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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 526 500 601
Rank change year-on-year -26 +101 -13
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 120 98 192
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.18% 0.27% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.68% 1.22% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 67 62 143
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £60,000 £65,450
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,515 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.65% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £88,750 £87,188 £95,000
90th Percentile £108,000 £95,625 £100,000
UK median annual salary £67,758 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.66% -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 7,162 8,048 16,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.51% 21.86% 21.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,452 5,950 13,789
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,975 £36,250
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -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 25 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 25 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 -17 54 £90,000 +12.50% 13
North of England -31 37 £47,500 -36.67% 12
Yorkshire -25 16 £61,250 - 4
South West -28 15 £42,750 -52.50% 3
North East -15 14 £47,500 -22.45% 5
South East -36 10 £41,000 -47.44% 12
North West -30 7 £47,500 -36.67% 3
Midlands - 6 £55,200 - 1
West Midlands - 4 £58,850 -
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 14 (11.67%) OpenStack
2 12 (10.00%) Confluence
3 5 (4.17%) Apache
4 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (5.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (5.83%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 97 (80.83%) AWS
2 54 (45.00%) Azure
3 38 (31.67%) GCP
4 37 (30.83%) GitHub
5 26 (21.67%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (20.83%) Serverless
7 23 (19.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 22 (18.33%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (15.83%) Pulumi
10 18 (15.00%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (12.50%) Datadog
12 14 (11.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (11.67%) Amazon ECS
12 14 (11.67%) OpenShift
13 10 (8.33%) Amazon S3
14 7 (5.83%) Amazon SQS
15 2 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
15 2 (1.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 2 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
15 2 (1.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (17.50%) Firewall
2 19 (15.83%) Broadband
2 19 (15.83%) HTTP
3 18 (15.00%) DNS
3 18 (15.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.83%) SAN
4 1 (0.83%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (29.17%) NoSQL
2 33 (27.50%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (27.50%) Relational Database
3 19 (15.83%) RDBMS
3 19 (15.83%) SQL Server
4 11 (9.17%) DB2
5 5 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (3.33%) CockroachDB
6 4 (3.33%) InfluxDB
7 3 (2.50%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.50%) MySQL
8 2 (1.67%) Big Data
8 2 (1.67%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 85 (70.83%) Jenkins
2 38 (31.67%) GitLab
3 26 (21.67%) Git
4 25 (20.83%) Selenium
5 24 (20.00%) Cucumber
6 21 (17.50%) Jaeger
7 17 (14.17%) JIRA
8 14 (11.67%) Bitbucket
8 14 (11.67%) JUnit
8 14 (11.67%) TeamCity
9 11 (9.17%) CircleCI
9 11 (9.17%) SonarQube
10 9 (7.50%) Robot Framework
11 6 (5.00%) Artifactory
11 6 (5.00%) TestRail
12 5 (4.17%) JMeter
13 4 (3.33%) Cypress.io
13 4 (3.33%) TestNG
14 3 (2.50%) Eclipse
14 3 (2.50%) Gradle
General
1 40 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 23 (19.17%) Telecoms
3 19 (15.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (15.00%) Law
5 15 (12.50%) Banking
6 13 (10.83%) Finance
7 12 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (4.17%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.67%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.67%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (31.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 33 (27.50%) Developer
3 24 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 21 (17.50%) Lead
5 16 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 16 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
6 15 (12.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 13 (10.83%) Senior
8 10 (8.33%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 9 (7.50%) AWS DevOps
10 8 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (5.83%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 7 (5.83%) DevOps Engineer - Fintech
11 7 (5.83%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (5.83%) Senior Developer
11 7 (5.83%) Software Developer
11 7 (5.83%) Team Leader
12 6 (5.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (5.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (20.00%) Spring
1 24 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 23 (19.17%) Node.js
3 21 (17.50%) OpenTelemetry
3 21 (17.50%) React
4 19 (15.83%) Kafka
5 16 (13.33%) REST
6 14 (11.67%) pytest
7 13 (10.83%) Web Services
8 11 (9.17%) CSS
8 11 (9.17%) HTML
8 11 (9.17%) RESTful
9 9 (7.50%) Gherkin
9 9 (7.50%) Mustache
10 7 (5.83%) AngularJS
10 7 (5.83%) Django
10 7 (5.83%) Flask
11 5 (4.17%) Apache Camel
12 4 (3.33%) Apache NiFi
12 4 (3.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.17%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (9.17%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (5.83%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.33%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.50%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.67%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 45 (37.50%) Linux
2 27 (22.50%) Unix
3 15 (12.50%) Windows
4 4 (3.33%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (79.17%) DevOps
2 90 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 70 (58.33%) Containerisation
3 70 (58.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (53.33%) Agile
5 61 (50.83%) Continuous Integration
6 51 (42.50%) High Availability
7 40 (33.33%) Microservices
8 36 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
9 34 (28.33%) Mentoring
10 31 (25.83%) Static Code Analysis
10 31 (25.83%) Test Automation
11 29 (24.17%) Software Engineering
12 27 (22.50%) Continuous Delivery
12 27 (22.50%) Task Automation
13 26 (21.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 24 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
14 24 (20.00%) Scrum
15 23 (19.17%) BDD
16 22 (18.33%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 84 (70.00%) Python
2 75 (62.50%) Bash
3 65 (54.17%) Java
4 53 (44.17%) JavaScript
5 49 (40.83%) Go
6 31 (25.83%) SQL
7 16 (13.33%) PowerShell
8 7 (5.83%) Delphi
9 5 (4.17%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.50%) C#
10 3 (2.50%) RPG
11 2 (1.67%) Groovy
11 2 (1.67%) Rust
11 2 (1.67%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.83%) C++
12 1 (0.83%) Ruby
12 1 (0.83%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (15.83%) AWS Certification
2 18 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 11 (9.17%) Degree
4 10 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (8.33%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (1.67%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.17%) SOC 2
2 10 (8.33%) GDPR
3 9 (7.50%) PCI DSS
4 6 (5.00%) QA
5 3 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.83%) NIST
System Software
1 86 (71.67%) Docker
2 2 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.83%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 90 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 81 (67.50%) Terraform
3 76 (63.33%) Ansible
4 66 (55.00%) Prometheus
5 65 (54.17%) Grafana
6 23 (19.17%) Argo
7 19 (15.83%) Kustomize
8 7 (5.83%) Kibana
8 7 (5.83%) logstash
9 2 (1.67%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (1.67%) Nessus
9 2 (1.67%) Sysdig
9 2 (1.67%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.83%) Control-M
10 1 (0.83%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (17.50%) Google
2 18 (15.00%) Splunk
3 15 (12.50%) Oracle
4 13 (10.83%) Atlassian
5 5 (4.17%) Pega
5 5 (4.17%) VMware
5 5 (4.17%) WSO2
6 4 (3.33%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.50%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.50%) IBM
8 1 (0.83%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.83%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.83%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.83%) Workday