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

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 581 503
Rank change year-on-year +270 -78 +152
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 346 129 187
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.78% 0.21% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.25% 1.05% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 65 77 131
10th Percentile £47,500 £60,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £72,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £90,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +33.33% -20.59%
75th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £116,500 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £90,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -22.22% +38.46% -18.75%

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 6,596 12,271 12,951
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.94% 20.33% 27.04%
Number of salaries quoted 4,604 7,332 10,601
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £111,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -1.52% +1.54%

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 9 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 9 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
North of England +198 270 £60,000 -20.00% 17
North West +166 261 £60,000 -20.00% 9
London +38 44 £82,500 -17.50% 110
Midlands - 16 £56,100 - 15
East Midlands - 9 £55,200 - 8
West Midlands - 7 £57,000 - 7
South East +28 6 £41,000 -48.75% 96
Yorkshire +13 5 £67,500 - 5
North East +11 4 £60,000 -14.29% 3
South West 0 4 £42,750 -46.56% 7
East of England +29 3 £50,000 -35.48%
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 6 (1.73%) Apache
1 6 (1.73%) OpenStack
2 5 (1.45%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.87%) Confluence
3 3 (0.87%) JBoss
3 3 (0.87%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.58%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.87%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.29%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 60 (17.34%) AWS
2 31 (8.96%) Azure
3 27 (7.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 21 (6.07%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (4.34%) GitHub
6 13 (3.76%) GCP
6 13 (3.76%) OpenShift
7 12 (3.47%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (3.47%) Serverless
7 12 (3.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (2.89%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (2.60%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (2.31%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.02%) AWS CodeBuild
11 7 (2.02%) Datadog
11 7 (2.02%) Route 53
12 6 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.73%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (1.16%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 265 (76.59%) VPN
2 262 (75.72%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (0.87%) Firewall
3 3 (0.87%) SAN
4 2 (0.58%) Broadband
4 2 (0.58%) DNS
4 2 (0.58%) Network Security
4 2 (0.58%) SSL
4 2 (0.58%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.36%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (4.91%) SQL Server
3 13 (3.76%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (3.47%) Relational Database
5 11 (3.18%) NoSQL
6 7 (2.02%) Redis
7 5 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.45%) DB2
8 2 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.58%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.58%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (0.58%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.58%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.29%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.29%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 42 (12.14%) Jenkins
2 26 (7.51%) GitLab
3 24 (6.94%) Git
4 13 (3.76%) JIRA
4 13 (3.76%) Selenium
5 12 (3.47%) Artifactory
5 12 (3.47%) Cucumber
5 12 (3.47%) TeamCity
6 9 (2.60%) Bitbucket
6 9 (2.60%) JUnit
7 8 (2.31%) CircleCI
8 7 (2.02%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (1.45%) Maven
9 5 (1.45%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.16%) Jaeger
11 3 (0.87%) Ant
11 3 (0.87%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (0.87%) Robot Framework
12 2 (0.58%) Gradle
12 2 (0.58%) TestRail
General
1 279 (80.64%) Analytical Skills
2 265 (76.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 33 (9.54%) Social Skills
4 13 (3.76%) Finance
5 9 (2.60%) Public Sector
6 6 (1.73%) Banking
7 4 (1.16%) Telecoms
8 3 (0.87%) Automotive
9 2 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.29%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.29%) Games
10 1 (0.29%) Law
Job Titles
1 262 (75.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 25 (7.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 20 (5.78%) Developer
4 12 (3.47%) Platform Engineer
4 12 (3.47%) Senior
5 11 (3.18%) Java Developer
