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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 667 340 604
Rank change year-on-year -327 +264 -75
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 92 336 132
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.089% 0.78% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.85% 4.49% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 43 56 78
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £60,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -27.78% +38.46%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £99,375
90th Percentile £95,000 £120,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -30.56% +38.46%

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 10,811 7,475 14,443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.41% 17.32% 21.63%
Number of salaries quoted 7,850 4,941 9,050
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -6.40%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £113,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -3.70%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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
South West -47 31 £50,000 - 12
London -73 31 £68,750 -1.79% 76
South East -43 19 £82,500 - 13
North of England -243 13 £70,000 +16.67% 17
Yorkshire -30 6 £82,500 +17.86% 3
North West -196 4 £70,000 +16.67% 12
East of England -30 3 £82,500 +65.00% 2
North East -66 3 £70,000 +16.67% 2
West Midlands -52 1 £44,000 -24.14% 13
Midlands -59 1 £44,000 -24.14% 15
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 11 (11.96%) Apache
2 9 (9.78%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.17%) Confluence
4 1 (1.09%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.09%) JBoss
4 1 (1.09%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (7.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 75 (81.52%) AWS
2 32 (34.78%) Azure
3 26 (28.26%) Amazon EKS
4 21 (22.83%) Serverless
5 17 (18.48%) OpenShift
6 14 (15.22%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (14.13%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (14.13%) GCP
8 11 (11.96%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (11.96%) Amazon S3
9 10 (10.87%) GitHub
10 9 (9.78%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 9 (9.78%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (7.61%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (7.61%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (6.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (4.35%) SaaS
14 3 (3.26%) Amazon SQS
14 3 (3.26%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.43%) TCP/IP
2 4 (4.35%) DNS
2 4 (4.35%) Firewall
3 3 (3.26%) 4G
3 3 (3.26%) 5G
3 3 (3.26%) HTTP
3 3 (3.26%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (21.74%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (15.22%) Redis
3 13 (14.13%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (13.04%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (9.78%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (8.70%) InfluxDB
6 8 (8.70%) Relational Database
7 5 (5.43%) MongoDB
8 4 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (4.35%) MySQL
8 4 (4.35%) SQL Server
9 3 (3.26%) NoSQL
9 3 (3.26%) ZAP BI
10 2 (2.17%) Big Data
11 1 (1.09%) Flink
11 1 (1.09%) Hadoop
11 1 (1.09%) Looker
11 1 (1.09%) Oracle Database
11 1 (1.09%) Power BI
11 1 (1.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 57 (61.96%) Jenkins
2 42 (45.65%) GitLab
3 39 (42.39%) Git
4 20 (21.74%) SonarQube
5 15 (16.30%) Cucumber
6 13 (14.13%) Selenium
7 12 (13.04%) JIRA
8 9 (9.78%) Cypress.io
9 8 (8.70%) Robot Framework
9 8 (8.70%) TestRail
10 7 (7.61%) Artifactory
11 5 (5.43%) Snyk
12 4 (4.35%) Bitbucket
12 4 (4.35%) JUnit
13 3 (3.26%) NUnit
13 3 (3.26%) Octopus Deploy
13 3 (3.26%) Postman
13 3 (3.26%) TeamCity
14 1 (1.09%) ER Studio
14 1 (1.09%) ERwin
General
1 19 (20.65%) Finance
2 11 (11.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (10.87%) Social Skills
4 8 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.61%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.35%) Military
6 4 (4.35%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.26%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.17%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.17%) Banking
8 2 (2.17%) Law
9 1 (1.09%) Front Office
9 1 (1.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 27 (29.35%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (21.74%) Developer
3 16 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (15.22%) AWS DevOps
4 14 (15.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 14 (15.22%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (11.96%) Software Engineer
