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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 661 342 646
Rank change year-on-year -319 +304 -94
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 83 341 113
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.086% 0.78% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.77% 4.23% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 42 60 79
10th Percentile £45,125 £47,375 £60,000
25th Percentile £60,406 £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 £97,375
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £101,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £60,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -33.33% +33.33%

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 10,775 8,055 14,954
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.18% 18.41% 20.48%
Number of salaries quoted 8,030 5,396 10,829
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +8.00% -7.41%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -46 28 £50,000 - 10
London -77 24 £90,000 +28.57% 55
South East -22 18 £82,500 -2.94% 6
North of England -222 17 £70,000 +16.67% 9
Yorkshire -32 7 £73,750 +5.36% 1
North East -58 6 £58,750 -2.08% 1
North West -184 4 £70,000 +16.67% 7
East of England -30 1 £82,500 +65.00% 1
West Midlands -34 1 £44,000 -24.14% 1
Midlands -48 1 £44,000 -24.14% 2
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 10 (12.05%) Apache
2 6 (7.23%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.20%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.20%) Confluence
3 1 (1.20%) JBoss
3 1 (1.20%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (8.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 69 (83.13%) AWS
2 36 (43.37%) Azure
3 18 (21.69%) Amazon EKS
3 18 (21.69%) Serverless
4 17 (20.48%) GCP
4 17 (20.48%) OpenShift
5 13 (15.66%) GitHub
6 12 (14.46%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (14.46%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (13.25%) Amazon S3
7 11 (13.25%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (12.05%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (10.84%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (9.64%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (8.43%) Datadog
12 5 (6.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (4.82%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (4.82%) SaaS
13 4 (4.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 2 (2.41%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.02%) Firewall
1 5 (6.02%) TCP/IP
2 4 (4.82%) DNS
2 4 (4.82%) HTTP
3 1 (1.20%) 4G
3 1 (1.20%) 5G
3 1 (1.20%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.25%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (9.64%) InfluxDB
3 7 (8.43%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (8.43%) Relational Database
4 5 (6.02%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.82%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (4.82%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.61%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.61%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.61%) ZAP BI
7 2 (2.41%) Big Data
7 2 (2.41%) Redis
8 1 (1.20%) Db2
8 1 (1.20%) Flink
8 1 (1.20%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.20%) Looker
8 1 (1.20%) MySQL
8 1 (1.20%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.20%) Power BI
8 1 (1.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 47 (56.63%) Jenkins
2 40 (48.19%) GitLab
3 26 (31.33%) Git
4 19 (22.89%) SonarQube
5 14 (16.87%) Cucumber
6 11 (13.25%) JIRA
6 11 (13.25%) Selenium
7 9 (10.84%) Cypress.io
8 8 (9.64%) Robot Framework
8 8 (9.64%) TestRail
9 6 (7.23%) Artifactory
10 5 (6.02%) Snyk
11 4 (4.82%) Bitbucket
11 4 (4.82%) CircleCI
11 4 (4.82%) JUnit
12 3 (3.61%) NUnit
12 3 (3.61%) Octopus Deploy
12 3 (3.61%) Postman
12 3 (3.61%) TeamCity
13 1 (1.20%) ER Studio
General
1 19 (22.89%) Finance
2 14 (16.87%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.43%) Public Sector
4 6 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.23%) Banking
5 4 (4.82%) Law
5 4 (4.82%) Military
5 4 (4.82%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.61%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.41%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.20%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.20%) Front Office
8 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 23 (27.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (20.48%) Developer
2 17 (20.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (13.25%) AWS Engineer
4 10 (12.05%) Java Developer
4 10 (12.05%) Software Engineer
5 9 (10.84%) AWS DevOps
5 9 (10.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 8 (9.64%) Test Engineer
7 6 (7.23%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (7.23%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (7.23%) Senior
7 6 (7.23%) Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (6.02%) Java Engineer
8 5 (6.02%) Tester
9 4 (4.82%) Automation Tester
9 4 (4.82%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (3.61%) Service Desk Support
10 3 (3.61%) Service Desk Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (75.90%) Terraform
2 16 (19.28%) REST
3 12 (14.46%) pytest
4 11 (13.25%) AngularJS
4 11 (13.25%) Kafka
4 11 (13.25%) RESTful
5 10 (12.05%) Apache NiFi
5 10 (12.05%) RabbitMQ
5 10 (12.05%) React
5 10 (12.05%) Spring
5 10 (12.05%) Spring Boot
6 8 (9.64%) Node.js
6 8 (9.64%) Vue
6 8 (9.64%) Web Services
7 7 (8.43%) Playwright
8 6 (7.23%) YAML
9 5 (6.02%) Jakarta EE
10 4 (4.82%) JMS
10 4 (4.82%) JPA
10 4 (4.82%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.87%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (14.46%) Cloud Native
3 11 (13.25%) Onboarding
4 8 (9.64%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.82%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.61%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.41%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.41%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.20%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.20%) IoT
8 1 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 44 (53.01%) Linux
2 20 (24.10%) Windows
3 12 (14.46%) CentOS
4 5 (6.02%) Windows Server
5 4 (4.82%) Ubuntu
5 4 (4.82%) Unix
5 4 (4.82%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.20%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (72.29%) DevOps
2 57 (68.67%) CI/CD
3 48 (57.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (45.78%) Containerisation
5 37 (44.58%) Agile
6 27 (32.53%) Test Automation
7 25 (30.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 25 (30.12%) Software Engineering
8 24 (28.92%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (26.51%) Collaborative Culture
10 21 (25.30%) Microservices
11 19 (22.89%) Observability
12 17 (20.48%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (18.07%) Platform Engineering
14 14 (16.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 13 (15.66%) Deployment Automation
15 13 (15.66%) Full-Stack Development
16 12 (14.46%) Code Quality
16 12 (14.46%) Computer Science
17 11 (13.25%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 55 (66.27%) Python
2 41 (49.40%) Bash
3 37 (44.58%) Java
4 22 (26.51%) JavaScript
5 19 (22.89%) PowerShell
6 17 (20.48%) SQL
7 15 (18.07%) Rust
8 14 (16.87%) Go
9 10 (12.05%) C#
10 8 (9.64%) C++
10 8 (9.64%) TypeScript
11 7 (8.43%) VBA
12 4 (4.82%) Groovy
12 4 (4.82%) PL/SQL
12 4 (4.82%) Shell Script
13 2 (2.41%) Bicep
13 2 (2.41%) Perl
Qualifications
1 44 (53.01%) Security Cleared
2 22 (26.51%) SC Cleared
3 15 (18.07%) Degree
4 10 (12.05%) DV Cleared
5 9 (10.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (9.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (4.82%) OCP
7 4 (4.82%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (2.41%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.41%) RHCSA
9 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.46%) QA
2 6 (7.23%) SOC 2
3 5 (6.02%) GDPR
4 4 (4.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (4.82%) PCI DSS
5 3 (3.61%) NIST
6 2 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (2.41%) Def Stans
7 1 (1.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (1.20%) HIPAA
System Software
1 54 (65.06%) Docker
2 11 (13.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (8.43%) vSphere
4 6 (7.23%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (7.23%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.20%) Firmware
5 1 (1.20%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 62 (74.70%) Kubernetes
2 53 (63.86%) Ansible
2 53 (63.86%) Grafana
3 31 (37.35%) Prometheus
4 23 (27.71%) Kibana
5 16 (19.28%) logstash
6 10 (12.05%) vCenter Server
7 6 (7.23%) Argo
8 5 (6.02%) Puppet
9 4 (4.82%) Nessus
9 4 (4.82%) Packer
9 4 (4.82%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (3.61%) Control-M
10 3 (3.61%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (1.20%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 16 (19.28%) Red Hat
2 15 (18.07%) Splunk
3 14 (16.87%) VMware
4 10 (12.05%) Microsoft
5 9 (10.84%) AppDynamics
5 9 (10.84%) Atlassian
6 8 (9.64%) IBM
7 7 (8.43%) Oracle
8 2 (2.41%) Pega
8 2 (2.41%) WSO2
9 1 (1.20%) Cloudera
9 1 (1.20%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.20%) Google
9 1 (1.20%) Percona
9 1 (1.20%) Sparx