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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 173 210
Rank change year-on-year -6 +37 -13
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 24 3 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.28% 0.088% 0.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.38% 0.61% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 23 2 7
10th Percentile - - £54,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,500 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £69,308
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -14.87% +7.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £61,500 £97,500
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -8.57% +3.70%

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 548 492 659
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.37% 14.38% 10.40%
Number of salaries quoted 414 355 479
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,300 £33,700
25th Percentile £43,993 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £66,650
90th Percentile £85,000 £79,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year - -5.51% -2.31%

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
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 2 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Elasticsearch in the West Midlands

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 2 September 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
Herefordshire - 12 £85,000 - 1
Worcestershire - 9 £85,000 -
Staffordshire - 6 £55,000 - 2
Coventry - 5 £60,000 - 1
Elasticsearch
England

Elasticsearch
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.17%) nginx
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 1 (4.17%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 24 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (37.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (25.00%) AWS
4 5 (20.83%) GitHub
4 5 (20.83%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (58.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 14 (58.33%) MongoDB
2 9 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.17%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Git
1 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (4.17%) Police
2 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (58.33%) .NET Developer
1 14 (58.33%) Developer
2 10 (41.67%) Azure Engineer
3 9 (37.50%) Azure Data Engineer
3 9 (37.50%) Data Engineer
3 9 (37.50%) Elasticsearch Engineer
3 9 (37.50%) Kafka Engineer
3 9 (37.50%) Python Data Engineer
3 9 (37.50%) Python Engineer
3 9 (37.50%) Senior
3 9 (37.50%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (58.33%) .NET
1 14 (58.33%) .NET Core
1 14 (58.33%) ASP.NET
1 14 (58.33%) ASP.NET Core
1 14 (58.33%) Node.js
2 9 (37.50%) ASP.NET Web API
2 9 (37.50%) Blazor
2 9 (37.50%) Kafka
2 9 (37.50%) Keycloak
2 9 (37.50%) React
3 5 (20.83%) AngularJS
3 5 (20.83%) Vue
4 1 (4.17%) Java SE
4 1 (4.17%) OpenLayers
4 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 9 (37.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.17%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
1 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (4.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Agile
1 14 (58.33%) Full-Stack Development
1 14 (58.33%) Microservices
2 10 (41.67%) DevOps
3 9 (37.50%) Analytics
3 9 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
3 9 (37.50%) Data Security
3 9 (37.50%) Decision-Making
3 9 (37.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 9 (37.50%) ETL
3 9 (37.50%) ETL Development
3 9 (37.50%) Workflow
4 8 (33.33%) BDD
4 8 (33.33%) Kanban
4 8 (33.33%) Scrum
4 8 (33.33%) TDD
5 1 (4.17%) CI/CD
5 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (4.17%) Master Data Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (62.50%) SQL
2 14 (58.33%) C#
3 10 (41.67%) Python
4 9 (37.50%) Go
4 9 (37.50%) JavaScript
5 5 (20.83%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.17%) Bash
6 1 (4.17%) Java
6 1 (4.17%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (41.67%) SC Cleared
1 10 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 9 (37.50%) Azure Certification
2 9 (37.50%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 6 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 14 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle
2 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.17%) VMware