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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 439 542
Rank change year-on-year -74 +103 -125
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 308 226 254
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.46% 0.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.57% 3.22% 2.23%
Number of salaries quoted 266 144 143
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,375 £43,911
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -8.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £94,750 £88,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £58,250 £67,500
% change year-on-year -5.58% -13.70% +3.85%

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 8,618 7,022 11,402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.32% 14.14% 15.56%
Number of salaries quoted 5,890 4,359 6,563
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
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 £87,500
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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -48 291 £60,000 -6.25% 267
UK excluding London -20 219 £55,000 -5.58% 133
Work from Home -22 184 £55,000 -14.06% 158
South East -7 90 £55,000 -26.67% 24
London -86 76 £92,500 +44.53% 159
South West -38 43 £55,000 -12.00% 21
Midlands -10 37 £57,500 -2.54% 13
North of England -47 32 £57,500 - 37
West Midlands -15 28 £60,000 +1.69% 10
East of England -31 26 £55,000 +10.00% 12
North West -14 18 £47,500 -15.56% 32
East Midlands -23 9 £55,000 - 3
Yorkshire -29 7 £57,500 -11.54% 3
North East -54 7 £75,000 +42.86% 2
Wales - 4 £45,000 - 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 26 (8.44%) Apache
1 26 (8.44%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.62%) Apache Pig
3 5 (1.62%) Apache Solr
3 5 (1.62%) Confluence
4 3 (0.97%) CMS
4 3 (0.97%) DNN
4 3 (0.97%) EPiServer
4 3 (0.97%) Immediacy CMS
4 3 (0.97%) Kentico
4 3 (0.97%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (0.97%) Sitefinity
4 3 (0.97%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.32%) nginx
5 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 219 (71.10%) Azure
2 174 (56.49%) AWS
3 60 (19.48%) GitHub
4 47 (15.26%) GitHub Copilot
5 40 (12.99%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (8.44%) Serverless
7 25 (8.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 25 (8.12%) GCP
8 21 (6.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 17 (5.52%) OpenShift
10 16 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (5.19%) Azure Data Factory
11 15 (4.87%) Amazon ECR
11 15 (4.87%) Amazon ECS
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 10 (3.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (3.25%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.57%) HTTP
1 11 (3.57%) Internet
2 6 (1.95%) Hyperconnected
3 5 (1.62%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.97%) Firewall
4 3 (0.97%) MQTT
4 3 (0.97%) Network Security
5 2 (0.65%) DNS
6 1 (0.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (48.70%) Azure SQL Database
2 147 (47.73%) MongoDB
3 46 (14.94%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (9.42%) MySQL
5 20 (6.49%) Redis
6 19 (6.17%) NoSQL
7 18 (5.84%) Hadoop
8 17 (5.52%) Big Data
9 14 (4.55%) DynamoDB
10 13 (4.22%) SQL Server
11 11 (3.57%) Relational Database
12 10 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (1.62%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (1.62%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (1.62%) Apache Hive
13 5 (1.62%) Neo4j
14 4 (1.30%) Electronic Patient Records
15 3 (0.97%) BigQuery
15 3 (0.97%) Flink
15 3 (0.97%) GIS
Development Applications
1 47 (15.26%) Git
2 29 (9.42%) GitLab
3 14 (4.55%) Cucumber
3 14 (4.55%) Jenkins
4 11 (3.57%) SonarQube
5 10 (3.25%) Gatling
5 10 (3.25%) JMeter
5 10 (3.25%) LoadRunner
6 7 (2.27%) JIRA
7 6 (1.95%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.30%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.97%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.97%) Maven
10 2 (0.65%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.65%) Gradle
10 2 (0.65%) JUnit
10 2 (0.65%) Mocha
10 2 (0.65%) Mockito
General
1 71 (23.05%) Finance
2 58 (18.83%) Social Skills
3 22 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (6.49%) Public Sector
4 20 (6.49%) Retail
5 13 (4.22%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.90%) Banking
7 11 (3.57%) Games
8 4 (1.30%) Health Technology
8 4 (1.30%) Publishing
