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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 608 331 693
Rank change year-on-year -277 +362 -136
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 107 349 155
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.13% 0.87% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.20% 4.47% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 56 60 119
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,100 £56,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £54,625 £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 £95,000
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 8,888 7,806 18,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.51% 19.47% 19.37%
Number of salaries quoted 6,789 5,269 14,726
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,978 £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 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,340 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.02% +10.57% -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 24 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 24 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 -36 38 £86,250 +15.00% 12
North of England -195 32 £47,500 -20.83% 5
South West -43 24 £45,000 -50.00% 4
South East -14 19 £82,500 -2.94% 4
Yorkshire -32 13 £63,750 -8.93%
North East -33 13 £47,500 -19.15% 1
North West -165 6 £47,500 -20.83% 4
West Midlands -16 1 £62,500 +9.65%
Midlands -34 1 £62,500 +9.65%
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 (10.28%) Apache
2 6 (5.61%) OpenStack
3 3 (2.80%) Confluence
4 1 (0.93%) JBoss
4 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 5 (4.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 95 (88.79%) AWS
2 50 (46.73%) Azure
3 35 (32.71%) GCP
4 24 (22.43%) Serverless
5 20 (18.69%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (18.69%) GitHub
6 19 (17.76%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (16.82%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (13.08%) Pulumi
9 13 (12.15%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (11.21%) OpenShift
11 11 (10.28%) Amazon S3
12 10 (9.35%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (9.35%) Datadog
13 8 (7.48%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (6.54%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (4.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (4.67%) SaaS
16 4 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
17 3 (2.80%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (15.89%) Firewall
2 15 (14.02%) DNS
2 15 (14.02%) HTTP
3 14 (13.08%) TCP/IP
4 12 (11.21%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (19.63%) NoSQL
1 21 (19.63%) Relational Database
2 12 (11.21%) RDBMS
3 10 (9.35%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (8.41%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (6.54%) InfluxDB
6 4 (3.74%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.80%) Big Data
8 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.93%) CockroachDB
8 1 (0.93%) Db2
8 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.93%) MySQL
8 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 64 (59.81%) Jenkins
2 39 (36.45%) GitLab
3 22 (20.56%) Git
4 20 (18.69%) SonarQube
5 16 (14.95%) Cucumber
6 13 (12.15%) JIRA
7 12 (11.21%) Jaeger
8 10 (9.35%) CircleCI
9 8 (7.48%) Robot Framework
9 8 (7.48%) Selenium
10 7 (6.54%) Cypress.io
10 7 (6.54%) TestRail
11 6 (5.61%) Artifactory
12 5 (4.67%) Bitbucket
13 3 (2.80%) Octopus Deploy
13 3 (2.80%) TeamCity
14 2 (1.87%) JMeter
14 2 (1.87%) JUnit
15 1 (0.93%) Eclipse
15 1 (0.93%) LoadRunner
General
1 19 (17.76%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.82%) Finance
3 15 (14.02%) Telecoms
4 14 (13.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (13.08%) Law
5 7 (6.54%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.61%) Banking
7 3 (2.80%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.87%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 37 (34.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (19.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (14.95%) Cloud Engineer
4 15 (14.02%) Developer
5 12 (11.21%) AWS Engineer
5 12 (11.21%) Java Developer
5 12 (11.21%) Lead
6 10 (9.35%) AWS DevOps
6 10 (9.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 10 (9.35%) Software Engineer
