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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 664 340 628
Rank change year-on-year -324 +288 -91
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 88 337 124
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.088% 0.78% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.82% 4.38% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 43 57 83
10th Percentile £43,000 £47,000 £60,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £60,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -33.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £97,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £60,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -33.33% +37.40%

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 10,779 7,693 14,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.76% 17.70% 21.14%
Number of salaries quoted 7,967 5,087 9,811
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -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 11 September 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 11 September 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
South West -48 30 £50,000 - 7
London -68 29 £85,000 +21.43% 57
South East -30 18 £82,500 -2.94% 8
North of England -219 14 £70,000 +16.67% 5
Yorkshire -41 7 £73,750 +5.36% 1
North West -191 4 £70,000 +16.67% 1
North East -55 3 £70,000 +16.67% 3
East of England -33 2 £82,500 +65.00% 8
West Midlands -36 1 £44,000 -24.14% 8
Midlands -60 1 £44,000 -24.14% 10
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 (12.50%) Apache
2 8 (9.09%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.14%) Confluence
3 1 (1.14%) JBoss
3 1 (1.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (7.95%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 73 (82.95%) AWS
2 33 (37.50%) Azure
3 24 (27.27%) Amazon EKS
4 20 (22.73%) Serverless
5 17 (19.32%) OpenShift
6 14 (15.91%) GCP
7 12 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (12.50%) Amazon S3
8 11 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (12.50%) GitHub
9 10 (11.36%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (11.36%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (10.23%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (10.23%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (6.82%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 5 (5.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (5.68%) Datadog
13 4 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (4.55%) SaaS
13 4 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.68%) TCP/IP
2 4 (4.55%) DNS
3 3 (3.41%) 4G
3 3 (3.41%) 5G
3 3 (3.41%) Firewall
3 3 (3.41%) HTTP
3 3 (3.41%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (17.05%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (13.64%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (11.36%) Redis
4 9 (10.23%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (9.09%) InfluxDB
6 7 (7.95%) Relational Database
7 6 (6.82%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (5.68%) MongoDB
8 5 (5.68%) NoSQL
9 4 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (4.55%) SQL Server
10 3 (3.41%) MySQL
10 3 (3.41%) ZAP BI
11 2 (2.27%) Big Data
12 1 (1.14%) Db2
12 1 (1.14%) Flink
12 1 (1.14%) Hadoop
12 1 (1.14%) Oracle Database
12 1 (1.14%) Power BI
12 1 (1.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 53 (60.23%) Jenkins
2 42 (47.73%) GitLab
3 34 (38.64%) Git
4 20 (22.73%) SonarQube
5 15 (17.05%) Cucumber
6 13 (14.77%) Selenium
7 11 (12.50%) JIRA
8 9 (10.23%) Cypress.io
9 8 (9.09%) Robot Framework
9 8 (9.09%) TestRail
10 6 (6.82%) Artifactory
11 5 (5.68%) Snyk
12 4 (4.55%) Bitbucket
12 4 (4.55%) JUnit
13 3 (3.41%) NUnit
13 3 (3.41%) Octopus Deploy
13 3 (3.41%) Postman
13 3 (3.41%) TeamCity
14 2 (2.27%) CircleCI
15 1 (1.14%) ER Studio
General
1 20 (22.73%) Finance
2 12 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 8 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.95%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.55%) Banking
5 4 (4.55%) Military
5 4 (4.55%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.41%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.27%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.27%) Law
8 1 (1.14%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.14%) Front Office
8 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 25 (28.41%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (21.59%) Developer
3 18 (20.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 15 (17.05%) AWS Engineer
5 13 (14.77%) AWS DevOps
5 13 (14.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 11 (12.50%) Software Engineer
