Elasticsearch Jobs

Elastic Elasticsearch
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Elasticsearch skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Elasticsearch over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 353 427
Rank change year-on-year -154 +74 -179
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 230 782 722
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.78% 0.72%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.99% 4.28% 3.39%
Number of salaries quoted 152 452 424
10th Percentile £50,000 £37,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,692 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.15% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £76,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £96,125 £95,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £63,150
% change year-on-year +27.27% -12.91% +5.25%

All Database and 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 7,697 18,259 21,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.79% 18.32% 21.40%
Number of salaries quoted 5,044 12,535 13,278
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,725 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £76,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £96,539 £102,800
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

Elasticsearch
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Elasticsearch as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Elasticsearch in the UK

Elasticsearch
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Elasticsearch.

Salary trend for Elasticsearch in the UK

Elasticsearch
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Elasticsearch in the UK

Elasticsearch
Top 17 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 17 May 2025. 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 -90 215 £72,500 +20.83% 243
Work from Home -74 153 £70,000 +27.27% 220
UK excluding London -122 148 £70,000 +27.27% 145
London +38 80 £69,384 -7.49% 117
South East +13 63 £82,500 +43.48% 37
East of England +28 28 £50,000 -9.09% 19
North of England -28 24 £67,500 +42.11% 37
North West -37 17 £63,750 +45.71% 28
Midlands -5 11 £67,626 +28.81% 17
South West +80 8 £60,000 +9.09% 19
Scotland -36 7 £56,500 +2.73% 9
Northern Ireland +40 6 £55,000 -42.11% 7
East Midlands +2 5 £68,750 +34.15% 2
North East +36 4 £69,384 +46.07% 2
West Midlands +6 4 £67,626 +22.96% 14
Yorkshire +31 3 £70,000 +33.33% 7
Wales +21 1 £67,626 +32.61% 1

