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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 581 314 662
Rank change year-on-year -267 +348 -87
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 114 348 164
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.14% 0.91% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.35% 4.67% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 56 53 126
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,050 £56,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £56,250 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £81,250
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -26.15% +16.07%
75th Percentile £86,250 £88,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £101,875 £97,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -25.00% +14.29%

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 8,431 7,450 17,143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.14% 19.54% 19.79%
Number of salaries quoted 6,414 5,085 14,222
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,057
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,254 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -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 28 May 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 May 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 -55 42 £90,000 +50.00% 8
North of England -196 36 £47,500 -24.00% 4
South East -9 22 £82,500 -2.94% 9
South West -40 21 £45,000 -50.00% 5
Yorkshire -35 18 £65,000 -7.14%
North East -34 13 £47,500 -17.39% 1
North West -168 5 £47,500 -29.63% 3
Midlands -42 2 £62,500 +5.93% 1
West Midlands -34 1 £62,500 +5.93% 1
East Midlands -34 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 (11.40%) OpenStack
2 8 (7.02%) Apache
2 8 (7.02%) Confluence
3 1 (0.88%) JBoss
3 1 (0.88%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (2.63%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 97 (85.09%) AWS
2 49 (42.98%) Azure
3 34 (29.82%) GCP
4 30 (26.32%) Serverless
5 24 (21.05%) Amazon EKS
6 21 (18.42%) GitHub
7 20 (17.54%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (15.79%) Pulumi
10 17 (14.91%) Amazon ECS
11 16 (14.04%) Amazon S3
12 11 (9.65%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (8.77%) Datadog
14 9 (7.89%) OpenShift
15 8 (7.02%) Amazon SQS
16 7 (6.14%) Amazon EC2
17 6 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
18 4 (3.51%) SaaS
19 3 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
19 3 (2.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (15.79%) Broadband
1 18 (15.79%) Firewall
2 16 (14.04%) DNS
2 16 (14.04%) HTTP
3 15 (13.16%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (28.07%) Relational Database
2 29 (25.44%) NoSQL
3 20 (17.54%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (15.79%) RDBMS
5 7 (6.14%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (6.14%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.39%) DB2
6 5 (4.39%) InfluxDB
7 4 (3.51%) CockroachDB
8 3 (2.63%) Big Data
9 1 (0.88%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.88%) MySQL
9 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 72 (63.16%) Jenkins
2 33 (28.95%) GitLab
3 29 (25.44%) Git
4 19 (16.67%) Cucumber
5 18 (15.79%) Jaeger
5 18 (15.79%) JIRA
5 18 (15.79%) SonarQube
6 12 (10.53%) Selenium
7 10 (8.77%) CircleCI
8 9 (7.89%) Bitbucket
9 6 (5.26%) Cypress.io
9 6 (5.26%) JUnit
9 6 (5.26%) Robot Framework
9 6 (5.26%) TeamCity
10 5 (4.39%) Artifactory
10 5 (4.39%) TestRail
11 4 (3.51%) TestNG
12 3 (2.63%) JMeter
12 3 (2.63%) REST Assured
13 2 (1.75%) Postman
General
1 23 (20.18%) Social Skills
2 19 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 17 (14.91%) Finance
4 16 (14.04%) Telecoms
5 15 (13.16%) Law
6 10 (8.77%) Banking
7 8 (7.02%) Public Sector
8 6 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.75%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.75%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (29.82%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (21.93%) Developer
3 22 (19.30%) Java Developer
4 20 (17.54%) Lead
5 17 (14.91%) Cloud Engineer
