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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 586 511
Rank change year-on-year +259 -75 +106
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 340 129 194
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.80% 0.21% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.06% 1.02% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 56 77 141
10th Percentile £47,500 £60,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £72,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £90,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +38.46% -23.53%
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £90,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -22.22% +38.46% -18.75%

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 6,723 12,597 13,423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.72% 20.32% 27.05%
Number of salaries quoted 4,412 7,725 10,940
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £88,750 £85,420 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%

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 22 October 2025.

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 22 October 2025. 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
North of England +189 269 £60,000 -20.00% 19
North West +167 261 £60,000 -20.00% 11
London +25 42 £82,500 -17.50% 47
Midlands - 15 £59,000 - 5
East Midlands - 8 - - 2
West Midlands - 7 £59,000 - 3
South East +25 6 £41,000 -38.35% 41
Yorkshire +9 5 £67,500 - 7
North East +18 3 £60,000 -14.29% 1
South West +10 3 - - 8
East of England +9 3 £50,000 -35.48% 4
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 7 (2.06%) Apache
2 6 (1.76%) OpenStack
3 5 (1.47%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.18%) JBoss
4 4 (1.18%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.59%) Confluence
5 2 (0.59%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.59%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.29%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 54 (15.88%) AWS
2 30 (8.82%) Azure
3 20 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
4 18 (5.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 13 (3.82%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (3.53%) Serverless
6 12 (3.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 11 (3.24%) GCP
8 10 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (2.65%) Amazon S3
10 8 (2.35%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (2.06%) AWS CodeBuild
11 7 (2.06%) OpenShift
11 7 (2.06%) Route 53
12 6 (1.76%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.76%) GitHub
13 5 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.47%) Datadog
14 4 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (1.18%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 265 (77.94%) VPN
2 262 (77.06%) Cisco IOS
3 4 (1.18%) DNS
3 4 (1.18%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.88%) Firewall
4 3 (0.88%) SAN
5 2 (0.59%) Broadband
5 2 (0.59%) DHCP
5 2 (0.59%) Network Security
5 2 (0.59%) SSL
6 1 (0.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.12%) Elasticsearch
1 14 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (2.94%) Relational Database
3 9 (2.65%) NoSQL
3 9 (2.65%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.06%) Redis
5 5 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.18%) DB2
7 2 (0.59%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.59%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.59%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.59%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.29%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.29%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 33 (9.71%) Jenkins
2 19 (5.59%) Git
3 17 (5.00%) GitLab
4 14 (4.12%) JIRA
5 13 (3.82%) Artifactory
6 11 (3.24%) TeamCity
7 8 (2.35%) Bitbucket
7 8 (2.35%) CircleCI
7 8 (2.35%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (1.76%) Maven
9 5 (1.47%) Selenium
9 5 (1.47%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.18%) Ant
10 4 (1.18%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.18%) Jaeger
11 3 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (0.88%) Robot Framework
12 2 (0.59%) Gradle
12 2 (0.59%) JUnit
12 2 (0.59%) TestRail
General
1 279 (82.06%) Analytical Skills
2 265 (77.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 26 (7.65%) Social Skills
4 14 (4.12%) Finance
5 9 (2.65%) Public Sector
6 6 (1.76%) Banking
7 3 (0.88%) Automotive
7 3 (0.88%) Law
8 2 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.59%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.29%) Advertising
9 1 (0.29%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.29%) Games
Job Titles
1 264 (77.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 26 (7.65%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (4.12%) Developer
4 11 (3.24%) AWS Engineer
5 10 (2.94%) Java Developer
