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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 212 178
Rank change year-on-year +52 -34 +91
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 5 7 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.15% 0.13% 0.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.11% 1.22% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 5 5 6
10th Percentile - £47,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,500 £61,250 £48,613
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,308 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.22% +7.45% +17.27%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £71,763
90th Percentile - - £75,625
England median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +3.70%

All Database and 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 450 573 674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.23% 10.62% 19.72%
Number of salaries quoted 341 314 599
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,800 £33,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.91% -0.88%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £63,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,375 £73,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £61,799
% change year-on-year -7.69% +5.18% -1.12%

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 6 November 2025.

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 6 November 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
Birmingham +29 3 £73,801 +6.48% 5
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECR
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) dbt
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
1 2 (40.00%) Pulumi
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (20.00%) PaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (40.00%) Redis
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) SIEM Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (40.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) SIEM
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Clean Code
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Observability
2 2 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (40.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Threat Detection
2 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kibana
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (20.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Google
1 2 (40.00%) LogRhythm
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk