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 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 611 335 696
Rank change year-on-year -276 +361 -145
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 108 350 151
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.13% 0.86% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.21% 4.47% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 56 60 119
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £57,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -27.27% +17.86%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,625 £97,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,375 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -27.27% +17.86%

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 8,940 7,824 18,009
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.53% 19.12% 19.43%
Number of salaries quoted 6,835 5,282 14,474
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.26% +10.83% -10.45%

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 28 June 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 28 June 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 -41 38 £86,250 +15.00% 15
North of England -203 31 £47,500 -20.83% 7
South West -44 26 £45,000 -50.00% 14
South East -14 18 £82,500 -2.94% 4
North East -37 13 £47,500 -20.83% 1
Yorkshire -26 12 £63,750 -8.93%
North West -168 6 £47,500 -20.83% 6
West Midlands -24 1 £62,500 +9.65% 1
Midlands -44 1 £62,500 +9.65% 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 11 (10.19%) Apache
2 5 (4.63%) OpenStack
3 3 (2.78%) Confluence
4 1 (0.93%) JBoss
4 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 5 (4.63%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 96 (88.89%) AWS
2 52 (48.15%) Azure
3 36 (33.33%) GCP
4 23 (21.30%) Serverless
5 21 (19.44%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (18.52%) GitHub
7 19 (17.59%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (12.96%) Pulumi
10 13 (12.04%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (11.11%) OpenShift
12 10 (9.26%) Amazon S3
12 10 (9.26%) Datadog
13 9 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (6.48%) AWS Lambda
16 5 (4.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 5 (4.63%) SaaS
17 4 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
18 3 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (16.67%) Firewall
2 15 (13.89%) DNS
2 15 (13.89%) HTTP
3 14 (12.96%) TCP/IP
4 12 (11.11%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (19.44%) NoSQL
2 20 (18.52%) Relational Database
3 12 (11.11%) RDBMS
4 10 (9.26%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (6.48%) InfluxDB
7 4 (3.70%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.78%) Big Data
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.93%) CockroachDB
9 1 (0.93%) Db2
9 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.93%) MySQL
9 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 64 (59.26%) Jenkins
2 41 (37.96%) GitLab
3 21 (19.44%) Git
4 20 (18.52%) SonarQube
5 16 (14.81%) Cucumber
6 13 (12.04%) JIRA
7 12 (11.11%) Jaeger
8 10 (9.26%) CircleCI
9 8 (7.41%) Robot Framework
9 8 (7.41%) Selenium
10 7 (6.48%) Cypress.io
10 7 (6.48%) TestRail
11 6 (5.56%) Artifactory
12 5 (4.63%) Bitbucket
13 3 (2.78%) Octopus Deploy
13 3 (2.78%) TeamCity
14 2 (1.85%) JMeter
14 2 (1.85%) JUnit
15 1 (0.93%) Checkstyle
15 1 (0.93%) Maven
General
1 20 (18.52%) Finance
2 19 (17.59%) Social Skills
3 15 (13.89%) Telecoms
4 14 (12.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (12.96%) Law
5 7 (6.48%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.56%) Banking
7 3 (2.78%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.85%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 38 (35.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (19.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (14.81%) Cloud Engineer
4 14 (12.96%) Developer
5 12 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
5 12 (11.11%) Lead
6 11 (10.19%) Java Developer
7 10 (9.26%) AWS DevOps
7 10 (9.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 10 (9.26%) Software Engineer
8 8 (7.41%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (7.41%) Test Engineer
9 7 (6.48%) DevOps Engineer - Fintech
9 7 (6.48%) Senior
10 6 (5.56%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 6 (5.56%) Test Automation Engineer
11 5 (4.63%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (4.63%) Tester
12 4 (3.70%) Analyst
12 4 (3.70%) Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (15.74%) REST
2 13 (12.04%) Kafka
3 12 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
3 12 (11.11%) Spring
3 12 (11.11%) Spring Boot
4 11 (10.19%) Apache NiFi
5 10 (9.26%) Vue
6 9 (8.33%) AngularJS
6 9 (8.33%) React
6 9 (8.33%) Web Services
7 8 (7.41%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (6.48%) pytest
9 6 (5.56%) Node.js
9 6 (5.56%) Playwright
9 6 (5.56%) YAML
10 4 (3.70%) Java EE
10 4 (3.70%) JMS
10 4 (3.70%) JPA
10 4 (3.70%) JSON
10 4 (3.70%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.89%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 7 (6.48%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.56%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.78%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.78%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.85%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.93%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 51 (47.22%) Linux
2 20 (18.52%) Windows
3 17 (15.74%) Unix
4 11 (10.19%) CentOS
5 5 (4.63%) Windows Server
6 4 (3.70%) Ubuntu
6 4 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (79.63%) DevOps
2 72 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 72 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 59 (54.63%) Containerisation
4 48 (44.44%) Agile
5 39 (36.11%) Continuous Integration
6 37 (34.26%) High Availability
7 29 (26.85%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (25.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 26 (24.07%) Microservices
9 26 (24.07%) Software Engineering
10 25 (23.15%) Continuous Delivery
11 24 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 23 (21.30%) Test Automation
13 21 (19.44%) Collaborative Culture
13 21 (19.44%) Mentoring
14 18 (16.67%) DevSecOps
15 15 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
15 15 (13.89%) GitOps
15 15 (13.89%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 81 (75.00%) Python
2 72 (66.67%) Bash
3 50 (46.30%) Java
4 39 (36.11%) Go
5 31 (28.70%) JavaScript
6 22 (20.37%) SQL
7 21 (19.44%) PowerShell
8 14 (12.96%) Rust
9 8 (7.41%) C#
9 8 (7.41%) C++
9 8 (7.41%) TypeScript
10 5 (4.63%) VBA
11 4 (3.70%) Groovy
11 4 (3.70%) PL/SQL
12 3 (2.78%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.85%) Bicep
13 2 (1.85%) Perl
14 1 (0.93%) Ruby
14 1 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 17 (15.74%) SC Cleared
3 13 (12.04%) Degree
4 12 (11.11%) AWS Certification
5 11 (10.19%) DV Cleared
6 10 (9.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (6.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (1.85%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.11%) SOC 2
2 11 (10.19%) QA
3 10 (9.26%) GDPR
4 9 (8.33%) PCI DSS
5 6 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.85%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.93%) NIST
System Software
1 64 (59.26%) Docker
2 11 (10.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (6.48%) vSphere
4 6 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (3.70%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.93%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 89 (82.41%) Terraform
2 83 (76.85%) Ansible
3 73 (67.59%) Kubernetes
4 64 (59.26%) Grafana
5 54 (50.00%) Prometheus
6 23 (21.30%) Kibana
7 17 (15.74%) Argo
8 16 (14.81%) logstash
9 12 (11.11%) Kustomize
10 10 (9.26%) vCenter Server
11 6 (5.56%) Puppet
12 4 (3.70%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (3.70%) Nessus
12 4 (3.70%) Packer
12 4 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (2.78%) Control-M
Vendors
1 16 (14.81%) Splunk
2 14 (12.96%) Google
2 14 (12.96%) VMware
3 11 (10.19%) Red Hat
4 10 (9.26%) Atlassian
4 10 (9.26%) Microsoft
5 9 (8.33%) AppDynamics
6 8 (7.41%) IBM
6 8 (7.41%) Oracle
7 2 (1.85%) Pega
7 2 (1.85%) WSO2
8 1 (0.93%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.93%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.93%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.93%) Workday