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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 615 342 682
Rank change year-on-year -273 +340 -157
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 101 347 134
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.11% 0.80% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.10% 4.35% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 58 59 106
10th Percentile £44,250 £46,250 £60,000
25th Percentile £46,875 £55,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £60,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.17% -33.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £86,250 £84,375 £97,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -33.33% +33.33%

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 9,213 7,968 16,152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.40% 18.33% 19.23%
Number of salaries quoted 7,065 5,402 12,771
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
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 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -11.11%

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 20 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 20 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 -41 34 £90,000 +28.57% 11
North of England -187 29 £47,500 -20.83% 2
South West -40 24 £50,000 -44.44% 3
South East -14 18 £82,500 -2.94% 3
North East -37 12 £47,500 -20.83%
Yorkshire -16 10 £65,000 -7.14%
North West -170 7 £47,500 -20.83% 2
West Midlands -22 2 £53,250 -8.19% 2
Midlands -40 2 £53,250 -8.19% 2
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 10 (9.90%) Apache
2 5 (4.95%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.98%) Confluence
4 1 (0.99%) JBoss
4 1 (0.99%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (6.93%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 87 (86.14%) AWS
2 51 (50.50%) Azure
3 34 (33.66%) GCP
4 22 (21.78%) Serverless
5 19 (18.81%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (18.81%) GitHub
5 19 (18.81%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (16.83%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (11.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (11.88%) OpenShift
8 10 (9.90%) Datadog
9 9 (8.91%) Amazon S3
10 8 (7.92%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (7.92%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (6.93%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (6.93%) Pulumi
12 5 (4.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (4.95%) SaaS
13 4 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
14 3 (2.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (14.85%) Firewall
2 14 (13.86%) TCP/IP
3 13 (12.87%) DNS
3 13 (12.87%) HTTP
4 5 (4.95%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (13.86%) NoSQL
2 12 (11.88%) Relational Database
3 11 (10.89%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (6.93%) InfluxDB
4 7 (6.93%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (4.95%) RDBMS
6 4 (3.96%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.98%) Big Data
7 2 (1.98%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.99%) Db2
8 1 (0.99%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.99%) Redis
Development Applications
1 59 (58.42%) Jenkins
2 41 (40.59%) GitLab
3 23 (22.77%) Git
4 17 (16.83%) SonarQube
5 15 (14.85%) Cucumber
6 12 (11.88%) JIRA
7 10 (9.90%) CircleCI
8 7 (6.93%) Robot Framework
8 7 (6.93%) Selenium
8 7 (6.93%) TestRail
9 6 (5.94%) Artifactory
9 6 (5.94%) Cypress.io
10 5 (4.95%) Jaeger
11 4 (3.96%) Bitbucket
12 3 (2.97%) Octopus Deploy
12 3 (2.97%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.99%) Gatling
13 1 (0.99%) JMeter
13 1 (0.99%) JUnit
13 1 (0.99%) LoadRunner
General
1 20 (19.80%) Finance
1 20 (19.80%) Social Skills
2 13 (12.87%) Telecoms
3 12 (11.88%) Law
4 7 (6.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (6.93%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.94%) Banking
6 3 (2.97%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.98%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.99%) Front Office
8 1 (0.99%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 37 (36.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (20.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 13 (12.87%) Cloud Engineer
3 13 (12.87%) Developer
4 12 (11.88%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (10.89%) Software Engineer
6 10 (9.90%) AWS DevOps
6 10 (9.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 10 (9.90%) Java Developer
7 8 (7.92%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (7.92%) Test Engineer
