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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 508 593
Rank change year-on-year -8 +85 -2
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 124 102 191
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.26% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.80% 1.16% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 71 57 140
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £56,125
25th Percentile £46,875 £60,000 £65,675
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £97,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +6.67%

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 6,907 8,816 16,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.70% 22.39% 21.82%
Number of salaries quoted 5,257 6,061 13,621
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -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 11 March 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 11 March 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 +2 59 £85,000 +6.25% 10
North of England -11 36 £47,500 -36.67% 9
North East -6 15 £47,500 -22.45% 5
South West -6 15 £42,750 -49.71% 1
Yorkshire -25 15 £60,000 - 3
South East -19 10 £41,000 -47.44% 6
North West -13 6 £47,500 -36.67% 1
Midlands - 6 £55,200 - 4
West Midlands - 4 £58,850 - 3
East Midlands - 2 £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 13 (10.48%) Confluence
1 13 (10.48%) OpenStack
2 7 (5.65%) Apache
3 3 (2.42%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.61%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (6.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 8 (6.45%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 98 (79.03%) AWS
2 55 (44.35%) Azure
3 37 (29.84%) GCP
4 36 (29.03%) GitHub
5 25 (20.16%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (18.55%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (18.55%) Serverless
7 22 (17.74%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (15.32%) Pulumi
9 16 (12.90%) Amazon EKS
10 15 (12.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (11.29%) OpenShift
12 13 (10.48%) Amazon ECS
12 13 (10.48%) Datadog
13 10 (8.06%) Amazon S3
14 7 (5.65%) Amazon SQS
15 3 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
16 2 (1.61%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 2 (1.61%) Logz.io
16 2 (1.61%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 21 (16.94%) Firewall
2 19 (15.32%) Broadband
2 19 (15.32%) HTTP
3 18 (14.52%) DNS
3 18 (14.52%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.61%) SAN
4 2 (1.61%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (26.61%) NoSQL
1 33 (26.61%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (25.81%) Relational Database
3 21 (16.94%) SQL Server
4 19 (15.32%) RDBMS
5 12 (9.68%) DB2
6 7 (5.65%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (3.23%) CockroachDB
7 4 (3.23%) InfluxDB
8 3 (2.42%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.42%) MySQL
9 2 (1.61%) Big Data
9 2 (1.61%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (1.61%) Redis
10 1 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 83 (66.94%) Jenkins
2 36 (29.03%) GitLab
3 26 (20.97%) Git
3 26 (20.97%) Selenium
4 25 (20.16%) Cucumber
5 21 (16.94%) Jaeger
6 19 (15.32%) JIRA
7 16 (12.90%) Bitbucket
7 16 (12.90%) TeamCity
8 14 (11.29%) JUnit
9 12 (9.68%) SonarQube
10 9 (7.26%) CircleCI
10 9 (7.26%) Robot Framework
11 8 (6.45%) Artifactory
12 6 (4.84%) TestRail
13 5 (4.03%) JMeter
14 4 (3.23%) Cypress.io
14 4 (3.23%) Gradle
14 4 (3.23%) Maven
14 4 (3.23%) TestNG
General
1 41 (33.06%) Social Skills
2 23 (18.55%) Telecoms
3 19 (15.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (14.52%) Law
5 15 (12.10%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (11.29%) Banking
7 13 (10.48%) Finance
8 7 (5.65%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.61%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (30.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 33 (26.61%) Developer
3 24 (19.35%) Java Developer
4 21 (16.94%) Lead
5 15 (12.10%) Cloud Engineer
5 15 (12.10%) Full-Stack Developer
6 14 (11.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 12 (9.68%) Senior
8 10 (8.06%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 8 (6.45%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (5.65%) AWS DevOps
10 7 (5.65%) Senior Developer
10 7 (5.65%) Software Developer
10 7 (5.65%) Software Engineer
10 7 (5.65%) Team Leader
11 6 (4.84%) Agile Developer
11 6 (4.84%) Agile Java Developer
11 6 (4.84%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (4.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (4.84%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (18.55%) Node.js
1 23 (18.55%) OpenTelemetry
1 23 (18.55%) Spring
1 23 (18.55%) Spring Boot
2 22 (17.74%) React
3 17 (13.71%) Kafka
4 15 (12.10%) REST
5 14 (11.29%) pytest
6 12 (9.68%) CSS
6 12 (9.68%) HTML
6 12 (9.68%) RESTful
6 12 (9.68%) Web Services
7 10 (8.06%) Gherkin
8 9 (7.26%) Mustache
9 7 (5.65%) Django
9 7 (5.65%) Flask
10 6 (4.84%) AngularJS
11 4 (3.23%) Apache Camel
11 4 (3.23%) Apache NiFi
11 4 (3.23%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.52%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (9.68%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (5.65%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.23%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.42%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.61%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.61%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.81%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.81%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 51 (41.13%) Linux
2 27 (21.77%) Unix
3 18 (14.52%) Windows
4 4 (3.23%) CentOS
5 2 (1.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (76.61%) DevOps
2 93 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 72 (58.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 71 (57.26%) Containerisation
5 66 (53.23%) Agile
6 63 (50.81%) Continuous Integration
7 51 (41.13%) High Availability
8 38 (30.65%) Microservices
8 38 (30.65%) Problem-Solving
9 32 (25.81%) Mentoring
9 32 (25.81%) Software Engineering
9 32 (25.81%) Static Code Analysis
9 32 (25.81%) Test Automation
10 27 (21.77%) Task Automation
11 25 (20.16%) Continuous Delivery
11 25 (20.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 24 (19.35%) Scrum
13 23 (18.55%) BDD
13 23 (18.55%) Full-Stack Development
14 22 (17.74%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 86 (69.35%) Python
2 74 (59.68%) Bash
3 66 (53.23%) Java
4 53 (42.74%) JavaScript
5 48 (38.71%) Go
6 32 (25.81%) SQL
7 17 (13.71%) PowerShell
8 7 (5.65%) Delphi
9 5 (4.03%) TypeScript
10 4 (3.23%) C#
11 3 (2.42%) RPG
11 3 (2.42%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.61%) Groovy
12 2 (1.61%) Rust
13 1 (0.81%) C++
13 1 (0.81%) Ruby
13 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (16.94%) Security Cleared
2 19 (15.32%) AWS Certification
3 14 (11.29%) Degree
4 13 (10.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (10.48%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (1.61%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.61%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.45%) GDPR
1 8 (6.45%) SOC 2
2 7 (5.65%) PCI DSS
3 6 (4.84%) QA
4 2 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.81%) NIST
System Software
1 87 (70.16%) Docker
2 5 (4.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 91 (73.39%) Kubernetes
2 82 (66.13%) Terraform
3 78 (62.90%) Ansible
4 69 (55.65%) Prometheus
5 67 (54.03%) Grafana
6 23 (18.55%) Argo
7 19 (15.32%) Kustomize
8 9 (7.26%) Kibana
8 9 (7.26%) logstash
9 3 (2.42%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (1.61%) Control-M
10 2 (1.61%) Nessus
10 2 (1.61%) Sysdig
10 2 (1.61%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.81%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (17.74%) Google
2 18 (14.52%) Splunk
3 15 (12.10%) Atlassian
3 15 (12.10%) Oracle
4 8 (6.45%) VMware
5 4 (3.23%) Dynatrace
5 4 (3.23%) Pega
5 4 (3.23%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.23%) WSO2
6 3 (2.42%) IBM
7 2 (1.61%) Foundry
7 2 (1.61%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.61%) Palantir
8 1 (0.81%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.81%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.81%) Workday