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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 128 117
Rank change year-on-year +8 -11 +79
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 14 28 31
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.53% 0.98% 1.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.79% 5.39% 7.09%
Number of salaries quoted 12 13 28
10th Percentile £52,750 - £43,000
25th Percentile £55,938 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,308 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +13.62% -14.39%
75th Percentile £77,822 £74,144 £80,000
90th Percentile £78,790 - £84,000
North West median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £61,000
% change year-on-year - +10.66% -14.39%

All Database and 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 292 519 437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 11.15% 18.16% 20.56%
Number of salaries quoted 236 235 365
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,641
25th Percentile £43,438 £45,625 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,875 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £88,250
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +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 16 December 2025.

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 16 December 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
Salford +4 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 5 (35.71%) Apache Solr
2 1 (7.14%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) AWS
1 11 (78.57%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (28.57%) GCP
3 3 (21.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon ECR
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (14.29%) Azure AKS
4 2 (14.29%) dbt
4 2 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (14.29%) OpenShift
4 2 (14.29%) Pulumi
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (7.14%) Cloudflare
5 1 (7.14%) GitHub
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (7.14%) PaaS
5 1 (7.14%) SaaS
5 1 (7.14%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) MySQL
2 5 (35.71%) Neo4j
3 4 (28.57%) MongoDB
3 4 (28.57%) NoSQL
3 4 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (14.29%) DocumentDB
4 2 (14.29%) DynamoDB
4 2 (14.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) Bitbucket
2 2 (14.29%) GitLab
3 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Senior
1 4 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) C Software Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Backend Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Integration Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (7.14%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) React Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Security Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) React
2 3 (21.43%) AngularJS
2 3 (21.43%) MERN Stack
2 3 (21.43%) Node.js
3 2 (14.29%) Django
3 2 (14.29%) RESTful
4 1 (7.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (7.14%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Smart Energy
2 1 (7.14%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 3 (21.43%) Windows Server
3 2 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (35.71%) AI
2 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
2 5 (35.71%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (35.71%) DevOps
2 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (28.57%) Agile
3 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (28.57%) Machine Learning
3 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 3 (21.43%) API Management
4 3 (21.43%) Collaborative Culture
4 3 (21.43%) Observability
4 3 (21.43%) Open Source
5 2 (14.29%) Clean Code
5 2 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) Python
2 7 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (35.71%) Java
3 5 (35.71%) TypeScript
4 3 (21.43%) C
4 3 (21.43%) PHP
5 2 (14.29%) Go
5 2 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) DV Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 4 (28.57%) Ansible
2 4 (28.57%) Terraform
3 2 (14.29%) Rancher
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Google