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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 593 315 704
Rank change year-on-year -278 +389 -159
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 111 351 157
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.13% 0.88% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.26% 4.50% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 56 61 120
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -25.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -25.00% +14.29%

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 8,782 7,804 18,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.49% 19.61% 19.28%
Number of salaries quoted 6,697 5,253 14,834
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,838 £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 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -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 June 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 June 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 -38 42 £86,250 +7.81% 16
North of England -185 32 £47,500 -20.83% 6
South West -42 23 £45,000 -50.00% 15
South East -14 19 £82,500 -2.94% 5
Yorkshire -28 13 £63,750 -8.93%
North East -40 13 £47,500 -19.15%
North West -161 6 £47,500 -20.83% 6
Midlands -37 2 £62,500 +9.65%
West Midlands -22 1 £62,500 +9.65%
East Midlands -39 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 10 (9.01%) Apache
2 6 (5.41%) OpenStack
3 4 (3.60%) Confluence
4 1 (0.90%) JBoss
4 1 (0.90%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 5 (4.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 98 (88.29%) AWS
2 49 (44.14%) Azure
3 34 (30.63%) GCP
4 24 (21.62%) Serverless
5 21 (18.92%) GitHub
6 20 (18.02%) Pulumi
7 19 (17.12%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (17.12%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (16.22%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (11.71%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (9.91%) Amazon S3
10 11 (9.91%) OpenShift
11 10 (9.01%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (9.01%) Datadog
12 8 (7.21%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (6.31%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (4.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (4.50%) SaaS
15 4 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
16 3 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (16.22%) Broadband
2 17 (15.32%) Firewall
3 15 (13.51%) DNS
3 15 (13.51%) HTTP
4 14 (12.61%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (24.32%) NoSQL
1 27 (24.32%) Relational Database
2 18 (16.22%) RDBMS
3 9 (8.11%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (5.41%) InfluxDB
5 4 (3.60%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.70%) Big Data
7 2 (1.80%) CockroachDB
8 1 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.90%) Db2
8 1 (0.90%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.90%) MySQL
8 1 (0.90%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 62 (55.86%) Jenkins
2 37 (33.33%) GitLab
3 21 (18.92%) Git
4 20 (18.02%) SonarQube
5 18 (16.22%) Jaeger
6 15 (13.51%) Cucumber
7 14 (12.61%) JIRA
8 10 (9.01%) CircleCI
9 8 (7.21%) Selenium
10 7 (6.31%) Cypress.io
10 7 (6.31%) Robot Framework
11 6 (5.41%) Artifactory
11 6 (5.41%) TestRail
12 5 (4.50%) Bitbucket
13 3 (2.70%) JUnit
13 3 (2.70%) Octopus Deploy
13 3 (2.70%) TeamCity
14 2 (1.80%) Checkstyle
14 2 (1.80%) JMeter
14 2 (1.80%) Maven
General
1 20 (18.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 19 (17.12%) Social Skills
3 17 (15.32%) Finance
4 15 (13.51%) Telecoms
5 14 (12.61%) Law
6 7 (6.31%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.41%) Banking
8 5 (4.50%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (2.70%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.80%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.90%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 37 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (17.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 18 (16.22%) Cloud Engineer
3 18 (16.22%) Lead
4 15 (13.51%) Developer
5 12 (10.81%) AWS Engineer
5 12 (10.81%) Java Developer
6 10 (9.01%) AWS DevOps
6 10 (9.01%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 9 (8.11%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 9 (8.11%) Software Engineer
8 8 (7.21%) Senior
