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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 549 526
Rank change year-on-year +54 -23 +136
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 103 122 172
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.20% 0.25% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.66% 1.17% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 62 68 113
10th Percentile £52,400 £49,250 £50,700
25th Percentile £55,000 £69,375 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £107,500 £97,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £111,250 £101,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £71,250 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -10.94% +6.67% -3.23%

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 6,192 10,388 12,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.85% 21.51% 24.37%
Number of salaries quoted 4,759 6,104 10,139
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,087 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 11 January 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 January 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 +25 55 £95,000 +10.47% 13
North of England +25 24 £60,000 -20.00% 12
Yorkshire -10 11 £65,000 - 3
South East +20 10 £41,000 -47.44% 9
South West -5 9 £42,750 -46.56% 5
North West +22 8 £60,000 -20.00% 4
North East +9 5 £57,600 -8.93% 5
Midlands - 5 £55,200 - 7
West Midlands - 3 £55,200 - 7
East Midlands - 2 £55,200 -
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 (12.62%) Confluence
1 13 (12.62%) OpenStack
2 6 (5.83%) Apache
3 5 (4.85%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.94%) JBoss
4 2 (1.94%) Luigi
4 2 (1.94%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (8.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (8.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 75 (72.82%) AWS
2 35 (33.98%) Azure
3 23 (22.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 23 (22.33%) GitHub
4 20 (19.42%) Serverless
5 18 (17.48%) AWS CloudFormation
6 17 (16.50%) Amazon EKS
7 15 (14.56%) Amazon ECS
7 15 (14.56%) GCP
8 14 (13.59%) Amazon S3
8 14 (13.59%) OpenShift
9 13 (12.62%) Pulumi
10 12 (11.65%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (8.74%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (7.77%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (7.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (6.80%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (6.80%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (5.83%) Datadog
15 4 (3.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.62%) Broadband
2 6 (5.83%) DNS
2 6 (5.83%) Firewall
2 6 (5.83%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.88%) HTTP
4 3 (2.91%) VPN
5 2 (1.94%) SAN
5 2 (1.94%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (33.98%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (27.18%) Relational Database
3 23 (22.33%) SQL Server
4 22 (21.36%) NoSQL
5 13 (12.62%) DB2
5 13 (12.62%) RDBMS
6 6 (5.83%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (4.85%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (3.88%) CockroachDB
9 2 (1.94%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.94%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.94%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (1.94%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.94%) InfluxDB
9 2 (1.94%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.94%) MySQL
9 2 (1.94%) Redis
10 1 (0.97%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 63 (61.17%) Jenkins
2 29 (28.16%) Git
3 27 (26.21%) GitLab
4 25 (24.27%) Selenium
5 23 (22.33%) Cucumber
6 21 (20.39%) JIRA
7 18 (17.48%) TeamCity
8 16 (15.53%) Bitbucket
9 15 (14.56%) Jaeger
10 14 (13.59%) JUnit
11 10 (9.71%) Artifactory
12 9 (8.74%) SonarQube
13 6 (5.83%) Maven
13 6 (5.83%) Robot Framework
13 6 (5.83%) Sonatype Nexus
14 4 (3.88%) CircleCI
14 4 (3.88%) Gradle
14 4 (3.88%) TestNG
14 4 (3.88%) TestRail
15 3 (2.91%) REST Assured
General
1 35 (33.98%) Social Skills
2 17 (16.50%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (16.50%) Finance
3 14 (13.59%) Banking
4 13 (12.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (8.74%) Public Sector
5 9 (8.74%) Telecoms
6 5 (4.85%) Law
7 2 (1.94%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.94%) Retail
8 1 (0.97%) Games
Job Titles
1 33 (32.04%) Developer
2 25 (24.27%) Java Developer
3 22 (21.36%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (14.56%) Full-Stack Developer
4 15 (14.56%) Lead
5 14 (13.59%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 13 (12.62%) Senior