6 16 (14.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (11.40%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (9.65%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 10 (8.77%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (8.77%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 8 (7.02%) AWS DevOps
10 8 (7.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 8 (7.02%) Senior
10 8 (7.02%) Software Engineer
11 7 (6.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (6.14%) DevOps Engineer - Fintech
12 6 (5.26%) Team Leader
12 6 (5.26%) Test Engineer
13 4 (3.51%) Analyst
13 4 (3.51%) Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (22.81%) REST
2 21 (18.42%) Kafka
2 21 (18.42%) React
2 21 (18.42%) Spring
2 21 (18.42%) Spring Boot
3 18 (15.79%) OpenTelemetry
4 17 (14.91%) Node.js
5 16 (14.04%) Web Services
6 11 (9.65%) Mustache
7 10 (8.77%) AngularJS
8 9 (7.89%) RabbitMQ
9 8 (7.02%) Apache NiFi
9 8 (7.02%) Vue
10 7 (6.14%) pytest
10 7 (6.14%) RESTful
11 6 (5.26%) JSON
11 6 (5.26%) YAML
12 5 (4.39%) CSS
12 5 (4.39%) Gherkin
12 5 (4.39%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (20.18%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.39%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.51%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.63%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.75%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.75%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 46 (40.35%) Linux
2 21 (18.42%) Unix
3 15 (13.16%) Windows
4 8 (7.02%) CentOS
5 4 (3.51%) Windows Server
6 3 (2.63%) Ubuntu
6 3 (2.63%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (76.32%) DevOps
2 77 (67.54%) CI/CD
3 67 (58.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (54.39%) Containerisation
5 61 (53.51%) Agile
6 50 (43.86%) Continuous Integration
7 44 (38.60%) High Availability
8 37 (32.46%) Microservices
9 28 (24.56%) Mentoring
10 25 (21.93%) Continuous Delivery
10 25 (21.93%) Test Automation
11 24 (21.05%) Software Engineering
12 23 (20.18%) Full-Stack Development
12 23 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (20.18%) Scrum
12 23 (20.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 22 (19.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 21 (18.42%) GitOps
14 21 (18.42%) Static Code Analysis
15 20 (17.54%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 77 (67.54%) Python
2 68 (59.65%) Bash
3 66 (57.89%) Java
4 47 (41.23%) JavaScript
5 44 (38.60%) Go
6 28 (24.56%) SQL
7 15 (13.16%) PowerShell
8 9 (7.89%) Rust
9 7 (6.14%) TypeScript
10 6 (5.26%) C#
10 6 (5.26%) C++
11 4 (3.51%) Groovy
11 4 (3.51%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.75%) Bicep
12 2 (1.75%) Perl
12 2 (1.75%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.75%) VBA
13 1 (0.88%) RPG
13 1 (0.88%) Ruby
13 1 (0.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (25.44%) Security Cleared
2 18 (15.79%) AWS Certification
3 12 (10.53%) SC Cleared
4 9 (7.89%) Degree
5 8 (7.02%) DV Cleared
6 7 (6.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (4.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.40%) QA
2 12 (10.53%) SOC 2
3 10 (8.77%) GDPR
4 9 (7.89%) PCI DSS
5 5 (4.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.88%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.88%) NIST
System Software
1 74 (64.91%) Docker
2 8 (7.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.39%) vSphere
4 4 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.88%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 81 (71.05%) Terraform
2 80 (70.18%) Ansible
2 80 (70.18%) Kubernetes
3 56 (49.12%) Prometheus
4 54 (47.37%) Grafana
5 22 (19.30%) Argo
6 18 (15.79%) Kibana
6 18 (15.79%) Kustomize
7 11 (9.65%) logstash
8 7 (6.14%) vCenter Server
9 4 (3.51%) Packer
9 4 (3.51%) Puppet
10 3 (2.63%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (2.63%) Nessus
10 3 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.75%) Control-M
Vendors
1 21 (18.42%) Google
2 14 (12.28%) Splunk
3 11 (9.65%) Oracle
4 10 (8.77%) Atlassian
4 10 (8.77%) VMware
5 9 (7.89%) AppDynamics
5 9 (7.89%) IBM
6 8 (7.02%) Red Hat
7 7 (6.14%) Microsoft
8 2 (1.75%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.75%) Pega
8 2 (1.75%) WSO2
9 1 (0.88%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.88%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.88%) Workday