Elastic Stack Job Trends in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Elastic Stack skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 605 341 688
Rank change year-on-year -264 +347 -159
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 111 350 147
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.13% 0.81% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.21% 4.37% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 59 60 117
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £60,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -29.41% +25.93%
75th Percentile £86,250 £84,063 £97,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,375 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -29.41% +25.93%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,172 8,003 17,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.56% 18.52% 19.32%
Number of salaries quoted 7,013 5,426 13,770
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £103,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -9.13%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Elastic Stack job vacancy trend in England

Elastic Stack
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Elastic Stack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Elastic Stack

Elastic Stack
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Elastic Stack in England over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Elastic Stack in England

Elastic Stack
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Elastic Stack within the England region over the 6 months to 10 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
London -36 39 £90,000 +28.57% 11
North of England -201 30 £47,500 -20.83% 6
South West -33 28 £50,000 -44.44% 3
South East -33 18 £82,500 -2.94% 4
North East -37 13 £47,500 -20.83% 2
Yorkshire -22 11 £63,750 -8.93%
North West -168 6 £47,500 -20.83% 4
West Midlands -18 2 £53,250 -8.19% 1
Midlands -42 2 £53,250 -8.19% 1
Elastic Stack
UK

Elastic Stack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 12 (10.81%) Apache
2 5 (4.50%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.80%) Confluence
4 1 (0.90%) JBoss
4 1 (0.90%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 99 (89.19%) AWS
2 55 (49.55%) Azure
3 37 (33.33%) GCP
4 22 (19.82%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (19.82%) Serverless
5 21 (18.92%) GitHub
5 21 (18.92%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (15.32%) Amazon EKS
7 13 (11.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (11.71%) OpenShift
7 13 (11.71%) Pulumi
8 10 (9.01%) Datadog
9 9 (8.11%) Amazon S3
10 8 (7.21%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (7.21%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (6.31%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (4.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (4.50%) SaaS
13 4 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
14 3 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (16.22%) Firewall
2 15 (13.51%) DNS
2 15 (13.51%) HTTP
2 15 (13.51%) TCP/IP
3 11 (9.91%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (18.02%) NoSQL
2 18 (16.22%) Relational Database
3 12 (10.81%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (9.91%) RDBMS
5 8 (7.21%) InfluxDB
6 7 (6.31%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (3.60%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.70%) Big Data
9 2 (1.80%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.90%) Db2
10 1 (0.90%) MySQL
10 1 (0.90%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 66 (59.46%) Jenkins
2 44 (39.64%) GitLab
3 23 (20.72%) Git
4 20 (18.02%) SonarQube
5 17 (15.32%) Cucumber
6 12 (10.81%) JIRA
7 11 (9.91%) Jaeger
8 10 (9.01%) CircleCI
9 9 (8.11%) Robot Framework
10 8 (7.21%) Selenium
10 8 (7.21%) TestRail
11 7 (6.31%) Cypress.io
12 6 (5.41%) Artifactory
13 5 (4.50%) Bitbucket
14 3 (2.70%) Octopus Deploy
14 3 (2.70%) TeamCity
15 2 (1.80%) JMeter
16 1 (0.90%) Eclipse
16 1 (0.90%) JUnit
16 1 (0.90%) LoadRunner
General
1 20 (18.02%) Finance
1 20 (18.02%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.51%) Telecoms
3 14 (12.61%) Law
4 13 (11.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.31%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.41%) Banking
7 3 (2.70%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.80%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.90%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 40 (36.04%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (19.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (14.41%) Cloud Engineer
