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 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 549 530 671
Rank change year-on-year -19 +141 -91
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 125 95 158
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.16% 0.25% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.60% 1.27% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 64 61 122
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £56,250 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,258 £60,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.76% -25.00% +6.67%
75th Percentile £86,250 £88,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,125 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -25.00% +8.84%

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 7,801 7,487 16,947
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.70% 19.71% 20.30%
Number of salaries quoted 5,897 5,743 14,121
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,750 £51,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,254 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,064
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -23 48 £90,000 +50.00% 9
North of England -31 39 £47,500 -26.92% 3
South West -35 22 £42,750 -52.50% 4
South East -20 19 £82,500 +5.77% 5
Yorkshire - 19 £63,750 -
North East -22 14 £47,500 -17.39% 3
North West -19 6 £47,500 -36.67%
Midlands -31 5 £55,200 - 1
West Midlands -19 3 £55,200 - 1
East Midlands - 2 £55,200 -
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 (9.60%) Confluence
1 12 (9.60%) OpenStack
2 8 (6.40%) Apache
3 1 (0.80%) JBoss
3 1 (0.80%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (4.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (4.80%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 106 (84.80%) AWS
2 50 (40.00%) Azure
3 35 (28.00%) GCP
4 32 (25.60%) GitHub
5 30 (24.00%) Serverless
6 24 (19.20%) Amazon EKS
6 24 (19.20%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (18.40%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (15.20%) Pulumi
9 16 (12.80%) Amazon ECS
10 15 (12.00%) Amazon S3
10 15 (12.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (12.00%) OpenShift
11 12 (9.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (8.80%) Datadog
13 7 (5.60%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (5.60%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (5.60%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (2.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 2 (1.60%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 22 (17.60%) Firewall
2 19 (15.20%) Broadband
2 19 (15.20%) DNS
2 19 (15.20%) HTTP
3 18 (14.40%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.80%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (27.20%) Relational Database
2 31 (24.80%) NoSQL
3 29 (23.20%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (15.20%) RDBMS
5 17 (13.60%) SQL Server
6 9 (7.20%) DB2
7 7 (5.60%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (4.80%) InfluxDB
9 4 (3.20%) CockroachDB
10 3 (2.40%) Big Data
11 2 (1.60%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (1.60%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.60%) MySQL
12 1 (0.80%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 89 (71.20%) Jenkins
2 42 (33.60%) GitLab
3 35 (28.00%) Git
4 30 (24.00%) Cucumber
5 24 (19.20%) Selenium
6 22 (17.60%) JIRA
7 19 (15.20%) Jaeger
8 18 (14.40%) SonarQube
9 13 (10.40%) Bitbucket
9 13 (10.40%) JUnit
10 10 (8.00%) CircleCI
11 9 (7.20%) Robot Framework
11 9 (7.20%) TeamCity
12 7 (5.60%) TestRail
13 6 (4.80%) Cypress.io
14 4 (3.20%) Artifactory
14 4 (3.20%) JMeter
14 4 (3.20%) TestNG
15 3 (2.40%) REST Assured
16 2 (1.60%) Postman
General
1 35 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 19 (15.20%) Telecoms
3 18 (14.40%) Law
4 16 (12.80%) Finance
5 13 (10.40%) Banking
6 9 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (5.60%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.60%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.60%) Retail
9 1 (0.80%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 38 (30.40%) DevOps Engineer
2 33 (26.40%) Developer
3 24 (19.20%) Java Developer
4 21 (16.80%) Lead
5 17 (13.60%) Cloud Engineer
6 14 (11.20%) Senior
