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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 548 499 634
Rank change year-on-year -49 +135 -38
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 130 99 176
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.17% 0.27% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.70% 1.27% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 68 67 131
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £47,188 £56,875 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,250 £67,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -15.63% +6.67%
75th Percentile £86,563 £86,875 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £96,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £66,500 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% -12.50% +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 7,661 7,772 16,893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.07% 20.97% 20.62%
Number of salaries quoted 5,785 5,903 14,114
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,268 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.91% +10.45% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -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 16 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 16 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 -13 52 £85,000 +30.77% 9
North of England -35 39 £47,500 -36.67% 7
South West -38 22 £42,750 -52.50% 9
Yorkshire -34 19 £63,750 - 4
South East -38 19 £82,500 +5.77% 2
North East -23 14 £47,500 -22.45% 2
North West -33 6 £47,500 -36.67% 1
Midlands - 5 £55,200 - 2
West Midlands - 3 £55,200 - 1
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 (10.00%) Confluence
2 11 (8.46%) OpenStack
3 8 (6.15%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (5.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (5.38%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 107 (82.31%) AWS
2 53 (40.77%) Azure
3 36 (27.69%) GCP
4 35 (26.92%) GitHub
5 30 (23.08%) Serverless
6 25 (19.23%) GitHub Actions
7 24 (18.46%) Amazon EKS
7 24 (18.46%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (14.62%) Pulumi
10 17 (13.08%) OpenShift
11 15 (11.54%) Amazon ECS
11 15 (11.54%) Amazon S3
12 14 (10.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (9.23%) Datadog
14 8 (6.15%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (5.38%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (5.38%) Amazon SQS
16 3 (2.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 2 (1.54%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 22 (16.92%) Firewall
2 19 (14.62%) Broadband
2 19 (14.62%) HTTP
3 18 (13.85%) DNS
3 18 (13.85%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.77%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (25.38%) NoSQL
1 33 (25.38%) Relational Database
2 30 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (14.62%) RDBMS
3 19 (14.62%) SQL Server
4 11 (8.46%) DB2
5 7 (5.38%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (5.38%) InfluxDB
6 4 (3.08%) CockroachDB
7 3 (2.31%) Big Data
7 3 (2.31%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.31%) MySQL
8 2 (1.54%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.77%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.77%) Redis
Development Applications
1 94 (72.31%) Jenkins
2 45 (34.62%) GitLab
3 34 (26.15%) Git
4 32 (24.62%) Cucumber
5 27 (20.77%) Selenium
6 23 (17.69%) JIRA
7 20 (15.38%) Jaeger
8 19 (14.62%) SonarQube
9 15 (11.54%) Bitbucket
10 13 (10.00%) JUnit
11 12 (9.23%) Robot Framework
11 12 (9.23%) TeamCity
12 10 (7.69%) CircleCI
13 9 (6.92%) TestRail
14 6 (4.62%) Artifactory
14 6 (4.62%) Cypress.io
15 5 (3.85%) JMeter
16 4 (3.08%) TestNG
17 3 (2.31%) Eclipse
17 3 (2.31%) REST Assured
General
1 40 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 21 (16.15%) Telecoms
3 19 (14.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (13.85%) Law
5 15 (11.54%) Banking
6 14 (10.77%) Finance
7 12 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (5.38%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.54%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.54%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (31.54%) DevOps Engineer
2 34 (26.15%) Developer
3 25 (19.23%) Java Developer
4 21 (16.15%) Lead
5 16 (12.31%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (11.54%) Senior
7 13 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (8.46%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 10 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (7.69%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 9 (6.92%) AWS DevOps
10 9 (6.92%) Software Engineer
11 8 (6.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 8 (6.15%) Tester
12 7 (5.38%) Azure Engineer
12 7 (5.38%) DevOps Engineer - Fintech
12 7 (5.38%) Senior Developer
12 7 (5.38%) Software Developer
12 7 (5.38%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (19.23%) React
1 25 (19.23%) Spring
1 25 (19.23%) Spring Boot
2 23 (17.69%) REST
3 20 (15.38%) Kafka
3 20 (15.38%) Node.js
3 20 (15.38%) OpenTelemetry
4 15 (11.54%) pytest
5 14 (10.77%) Web Services
6 13 (10.00%) RESTful
7 11 (8.46%) CSS
7 11 (8.46%) HTML
8 10 (7.69%) Gherkin
9 9 (6.92%) Mustache
9 9 (6.92%) RabbitMQ
10 8 (6.15%) AngularJS
10 8 (6.15%) Apache NiFi
10 8 (6.15%) Vue
11 7 (5.38%) Django
11 7 (5.38%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.15%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (6.15%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (5.38%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.38%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.08%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.31%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.54%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.54%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.77%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 49 (37.69%) Linux
2 26 (20.00%) Unix
3 17 (13.08%) Windows
4 7 (5.38%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (78.46%) DevOps
2 98 (75.38%) CI/CD
3 76 (58.46%) Containerisation
4 75 (57.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 70 (53.85%) Agile
6 64 (49.23%) Continuous Integration
7 49 (37.69%) High Availability
8 45 (34.62%) Microservices
9 39 (30.00%) Test Automation
10 38 (29.23%) Problem-Solving
11 34 (26.15%) Mentoring
12 32 (24.62%) Software Engineering
13 30 (23.08%) Static Code Analysis
14 27 (20.77%) Continuous Delivery
15 26 (20.00%) Scrum
15 26 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 25 (19.23%) BDD
17 24 (18.46%) Task Automation
18 23 (17.69%) Full-Stack Development
19 22 (16.92%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 92 (70.77%) Python
2 80 (61.54%) Bash
3 74 (56.92%) Java
4 55 (42.31%) JavaScript
5 50 (38.46%) Go
6 34 (26.15%) SQL
7 18 (13.85%) PowerShell
8 8 (6.15%) TypeScript
9 7 (5.38%) Delphi
10 6 (4.62%) Rust
11 5 (3.85%) C++
11 5 (3.85%) Groovy
12 4 (3.08%) PL/SQL
13 3 (2.31%) C#
13 3 (2.31%) RPG
14 2 (1.54%) Bicep
14 2 (1.54%) Perl
14 2 (1.54%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.77%) Ruby
15 1 (0.77%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (25.38%) Security Cleared
2 19 (14.62%) AWS Certification
3 12 (9.23%) DV Cleared
4 8 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (6.15%) Degree
4 8 (6.15%) SC Cleared
5 7 (5.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (1.54%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.77%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.23%) SOC 2
2 11 (8.46%) QA
3 10 (7.69%) GDPR
4 9 (6.92%) PCI DSS
5 4 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.77%) NIST
System Software
1 92 (70.77%) Docker
2 4 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.77%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 97 (74.62%) Kubernetes
2 88 (67.69%) Terraform
3 83 (63.85%) Ansible
4 69 (53.08%) Grafana
5 62 (47.69%) Prometheus
6 23 (17.69%) Argo
7 19 (14.62%) Kustomize
8 17 (13.08%) Kibana
9 11 (8.46%) logstash
10 4 (3.08%) Packer
10 4 (3.08%) vCenter Server
11 2 (1.54%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (1.54%) Nessus
11 2 (1.54%) Puppet
12 1 (0.77%) Control-M
12 1 (0.77%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 21 (16.15%) Google
2 19 (14.62%) Oracle
2 19 (14.62%) Splunk
3 15 (11.54%) Atlassian
4 11 (8.46%) IBM
5 9 (6.92%) AppDynamics
6 7 (5.38%) Red Hat
7 6 (4.62%) VMware
8 2 (1.54%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.54%) Microsoft
8 2 (1.54%) Pega
8 2 (1.54%) WSO2
9 1 (0.77%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.77%) Workday