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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 650 345 661
Rank change year-on-year -305 +316 -133
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 91 345 110
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.098% 0.79% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.95% 4.47% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 51 58 81
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,125 £60,000
25th Percentile £54,375 £53,875 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £60,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -33.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £88,125 £83,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £60,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +29.17% -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 9,582 7,716 13,690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.32% 17.71% 18.79%
Number of salaries quoted 7,231 5,167 10,376
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,550
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -8.89%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -37 27 £50,000 - 5
London -71 27 £90,000 +28.57% 40
North of England -207 23 £62,500 +4.17% 8
South East -29 18 £82,500 -2.94% 4
North East -45 10 £47,500 -20.83% 2
Yorkshire -18 8 £65,000 -7.14% 2
North West -173 5 £58,750 -2.08% 4
West Midlands -32 2 £53,250 -8.19% 5
Midlands -49 2 £53,250 -8.19% 5
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 9 (9.89%) Apache
2 5 (5.49%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.10%) Confluence
3 1 (1.10%) JBoss
3 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 78 (85.71%) AWS
2 45 (49.45%) Azure
3 26 (28.57%) GCP
4 19 (20.88%) Amazon EKS
4 19 (20.88%) GitHub
4 19 (20.88%) Serverless
5 17 (18.68%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (18.68%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (16.48%) OpenShift
7 14 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (12.09%) Amazon S3
9 10 (10.99%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (10.99%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (9.89%) Datadog
11 7 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (5.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (5.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (4.40%) SaaS
14 2 (2.20%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.99%) Firewall
2 9 (9.89%) TCP/IP
3 8 (8.79%) DNS
3 8 (8.79%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.09%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (7.69%) InfluxDB
2 7 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 6 (6.59%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.40%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.30%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.30%) ZAP BI
6 2 (2.20%) Big Data
6 2 (2.20%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.10%) Db2
7 1 (1.10%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.10%) Redis
Development Applications
1 53 (58.24%) Jenkins
2 42 (46.15%) GitLab
3 25 (27.47%) Git
4 19 (20.88%) SonarQube
5 14 (15.38%) Cucumber
6 11 (12.09%) JIRA
7 10 (10.99%) Selenium
8 9 (9.89%) Cypress.io
9 7 (7.69%) CircleCI
9 7 (7.69%) Robot Framework
9 7 (7.69%) TestRail
10 6 (6.59%) Artifactory
11 5 (5.49%) Snyk
12 4 (4.40%) Bitbucket
12 4 (4.40%) JUnit
13 3 (3.30%) NUnit
13 3 (3.30%) Octopus Deploy
13 3 (3.30%) Postman
13 3 (3.30%) TeamCity
14 1 (1.10%) Gatling
General
1 20 (21.98%) Finance
2 19 (20.88%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.89%) Law
4 8 (8.79%) Telecoms
5 7 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.59%) Banking
7 3 (3.30%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.30%) Military
8 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.20%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.10%) Front Office
9 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 31 (34.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (19.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (17.58%) Developer
4 13 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (12.09%) AWS DevOps
5 11 (12.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 10 (10.99%) Java Developer
6 10 (10.99%) Software Engineer
7 8 (8.79%) Test Engineer
8 7 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (7.69%) Senior
9 6 (6.59%) Test Automation Engineer
10 5 (5.49%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (5.49%) Java Engineer
11 4 (4.40%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 4 (4.40%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (4.40%) DevOps Engineer - Fintech
11 4 (4.40%) Senior DevOps
11 4 (4.40%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.48%) REST
2 12 (13.19%) AngularJS
3 11 (12.09%) Kafka
3 11 (12.09%) pytest
3 11 (12.09%) React
3 11 (12.09%) Spring
3 11 (12.09%) Spring Boot
4 9 (9.89%) Apache NiFi
4 9 (9.89%) RabbitMQ
4 9 (9.89%) RESTful
5 8 (8.79%) Node.js
5 8 (8.79%) Vue
5 8 (8.79%) Web Services
6 6 (6.59%) Playwright
6 6 (6.59%) YAML
7 5 (5.49%) Jakarta EE
8 4 (4.40%) JMS
8 4 (4.40%) JPA
8 4 (4.40%) JSON
9 3 (3.30%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.48%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (13.19%) Cloud Native
3 11 (12.09%) Onboarding
4 8 (8.79%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.40%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.30%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (3.30%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.20%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.10%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.10%) IoT
8 1 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 43 (47.25%) Linux
2 19 (20.88%) Windows
3 11 (12.09%) CentOS
4 5 (5.49%) Windows Server
5 4 (4.40%) Ubuntu
5 4 (4.40%) Unix
5 4 (4.40%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.10%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (76.92%) DevOps
2 66 (72.53%) CI/CD
3 55 (60.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (50.55%) Containerisation
5 36 (39.56%) Agile
6 28 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (30.77%) Software Engineering
7 26 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 26 (28.57%) Test Automation
8 24 (26.37%) Microservices
9 21 (23.08%) Collaborative Culture
10 20 (21.98%) Observability
10 20 (21.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 19 (20.88%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (20.88%) Continuous Integration
12 16 (17.58%) Platform Engineering
13 15 (16.48%) Computer Science
13 15 (16.48%) Continuous Delivery
13 15 (16.48%) High Availability
14 14 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 64 (70.33%) Python
2 49 (53.85%) Bash
3 39 (42.86%) Java
4 21 (23.08%) Go
4 21 (23.08%) JavaScript
5 20 (21.98%) PowerShell
6 18 (19.78%) SQL
7 15 (16.48%) Rust
8 10 (10.99%) C#
9 8 (8.79%) C++
9 8 (8.79%) TypeScript
10 7 (7.69%) VBA
11 4 (4.40%) Groovy
11 4 (4.40%) PL/SQL
12 3 (3.30%) Shell Script
13 2 (2.20%) Bicep
13 2 (2.20%) Perl
Qualifications
1 42 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 21 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 18 (19.78%) Degree
4 12 (13.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (9.89%) DV Cleared
6 7 (7.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (3.30%) OCP
7 3 (3.30%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (2.20%) RHCSA
9 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.29%) QA
2 9 (9.89%) SOC 2
3 7 (7.69%) GDPR
4 6 (6.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (6.59%) PCI DSS
5 4 (4.40%) NIST
6 2 (2.20%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (2.20%) Def Stans
System Software
1 56 (61.54%) Docker
2 11 (12.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (7.69%) vSphere
4 6 (6.59%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (6.59%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.10%) Firmware
5 1 (1.10%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 71 (78.02%) Terraform
2 65 (71.43%) Kubernetes
3 61 (67.03%) Ansible
3 61 (67.03%) Grafana
4 39 (42.86%) Prometheus
5 23 (25.27%) Kibana
6 16 (17.58%) logstash
7 10 (10.99%) vCenter Server
8 7 (7.69%) Argo
9 5 (5.49%) Puppet
10 4 (4.40%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (4.40%) Nessus
10 4 (4.40%) Packer
10 4 (4.40%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (3.30%) Control-M
12 1 (1.10%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 15 (16.48%) Splunk
2 14 (15.38%) Red Hat
2 14 (15.38%) VMware
3 10 (10.99%) Microsoft
4 9 (9.89%) AppDynamics
4 9 (9.89%) Atlassian
5 8 (8.79%) IBM
5 8 (8.79%) Oracle
6 2 (2.20%) Pega
6 2 (2.20%) WSO2
7 1 (1.10%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.10%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.10%) Google
7 1 (1.10%) Percona