7 10 (11.36%) Java Developer
8 9 (10.23%) Test Engineer
9 8 (9.09%) Senior
10 7 (7.95%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (6.82%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (6.82%) Test Automation Engineer
12 5 (5.68%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (5.68%) Java Engineer
12 5 (5.68%) Python Developer
13 4 (4.55%) Automation Tester
13 4 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
13 4 (4.55%) Senior Developer
13 4 (4.55%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (76.14%) Terraform
2 18 (20.45%) REST
3 17 (19.32%) Kafka
4 14 (15.91%) pytest
5 13 (14.77%) RESTful
6 12 (13.64%) RabbitMQ
7 11 (12.50%) AngularJS
7 11 (12.50%) Apache NiFi
8 10 (11.36%) React
8 10 (11.36%) Spring
8 10 (11.36%) Spring Boot
9 9 (10.23%) Keycloak
9 9 (10.23%) Playwright
9 9 (10.23%) Vue
10 8 (9.09%) Node.js
10 8 (9.09%) Web Services
11 6 (6.82%) FastAPI
11 6 (6.82%) YAML
12 5 (5.68%) Flask
12 5 (5.68%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.77%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (13.64%) Cloud Native
3 11 (12.50%) Onboarding
4 8 (9.09%) Product Ownership
5 6 (6.82%) Replication
6 4 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.27%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.27%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.27%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.14%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.14%) IoT
8 1 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 46 (52.27%) Linux
2 20 (22.73%) Windows
3 12 (13.64%) CentOS
4 5 (5.68%) Unix
4 5 (5.68%) Windows Server
5 4 (4.55%) Ubuntu
5 4 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.14%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (75.00%) DevOps
2 63 (71.59%) CI/CD
3 53 (60.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (50.00%) Agile
5 35 (39.77%) Test Automation
6 34 (38.64%) Containerisation
7 26 (29.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 26 (29.55%) Software Engineering
8 24 (27.27%) Observability
9 23 (26.14%) Collaborative Culture
9 23 (26.14%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (21.59%) Microservices
10 19 (21.59%) Platform Engineering
11 17 (19.32%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (15.91%) Full-Stack Development
13 13 (14.77%) Scrum
13 13 (14.77%) Secrets Management
13 13 (14.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 12 (13.64%) Computer Science
14 12 (13.64%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 61 (69.32%) Python
2 47 (53.41%) Bash
3 38 (43.18%) Java
4 25 (28.41%) JavaScript
5 19 (21.59%) PowerShell
6 17 (19.32%) SQL
7 16 (18.18%) Rust
8 11 (12.50%) Go
9 10 (11.36%) C#
9 10 (11.36%) Groovy
10 9 (10.23%) C++
10 9 (10.23%) TypeScript
11 7 (7.95%) VBA
12 6 (6.82%) Shell Script
13 4 (4.55%) PL/SQL
14 2 (2.27%) Bicep
14 2 (2.27%) Perl
Qualifications
1 52 (59.09%) Security Cleared
2 29 (32.95%) SC Cleared
3 15 (17.05%) Degree
4 10 (11.36%) DV Cleared
5 9 (10.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (9.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (4.55%) OCP
7 4 (4.55%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (2.27%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.27%) RHCSA
9 1 (1.14%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (17.05%) QA
2 4 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.55%) SOC 2
3 3 (3.41%) GDPR
3 3 (3.41%) NIST
4 2 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.27%) Def Stans
4 2 (2.27%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.14%) HIPAA
System Software
1 61 (69.32%) Docker
2 11 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (7.95%) vSphere
4 6 (6.82%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (6.82%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.14%) Firmware
5 1 (1.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 67 (76.14%) Kubernetes
2 58 (65.91%) Grafana
3 51 (57.95%) Ansible
4 36 (40.91%) Prometheus
5 24 (27.27%) Kibana
6 17 (19.32%) logstash
7 10 (11.36%) vCenter Server
8 6 (6.82%) Argo
8 6 (6.82%) Puppet
8 6 (6.82%) Rancher
9 4 (4.55%) Nessus
9 4 (4.55%) Packer
9 4 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (3.41%) Control-M
10 3 (3.41%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (1.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 16 (18.18%) Red Hat
2 15 (17.05%) Splunk
3 14 (15.91%) VMware
4 10 (11.36%) Microsoft
5 9 (10.23%) Atlassian
6 8 (9.09%) AppDynamics
6 8 (9.09%) IBM
7 7 (7.95%) Oracle
8 6 (6.82%) Dynatrace
8 6 (6.82%) ServiceNow
9 2 (2.27%) Pega
9 2 (2.27%) WSO2
10 1 (1.14%) Cloudera
10 1 (1.14%) Google
10 1 (1.14%) Percona
10 1 (1.14%) Sparx