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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 686 350 624
Rank change year-on-year -336 +274 -93
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 80 332 132
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.077% 0.77% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.75% 4.46% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 38 55 79
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £60,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -27.78% +38.46%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £120,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -27.78% +38.46%

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 10,690 7,442 14,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.28% 17.22% 21.72%
Number of salaries quoted 7,756 4,913 9,061
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -6.31%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £113,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.17% +6.15% -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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -76 30 £68,750 -5.17% 88
South West -48 29 £50,000 - 16
South East -40 11 £80,000 - 18
North of England -240 7 £70,000 +16.67% 25
East of England -42 3 £82,500 +65.00% 5
North East -62 3 £70,000 +16.67% 4
North West -200 3 £70,000 +16.67% 16
Yorkshire -41 1 - - 5
West Midlands -45 1 £44,000 -24.14% 15
Midlands -61 1 £44,000 -24.14% 20
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 (11.25%) Apache
2 8 (10.00%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.25%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.25%) Confluence
3 1 (1.25%) JBoss
3 1 (1.25%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (8.75%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 63 (78.75%) AWS
2 27 (33.75%) Azure
3 17 (21.25%) Amazon EKS
4 16 (20.00%) OpenShift
5 13 (16.25%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (16.25%) GCP
6 12 (15.00%) Serverless
7 10 (12.50%) GitHub
8 9 (11.25%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 9 (11.25%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (8.75%) Amazon S3
10 7 (8.75%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (7.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (7.50%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (5.00%) SaaS
13 3 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (3.75%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (3.75%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.25%) TCP/IP
2 4 (5.00%) DNS
2 4 (5.00%) Firewall
3 3 (3.75%) 4G
3 3 (3.75%) 5G
3 3 (3.75%) HTTP
3 3 (3.75%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (23.75%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (18.75%) Redis
3 12 (15.00%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (13.75%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (11.25%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (8.75%) InfluxDB
7 5 (6.25%) MongoDB
7 5 (6.25%) MySQL
8 4 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (5.00%) Relational Database
9 3 (3.75%) NoSQL
9 3 (3.75%) SQL Server
9 3 (3.75%) ZAP BI
10 2 (2.50%) Big Data
11 1 (1.25%) Flink
11 1 (1.25%) Hadoop
11 1 (1.25%) Looker
11 1 (1.25%) Metadata
11 1 (1.25%) Power BI
11 1 (1.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 45 (56.25%) Jenkins
2 35 (43.75%) GitLab
3 30 (37.50%) Git
4 14 (17.50%) SonarQube
5 11 (13.75%) Selenium
6 8 (10.00%) Cucumber
6 8 (10.00%) Cypress.io
7 7 (8.75%) JIRA
7 7 (8.75%) Robot Framework
7 7 (8.75%) TestRail
8 5 (6.25%) Snyk
9 4 (5.00%) Artifactory
9 4 (5.00%) JUnit
10 3 (3.75%) Bitbucket
10 3 (3.75%) NUnit
10 3 (3.75%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (3.75%) Postman
10 3 (3.75%) TeamCity
11 1 (1.25%) ER Studio
11 1 (1.25%) ERwin
General
1 18 (22.50%) Finance
2 11 (13.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (7.50%) Social Skills
4 5 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.00%) Military
5 4 (5.00%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.75%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.50%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.50%) Law
7 2 (2.50%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.25%) Banking
8 1 (1.25%) Front Office
8 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 23 (28.75%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 13 (16.25%) AWS DevOps
3 13 (16.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 13 (16.25%) AWS Engineer
3 13 (16.25%) Developer
4 8 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 8 (10.00%) Test Engineer
5 5 (6.25%) Automation Tester
5 5 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (6.25%) Python Developer
5 5 (6.25%) Test Automation Engineer
5 5 (6.25%) Tester
6 4 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (5.00%) Java Developer
6 4 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) Senior
6 4 (5.00%) Senior Developer
7 3 (3.75%) Applications Support Analyst
7 3 (3.75%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (68.75%) Terraform
2 20 (25.00%) Kafka
3 13 (16.25%) pytest
4 12 (15.00%) Keycloak
5 11 (13.75%) REST
6 10 (12.50%) RESTful
7 9 (11.25%) Apache NiFi
8 8 (10.00%) Playwright
9 7 (8.75%) Node.js
9 7 (8.75%) React
9 7 (8.75%) Vue
10 6 (7.50%) FastAPI
10 6 (7.50%) Spring
10 6 (7.50%) Spring Boot
11 5 (6.25%) AngularJS
11 5 (6.25%) Flask
12 4 (5.00%) Mustache
12 4 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (5.00%) Web Services
13 3 (3.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.75%) Cloud Native
1 11 (13.75%) Onboarding
2 9 (11.25%) Replication
3 7 (8.75%) Product Ownership
4 5 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.75%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.50%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.50%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.25%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.25%) IoT
7 1 (1.25%) PKI
7 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 46 (57.50%) Linux
2 20 (25.00%) Windows
3 11 (13.75%) CentOS
4 7 (8.75%) Unix
5 6 (7.50%) Windows Server
6 4 (5.00%) Ubuntu
6 4 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.25%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (71.25%) CI/CD
2 55 (68.75%) DevOps
3 49 (61.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (47.50%) Agile
5 33 (41.25%) Test Automation
6 29 (36.25%) Containerisation
7 27 (33.75%) Observability
8 24 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 23 (28.75%) Software Engineering
10 21 (26.25%) Collaborative Culture
11 20 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
12 18 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (15.00%) Change Management
14 12 (15.00%) Computer Science
14 12 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
14 12 (15.00%) Secrets Management
14 12 (15.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 11 (13.75%) Identity Management
16 10 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 55 (68.75%) Python
2 45 (56.25%) Bash
3 27 (33.75%) Java
4 22 (27.50%) JavaScript
5 20 (25.00%) PowerShell
6 14 (17.50%) Rust
7 12 (15.00%) SQL
8 10 (12.50%) C#
9 9 (11.25%) Groovy
10 8 (10.00%) Go
10 8 (10.00%) TypeScript
11 7 (8.75%) C++
11 7 (8.75%) Shell Script
11 7 (8.75%) VBA
12 2 (2.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 46 (57.50%) Security Cleared
2 25 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 15 (18.75%) Degree
4 11 (13.75%) DV Cleared
5 9 (11.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (8.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (5.00%) OCP
7 4 (5.00%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (2.50%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.50%) RHCSA
9 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.50%) QA
2 3 (3.75%) NIST
3 2 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.50%) Def Stans
3 2 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.25%) GDPR
4 1 (1.25%) HIPAA
System Software
1 55 (68.75%) Docker
2 11 (13.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (8.75%) vSphere
4 6 (7.50%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.25%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.25%) Firmware
6 1 (1.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 60 (75.00%) Grafana
2 58 (72.50%) Kubernetes
3 39 (48.75%) Prometheus
4 37 (46.25%) Ansible
5 18 (22.50%) Kibana
6 15 (18.75%) logstash
7 9 (11.25%) Rancher
7 9 (11.25%) vCenter Server
8 7 (8.75%) Puppet
9 4 (5.00%) Argo
9 4 (5.00%) Nessus
9 4 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (3.75%) Control-M
10 3 (3.75%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (1.25%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 15 (18.75%) Red Hat
2 14 (17.50%) Splunk
2 14 (17.50%) VMware
3 10 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 9 (11.25%) Dynatrace
4 9 (11.25%) ServiceNow
5 8 (10.00%) Atlassian
6 3 (3.75%) Oracle
7 1 (1.25%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.25%) Google
7 1 (1.25%) Percona
7 1 (1.25%) Sparx
7 1 (1.25%) YouTube