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

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 465 346
Rank change year-on-year -44 -119 +111
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 142 254 446
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.47% 0.84%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.17% 2.63% 4.05%
Number of salaries quoted 118 156 309
10th Percentile £52,125 £43,911 £37,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -8.77%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £101,125 £87,500 £100,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £55,250
% change year-on-year -3.57% +26.70% -3.91%

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 6,552 9,670 11,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.07% 17.83% 20.77%
Number of salaries quoted 4,166 5,414 8,518
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,779 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +4.63% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £54,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -3.67% +1.87% -2.73%

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 5 January 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 5 January 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 -12 120 £67,250 -15.94% 123
Work from Home +22 75 £65,000 -6.22% 104
London +72 72 £68,500 -16.97% 46
UK excluding London -78 62 £67,500 -3.57% 81
North of England +8 18 £67,500 -2.61% 20
North West +7 14 £67,500 -2.61% 16
South West +7 13 £67,500 +17.39% 8
Scotland -16 10 £73,801 +6.48% 3
East of England +18 7 £47,500 -5.00% 9
South East -52 5 £67,500 -18.18% 29
West Midlands +21 4 £69,401 +0.13% 7
Midlands +10 4 £69,401 +6.77% 12
North East +5 3 £73,801 +6.48%
Wales 0 3 £73,801 +29.87% 1
Northern Ireland -5 2 £73,801 +6.48%
Yorkshire -7 1 £65,000 +23.81% 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 12 (8.45%) Apache Solr
2 9 (6.34%) Apache
3 7 (4.93%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (4.93%) Apache Spark
4 5 (3.52%) Confluence
5 3 (2.11%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 99 (69.72%) AWS
2 89 (62.68%) Azure
3 42 (29.58%) GCP
4 23 (16.20%) Amazon ECS
4 23 (16.20%) AWS CloudFormation
5 21 (14.79%) Amazon ECR
5 21 (14.79%) Serverless
6 20 (14.08%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (14.08%) dbt
6 20 (14.08%) Pulumi
7 17 (11.97%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 12 (8.45%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 12 (8.45%) PaaS
8 12 (8.45%) Sentry
9 7 (4.93%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (4.93%) Amazon S3
9 7 (4.93%) Vertex AI
10 5 (3.52%) Amazon SageMaker
11 4 (2.82%) Azure Machine Learning
11 4 (2.82%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 20 (14.08%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.11%) Broadband
3 2 (1.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (25.35%) MongoDB
2 32 (22.54%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (20.42%) Redis
4 20 (14.08%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (12.68%) Azure SQL Database
5 18 (12.68%) DynamoDB
6 15 (10.56%) BigQuery
6 15 (10.56%) MySQL
6 15 (10.56%) Neo4j
7 8 (5.63%) Pinecone
8 6 (4.23%) NoSQL
9 5 (3.52%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (3.52%) SQL Server
9 5 (3.52%) Weaviate
10 4 (2.82%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (2.82%) Apache Iceberg
10 4 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.82%) Delta Lake
10 4 (2.82%) Looker
10 4 (2.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (16.20%) Git
2 15 (10.56%) GitLab
3 7 (4.93%) Bitbucket
3 7 (4.93%) JUnit
4 6 (4.23%) Cucumber
4 6 (4.23%) JIRA
5 5 (3.52%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.82%) MLflow
7 3 (2.11%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.11%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.41%) Appium
8 2 (1.41%) JConsole
8 2 (1.41%) Katalon Studio
8 2 (1.41%) Selenium
8 2 (1.41%) VisualVM
9 1 (0.70%) mountebank
9 1 (0.70%) Postman
9 1 (0.70%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.70%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.70%) TestNG
General
1 27 (19.01%) Social Skills
2 14 (9.86%) Finance
3 12 (8.45%) Health Technology
3 12 (8.45%) Publishing
3 12 (8.45%) Tech for Good
4 6 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.52%) Banking
6 4 (2.82%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.11%) Law
8 2 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.41%) Front Office
8 2 (1.41%) Games
