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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 158 174
Rank change year-on-year -23 +16 -24
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 14 10 16
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.20% 0.40% 0.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.95% 2.20% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 13 10 6
10th Percentile - £49,500 £44,375
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,813 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £57,500 £64,654
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% -11.06% +7.76%
75th Percentile £77,500 £60,750 £89,786
90th Percentile - £63,412 £98,125
North West median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -17.39% -4.17% -

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 474 454 805
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 6.78% 18.23% 18.21%
Number of salaries quoted 355 291 441
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £38,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73,171 £72,777 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £84,964
North West median annual salary £52,500 £55,021 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.58% +0.04% -

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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

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Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Elasticsearch.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Elasticsearch

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Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch in Manchester over the 6 months to 22 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Elasticsearch in Manchester

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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 3 (21.43%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (78.57%) Azure
3 6 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (28.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 3 (21.43%) Serverless
6 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (64.29%) MongoDB
2 7 (50.00%) Neo4j
3 6 (42.86%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (21.43%) DocumentDB
4 3 (21.43%) NoSQL
5 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Cypress.io
2 4 (28.57%) Cucumber
2 4 (28.57%) Robot Framework
3 1 (7.14%) GitLab
3 1 (7.14%) Mocha
General
1 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) .NET Developer
1 6 (42.86%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Senior
2 4 (28.57%) Senior Software Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Test Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (64.29%) Node.js
2 8 (57.14%) React
3 6 (42.86%) .NET
3 6 (42.86%) .NET Core
3 6 (42.86%) ASP.NET
3 6 (42.86%) ASP.NET Core
3 6 (42.86%) CSS
3 6 (42.86%) Entity Framework
3 6 (42.86%) HTML
4 4 (28.57%) AngularJS
4 4 (28.57%) MERN Stack
4 4 (28.57%) REST
4 4 (28.57%) Vue
5 1 (7.14%) Jest
5 1 (7.14%) Next.js
5 1 (7.14%) OpenAPI
5 1 (7.14%) Swagger
5 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) DevOps
2 7 (50.00%) Agile
2 7 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 5 (35.71%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
5 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 4 (28.57%) Test Strategy
6 3 (21.43%) Observability
6 3 (21.43%) Open Source
7 1 (7.14%) AI
7 1 (7.14%) API Development
7 1 (7.14%) Containerisation
7 1 (7.14%) DevSecOps
7 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (7.14%) Machine Learning
7 1 (7.14%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) TypeScript
2 6 (42.86%) C#
2 6 (42.86%) SQL
3 5 (35.71%) Java
3 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
3 5 (35.71%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft