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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 228 260
Rank change year-on-year -43 +32 +109
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 22 32 88
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.16% 0.44% 0.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.92% 2.79% 3.44%
Number of salaries quoted 18 26 81
10th Percentile £52,500 £53,125 £35,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £59,033 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,651 £69,308 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +32.01% -13.93%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,230 £75,000
90th Percentile £78,865 £74,258 £95,000
England median annual salary £73,801 £80,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.75% +33.33% -14.29%

All Database & 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 1,147 1,145 2,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 8.33% 15.68% 19.01%
Number of salaries quoted 736 687 2,113
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,229 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £71,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

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 6 March 2026.

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 6 March 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
North West -17 17 £67,500 -0.19% 8
North East -13 4 £73,801 +6.37% 1
Yorkshire -39 1 £65,000 -18.75% 2
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 4 (18.18%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 19 (86.36%) AWS
2 16 (72.73%) Azure
3 10 (45.45%) AWS CloudFormation
3 10 (45.45%) GCP
4 8 (36.36%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 7 (31.82%) Amazon ECR
5 7 (31.82%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (31.82%) dbt
5 7 (31.82%) Pulumi
6 5 (22.73%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 5 (22.73%) PaaS
6 5 (22.73%) Sentry
7 3 (13.64%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (13.64%) Azure AKS
7 3 (13.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (13.64%) OpenShift
8 2 (9.09%) AWS CodeBuild
8 2 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (9.09%) Serverless
9 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (31.82%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (45.45%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (36.36%) Redis
3 7 (31.82%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (31.82%) Neo4j
4 6 (27.27%) MongoDB
4 6 (27.27%) MySQL
4 6 (27.27%) NoSQL
5 3 (13.64%) DocumentDB
5 3 (13.64%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Git
2 4 (18.18%) GitLab
3 3 (13.64%) Bitbucket
4 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.55%) PHPUnit
General
1 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.55%) Games
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Senior
2 6 (27.27%) Software Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) C Software Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Developer
5 2 (9.09%) PHP Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Site Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Backend Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Integration Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Lead
6 1 (4.55%) Operations Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) PHP Laravel Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Security Operations Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) Django
1 7 (31.82%) React
2 5 (22.73%) RESTful
3 4 (18.18%) AngularJS
3 4 (18.18%) MERN Stack
4 3 (13.64%) Node.js
5 2 (9.09%) CSS
5 2 (9.09%) HTML
5 2 (9.09%) Laravel
5 2 (9.09%) REST
6 1 (4.55%) .NET
6 1 (4.55%) Alpine.js
6 1 (4.55%) jQuery
6 1 (4.55%) LDAP
6 1 (4.55%) Sass
6 1 (4.55%) SOAP
6 1 (4.55%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.64%) Public Cloud
3 2 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (4.55%) e-Learning
4 1 (4.55%) Legacy Code
4 1 (4.55%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (4.55%) Smart Energy
4 1 (4.55%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 12 (54.55%) Linux
2 7 (31.82%) Unix
3 1 (4.55%) Windows
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) DevOps
2 12 (54.55%) CI/CD
3 10 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (45.45%) Observability
4 8 (36.36%) Open Source
4 8 (36.36%) Software Engineering
5 7 (31.82%) Agile
5 7 (31.82%) Clean Code
5 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (27.27%) Containerisation
6 6 (27.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (22.73%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (22.73%) Migration
7 5 (22.73%) Performance Monitoring
7 5 (22.73%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (22.73%) Prototyping
7 5 (22.73%) Service-Level Objective
8 4 (18.18%) Application Performance Monitoring
8 4 (18.18%) Collaborative Culture
8 4 (18.18%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (68.18%) Python
2 10 (45.45%) Java
3 7 (31.82%) JavaScript
4 6 (27.27%) TypeScript
5 4 (18.18%) C
6 3 (13.64%) Go
6 3 (13.64%) PHP
6 3 (13.64%) SQL
7 1 (4.55%) Bash
7 1 (4.55%) C#
7 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 8 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 4 (18.18%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.55%) GDPR
1 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
1 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 12 (54.55%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Squid
Systems Management
1 10 (45.45%) Terraform
2 7 (31.82%) Kubernetes
3 5 (22.73%) AWS Copilot
4 4 (18.18%) Ansible
5 3 (13.64%) Rancher
6 1 (4.55%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) Google
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) New Relic