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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 522 449 354
Rank change year-on-year -73 -95 +102
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 176 190 698
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.45% 0.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.48% 2.42% 4.28%
Number of salaries quoted 127 148 462
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,375 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,625 £63,630 £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 £104,250 £95,375 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +27.27% -9.84%

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 7,111 7,840 16,298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.37% 18.55% 19.01%
Number of salaries quoted 4,267 5,098 12,246
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -8.49%
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 21 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 21 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 -41 148 £73,801 -7.75% 96
UK excluding London -90 87 £67,500 -3.57% 57
London +20 76 £80,000 -11.11% 43
Work from Home -32 60 £73,801 +5.43% 82
South West -12 23 £67,500 -6.90% 11
North of England -61 22 £73,801 +6.48% 10
North West -24 16 £67,500 -0.09% 8
South East -54 11 £62,500 -24.24% 20
East of England -12 10 £51,250 +2.50% 4
Scotland -20 9 £73,801 +6.48% 2
Midlands -30 5 £65,000 - 7
North East -26 4 £73,801 +6.37%
Wales -28 4 £73,801 +31.82% 3
West Midlands -5 3 £73,801 +6.48% 3
Northern Ireland -32 3 £73,801 +6.48%
Yorkshire -41 2 £65,000 -13.33% 2
East Midlands -54 2 £53,750 -17.31% 4

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 32 (18.18%) Apache Spark
2 30 (17.05%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (5.68%) Apache
4 7 (3.98%) Apache Solr
5 4 (2.27%) Confluence
6 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 141 (80.11%) AWS
2 126 (71.59%) Azure
3 91 (51.70%) GCP
4 43 (24.43%) dbt
5 31 (17.61%) Amazon ECS
5 31 (17.61%) AWS CloudFormation
6 30 (17.05%) Amazon ECR
7 27 (15.34%) Snowflake
8 25 (14.20%) Pulumi
9 23 (13.07%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 17 (9.66%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 17 (9.66%) PaaS
10 17 (9.66%) Sentry
11 15 (8.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 15 (8.52%) Power Platform
12 10 (5.68%) Amazon SageMaker
13 9 (5.11%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (5.11%) Azure Machine Learning
13 9 (5.11%) Dagster
13 9 (5.11%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 25 (14.20%) TCP/IP
2 6 (3.41%) HTTP
3 2 (1.14%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (1.14%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (26.14%) BigQuery
2 42 (23.86%) PostgreSQL
3 38 (21.59%) Redis
4 32 (18.18%) MongoDB
5 27 (15.34%) Looker
6 25 (14.20%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (14.20%) Amazon Redshift
7 24 (13.64%) Data Warehouse
7 24 (13.64%) Tableau
8 20 (11.36%) Neo4j
9 19 (10.80%) MySQL
10 15 (8.52%) Data Lake
10 15 (8.52%) Power BI
10 15 (8.52%) Snowflake Schema
11 12 (6.82%) Azure SQL Database
11 12 (6.82%) NoSQL
12 10 (5.68%) Pinecone
12 10 (5.68%) Weaviate
13 9 (5.11%) Apache Iceberg
13 9 (5.11%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 24 (13.64%) MLflow
2 23 (13.07%) Git
3 20 (11.36%) GitLab
4 9 (5.11%) Cucumber
5 7 (3.98%) Bitbucket
5 7 (3.98%) JIRA
6 6 (3.41%) Jenkins
7 5 (2.84%) JUnit
8 4 (2.27%) Cypress.io
8 4 (2.27%) Gatling
8 4 (2.27%) JMeter
8 4 (2.27%) LoadRunner
9 3 (1.70%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.70%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.14%) Appium
10 2 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (1.14%) Katalon Studio
10 2 (1.14%) Selenium
10 2 (1.14%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.57%) TestNG
General
1 32 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 22 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (6.25%) Finance
4 10 (5.68%) Banking
5 9 (5.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.41%) Law
7 5 (2.84%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.84%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.70%) Games
9 2 (1.14%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.57%) Advertising
10 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Front Office
10 1 (0.57%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 76 (43.18%) Senior
2 42 (23.86%) Software Engineer
3 27 (15.34%) Developer
