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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 455 495
Rank change year-on-year -45 +40 -75
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 321 235 326
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.48% 0.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.63% 3.26% 2.72%
Number of salaries quoted 268 153 151
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -8.57% +6.46%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.78% -9.23% -

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 8,831 7,205 11,993
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.74% 14.60% 15.40%
Number of salaries quoted 5,999 4,532 7,129
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.80%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.77% +0.95% -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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -29 308 £60,000 -6.25% 343
UK excluding London -31 224 £55,000 -6.78% 183
Work from Home -24 186 £55,000 -14.06% 194
South East -14 90 £57,500 -29.23% 23
London -66 88 £90,000 +40.63% 192
South West -38 43 £52,500 -16.00% 39
Midlands -2 35 £55,000 -6.78% 20
North of England -47 33 £64,746 +12.60% 54
East of England -29 30 £55,000 +10.00% 13
West Midlands -17 26 £60,000 +1.69% 13
North West -11 18 £47,500 -17.39% 37
East Midlands -23 9 £55,000 - 7
Yorkshire -27 8 £57,500 -0.65% 11
North East -57 7 £75,000 +42.86% 6
Wales - 4 £45,000 - 3

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 44 (13.71%) Apache Spark
2 30 (9.35%) Apache
3 24 (7.48%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.18%) Apache Solr
5 5 (1.56%) Apache Pig
5 5 (1.56%) Confluence
6 3 (0.93%) CMS
6 3 (0.93%) DNN
6 3 (0.93%) EPiServer
6 3 (0.93%) Immediacy CMS
6 3 (0.93%) Kentico
6 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.93%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.93%) Sitefinity
6 3 (0.93%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.31%) nginx
7 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 233 (72.59%) Azure
2 194 (60.44%) AWS
3 55 (17.13%) GitHub
4 47 (14.64%) GitHub Copilot
5 43 (13.40%) GCP
6 40 (12.46%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (8.72%) Serverless
8 26 (8.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 25 (7.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 17 (5.30%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (4.98%) dbt
12 15 (4.67%) Amazon ECR
12 15 (4.67%) Amazon ECS
13 14 (4.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 14 (4.36%) OpenShift
13 14 (4.36%) Power Platform
13 14 (4.36%) Snowflake
14 13 (4.05%) Azure Key Vault
14 13 (4.05%) Azure Service Bus
15 12 (3.74%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.43%) Internet
2 9 (2.80%) HTTP
3 6 (1.87%) Hyperconnected
4 4 (1.25%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.93%) MQTT
5 3 (0.93%) Network Security
6 1 (0.31%) BGP
6 1 (0.31%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (46.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 147 (45.79%) MongoDB
3 42 (13.08%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (7.48%) MySQL
5 22 (6.85%) NoSQL
6 21 (6.54%) BigQuery
7 19 (5.92%) Amazon Redshift
8 18 (5.61%) Hadoop
9 17 (5.30%) Big Data
10 16 (4.98%) Redis
11 15 (4.67%) Data Lake
12 14 (4.36%) Data Warehouse
12 14 (4.36%) DynamoDB
12 14 (4.36%) Looker
12 14 (4.36%) Milvus
12 14 (4.36%) Power BI
12 14 (4.36%) Snowflake Schema
12 14 (4.36%) Tableau
13 13 (4.05%) SQL Server
14 12 (3.74%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 40 (12.46%) Git
2 31 (9.66%) GitLab
3 16 (4.98%) Cucumber
3 16 (4.98%) Jenkins
4 14 (4.36%) MLflow
5 13 (4.05%) SonarQube
6 8 (2.49%) Gatling
6 8 (2.49%) JMeter
6 8 (2.49%) LoadRunner
7 7 (2.18%) JIRA
8 6 (1.87%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.25%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.93%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.62%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.62%) Gradle
11 2 (0.62%) JUnit
11 2 (0.62%) Maven
11 2 (0.62%) Mocha
11 2 (0.62%) Mockito
General
1 64 (19.94%) Finance
2 55 (17.13%) Social Skills
3 28 (8.72%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (6.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (6.23%) Retail
5 17 (5.30%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.05%) Banking
7 11 (3.43%) Games
8 4 (1.25%) Health Technology
8 4 (1.25%) Publishing
8 4 (1.25%) Tech for Good
9 3 (0.93%) Mandarin Language
10 2 (0.62%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.62%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.62%) Law
11 1 (0.31%) Police
11 1 (0.31%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.31%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 177 (55.14%) Developer