7 8 (7.48%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (7.48%) Senior
7 8 (7.48%) Test Engineer
8 7 (6.54%) DevOps Engineer - Fintech
9 6 (5.61%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 6 (5.61%) Test Automation Engineer
10 5 (4.67%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (3.74%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (3.74%) Java Engineer
11 4 (3.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (16.82%) REST
2 14 (13.08%) Kafka
3 13 (12.15%) Spring
3 13 (12.15%) Spring Boot
4 12 (11.21%) OpenTelemetry
5 11 (10.28%) Apache NiFi
6 10 (9.35%) React
6 10 (9.35%) Vue
6 10 (9.35%) Web Services
7 9 (8.41%) AngularJS
8 8 (7.48%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (6.54%) Node.js
9 7 (6.54%) pytest
10 6 (5.61%) Playwright
10 6 (5.61%) YAML
11 4 (3.74%) JMS
11 4 (3.74%) JPA
11 4 (3.74%) JSON
11 4 (3.74%) Mustache
11 4 (3.74%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.95%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (8.41%) Onboarding
3 7 (6.54%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.61%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.80%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.80%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.87%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.93%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 49 (45.79%) Linux
2 20 (18.69%) Windows
3 16 (14.95%) Unix
4 11 (10.28%) CentOS
5 5 (4.67%) Windows Server
6 4 (3.74%) Ubuntu
6 4 (3.74%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (78.50%) DevOps
2 71 (66.36%) CI/CD
3 70 (65.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 59 (55.14%) Containerisation
5 49 (45.79%) Agile
6 39 (36.45%) Continuous Integration
7 37 (34.58%) High Availability
8 28 (26.17%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (25.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 27 (25.23%) Microservices
10 26 (24.30%) Software Engineering
11 25 (23.36%) Continuous Delivery
12 23 (21.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 22 (20.56%) Test Automation
14 21 (19.63%) Mentoring
15 20 (18.69%) Collaborative Culture
16 18 (16.82%) DevSecOps
17 15 (14.02%) GitOps
17 15 (14.02%) Static Code Analysis
18 14 (13.08%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 79 (73.83%) Python
2 71 (66.36%) Bash
3 51 (47.66%) Java
4 39 (36.45%) Go
5 32 (29.91%) JavaScript
6 22 (20.56%) SQL
7 21 (19.63%) PowerShell
8 14 (13.08%) Rust
9 8 (7.48%) C#
9 8 (7.48%) C++
9 8 (7.48%) TypeScript
10 5 (4.67%) VBA
11 4 (3.74%) Groovy
11 4 (3.74%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.87%) Bicep
12 2 (1.87%) Perl
12 2 (1.87%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.93%) Ruby
13 1 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (37.38%) Security Cleared
2 17 (15.89%) SC Cleared
3 13 (12.15%) Degree
4 12 (11.21%) AWS Certification
5 11 (10.28%) DV Cleared
6 10 (9.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (6.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.93%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.21%) SOC 2
2 11 (10.28%) QA
3 10 (9.35%) GDPR
4 9 (8.41%) PCI DSS
5 6 (5.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.87%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.93%) NIST
System Software
1 64 (59.81%) Docker
2 11 (10.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (6.54%) vSphere
4 6 (5.61%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (3.74%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.93%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 87 (81.31%) Terraform
2 82 (76.64%) Ansible
3 72 (67.29%) Kubernetes
4 63 (58.88%) Grafana
5 53 (49.53%) Prometheus
6 23 (21.50%) Kibana
7 17 (15.89%) Argo
8 16 (14.95%) logstash
9 12 (11.21%) Kustomize
10 10 (9.35%) vCenter Server
11 5 (4.67%) Puppet
12 4 (3.74%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (3.74%) Nessus
12 4 (3.74%) Packer
12 4 (3.74%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (2.80%) Control-M
Vendors
1 16 (14.95%) Splunk
2 14 (13.08%) Google
2 14 (13.08%) VMware
3 11 (10.28%) Red Hat
4 10 (9.35%) Atlassian
4 10 (9.35%) Microsoft
5 9 (8.41%) AppDynamics
6 8 (7.48%) IBM
6 8 (7.48%) Oracle
7 2 (1.87%) Pega
7 2 (1.87%) WSO2
8 1 (0.93%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.93%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.93%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.93%) Workday