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 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 553 527
Rank change year-on-year +51 -26 +125
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 110 121 173
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.25% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.76% 1.17% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 64 65 114
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,500 £49,200
25th Percentile £55,000 £67,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £78,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +4.00% -3.23%
75th Percentile £107,500 £97,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £78,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -10.26% +4.00% -3.23%

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 6,248 10,332 12,594
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.65% 21.62% 23.81%
Number of salaries quoted 4,784 6,059 10,600
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,477 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -5.12%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £107,500
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 19 January 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 19 January 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 +34 56 £95,000 +18.75% 46
North of England +22 26 £60,000 -20.00% 11
South West 0 13 £42,750 -46.56% 14
Yorkshire -11 12 £62,500 - 2
South East +20 10 £41,000 -47.44% 36
North West +12 8 £60,000 -20.00% 6
North East +11 6 £55,200 -12.73% 3
Midlands - 5 £55,200 - 3
West Midlands - 3 £55,200 - 2
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 13 (11.82%) Confluence
1 13 (11.82%) OpenStack
2 8 (7.27%) Apache
3 5 (4.55%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.82%) JBoss
4 2 (1.82%) Luigi
4 2 (1.82%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (8.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (8.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 82 (74.55%) AWS
2 39 (35.45%) Azure
3 25 (22.73%) GitHub
4 23 (20.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 20 (18.18%) Serverless
6 19 (17.27%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (16.36%) GCP
8 17 (15.45%) Amazon EKS
9 16 (14.55%) OpenShift
10 15 (13.64%) Amazon ECS
11 14 (12.73%) Amazon S3
11 14 (12.73%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (11.82%) Pulumi
13 12 (10.91%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (7.27%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (7.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 7 (6.36%) Amazon SQS
15 7 (6.36%) AWS Lambda
16 6 (5.45%) Datadog
17 4 (3.64%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.82%) Broadband
2 9 (8.18%) Firewall
3 8 (7.27%) DNS
3 8 (7.27%) TCP/IP
4 6 (5.45%) HTTP
5 3 (2.73%) VPN
6 2 (1.82%) SAN
6 2 (1.82%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (31.82%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (25.45%) Relational Database
3 23 (20.91%) SQL Server
4 22 (20.00%) NoSQL
5 13 (11.82%) DB2
5 13 (11.82%) RDBMS
6 8 (7.27%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (3.64%) CockroachDB
9 3 (2.73%) InfluxDB
9 3 (2.73%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.73%) MySQL
10 2 (1.82%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.82%) Big Data
10 2 (1.82%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.82%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (1.82%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.82%) Redis
Development Applications
1 70 (63.64%) Jenkins
2 31 (28.18%) GitLab
3 30 (27.27%) Git
4 26 (23.64%) Selenium
5 25 (22.73%) Cucumber
6 21 (19.09%) JIRA
7 18 (16.36%) TeamCity
8 17 (15.45%) Bitbucket
9 15 (13.64%) Jaeger
10 14 (12.73%) JUnit
11 12 (10.91%) SonarQube
12 10 (9.09%) Artifactory
13 8 (7.27%) Robot Framework
14 6 (5.45%) Maven
14 6 (5.45%) Sonatype Nexus
15 5 (4.55%) TestRail
16 4 (3.64%) CircleCI
16 4 (3.64%) Gradle
16 4 (3.64%) JMeter
16 4 (3.64%) TestNG
General
1 35 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (16.36%) Finance
3 14 (12.73%) Banking
4 13 (11.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (10.00%) Telecoms
6 9 (8.18%) Public Sector
7 7 (6.36%) Law
8 2 (1.82%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.82%) Retail
9 1 (0.91%) Games
Job Titles
1 34 (30.91%) Developer
2 25 (22.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (22.73%) Java Developer
3 15 (13.64%) Full-Stack Developer
3 15 (13.64%) Lead
4 14 (12.73%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 13 (11.82%) Senior
