Elasticsearch Job Trends in Manchester

Elastic Elasticsearch
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Elasticsearch skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 126 128
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +67
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 13 26 34
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.43% 0.98% 1.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.78% 5.30% 5.89%
Number of salaries quoted 10 14 31
10th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £59,063 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +6.63% -3.70%
75th Percentile £78,467 £74,046 £89,500
90th Percentile £79,036 £74,144 £101,250
North West median annual salary £67,500 £68,404 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.32% +14.01% -11.11%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Manchester

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 in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 272 491 577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 9.01% 18.54% 19.86%
Number of salaries quoted 211 230 492
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,963 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,313 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,900
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

Elasticsearch
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Elasticsearch relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Elasticsearch job vacancy trend in Manchester

Elasticsearch
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Elasticsearch.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch in Manchester over the 6 months to 21 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Elasticsearch in Manchester

Elasticsearch
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Elasticsearch within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 21 January 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
Salford +1 2 £73,801 +6.48%
Elasticsearch
North West

Elasticsearch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 4 (30.77%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 11 (84.62%) AWS
1 11 (84.62%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (38.46%) GCP
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 3 (23.08%) Azure AKS
3 3 (23.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 3 (23.08%) OpenShift
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECR
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (15.38%) dbt
4 2 (15.38%) Pulumi
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (7.69%) PaaS
5 1 (7.69%) SaaS
5 1 (7.69%) Sentry
5 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) MongoDB
1 5 (38.46%) MySQL
1 5 (38.46%) Neo4j
1 5 (38.46%) NoSQL
1 5 (38.46%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (23.08%) DynamoDB
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (15.38%) DocumentDB
3 2 (15.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Git
2 3 (23.08%) Bitbucket
2 3 (23.08%) GitLab
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Senior
1 4 (30.77%) Software Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) C Software Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Backend Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Integration Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Security Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Security Operations Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Site Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) React
2 3 (23.08%) AngularJS
2 3 (23.08%) MERN Stack
2 3 (23.08%) Node.js
2 3 (23.08%) RESTful
3 2 (15.38%) Django
4 1 (7.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Public Cloud
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (7.69%) Smart Energy
3 1 (7.69%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Unix
2 2 (15.38%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
1 7 (53.85%) Software Engineering
2 6 (46.15%) DevOps
2 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
3 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (38.46%) Test Automation
4 4 (30.77%) Agile
4 4 (30.77%) Collaborative Culture
4 4 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (30.77%) Machine Learning
5 3 (23.08%) AI
5 3 (23.08%) Creative Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) Microservices
5 3 (23.08%) Observability
5 3 (23.08%) Requirements Analysis
5 3 (23.08%) Software Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) Python
2 6 (46.15%) Java
3 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
4 4 (30.77%) TypeScript
5 3 (23.08%) C
5 3 (23.08%) Go
5 3 (23.08%) SQL
6 2 (15.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) DV Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Kubernetes
2 5 (38.46%) Ansible
2 5 (38.46%) Terraform
3 3 (23.08%) Rancher
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Google
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft