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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 588 328 681
Rank change year-on-year -260 +353 -128
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 108 351 163
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.13% 0.89% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.27% 4.48% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 55 59 125
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,950 £56,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -25.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £86,250 £86,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,250 £96,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -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 8,505 7,828 17,794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.39% 19.92% 19.31%
Number of salaries quoted 6,450 5,261 14,443
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,350 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +10.58% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,230 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.86% +10.38% -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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -57 41 £90,000 +28.57% 11
North of England -195 33 £47,500 -20.83% 6
South East -7 20 £82,500 -2.94% 5
South West -28 19 £45,000 -50.00% 5
Yorkshire -30 15 £65,000 -7.14% 2
North East -34 13 £47,500 -19.15% 1
North West -162 5 £47,500 -20.83% 3
Midlands -32 2 £62,500 +7.76%
West Midlands -24 1 £62,500 +7.76%
East Midlands -31 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 10 (9.26%) OpenStack
2 8 (7.41%) Apache
3 6 (5.56%) Confluence
4 1 (0.93%) JBoss
4 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.85%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 93 (86.11%) AWS
2 48 (44.44%) Azure
3 34 (31.48%) GCP
4 27 (25.00%) Serverless
5 21 (19.44%) Amazon EKS
6 20 (18.52%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (18.52%) GitHub
7 18 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (16.67%) Pulumi
8 14 (12.96%) Amazon ECS
9 12 (11.11%) Amazon S3
10 11 (10.19%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (9.26%) Datadog
11 10 (9.26%) OpenShift
12 7 (6.48%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (4.63%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (4.63%) SaaS
15 4 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
16 3 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (16.67%) Broadband
1 18 (16.67%) Firewall
2 16 (14.81%) DNS
2 16 (14.81%) HTTP
3 15 (13.89%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (26.85%) NoSQL
1 29 (26.85%) Relational Database
2 18 (16.67%) RDBMS
3 15 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (6.48%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (4.63%) InfluxDB
5 5 (4.63%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.78%) Big Data
6 3 (2.78%) Db2
7 2 (1.85%) CockroachDB
8 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.93%) MySQL
8 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 64 (59.26%) Jenkins
2 31 (28.70%) GitLab
3 24 (22.22%) Git
4 18 (16.67%) Jaeger
5 17 (15.74%) SonarQube
6 15 (13.89%) Cucumber
6 15 (13.89%) JIRA
7 10 (9.26%) CircleCI
8 9 (8.33%) Selenium
9 6 (5.56%) Bitbucket
9 6 (5.56%) Cypress.io
9 6 (5.56%) Robot Framework
10 5 (4.63%) Artifactory
10 5 (4.63%) TestRail
11 4 (3.70%) TeamCity
12 3 (2.78%) JUnit
13 2 (1.85%) Checkstyle
13 2 (1.85%) JMeter
13 2 (1.85%) Maven
13 2 (1.85%) TestNG
General
1 21 (19.44%) Social Skills
2 20 (18.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (14.81%) Finance
3 16 (14.81%) Telecoms
4 15 (13.89%) Law
5 8 (7.41%) Banking
6 7 (6.48%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.85%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.85%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 34 (31.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (18.52%) Developer
3 18 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 18 (16.67%) Lead
4 17 (15.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 16 (14.81%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (9.26%) AWS Engineer
7 9 (8.33%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 8 (7.41%) AWS DevOps
8 8 (7.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 8 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (7.41%) Senior
8 8 (7.41%) Software Engineer
9 7 (6.48%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (6.48%) DevOps Engineer - Fintech
9 7 (6.48%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 6 (5.56%) Team Leader
11 5 (4.63%) Test Engineer
12 4 (3.70%) Analyst
12 4 (3.70%) Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (21.30%) REST
2 18 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
2 18 (16.67%) Spring
2 18 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 17 (15.74%) Kafka
4 16 (14.81%) React
5 14 (12.96%) Web Services
6 13 (12.04%) Node.js
7 10 (9.26%) AngularJS
8 8 (7.41%) Apache NiFi
8 8 (7.41%) Mustache
8 8 (7.41%) RabbitMQ
8 8 (7.41%) Vue
9 6 (5.56%) JSON
9 6 (5.56%) YAML
10 5 (4.63%) RESTful
11 4 (3.70%) Java EE
11 4 (3.70%) JMS
11 4 (3.70%) JPA
11 4 (3.70%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.52%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.63%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.70%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.78%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.78%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.85%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.85%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 47 (43.52%) Linux
2 21 (19.44%) Unix
3 17 (15.74%) Windows
4 9 (8.33%) CentOS
5 5 (4.63%) Windows Server
6 4 (3.70%) Ubuntu
6 4 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (76.85%) DevOps
2 69 (63.89%) CI/CD
3 67 (62.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 60 (55.56%) Containerisation
5 57 (52.78%) Agile
6 48 (44.44%) Continuous Integration
7 44 (40.74%) High Availability
8 32 (29.63%) Microservices
9 27 (25.00%) Mentoring
10 25 (23.15%) Continuous Delivery
11 23 (21.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 23 (21.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 23 (21.30%) Software Engineering
12 22 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (19.44%) GitOps
13 21 (19.44%) Test Automation
14 20 (18.52%) Task Automation
15 19 (17.59%) DevSecOps
15 19 (17.59%) Performance Optimisation
15 19 (17.59%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 74 (68.52%) Python
2 68 (62.96%) Bash
3 58 (53.70%) Java
4 44 (40.74%) Go
5 40 (37.04%) JavaScript
6 24 (22.22%) SQL
7 16 (14.81%) PowerShell
8 9 (8.33%) Rust
9 6 (5.56%) C++
9 6 (5.56%) TypeScript
10 4 (3.70%) C#
10 4 (3.70%) Groovy
10 4 (3.70%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.85%) Bicep
11 2 (1.85%) Perl
11 2 (1.85%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.85%) VBA
12 1 (0.93%) Ruby
12 1 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (28.70%) Security Cleared
2 18 (16.67%) AWS Certification
3 14 (12.96%) SC Cleared
4 10 (9.26%) DV Cleared
5 9 (8.33%) Degree
6 7 (6.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (4.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.11%) SOC 2
2 10 (9.26%) GDPR
2 10 (9.26%) QA
3 9 (8.33%) PCI DSS
4 6 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.85%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.93%) NIST
System Software
1 68 (62.96%) Docker
2 9 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (5.56%) vSphere
4 4 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.93%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 81 (75.00%) Ansible
1 81 (75.00%) Terraform
2 75 (69.44%) Kubernetes
3 55 (50.93%) Prometheus
4 53 (49.07%) Grafana
5 21 (19.44%) Argo
6 18 (16.67%) Kibana
6 18 (16.67%) Kustomize
7 11 (10.19%) logstash
8 8 (7.41%) vCenter Server
9 4 (3.70%) Nessus
9 4 (3.70%) Packer
9 4 (3.70%) Puppet
9 4 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (2.78%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (1.85%) Control-M
Vendors
1 21 (19.44%) Google
2 12 (11.11%) Splunk
3 11 (10.19%) VMware
4 9 (8.33%) AppDynamics
4 9 (8.33%) Atlassian
4 9 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 9 (8.33%) Oracle
4 9 (8.33%) Red Hat
5 8 (7.41%) IBM
6 2 (1.85%) Pega
6 2 (1.85%) WSO2
7 1 (0.93%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.93%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.93%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.93%) Workday