Hybrid/Remote Elasticsearch Job Trends

Elastic Elasticsearch
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Elasticsearch skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 271 385
Rank change year-on-year 0 +114 -87
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 194 172 124
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.85% 1.04% 0.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.17% 5.73% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 186 112 93
10th Percentile £42,500 £55,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £64,000 £69,308
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% -7.66% +6.63%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,813 £82,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £69,308
% change year-on-year -6.25% -7.66% +3.44%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,145 3,004 5,034
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.73% 18.16% 20.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,525 2,048 3,867
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,854 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,750 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,795 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% -3.39% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £122,861
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -5.51%

Elasticsearch
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Elasticsearch and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Elasticsearch job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Elasticsearch
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Elasticsearch.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Elasticsearch over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Elasticsearch salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Elasticsearch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 7 (3.61%) Apache Solr
1 7 (3.61%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.55%) CMS
2 3 (1.55%) DNN
2 3 (1.55%) EPiServer
2 3 (1.55%) Immediacy CMS
2 3 (1.55%) Kentico
2 3 (1.55%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (1.55%) Sitefinity
2 3 (1.55%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.52%) Confluence
3 1 (0.52%) nginx
3 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 1 (0.52%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 163 (84.02%) Azure
2 104 (53.61%) AWS
3 45 (23.20%) GitHub
3 45 (23.20%) GitHub Copilot
4 40 (20.62%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (12.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 11 (5.67%) Azure Key Vault
6 11 (5.67%) Azure Monitor
6 11 (5.67%) Azure Service Bus
7 10 (5.15%) Serverless
8 8 (4.12%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 7 (3.61%) Amazon S3
9 7 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.03%) SaaS
11 1 (0.52%) Amazon Kinesis
11 1 (0.52%) Anthropic Claude
11 1 (0.52%) Cloudflare
11 1 (0.52%) GCP
11 1 (0.52%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.52%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.61%) Hyperconnected
1 7 (3.61%) Internet
2 1 (0.52%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (76.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 139 (71.65%) MongoDB
3 13 (6.70%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.06%) DynamoDB
4 4 (2.06%) MySQL
4 4 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.55%) DocumentDB
5 3 (1.55%) Flink
5 3 (1.55%) Neo4j
5 3 (1.55%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.55%) Redis
6 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.52%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.52%) GIS
7 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.52%) Vitess
Development Applications
1 16 (8.25%) Git
2 4 (2.06%) GitLab
2 4 (2.06%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.55%) JIRA
4 2 (1.03%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.52%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.52%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.52%) Mocha
General
1 40 (20.62%) Finance
2 20 (10.31%) Retail
3 14 (7.22%) Social Skills
4 13 (6.70%) Games
5 9 (4.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.58%) Health Technology
7 4 (2.06%) Publishing
7 4 (2.06%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.03%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.03%) Banking
8 2 (1.03%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.03%) Law
9 1 (0.52%) Police
9 1 (0.52%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 165 (85.05%) Developer
2 157 (80.93%) .NET Developer
3 14 (7.22%) Lead
4 11 (5.67%) Lead .NET Developer
4 11 (5.67%) Lead Developer
5 10 (5.15%) Senior
6 9 (4.64%) Engineering Manager
7 7 (3.61%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (3.61%) Senior Developer
8 6 (3.09%) Software Engineer
9 4 (2.06%) AWS Developer
9 4 (2.06%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 4 (2.06%) Python Developer
9 4 (2.06%) Python Engineer
9 4 (2.06%) React Developer
9 4 (2.06%) Senior Python Developer
9 4 (2.06%) Senior React Developer
10 3 (1.55%) Data Engineer
10 3 (1.55%) EPiServer Developer
10 3 (1.55%) Sitecore Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (82.99%) .NET
1 161 (82.99%) ASP.NET
2 157 (80.93%) .NET Core
2 157 (80.93%) Node.js
3 148 (76.29%) ASP.NET Core
4 88 (45.36%) React
5 76 (39.18%) ASP.NET Web API
6 73 (37.63%) Blazor
7 60 (30.93%) Vue
8 58 (29.90%) AngularJS
9 56 (28.87%) .NET Framework
10 44 (22.68%) Entity Framework
11 32 (16.49%) CSS
11 32 (16.49%) HTML
12 15 (7.73%) REST
13 13 (6.70%) WinForms
14 12 (6.19%) Next.js
15 11 (5.67%) gRPC
15 11 (5.67%) WPF
16 5 (2.58%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.37%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (2.58%) Tandem
3 4 (2.06%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.52%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.52%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.52%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.52%) NHS
6 1 (0.52%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.52%) PMI
6 1 (0.52%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.58%) Linux
2 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.52%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (76.80%) Full-Stack Development
2 147 (75.77%) Agile
3 133 (68.56%) Microservices
4 84 (43.30%) Scrum
5 63 (32.47%) TDD
6 59 (30.41%) BDD
7 56 (28.87%) Kanban
8 50 (25.77%) DevOps
9 39 (20.10%) CI/CD
10 21 (10.82%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (7.73%) Asset Management
11 15 (7.73%) Fintech
11 15 (7.73%) Software Engineering
11 15 (7.73%) Wealth Management
12 14 (7.22%) AI
12 14 (7.22%) OO
13 13 (6.70%) Event-Driven
13 13 (6.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 13 (6.70%) Mentoring
14 12 (6.19%) People Management
Programming Languages
1 161 (82.99%) C#
2 153 (78.87%) SQL
3 82 (42.27%) JavaScript
4 71 (36.60%) TypeScript
5 24 (12.37%) Python
6 6 (3.09%) Java
7 4 (2.06%) Scala
8 2 (1.03%) PHP
8 2 (1.03%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.52%) Bash
9 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (3.09%) SC Cleared
1 6 (3.09%) Security Cleared
2 3 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (1.55%) Degree
3 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.52%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.76%) QA
2 2 (1.03%) Accessibility
System Software
1 62 (31.96%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 50 (25.77%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.61%) Terraform
3 5 (2.58%) Ansible
4 3 (1.55%) Packer
5 1 (0.52%) Argo
5 1 (0.52%) Grafana
5 1 (0.52%) Graylog
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 148 (76.29%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.70%) Google
3 3 (1.55%) Alterian
3 3 (1.55%) Optimizely
3 3 (1.55%) Sitecore
4 2 (1.03%) Rollbar
4 2 (1.03%) Sony
5 1 (0.52%) New Relic
5 1 (0.52%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle
5 1 (0.52%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.52%) VMware