4 22 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
5 17 (9.66%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 15 (8.52%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 15 (8.52%) Systems Engineer
7 12 (6.82%) .NET Developer
8 11 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
9 9 (5.11%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
9 9 (5.11%) C Software Engineer
9 9 (5.11%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (5.11%) Consultant
9 9 (5.11%) Data Consultant
9 9 (5.11%) Principal Engineer
9 9 (5.11%) Senior Consultant
10 8 (4.55%) Architect
10 8 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (4.55%) Site Engineer
10 8 (4.55%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (26.70%) Django
2 36 (20.45%) React
3 30 (17.05%) AngularJS
3 30 (17.05%) Node.js
4 25 (14.20%) Kafka
5 24 (13.64%) PyTorch
5 24 (13.64%) TensorFlow
6 18 (10.23%) RESTful
7 17 (9.66%) MERN Stack
8 15 (8.52%) .NET
8 15 (8.52%) LangChain
8 15 (8.52%) LlamaIndex
8 15 (8.52%) pgvector
8 15 (8.52%) scikit-learn
8 15 (8.52%) Vue
9 14 (7.95%) ASP.NET
10 12 (6.82%) .NET Core
10 12 (6.82%) Elastic Stack
11 10 (5.68%) Entity Framework
12 9 (5.11%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 34 (19.32%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 22 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 22 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
3 20 (11.36%) Cloud Native
3 20 (11.36%) Linux Command Line
3 20 (11.36%) Public Cloud
4 15 (8.52%) Clustering
5 11 (6.25%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.70%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (1.14%) Blockchain
7 2 (1.14%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.14%) Web3
8 1 (0.57%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.57%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.57%) NHS
8 1 (0.57%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.57%) PMI
8 1 (0.57%) Replication
8 1 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 50 (28.41%) Linux
2 28 (15.91%) Unix
3 7 (3.98%) CentOS
4 6 (3.41%) Windows
4 6 (3.41%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (41.48%) CI/CD
2 67 (38.07%) Software Engineering
3 61 (34.66%) DevOps
4 50 (28.41%) AI
4 50 (28.41%) Microservices
5 49 (27.84%) Agile
6 48 (27.27%) Data Science
7 47 (26.70%) Machine Learning
8 39 (22.16%) Computer Science
8 39 (22.16%) Observability
9 38 (21.59%) Infrastructure as Code
10 36 (20.45%) Clean Code
11 34 (19.32%) Analytics
12 33 (18.75%) Data Engineering
13 31 (17.61%) Data Pipeline
14 30 (17.05%) Open Source
14 30 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
15 27 (15.34%) Containerisation
15 27 (15.34%) Generative AI
16 25 (14.20%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 132 (75.00%) Python
2 52 (29.55%) Java
3 49 (27.84%) SQL
4 47 (26.70%) JavaScript
5 38 (21.59%) TypeScript
6 18 (10.23%) Bash
7 17 (9.66%) C#
8 16 (9.09%) C
9 15 (8.52%) Go
10 13 (7.39%) Scala
11 6 (3.41%) PHP
12 3 (1.70%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.14%) C++
13 2 (1.14%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.57%) Perl
14 1 (0.57%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.57%) Rust
14 1 (0.57%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 51 (28.98%) Security Cleared
2 40 (22.73%) Degree
3 29 (16.48%) SC Cleared
4 26 (14.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (11.36%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.14%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.57%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.09%) GDPR
2 15 (8.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 9 (5.11%) QA
4 6 (3.41%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.14%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 81 (46.02%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Squid
Systems Management
1 53 (30.11%) Kubernetes
2 47 (26.70%) Terraform
3 20 (11.36%) Kibana
4 19 (10.80%) Ansible
5 18 (10.23%) Grafana
6 17 (9.66%) AWS Copilot
7 11 (6.25%) logstash
8 6 (3.41%) Prometheus
9 5 (2.84%) Nagios
10 3 (1.70%) Argo
10 3 (1.70%) Rancher
11 1 (0.57%) Graylog
Vendors
1 51 (28.98%) Google
2 24 (13.64%) Databricks
3 17 (9.66%) Microsoft
4 15 (8.52%) Cloudera
4 15 (8.52%) Dell
5 10 (5.68%) Palantir
6 8 (4.55%) Splunk
7 5 (2.84%) Rapid7
7 5 (2.84%) Red Hat
8 4 (2.27%) AppDynamics
8 4 (2.27%) Dynatrace
8 4 (2.27%) Oracle
9 3 (1.70%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.70%) Confluent
10 2 (1.14%) Rollbar
11 1 (0.57%) CA Agile Central
11 1 (0.57%) Foundry
11 1 (0.57%) New Relic