7 12 (11.65%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (8.74%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (6.80%) Agile Developer
9 7 (6.80%) Agile Java Developer
9 7 (6.80%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 7 (6.80%) Senior Developer
10 6 (5.83%) Senior DevOps
10 6 (5.83%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 6 (5.83%) Software Developer
11 5 (4.85%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (4.85%) Senior Software Developer
11 5 (4.85%) Software Engineer
11 5 (4.85%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (24.27%) Node.js
2 23 (22.33%) React
3 22 (21.36%) Spring
3 22 (21.36%) Spring Boot
4 19 (18.45%) OpenTelemetry
5 15 (14.56%) Kafka
5 15 (14.56%) REST
6 13 (12.62%) CSS
6 13 (12.62%) HTML
6 13 (12.62%) RESTful
7 12 (11.65%) pytest
7 12 (11.65%) Web Services
8 11 (10.68%) Gherkin
9 9 (8.74%) Mustache
10 7 (6.80%) Django
10 7 (6.80%) Flask
11 5 (4.85%) AngularJS
12 4 (3.88%) Apache Camel
13 3 (2.91%) Express.js
13 3 (2.91%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 18 (17.48%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (12.62%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (6.80%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (6.80%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.88%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.94%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.94%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (1.94%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.94%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.94%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.94%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.94%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.94%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.97%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 50 (48.54%) Linux
2 23 (22.33%) Windows
3 20 (19.42%) Unix
4 5 (4.85%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.91%) Debian
5 3 (2.91%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.94%) CentOS
6 2 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (74.76%) CI/CD
2 73 (70.87%) DevOps
3 60 (58.25%) Agile
4 50 (48.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 47 (45.63%) Containerisation
6 43 (41.75%) Continuous Integration
7 33 (32.04%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (30.10%) Microservices
9 28 (27.18%) Test Automation
10 26 (25.24%) Scrum
11 24 (23.30%) Software Engineering
12 23 (22.33%) BDD
12 23 (22.33%) High Availability
13 22 (21.36%) TDD
14 21 (20.39%) Mentoring
14 21 (20.39%) Task Automation
15 20 (19.42%) Full-Stack Development
16 19 (18.45%) Static Code Analysis
17 17 (16.50%) Continuous Improvement
17 17 (16.50%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 65 (63.11%) Python
2 57 (55.34%) Java
3 49 (47.57%) Bash
4 44 (42.72%) JavaScript
5 29 (28.16%) SQL
6 23 (22.33%) Go
7 15 (14.56%) PowerShell
8 7 (6.80%) Delphi
9 5 (4.85%) C#
10 4 (3.88%) Groovy
10 4 (3.88%) TypeScript
11 3 (2.91%) RPG
12 2 (1.94%) Scala
12 2 (1.94%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.97%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 18 (17.48%) Security Cleared
2 15 (14.56%) AWS Certification
3 14 (13.59%) Degree
3 14 (13.59%) DV Cleared
4 13 (12.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.91%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (1.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.94%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.97%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.85%) QA
System Software
1 80 (77.67%) Docker
2 5 (4.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.88%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 85 (82.52%) Kubernetes
2 56 (54.37%) Terraform
3 54 (52.43%) Ansible
4 49 (47.57%) Prometheus
5 46 (44.66%) Grafana
6 17 (16.50%) Argo
7 13 (12.62%) Kustomize
8 5 (4.85%) Kibana
8 5 (4.85%) logstash
9 4 (3.88%) Puppet
10 3 (2.91%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (1.94%) Control-M
11 2 (1.94%) Nessus
11 2 (1.94%) Podman
11 2 (1.94%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.94%) Sysdig
12 1 (0.97%) SCOM
Vendors
1 17 (16.50%) Google
1 17 (16.50%) Splunk
2 14 (13.59%) Oracle
3 13 (12.62%) Atlassian
4 9 (8.74%) VMware
5 4 (3.88%) Foundry
5 4 (3.88%) Palantir
5 4 (3.88%) Pega
5 4 (3.88%) WSO2
6 3 (2.91%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.91%) IBM
6 3 (2.91%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.91%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.97%) BMC
7 1 (0.97%) SolarWinds