6 9 (2.60%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (2.02%) AWS DevOps
7 7 (2.02%) Senior DevOps
7 7 (2.02%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 6 (1.73%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (1.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 5 (1.45%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (1.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 5 (1.45%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (1.45%) Senior Developer
9 5 (1.45%) Senior Software Developer
9 5 (1.45%) Software Developer
9 5 (1.45%) Software Engineer
10 4 (1.16%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.76%) Node.js
1 13 (3.76%) Spring
1 13 (3.76%) Spring Boot
2 9 (2.60%) Kafka
2 9 (2.60%) pytest
2 9 (2.60%) Web Services
3 8 (2.31%) CSS
3 8 (2.31%) HTML
3 8 (2.31%) OpenTelemetry
3 8 (2.31%) React
3 8 (2.31%) RESTful
4 7 (2.02%) Django
4 7 (2.02%) Flask
4 7 (2.02%) REST
5 5 (1.45%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (1.16%) .NET
6 4 (1.16%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.16%) Apache Camel
7 3 (0.87%) ASP.NET
7 3 (0.87%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 262 (75.72%) Cyberattack
2 11 (3.18%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.16%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (0.87%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.58%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.58%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (0.58%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (0.58%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.58%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.58%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.29%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.29%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 309 (89.31%) Linux
2 285 (82.37%) Windows
3 262 (75.72%) Android
4 9 (2.60%) Unix
5 8 (2.31%) Ubuntu
6 7 (2.02%) Debian
7 6 (1.73%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.29%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (92.49%) DevOps
2 298 (86.13%) Problem-Solving
3 273 (78.90%) Platform Engineering
4 271 (78.32%) Task Automation
5 266 (76.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 265 (76.59%) Storage Management
7 262 (75.72%) Line Management
7 262 (75.72%) Mathematics
7 262 (75.72%) Risk Management
8 59 (17.05%) CI/CD
9 39 (11.27%) Infrastructure as Code
10 31 (8.96%) Containerisation
11 30 (8.67%) Agile
12 25 (7.23%) Continuous Integration
13 19 (5.49%) Configuration Management
13 19 (5.49%) Microservices
14 17 (4.91%) Software Engineering
15 15 (4.34%) Observability
15 15 (4.34%) TDD
16 14 (4.05%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 316 (91.33%) Python
2 298 (86.13%) Bash
3 275 (79.48%) PowerShell
4 26 (7.51%) Java
5 16 (4.62%) JavaScript
5 16 (4.62%) SQL
6 9 (2.60%) Go
7 7 (2.02%) C#
7 7 (2.02%) Delphi
8 5 (1.45%) Groovy
9 4 (1.16%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.87%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.58%) Perl
11 2 (0.58%) Scala
12 1 (0.29%) Bicep
12 1 (0.29%) RPG
12 1 (0.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (5.49%) Security Cleared
2 14 (4.05%) Degree
3 13 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (2.89%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.60%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.16%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.58%) CISSP
7 2 (0.58%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.29%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.29%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (0.58%) GDPR
1 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (0.58%) NIST
1 2 (0.58%) QA
System Software
1 323 (93.35%) Docker
2 265 (76.59%) vSphere
3 262 (75.72%) Hyper-V
3 262 (75.72%) VMware NSX
4 7 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 308 (89.02%) Terraform
2 304 (87.86%) Ansible
3 64 (18.50%) Kubernetes
4 46 (13.29%) Grafana
5 38 (10.98%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.60%) Kibana
7 7 (2.02%) logstash
8 5 (1.45%) Argo
8 5 (1.45%) Puppet
9 4 (1.16%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.87%) Control-M
10 3 (0.87%) Podman
11 2 (0.58%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.58%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.58%) Sysdig
12 1 (0.29%) Nagios
12 1 (0.29%) Nessus
12 1 (0.29%) SCOM
Vendors
1 283 (81.79%) Splunk
2 262 (75.72%) 3PAR
2 262 (75.72%) Cisco
2 262 (75.72%) Juniper
3 10 (2.89%) VMware
4 9 (2.60%) Oracle
5 7 (2.02%) Atlassian
6 6 (1.73%) Google
6 6 (1.73%) Microsoft
7 4 (1.16%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.16%) Foundry
7 4 (1.16%) LogRhythm
7 4 (1.16%) Palantir
7 4 (1.16%) Pega
7 4 (1.16%) WSO2
8 2 (0.58%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.58%) IBM
8 2 (0.58%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.29%) BMC
9 1 (0.29%) SolarWinds