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 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 546 503 642
Rank change year-on-year -43 +139 -48
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 126 96 180
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.17% 0.26% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.66% 1.23% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 70 64 135
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £47,813 £60,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -9.38% +6.67%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,813 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £97,125 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +6.67%

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 7,588 7,803 16,781
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.22% 21.31% 20.86%
Number of salaries quoted 5,757 5,952 14,017
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,296 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,064
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,206 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +10.34% -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 11 April 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 11 April 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 -18 53 £85,000 +30.77% 14
North of England -41 39 £47,500 -36.67% 11
Yorkshire -37 19 £63,750 - 4
South East -39 18 £82,500 +5.77% 13
South West -35 17 £42,750 -52.50% 3
North East -17 14 £47,500 -22.45% 5
North West -36 6 £47,500 -36.67% 2
Midlands - 6 £55,200 - 1
West Midlands - 4 £58,850 -
East Midlands - 2 £55,200 - 1
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 (10.32%) Confluence
2 11 (8.73%) OpenStack
3 6 (4.76%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (5.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 103 (81.75%) AWS
2 53 (42.06%) Azure
3 37 (29.37%) GCP
3 37 (29.37%) GitHub
4 30 (23.81%) Serverless
5 27 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (19.05%) Amazon EKS
7 22 (17.46%) AWS CloudFormation
7 22 (17.46%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (15.08%) Pulumi
9 15 (11.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 15 (11.90%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (11.90%) Amazon S3
9 15 (11.90%) OpenShift
10 14 (11.11%) Datadog
11 8 (6.35%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (2.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 2 (1.59%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 21 (16.67%) Firewall
2 19 (15.08%) Broadband
2 19 (15.08%) HTTP
3 18 (14.29%) DNS
3 18 (14.29%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.79%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (27.78%) NoSQL
2 33 (26.19%) Relational Database
3 30 (23.81%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (15.08%) RDBMS
4 19 (15.08%) SQL Server
5 11 (8.73%) DB2
6 6 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (3.97%) InfluxDB
8 4 (3.17%) CockroachDB
9 3 (2.38%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.38%) MySQL
10 2 (1.59%) Big Data
10 2 (1.59%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.79%) Redis
Development Applications
1 91 (72.22%) Jenkins
2 43 (34.13%) GitLab
3 32 (25.40%) Git
4 30 (23.81%) Cucumber
5 26 (20.63%) Selenium
6 22 (17.46%) JIRA
7 20 (15.87%) Jaeger
8 17 (13.49%) SonarQube
9 15 (11.90%) Bitbucket
10 13 (10.32%) JUnit
11 12 (9.52%) TeamCity
12 10 (7.94%) CircleCI
12 10 (7.94%) Robot Framework
13 7 (5.56%) TestRail
14 6 (4.76%) Artifactory
15 5 (3.97%) Cypress.io
15 5 (3.97%) JMeter
16 4 (3.17%) TestNG
17 3 (2.38%) Eclipse
17 3 (2.38%) REST Assured
General
1 42 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 23 (18.25%) Telecoms
3 19 (15.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (14.29%) Law
5 15 (11.90%) Banking
6 13 (10.32%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (10.32%) Finance
7 7 (5.56%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.59%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.59%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (31.75%) DevOps Engineer
2 34 (26.98%) Developer
3 25 (19.84%) Java Developer
4 21 (16.67%) Lead
5 16 (12.70%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (11.90%) Senior
7 13 (10.32%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (8.73%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 10 (7.94%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (7.94%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 9 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
10 9 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (6.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 8 (6.35%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer - Fintech
12 7 (5.56%) Senior Developer
12 7 (5.56%) Software Developer
12 7 (5.56%) Software Engineer
12 7 (5.56%) Team Leader
13 6 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (19.84%) React
1 25 (19.84%) Spring
1 25 (19.84%) Spring Boot
2 22 (17.46%) REST
3 20 (15.87%) Node.js
3 20 (15.87%) OpenTelemetry
4 19 (15.08%) Kafka
5 14 (11.11%) pytest
5 14 (11.11%) Web Services
6 13 (10.32%) RESTful
7 11 (8.73%) CSS
7 11 (8.73%) HTML
8 10 (7.94%) Gherkin
9 9 (7.14%) Mustache
9 9 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
10 8 (6.35%) AngularJS
11 7 (5.56%) Django
11 7 (5.56%) Flask
12 6 (4.76%) Apache NiFi
12 6 (4.76%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (7.94%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (6.35%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (4.76%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.17%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.38%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.59%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.79%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 47 (37.30%) Linux
2 27 (21.43%) Unix
3 16 (12.70%) Windows
4 5 (3.97%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (79.37%) DevOps
2 95 (75.40%) CI/CD
3 75 (59.52%) Containerisation
4 74 (58.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 68 (53.97%) Agile
6 64 (50.79%) Continuous Integration
7 49 (38.89%) High Availability
8 45 (35.71%) Microservices
9 38 (30.16%) Problem-Solving
10 36 (28.57%) Test Automation
11 34 (26.98%) Mentoring
12 30 (23.81%) Software Engineering
12 30 (23.81%) Static Code Analysis
13 27 (21.43%) Continuous Delivery
13 27 (21.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 26 (20.63%) Scrum
14 26 (20.63%) Task Automation
15 25 (19.84%) BDD
16 22 (17.46%) GitOps
16 22 (17.46%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 89 (70.63%) Python
2 77 (61.11%) Bash
3 72 (57.14%) Java
4 52 (41.27%) JavaScript
5 49 (38.89%) Go
6 35 (27.78%) SQL
7 17 (13.49%) PowerShell
8 7 (5.56%) Delphi
9 6 (4.76%) TypeScript
10 5 (3.97%) Groovy
11 4 (3.17%) PL/SQL
11 4 (3.17%) Rust
12 3 (2.38%) C#
12 3 (2.38%) C++
12 3 (2.38%) RPG
13 2 (1.59%) Perl
14 1 (0.79%) Bicep
14 1 (0.79%) Ruby
14 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 19 (15.08%) AWS Certification
3 10 (7.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (7.94%) Degree
3 10 (7.94%) DV Cleared
4 8 (6.35%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (1.59%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.79%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.52%) SOC 2
2 11 (8.73%) QA
3 10 (7.94%) GDPR
4 9 (7.14%) PCI DSS
5 4 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.79%) NIST
System Software
1 90 (71.43%) Docker
2 3 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 95 (75.40%) Kubernetes
2 86 (68.25%) Terraform
3 81 (64.29%) Ansible
4 65 (51.59%) Grafana
5 62 (49.21%) Prometheus
6 23 (18.25%) Argo
7 19 (15.08%) Kustomize
8 14 (11.11%) Kibana
9 9 (7.14%) logstash
10 4 (3.17%) Packer
11 3 (2.38%) vCenter Server
12 2 (1.59%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (1.59%) Nessus
13 1 (0.79%) Control-M
13 1 (0.79%) Puppet
13 1 (0.79%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 21 (16.67%) Google
2 19 (15.08%) Oracle
2 19 (15.08%) Splunk
3 14 (11.11%) Atlassian
4 11 (8.73%) IBM
5 9 (7.14%) AppDynamics
6 5 (3.97%) Red Hat
6 5 (3.97%) VMware
7 2 (1.59%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.59%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.59%) Pega
7 2 (1.59%) WSO2
8 1 (0.79%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.79%) Workday