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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 172 227
Rank change year-on-year -1 +55 +2
Permanent jobs citing Elasticsearch 19 5 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.23% 0.15% 0.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.35% 1.01% 2.41%
Number of salaries quoted 19 3 14
10th Percentile - - £47,375
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £73,243
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -19.45% +8.51%
75th Percentile £73,750 £66,561 £86,485
90th Percentile £85,000 £69,598 £97,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -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 567 496 911
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.97% 14.64% 12.28%
Number of salaries quoted 435 357 712
10th Percentile £35,500 £40,450 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +3.96%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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

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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

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Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Elasticsearch in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 22 July 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 22 July 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 - 8 £85,000 -
Staffordshire - 6 £55,000 -
Worcestershire - 5 £85,000 -
Coventry - 5 £60,000 - 1
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 19 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) AWS
2 5 (26.32%) Azure Data Factory
2 5 (26.32%) GitHub
2 5 (26.32%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (73.68%) Azure SQL Database
1 14 (73.68%) MongoDB
2 5 (26.32%) PostgreSQL
General
1 6 (31.58%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (73.68%) .NET Developer
1 14 (73.68%) Developer
2 5 (26.32%) Azure Data Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Data Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Elasticsearch Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Kafka Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Python Data Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Python Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Senior
2 5 (26.32%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (73.68%) .NET
1 14 (73.68%) .NET Core
1 14 (73.68%) ASP.NET
1 14 (73.68%) ASP.NET Core
1 14 (73.68%) Node.js
2 9 (47.37%) ASP.NET Web API
2 9 (47.37%) Blazor
2 9 (47.37%) React
3 5 (26.32%) AngularJS
3 5 (26.32%) Kafka
3 5 (26.32%) Keycloak
3 5 (26.32%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (26.32%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) Agile
1 14 (73.68%) Full-Stack Development
1 14 (73.68%) Microservices
2 8 (42.11%) BDD
2 8 (42.11%) Kanban
2 8 (42.11%) Scrum
2 8 (42.11%) TDD
3 5 (26.32%) Analytics
3 5 (26.32%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (26.32%) Data Security
3 5 (26.32%) Decision-Making
3 5 (26.32%) DevOps
3 5 (26.32%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 5 (26.32%) ETL
3 5 (26.32%) ETL Development
3 5 (26.32%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 14 (73.68%) C#
1 14 (73.68%) SQL
2 9 (47.37%) JavaScript
3 5 (26.32%) Go
3 5 (26.32%) Python
3 5 (26.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Azure Certification
1 5 (26.32%) DV Cleared
1 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (73.68%) Microsoft