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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 437 393
Rank change year-on-year -58 -44 +53
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 251 248 687
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.56% 0.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.14% 3.36% 3.87%
Number of salaries quoted 201 157 441
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,750 £56,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,384 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% +20.67% -16.36%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £69,384 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.73% +26.15% -12.00%

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 8,005 7,389 17,767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.61% 16.61% 16.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,180 4,768 12,640
10th Percentile £35,725 £35,500 £35,000
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% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,751 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £111,250 £98,813
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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -41 233 £62,500 -9.92% 86
UK excluding London -96 140 £55,000 -20.73% 54
Work from Home -24 132 £55,000 -20.73% 59
London -13 96 £85,000 +25.93% 36
South East -46 44 £56,250 -31.82% 24
East of England -23 27 £50,000 - 4
South West -32 27 £55,000 -8.33% 9
North of England -41 24 £74,301 +18.88% 11
North West -11 15 £67,500 +12.50% 7
Midlands -14 14 £55,000 -18.67% 5
West Midlands -16 7 £55,000 -13.13% 2
East Midlands -19 7 £55,000 -24.14% 3
Yorkshire -43 6 £75,000 +11.11% 1
Wales -41 3 £45,000 -33.46%
North East -44 3 £75,000 +8.09% 3
Northern Ireland -35 1 £73,801 +34.18%

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 51 (20.32%) Apache Spark
2 43 (17.13%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (7.97%) Apache
4 8 (3.19%) Apache Solr
5 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.20%) Confluence
7 1 (0.40%) CMS
7 1 (0.40%) DNN
7 1 (0.40%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.40%) Immediacy CMS
7 1 (0.40%) Kentico
7 1 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.40%) Sitefinity
7 1 (0.40%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 178 (70.92%) Azure
2 172 (68.53%) AWS
3 82 (32.67%) GCP
4 34 (13.55%) Snowflake
5 31 (12.35%) dbt
6 26 (10.36%) GitHub
6 26 (10.36%) GitHub Copilot
7 23 (9.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 23 (9.16%) Power Platform
8 22 (8.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 21 (8.37%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (6.37%) Serverless
11 14 (5.58%) Amazon ECR
11 14 (5.58%) Amazon ECS
11 14 (5.58%) SaaS
12 11 (4.38%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (3.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 9 (3.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (3.59%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (3.19%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.39%) Hyperconnected
1 6 (2.39%) Internet
1 6 (2.39%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.59%) HTTP
3 3 (1.20%) MQTT
3 3 (1.20%) Network Security
4 1 (0.40%) BGP
4 1 (0.40%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (36.65%) MongoDB
2 84 (33.47%) Azure SQL Database
3 52 (20.72%) BigQuery
4 34 (13.55%) Looker
5 31 (12.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 31 (12.35%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (12.35%) Tableau
6 26 (10.36%) PostgreSQL
7 24 (9.56%) MySQL
8 23 (9.16%) Data Lake
8 23 (9.16%) Power BI
8 23 (9.16%) Snowflake Schema
9 21 (8.37%) Redis
10 17 (6.77%) NoSQL
11 13 (5.18%) Neo4j
12 8 (3.19%) Big Data
12 8 (3.19%) DynamoDB
12 8 (3.19%) Pinecone
12 8 (3.19%) Relational Database
12 8 (3.19%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 31 (12.35%) MLflow
2 25 (9.96%) GitLab
3 23 (9.16%) Git
4 11 (4.38%) Cucumber
5 10 (3.98%) Jenkins
5 10 (3.98%) SonarQube
6 7 (2.79%) JIRA
7 4 (1.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.59%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.59%) Gatling
7 4 (1.59%) JMeter
7 4 (1.59%) LoadRunner
8 3 (1.20%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.80%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.80%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.80%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.40%) Maven
General
1 36 (14.34%) Finance
1 36 (14.34%) Social Skills
2 35 (13.94%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (6.37%) Banking
4 10 (3.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (3.59%) Retail
6 8 (3.19%) Games
7 7 (2.79%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.79%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.39%) Law
