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Which roles ask for Elasticsearch at tech companies · 41 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026

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41 roles counted that list Elasticsearch, one per company, title and level; 76 postings in the window.

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In short

Elasticsearch: listed in 41 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 20 and preferred in 21. The largest group is software engineer roles: 20 of 41. Each role counts once, however many job boards post it.

Required
20 of 41
Of the roles that list Elasticsearch
Preferred
21 of 41
Of the roles that list Elasticsearch
Largest group
20 of 41
Software engineer

Roles that ask for Elasticsearch

Roles listing Elasticsearch, by title family. Where the role has a page, the count is also out of that role's roles whose requirements we read.

RoleRolesOf the role's roles we read
Software engineer2020 of 719
DevOps engineer44 of 58
Site reliability engineer44 of 70
AI engineer33 of 70
Machine learning engineer33 of 79
Platform engineer22 of 57
Data engineer11 of 99
Data scientist11 of 112
QA engineer11 of 63
Security engineer11 of 126

Companies that ask for it most

Asked alongside

Out of the 41 Elasticsearch roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. Too few to show shares, so we show counts.

Required
SkillRoles asking
AWS
19 of 41
Python
18 of 41
CI/CD
16 of 41
Kubernetes
14 of 41
Docker
13 of 41
Distributed Systems
12 of 41
PostgreSQL
10 of 41
SQL
10 of 41
GCP
9 of 41
Observability
9 of 41
Preferred
SkillRoles asking
Redis
7 of 41
Kafka
6 of 41
Kubernetes
6 of 41
Open Source
6 of 41
Terraform
6 of 41
AWS
5 of 41
Azure
5 of 41
AI
4 of 41
Helm
4 of 41
LLMs
4 of 41

Experience

Of the 17 roles that state years

Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.

1+ year
16 of 17
2+ years
15 of 17
3+ years
15 of 17
5+ years
14 of 17
8+ years
5 of 17
10+ years
2 of 17

Degree

Of the 22 roles we could read for it

Required
5 of 22
Required, or experience instead
4 of 22
Preferred
1 of 22
Not mentioned
12 of 22

Pay and remote work

Of the 41 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.

Roles stating pay
21 of 41
Remote roles
31 of 41

How we count: 41 roles from 35 employers in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026, each role counted once however many boards post it. Skills are counted out of the roles whose requirements we read. Roles are not filtered by country. Methodology