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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 505 461 509
Rank change year-on-year -44 +48 -99
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 314 214 243
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.44% 0.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.59% 3.07% 2.17%
Number of salaries quoted 265 145 134
10th Percentile £43,750 £52,500 £43,911
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% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £96,500 £94,250 £88,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £69,308
% change year-on-year -8.33% -13.43% +6.63%

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 8,740 6,961 11,175
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.36% 14.15% 15.72%
Number of salaries quoted 5,941 4,334 6,345
10th Percentile £36,750 £33,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -33 297 £60,000 -7.69% 203
UK excluding London -38 221 £55,000 -8.33% 91
Work from Home -11 187 £55,000 -14.06% 99
South East +5 90 £55,000 -26.67% 9
London -69 80 £92,500 +42.31% 126
South West -31 44 £55,000 -16.98% 18
Midlands -17 39 £57,500 -2.54% 6
North of England -44 31 £57,500 - 29
West Midlands -10 29 £60,000 +1.69% 5
East of England -30 26 £55,000 +10.00% 10
North West -23 17 £47,500 -17.39% 25
East Midlands - 10 £55,000 - 1
Yorkshire -29 7 £57,500 -11.54% 3
North East -66 7 £75,000 +18.76% 1
Wales -68 4 £45,000 -39.03% 1

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 28 (8.92%) Apache
2 25 (7.96%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.59%) Apache Pig
4 5 (1.59%) Confluence
5 4 (1.27%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.96%) CMS
6 3 (0.96%) DNN
6 3 (0.96%) EPiServer
6 3 (0.96%) Immediacy CMS
6 3 (0.96%) Kentico
6 3 (0.96%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.96%) Sitefinity
6 3 (0.96%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.32%) nginx
7 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 221 (70.38%) Azure
2 177 (56.37%) AWS
3 61 (19.43%) GitHub
4 47 (14.97%) GitHub Copilot
5 40 (12.74%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (8.60%) Serverless
7 25 (7.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 24 (7.64%) GCP
9 21 (6.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 18 (5.73%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (5.41%) OpenShift
12 16 (5.10%) Amazon ECS
12 16 (5.10%) Azure Data Factory
13 15 (4.78%) Amazon ECR
14 14 (4.46%) Azure Monitor
14 14 (4.46%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (4.14%) Azure Key Vault
15 13 (4.14%) Azure Service Bus
16 11 (3.50%) Amazon EMR
17 10 (3.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.82%) Internet
2 11 (3.50%) HTTP
3 7 (2.23%) Hyperconnected
4 5 (1.59%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.96%) Firewall
5 3 (0.96%) MQTT
5 3 (0.96%) Network Security
6 2 (0.64%) DNS
6 2 (0.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (48.41%) Azure SQL Database
2 147 (46.82%) MongoDB
3 46 (14.65%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (8.92%) MySQL
5 21 (6.69%) Redis
6 18 (5.73%) Hadoop
7 17 (5.41%) Big Data
8 16 (5.10%) NoSQL
9 13 (4.14%) DynamoDB
9 13 (4.14%) SQL Server
10 11 (3.50%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (3.18%) Relational Database
12 6 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (1.59%) Apache Hive
14 4 (1.27%) Electronic Patient Records
14 4 (1.27%) Neo4j
15 3 (0.96%) BigQuery
15 3 (0.96%) Flink
15 3 (0.96%) GIS
Development Applications
1 47 (14.97%) Git
2 30 (9.55%) GitLab
3 16 (5.10%) Cucumber
3 16 (5.10%) Jenkins
4 13 (4.14%) SonarQube
5 10 (3.18%) Gatling
5 10 (3.18%) JMeter
5 10 (3.18%) LoadRunner
6 7 (2.23%) JIRA
7 6 (1.91%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.27%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.96%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.96%) Maven
10 2 (0.64%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.64%) Gradle
10 2 (0.64%) JUnit
10 2 (0.64%) Mocha
10 2 (0.64%) Mockito
11 1 (0.32%) CircleCI
General
1 74 (23.57%) Finance
2 58 (18.47%) Social Skills
3 22 (7.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 22 (7.01%) Retail
4 20 (6.37%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.82%) Banking
7 11 (3.50%) Games
8 4 (1.27%) Health Technology
8 4 (1.27%) Publishing
8 4 (1.27%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.64%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.64%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.64%) Law
10 1 (0.32%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.32%) Police
