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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 517 588 534
Rank change year-on-year +71 -54 +153
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 90 131 175
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.21% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.42% 1.03% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 67 81 123
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £50,400
25th Percentile £55,000 £71,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -16.42%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £114,750 £105,000 £99,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year -12.50% +16.36% -14.06%

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 6,342 12,679 12,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.73% 20.61% 26.62%
Number of salaries quoted 4,764 7,688 10,190
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +0.75%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -1.52% +1.54%

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 23 November 2025.

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 23 November 2025. 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 +36 47 £85,000 -15.00% 10
North of England +40 21 £60,000 -20.00% 5
North West +50 11 £60,000 -20.00% 1
South East +43 7 £41,000 -47.44% 9
Midlands - 7 £55,200 - 10
North East +21 6 £60,000 -14.29% 2
West Midlands - 6 £56,100 - 8
Yorkshire +11 4 £62,500 - 2
South West +3 4 £42,750 -46.56% 3
East of England +30 3 £50,000 -
East Midlands - 1 £55,200 - 2
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 7 (7.78%) Apache
2 6 (6.67%) Confluence
2 6 (6.67%) OpenStack
3 5 (5.56%) Apache Spark
4 3 (3.33%) JBoss
4 3 (3.33%) WebSphere
5 2 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (2.22%) Luigi
Applications
1 6 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (6.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.11%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 64 (71.11%) AWS
2 37 (41.11%) Azure
3 27 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 23 (25.56%) AWS CloudFormation
5 19 (21.11%) GitHub
6 18 (20.00%) GCP
7 15 (16.67%) OpenShift
8 13 (14.44%) Serverless
9 11 (12.22%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (12.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 10 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (8.89%) Amazon S3
11 8 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (8.89%) Datadog
12 7 (7.78%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (6.67%) AWS CodeBuild
13 6 (6.67%) Route 53
14 4 (4.44%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.67%) Firewall
2 5 (5.56%) DNS
2 5 (5.56%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.44%) SAN
4 3 (3.33%) HTTP
4 3 (3.33%) VPN
5 2 (2.22%) Network Security
5 2 (2.22%) SSL
6 1 (1.11%) Broadband
6 1 (1.11%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (27.78%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (22.22%) SQL Server
3 12 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (12.22%) NoSQL
4 11 (12.22%) Relational Database
5 8 (8.89%) DB2
6 7 (7.78%) Redis
7 5 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (2.22%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.22%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (2.22%) Hadoop
8 2 (2.22%) InfluxDB
8 2 (2.22%) MongoDB
8 2 (2.22%) MySQL
9 1 (1.11%) Big Data
9 1 (1.11%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 51 (56.67%) Jenkins
2 28 (31.11%) GitLab
3 24 (26.67%) Git
4 18 (20.00%) JIRA
5 17 (18.89%) Selenium
6 16 (17.78%) Cucumber
7 15 (16.67%) TeamCity
8 14 (15.56%) Bitbucket
9 13 (14.44%) Artifactory
10 9 (10.00%) JUnit
11 8 (8.89%) SonarQube
12 7 (7.78%) CircleCI
12 7 (7.78%) Sonatype Nexus
13 6 (6.67%) Robot Framework
14 5 (5.56%) Maven
15 4 (4.44%) Octopus Deploy
15 4 (4.44%) TestRail
16 3 (3.33%) Ant
16 3 (3.33%) Jaeger
17 2 (2.22%) Eclipse
General
1 37 (41.11%) Social Skills
2 17 (18.89%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (18.89%) Finance
3 9 (10.00%) Banking
3 9 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 8 (8.89%) Telecoms
5 4 (4.44%) Law
6 3 (3.33%) Automotive
7 2 (2.22%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Games
Job Titles
1 28 (31.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (26.67%) Developer
3 14 (15.56%) Java Developer
4 13 (14.44%) Platform Engineer
5 12 (13.33%) Senior
6 8 (8.89%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (7.78%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (7.78%) Senior DevOps