6 12 (10.91%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (8.18%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (6.36%) Agile Developer
8 7 (6.36%) Agile Java Developer
8 7 (6.36%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 7 (6.36%) Senior Developer
8 7 (6.36%) Software Developer
9 6 (5.45%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (5.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 6 (5.45%) Software Engineer
10 5 (4.55%) Senior Software Developer
10 5 (4.55%) Team Leader
10 5 (4.55%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (22.73%) Node.js
2 23 (20.91%) React
3 22 (20.00%) Spring
3 22 (20.00%) Spring Boot
4 19 (17.27%) OpenTelemetry
5 15 (13.64%) Kafka
5 15 (13.64%) REST
6 13 (11.82%) CSS
6 13 (11.82%) HTML
6 13 (11.82%) pytest
6 13 (11.82%) RESTful
7 12 (10.91%) Web Services
8 11 (10.00%) Gherkin
9 9 (8.18%) Mustache
10 7 (6.36%) Django
10 7 (6.36%) Flask
11 5 (4.55%) AngularJS
12 4 (3.64%) Apache Camel
13 3 (2.73%) Express.js
13 3 (2.73%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.36%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (11.82%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (7.27%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (6.36%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.64%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.73%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.82%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.82%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.82%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.82%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.82%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.82%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.82%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.91%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.91%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 53 (48.18%) Linux
2 25 (22.73%) Windows
3 21 (19.09%) Unix
4 5 (4.55%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.73%) CentOS
5 3 (2.73%) Debian
5 3 (2.73%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (76.36%) CI/CD
2 79 (71.82%) DevOps
3 62 (56.36%) Agile
4 55 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 50 (45.45%) Containerisation
6 45 (40.91%) Continuous Integration
7 36 (32.73%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (28.18%) Microservices
9 30 (27.27%) Test Automation
10 26 (23.64%) Scrum
10 26 (23.64%) Software Engineering
11 25 (22.73%) High Availability
12 23 (20.91%) BDD
13 22 (20.00%) TDD
14 21 (19.09%) Full-Stack Development
14 21 (19.09%) Mentoring
14 21 (19.09%) Static Code Analysis
14 21 (19.09%) Task Automation
15 19 (17.27%) Continuous Improvement
16 17 (15.45%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 71 (64.55%) Python
2 59 (53.64%) Java
3 56 (50.91%) Bash
4 47 (42.73%) JavaScript
5 29 (26.36%) SQL
6 26 (23.64%) Go
7 17 (15.45%) PowerShell
8 7 (6.36%) Delphi
9 6 (5.45%) TypeScript
10 5 (4.55%) C#
11 4 (3.64%) Groovy
12 3 (2.73%) RPG
12 3 (2.73%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.82%) Scala
14 1 (0.91%) Bicep
14 1 (0.91%) C++
14 1 (0.91%) Rust
Qualifications
1 23 (20.91%) Security Cleared
2 16 (14.55%) DV Cleared
3 15 (13.64%) AWS Certification
4 14 (12.73%) Degree
5 13 (11.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (2.73%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.82%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.91%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 83 (75.45%) Docker
2 6 (5.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.64%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.82%) vSphere
5 1 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 88 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 63 (57.27%) Terraform
3 61 (55.45%) Ansible
4 52 (47.27%) Grafana
4 52 (47.27%) Prometheus
5 17 (15.45%) Argo
6 13 (11.82%) Kustomize
7 8 (7.27%) Kibana
7 8 (7.27%) logstash
8 5 (4.55%) Puppet
9 3 (2.73%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (1.82%) Control-M
10 2 (1.82%) Nessus
10 2 (1.82%) Podman
10 2 (1.82%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.82%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.91%) SCOM
11 1 (0.91%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 19 (17.27%) Splunk
2 17 (15.45%) Google
3 15 (13.64%) Atlassian
3 15 (13.64%) Oracle
4 10 (9.09%) VMware
5 4 (3.64%) Foundry
5 4 (3.64%) Palantir
5 4 (3.64%) Pega
5 4 (3.64%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.64%) WSO2
6 3 (2.73%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.73%) IBM
6 3 (2.73%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.91%) BMC
7 1 (0.91%) SolarWinds