5 10 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
6 9 (2.65%) AWS DevOps
7 8 (2.35%) Senior
8 7 (2.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 7 (2.06%) Senior DevOps
8 7 (2.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 5 (1.47%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (1.47%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (1.47%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 5 (1.47%) Linux Engineer
10 4 (1.18%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.18%) Lead
10 4 (1.18%) Linux Scripter
10 4 (1.18%) Linux/Unix DevOps
10 4 (1.18%) Windows DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.53%) Node.js
2 10 (2.94%) Kafka
3 9 (2.65%) Web Services
4 8 (2.35%) OpenTelemetry
5 7 (2.06%) CSS
5 7 (2.06%) HTML
5 7 (2.06%) React
5 7 (2.06%) REST
5 7 (2.06%) RESTful
6 6 (1.76%) Spring
6 6 (1.76%) Spring Boot
7 5 (1.47%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (1.18%) .NET
8 4 (1.18%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.18%) Apache Camel
8 4 (1.18%) Middleware
9 3 (0.88%) ASP.NET
9 3 (0.88%) CSS3
9 3 (0.88%) Entity Framework
9 3 (0.88%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 262 (77.06%) Cyberattack
2 11 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (1.76%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.59%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (0.59%) Cloud Native
6 2 (0.59%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (0.59%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (0.59%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.59%) Security Posture
6 2 (0.59%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.29%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.29%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.29%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.29%) Online Games
7 1 (0.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 311 (91.47%) Linux
2 286 (84.12%) Windows
3 262 (77.06%) Android
4 8 (2.35%) Ubuntu
4 8 (2.35%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.06%) Debian
5 7 (2.06%) Unix
6 6 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.29%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (91.76%) DevOps
2 294 (86.47%) Problem-Solving
3 271 (79.71%) Platform Engineering
4 269 (79.12%) Task Automation
5 268 (78.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 266 (78.24%) Storage Management
7 262 (77.06%) Line Management
7 262 (77.06%) Mathematics
7 262 (77.06%) Risk Management
8 50 (14.71%) CI/CD
9 37 (10.88%) Infrastructure as Code
10 29 (8.53%) Agile
11 23 (6.76%) Containerisation
12 22 (6.47%) Configuration Management
12 22 (6.47%) Continuous Integration
13 15 (4.41%) Observability
14 14 (4.12%) Root Cause Analysis
15 13 (3.82%) Microservices
16 12 (3.53%) Continuous Improvement
16 12 (3.53%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 311 (91.47%) Python
2 299 (87.94%) Bash
3 273 (80.29%) PowerShell
4 18 (5.29%) Java
5 15 (4.41%) JavaScript
6 14 (4.12%) SQL
7 9 (2.65%) Go
8 7 (2.06%) C#
9 6 (1.76%) Groovy
10 4 (1.18%) Perl
10 4 (1.18%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.88%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.59%) Scala
13 1 (0.29%) Bicep
13 1 (0.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (6.18%) Security Cleared
2 12 (3.53%) Degree
2 12 (3.53%) DV Cleared
3 11 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (2.94%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.18%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.59%) CISSP
6 2 (0.59%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.29%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.29%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (0.59%) GDPR
2 2 (0.59%) NIST
2 2 (0.59%) QA
3 1 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 314 (92.35%) Docker
2 265 (77.94%) vSphere
3 262 (77.06%) Hyper-V
3 262 (77.06%) VMware NSX
4 7 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 306 (90.00%) Terraform
2 305 (89.71%) Ansible
3 55 (16.18%) Kubernetes
4 37 (10.88%) Grafana
5 36 (10.59%) Prometheus
6 10 (2.94%) Kibana
7 8 (2.35%) logstash
7 8 (2.35%) Puppet
8 5 (1.47%) Argo
9 4 (1.18%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (1.18%) Podman
9 4 (1.18%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.88%) Control-M
10 3 (0.88%) SCOM
11 2 (0.59%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.59%) Sysdig
12 1 (0.29%) Nagios
12 1 (0.29%) Nessus
Vendors
1 283 (83.24%) Splunk
2 262 (77.06%) 3PAR
2 262 (77.06%) Cisco
2 262 (77.06%) Juniper
3 10 (2.94%) VMware
4 6 (1.76%) Atlassian
4 6 (1.76%) Google
4 6 (1.76%) Microsoft
5 4 (1.18%) Dynatrace
5 4 (1.18%) Foundry
5 4 (1.18%) LogRhythm
5 4 (1.18%) Palantir
5 4 (1.18%) Pega
5 4 (1.18%) Red Hat
5 4 (1.18%) WSO2
6 2 (0.59%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.59%) ArcSight
6 2 (0.59%) Oracle
6 2 (0.59%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.29%) BMC