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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 551 518 656
Rank change year-on-year -33 +138 -60
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 125 95 160
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.16% 0.25% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.61% 1.27% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 64 61 123
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £56,250 £71,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,258 £65,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% -18.75% +7.38%
75th Percentile £86,250 £88,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,125 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - -18.75% +10.34%

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 7,779 7,468 16,968
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.73% 19.74% 20.33%
Number of salaries quoted 5,877 5,762 14,133
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 1 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 1 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 -39 48 £90,000 +44.00% 8
North of England -35 39 £47,500 -32.14% 3
South West -34 22 £42,750 -52.50% 4
South East -22 19 £82,500 +5.77% 5
Yorkshire -41 19 £63,750 -
North East -25 14 £47,500 -17.39% 3
North West -29 6 £47,500 -36.67%
Midlands -35 5 £55,200 - 1
West Midlands -28 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 13 (10.40%) Confluence
2 12 (9.60%) OpenStack
3 8 (6.40%) Apache
4 1 (0.80%) JBoss
4 1 (0.80%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (5.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (5.60%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 105 (84.00%) AWS
2 49 (39.20%) 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 10 (8.00%) 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 21 (16.80%) Firewall
2 19 (15.20%) Broadband
2 19 (15.20%) HTTP
3 18 (14.40%) DNS
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 30 (24.00%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (15.20%) RDBMS
5 18 (14.40%) SQL Server
6 10 (8.00%) 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 90 (72.00%) Jenkins
2 42 (33.60%) GitLab
3 35 (28.00%) Git
4 31 (24.80%) Cucumber
5 25 (20.00%) Selenium
6 23 (18.40%) JIRA
7 19 (15.20%) Jaeger
8 18 (14.40%) SonarQube
9 14 (11.20%) Bitbucket
10 13 (10.40%) JUnit
11 10 (8.00%) CircleCI
11 10 (8.00%) TeamCity
12 9 (7.20%) Robot Framework
13 7 (5.60%) TestRail
14 6 (4.80%) Cypress.io
15 4 (3.20%) Artifactory
15 4 (3.20%) JMeter
15 4 (3.20%) TestNG
16 3 (2.40%) REST Assured
17 2 (1.60%) Postman
General
1 36 (28.80%) 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 14 (11.20%) 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 34 (27.20%) Developer
3 25 (20.00%) 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%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (20.80%) Spring
1 26 (20.80%) Spring Boot
2 25 (20.00%) REST
3 24 (19.20%) React
4 20 (16.00%) Kafka
4 20 (16.00%) Node.js
5 19 (15.20%) OpenTelemetry
6 15 (12.00%) Web Services
7 14 (11.20%) pytest
8 12 (9.60%) RESTful
9 10 (8.00%) CSS
9 10 (8.00%) Gherkin
9 10 (8.00%) HTML
9 10 (8.00%) Mustache
10 9 (7.20%) AngularJS
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 9 (7.20%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (6.40%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (4.80%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.20%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.20%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.40%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.60%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.60%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.80%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 44 (35.20%) Linux
2 24 (19.20%) Unix
3 12 (9.60%) Windows
4 6 (4.80%) CentOS
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 67 (53.60%) Agile
6 63 (50.40%) Continuous Integration
7 48 (38.40%) High Availability
8 45 (36.00%) Microservices
9 37 (29.60%) Test Automation
10 34 (27.20%) Mentoring
11 33 (26.40%) Problem-Solving
11 33 (26.40%) Software Engineering
12 29 (23.20%) Static Code Analysis
13 28 (22.40%) Continuous Delivery
14 27 (21.60%) Scrum
15 25 (20.00%) BDD
15 25 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 23 (18.40%) TDD
17 22 (17.60%) Full-Stack Development
17 22 (17.60%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 89 (71.20%) Python
2 76 (60.80%) Bash
3 75 (60.00%) Java
4 53 (42.40%) JavaScript
5 49 (39.20%) Go
6 32 (25.60%) 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 3 (2.40%) RPG
13 2 (1.60%) Bicep
13 2 (1.60%) Perl
13 2 (1.60%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.80%) T-SQL
14 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 88 (70.40%) Docker
2 4 (3.20%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (3.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.80%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 91 (72.80%) Kubernetes
2 83 (66.40%) Terraform
3 81 (64.80%) Ansible
4 65 (52.00%) Grafana
5 59 (47.20%) 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%) vCenter Server
11 3 (2.40%) Puppet
12 2 (1.60%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.80%) Control-M
13 1 (0.80%) Nessus
Vendors
1 21 (16.80%) Google
2 18 (14.40%) Oracle
3 16 (12.80%) Splunk
4 14 (11.20%) Atlassian
5 11 (8.80%) IBM
6 9 (7.20%) AppDynamics
7 6 (4.80%) Red Hat
8 5 (4.00%) VMware
9 2 (1.60%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.60%) Microsoft
9 2 (1.60%) Pega
9 2 (1.60%) WSO2
10 1 (0.80%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.80%) Workday