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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 569 334 667
Rank change year-on-year -235 +333 -90
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 114 355 163
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.14% 0.91% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.41% 4.52% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 57 59 126
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,950 £56,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £56,250 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -25.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £86,250 £88,125 £95,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £97,500 £98,625
UK median annual salary £72,500 £60,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +20.83% -25.00% +14.29%

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 8,080 7,850 16,961
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.98% 20.15% 20.19%
Number of salaries quoted 6,111 5,560 14,116
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,500 £51,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £66,240 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% +10.40% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,064
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -45 44 £90,000 +50.00% 11
North of England -180 36 £47,500 -24.00% 4
South East -13 21 £82,500 +5.77% 9
South West -36 20 - - 7
Yorkshire -37 18 £65,000 -7.14%
North East -26 13 £47,500 -17.39% 3
North West -162 5 £47,500 -29.63% 1
Midlands -41 2 £62,500 -
East Midlands -28 1 - -
West Midlands -30 1 £62,500 -
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 13 (11.40%) OpenStack
2 10 (8.77%) Confluence
3 8 (7.02%) Apache
4 1 (0.88%) JBoss
4 1 (0.88%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (3.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (3.51%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 95 (83.33%) AWS
2 48 (42.11%) Azure
3 33 (28.95%) GCP
4 31 (27.19%) Serverless
5 25 (21.93%) Amazon EKS
6 22 (19.30%) GitHub
7 20 (17.54%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (17.54%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (15.79%) Pulumi
9 17 (14.91%) Amazon ECS
10 16 (14.04%) Amazon S3
11 13 (11.40%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (9.65%) Datadog
13 8 (7.02%) Amazon SQS
13 8 (7.02%) OpenShift
14 7 (6.14%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (6.14%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (4.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 3 (2.63%) SaaS
16 3 (2.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (16.67%) Firewall
2 18 (15.79%) Broadband
3 16 (14.04%) DNS
3 16 (14.04%) HTTP
4 15 (13.16%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (28.07%) Relational Database
2 30 (26.32%) NoSQL
3 21 (18.42%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (15.79%) RDBMS
5 9 (7.89%) SQL Server
6 7 (6.14%) DB2
6 7 (6.14%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (4.39%) InfluxDB
8 4 (3.51%) CockroachDB
9 3 (2.63%) Big Data
10 1 (0.88%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.88%) MySQL
10 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 75 (65.79%) Jenkins
2 34 (29.82%) GitLab
3 29 (25.44%) Git
4 21 (18.42%) Cucumber
5 20 (17.54%) JIRA
6 18 (15.79%) Jaeger
6 18 (15.79%) SonarQube
7 14 (12.28%) Selenium
8 11 (9.65%) Bitbucket
9 10 (8.77%) CircleCI
10 8 (7.02%) TeamCity
11 6 (5.26%) Cypress.io
11 6 (5.26%) JUnit
11 6 (5.26%) Robot Framework
12 5 (4.39%) Artifactory
12 5 (4.39%) TestRail
13 4 (3.51%) TestNG
14 3 (2.63%) JMeter
14 3 (2.63%) REST Assured
15 2 (1.75%) Postman
General
1 24 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 19 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (14.04%) Telecoms
4 15 (13.16%) Finance
4 15 (13.16%) Law
5 11 (9.65%) Banking
6 8 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (6.14%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.75%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.75%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (30.70%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (22.81%) Developer
3 23 (20.18%) Java Developer
4 20 (17.54%) Lead
5 17 (14.91%) Cloud Engineer
6 14 (12.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (11.40%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (9.65%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 10 (8.77%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (8.77%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 9 (7.89%) Senior
11 8 (7.02%) AWS DevOps
11 8 (7.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 8 (7.02%) Software Engineer
12 7 (6.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (6.14%) DevOps Engineer - Fintech
13 6 (5.26%) Team Leader
13 6 (5.26%) Test Engineer
14 5 (4.39%) Azure Engineer
14 5 (4.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (22.81%) REST
2 22 (19.30%) React
3 21 (18.42%) Kafka
4 20 (17.54%) Spring
4 20 (17.54%) Spring Boot
5 18 (15.79%) Node.js
5 18 (15.79%) OpenTelemetry
6 16 (14.04%) Web Services
7 11 (9.65%) Mustache
8 9 (7.89%) AngularJS
8 9 (7.89%) RabbitMQ
8 9 (7.89%) RESTful
9 8 (7.02%) Apache NiFi
9 8 (7.02%) Vue
10 7 (6.14%) CSS
10 7 (6.14%) Gherkin
10 7 (6.14%) HTML
10 7 (6.14%) pytest
11 6 (5.26%) JSON
11 6 (5.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (20.18%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (4.39%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.51%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.63%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.63%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.75%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.75%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 46 (40.35%) Linux
2 23 (20.18%) Unix
3 15 (13.16%) Windows
4 7 (6.14%) CentOS
5 3 (2.63%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.75%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (75.44%) DevOps
2 80 (70.18%) CI/CD
3 67 (58.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 61 (53.51%) Agile
4 61 (53.51%) Containerisation
5 52 (45.61%) Continuous Integration
6 44 (38.60%) High Availability
7 38 (33.33%) Microservices
8 28 (24.56%) Mentoring
9 27 (23.68%) Test Automation
10 25 (21.93%) Continuous Delivery
10 25 (21.93%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (21.93%) Scrum
11 23 (20.18%) Full-Stack Development
11 23 (20.18%) Software Engineering
11 23 (20.18%) Static Code Analysis
12 22 (19.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 21 (18.42%) GitOps
13 21 (18.42%) Task Automation
14 19 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 78 (68.42%) Python
2 69 (60.53%) Bash
3 66 (57.89%) Java
4 50 (43.86%) JavaScript
5 45 (39.47%) Go
6 31 (27.19%) SQL
7 15 (13.16%) PowerShell
8 8 (7.02%) Rust
8 8 (7.02%) TypeScript
9 6 (5.26%) C++
10 5 (4.39%) C#
11 4 (3.51%) Groovy
11 4 (3.51%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.75%) Bicep
12 2 (1.75%) Perl
12 2 (1.75%) RPG
12 2 (1.75%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.88%) Ruby
13 1 (0.88%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 29 (25.44%) Security Cleared
2 18 (15.79%) AWS Certification
3 11 (9.65%) SC Cleared
4 8 (7.02%) Degree
5 7 (6.14%) DV Cleared
6 6 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (4.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.40%) QA
2 12 (10.53%) SOC 2
3 10 (8.77%) GDPR
4 9 (7.89%) PCI DSS
5 5 (4.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.88%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.88%) NIST
System Software
1 76 (66.67%) Docker
2 7 (6.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (3.51%) vSphere
4 1 (0.88%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 81 (71.05%) Kubernetes
1 81 (71.05%) Terraform
2 80 (70.18%) Ansible
3 55 (48.25%) Prometheus
4 54 (47.37%) Grafana
5 22 (19.30%) Argo
6 18 (15.79%) Kibana
6 18 (15.79%) Kustomize
7 11 (9.65%) logstash
8 6 (5.26%) vCenter Server
9 4 (3.51%) Packer
9 4 (3.51%) Puppet
10 3 (2.63%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (1.75%) Control-M
11 2 (1.75%) Nessus
11 2 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (17.54%) Google
2 14 (12.28%) Splunk
3 11 (9.65%) Atlassian
4 10 (8.77%) IBM
4 10 (8.77%) Oracle
5 9 (7.89%) AppDynamics
5 9 (7.89%) VMware
6 7 (6.14%) Red Hat
7 6 (5.26%) Microsoft
8 2 (1.75%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.75%) Pega
8 2 (1.75%) WSO2
9 1 (0.88%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.88%) Workday