8 7 (6.93%) DevOps Engineer - Fintech
8 7 (6.93%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (5.94%) Lead
9 6 (5.94%) Senior
9 6 (5.94%) Test Automation Engineer
10 5 (4.95%) Java Engineer
11 4 (3.96%) Applications Support
11 4 (3.96%) Applications Support Analyst
11 4 (3.96%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (14.85%) REST
2 13 (12.87%) Kafka
3 11 (10.89%) Spring
3 11 (10.89%) Spring Boot
4 10 (9.90%) Apache NiFi
5 9 (8.91%) AngularJS
5 9 (8.91%) RabbitMQ
5 9 (8.91%) Vue
6 8 (7.92%) pytest
6 8 (7.92%) React
6 8 (7.92%) Web Services
7 6 (5.94%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (5.94%) Playwright
7 6 (5.94%) RESTful
7 6 (5.94%) YAML
8 5 (4.95%) Jakarta EE
8 5 (4.95%) Node.js
9 4 (3.96%) JMS
9 4 (3.96%) JPA
9 4 (3.96%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.85%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (10.89%) Onboarding
3 8 (7.92%) Product Ownership
4 7 (6.93%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.97%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.97%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.98%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.99%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.99%) IoT
7 1 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 47 (46.53%) Linux
2 19 (18.81%) Windows
3 11 (10.89%) CentOS
4 9 (8.91%) Unix
5 5 (4.95%) Windows Server
6 4 (3.96%) Ubuntu
6 4 (3.96%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.99%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (78.22%) DevOps
2 70 (69.31%) CI/CD
3 64 (63.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (53.47%) Containerisation
5 40 (39.60%) Agile
6 30 (29.70%) Continuous Integration
7 29 (28.71%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (28.71%) Software Engineering
8 28 (27.72%) High Availability
9 27 (26.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 27 (26.73%) Microservices
10 23 (22.77%) Continuous Delivery
10 23 (22.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 22 (21.78%) Test Automation
12 18 (17.82%) Collaborative Culture
13 17 (16.83%) DevSecOps
14 15 (14.85%) Computer Science
14 15 (14.85%) Continuous Improvement
14 15 (14.85%) Observability
15 14 (13.86%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 75 (74.26%) Python
2 63 (62.38%) Bash
3 44 (43.56%) Java
4 30 (29.70%) Go
5 23 (22.77%) JavaScript
6 22 (21.78%) SQL
7 20 (19.80%) PowerShell
8 16 (15.84%) Rust
9 10 (9.90%) C#
10 8 (7.92%) C++
10 8 (7.92%) TypeScript
11 7 (6.93%) VBA
12 4 (3.96%) Groovy
12 4 (3.96%) PL/SQL
13 3 (2.97%) Shell Script
14 2 (1.98%) Bicep
14 2 (1.98%) Perl
15 1 (0.99%) Ruby
15 1 (0.99%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (39.60%) Security Cleared
2 18 (17.82%) SC Cleared
3 15 (14.85%) Degree
4 12 (11.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (9.90%) DV Cleared
6 7 (6.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (4.95%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.98%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.99%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.87%) QA
2 12 (11.88%) SOC 2
3 10 (9.90%) GDPR
4 9 (8.91%) PCI DSS
5 6 (5.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.98%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.98%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.99%) NIST
System Software
1 59 (58.42%) Docker
2 11 (10.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (6.93%) vSphere
4 6 (5.94%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (5.94%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.99%) Firmware
5 1 (0.99%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 80 (79.21%) Terraform
2 75 (74.26%) Ansible
3 68 (67.33%) Kubernetes
4 65 (64.36%) Grafana
5 49 (48.51%) Prometheus
6 23 (22.77%) Kibana
7 16 (15.84%) logstash
8 10 (9.90%) Argo
8 10 (9.90%) vCenter Server
9 5 (4.95%) Kustomize
9 5 (4.95%) Puppet
10 4 (3.96%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (3.96%) Nessus
10 4 (3.96%) Packer
10 4 (3.96%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (2.97%) Control-M
12 1 (0.99%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 16 (15.84%) Splunk
2 14 (13.86%) VMware
3 11 (10.89%) Red Hat
4 10 (9.90%) Microsoft
5 9 (8.91%) AppDynamics
5 9 (8.91%) Atlassian
6 8 (7.92%) IBM
7 7 (6.93%) Oracle
8 6 (5.94%) Google
9 2 (1.98%) Pega
9 2 (1.98%) WSO2
10 1 (0.99%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.99%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.99%) Percona
10 1 (0.99%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.99%) Workday