9 5 (1.99%) Health Technology
10 4 (1.59%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (1.59%) Publishing
10 4 (1.59%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.40%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 99 (39.44%) Developer
2 84 (33.47%) .NET Developer
3 74 (29.48%) Senior
4 31 (12.35%) Software Engineer
5 23 (9.16%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 23 (9.16%) Systems Engineer
6 20 (7.97%) Lead
7 15 (5.98%) Data Engineer
8 13 (5.18%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (4.78%) Platform Engineer
10 11 (4.38%) Architect
10 11 (4.38%) Python Engineer
11 10 (3.98%) Consultant
11 10 (3.98%) Lead Data Engineer
11 10 (3.98%) Senior Consultant
11 10 (3.98%) Senior Developer
12 9 (3.59%) Principal Engineer
13 8 (3.19%) Data Consultant
13 8 (3.19%) Senior Software Engineer
13 8 (3.19%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (39.04%) Node.js
2 90 (35.86%) .NET
3 87 (34.66%) ASP.NET
4 84 (33.47%) ASP.NET Core
5 83 (33.07%) .NET Core
6 66 (26.29%) React
7 46 (18.33%) Kafka
8 44 (17.53%) AngularJS
9 43 (17.13%) Vue
10 40 (15.94%) ASP.NET Web API
11 35 (13.94%) Blazor
12 31 (12.35%) PyTorch
12 31 (12.35%) TensorFlow
13 28 (11.16%) .NET Framework
13 28 (11.16%) Entity Framework
14 26 (10.36%) Django
15 23 (9.16%) CSS
15 23 (9.16%) HTML
15 23 (9.16%) LangChain
15 23 (9.16%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.35%) Greenfield Project
2 29 (11.55%) Cloud Native
3 26 (10.36%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (10.36%) Public Cloud
4 23 (9.16%) Clustering
5 21 (8.37%) Algorithms
5 21 (8.37%) Data Structures
6 9 (3.59%) Linux Command Line
6 9 (3.59%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.59%) Blockchain
7 4 (1.59%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.59%) Web3
8 3 (1.20%) Tandem
8 3 (1.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (0.80%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.80%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.40%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.40%) PMI
10 1 (0.40%) Replication
10 1 (0.40%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 32 (12.75%) Linux
2 13 (5.18%) CentOS
3 9 (3.59%) Unix
4 6 (2.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.59%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.59%) Windows
5 4 (1.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (46.22%) Agile
2 99 (39.44%) Microservices
3 92 (36.65%) Full-Stack Development
4 77 (30.68%) CI/CD
5 72 (28.69%) AI
6 69 (27.49%) DevOps
7 62 (24.70%) Software Engineering
8 58 (23.11%) Data Science
9 52 (20.72%) Machine Learning
10 48 (19.12%) Data Engineering
11 47 (18.73%) Analytics
11 47 (18.73%) Scrum
12 45 (17.93%) Data Pipeline
13 41 (16.33%) Computer Science
13 41 (16.33%) TDD
14 38 (15.14%) Performance Tuning
15 37 (14.74%) Data Modelling
15 37 (14.74%) Use Case
16 36 (14.34%) Business Intelligence
17 34 (13.55%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 131 (52.19%) Python
2 129 (51.39%) SQL
3 90 (35.86%) C#
4 69 (27.49%) JavaScript
5 61 (24.30%) TypeScript
6 45 (17.93%) Java
7 24 (9.56%) Bash
8 17 (6.77%) Scala
9 15 (5.98%) Go
10 9 (3.59%) Rust
11 8 (3.19%) C
12 6 (2.39%) C++
13 3 (1.20%) PHP
14 2 (0.80%) Ruby
14 2 (0.80%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.80%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.40%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 42 (16.73%) Degree
2 35 (13.94%) Security Cleared
3 27 (10.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (5.58%) DV Cleared
4 14 (5.58%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.59%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 23 (9.16%) GDPR
2 14 (5.58%) QA
3 11 (4.38%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.80%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 78 (31.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 74 (29.48%) Kubernetes
2 43 (17.13%) Terraform
3 32 (12.75%) Ansible
4 28 (11.16%) Grafana
5 12 (4.78%) Kibana
6 9 (3.59%) Nagios
7 8 (3.19%) Prometheus
8 7 (2.79%) logstash
9 5 (1.99%) Argo
9 5 (1.99%) AWS Copilot
10 3 (1.20%) Packer
10 3 (1.20%) Podman
10 3 (1.20%) Puppet
11 2 (0.80%) Rancher
12 1 (0.40%) Cilium
12 1 (0.40%) Graylog
12 1 (0.40%) Istio
Vendors
1 83 (33.07%) Microsoft
2 36 (14.34%) Google
3 31 (12.35%) Databricks
4 23 (9.16%) Cloudera
4 23 (9.16%) Dell
5 13 (5.18%) Splunk
6 9 (3.59%) Palantir
6 9 (3.59%) Rapid7
6 9 (3.59%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.59%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.59%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.20%) Confluent
8 3 (1.20%) NVIDIA
8 3 (1.20%) Tenable
9 2 (0.80%) CheckPoint
9 2 (0.80%) New Relic
9 2 (0.80%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.80%) OpenText
9 2 (0.80%) Rollbar
9 2 (0.80%) ServiceNow