4 13 (11.71%) Developer
5 12 (10.81%) AWS Engineer
5 12 (10.81%) Lead
5 12 (10.81%) Software Engineer
6 10 (9.01%) AWS DevOps
6 10 (9.01%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 10 (9.01%) Java Developer
7 9 (8.11%) Test Engineer
8 8 (7.21%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (6.31%) DevOps Engineer - Fintech
9 7 (6.31%) Test Automation Engineer
10 6 (5.41%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 6 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.41%) Senior
11 5 (4.50%) Java Engineer
11 5 (4.50%) Tester
12 4 (3.60%) Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.51%) REST
2 12 (10.81%) Apache NiFi
2 12 (10.81%) Kafka
2 12 (10.81%) OpenTelemetry
3 11 (9.91%) Spring
3 11 (9.91%) Spring Boot
3 11 (9.91%) Vue
4 9 (8.11%) AngularJS
5 8 (7.21%) pytest
5 8 (7.21%) RabbitMQ
5 8 (7.21%) React
5 8 (7.21%) Web Services
6 7 (6.31%) Playwright
7 6 (5.41%) YAML
8 5 (4.50%) Node.js
8 5 (4.50%) RESTful
9 4 (3.60%) Java EE
9 4 (3.60%) JMS
9 4 (3.60%) JPA
9 4 (3.60%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.51%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (9.01%) Onboarding
3 9 (8.11%) Product Ownership
4 7 (6.31%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.70%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.70%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.80%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.90%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.90%) IoT
7 1 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 55 (49.55%) Linux
2 21 (18.92%) Windows
3 16 (14.41%) Unix
4 12 (10.81%) CentOS
5 5 (4.50%) Windows Server
6 4 (3.60%) Ubuntu
6 4 (3.60%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.90%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (80.18%) DevOps
2 75 (67.57%) CI/CD
3 74 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 61 (54.95%) Containerisation
5 48 (43.24%) Agile
6 38 (34.23%) Continuous Integration
7 36 (32.43%) High Availability
8 32 (28.83%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (27.03%) Software Engineering
10 29 (26.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 27 (24.32%) Microservices
12 25 (22.52%) Continuous Delivery
12 25 (22.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 24 (21.62%) Test Automation
14 23 (20.72%) Collaborative Culture
15 20 (18.02%) Mentoring
16 19 (17.12%) DevSecOps
17 17 (15.32%) Continuous Improvement
18 14 (12.61%) GitOps
18 14 (12.61%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 84 (75.68%) Python
2 74 (66.67%) Bash
3 51 (45.95%) Java
4 39 (35.14%) Go
5 32 (28.83%) JavaScript
6 22 (19.82%) PowerShell
7 21 (18.92%) SQL
8 16 (14.41%) Rust
9 10 (9.01%) TypeScript
10 9 (8.11%) C#
10 9 (8.11%) C++
11 6 (5.41%) VBA
12 4 (3.60%) Groovy
12 4 (3.60%) PL/SQL
13 3 (2.70%) Shell Script
14 2 (1.80%) Bicep
14 2 (1.80%) Perl
15 1 (0.90%) Ruby
15 1 (0.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (40.54%) Security Cleared
2 18 (16.22%) SC Cleared
3 14 (12.61%) Degree
4 12 (10.81%) DV Cleared
5 11 (9.91%) AWS Certification
5 11 (9.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (7.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (1.80%) RHCSA
8 1 (0.90%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.71%) QA
2 12 (10.81%) SOC 2
3 10 (9.01%) GDPR
4 9 (8.11%) PCI DSS
5 6 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.80%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.90%) NIST
System Software
1 66 (59.46%) Docker
2 12 (10.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (6.31%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (6.31%) vSphere
4 5 (4.50%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.90%) Firmware
5 1 (0.90%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 92 (82.88%) Terraform
2 86 (77.48%) Ansible
3 74 (66.67%) Kubernetes
4 68 (61.26%) Grafana
5 55 (49.55%) Prometheus
6 25 (22.52%) Kibana
7 18 (16.22%) logstash
8 16 (14.41%) Argo
9 11 (9.91%) Kustomize
9 11 (9.91%) vCenter Server
10 6 (5.41%) Puppet
11 4 (3.60%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (3.60%) Nessus
11 4 (3.60%) Packer
11 4 (3.60%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (2.70%) Control-M
Vendors
1 17 (15.32%) Splunk
2 15 (13.51%) VMware
3 12 (10.81%) Google
3 12 (10.81%) Red Hat
4 11 (9.91%) Atlassian
5 10 (9.01%) Microsoft
6 9 (8.11%) AppDynamics
7 8 (7.21%) IBM
8 7 (6.31%) Oracle
9 2 (1.80%) Pega
9 2 (1.80%) WSO2
10 1 (0.90%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.90%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.90%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.90%) Workday