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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 528 444 366
Rank change year-on-year -84 -78 +74
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 206 232 713
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.53% 0.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.60% 3.21% 4.09%
Number of salaries quoted 152 152 450
10th Percentile £43,875 £50,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £96,125 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.86% +27.27% -12.00%

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 7,919 7,226 17,412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.58% 16.45% 17.91%
Number of salaries quoted 4,833 4,857 12,496
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,400 £115,000 £97,500
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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -82 187 £69,000 -4.83% 92
UK excluding London -104 100 £57,500 -17.86% 63
Work from Home -28 93 £57,500 -20.69% 71
London -20 89 £85,000 +17.74% 33
South East -59 26 £57,500 -30.30% 20
South West -40 24 £57,500 -4.17% 14
North of England -38 20 £74,301 +9.97% 11
East of England -21 19 £50,000 - 7
North West +4 14 £67,500 +12.50% 10
Midlands -31 8 £55,000 -17.06% 5
Yorkshire -38 5 £75,000 +7.14% 1
East Midlands -23 4 £55,000 -20.00% 2
West Midlands -41 4 £57,500 -9.18% 3
Wales -30 2 £59,401 -12.16% 2
North East -42 1 - -
Northern Ireland -43 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 49 (23.79%) Apache Spark
2 44 (21.36%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (8.74%) Apache
4 7 (3.40%) Apache Solr
5 4 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.97%) Confluence
7 1 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 154 (74.76%) AWS
2 139 (67.48%) Azure
3 88 (42.72%) GCP
4 35 (16.99%) Snowflake
5 31 (15.05%) dbt
6 23 (11.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 23 (11.17%) Power Platform
7 22 (10.68%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 16 (7.77%) Serverless
9 13 (6.31%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (6.31%) GitHub
9 13 (6.31%) GitHub Copilot
10 12 (5.83%) Amazon ECR
10 12 (5.83%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (5.83%) SaaS
11 11 (5.34%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (4.37%) Amazon SageMaker
12 9 (4.37%) Azure Machine Learning
12 9 (4.37%) Dagster
12 9 (4.37%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.91%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.94%) HTTP
3 3 (1.46%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (1.46%) Internet
3 3 (1.46%) MQTT
3 3 (1.46%) Network Security
4 1 (0.49%) BGP
4 1 (0.49%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (28.16%) MongoDB
2 57 (27.67%) BigQuery
3 43 (20.87%) Azure SQL Database
4 35 (16.99%) Looker
5 32 (15.53%) Amazon Redshift
5 32 (15.53%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (15.53%) Tableau
6 28 (13.59%) PostgreSQL
7 24 (11.65%) MySQL
8 23 (11.17%) Data Lake
8 23 (11.17%) Power BI
8 23 (11.17%) Snowflake Schema
9 21 (10.19%) Redis
10 20 (9.71%) NoSQL
11 12 (5.83%) Neo4j
12 10 (4.85%) Pinecone
12 10 (4.85%) Weaviate
13 9 (4.37%) Apache Iceberg
13 9 (4.37%) Delta Lake
14 8 (3.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (15.53%) MLflow
2 26 (12.62%) GitLab
3 22 (10.68%) Git
4 10 (4.85%) Jenkins
4 10 (4.85%) SonarQube
5 9 (4.37%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.91%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.43%) JIRA
8 4 (1.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (1.94%) Gatling
8 4 (1.94%) JMeter
8 4 (1.94%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.97%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.97%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.49%) JUnit
10 1 (0.49%) Maven
10 1 (0.49%) PHPUnit
General
1 35 (16.99%) Analytical Skills
2 31 (15.05%) Social Skills
3 22 (10.68%) Finance
4 13 (6.31%) Banking
5 9 (4.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.91%) Games
6 6 (2.91%) Investment Banking
6 6 (2.91%) Law
6 6 (2.91%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.43%) Health Technology
7 5 (2.43%) Retail
8 4 (1.94%) Mandarin Language
8 4 (1.94%) Publishing
8 4 (1.94%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.49%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 70 (33.98%) Senior
2 57 (27.67%) Developer
3 43 (20.87%) .NET Developer
4 37 (17.96%) Software Engineer
5 23 (11.17%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 23 (11.17%) Systems Engineer
6 15 (7.28%) Lead
