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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 520 619
Rank change year-on-year -24 +99 -18
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 131 97 184
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.18% 0.27% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.74% 1.24% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 72 64 137
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £48,438 £60,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £86,563 £87,813 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £97,125 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +6.67%

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 7,547 7,846 16,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.25% 21.47% 20.89%
Number of salaries quoted 5,718 5,962 14,042
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,296 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -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 9 April 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 9 April 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 -18 54 £85,000 +17.24% 14
North of England -48 43 £47,500 -36.67% 11
Yorkshire -39 22 £65,000 - 4
South East -28 18 £82,500 +5.77% 13
South West -18 17 £42,750 -52.50% 3
North East -22 14 £47,500 -22.45% 5
North West -37 7 £47,500 -36.67% 2
Midlands - 6 £55,200 - 1
West Midlands - 4 £58,850 -
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 15 (11.45%) OpenStack
2 13 (9.92%) Confluence
3 6 (4.58%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (5.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (5.34%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 108 (82.44%) AWS
2 58 (44.27%) Azure
3 37 (28.24%) GCP
3 37 (28.24%) GitHub
4 34 (25.95%) Serverless
5 28 (21.37%) Amazon EKS
6 27 (20.61%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (16.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 22 (16.79%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (14.50%) Amazon ECS
8 19 (14.50%) Pulumi
9 15 (11.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 15 (11.45%) Amazon S3
9 15 (11.45%) OpenShift
10 14 (10.69%) Datadog
11 8 (6.11%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (5.34%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (5.34%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (2.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 2 (1.53%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 21 (16.03%) Firewall
2 19 (14.50%) Broadband
2 19 (14.50%) HTTP
3 18 (13.74%) DNS
3 18 (13.74%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.76%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (28.24%) Relational Database
2 35 (26.72%) NoSQL
3 34 (25.95%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (14.50%) RDBMS
4 19 (14.50%) SQL Server
5 11 (8.40%) DB2
6 6 (4.58%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (3.82%) InfluxDB
8 4 (3.05%) CockroachDB
9 3 (2.29%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.29%) MySQL
10 2 (1.53%) Big Data
10 2 (1.53%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (1.53%) Redis
11 1 (0.76%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 95 (72.52%) Jenkins
2 43 (32.82%) GitLab
3 36 (27.48%) Git
4 30 (22.90%) Cucumber
5 26 (19.85%) Selenium
6 22 (16.79%) JIRA
7 21 (16.03%) Jaeger
8 17 (12.98%) SonarQube
9 15 (11.45%) Bitbucket
10 14 (10.69%) JUnit
11 13 (9.92%) TeamCity
12 10 (7.63%) CircleCI
12 10 (7.63%) Robot Framework
13 7 (5.34%) Artifactory
13 7 (5.34%) TestRail
14 5 (3.82%) Cypress.io
14 5 (3.82%) JMeter
15 4 (3.05%) TestNG
16 3 (2.29%) Eclipse
16 3 (2.29%) REST Assured
General
1 42 (32.06%) Social Skills
2 23 (17.56%) Telecoms
3 19 (14.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (13.74%) Law
5 15 (11.45%) Banking
6 13 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (9.92%) Finance
7 11 (8.40%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.53%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.53%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (31.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (29.01%) Developer
3 29 (22.14%) Java Developer
4 21 (16.03%) Lead
5 16 (12.21%) Cloud Engineer
5 16 (12.21%) Full-Stack Developer
6 15 (11.45%) Senior
7 14 (10.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 10 (7.63%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (7.63%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 9 (6.87%) AWS DevOps
9 9 (6.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (6.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 8 (6.11%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (5.34%) DevOps Engineer - Fintech
11 7 (5.34%) Senior Developer
11 7 (5.34%) Software Developer
11 7 (5.34%) Software Engineer
11 7 (5.34%) Team Leader
12 6 (4.58%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (22.14%) Spring
1 29 (22.14%) Spring Boot
2 26 (19.85%) REST
3 25 (19.08%) React
4 24 (18.32%) Node.js
5 21 (16.03%) OpenTelemetry
6 20 (15.27%) Kafka
7 18 (13.74%) Web Services
8 15 (11.45%) pytest
9 13 (9.92%) RESTful
10 12 (9.16%) AngularJS
11 11 (8.40%) CSS
11 11 (8.40%) HTML
12 10 (7.63%) Gherkin
13 9 (6.87%) Mustache
13 9 (6.87%) RabbitMQ
14 7 (5.34%) Django
14 7 (5.34%) Flask
15 6 (4.58%) Apache Camel
15 6 (4.58%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 25 (19.08%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (7.63%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (6.11%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (5.34%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (4.58%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.05%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.29%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.53%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.53%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.76%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.76%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 48 (36.64%) Linux
2 27 (20.61%) Unix
3 17 (12.98%) Windows
4 5 (3.82%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (80.15%) DevOps
2 97 (74.05%) CI/CD
3 75 (57.25%) Containerisation
3 75 (57.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (54.96%) Agile
5 64 (48.85%) Continuous Integration
6 49 (37.40%) High Availability
6 49 (37.40%) Microservices
7 38 (29.01%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (27.48%) Test Automation
9 34 (25.95%) Mentoring
10 30 (22.90%) Scrum
10 30 (22.90%) Software Engineering
10 30 (22.90%) Static Code Analysis
11 29 (22.14%) BDD
12 27 (20.61%) Continuous Delivery
12 27 (20.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 26 (19.85%) Full-Stack Development
13 26 (19.85%) Task Automation
13 26 (19.85%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 90 (68.70%) Python
2 77 (58.78%) Bash
3 76 (58.02%) Java
4 56 (42.75%) JavaScript
5 49 (37.40%) Go
6 35 (26.72%) SQL
7 17 (12.98%) PowerShell
8 7 (5.34%) Delphi
9 6 (4.58%) Groovy
9 6 (4.58%) TypeScript
10 4 (3.05%) PL/SQL
10 4 (3.05%) Rust
11 3 (2.29%) C#
11 3 (2.29%) C++
11 3 (2.29%) RPG
12 2 (1.53%) Perl
13 1 (0.76%) Bicep
13 1 (0.76%) Ruby
13 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (21.37%) Security Cleared
2 19 (14.50%) AWS Certification
3 10 (7.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (7.63%) Degree
3 10 (7.63%) DV Cleared
4 8 (6.11%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (1.53%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.76%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.16%) SOC 2
2 11 (8.40%) QA
3 10 (7.63%) GDPR
4 9 (6.87%) PCI DSS
5 4 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.76%) NIST
System Software
1 94 (71.76%) Docker
2 3 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 100 (76.34%) Kubernetes
2 91 (69.47%) Terraform
3 86 (65.65%) Ansible
4 65 (49.62%) Grafana
5 63 (48.09%) Prometheus
6 23 (17.56%) Argo
7 19 (14.50%) Kustomize
8 14 (10.69%) Kibana
9 9 (6.87%) logstash
10 4 (3.05%) Packer
11 3 (2.29%) vCenter Server
12 2 (1.53%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (1.53%) Nessus
13 1 (0.76%) Control-M
13 1 (0.76%) Puppet
13 1 (0.76%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 21 (16.03%) Google
2 19 (14.50%) Oracle
2 19 (14.50%) Splunk
3 14 (10.69%) Atlassian
4 11 (8.40%) IBM
5 9 (6.87%) AppDynamics
6 6 (4.58%) Pega
6 6 (4.58%) VMware
6 6 (4.58%) WSO2
7 5 (3.82%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.53%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.53%) Microsoft
9 1 (0.76%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.76%) Workday