2 158 (49.22%) .NET Developer
3 69 (21.50%) Senior
4 37 (11.53%) Lead
5 29 (9.03%) Data Engineer
6 24 (7.48%) Software Engineer
7 22 (6.85%) Python Engineer
8 19 (5.92%) Python Data Engineer
9 16 (4.98%) Senior Data Engineer
10 14 (4.36%) DevOps Engineer
10 14 (4.36%) Senior Developer
10 14 (4.36%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 14 (4.36%) Systems Engineer
11 12 (3.74%) Azure Engineer
11 12 (3.74%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (3.74%) Kafka Engineer
11 12 (3.74%) Lead .NET Developer
11 12 (3.74%) Lead Developer
12 11 (3.43%) Elasticsearch Engineer
12 11 (3.43%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (50.78%) .NET
2 160 (49.84%) ASP.NET
3 155 (48.29%) .NET Core
4 150 (46.73%) Node.js
5 148 (46.11%) ASP.NET Core
6 101 (31.46%) React
7 76 (23.68%) ASP.NET Web API
8 73 (22.74%) Blazor
9 71 (22.12%) Vue
10 66 (20.56%) AngularJS
11 54 (16.82%) .NET Framework
12 52 (16.20%) Kafka
13 49 (15.26%) Terraform
14 41 (12.77%) Entity Framework
15 34 (10.59%) CSS
15 34 (10.59%) HTML
16 22 (6.85%) REST
17 19 (5.92%) RESTful
18 17 (5.30%) Next.js
19 16 (4.98%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.35%) Greenfield Project
2 27 (8.41%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (5.92%) Cloud Native
4 18 (5.61%) Public Cloud
5 14 (4.36%) Clustering
6 11 (3.43%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (3.12%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.18%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.18%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.56%) Tandem
10 4 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.25%) IoT
10 4 (1.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 3 (0.93%) Blockchain
11 3 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.93%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.93%) Web3
12 2 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 36 (11.21%) Linux
2 13 (4.05%) CentOS
3 6 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.56%) Unix
5 4 (1.25%) Windows
5 4 (1.25%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.93%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.31%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (55.45%) Agile
2 159 (49.53%) Full-Stack Development
3 154 (47.98%) Microservices
4 99 (30.84%) DevOps
5 95 (29.60%) CI/CD
6 94 (29.28%) Scrum
7 72 (22.43%) TDD
8 60 (18.69%) BDD
9 56 (17.45%) AI
10 55 (17.13%) Kanban
11 51 (15.89%) Software Engineering
12 48 (14.95%) Analytics
13 39 (12.15%) Data Engineering
13 39 (12.15%) Data Pipeline
14 37 (11.53%) Data Modelling
14 37 (11.53%) Mentoring
15 36 (11.21%) Infrastructure as Code
16 34 (10.59%) Stakeholder Management
17 31 (9.66%) Observability
17 31 (9.66%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 186 (57.94%) SQL
2 164 (51.09%) C#
3 107 (33.33%) Python
4 100 (31.15%) JavaScript
5 97 (30.22%) TypeScript
6 28 (8.72%) Java
7 22 (6.85%) Go
8 21 (6.54%) Bash
9 14 (4.36%) Scala
10 12 (3.74%) Rust
11 9 (2.80%) C++
12 2 (0.62%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.62%) PHP
12 2 (0.62%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.62%) Ruby
13 1 (0.31%) Bicep
13 1 (0.31%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 52 (16.20%) Security Cleared
2 32 (9.97%) SC Cleared
3 23 (7.17%) Degree
4 18 (5.61%) DV Cleared
5 15 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.43%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.56%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.56%) PhD
8 3 (0.93%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.35%) QA
2 14 (4.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 14 (4.36%) GDPR
3 10 (3.12%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.62%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 92 (28.66%) Docker
2 2 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.31%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 85 (26.48%) Kubernetes
2 44 (13.71%) Ansible
3 37 (11.53%) Grafana
4 20 (6.23%) Kibana
5 17 (5.30%) logstash
6 10 (3.12%) Nagios
7 9 (2.80%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.93%) Argo
8 3 (0.93%) Packer
8 3 (0.93%) Podman
8 3 (0.93%) Puppet
8 3 (0.93%) Rancher
9 1 (0.31%) Cilium
9 1 (0.31%) Istio
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 145 (45.17%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.54%) Google
3 14 (4.36%) Cloudera
3 14 (4.36%) Databricks
3 14 (4.36%) Dell
4 13 (4.05%) Splunk
5 11 (3.43%) Red Hat
6 10 (3.12%) Rapid7
7 8 (2.49%) AppDynamics
7 8 (2.49%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.56%) Oracle
9 4 (1.25%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.25%) SAP
10 3 (0.93%) Alterian
10 3 (0.93%) NVIDIA
10 3 (0.93%) Optimizely
10 3 (0.93%) Sitecore
10 3 (0.93%) Tenable
11 2 (0.62%) New Relic
11 2 (0.62%) ServiceNow