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 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 511 549 504
Rank change year-on-year +38 -45 +151
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 98 126 170
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.25% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.58% 1.18% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 64 72 113
10th Percentile £52,400 £50,000 £51,300
25th Percentile £55,000 £70,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £107,500 £97,313 £83,750
90th Percentile £111,250 £105,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -9.68%

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 6,220 10,716 11,393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.93% 21.56% 24.98%
Number of salaries quoted 4,793 6,372 9,541
10th Percentile £35,854 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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 29 December 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 29 December 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 +14 51 £95,000 - 28
North of England +12 24 £60,000 -20.00% 59
South East +26 10 £41,000 -47.44% 55
Yorkshire +2 10 £65,000 - 23
North West +23 9 £60,000 -20.00% 24
South West +3 8 £42,750 -50.15% 33
Midlands - 6 £55,200 - 48
North East +15 5 £57,600 -8.93% 12
West Midlands - 4 £57,100 - 30
East Midlands - 2 £55,200 - 16
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 (13.27%) OpenStack
2 12 (12.24%) Confluence
3 6 (6.12%) Apache
4 5 (5.10%) Apache Spark
5 2 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (2.04%) JBoss
5 2 (2.04%) Luigi
5 2 (2.04%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (9.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (9.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 70 (71.43%) AWS
2 35 (35.71%) Azure
3 24 (24.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 22 (22.45%) GitHub
5 20 (20.41%) Serverless
6 19 (19.39%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (17.35%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (15.31%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (15.31%) GCP
9 14 (14.29%) Amazon S3
9 14 (14.29%) OpenShift
10 12 (12.24%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (9.18%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (9.18%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (9.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (7.14%) Pulumi
13 6 (6.12%) Datadog
14 4 (4.08%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.14%) Broadband
2 6 (6.12%) DNS
2 6 (6.12%) Firewall
2 6 (6.12%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.08%) HTTP
4 3 (3.06%) VPN
5 2 (2.04%) SAN
5 2 (2.04%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (23.47%) SQL Server
3 22 (22.45%) Relational Database
4 16 (16.33%) NoSQL
5 13 (13.27%) DB2
6 7 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (7.14%) RDBMS
7 5 (5.10%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (3.06%) CockroachDB
9 2 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (2.04%) DynamoDB
9 2 (2.04%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (2.04%) Hadoop
9 2 (2.04%) InfluxDB
9 2 (2.04%) MongoDB
9 2 (2.04%) MySQL
9 2 (2.04%) Redis
10 1 (1.02%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 63 (64.29%) Jenkins
2 29 (29.59%) Git
3 27 (27.55%) GitLab
4 24 (24.49%) Selenium
5 23 (23.47%) Cucumber
6 20 (20.41%) JIRA
7 18 (18.37%) TeamCity
8 16 (16.33%) Bitbucket
9 13 (13.27%) JUnit
10 10 (10.20%) Artifactory
11 9 (9.18%) Jaeger
12 8 (8.16%) SonarQube
13 6 (6.12%) Robot Framework
13 6 (6.12%) Sonatype Nexus
14 5 (5.10%) CircleCI
14 5 (5.10%) Maven
15 4 (4.08%) TestRail
16 3 (3.06%) Gradle
16 3 (3.06%) JMeter
16 3 (3.06%) REST Assured
General
1 37 (37.76%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (17.35%) Finance
4 14 (14.29%) Banking
5 9 (9.18%) Public Sector
5 9 (9.18%) Telecoms
6 7 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (5.10%) Law
8 2 (2.04%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.04%) Retail
9 1 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.02%) Games
9 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (33.67%) Developer
2 25 (25.51%) Java Developer
3 22 (22.45%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (15.31%) Full-Stack Developer
5 14 (14.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 13 (13.27%) Platform Engineer
7 12 (12.24%) Senior
8 9 (9.18%) Lead
