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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 459 495
Rank change year-on-year -56 +36 -64
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 308 231 298
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.47% 0.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.48% 3.24% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 265 149 151
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £46,250
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% +4.09%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £58,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.98% -10.00% -

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 8,848 7,136 11,886
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.55% 14.45% 15.46%
Number of salaries quoted 6,049 4,489 6,950
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £47,482
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 £87,348
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 25 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 25 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 -54 293 £60,000 -6.25% 290
UK excluding London -40 220 £55,000 -5.98% 158
Work from Home -31 184 £55,000 -14.06% 171
South East -11 90 £55,000 -32.31% 22
London -73 77 £90,000 +40.63% 152
South West -43 43 £53,750 -14.00% 29
Midlands -13 36 £55,000 -6.78% 22
North of England -47 33 £64,746 +12.60% 46
West Midlands -21 27 £60,000 +1.69% 15
East of England -22 26 £55,000 +10.00% 16
North West -20 18 £47,500 -17.39% 34
East Midlands -24 9 £55,000 - 7
Yorkshire -29 8 £57,500 -0.65% 8
North East -64 7 £75,000 +42.86% 4
Wales - 4 £45,000 - 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 29 (9.42%) Apache
2 28 (9.09%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.92%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.27%) Apache Solr
5 5 (1.62%) Apache Pig
5 5 (1.62%) Confluence
6 3 (0.97%) CMS
6 3 (0.97%) DNN
6 3 (0.97%) EPiServer
6 3 (0.97%) Immediacy CMS
6 3 (0.97%) Kentico
6 3 (0.97%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.97%) Sitefinity
6 3 (0.97%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.32%) nginx
8 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 220 (71.43%) Azure
2 179 (58.12%) AWS
3 59 (19.16%) GitHub
4 47 (15.26%) GitHub Copilot
5 40 (12.99%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (9.09%) Serverless
7 27 (8.77%) GCP
8 25 (8.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 24 (7.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 17 (5.52%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (4.87%) Amazon ECR
11 15 (4.87%) Amazon ECS
11 15 (4.87%) Azure Data Factory
11 15 (4.87%) OpenShift
12 13 (4.22%) Azure Key Vault
12 13 (4.22%) Azure Monitor
12 13 (4.22%) Azure Service Bus
12 13 (4.22%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (3.90%) SaaS
14 10 (3.25%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.57%) Internet
2 10 (3.25%) HTTP
3 6 (1.95%) Hyperconnected
4 3 (0.97%) MQTT
4 3 (0.97%) Network Security
4 3 (0.97%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.32%) Firewall
5 1 (0.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (48.70%) Azure SQL Database
2 148 (48.05%) MongoDB
3 44 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (7.47%) MySQL
5 21 (6.82%) NoSQL
6 18 (5.84%) Hadoop
6 18 (5.84%) Redis
7 17 (5.52%) Big Data
8 14 (4.55%) DynamoDB
9 13 (4.22%) SQL Server
10 12 (3.90%) Relational Database
11 10 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (1.95%) Neo4j
13 5 (1.62%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (1.62%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (1.62%) Apache Hive
13 5 (1.62%) BigQuery
14 4 (1.30%) Electronic Patient Records
14 4 (1.30%) Flink
15 3 (0.97%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 40 (12.99%) Git
2 29 (9.42%) GitLab
3 17 (5.52%) Jenkins
4 16 (5.19%) Cucumber
5 13 (4.22%) SonarQube
6 9 (2.92%) Gatling
6 9 (2.92%) JMeter
6 9 (2.92%) LoadRunner
7 7 (2.27%) JIRA
8 6 (1.95%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.30%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.97%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.97%) Maven
11 2 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.65%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.65%) Gradle
11 2 (0.65%) JUnit
11 2 (0.65%) Mocha
11 2 (0.65%) Mockito
General
1 65 (21.10%) Finance
2 59 (19.16%) Social Skills
3 21 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (6.49%) Retail
5 19 (6.17%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.87%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (3.90%) Banking
8 11 (3.57%) Games
9 4 (1.30%) Health Technology
9 4 (1.30%) Publishing
9 4 (1.30%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.65%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.65%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.65%) Law
