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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

elasticsearch

399 live US technical postings name elasticsearch in September 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 399 postings naming elasticsearch that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer59.6%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer17.3%
  3. 3Data Engineer5.3%
  4. 4Full-Stack Engineer4.3%
  5. 5Backend Engineer3.5%
  6. 6Data Scientist2.8%
  7. 7AI Engineer2.3%
  8. 8Machine Learning Engineer1.8%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where elasticsearch is named
n = 257
10th
$137k
25th
$160k
Median
$193k
75th
$215k
90th
$238k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA12.5%
  2. 2Remote9.8%
  3. 3New York, NY8.8%
  4. 4Washington, DC6.8%
  5. 5Silicon Valley, CA4.5%
  6. 6Austin, TX1.5%
  7. 7Denver, CO1.5%
  8. 8Seattle, WA1.5%

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.