Elasticsearch Job Trends in the North of England

Elastic Elasticsearch
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Elasticsearch skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 248 254 209
Rank change year-on-year +6 -45 +123
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 18 38 58
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.17% 0.38% 0.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.81% 2.87% 3.82%
Number of salaries quoted 16 23 51
10th Percentile £52,500 £43,850 £43,000
25th Percentile £55,938 £57,500 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.66% -9.63%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £78,750
90th Percentile - - £83,750
England median annual salary £67,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.55% +10.71% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 996 1,325 1,520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.54% 13.13% 22.17%
Number of salaries quoted 699 705 1,210
10th Percentile £30,950 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,238 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,292
Median % change year-on-year - +0.40% -4.92%
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £84,056
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +6.56% -2.40%

Elasticsearch
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Elasticsearch job vacancy trend in the North of England

Elasticsearch
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Elasticsearch.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Elasticsearch in the North of England

Elasticsearch
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Elasticsearch within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
North West +18 14 £65,500 -2.96% 40
North East -1 3 £73,801 +6.48% 4
Yorkshire -1 1 £65,000 +10.64% 27
Elasticsearch
England

Elasticsearch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (27.78%) Apache Solr
2 1 (5.56%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 13 (72.22%) AWS
1 13 (72.22%) Azure
2 7 (38.89%) AWS CloudFormation
2 7 (38.89%) GCP
3 5 (27.78%) Amazon ECR
3 5 (27.78%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (27.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 5 (27.78%) dbt
3 5 (27.78%) Pulumi
4 3 (16.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 3 (16.67%) PaaS
4 3 (16.67%) Sentry
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (11.11%) Azure AKS
5 2 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (11.11%) OpenShift
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (5.56%) npm
6 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) MySQL
1 7 (38.89%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (33.33%) Redis
3 5 (27.78%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (22.22%) MongoDB
4 4 (22.22%) Neo4j
4 4 (22.22%) NoSQL
5 2 (11.11%) DocumentDB
5 2 (11.11%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (38.89%) Git
2 3 (16.67%) GitLab
3 2 (11.11%) Bitbucket
4 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.56%) JIRA
4 1 (5.56%) PHPUnit
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Games
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Senior
2 4 (22.22%) Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Backend Developer
4 2 (11.11%) C Software Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Integration Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Site Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (5.56%) Lead
5 1 (5.56%) PHP Developer
5 1 (5.56%) React Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Security Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Security Operations Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Django
2 4 (22.22%) React
3 3 (16.67%) Node.js
3 3 (16.67%) RESTful
4 2 (11.11%) AngularJS
4 2 (11.11%) MERN Stack
5 1 (5.56%) .NET
5 1 (5.56%) Alpine.js
5 1 (5.56%) CSS
5 1 (5.56%) HTML
5 1 (5.56%) jQuery
5 1 (5.56%) Laravel
5 1 (5.56%) LDAP
5 1 (5.56%) REST
5 1 (5.56%) SOAP
5 1 (5.56%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (11.11%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.56%) e-Learning
3 1 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (5.56%) Smart Energy
3 1 (5.56%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 11 (61.11%) Linux
2 5 (27.78%) Unix
3 3 (16.67%) Windows
3 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) CI/CD
2 9 (50.00%) DevOps
3 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (38.89%) Observability
3 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 6 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 5 (27.78%) Agile
5 5 (27.78%) AI
5 5 (27.78%) Clean Code
5 5 (27.78%) Containerisation
5 5 (27.78%) Open Source
5 5 (27.78%) Service-Level Objective
6 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (22.22%) Machine Learning
6 4 (22.22%) Test Automation
7 3 (16.67%) API Management
7 3 (16.67%) Migration
7 3 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
7 3 (16.67%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) Python
2 7 (38.89%) JavaScript
3 5 (27.78%) Java
4 4 (22.22%) PHP
4 4 (22.22%) TypeScript
5 2 (11.11%) C
5 2 (11.11%) Go
5 2 (11.11%) SQL
6 1 (5.56%) Bash
6 1 (5.56%) C#
6 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 6 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) GDPR
2 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (55.56%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Squid
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Terraform
2 4 (22.22%) Ansible
2 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 3 (16.67%) AWS Copilot
4 2 (11.11%) Rancher
5 1 (5.56%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Google
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) New Relic