7 12 (9.60%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (9.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (8.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 10 (8.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 9 (7.20%) Software Engineer
10 8 (6.40%) AWS DevOps
10 8 (6.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 7 (5.60%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (5.60%) DevOps Engineer - Fintech
11 7 (5.60%) Senior Developer
11 7 (5.60%) Software Developer
11 7 (5.60%) Team Leader
12 6 (4.80%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (20.80%) Spring
1 26 (20.80%) Spring Boot
2 25 (20.00%) REST
3 23 (18.40%) React
4 20 (16.00%) Kafka
5 19 (15.20%) Node.js
5 19 (15.20%) OpenTelemetry
6 15 (12.00%) Web Services
7 14 (11.20%) pytest
8 11 (8.80%) RESTful
9 10 (8.00%) Mustache
10 9 (7.20%) AngularJS
10 9 (7.20%) CSS
10 9 (7.20%) Gherkin
10 9 (7.20%) HTML
10 9 (7.20%) RabbitMQ
11 8 (6.40%) Apache NiFi
11 8 (6.40%) Vue
12 7 (5.60%) Django
12 7 (5.60%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 22 (17.60%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (6.40%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (6.40%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (4.80%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.00%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.20%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.40%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.60%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.60%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.80%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 45 (36.00%) Linux
2 24 (19.20%) Unix
3 13 (10.40%) Windows
4 6 (4.80%) CentOS
5 1 (0.80%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (78.40%) DevOps
2 92 (73.60%) CI/CD
3 74 (59.20%) Containerisation
4 72 (57.60%) Infrastructure as Code
5 66 (52.80%) Agile
6 62 (49.60%) Continuous Integration
7 48 (38.40%) High Availability
8 44 (35.20%) Microservices
9 36 (28.80%) Test Automation
10 34 (27.20%) Mentoring
11 33 (26.40%) Problem-Solving
12 32 (25.60%) Software Engineering
13 28 (22.40%) Continuous Delivery
13 28 (22.40%) Static Code Analysis
14 26 (20.80%) Scrum
15 25 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 24 (19.20%) BDD
17 23 (18.40%) TDD
18 22 (17.60%) GitOps
18 22 (17.60%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 89 (71.20%) Python
2 76 (60.80%) Bash
3 74 (59.20%) Java
4 52 (41.60%) JavaScript
5 49 (39.20%) Go
6 31 (24.80%) SQL
7 14 (11.20%) PowerShell
8 8 (6.40%) TypeScript
9 7 (5.60%) Delphi
9 7 (5.60%) Rust
10 5 (4.00%) C++
11 4 (3.20%) C#
11 4 (3.20%) Groovy
11 4 (3.20%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.60%) Bicep
12 2 (1.60%) Perl
12 2 (1.60%) RPG
12 2 (1.60%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.80%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.80%) VBA
Qualifications
1 29 (23.20%) Security Cleared
2 19 (15.20%) AWS Certification
3 9 (7.20%) DV Cleared
4 8 (6.40%) SC Cleared
5 7 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.60%) Degree
6 6 (4.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.80%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.80%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.40%) QA
2 12 (9.60%) SOC 2
3 10 (8.00%) GDPR
4 9 (7.20%) PCI DSS
5 4 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.80%) NIST
System Software
1 87 (69.60%) Docker
2 5 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.20%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.80%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.80%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 90 (72.00%) Kubernetes
2 84 (67.20%) Terraform
3 82 (65.60%) Ansible
4 65 (52.00%) Grafana
5 60 (48.00%) Prometheus
6 23 (18.40%) Argo
7 19 (15.20%) Kustomize
8 18 (14.40%) Kibana
9 11 (8.80%) logstash
10 4 (3.20%) Packer
10 4 (3.20%) Puppet
10 4 (3.20%) vCenter Server
11 2 (1.60%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.80%) Control-M
12 1 (0.80%) Nessus
Vendors
1 21 (16.80%) Google
2 18 (14.40%) Oracle
3 16 (12.80%) Splunk
4 13 (10.40%) Atlassian
5 10 (8.00%) IBM
6 9 (7.20%) AppDynamics
7 6 (4.80%) Red Hat
7 6 (4.80%) VMware
8 2 (1.60%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.60%) Microsoft
8 2 (1.60%) Pega
8 2 (1.60%) WSO2
9 1 (0.80%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.80%) Workday