10 2 (0.65%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.32%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.32%) Police
11 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 177 (57.47%) Developer
2 157 (50.97%) .NET Developer
3 57 (18.51%) Senior
4 37 (12.01%) Lead
5 29 (9.42%) Data Engineer
6 24 (7.79%) Software Engineer
7 21 (6.82%) Python Engineer
8 19 (6.17%) Python Data Engineer
9 17 (5.52%) Senior Data Engineer
10 16 (5.19%) Azure Engineer
11 14 (4.55%) Senior Developer
12 13 (4.22%) Kafka Engineer
13 12 (3.90%) Azure Data Engineer
13 12 (3.90%) Cloud Engineer
13 12 (3.90%) DevOps Engineer
13 12 (3.90%) Elasticsearch Engineer
13 12 (3.90%) Lead .NET Developer
13 12 (3.90%) Lead Developer
14 10 (3.25%) Administrator
14 10 (3.25%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (52.60%) .NET
2 159 (51.62%) ASP.NET
3 154 (50.00%) .NET Core
4 148 (48.05%) Node.js
5 147 (47.73%) ASP.NET Core
6 101 (32.79%) React
7 76 (24.68%) ASP.NET Web API
8 73 (23.70%) Blazor
9 71 (23.05%) Vue
10 66 (21.43%) AngularJS
11 54 (17.53%) .NET Framework
12 50 (16.23%) Terraform
13 40 (12.99%) Entity Framework
14 37 (12.01%) Kafka
15 33 (10.71%) CSS
15 33 (10.71%) HTML
16 22 (7.14%) REST
17 18 (5.84%) RESTful
18 17 (5.52%) Next.js
19 15 (4.87%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
1 28 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
2 15 (4.87%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (3.25%) Onboarding
4 7 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (1.95%) Enterprise Cloud
6 5 (1.62%) Algorithms
6 5 (1.62%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.62%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.62%) Tandem
7 4 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (1.30%) IoT
7 4 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.30%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (0.65%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.65%) Blockchain
8 2 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.65%) PKI
8 2 (0.65%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 35 (11.36%) Linux
2 11 (3.57%) CentOS
3 5 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.62%) Unix
4 3 (0.97%) Windows
4 3 (0.97%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.65%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.32%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (59.42%) Agile
2 158 (51.30%) Full-Stack Development
3 152 (49.35%) Microservices
4 101 (32.79%) DevOps
5 97 (31.49%) CI/CD
6 94 (30.52%) Scrum
7 72 (23.38%) TDD
8 60 (19.48%) BDD
9 55 (17.86%) Kanban
10 49 (15.91%) Software Engineering
11 42 (13.64%) AI
12 38 (12.34%) Mentoring
13 35 (11.36%) Analytics
13 35 (11.36%) Infrastructure as Code
14 34 (11.04%) Problem-Solving
14 34 (11.04%) Stakeholder Management
15 30 (9.74%) Observability
16 28 (9.09%) Containerisation
17 25 (8.12%) Data Pipeline
18 24 (7.79%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 176 (57.14%) SQL
2 163 (52.92%) C#
3 100 (32.47%) JavaScript
4 97 (31.49%) TypeScript
5 94 (30.52%) Python
6 29 (9.42%) Java
7 23 (7.47%) Bash
8 22 (7.14%) Go
9 13 (4.22%) Scala
10 12 (3.90%) Rust
11 9 (2.92%) C++
12 4 (1.30%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.65%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.65%) PHP
13 2 (0.65%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.65%) Ruby
14 1 (0.32%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 55 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 33 (10.71%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.49%) Degree
3 20 (6.49%) DV Cleared
4 15 (4.87%) Azure Certification
5 13 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.62%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.62%) PhD
7 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (0.65%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.42%) QA
2 9 (2.92%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.65%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 95 (30.84%) Docker
2 2 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 86 (27.92%) Kubernetes
2 45 (14.61%) Ansible
3 40 (12.99%) Grafana
4 22 (7.14%) Kibana
5 18 (5.84%) logstash
6 11 (3.57%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.92%) Nagios
8 3 (0.97%) Packer
8 3 (0.97%) Podman
8 3 (0.97%) Puppet
8 3 (0.97%) Rancher
9 2 (0.65%) Argo
10 1 (0.32%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 144 (46.75%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.49%) Google
3 12 (3.90%) Splunk
4 10 (3.25%) Red Hat
5 9 (2.92%) AppDynamics
5 9 (2.92%) Dynatrace
5 9 (2.92%) Rapid7
6 5 (1.62%) Oracle
7 4 (1.30%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.30%) SAP
8 3 (0.97%) Alterian
8 3 (0.97%) Databricks
8 3 (0.97%) NVIDIA
8 3 (0.97%) Optimizely
8 3 (0.97%) Sitecore
8 3 (0.97%) Tenable
9 2 (0.65%) CheckPoint
9 2 (0.65%) OpenText
9 2 (0.65%) Sony
9 2 (0.65%) VMware