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 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 454 448 426
Rank change year-on-year -6 -22 +6
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 331 251 558
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.52% 0.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.86% 3.32% 3.29%
Number of salaries quoted 273 164 341
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £67,626 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.67% +22.96% -13.59%

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 8,571 7,565 16,945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.79% 15.72% 16.51%
Number of salaries quoted 5,701 4,887 12,017
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,195
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £102,500
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 8 July 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 8 July 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 -3 314 £60,000 -13.52% 109
UK excluding London -17 214 £55,000 -18.67% 85
Work from Home +20 199 £55,000 -20.73% 87
London -10 105 £85,000 +25.93% 37
South East -17 76 £57,500 -30.30% 26
South West -28 38 £52,500 -14.29% 10
North of England -30 36 £57,500 -4.17% 27
East of England -21 33 £55,000 +10.00% 6
Midlands -6 27 £55,000 -13.13% 9
North West -3 22 £47,500 -18.80% 17
West Midlands -4 16 £55,000 -6.78% 3
East Midlands -16 11 £55,000 -24.14% 6
Yorkshire -23 9 £57,500 -14.81% 6
North East -44 5 £75,000 +8.09% 4
Wales -48 5 £45,000 -33.46% 2
Northern Ireland -64 1 £73,801 +34.18% 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 56 (16.92%) Apache Spark
2 41 (12.39%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (8.46%) Apache
4 8 (2.42%) Apache Solr
5 4 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.91%) Apache Pig
6 3 (0.91%) CMS
6 3 (0.91%) Confluence
6 3 (0.91%) DNN
6 3 (0.91%) EPiServer
6 3 (0.91%) Immediacy CMS
6 3 (0.91%) Kentico
6 3 (0.91%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.91%) Sitefinity
6 3 (0.91%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 243 (73.41%) Azure
2 216 (65.26%) AWS
3 74 (22.36%) GCP
4 48 (14.50%) GitHub
4 48 (14.50%) GitHub Copilot
5 33 (9.97%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (9.37%) dbt
6 31 (9.37%) Snowflake
7 23 (6.95%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 23 (6.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 23 (6.95%) Power Platform
7 23 (6.95%) Serverless
8 17 (5.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 14 (4.23%) Amazon ECR
9 14 (4.23%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (4.23%) SaaS
10 13 (3.93%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (3.63%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (3.32%) Cloud Computing
13 10 (3.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.32%) Internet
2 8 (2.42%) Hyperconnected
3 6 (1.81%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.21%) HTTP
5 3 (0.91%) MQTT
5 3 (0.91%) Network Security
6 1 (0.30%) BGP
6 1 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (47.43%) MongoDB
2 152 (45.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 45 (13.60%) BigQuery
4 32 (9.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 31 (9.37%) Looker
6 29 (8.76%) PostgreSQL
7 28 (8.46%) Data Warehouse
7 28 (8.46%) Tableau
8 25 (7.55%) MySQL
9 24 (7.25%) Data Lake
10 23 (6.95%) Power BI
10 23 (6.95%) Snowflake Schema
11 21 (6.34%) NoSQL
12 18 (5.44%) Redis
13 15 (4.53%) Big Data
14 14 (4.23%) Hadoop
15 12 (3.63%) DynamoDB
16 11 (3.32%) Neo4j
17 8 (2.42%) Relational Database
18 7 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 29 (8.76%) GitLab
2 28 (8.46%) Git
2 28 (8.46%) MLflow
3 15 (4.53%) Cucumber
4 13 (3.93%) Jenkins
4 13 (3.93%) SonarQube
5 7 (2.11%) JIRA
6 5 (1.51%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.21%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.21%) Gatling
7 4 (1.21%) JMeter
7 4 (1.21%) LoadRunner
7 4 (1.21%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.60%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.60%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.30%) Maven
General
1 60 (18.13%) Finance
2 43 (12.99%) Social Skills
3 37 (11.18%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (6.04%) Retail
5 14 (4.23%) Banking
6 13 (3.93%) Games
6 13 (3.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.11%) Public Sector
8 5 (1.51%) Health Technology
8 5 (1.51%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.21%) Law
9 4 (1.21%) Mandarin Language
9 4 (1.21%) Publishing
