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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 466 445 441
Rank change year-on-year -21 -4 +11
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 332 248 513
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.50% 0.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.83% 3.24% 3.11%
Number of salaries quoted 271 161 296
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £67,626 £60,000
% change year-on-year -18.67% +12.71% -7.69%

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 8,665 7,652 16,482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.78% 15.54% 16.30%
Number of salaries quoted 5,751 4,938 11,572
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,475
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,182 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.93% +6.40% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £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 13 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 13 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 +13 316 £60,000 -11.11% 112
UK excluding London -24 214 £55,000 -18.67% 85
Work from Home +17 195 £55,000 -18.67% 74
London -1 107 £85,000 +30.77% 41
South East -12 75 £57,500 -30.30% 24
South West -32 40 £52,500 -14.29% 13
North of England -16 36 £57,500 -4.17% 28
East of England -17 32 £55,000 +10.00% 3
Midlands -13 28 £55,000 -13.13% 7
North West -9 22 £47,500 -18.80% 20
West Midlands -9 17 £55,000 -6.78% 3
East Midlands -21 11 £55,000 -24.14% 4
Yorkshire -29 9 £57,500 -14.81% 5
Wales -44 5 £45,000 -33.46% 1
North East -50 5 £75,000 +8.09% 3
Northern Ireland -63 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 57 (17.17%) Apache Spark
2 39 (11.75%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (8.73%) Apache
4 8 (2.41%) Apache Solr
5 5 (1.51%) Apache Pig
6 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.90%) CMS
7 3 (0.90%) Confluence
7 3 (0.90%) DNN
7 3 (0.90%) EPiServer
7 3 (0.90%) Immediacy CMS
7 3 (0.90%) Kentico
7 3 (0.90%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.90%) Sitefinity
7 3 (0.90%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 240 (72.29%) Azure
2 218 (65.66%) AWS
3 72 (21.69%) GCP
4 48 (14.46%) GitHub
4 48 (14.46%) GitHub Copilot
5 32 (9.64%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (9.34%) dbt
7 30 (9.04%) Snowflake
8 25 (7.53%) Serverless
9 23 (6.93%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 23 (6.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 23 (6.93%) Power Platform
10 17 (5.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 14 (4.22%) Amazon ECR
11 14 (4.22%) Amazon ECS
11 14 (4.22%) Cloud Computing
11 14 (4.22%) SaaS
12 13 (3.92%) Amazon Kinesis
12 13 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (3.61%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.61%) Internet
2 7 (2.11%) Hyperconnected
3 6 (1.81%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.20%) HTTP
5 3 (0.90%) MQTT
5 3 (0.90%) Network Security
6 1 (0.30%) BGP
6 1 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (46.69%) MongoDB
2 150 (45.18%) Azure SQL Database
3 44 (13.25%) BigQuery
4 32 (9.64%) Amazon Redshift
5 30 (9.04%) Looker
5 30 (9.04%) PostgreSQL
6 27 (8.13%) Data Warehouse
6 27 (8.13%) Tableau
7 25 (7.53%) MySQL
8 24 (7.23%) Data Lake
9 23 (6.93%) NoSQL
9 23 (6.93%) Power BI
9 23 (6.93%) Snowflake Schema
10 18 (5.42%) Redis
11 16 (4.82%) Big Data
11 16 (4.82%) Hadoop
12 12 (3.61%) DynamoDB
13 11 (3.31%) Neo4j
14 8 (2.41%) Relational Database
15 7 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 30 (9.04%) GitLab
2 28 (8.43%) Git
3 27 (8.13%) MLflow
4 16 (4.82%) Cucumber
5 14 (4.22%) Jenkins
5 14 (4.22%) SonarQube
6 7 (2.11%) JIRA
7 5 (1.51%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (1.20%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.20%) Gatling
8 4 (1.20%) JMeter
8 4 (1.20%) LoadRunner
8 4 (1.20%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.60%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.60%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.30%) Maven
General
1 60 (18.07%) Finance
2 43 (12.95%) Social Skills
3 39 (11.75%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (6.02%) Retail
5 14 (4.22%) Banking
6 13 (3.92%) Games
6 13 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.81%) Public Sector
8 5 (1.51%) Health Technology
8 5 (1.51%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.20%) Law
9 4 (1.20%) Mandarin Language
9 4 (1.20%) Publishing
9 4 (1.20%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.30%) Front Office