7 7 (7.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.67%) Agile Developer
8 6 (6.67%) Agile Java Developer
8 6 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
8 6 (6.67%) Software Developer
9 5 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (5.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 5 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) Senior Developer
9 5 (5.56%) Senior Software Developer
9 5 (5.56%) Software Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.67%) Node.js
2 13 (14.44%) Spring
2 13 (14.44%) Spring Boot
3 11 (12.22%) CSS
3 11 (12.22%) HTML
3 11 (12.22%) React
3 11 (12.22%) RESTful
4 9 (10.00%) Kafka
4 9 (10.00%) pytest
4 9 (10.00%) Web Services
5 7 (7.78%) Django
5 7 (7.78%) Flask
5 7 (7.78%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (6.67%) Gherkin
6 6 (6.67%) REST
7 5 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (4.44%) .NET
8 4 (4.44%) AngularJS
8 4 (4.44%) Apache Camel
9 3 (3.33%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.22%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (8.89%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (7.78%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (4.44%) Cloud Native
7 3 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (3.33%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.22%) Algorithms
8 2 (2.22%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (2.22%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (2.22%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.22%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (2.22%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.22%) Security Posture
8 2 (2.22%) Virtual Team
9 1 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.11%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 47 (52.22%) Linux
2 26 (28.89%) Windows
3 9 (10.00%) Unix
4 6 (6.67%) Debian
4 6 (6.67%) Ubuntu
5 5 (5.56%) Windows Server
6 3 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (2.22%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (75.56%) CI/CD
2 62 (68.89%) DevOps
3 44 (48.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (45.56%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (38.89%) Containerisation
6 34 (37.78%) Agile
7 31 (34.44%) Continuous Integration
8 22 (24.44%) Microservices
9 21 (23.33%) Software Engineering
10 19 (21.11%) Test Automation
11 18 (20.00%) Configuration Management
12 16 (17.78%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (17.78%) Root Cause Analysis
13 15 (16.67%) BDD
13 15 (16.67%) Computer Science
13 15 (16.67%) TDD
14 14 (15.56%) Observability
14 14 (15.56%) Scrum
15 13 (14.44%) Incident Response
16 12 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 56 (62.22%) Python
2 41 (45.56%) Bash
3 30 (33.33%) Java
4 20 (22.22%) SQL
5 19 (21.11%) JavaScript
6 17 (18.89%) PowerShell
7 11 (12.22%) Go
8 8 (8.89%) C#
9 7 (7.78%) Delphi
10 5 (5.56%) Groovy
11 4 (4.44%) Shell Script
12 3 (3.33%) T-SQL
13 2 (2.22%) Scala
13 2 (2.22%) TypeScript
14 1 (1.11%) Bicep
14 1 (1.11%) Perl
14 1 (1.11%) RPG
Qualifications
1 22 (24.44%) Security Cleared
2 16 (17.78%) Degree
3 15 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (15.56%) DV Cleared
5 7 (7.78%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.33%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.22%) CISSP
7 2 (2.22%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (2.22%) ISTQB
7 2 (2.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.22%) QA
2 1 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.11%) GDPR
2 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.11%) NIST
System Software
1 65 (72.22%) Docker
2 7 (7.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.44%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (4.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 69 (76.67%) Kubernetes
2 52 (57.78%) Grafana
2 52 (57.78%) Terraform
3 47 (52.22%) Ansible
4 40 (44.44%) Prometheus
5 8 (8.89%) Kibana
6 7 (7.78%) logstash
7 5 (5.56%) Docker Swarm
7 5 (5.56%) Puppet
8 4 (4.44%) Argo
8 4 (4.44%) Control-M
9 3 (3.33%) Podman
10 2 (2.22%) Nessus
10 2 (2.22%) Progress Chef
10 2 (2.22%) Sysdig
11 1 (1.11%) Kustomize
11 1 (1.11%) Nagios
11 1 (1.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 22 (24.44%) Splunk
2 12 (13.33%) Atlassian
3 11 (12.22%) VMware
4 10 (11.11%) Oracle
5 6 (6.67%) Microsoft
6 5 (5.56%) Google
7 4 (4.44%) Dynatrace
7 4 (4.44%) Foundry
7 4 (4.44%) Palantir
7 4 (4.44%) Pega
7 4 (4.44%) WSO2
8 3 (3.33%) LogRhythm
8 3 (3.33%) Red Hat
9 2 (2.22%) AppDynamics
9 2 (2.22%) IBM
10 1 (1.11%) BMC
10 1 (1.11%) SolarWinds