9 4 (1.21%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.30%) Front Office
10 1 (0.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 171 (51.66%) Developer
2 154 (46.53%) .NET Developer
3 77 (23.26%) Senior
4 27 (8.16%) Lead
5 26 (7.85%) Software Engineer
6 23 (6.95%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 23 (6.95%) Systems Engineer
7 20 (6.04%) Data Engineer
8 14 (4.23%) Python Engineer
9 13 (3.93%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (3.63%) Platform Engineer
10 12 (3.63%) Senior Developer
11 10 (3.02%) Architect
11 10 (3.02%) Consultant
11 10 (3.02%) Lead Data Engineer
11 10 (3.02%) Python Data Engineer
12 9 (2.72%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (2.72%) Engineering Manager
12 9 (2.72%) Test Engineer
13 8 (2.42%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (48.94%) Node.js
2 161 (48.64%) .NET
3 158 (47.73%) ASP.NET
4 152 (45.92%) .NET Core
4 152 (45.92%) ASP.NET Core
5 100 (30.21%) React
6 77 (23.26%) ASP.NET Web API
7 73 (22.05%) Vue
8 70 (21.15%) AngularJS
9 67 (20.24%) Blazor
10 56 (16.92%) .NET Framework
11 52 (15.71%) Kafka
12 45 (13.60%) Entity Framework
13 32 (9.67%) CSS
13 32 (9.67%) HTML
14 28 (8.46%) PyTorch
14 28 (8.46%) TensorFlow
15 23 (6.95%) LangChain
15 23 (6.95%) LlamaIndex
15 23 (6.95%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 40 (12.08%) Greenfield Project
2 30 (9.06%) Cloud Native
3 27 (8.16%) Public Cloud
4 26 (7.85%) Distributed Systems
5 23 (6.95%) Clustering
6 17 (5.14%) Algorithms
6 17 (5.14%) Data Structures
7 10 (3.02%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (2.11%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.81%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.51%) Tandem
11 4 (1.21%) Blockchain
11 4 (1.21%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.21%) Web3
12 3 (0.91%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.91%) IoT
12 3 (0.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 2 (0.60%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 36 (10.88%) Linux
2 13 (3.93%) CentOS
3 9 (2.72%) Unix
4 6 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.21%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.21%) Windows
5 4 (1.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (54.98%) Agile
2 160 (48.34%) Microservices
3 159 (48.04%) Full-Stack Development
4 91 (27.49%) CI/CD
5 90 (27.19%) Scrum
6 87 (26.28%) DevOps
7 72 (21.75%) AI
7 72 (21.75%) TDD
8 61 (18.43%) Software Engineering
9 60 (18.13%) BDD
10 56 (16.92%) Kanban
11 55 (16.62%) Analytics
12 53 (16.01%) Data Engineering
13 51 (15.41%) Data Science
14 50 (15.11%) Machine Learning
15 46 (13.90%) Data Pipeline
16 42 (12.69%) Business Intelligence
17 41 (12.39%) Data Modelling
17 41 (12.39%) Performance Tuning
17 41 (12.39%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 199 (60.12%) SQL
2 161 (48.64%) C#
3 130 (39.27%) Python
4 104 (31.42%) JavaScript
5 95 (28.70%) TypeScript
6 41 (12.39%) Java
7 24 (7.25%) Bash
8 18 (5.44%) Scala
9 17 (5.14%) Go
10 11 (3.32%) Rust
11 8 (2.42%) C++
12 4 (1.21%) C
13 3 (0.91%) PHP
14 2 (0.60%) Ruby
14 2 (0.60%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.30%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 40 (12.08%) Security Cleared
2 35 (10.57%) Degree
3 23 (6.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (5.14%) SC Cleared
5 14 (4.23%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.21%) Postgraduate
7 3 (0.91%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.91%) PhD
8 2 (0.60%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 23 (6.95%) GDPR
2 17 (5.14%) QA
3 12 (3.63%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.60%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 98 (29.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 96 (29.00%) Kubernetes
2 50 (15.11%) Terraform
3 38 (11.48%) Ansible
4 31 (9.37%) Grafana
5 15 (4.53%) Kibana
6 10 (3.02%) logstash
7 9 (2.72%) Nagios
8 8 (2.42%) Prometheus
9 5 (1.51%) Argo
9 5 (1.51%) AWS Copilot
10 3 (0.91%) Packer
10 3 (0.91%) Podman
10 3 (0.91%) Puppet
10 3 (0.91%) Rancher
11 1 (0.30%) Cilium
11 1 (0.30%) Graylog
11 1 (0.30%) Istio
Vendors
1 150 (45.32%) Microsoft
2 37 (11.18%) Google
3 28 (8.46%) Databricks
4 23 (6.95%) Cloudera
4 23 (6.95%) Dell
5 13 (3.93%) Splunk
6 9 (2.72%) Rapid7
6 9 (2.72%) Red Hat
7 6 (1.81%) Palantir
8 4 (1.21%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.21%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.91%) Alterian
9 3 (0.91%) Confluent
9 3 (0.91%) NVIDIA
9 3 (0.91%) Optimizely
9 3 (0.91%) SAP
9 3 (0.91%) Sitecore
9 3 (0.91%) Tenable
10 2 (0.60%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.60%) Rollbar