Elasticsearch Job Trends in the West Midlands

Elastic Elasticsearch
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Elasticsearch skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 193 163
Rank change year-on-year +21 -30 +114
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 3 8 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.055% 0.20% 0.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.63% 1.52% 4.85%
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 33
10th Percentile £63,763 £47,000 -
25th Percentile £65,656 £61,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +32.01% +5.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £62,500
90th Percentile - - £78,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £80,000 £64,750
% change year-on-year -15.63% +23.55% -10.69%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 477 528 887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.72% 13.02% 18.23%
Number of salaries quoted 356 277 777
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £59,556
% change year-on-year -7.69% +9.14% -8.38%

Elasticsearch
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Elasticsearch job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Elasticsearch
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Elasticsearch within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 January 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
Birmingham +18 3 £73,801 +6.48% 7
Elasticsearch
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon ECR
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) dbt
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
1 2 (66.67%) Pulumi
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (66.67%) Redis
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Django
2 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Clean Code
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Observability
1 2 (66.67%) Service-Level Objective
1 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Application Performance Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Open Source
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Copilot
2 1 (33.33%) Kibana
2 1 (33.33%) logstash
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google