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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 643 343 671
Rank change year-on-year -300 +328 -136
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 92 345 115
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.10% 0.79% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.98% 4.42% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 54 58 85
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,125 £60,000
25th Percentile £49,063 £55,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £60,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.17% -33.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £86,250 £83,750 £97,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,625 £100,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -33.33% +33.33%

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 9,382 7,805 14,211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.40% 17.97% 18.71%
Number of salaries quoted 7,133 5,251 11,015
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -8.89%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -48 27 £90,000 +50.00% 19
North of England -203 26 £50,000 -16.67% 5
South West -38 25 £50,000 -44.44% 6
South East -26 18 £82,500 -2.94% 3
North East -43 11 £47,500 -20.83% 1
Yorkshire -22 9 £65,000 -7.14%
North West -176 6 £47,500 -20.83% 4
West Midlands -33 2 £53,250 -8.19% 2
Midlands -48 2 £53,250 -8.19% 2
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 9 (9.78%) Apache
2 5 (5.43%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.09%) Confluence
3 1 (1.09%) JBoss
3 1 (1.09%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (7.61%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 79 (85.87%) AWS
2 47 (51.09%) Azure
3 30 (32.61%) GCP
4 20 (21.74%) Serverless
5 19 (20.65%) GitHub
6 18 (19.57%) Amazon EKS
6 18 (19.57%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (19.57%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (14.13%) OpenShift
8 12 (13.04%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (10.87%) Amazon S3
10 9 (9.78%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (9.78%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (9.78%) Datadog
11 7 (7.61%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (5.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (4.35%) SaaS
13 4 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 2 (2.17%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 13 (14.13%) Firewall
2 12 (13.04%) TCP/IP
3 11 (11.96%) DNS
3 11 (11.96%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.96%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (7.61%) InfluxDB
2 7 (7.61%) NoSQL
2 7 (7.61%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (7.61%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.35%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.17%) Big Data
4 2 (2.17%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.09%) Db2
5 1 (1.09%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.09%) Redis
5 1 (1.09%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 55 (59.78%) Jenkins
2 40 (43.48%) GitLab
3 24 (26.09%) Git
4 17 (18.48%) SonarQube
5 14 (15.22%) Cucumber
6 11 (11.96%) JIRA
7 8 (8.70%) CircleCI
7 8 (8.70%) Selenium
8 7 (7.61%) Cypress.io
8 7 (7.61%) Robot Framework
8 7 (7.61%) TestRail
9 6 (6.52%) Artifactory
10 4 (4.35%) Bitbucket
11 3 (3.26%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (3.26%) TeamCity
12 2 (2.17%) JUnit
12 2 (2.17%) Snyk
13 1 (1.09%) JMeter
13 1 (1.09%) LoadRunner
13 1 (1.09%) NUnit
General
1 20 (21.74%) Finance
2 18 (19.57%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.96%) Law
3 11 (11.96%) Telecoms
4 7 (7.61%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.52%) Banking
6 3 (3.26%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.17%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.09%) Front Office
8 1 (1.09%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 34 (36.96%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (20.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (15.22%) Developer
4 13 (14.13%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (11.96%) AWS DevOps
5 11 (11.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 10 (10.87%) Java Developer
6 10 (10.87%) Software Engineer
7 8 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
