10 (3.14%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.89%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (1.57%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.57%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.57%) Tandem
9 4 (1.26%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.26%) IoT
9 4 (1.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 3 (0.94%) Blockchain
10 3 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.94%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.94%) Web3
11 2 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 36 (11.32%) Linux
2 13 (4.09%) CentOS
3 6 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.57%) Unix
5 4 (1.26%) Windows
5 4 (1.26%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.94%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.31%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (56.92%) Agile
2 159 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 152 (47.80%) Microservices
4 101 (31.76%) DevOps
5 99 (31.13%) CI/CD
6 94 (29.56%) Scrum
7 72 (22.64%) TDD
8 60 (18.87%) BDD
9 55 (17.30%) Kanban
10 51 (16.04%) AI
11 50 (15.72%) Software Engineering
12 45 (14.15%) Analytics
13 37 (11.64%) Infrastructure as Code
14 36 (11.32%) Mentoring
15 34 (10.69%) Data Engineering
15 34 (10.69%) Data Pipeline
15 34 (10.69%) Stakeholder Management
16 33 (10.38%) Data Modelling
16 33 (10.38%) Problem-Solving
17 30 (9.43%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 186 (58.49%) SQL
2 164 (51.57%) C#
3 104 (32.70%) Python
4 100 (31.45%) JavaScript
5 97 (30.50%) TypeScript
6 29 (9.12%) Java
7 24 (7.55%) Bash
8 22 (6.92%) Go
9 14 (4.40%) Scala
10 12 (3.77%) Rust
11 9 (2.83%) C++
12 4 (1.26%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.63%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.63%) PHP
13 2 (0.63%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.63%) Ruby
14 1 (0.31%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 53 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 32 (10.06%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.60%) Degree
4 19 (5.97%) DV Cleared
5 14 (4.40%) Azure Certification
6 13 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.57%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.57%) PhD
8 3 (0.94%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.43%) QA
2 10 (3.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 10 (3.14%) GDPR
3 9 (2.83%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.63%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 96 (30.19%) Docker
2 2 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.31%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 89 (27.99%) Kubernetes
2 47 (14.78%) Ansible
3 40 (12.58%) Grafana
4 20 (6.29%) Kibana
5 17 (5.35%) logstash
6 12 (3.77%) Prometheus
7 10 (3.14%) Nagios
8 3 (0.94%) Argo
8 3 (0.94%) Packer
8 3 (0.94%) Podman
8 3 (0.94%) Puppet
8 3 (0.94%) Rancher
9 1 (0.31%) Cilium
9 1 (0.31%) Istio
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 145 (45.60%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.97%) Google
3 13 (4.09%) Databricks
3 13 (4.09%) Splunk
4 11 (3.46%) Red Hat
5 10 (3.14%) Cloudera
5 10 (3.14%) Dell
5 10 (3.14%) Rapid7
6 8 (2.52%) AppDynamics
6 8 (2.52%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.57%) Oracle
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%) New Relic
10 2 (0.63%) ServiceNow