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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 636 351 671
Rank change year-on-year -285 +320 -155
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 91 343 111
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.099% 0.79% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.96% 4.43% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 51 56 82
10th Percentile £46,250 £44,375 £60,500
25th Percentile £54,375 £52,563 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £60,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -33.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £88,125 £82,813 £97,438
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £60,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +29.17% -33.33% +33.33%

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 9,521 7,743 13,684
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.36% 17.76% 18.75%
Number of salaries quoted 7,182 5,195 10,373
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,050 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -8.89%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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
South West -34 27 £50,000 - 13
London -62 26 £90,000 +50.00% 46
North of England -207 24 £55,000 -8.33% 11
South East -20 18 £82,500 -2.94% 6
North East -45 10 £47,500 -20.83% 2
Yorkshire -27 8 £65,000 -7.14% 3
North West -180 6 £47,500 -20.83% 6
West Midlands -36 2 £53,250 -8.19% 5
Midlands -51 2 £53,250 -8.19% 5
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 9 (9.89%) Apache
2 5 (5.49%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.10%) Confluence
3 1 (1.10%) JBoss
3 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 78 (85.71%) AWS
2 46 (50.55%) Azure
3 27 (29.67%) GCP
4 19 (20.88%) GitHub
4 19 (20.88%) Serverless
5 18 (19.78%) Amazon EKS
5 18 (19.78%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (19.78%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (16.48%) OpenShift
7 13 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (10.99%) Amazon S3
9 9 (9.89%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (9.89%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (8.79%) Datadog
11 7 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (5.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (4.40%) SaaS
13 4 (4.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 2 (2.20%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.09%) Firewall
2 10 (10.99%) TCP/IP
3 9 (9.89%) DNS
3 9 (9.89%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.09%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (7.69%) InfluxDB
2 7 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 6 (6.59%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.40%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.30%) ZAP BI
6 2 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.20%) Big Data
6 2 (2.20%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.10%) Db2
7 1 (1.10%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.10%) Redis
Development Applications
1 54 (59.34%) Jenkins
2 41 (45.05%) GitLab
3 24 (26.37%) Git
4 19 (20.88%) SonarQube
5 14 (15.38%) Cucumber
6 11 (12.09%) JIRA
7 10 (10.99%) Selenium
8 9 (9.89%) Cypress.io
9 7 (7.69%) CircleCI
9 7 (7.69%) Robot Framework
9 7 (7.69%) TestRail
10 6 (6.59%) Artifactory
11 4 (4.40%) Bitbucket
11 4 (4.40%) JUnit
11 4 (4.40%) Snyk
12 3 (3.30%) NUnit
12 3 (3.30%) Octopus Deploy
12 3 (3.30%) Postman
12 3 (3.30%) TeamCity
13 1 (1.10%) JMeter
General
1 20 (21.98%) Finance
2 19 (20.88%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.99%) Law
4 9 (9.89%) Telecoms
5 7 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.59%) Banking
7 3 (3.30%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.30%) Military
8 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.20%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.10%) Front Office
9 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 31 (34.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (19.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (17.58%) Developer
4 12 (13.19%) AWS Engineer
5 10 (10.99%) AWS DevOps
5 10 (10.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 10 (10.99%) Java Developer
5 10 (10.99%) Software Engineer
6 8 (8.79%) Test Engineer
7 7 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (7.69%) Senior
8 6 (6.59%) Test Automation Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Java Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) DevOps Engineer - Fintech
10 4 (4.40%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (4.40%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.48%) REST
2 12 (13.19%) AngularJS
3 11 (12.09%) Kafka
3 11 (12.09%) pytest
3 11 (12.09%) React
3 11 (12.09%) Spring
3 11 (12.09%) Spring Boot
4 9 (9.89%) Apache NiFi
4 9 (9.89%) RabbitMQ
4 9 (9.89%) RESTful
5 8 (8.79%) Node.js
5 8 (8.79%) Vue
5 8 (8.79%) Web Services
6 6 (6.59%) Playwright
6 6 (6.59%) YAML
7 5 (5.49%) Jakarta EE
8 4 (4.40%) JMS
8 4 (4.40%) JPA
8 4 (4.40%) JSON
9 3 (3.30%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.48%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (12.09%) Cloud Native
2 11 (12.09%) Onboarding
3 8 (8.79%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.40%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.30%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (3.30%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.20%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.10%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.10%) IoT
7 1 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 42 (46.15%) Linux
2 19 (20.88%) Windows
3 11 (12.09%) CentOS
4 5 (5.49%) Windows Server
5 4 (4.40%) Ubuntu
5 4 (4.40%) Unix
5 4 (4.40%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.10%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (76.92%) DevOps
2 66 (72.53%) CI/CD
3 55 (60.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (50.55%) Containerisation
5 36 (39.56%) Agile
6 28 (30.77%) Software Engineering
7 27 (29.67%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (27.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 25 (27.47%) Test Automation
9 24 (26.37%) Microservices
10 21 (23.08%) Collaborative Culture
11 20 (21.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 19 (20.88%) Continuous Integration
12 19 (20.88%) Observability
13 18 (19.78%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (17.58%) Continuous Delivery
14 16 (17.58%) High Availability
15 15 (16.48%) Computer Science
15 15 (16.48%) Platform Engineering
16 14 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 65 (71.43%) Python
2 50 (54.95%) Bash
3 39 (42.86%) Java
4 22 (24.18%) Go
5 21 (23.08%) JavaScript
6 20 (21.98%) PowerShell
7 18 (19.78%) SQL
8 15 (16.48%) Rust
9 10 (10.99%) C#
10 8 (8.79%) C++
10 8 (8.79%) TypeScript
11 7 (7.69%) VBA
12 4 (4.40%) Groovy
12 4 (4.40%) PL/SQL
13 3 (3.30%) Shell Script
14 2 (2.20%) Bicep
14 2 (2.20%) Perl
Qualifications
1 42 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 21 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 18 (19.78%) Degree
4 12 (13.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (9.89%) DV Cleared
6 7 (7.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (3.30%) OCP
7 3 (3.30%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (2.20%) RHCSA
9 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.29%) QA
2 9 (9.89%) SOC 2
3 7 (7.69%) GDPR
4 6 (6.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (6.59%) PCI DSS
5 4 (4.40%) NIST
6 2 (2.20%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (2.20%) Def Stans
System Software
1 55 (60.44%) Docker
2 11 (12.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (7.69%) vSphere
4 6 (6.59%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (6.59%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.10%) Firmware
5 1 (1.10%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 71 (78.02%) Terraform
2 64 (70.33%) Kubernetes
3 62 (68.13%) Ansible
4 61 (67.03%) Grafana
5 40 (43.96%) Prometheus
6 23 (25.27%) Kibana
7 16 (17.58%) logstash
8 10 (10.99%) vCenter Server
9 6 (6.59%) Argo
10 5 (5.49%) Puppet
11 4 (4.40%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (4.40%) Nessus
11 4 (4.40%) Packer
11 4 (4.40%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (3.30%) Control-M
13 1 (1.10%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 15 (16.48%) Splunk
2 14 (15.38%) Red Hat
2 14 (15.38%) VMware
3 10 (10.99%) Microsoft
4 9 (9.89%) AppDynamics
4 9 (9.89%) Atlassian
5 8 (8.79%) IBM
5 8 (8.79%) Oracle
6 2 (2.20%) Pega
6 2 (2.20%) WSO2
7 1 (1.10%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.10%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.10%) Google
7 1 (1.10%) Percona