7 8 (8.70%) Test Engineer
8 7 (7.61%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (6.52%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (6.52%) Senior
9 6 (6.52%) Test Automation Engineer
10 5 (5.43%) DevOps Engineer - Fintech
10 5 (5.43%) Java Engineer
11 4 (4.35%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (4.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 4 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
11 4 (4.35%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.30%) REST
2 12 (13.04%) Kafka
3 11 (11.96%) Spring
3 11 (11.96%) Spring Boot
4 10 (10.87%) AngularJS
5 9 (9.78%) Apache NiFi
5 9 (9.78%) pytest
5 9 (9.78%) RabbitMQ
5 9 (9.78%) React
6 8 (8.70%) Vue
6 8 (8.70%) Web Services
7 7 (7.61%) RESTful
8 6 (6.52%) Node.js
8 6 (6.52%) Playwright
8 6 (6.52%) YAML
9 5 (5.43%) Jakarta EE
10 4 (4.35%) JMS
10 4 (4.35%) JPA
10 4 (4.35%) JSON
11 3 (3.26%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.30%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (11.96%) Onboarding
3 9 (9.78%) Cloud Native
4 8 (8.70%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.26%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (3.26%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.17%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.09%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.09%) IoT
7 1 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 42 (45.65%) Linux
2 19 (20.65%) Windows
3 11 (11.96%) CentOS
4 5 (5.43%) Windows Server
5 4 (4.35%) Ubuntu
5 4 (4.35%) Unix
5 4 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.09%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (77.17%) DevOps
2 67 (72.83%) CI/CD
3 56 (60.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (51.09%) Containerisation
5 34 (36.96%) Agile
6 28 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (29.35%) Software Engineering
8 26 (28.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 25 (27.17%) Microservices
10 23 (25.00%) Test Automation
11 22 (23.91%) Continuous Integration
11 22 (23.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 19 (20.65%) Collaborative Culture
12 19 (20.65%) Continuous Delivery
12 19 (20.65%) High Availability
13 17 (18.48%) Observability
14 16 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (17.39%) DevSecOps
15 15 (16.30%) Computer Science
15 15 (16.30%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 66 (71.74%) Python
2 53 (57.61%) Bash
3 38 (41.30%) Java
4 23 (25.00%) Go
5 20 (21.74%) PowerShell
6 19 (20.65%) JavaScript
6 19 (20.65%) SQL
7 15 (16.30%) Rust
8 10 (10.87%) C#
9 8 (8.70%) C++
9 8 (8.70%) TypeScript
10 7 (7.61%) VBA
11 4 (4.35%) Groovy
11 4 (4.35%) PL/SQL
12 3 (3.26%) Shell Script
13 2 (2.17%) Bicep
13 2 (2.17%) Perl
Qualifications
1 40 (43.48%) Security Cleared
2 19 (20.65%) SC Cleared
3 16 (17.39%) Degree
4 12 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (9.78%) DV Cleared
6 7 (7.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (2.17%) RHCSA
8 1 (1.09%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.09%) OCP
8 1 (1.09%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.13%) QA
2 10 (10.87%) SOC 2
3 8 (8.70%) GDPR
4 7 (7.61%) PCI DSS
5 6 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (2.17%) Def Stans
6 2 (2.17%) NIST
System Software
1 54 (58.70%) Docker
2 11 (11.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (7.61%) vSphere
4 6 (6.52%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (6.52%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.09%) Firmware
5 1 (1.09%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 72 (78.26%) Terraform
2 65 (70.65%) Ansible
3 63 (68.48%) Kubernetes
4 62 (67.39%) Grafana
5 41 (44.57%) Prometheus
6 23 (25.00%) Kibana
7 16 (17.39%) logstash
8 10 (10.87%) vCenter Server
9 6 (6.52%) Argo
10 5 (5.43%) Puppet
11 4 (4.35%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (4.35%) Nessus
11 4 (4.35%) Packer
11 4 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (3.26%) Control-M
13 1 (1.09%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 15 (16.30%) Splunk
2 14 (15.22%) VMware
3 12 (13.04%) Red Hat
4 10 (10.87%) Microsoft
5 9 (9.78%) AppDynamics
5 9 (9.78%) Atlassian
6 8 (8.70%) IBM
7 7 (7.61%) Oracle
8 2 (2.17%) Pega
8 2 (2.17%) WSO2
9 1 (1.09%) Cloudera
9 1 (1.09%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.09%) Google
9 1 (1.09%) Percona