7 14 (6.80%) Data Engineer
8 13 (6.31%) Platform Engineer
9 11 (5.34%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (5.34%) Principal Engineer
9 11 (5.34%) Python Engineer
9 11 (5.34%) Senior Software Engineer
10 10 (4.85%) Architect
10 10 (4.85%) Consultant
10 10 (4.85%) Lead Data Engineer
10 10 (4.85%) Senior Consultant
11 9 (4.37%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
11 9 (4.37%) Data Consultant
12 8 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (28.16%) Node.js
2 48 (23.30%) .NET
3 46 (22.33%) Kafka
4 45 (21.84%) ASP.NET
5 43 (20.87%) .NET Core
5 43 (20.87%) ASP.NET Core
6 42 (20.39%) React
7 32 (15.53%) PyTorch
7 32 (15.53%) TensorFlow
8 30 (14.56%) Django
9 28 (13.59%) AngularJS
10 26 (12.62%) Vue
11 23 (11.17%) LangChain
11 23 (11.17%) LlamaIndex
11 23 (11.17%) pgvector
11 23 (11.17%) RESTful
11 23 (11.17%) scikit-learn
12 19 (9.22%) ASP.NET Web API
13 17 (8.25%) Blazor
14 15 (7.28%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 30 (14.56%) Cloud Native
1 30 (14.56%) Distributed Systems
1 30 (14.56%) Greenfield Project
2 29 (14.08%) Public Cloud
3 25 (12.14%) Algorithms
3 25 (12.14%) Data Structures
4 23 (11.17%) Clustering
5 10 (4.85%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.88%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.94%) Blockchain
7 4 (1.94%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.94%) Web3
8 3 (1.46%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (0.97%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.49%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.49%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.49%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.49%) PMI
10 1 (0.49%) Replication
10 1 (0.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (15.05%) Linux
2 11 (5.34%) CentOS
3 8 (3.88%) Unix
4 5 (2.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.94%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.94%) Windows
5 4 (1.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (38.83%) Agile
2 73 (35.44%) Microservices
3 70 (33.98%) CI/CD
4 69 (33.50%) AI
5 64 (31.07%) Software Engineering
6 62 (30.10%) DevOps
7 61 (29.61%) Data Science
8 53 (25.73%) Machine Learning
9 51 (24.76%) Full-Stack Development
10 47 (22.82%) Data Engineering
10 47 (22.82%) Data Pipeline
11 46 (22.33%) Computer Science
12 45 (21.84%) Analytics
13 36 (17.48%) Performance Tuning
14 35 (16.99%) Generative AI
14 35 (16.99%) Use Case
15 34 (16.50%) Business Intelligence
16 33 (16.02%) Data Modelling
16 33 (16.02%) Observability
16 33 (16.02%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 133 (64.56%) Python
2 89 (43.20%) SQL
3 48 (23.30%) C#
3 48 (23.30%) JavaScript
4 46 (22.33%) Java
5 43 (20.87%) TypeScript
6 23 (11.17%) Bash
7 19 (9.22%) Go
8 15 (7.28%) Scala
9 9 (4.37%) Rust
10 8 (3.88%) C
11 6 (2.91%) C++
12 3 (1.46%) PHP
13 2 (0.97%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.97%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.49%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 47 (22.82%) Degree
2 34 (16.50%) Security Cleared
3 31 (15.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (7.28%) SC Cleared
5 13 (6.31%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.94%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.49%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (11.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 23 (11.17%) GDPR
2 11 (5.34%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.34%) QA
3 2 (0.97%) Accessibility
System Software
1 65 (31.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 62 (30.10%) Kubernetes
2 43 (20.87%) Terraform
3 31 (15.05%) Ansible
4 27 (13.11%) Grafana
5 14 (6.80%) Kibana
6 9 (4.37%) Prometheus
7 8 (3.88%) logstash
8 7 (3.40%) Nagios
9 5 (2.43%) Argo
9 5 (2.43%) AWS Copilot
10 4 (1.94%) Rancher
11 3 (1.46%) Packer
11 3 (1.46%) Podman
11 3 (1.46%) Puppet
12 1 (0.49%) Cilium
12 1 (0.49%) Graylog
12 1 (0.49%) Istio
Vendors
1 43 (20.87%) Microsoft
2 37 (17.96%) Google
3 32 (15.53%) Databricks
4 23 (11.17%) Cloudera
4 23 (11.17%) Dell
5 10 (4.85%) Palantir
5 10 (4.85%) Splunk
6 7 (3.40%) Rapid7
6 7 (3.40%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.94%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.94%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.46%) Confluent
8 3 (1.46%) NVIDIA
8 3 (1.46%) Tenable
9 2 (0.97%) Oracle
9 2 (0.97%) Rollbar
10 1 (0.49%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.49%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.49%) Foundry
10 1 (0.49%) OpenText