6 10 (10.87%) Java Developer
7 9 (9.78%) Test Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) Senior
8 6 (6.52%) Test Automation Engineer
9 5 (5.43%) Automation Tester
9 5 (5.43%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (5.43%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (5.43%) Java Engineer
9 5 (5.43%) Python Developer
9 5 (5.43%) Tester
10 4 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.35%) Senior Developer
11 3 (3.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (72.83%) Terraform
2 20 (21.74%) Kafka
2 20 (21.74%) REST
3 14 (15.22%) pytest
4 13 (14.13%) RESTful
5 12 (13.04%) Keycloak
5 12 (13.04%) RabbitMQ
5 12 (13.04%) React
6 11 (11.96%) Apache NiFi
6 11 (11.96%) Spring
6 11 (11.96%) Spring Boot
7 10 (10.87%) AngularJS
8 9 (9.78%) Node.js
8 9 (9.78%) Playwright
8 9 (9.78%) Vue
8 9 (9.78%) Web Services
9 7 (7.61%) YAML
10 6 (6.52%) FastAPI
11 5 (5.43%) Flask
11 5 (5.43%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.22%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (13.04%) Cloud Native
3 11 (11.96%) Onboarding
4 9 (9.78%) Replication
5 8 (8.70%) Product Ownership
6 4 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.17%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.17%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.17%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.09%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.09%) IoT
8 1 (1.09%) PKI
8 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 50 (54.35%) Linux
2 21 (22.83%) Windows
3 12 (13.04%) CentOS
4 7 (7.61%) Unix
5 6 (6.52%) Windows Server
6 4 (4.35%) Ubuntu
6 4 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.09%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (71.74%) CI/CD
1 66 (71.74%) DevOps
2 54 (58.70%) Infrastructure as Code
3 49 (53.26%) Agile
4 39 (42.39%) Test Automation
5 33 (35.87%) Containerisation
6 27 (29.35%) Observability
7 26 (28.26%) Software Engineering
8 25 (27.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 24 (26.09%) Collaborative Culture
10 21 (22.83%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (21.74%) Platform Engineering
12 18 (19.57%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (19.57%) Microservices
13 16 (17.39%) Secrets Management
14 15 (16.30%) Full-Stack Development
15 14 (15.22%) Scrum
16 13 (14.13%) Deployment Automation
17 12 (13.04%) Code Quality
17 12 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 62 (67.39%) Python
2 48 (52.17%) Bash
3 39 (42.39%) Java
4 26 (28.26%) JavaScript
5 21 (22.83%) PowerShell
6 16 (17.39%) Rust
6 16 (17.39%) SQL
7 13 (14.13%) Groovy
8 10 (10.87%) C#
9 9 (9.78%) C++
9 9 (9.78%) Go
9 9 (9.78%) TypeScript
10 7 (7.61%) Shell Script
10 7 (7.61%) VBA
11 4 (4.35%) PL/SQL
12 2 (2.17%) Bicep
12 2 (2.17%) Perl
Qualifications
1 57 (61.96%) Security Cleared
2 32 (34.78%) SC Cleared
3 15 (16.30%) Degree
4 11 (11.96%) DV Cleared
5 9 (9.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (8.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (4.35%) OCP
7 4 (4.35%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (2.17%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.17%) RHCSA
9 1 (1.09%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (16.30%) QA
2 3 (3.26%) NIST
3 2 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.17%) Def Stans
3 2 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.09%) GDPR
4 1 (1.09%) HIPAA
System Software
1 63 (68.48%) Docker
2 12 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (7.61%) vSphere
4 6 (6.52%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (6.52%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.09%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.09%) Firmware
5 1 (1.09%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 69 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 62 (67.39%) Grafana
3 49 (53.26%) Ansible
4 39 (42.39%) Prometheus
5 25 (27.17%) Kibana
6 18 (19.57%) logstash
7 10 (10.87%) vCenter Server
8 9 (9.78%) Rancher
9 7 (7.61%) Puppet
10 4 (4.35%) Argo
10 4 (4.35%) Nessus
10 4 (4.35%) Packer
10 4 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (3.26%) Control-M
11 3 (3.26%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (1.09%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 16 (17.39%) Red Hat
2 15 (16.30%) Splunk
2 15 (16.30%) VMware
3 10 (10.87%) Microsoft
4 9 (9.78%) Atlassian
4 9 (9.78%) Dynatrace
4 9 (9.78%) ServiceNow
5 8 (8.70%) AppDynamics
5 8 (8.70%) IBM
6 7 (7.61%) Oracle
7 1 (1.09%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.09%) Google
7 1 (1.09%) Pega
7 1 (1.09%) Percona
7 1 (1.09%) Sparx
7 1 (1.09%) WSO2
7 1 (1.09%) YouTube