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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 350 621 529
Rank change year-on-year +271 -92 +55
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 335 128 197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.78% 0.19% 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.75% 0.96% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 55 81 142
10th Percentile £46,750 £60,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £72,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £90,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% -20.59%
75th Percentile £81,875 £97,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £90,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -33.33% +38.46% -18.75%

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 7,051 13,352 14,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.34% 19.43% 27.05%
Number of salaries quoted 4,617 8,762 12,065
10th Percentile £38,750 £39,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £108,450
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -2.26% +2.31%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Elastic Stack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Elastic Stack 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 2025. 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
North of England +208 266 £60,000 -31.82% 12
North West +183 262 £60,000 -31.82% 7
London +51 42 £70,000 -30.00% 41
Midlands - 14 £58,000 - 11
East Midlands - 8 - - 5
East of England +2 6 £50,000 -35.48%
West Midlands - 6 £58,000 - 6
South East +37 3 - - 19
South West +24 2 - - 7
Yorkshire +13 2 £70,000 - 2
North East - 2 £60,000 - 3
Elastic Stack
UK

Elastic Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (1.19%) Apache
1 4 (1.19%) JBoss
1 4 (1.19%) WebSphere
2 3 (0.90%) Confluence
2 3 (0.90%) nginx
2 3 (0.90%) Tomcat
3 2 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.60%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.60%) Luigi
3 2 (0.60%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.30%) GemFire
Applications
1 3 (0.90%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.30%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 53 (15.82%) AWS
2 22 (6.57%) AWS CloudFormation
2 22 (6.57%) Azure
3 17 (5.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 15 (4.48%) GCP
4 15 (4.48%) Serverless
4 15 (4.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 14 (4.18%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (3.58%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (2.69%) Amazon S3
8 8 (2.39%) AWS CodeBuild
8 8 (2.39%) Route 53
9 7 (2.09%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (1.49%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (1.49%) OpenShift
11 4 (1.19%) AWS KMS
11 4 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.19%) GitHub
11 4 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 267 (79.70%) VPN
2 262 (78.21%) Cisco IOS
3 8 (2.39%) Network Security
4 5 (1.49%) Firewall
5 4 (1.19%) DNS
5 4 (1.19%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.90%) SSL
6 3 (0.90%) VLAN
7 2 (0.60%) Broadband
7 2 (0.60%) DHCP
7 2 (0.60%) HTTP
7 2 (0.60%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.18%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (2.69%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (2.09%) Relational Database
5 6 (1.79%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.49%) Redis
7 3 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.60%) Big Data
8 2 (0.60%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.60%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.60%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.30%) DB2
9 1 (0.30%) MySQL
9 1 (0.30%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 26 (7.76%) Jenkins
2 15 (4.48%) Git
3 14 (4.18%) GitLab
4 13 (3.88%) JIRA
5 8 (2.39%) Bitbucket
5 8 (2.39%) CircleCI
5 8 (2.39%) Maven
6 7 (2.09%) Artifactory
7 6 (1.79%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (1.49%) TeamCity
9 4 (1.19%) Ant
9 4 (1.19%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.19%) Postman
9 4 (1.19%) Selenium
10 3 (0.90%) JUnit
10 3 (0.90%) Mockito
10 3 (0.90%) TestNG
11 2 (0.60%) Jaeger
11 2 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 275 (82.09%) Analytical Skills
2 265 (79.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 31 (9.25%) Social Skills
4 15 (4.48%) Finance
5 7 (2.09%) Public Sector
6 4 (1.19%) Banking
7 3 (0.90%) Automotive
7 3 (0.90%) Law
7 3 (0.90%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.60%) Advertising
8 2 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.30%) Games
Job Titles
1 265 (79.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 24 (7.16%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (2.99%) AWS Engineer
4 8 (2.39%) Senior
5 7 (2.09%) AWS DevOps
5 7 (2.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 7 (2.09%) Lead
5 7 (2.09%) Platform Engineer
5 7 (2.09%) Senior DevOps
5 7 (2.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 6 (1.79%) Applications Support
6 6 (1.79%) Architect
6 6 (1.79%) Cloud Architect
6 6 (1.79%) Developer
7 5 (1.49%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (1.49%) Junior
7 5 (1.49%) Linux Engineer
8 4 (1.19%) AWS Architect
8 4 (1.19%) Linux DevOps Engineer
8 4 (1.19%) Linux Scripter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.37%) Kafka
2 8 (2.39%) REST
3 7 (2.09%) RESTful
4 5 (1.49%) Middleware
4 5 (1.49%) Mustache
4 5 (1.49%) Node.js
4 5 (1.49%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (1.49%) Spring
4 5 (1.49%) Spring Boot
4 5 (1.49%) Web Services
5 4 (1.19%) .NET
5 4 (1.19%) CSS
5 4 (1.19%) Gherkin
5 4 (1.19%) HTML
5 4 (1.19%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (1.19%) React
6 3 (0.90%) CSS3
6 3 (0.90%) Entity Framework
6 3 (0.90%) HTML5
6 3 (0.90%) JAX-RS
Miscellaneous
1 262 (78.21%) Cyberattack
2 10 (2.99%) Management Information System
3 6 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.19%) Cloud Native
4 4 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (0.90%) Data Centre
5 3 (0.90%) Life Science
6 2 (0.60%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (0.60%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (0.60%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (0.60%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.60%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.30%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.30%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.30%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.30%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.30%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 301 (89.85%) Linux
2 277 (82.69%) Windows
3 262 (78.21%) Android
4 11 (3.28%) Ubuntu
5 10 (2.99%) Debian
6 6 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.79%) Unix
6 6 (1.79%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.60%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 310 (92.54%) DevOps
2 290 (86.57%) Problem-Solving
3 270 (80.60%) Platform Engineering
4 267 (79.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 266 (79.40%) Storage Management
5 266 (79.40%) Task Automation
6 262 (78.21%) Line Management
6 262 (78.21%) Mathematics
6 262 (78.21%) Risk Management
7 49 (14.63%) CI/CD
8 36 (10.75%) Infrastructure as Code
9 31 (9.25%) Containerisation
10 20 (5.97%) Configuration Management
11 18 (5.37%) Agile
11 18 (5.37%) Continuous Integration
12 15 (4.48%) Mentoring
13 14 (4.18%) High Availability
13 14 (4.18%) Microservices
14 12 (3.58%) Incident Response
14 12 (3.58%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 306 (91.34%) Python
2 297 (88.66%) Bash
3 272 (81.19%) PowerShell
4 19 (5.67%) Java
5 11 (3.28%) SQL
6 8 (2.39%) Go
6 8 (2.39%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.79%) C#
8 4 (1.19%) Groovy
8 4 (1.19%) Perl
9 3 (0.90%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.90%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.60%) Scala
11 1 (0.30%) Bicep
11 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (5.37%) Security Cleared
2 13 (3.88%) SC Cleared
3 10 (2.99%) AWS Certification
3 10 (2.99%) Degree
4 9 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (1.79%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.60%) A+ Certification
7 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.60%) CISSP
7 2 (0.60%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.30%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.99%) GDPR
2 8 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.79%) HIPAA
4 4 (1.19%) NIST
4 4 (1.19%) SLA
5 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.60%) QA
5 2 (0.60%) SOC 2
System Software
1 313 (93.43%) Docker
2 264 (78.81%) vSphere
3 262 (78.21%) Hyper-V
3 262 (78.21%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 302 (90.15%) Terraform
2 296 (88.36%) Ansible
3 48 (14.33%) Kubernetes
4 39 (11.64%) Grafana
5 34 (10.15%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.39%) Puppet
7 7 (2.09%) Kibana
8 5 (1.49%) Kustomize
8 5 (1.49%) logstash
9 4 (1.19%) Argo
9 4 (1.19%) Podman
9 4 (1.19%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.90%) Packer
10 3 (0.90%) SCOM
11 2 (0.60%) Control-M
11 2 (0.60%) Graylog
11 2 (0.60%) Proxmox
12 1 (0.30%) Nagios
Vendors
1 286 (85.37%) Splunk
2 262 (78.21%) 3PAR
2 262 (78.21%) Cisco
2 262 (78.21%) Juniper
3 8 (2.39%) Google
4 6 (1.79%) Red Hat
5 5 (1.49%) Microsoft
5 5 (1.49%) VMware
6 4 (1.19%) LogRhythm
7 3 (0.90%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.90%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.60%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.60%) ArcSight
8 2 (0.60%) ESRI
8 2 (0.60%) Foundry
8 2 (0.60%) Palantir
8 2 (0.60%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.30%) Databricks
9 1 (0.30%) FXall
9 1 (0.30%) IBM