10 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 184 (58.60%) Developer
2 159 (50.64%) .NET Developer
3 61 (19.43%) Senior
4 34 (10.83%) Lead
5 29 (9.24%) Data Engineer
6 21 (6.69%) Python Engineer
7 20 (6.37%) Software Engineer
8 19 (6.05%) Python Data Engineer
9 18 (5.73%) Azure Engineer
9 18 (5.73%) Senior Data Engineer
10 16 (5.10%) Administrator
11 15 (4.78%) Senior Developer
12 14 (4.46%) Elasticsearch Engineer
12 14 (4.46%) Kafka Engineer
13 13 (4.14%) Azure Data Engineer
13 13 (4.14%) DevOps Engineer
14 12 (3.82%) Lead .NET Developer
14 12 (3.82%) Lead Developer
14 12 (3.82%) Python Developer
15 11 (3.50%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (51.91%) .NET
2 161 (51.27%) ASP.NET
3 156 (49.68%) .NET Core
4 149 (47.45%) ASP.NET Core
5 148 (47.13%) Node.js
6 103 (32.80%) React
7 78 (24.84%) ASP.NET Web API
8 75 (23.89%) Blazor
9 70 (22.29%) Vue
10 66 (21.02%) AngularJS
11 54 (17.20%) .NET Framework
12 50 (15.92%) Terraform
13 40 (12.74%) Entity Framework
14 35 (11.15%) Kafka
15 34 (10.83%) CSS
15 34 (10.83%) HTML
16 21 (6.69%) REST
17 18 (5.73%) Next.js
17 18 (5.73%) RESTful
18 16 (5.10%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.60%) Distributed Systems
1 27 (8.60%) Greenfield Project
2 16 (5.10%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (3.18%) Linux Command Line
3 10 (3.18%) Onboarding
4 7 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (1.91%) Enterprise Cloud
5 6 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.59%) Tandem
7 4 (1.27%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (1.27%) IoT
7 4 (1.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (0.96%) AI Agents
8 3 (0.96%) Algorithms
8 3 (0.96%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.96%) PKI
8 3 (0.96%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.64%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.32%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 38 (12.10%) Linux
2 11 (3.50%) CentOS
3 5 (1.59%) Unix
4 3 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.64%) Rocky
6 1 (0.32%) Solaris
6 1 (0.32%) Windows
6 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (59.55%) Agile
2 160 (50.96%) Full-Stack Development
3 152 (48.41%) Microservices
4 100 (31.85%) DevOps
5 99 (31.53%) CI/CD
6 94 (29.94%) Scrum
7 71 (22.61%) TDD
8 59 (18.79%) BDD
9 55 (17.52%) Kanban
10 46 (14.65%) AI
11 44 (14.01%) Software Engineering
12 39 (12.42%) Mentoring
13 36 (11.46%) Analytics
13 36 (11.46%) Infrastructure as Code
14 34 (10.83%) Problem-Solving
14 34 (10.83%) Stakeholder Management
15 29 (9.24%) Containerisation
16 28 (8.92%) Observability
17 26 (8.28%) Collaborative Culture
17 26 (8.28%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 181 (57.64%) SQL
2 164 (52.23%) C#
3 103 (32.80%) JavaScript
4 97 (30.89%) TypeScript
5 96 (30.57%) Python
6 26 (8.28%) Bash
6 26 (8.28%) Java
7 23 (7.32%) Go
8 13 (4.14%) Scala
9 11 (3.50%) Rust
10 8 (2.55%) C++
11 5 (1.59%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.27%) PHP
13 2 (0.64%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.64%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.64%) Ruby
14 1 (0.32%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 57 (18.15%) Security Cleared
2 34 (10.83%) SC Cleared
3 23 (7.32%) DV Cleared
4 17 (5.41%) Azure Certification
5 16 (5.10%) Degree
6 11 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.59%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.59%) PhD
8 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (10.19%) QA
2 9 (2.87%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.59%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.32%) GDPR
4 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 99 (31.53%) Docker
2 2 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 88 (28.03%) Kubernetes
2 46 (14.65%) Grafana
3 44 (14.01%) Ansible
4 25 (7.96%) Kibana
5 18 (5.73%) logstash
6 12 (3.82%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.87%) Nagios
8 3 (0.96%) Podman
8 3 (0.96%) Puppet
9 2 (0.64%) Argo
9 2 (0.64%) Packer
9 2 (0.64%) Rancher
10 1 (0.32%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 146 (46.50%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.73%) Google
3 12 (3.82%) Red Hat
3 12 (3.82%) Splunk
4 10 (3.18%) AppDynamics
4 10 (3.18%) Dynatrace
5 9 (2.87%) Rapid7
6 5 (1.59%) Oracle
7 4 (1.27%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.27%) SAP
8 3 (0.96%) Alterian
8 3 (0.96%) Databricks
8 3 (0.96%) NVIDIA
8 3 (0.96%) Optimizely
8 3 (0.96%) Sitecore
8 3 (0.96%) Tenable
9 2 (0.64%) CheckPoint
9 2 (0.64%) New Relic
9 2 (0.64%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.64%) Sony