10 1 (0.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 169 (50.90%) Developer
2 152 (45.78%) .NET Developer
3 77 (23.19%) Senior
4 27 (8.13%) Software Engineer
5 26 (7.83%) Lead
6 23 (6.93%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 23 (6.93%) Systems Engineer
7 21 (6.33%) Data Engineer
8 15 (4.52%) Python Engineer
9 13 (3.92%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (3.61%) Platform Engineer
10 12 (3.61%) Senior Developer
11 11 (3.31%) Consultant
11 11 (3.31%) Python Data Engineer
12 10 (3.01%) Architect
12 10 (3.01%) Lead Data Engineer
13 9 (2.71%) Cloud Engineer
13 9 (2.71%) Engineering Manager
13 9 (2.71%) Test Engineer
14 8 (2.41%) DevOps Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (48.19%) Node.js
2 159 (47.89%) .NET
3 156 (46.99%) ASP.NET
4 150 (45.18%) .NET Core
4 150 (45.18%) ASP.NET Core
5 99 (29.82%) React
6 76 (22.89%) ASP.NET Web API
7 74 (22.29%) Vue
8 70 (21.08%) AngularJS
9 66 (19.88%) Blazor
10 56 (16.87%) .NET Framework
11 54 (16.27%) Kafka
12 44 (13.25%) Entity Framework
13 31 (9.34%) CSS
13 31 (9.34%) HTML
14 27 (8.13%) PyTorch
14 27 (8.13%) TensorFlow
15 23 (6.93%) LangChain
15 23 (6.93%) LlamaIndex
15 23 (6.93%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 40 (12.05%) Greenfield Project
2 30 (9.04%) Cloud Native
3 28 (8.43%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (8.13%) Public Cloud
5 23 (6.93%) Clustering
6 17 (5.12%) Algorithms
6 17 (5.12%) Data Structures
7 10 (3.01%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (2.71%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.81%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.51%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.51%) Tandem
11 4 (1.20%) Blockchain
11 4 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.20%) IoT
11 4 (1.20%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.20%) Web3
12 3 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 36 (10.84%) Linux
2 13 (3.92%) CentOS
3 9 (2.71%) Unix
4 6 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.20%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.20%) Windows
5 4 (1.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (53.92%) Agile
2 159 (47.89%) Microservices
3 158 (47.59%) Full-Stack Development
4 90 (27.11%) CI/CD
4 90 (27.11%) Scrum
5 88 (26.51%) DevOps
6 73 (21.99%) AI
7 72 (21.69%) TDD
8 62 (18.67%) Software Engineering
9 60 (18.07%) BDD
10 56 (16.87%) Analytics
10 56 (16.87%) Kanban
11 52 (15.66%) Data Engineering
12 51 (15.36%) Machine Learning
13 50 (15.06%) Data Science
14 46 (13.86%) Data Pipeline
15 42 (12.65%) Business Intelligence
16 41 (12.35%) Data Modelling
16 41 (12.35%) Performance Tuning
16 41 (12.35%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 197 (59.34%) SQL
2 159 (47.89%) C#
3 130 (39.16%) Python
4 104 (31.33%) JavaScript
5 96 (28.92%) TypeScript
6 41 (12.35%) Java
7 24 (7.23%) Bash
8 18 (5.42%) Go
9 17 (5.12%) Scala
10 12 (3.61%) Rust
11 9 (2.71%) C++
12 4 (1.20%) C
13 3 (0.90%) PHP
14 2 (0.60%) Ruby
14 2 (0.60%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (12.65%) Security Cleared
2 36 (10.84%) Degree
3 23 (6.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (5.42%) SC Cleared
5 15 (4.52%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.51%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.51%) PhD
7 4 (1.20%) Postgraduate
8 3 (0.90%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 23 (6.93%) GDPR
2 17 (5.12%) QA
3 12 (3.61%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.60%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 97 (29.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 96 (28.92%) Kubernetes
2 51 (15.36%) Terraform
3 39 (11.75%) Ansible
4 32 (9.64%) Grafana
5 16 (4.82%) Kibana
6 11 (3.31%) logstash
7 9 (2.71%) Nagios
8 8 (2.41%) Prometheus
9 5 (1.51%) Argo
9 5 (1.51%) AWS Copilot
10 3 (0.90%) Packer
10 3 (0.90%) Podman
10 3 (0.90%) Puppet
10 3 (0.90%) Rancher
11 1 (0.30%) Cilium
11 1 (0.30%) Graylog
11 1 (0.30%) Istio
Vendors
1 148 (44.58%) Microsoft
2 37 (11.14%) Google
3 27 (8.13%) Databricks
4 23 (6.93%) Cloudera
4 23 (6.93%) Dell
5 13 (3.92%) Splunk
6 9 (2.71%) Rapid7
6 9 (2.71%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.20%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.20%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.20%) Palantir
7 4 (1.20%) SAP
8 3 (0.90%) Alterian
8 3 (0.90%) Confluent
8 3 (0.90%) NVIDIA
8 3 (0.90%) Optimizely
8 3 (0.90%) Sitecore
8 3 (0.90%) Tenable
9 2 (0.60%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.60%) Rollbar