Elasticsearch Job Trends in the North West

Elastic Elasticsearch
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Elasticsearch skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 164 219
Rank change year-on-year -23 +55 +38
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 16 24 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.19% 0.61% 0.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.04% 3.57% 2.76%
Number of salaries quoted 13 19 40
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,550 -
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,626 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% +69.07% -40.74%
75th Percentile £78,790 £73,947 £86,750
90th Percentile £78,990 £74,258 £95,625
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 West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 526 673 1,485
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 6.38% 17.19% 18.38%
Number of salaries quoted 387 413 1,206
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,625 £72,500 £65,603
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £83,750
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 West

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

Elasticsearch job vacancy trend in the North West

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Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Elasticsearch.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch in the North West over the 6 months to 16 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Elasticsearch in the North West

Elasticsearch
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Elasticsearch within the North West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Manchester -5 14 £73,801 +6.48% 9
Merseyside - 1 £55,000 -
Lancashire - 1 £41,500 - 5
Elasticsearch
England

Elasticsearch
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (25.00%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 14 (87.50%) AWS
2 11 (68.75%) Azure
3 6 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (37.50%) GCP
4 5 (31.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 3 (18.75%) Amazon ECR
5 3 (18.75%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (18.75%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (18.75%) Azure AKS
5 3 (18.75%) dbt
5 3 (18.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 3 (18.75%) OpenShift
5 3 (18.75%) Pulumi
6 2 (12.50%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 2 (12.50%) PaaS
6 2 (12.50%) Sentry
6 2 (12.50%) Serverless
7 1 (6.25%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (6.25%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) Neo4j
2 6 (37.50%) MongoDB
2 6 (37.50%) MySQL
2 6 (37.50%) NoSQL
2 6 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (25.00%) Redis
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (18.75%) DocumentDB
4 3 (18.75%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Git
2 3 (18.75%) Bitbucket
2 3 (18.75%) GitLab
3 1 (6.25%) PHPUnit
General
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Games
2 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Senior
1 6 (37.50%) Software Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) C Software Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Developer
3 2 (12.50%) PHP Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Backend Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Integration Developer
4 1 (6.25%) PHP Laravel Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Site Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) React
2 4 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 4 (25.00%) MERN Stack
2 4 (25.00%) RESTful
3 3 (18.75%) Django
3 3 (18.75%) Node.js
4 2 (12.50%) CSS
4 2 (12.50%) HTML
4 2 (12.50%) Laravel
4 2 (12.50%) REST
5 1 (6.25%) Alpine.js
5 1 (6.25%) jQuery
5 1 (6.25%) Sass
5 1 (6.25%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
1 3 (18.75%) Public Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.25%) e-Learning
3 1 (6.25%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (18.75%) Unix
3 1 (6.25%) Windows
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) DevOps
1 8 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
3 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (31.25%) Agile
4 5 (31.25%) Containerisation
4 5 (31.25%) Observability
4 5 (31.25%) Open Source
4 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
5 4 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 3 (18.75%) AI
6 3 (18.75%) Clean Code
6 3 (18.75%) Creative Problem-Solving
6 3 (18.75%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (18.75%) Microservices
6 3 (18.75%) System Testing
6 3 (18.75%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) Python
2 8 (50.00%) Java
3 7 (43.75%) JavaScript
4 6 (37.50%) TypeScript
5 4 (25.00%) C
6 3 (18.75%) Go
6 3 (18.75%) PHP
6 3 (18.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Kubernetes
2 6 (37.50%) Terraform
3 4 (25.00%) Ansible
4 3 (18.75%) Rancher
5 2 (12.50%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Google
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft