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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 517 582 493
Rank change year-on-year +65 -89 +181
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 91 133 173
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.23% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.47% 1.08% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 66 82 120
10th Percentile £51,075 £51,000 £51,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £70,000 £56,569
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -15.15%
75th Percentile £101,250 £97,438 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,625 £104,500 £95,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -12.50%

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 6,184 12,283 12,070
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.16% 20.95% 26.50%
Number of salaries quoted 4,669 7,444 10,004
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £110,000
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

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 30 November 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 30 November 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
London +39 48 £85,000 -15.00% 12
North of England +53 22 £60,000 -20.00% 11
North West +48 11 £60,000 -20.00% 5
South East +40 9 £41,000 -47.44% 13
Midlands - 7 £55,200 - 11
Yorkshire +12 6 £62,500 - 4
West Midlands - 6 £56,100 - 10
North East +14 5 £60,000 -14.29% 2
South West +6 4 £42,750 -46.56% 8
East of England +31 1 £50,000 -
East Midlands - 1 £55,200 - 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 (8.79%) OpenStack
2 7 (7.69%) Apache
2 7 (7.69%) Confluence
3 5 (5.49%) Apache Spark
4 3 (3.30%) JBoss
4 3 (3.30%) WebSphere
5 2 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (2.20%) Luigi
Applications
1 6 (6.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (6.59%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.10%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 66 (72.53%) AWS
2 37 (40.66%) Azure
3 27 (29.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 23 (25.27%) AWS CloudFormation
5 20 (21.98%) GitHub
6 17 (18.68%) GCP
7 15 (16.48%) OpenShift
7 15 (16.48%) Serverless
8 12 (13.19%) Amazon ECS
8 12 (13.19%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (12.09%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (12.09%) Amazon S3
9 11 (12.09%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (12.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 8 (8.79%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (8.79%) Datadog
11 7 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (6.59%) AWS CodeBuild
12 6 (6.59%) Route 53
13 4 (4.40%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.59%) Firewall
2 5 (5.49%) DNS
2 5 (5.49%) TCP/IP
3 3 (3.30%) HTTP
3 3 (3.30%) SAN
3 3 (3.30%) VPN
4 2 (2.20%) Network Security
4 2 (2.20%) SSL
5 1 (1.10%) Broadband
5 1 (1.10%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (30.77%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (21.98%) SQL Server
3 13 (14.29%) Relational Database
4 10 (10.99%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (9.89%) DB2
5 9 (9.89%) NoSQL
6 5 (5.49%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (5.49%) Redis
7 2 (2.20%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (2.20%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.20%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (2.20%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.20%) InfluxDB
7 2 (2.20%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.20%) MySQL
8 1 (1.10%) Big Data
8 1 (1.10%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 55 (60.44%) Jenkins
2 28 (30.77%) GitLab
3 24 (26.37%) Git
4 19 (20.88%) Selenium
5 18 (19.78%) JIRA
6 17 (18.68%) Cucumber
7 15 (16.48%) Bitbucket
7 15 (16.48%) TeamCity
8 12 (13.19%) Artifactory
9 10 (10.99%) JUnit
10 8 (8.79%) SonarQube
11 7 (7.69%) CircleCI
11 7 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (6.59%) Robot Framework
13 5 (5.49%) Maven
14 4 (4.40%) TestRail
15 3 (3.30%) Ant
15 3 (3.30%) Jaeger
15 3 (3.30%) JMeter
15 3 (3.30%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 37 (40.66%) Social Skills
2 19 (20.88%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (17.58%) Finance
4 10 (10.99%) Banking
4 10 (10.99%) Public Sector
5 8 (8.79%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.40%) Law
7 2 (2.20%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Automotive
8 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Games
8 1 (1.10%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (29.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (27.47%) Developer
3 17 (18.68%) Java Developer
4 13 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
5 12 (13.19%) Senior
6 8 (8.79%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (8.79%) Full-Stack Developer
6 8 (8.79%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 7 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
7 7 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Agile Developer
8 6 (6.59%) Agile Java Developer
8 6 (6.59%) AWS DevOps
8 6 (6.59%) Software Developer
9 5 (5.49%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Senior Developer
9 5 (5.49%) Senior Software Developer
9 5 (5.49%) Software Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (18.68%) Node.js
2 15 (16.48%) Spring
2 15 (16.48%) Spring Boot
3 14 (15.38%) React
4 11 (12.09%) Kafka
5 10 (10.99%) CSS
5 10 (10.99%) HTML
5 10 (10.99%) pytest
5 10 (10.99%) RESTful
6 8 (8.79%) REST
6 8 (8.79%) Web Services
7 7 (7.69%) Django
7 7 (7.69%) Flask
7 7 (7.69%) Gherkin
7 7 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (4.40%) AngularJS
8 4 (4.40%) Apache Camel
8 4 (4.40%) Mustache
9 3 (3.30%) Express.js
9 3 (3.30%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (9.89%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (6.59%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (6.59%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.40%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.30%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (3.30%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.20%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.20%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (2.20%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (2.20%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.20%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (2.20%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.20%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.20%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.10%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 47 (51.65%) Linux
2 25 (27.47%) Windows
3 9 (9.89%) Unix
4 6 (6.59%) Debian
4 6 (6.59%) Ubuntu
5 5 (5.49%) Windows Server
6 3 (3.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (2.20%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (78.02%) CI/CD
2 63 (69.23%) DevOps
3 44 (48.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 39 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (40.66%) Agile
6 36 (39.56%) Containerisation
7 31 (34.07%) Continuous Integration
8 23 (25.27%) Microservices
9 21 (23.08%) Software Engineering
9 21 (23.08%) Test Automation
10 18 (19.78%) Configuration Management
10 18 (19.78%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (18.68%) BDD
11 17 (18.68%) Scrum
11 17 (18.68%) TDD
12 16 (17.58%) Root Cause Analysis
13 15 (16.48%) Observability
14 14 (15.38%) Computer Science
15 13 (14.29%) Incident Response
15 13 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 56 (61.54%) Python
2 41 (45.05%) Bash
3 33 (36.26%) Java
4 22 (24.18%) JavaScript
5 21 (23.08%) SQL
6 16 (17.58%) PowerShell
7 11 (12.09%) Go
8 7 (7.69%) Delphi
9 5 (5.49%) C#
9 5 (5.49%) Groovy
10 4 (4.40%) Shell Script
11 3 (3.30%) TypeScript
12 2 (2.20%) RPG
12 2 (2.20%) Scala
13 1 (1.10%) Bicep
13 1 (1.10%) Perl
13 1 (1.10%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (24.18%) Security Cleared
2 15 (16.48%) Degree
3 14 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (15.38%) DV Cleared
4 7 (7.69%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.30%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (2.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (2.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.20%) CISSP
6 2 (2.20%) CompTIA CySA+
6 2 (2.20%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.30%) QA
2 1 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.10%) GDPR
2 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.10%) NIST
System Software
1 66 (72.53%) Docker
2 6 (6.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.40%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (3.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 70 (76.92%) Kubernetes
2 52 (57.14%) Grafana
2 52 (57.14%) Terraform
3 46 (50.55%) Ansible
4 41 (45.05%) Prometheus
5 8 (8.79%) Kibana
6 7 (7.69%) logstash
7 5 (5.49%) Argo
7 5 (5.49%) Puppet
8 4 (4.40%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (3.30%) Control-M
9 3 (3.30%) Podman
10 2 (2.20%) Nessus
10 2 (2.20%) Progress Chef
10 2 (2.20%) Sysdig
11 1 (1.10%) Kustomize
11 1 (1.10%) Nagios
11 1 (1.10%) SCOM
Vendors
1 22 (24.18%) Splunk
2 11 (12.09%) Atlassian
3 10 (10.99%) Oracle
3 10 (10.99%) VMware
4 5 (5.49%) Dynatrace
4 5 (5.49%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.40%) Foundry
5 4 (4.40%) Google
5 4 (4.40%) Palantir
5 4 (4.40%) Pega
5 4 (4.40%) WSO2
6 3 (3.30%) IBM
6 3 (3.30%) LogRhythm
6 3 (3.30%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.20%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.10%) BMC
8 1 (1.10%) SolarWinds