9 7 (6.31%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (6.31%) DevOps Engineer - Fintech
10 6 (5.41%) Team Leader
10 6 (5.41%) Test Engineer
11 5 (4.50%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (4.50%) Test Automation Engineer
12 4 (3.60%) Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (3.60%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (17.12%) REST
2 18 (16.22%) OpenTelemetry
3 14 (12.61%) Kafka
3 14 (12.61%) Spring
3 14 (12.61%) Spring Boot
4 10 (9.01%) Apache NiFi
4 10 (9.01%) React
4 10 (9.01%) Web Services
5 9 (8.11%) AngularJS
5 9 (8.11%) Vue
6 8 (7.21%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (6.31%) Node.js
8 6 (5.41%) pytest
8 6 (5.41%) YAML
9 5 (4.50%) Playwright
10 4 (3.60%) JMS
10 4 (3.60%) JPA
10 4 (3.60%) JSON
10 4 (3.60%) Mustache
10 4 (3.60%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.41%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (8.11%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.41%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.41%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.70%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (2.70%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.80%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.80%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 53 (47.75%) Linux
2 21 (18.92%) Unix
3 19 (17.12%) Windows
4 10 (9.01%) CentOS
5 5 (4.50%) Windows Server
6 4 (3.60%) Ubuntu
6 4 (3.60%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (80.18%) DevOps
2 74 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 69 (62.16%) CI/CD
4 65 (58.56%) Containerisation
5 55 (49.55%) Agile
6 45 (40.54%) Continuous Integration
7 43 (38.74%) High Availability
8 27 (24.32%) Mentoring
8 27 (24.32%) Microservices
8 27 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (22.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 25 (22.52%) Software Engineering
10 24 (21.62%) Continuous Delivery
11 22 (19.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 21 (18.92%) GitOps
12 21 (18.92%) Test Automation
13 20 (18.02%) Task Automation
14 19 (17.12%) Performance Optimisation
14 19 (17.12%) Resource Management
15 18 (16.22%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 83 (74.77%) Python
2 75 (67.57%) Bash
3 57 (51.35%) Java
4 44 (39.64%) Go
5 36 (32.43%) JavaScript
6 23 (20.72%) SQL
7 20 (18.02%) PowerShell
8 13 (11.71%) Rust
9 8 (7.21%) C#
10 7 (6.31%) C++
10 7 (6.31%) TypeScript
11 5 (4.50%) VBA
12 4 (3.60%) Groovy
12 4 (3.60%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.80%) Bicep
13 2 (1.80%) Perl
13 2 (1.80%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.90%) Ruby
14 1 (0.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 18 (16.22%) AWS Certification
3 16 (14.41%) SC Cleared
4 13 (11.71%) Degree
5 11 (9.91%) DV Cleared
6 10 (9.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (5.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.90%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.90%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.81%) SOC 2
2 10 (9.01%) GDPR
2 10 (9.01%) QA
3 9 (8.11%) PCI DSS
4 6 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.80%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.90%) NIST
System Software
1 69 (62.16%) Docker
2 10 (9.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (6.31%) vSphere
4 5 (4.50%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (3.60%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.90%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 90 (81.08%) Terraform
2 85 (76.58%) Ansible
3 77 (69.37%) Kubernetes
4 61 (54.95%) Grafana
5 59 (53.15%) Prometheus
6 23 (20.72%) Argo
7 21 (18.92%) Kibana
8 18 (16.22%) Kustomize
9 14 (12.61%) logstash
10 9 (8.11%) vCenter Server
11 4 (3.60%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (3.60%) Nessus
11 4 (3.60%) Packer
11 4 (3.60%) Puppet
11 4 (3.60%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (2.70%) Control-M
Vendors
1 21 (18.92%) Google
2 16 (14.41%) Splunk
3 13 (11.71%) VMware
4 10 (9.01%) Microsoft
4 10 (9.01%) Red Hat
5 9 (8.11%) AppDynamics
5 9 (8.11%) Atlassian
5 9 (8.11%) Oracle
6 8 (7.21%) IBM
7 2 (1.80%) Pega
7 2 (1.80%) WSO2
8 1 (0.90%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.90%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.90%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.90%) Workday