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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 599 323 690
Rank change year-on-year -276 +367 -137
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 105 350 165
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.13% 0.89% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.24% 4.48% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 53 59 126
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,950 £56,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £54,250 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -25.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £86,250 £86,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,500 £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 8,496 7,804 17,893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.40% 19.87% 19.23%
Number of salaries quoted 6,453 5,237 14,525
10th Percentile £40,625 £38,795 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,367 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +10.61% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,253 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -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 10 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 10 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 -26 39 £90,000 +20.00% 11
North of England -191 32 £47,500 -20.83% 6
South East -6 20 £82,500 -2.94% 4
South West -36 19 £45,000 -50.00% 5
North East -30 14 £47,500 -19.15% 1
Yorkshire -34 13 £63,750 -8.93% 2
North West -162 5 £47,500 -20.83% 3
Midlands -27 2 £62,500 +9.65%
West Midlands -23 1 £62,500 +9.65%
East Midlands -30 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 8 (7.62%) Apache
2 7 (6.67%) OpenStack
3 5 (4.76%) Confluence
4 1 (0.95%) JBoss
4 1 (0.95%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.95%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 91 (86.67%) AWS
2 49 (46.67%) Azure
3 35 (33.33%) GCP
4 24 (22.86%) Serverless
5 20 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (19.05%) GitHub
6 18 (17.14%) Amazon EKS
6 18 (17.14%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (17.14%) Pulumi
7 11 (10.48%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (10.48%) Amazon S3
7 11 (10.48%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (9.52%) Datadog
8 10 (9.52%) OpenShift
9 7 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (4.76%) SaaS
12 4 (3.81%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (17.14%) Broadband
1 18 (17.14%) Firewall
2 16 (15.24%) DNS
2 16 (15.24%) HTTP
3 15 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (26.67%) Relational Database
2 27 (25.71%) NoSQL
3 18 (17.14%) RDBMS
4 11 (10.48%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (4.76%) InfluxDB
6 5 (4.76%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.86%) Big Data
8 2 (1.90%) CockroachDB
8 2 (1.90%) Db2
9 1 (0.95%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.95%) MySQL
9 1 (0.95%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 60 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 31 (29.52%) GitLab
3 21 (20.00%) Git
4 18 (17.14%) Jaeger
4 18 (17.14%) SonarQube
5 15 (14.29%) JIRA
6 14 (13.33%) Cucumber
7 10 (9.52%) CircleCI
8 8 (7.62%) Selenium
9 6 (5.71%) Artifactory
9 6 (5.71%) Bitbucket
9 6 (5.71%) Cypress.io
9 6 (5.71%) Robot Framework
10 5 (4.76%) TestRail
11 4 (3.81%) TeamCity
12 3 (2.86%) JUnit
12 3 (2.86%) Octopus Deploy
13 2 (1.90%) Checkstyle
13 2 (1.90%) JMeter
13 2 (1.90%) Maven
General
1 20 (19.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 20 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 16 (15.24%) Finance
2 16 (15.24%) Telecoms
3 15 (14.29%) Law
4 7 (6.67%) Banking
4 7 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.81%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.86%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.90%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.95%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 35 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (17.14%) Lead
3 17 (16.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 16 (15.24%) Cloud Engineer
4 16 (15.24%) Developer
5 14 (13.33%) Java Developer
6 10 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
7 9 (8.57%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 8 (7.62%) AWS DevOps
8 8 (7.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 8 (7.62%) Senior
8 8 (7.62%) Software Engineer
9 7 (6.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer - Fintech
10 6 (5.71%) Team Leader
11 5 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (4.76%) Test Engineer
12 4 (3.81%) Java Engineer
12 4 (3.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 4 (3.81%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (19.05%) REST
2 18 (17.14%) OpenTelemetry
3 15 (14.29%) Kafka
3 15 (14.29%) Spring
3 15 (14.29%) Spring Boot
4 12 (11.43%) React
5 11 (10.48%) Web Services
6 10 (9.52%) AngularJS
7 9 (8.57%) Node.js
8 8 (7.62%) Apache NiFi
8 8 (7.62%) RabbitMQ
8 8 (7.62%) Vue
9 6 (5.71%) YAML
10 5 (4.76%) Mustache
11 4 (3.81%) Java EE
11 4 (3.81%) JMS
11 4 (3.81%) JPA
11 4 (3.81%) JSON
11 4 (3.81%) pytest
11 4 (3.81%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.19%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (5.71%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.81%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.86%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.86%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.90%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.90%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 48 (45.71%) Linux
2 21 (20.00%) Unix
3 18 (17.14%) Windows
4 9 (8.57%) CentOS
5 5 (4.76%) Windows Server
6 4 (3.81%) Ubuntu
6 4 (3.81%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (78.10%) DevOps
2 67 (63.81%) Infrastructure as Code
3 66 (62.86%) CI/CD
4 60 (57.14%) Containerisation
5 53 (50.48%) Agile
6 47 (44.76%) Continuous Integration
7 44 (41.90%) High Availability
8 28 (26.67%) Microservices
9 27 (25.71%) Mentoring
10 25 (23.81%) Continuous Delivery
11 23 (21.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 23 (21.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 22 (20.95%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (20.95%) Software Engineering
13 21 (20.00%) GitOps
14 20 (19.05%) Task Automation
14 20 (19.05%) Test Automation
15 19 (18.10%) DevSecOps
15 19 (18.10%) Performance Optimisation
15 19 (18.10%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 75 (71.43%) Python
2 68 (64.76%) Bash
3 55 (52.38%) Java
4 44 (41.90%) Go
5 36 (34.29%) JavaScript
6 24 (22.86%) SQL
7 17 (16.19%) PowerShell
8 9 (8.57%) Rust
9 6 (5.71%) C++
9 6 (5.71%) TypeScript
10 5 (4.76%) C#
11 4 (3.81%) Groovy
11 4 (3.81%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.90%) Bicep
12 2 (1.90%) Perl
12 2 (1.90%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.90%) VBA
13 1 (0.95%) Ruby
13 1 (0.95%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (29.52%) Security Cleared
2 18 (17.14%) AWS Certification
3 14 (13.33%) SC Cleared
4 10 (9.52%) Degree
4 10 (9.52%) DV Cleared
5 7 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (4.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.95%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.43%) SOC 2
2 10 (9.52%) GDPR
2 10 (9.52%) QA
3 9 (8.57%) PCI DSS
4 6 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.90%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.95%) NIST
System Software
1 65 (61.90%) Docker
2 9 (8.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (6.67%) vSphere
4 4 (3.81%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.95%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.95%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 82 (78.10%) Terraform
2 80 (76.19%) Ansible
3 72 (68.57%) Kubernetes
4 55 (52.38%) Prometheus
5 54 (51.43%) Grafana
6 21 (20.00%) Argo
7 18 (17.14%) Kibana
7 18 (17.14%) Kustomize
8 11 (10.48%) logstash
9 8 (7.62%) vCenter Server
10 4 (3.81%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (3.81%) Nessus
10 4 (3.81%) Packer
10 4 (3.81%) Puppet
10 4 (3.81%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (2.86%) Control-M
Vendors
1 21 (20.00%) Google
2 12 (11.43%) Splunk
2 12 (11.43%) VMware
3 10 (9.52%) Microsoft
4 9 (8.57%) AppDynamics
4 9 (8.57%) Atlassian
4 9 (8.57%) Oracle
4 9 (8.57%) Red Hat
5 8 (7.62%) IBM
6 2 (1.90%) Pega
6 2 (1.90%) WSO2
7 1 (0.95%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.95%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.95%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.95%) Workday