Elasticsearch
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (4.35%) nginx
2 8 (3.48%) Tomcat
3 7 (3.04%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.17%) Confluence
4 5 (2.17%) IIS
5 3 (1.30%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.30%) CMS
6 1 (0.43%) Apache
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.30%) Maya
Cloud Services
1 149 (64.78%) AWS
2 140 (60.87%) Azure
3 73 (31.74%) AWS CloudFormation
4 50 (21.74%) Amazon EKS
5 36 (15.65%) Azure DevOps
6 34 (14.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 33 (14.35%) Azure Service Bus
7 33 (14.35%) SonarCloud
8 28 (12.17%) GCP
9 26 (11.30%) SaaS
10 22 (9.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 19 (8.26%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 16 (6.96%) Amazon ECS
12 16 (6.96%) Serverless
13 15 (6.52%) Amazon ECR
13 15 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
14 14 (6.09%) Cloud Computing
15 13 (5.65%) Sentry
16 12 (5.22%) dbt
17 11 (4.78%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.78%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.87%) Internet
2 2 (0.87%) VPN
3 1 (0.43%) Firewall
3 1 (0.43%) OpenVPN
3 1 (0.43%) SSH
3 1 (0.43%) tcpdump
3 1 (0.43%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (17.83%) MongoDB
2 36 (15.65%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (12.17%) Redis
4 23 (10.00%) MySQL
5 22 (9.57%) NoSQL
6 19 (8.26%) Amazon RDS
6 19 (8.26%) Azure SQL Database
7 14 (6.09%) SQL Server
8 13 (5.65%) DynamoDB
9 10 (4.35%) Relational Database
10 9 (3.91%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (3.04%) Hadoop
12 5 (2.17%) Data Mining
13 3 (1.30%) Apache Ignite
13 3 (1.30%) Data Lake
13 3 (1.30%) Event Store
13 3 (1.30%) HBase
14 2 (0.87%) Big Data
14 2 (0.87%) Power BI
14 2 (0.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 61 (26.52%) Git
2 36 (15.65%) Octopus Deploy
3 33 (14.35%) MSBuild
3 33 (14.35%) Team Foundation Server
3 33 (14.35%) Visual Studio
4 19 (8.26%) Jenkins
5 15 (6.52%) GitLab
6 12 (5.22%) Bitbucket
7 9 (3.91%) Cucumber
7 9 (3.91%) JUnit
7 9 (3.91%) Maven
8 8 (3.48%) JIRA
8 8 (3.48%) Mockito
8 8 (3.48%) Postman
8 8 (3.48%) Selenium
8 8 (3.48%) SonarQube
8 8 (3.48%) TestNG
9 5 (2.17%) Jasmine
9 5 (2.17%) NUnit
9 5 (2.17%) TeamCity
General
1 63 (27.39%) Analytical Skills
1 63 (27.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 42 (18.26%) Social Skills
3 32 (13.91%) Finance
4 25 (10.87%) Retail
5 14 (6.09%) Publishing
6 12 (5.22%) Health Technology
6 12 (5.22%) Law
6 12 (5.22%) Tech for Good
7 11 (4.78%) Public Sector
8 8 (3.48%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.17%) Automotive
9 5 (2.17%) Banking
10 4 (1.74%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.74%) Marketing
11 3 (1.30%) Games
12 2 (0.87%) Advertising
12 2 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.87%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 100 (43.48%) Developer
2 56 (24.35%) Software Developer
3 46 (20.00%) Senior
4 37 (16.09%) Architect
5 33 (14.35%) Technical Architect
6 23 (10.00%) Senior Developer
7 18 (7.83%) .NET Developer
8 17 (7.39%) Lead
9 14 (6.09%) Software Engineer
10 13 (5.65%) Site Engineer
10 13 (5.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 10 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
11 10 (4.35%) Java Engineer
12 9 (3.91%) Platform Engineer
13 7 (3.04%) Full-Stack Developer
13 7 (3.04%) Python Developer
14 6 (2.61%) Applications Engineer
14 6 (2.61%) DevOps Engineer
14 6 (2.61%) Senior Python Developer
14 6 (2.61%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (53.48%) .NET
2 81 (35.22%) Node.js
3 61 (26.52%) ASP.NET
4 53 (23.04%) CSS
5 51 (22.17%) HTML
5 51 (22.17%) React
6 49 (21.30%) Pandas
7 48 (20.87%) REST
8 42 (18.26%) RESTful
9 36 (15.65%) JSON
10 34 (14.78%) Bootstrap
11 33 (14.35%) gRPC
11 33 (14.35%) XML
12 31 (13.48%) .NET Core
13 30 (13.04%) AngularJS
14 28 (12.17%) Kafka
15 24 (10.43%) .NET Framework
15 24 (10.43%) Entity Framework
15 24 (10.43%) Vue
16 22 (9.57%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 49 (21.30%) Cyberattack
2 10 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (4.35%) Mobile App
3 9 (3.91%) Legacy Code
4 8 (3.48%) Life Science
5 7 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.30%) AS400
7 2 (0.87%) 3D Graphics
7 2 (0.87%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.87%) IoT
7 2 (0.87%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.87%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.43%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.43%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.43%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.43%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.43%) PropTech
8 1 (0.43%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.43%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 91 (39.57%) Linux
2 49 (21.30%) Android
3 14 (6.09%) Unix
4 8 (3.48%) Windows
5 6 (2.61%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.74%) CentOS
7 2 (0.87%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (49.13%) Agile
2 98 (42.61%) CI/CD
3 89 (38.70%) Design Patterns
4 84 (36.52%) Software Engineering
5 80 (34.78%) Microservices
6 70 (30.43%) MVC
7 67 (29.13%) DevOps
7 67 (29.13%) Kanban
8 64 (27.83%) Containerisation
9 60 (26.09%) Mathematics
9 60 (26.09%) OO
9 60 (26.09%) OOP
10 59 (25.65%) Problem-Solving
11 52 (22.61%) Statistics
12 51 (22.17%) Line Management
12 51 (22.17%) OWASP
13 50 (21.74%) Collaborative Working
13 50 (21.74%) Secure Coding
14 49 (21.30%) Android Development
15 46 (20.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 143 (62.17%) JavaScript
2 109 (47.39%) Python
3 89 (38.70%) Java
4 74 (32.17%) C#
5 68 (29.57%) SQL
6 56 (24.35%) TypeScript
7 53 (23.04%) Go
8 52 (22.61%) C++
9 49 (21.30%) Rust
10 8 (3.48%) Bash
11 5 (2.17%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.74%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.30%) R
14 2 (0.87%) C
14 2 (0.87%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.87%) PHP
15 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.43%) Ruby
15 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.43%) VB
Qualifications
1 75 (32.61%) Security Cleared
2 54 (23.48%) DV Cleared
3 19 (8.26%) SC Cleared
4 17 (7.39%) Degree
5 5 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.87%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.43%) PhD
7 1 (0.43%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (15.22%) GDPR
2 28 (12.17%) QA
3 3 (1.30%) SLA
4 2 (0.87%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 134 (58.26%) Docker
2 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.43%) Squid
2 1 (0.43%) Xen
Systems Management
1 82 (35.65%) Kubernetes
1 82 (35.65%) Terraform
2 73 (31.74%) Ansible
3 18 (7.83%) Grafana
4 16 (6.96%) Kibana
5 13 (5.65%) Prometheus
6 11 (4.78%) AWS Copilot
7 9 (3.91%) Kustomize
8 8 (3.48%) Packer
9 5 (2.17%) logstash
10 4 (1.74%) Nagios
11 3 (1.30%) Puppet
12 1 (0.43%) Argo
12 1 (0.43%) Bugsnag
12 1 (0.43%) Check_MK
12 1 (0.43%) Control-M
12 1 (0.43%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.43%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (13.48%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.83%) Google
3 12 (5.22%) Red Hat
4 9 (3.91%) Atlassian
5 8 (3.48%) Oracle
5 8 (3.48%) Splunk
6 7 (3.04%) Rollbar
7 6 (2.61%) New Relic
8 4 (1.74%) Rapid7
8 4 (1.74%) WSO2
9 3 (1.30%) Cloudera
9 3 (1.30%) Databricks
10 2 (0.87%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.87%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.43%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.43%) Okta
11 1 (0.43%) Optimizely
11 1 (0.43%) SaltStack
11 1 (0.43%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.43%) Talend