9 1 (0.70%) Advertising
9 1 (0.70%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 50 (35.21%) Senior
2 46 (32.39%) Developer
3 36 (25.35%) Software Engineer
4 18 (12.68%) .NET Developer
5 15 (10.56%) Senior Developer
6 13 (9.15%) Platform Engineer
7 12 (8.45%) Python Developer
7 12 (8.45%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 12 (8.45%) Senior Python Developer
8 9 (6.34%) AWS Developer
8 9 (6.34%) C Software Engineer
9 8 (5.63%) Site Engineer
9 8 (5.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 7 (4.93%) Backend Developer
10 7 (4.93%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (4.93%) Integration Developer
10 7 (4.93%) Senior Software Engineer
10 7 (4.93%) Software Developer
11 6 (4.23%) Applications Engineer
11 6 (4.23%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (41.55%) React
2 36 (25.35%) AngularJS
2 36 (25.35%) Node.js
3 28 (19.72%) Django
4 23 (16.20%) Vue
5 21 (14.79%) RESTful
6 20 (14.08%) .NET
7 19 (13.38%) .NET Core
7 19 (13.38%) ASP.NET Web API
8 18 (12.68%) .NET Framework
8 18 (12.68%) ASP.NET
8 18 (12.68%) ASP.NET MVC
8 18 (12.68%) Entity Framework
9 13 (9.15%) Elastic Stack
9 13 (9.15%) MERN Stack
10 12 (8.45%) Swagger
11 6 (4.23%) Apache NiFi
11 6 (4.23%) Kafka
11 6 (4.23%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (3.52%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.79%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (9.86%) Linux Command Line
3 10 (7.04%) Algorithms
3 10 (7.04%) Data Structures
4 8 (5.63%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (4.93%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.52%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.82%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.11%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.41%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.41%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.41%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.70%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.70%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.70%) Smart Energy
10 1 (0.70%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 45 (31.69%) Linux
2 21 (14.79%) Unix
3 11 (7.75%) Windows
3 11 (7.75%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.70%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (43.66%) CI/CD
2 53 (37.32%) Agile
3 49 (34.51%) Software Engineering
4 45 (31.69%) DevOps
5 42 (29.58%) Microservices
6 38 (26.76%) Scrum
7 34 (23.94%) TDD
8 31 (21.83%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (21.13%) AI
10 28 (19.72%) Clean Code
10 28 (19.72%) Infrastructure as Code
10 28 (19.72%) Observability
11 25 (17.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 23 (16.20%) Full-Stack Development
13 22 (15.49%) Computer Science
13 22 (15.49%) Data Science
13 22 (15.49%) Machine Learning
14 20 (14.08%) BDD
14 20 (14.08%) MVC
14 20 (14.08%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 100 (70.42%) Python
2 62 (43.66%) JavaScript
3 56 (39.44%) TypeScript
4 37 (26.06%) SQL
5 36 (25.35%) Java
6 22 (15.49%) C#
7 12 (8.45%) C
8 9 (6.34%) Bash
9 8 (5.63%) Go
9 8 (5.63%) PHP
10 4 (2.82%) Scala
11 2 (1.41%) Perl
11 2 (1.41%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.70%) C++
12 1 (0.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 41 (28.87%) Security Cleared
2 25 (17.61%) SC Cleared
3 19 (13.38%) Degree
4 16 (11.27%) DV Cleared
5 12 (8.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.11%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (14.08%) QA
2 4 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.41%) GDPR
4 1 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.70%) NIST
4 1 (0.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 58 (40.85%) Docker
2 1 (0.70%) Squid
Systems Management
1 30 (21.13%) Terraform
2 29 (20.42%) Kubernetes
3 18 (12.68%) Kibana
4 12 (8.45%) Ansible
4 12 (8.45%) AWS Copilot
4 12 (8.45%) logstash
5 7 (4.93%) Grafana
5 7 (4.93%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.41%) Rancher
7 1 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.70%) Nagios
Vendors
1 33 (23.24%) Microsoft
2 31 (21.83%) Google
3 6 (4.23%) Atlassian
3 6 (4.23%) Oracle
4 4 (2.82%) Databricks
4 4 (2.82%) Palantir
5 3 (2.11%) Splunk
6 2 (1.41%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.70%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.70%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.70%) LogRhythm
7 1 (0.70%) New Relic
7 1 (0.70%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.70%) Rapid7