Elastic Stack Job Trends in the East Midlands

Elastic Stack (formerly ELK Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Elastic Stack skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 - 120
Rank change year-on-year - - +38
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 2 0 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.078% - 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.85% - 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £44,679
25th Percentile £52,400 - £52,117
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 - £58,750
75th Percentile £58,000 - £62,500
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £70,000 £78,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -10.26% +4.00% -3.23%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East Midlands

Elastic Stack falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 236 372 455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.17% 17.28% 21.67%
Number of salaries quoted 175 212 398
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £35,713
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,625 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,625
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -5.55%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Elastic Stack relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Elastic Stack job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Elastic Stack
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Elastic Stack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Elastic Stack

Elastic Stack
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Elastic Stack within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 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
Derbyshire - 1 - - 1
Leicestershire - 1 £55,200 -
Elastic Stack
England

Elastic Stack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East 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 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (50.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jaeger
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Django
1 1 (50.00%) Flask
1 1 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (50.00%) pytest
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) GitOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) SEO
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Delphi
2 1 (50.00%) Go
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Argo
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Kustomize
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle