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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 667 341 628
Rank change year-on-year -326 +287 -91
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 86 337 123
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.086% 0.78% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.81% 4.39% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 42 56 82
10th Percentile £42,750 £46,875 £60,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £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 £90,000 £83,750 £97,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £60,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -33.33% +37.40%

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 10,648 7,683 14,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.64% 17.71% 21.14%
Number of salaries quoted 7,852 5,073 9,802
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £114,979
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -52 30 £50,000 - 7
London -59 28 £80,000 +14.29% 58
South East -21 18 £82,500 -2.94% 6
North of England -227 13 £70,000 +16.67% 3
Yorkshire -44 7 £73,750 +5.36%
North East -61 3 £70,000 +16.67% 2
North West -187 3 £70,000 +16.67% 1
East of England -31 2 £82,500 +65.00% 3
West Midlands -45 1 £44,000 -24.14% 9
Midlands -51 1 £44,000 -24.14% 10
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 (12.79%) Apache
2 7 (8.14%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.16%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.16%) Confluence
3 1 (1.16%) JBoss
3 1 (1.16%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (8.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 71 (82.56%) AWS
2 31 (36.05%) Azure
3 23 (26.74%) Amazon EKS
4 18 (20.93%) Serverless
5 17 (19.77%) OpenShift
6 13 (15.12%) GCP
7 12 (13.95%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (12.79%) Amazon S3
8 11 (12.79%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (12.79%) GitHub
9 9 (10.47%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (10.47%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (10.47%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (10.47%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (6.98%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 5 (5.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (4.65%) Datadog
12 4 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (4.65%) SaaS
12 4 (4.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.81%) TCP/IP
2 4 (4.65%) DNS
3 3 (3.49%) 4G
3 3 (3.49%) 5G
3 3 (3.49%) Firewall
3 3 (3.49%) HTTP
3 3 (3.49%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.28%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (13.95%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (11.63%) Redis
4 9 (10.47%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (9.30%) InfluxDB
6 6 (6.98%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (6.98%) Relational Database
7 5 (5.81%) MongoDB
8 4 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (4.65%) NoSQL
8 4 (4.65%) SQL Server
9 3 (3.49%) MySQL
9 3 (3.49%) ZAP BI
10 2 (2.33%) Big Data
11 1 (1.16%) Db2
11 1 (1.16%) Flink
11 1 (1.16%) Looker
11 1 (1.16%) Oracle Database
11 1 (1.16%) Power BI
11 1 (1.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 51 (59.30%) Jenkins
2 41 (47.67%) GitLab
3 33 (38.37%) Git
4 20 (23.26%) SonarQube
5 15 (17.44%) Cucumber
6 13 (15.12%) Selenium
7 11 (12.79%) JIRA
8 9 (10.47%) Cypress.io
9 8 (9.30%) Robot Framework
9 8 (9.30%) TestRail
10 6 (6.98%) Artifactory
11 5 (5.81%) Snyk
12 4 (4.65%) Bitbucket
12 4 (4.65%) JUnit
13 3 (3.49%) NUnit
13 3 (3.49%) Octopus Deploy
13 3 (3.49%) Postman
13 3 (3.49%) TeamCity
14 1 (1.16%) CircleCI
14 1 (1.16%) ER Studio
General
1 19 (22.09%) Finance
2 11 (12.79%) Social Skills
3 8 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.14%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.65%) Military
5 4 (4.65%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.49%) Banking
6 3 (3.49%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.33%) Law
8 1 (1.16%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.16%) Front Office
8 1 (1.16%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.16%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 24 (27.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (20.93%) Developer
3 17 (19.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (16.28%) AWS Engineer
5 12 (13.95%) AWS DevOps
5 12 (13.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 11 (12.79%) Software Engineer
7 9 (10.47%) Java Developer
7 9 (10.47%) Test Engineer
8 7 (8.14%) Senior
9 6 (6.98%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (6.98%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (6.98%) Test Automation Engineer
10 5 (5.81%) Java Engineer
10 5 (5.81%) Python Developer
11 4 (4.65%) Automation Tester
11 4 (4.65%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (4.65%) Senior Developer
11 4 (4.65%) Tester
12 3 (3.49%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (75.58%) Terraform
2 17 (19.77%) REST
3 16 (18.60%) Kafka
4 14 (16.28%) pytest
5 13 (15.12%) RESTful
6 12 (13.95%) RabbitMQ
7 11 (12.79%) Apache NiFi
8 10 (11.63%) AngularJS
8 10 (11.63%) React
9 9 (10.47%) Keycloak
9 9 (10.47%) Playwright
9 9 (10.47%) Spring
9 9 (10.47%) Spring Boot
9 9 (10.47%) Vue
10 7 (8.14%) Node.js
10 7 (8.14%) Web Services
11 6 (6.98%) FastAPI
11 6 (6.98%) YAML
12 5 (5.81%) Flask
12 5 (5.81%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.95%) Cloud Native
1 12 (13.95%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (12.79%) Onboarding
3 8 (9.30%) Product Ownership
4 6 (6.98%) Replication
5 4 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.33%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.33%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.33%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.16%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.16%) IoT
7 1 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 46 (53.49%) Linux
2 20 (23.26%) Windows
3 12 (13.95%) CentOS
4 5 (5.81%) Unix
4 5 (5.81%) Windows Server
5 4 (4.65%) Ubuntu
5 4 (4.65%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.16%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (74.42%) DevOps
2 62 (72.09%) CI/CD
3 52 (60.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (50.00%) Agile
5 35 (40.70%) Test Automation
6 33 (38.37%) Containerisation
7 26 (30.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 26 (30.23%) Software Engineering
8 24 (27.91%) Observability
9 23 (26.74%) Collaborative Culture
10 22 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (22.09%) Platform Engineering
12 17 (19.77%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (19.77%) Microservices
13 13 (15.12%) Full-Stack Development
13 13 (15.12%) Secrets Management
13 13 (15.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 12 (13.95%) Code Quality
14 12 (13.95%) Computer Science
14 12 (13.95%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 60 (69.77%) Python
2 46 (53.49%) Bash
3 37 (43.02%) Java
4 24 (27.91%) JavaScript
5 19 (22.09%) PowerShell
6 16 (18.60%) Rust
6 16 (18.60%) SQL
7 10 (11.63%) C#
7 10 (11.63%) Go
7 10 (11.63%) Groovy
8 9 (10.47%) C++
8 9 (10.47%) TypeScript
9 7 (8.14%) VBA
10 6 (6.98%) Shell Script
11 4 (4.65%) PL/SQL
12 2 (2.33%) Bicep
12 2 (2.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 52 (60.47%) Security Cleared
2 29 (33.72%) SC Cleared
3 15 (17.44%) Degree
4 10 (11.63%) DV Cleared
5 9 (10.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (9.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (4.65%) OCP
7 4 (4.65%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (2.33%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.33%) RHCSA
9 1 (1.16%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (17.44%) QA
2 4 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.49%) NIST
3 3 (3.49%) SOC 2
4 2 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.33%) Def Stans
4 2 (2.33%) GDPR
5 1 (1.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.16%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 59 (68.60%) Docker
2 11 (12.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (8.14%) vSphere
4 6 (6.98%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (6.98%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.16%) Firmware
5 1 (1.16%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 65 (75.58%) Kubernetes
2 57 (66.28%) Grafana
3 49 (56.98%) Ansible
4 35 (40.70%) Prometheus
5 24 (27.91%) Kibana
6 17 (19.77%) logstash
7 10 (11.63%) vCenter Server
8 6 (6.98%) Argo
8 6 (6.98%) Puppet
8 6 (6.98%) Rancher
9 4 (4.65%) Nessus
9 4 (4.65%) Packer
9 4 (4.65%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (3.49%) Control-M
10 3 (3.49%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (1.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 16 (18.60%) Red Hat
2 15 (17.44%) Splunk
3 14 (16.28%) VMware
4 10 (11.63%) Microsoft
5 9 (10.47%) Atlassian
6 8 (9.30%) AppDynamics
6 8 (9.30%) IBM
7 7 (8.14%) Oracle
8 6 (6.98%) Dynatrace
8 6 (6.98%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.16%) Cloudera
9 1 (1.16%) Google
9 1 (1.16%) Pega
9 1 (1.16%) Percona
9 1 (1.16%) Sparx
9 1 (1.16%) WSO2