8 4 (1.30%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.65%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.65%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.65%) Law
10 1 (0.32%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.32%) Police
10 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 179 (58.12%) Developer
2 157 (50.97%) .NET Developer
3 60 (19.48%) Senior
4 35 (11.36%) Lead
5 29 (9.42%) Data Engineer
6 22 (7.14%) Python Engineer
7 20 (6.49%) Python Data Engineer
7 20 (6.49%) Software Engineer
8 18 (5.84%) Senior Data Engineer
9 17 (5.52%) Azure Engineer
10 15 (4.87%) Administrator
11 14 (4.55%) Elasticsearch Engineer
11 14 (4.55%) Kafka Engineer
11 14 (4.55%) Senior Developer
12 13 (4.22%) Azure Data Engineer
13 12 (3.90%) Cloud Engineer
13 12 (3.90%) DevOps Engineer
13 12 (3.90%) Lead .NET Developer
13 12 (3.90%) Lead Developer
14 11 (3.57%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (52.27%) .NET
2 159 (51.62%) ASP.NET
3 154 (50.00%) .NET Core
4 147 (47.73%) ASP.NET Core
4 147 (47.73%) Node.js
5 102 (33.12%) React
6 76 (24.68%) ASP.NET Web API
7 73 (23.70%) Blazor
8 69 (22.40%) Vue
9 66 (21.43%) AngularJS
10 54 (17.53%) .NET Framework
11 47 (15.26%) Terraform
12 40 (12.99%) Entity Framework
13 36 (11.69%) Kafka
14 34 (11.04%) CSS
14 34 (11.04%) HTML
15 21 (6.82%) REST
16 18 (5.84%) Next.js
16 18 (5.84%) RESTful
17 16 (5.19%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.77%) Distributed Systems
2 26 (8.44%) Greenfield Project
3 16 (5.19%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (3.25%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.92%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.95%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.62%) Tandem
9 4 (1.30%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.30%) IoT
9 4 (1.30%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 3 (0.97%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.97%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.65%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.65%) Legacy Code
11 2 (0.65%) PKI
12 1 (0.32%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 38 (12.34%) Linux
2 11 (3.57%) CentOS
3 5 (1.62%) Unix
4 3 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.65%) Rocky
6 1 (0.32%) Solaris
6 1 (0.32%) Windows
6 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (59.42%) Agile
2 156 (50.65%) Full-Stack Development
3 150 (48.70%) Microservices
4 97 (31.49%) DevOps
5 94 (30.52%) CI/CD
5 94 (30.52%) Scrum
6 71 (23.05%) TDD
7 59 (19.16%) BDD
8 55 (17.86%) Kanban
9 44 (14.29%) Software Engineering
10 43 (13.96%) AI
11 38 (12.34%) Mentoring
12 35 (11.36%) Analytics
12 35 (11.36%) Infrastructure as Code
13 34 (11.04%) Stakeholder Management
14 32 (10.39%) Problem-Solving
15 29 (9.42%) Containerisation
16 28 (9.09%) Observability
17 25 (8.12%) Data Pipeline
18 24 (7.79%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 178 (57.79%) SQL
2 162 (52.60%) C#
3 100 (32.47%) JavaScript
4 96 (31.17%) TypeScript
5 92 (29.87%) Python
6 26 (8.44%) Java
7 23 (7.47%) Bash
8 22 (7.14%) Go
9 13 (4.22%) Scala
10 10 (3.25%) Rust
11 7 (2.27%) C++
12 4 (1.30%) PHP
12 4 (1.30%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.65%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.65%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.65%) Ruby
14 1 (0.32%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 55 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 34 (11.04%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 16 (5.19%) Azure Certification
4 16 (5.19%) Degree
5 11 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.62%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.62%) PhD
7 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (10.39%) QA
2 9 (2.92%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.30%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 96 (31.17%) 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 42 (13.64%) Ansible
2 42 (13.64%) Grafana
3 22 (7.14%) Kibana
4 16 (5.19%) logstash
5 11 (3.57%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.92%) Nagios
7 3 (0.97%) Podman
7 3 (0.97%) Puppet
7 3 (0.97%) Rancher
8 2 (0.65%) Argo
8 2 (0.65%) Packer
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 144 (46.75%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.84%) Google
3 12 (3.90%) Red Hat
3 12 (3.90%) Splunk
4 10 (3.25%) AppDynamics
4 10 (3.25%) 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%) New Relic
9 2 (0.65%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.65%) Sony