9 7 (7.14%) Agile Developer
9 7 (7.14%) Agile Java Developer
10 6 (6.12%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (6.12%) Senior Developer
10 6 (6.12%) Senior DevOps
10 6 (6.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 6 (6.12%) Software Developer
11 5 (5.10%) AWS Engineer
11 5 (5.10%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (5.10%) Senior Software Developer
11 5 (5.10%) Software Engineer
12 4 (4.08%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (25.51%) Node.js
2 23 (23.47%) React
3 21 (21.43%) Spring
3 21 (21.43%) Spring Boot
4 15 (15.31%) Kafka
5 14 (14.29%) REST
6 13 (13.27%) CSS
6 13 (13.27%) HTML
6 13 (13.27%) OpenTelemetry
6 13 (13.27%) RESTful
7 12 (12.24%) pytest
7 12 (12.24%) Web Services
8 11 (11.22%) Gherkin
9 9 (9.18%) Mustache
10 7 (7.14%) Django
10 7 (7.14%) Flask
11 5 (5.10%) AngularJS
12 4 (4.08%) Apache Camel
13 3 (3.06%) Express.js
13 3 (3.06%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (18.37%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (13.27%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.08%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.04%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.04%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (2.04%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (2.04%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.04%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.04%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.02%) Online Games
6 1 (1.02%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 45 (45.92%) Linux
2 23 (23.47%) Windows
3 14 (14.29%) Unix
4 5 (5.10%) Windows Server
5 4 (4.08%) Debian
5 4 (4.08%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.04%) CentOS
6 2 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (78.57%) CI/CD
2 67 (68.37%) DevOps
3 53 (54.08%) Agile
4 45 (45.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 41 (41.84%) Containerisation
6 38 (38.78%) Continuous Integration
7 34 (34.69%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (31.63%) Microservices
9 27 (27.55%) Test Automation
10 26 (26.53%) Scrum
11 24 (24.49%) Software Engineering
12 23 (23.47%) BDD
13 22 (22.45%) TDD
14 19 (19.39%) Full-Stack Development
15 18 (18.37%) Static Code Analysis
16 17 (17.35%) Continuous Improvement
16 17 (17.35%) Design Patterns
16 17 (17.35%) High Availability
17 15 (15.31%) Kanban
17 15 (15.31%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 60 (61.22%) Python
2 50 (51.02%) Java
3 44 (44.90%) Bash
4 38 (38.78%) JavaScript
5 28 (28.57%) SQL
6 17 (17.35%) Go
7 15 (15.31%) PowerShell
8 7 (7.14%) Delphi
9 5 (5.10%) C#
10 4 (4.08%) Groovy
10 4 (4.08%) TypeScript
11 3 (3.06%) RPG
12 2 (2.04%) Scala
12 2 (2.04%) Shell Script
13 1 (1.02%) Bicep
13 1 (1.02%) Perl
Qualifications
1 19 (19.39%) Security Cleared
2 14 (14.29%) Degree
2 14 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 13 (13.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (9.18%) AWS Certification
5 4 (4.08%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (2.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.04%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.04%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.02%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.10%) QA
2 1 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.02%) GDPR
2 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.02%) NIST
System Software
1 74 (75.51%) Docker
2 5 (5.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.08%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (2.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 79 (80.61%) Kubernetes
2 51 (52.04%) Terraform
3 49 (50.00%) Ansible
4 46 (46.94%) Grafana
5 43 (43.88%) Prometheus
6 11 (11.22%) Argo
7 7 (7.14%) Kustomize
8 6 (6.12%) Kibana
9 5 (5.10%) logstash
10 4 (4.08%) Puppet
11 3 (3.06%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (2.04%) Control-M
12 2 (2.04%) Nessus
12 2 (2.04%) Podman
12 2 (2.04%) Progress Chef
12 2 (2.04%) Sysdig
13 1 (1.02%) SCOM
Vendors
1 18 (18.37%) Splunk
2 13 (13.27%) Atlassian
2 13 (13.27%) Oracle
3 10 (10.20%) Google
4 9 (9.18%) VMware
5 4 (4.08%) Foundry
5 4 (4.08%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.08%) Palantir
5 4 (4.08%) Pega
5 4 (4.08%) WSO2
6 3 (3.06%) Dynatrace
6 3 (3.06%) IBM
6 3 (3.06%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.02%) BMC
7 1 (1.02%) LogRhythm
7 1 (1.02%) SolarWinds