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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 525 590
Rank change year-on-year 0 +65 +10
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 125 98 191
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.26% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.76% 1.16% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 72 58 142
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £47,188 £60,000 £65,225
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £90,625 £87,188 £95,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £91,875 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +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 7,085 8,461 16,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.70% 22.05% 21.61%
Number of salaries quoted 5,396 5,996 13,622
10th Percentile £36,500 £39,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,094
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -7 59 £87,500 +9.38% 9
North of England -22 37 £47,500 -36.67% 7
Yorkshire -28 16 £61,250 - 1
South West -14 15 £42,750 -52.50% 2
North East -10 14 £47,500 -22.45% 5
South East -15 10 £41,000 -47.44% 7
North West -20 7 £47,500 -36.67% 1
Midlands - 6 £55,200 - 1
West Midlands - 4 £58,850 -
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 14 (11.20%) OpenStack
2 13 (10.40%) Confluence
3 7 (5.60%) Apache
4 3 (2.40%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.60%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (6.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 8 (6.40%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 99 (79.20%) AWS
2 55 (44.00%) Azure
3 37 (29.60%) GCP
3 37 (29.60%) GitHub
4 26 (20.80%) GitHub Actions
5 25 (20.00%) Serverless
6 23 (18.40%) AWS CloudFormation
7 22 (17.60%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (15.20%) Pulumi
9 18 (14.40%) Amazon EKS
10 15 (12.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (11.20%) Amazon ECS
11 14 (11.20%) Datadog
11 14 (11.20%) OpenShift
12 11 (8.80%) Amazon S3
13 7 (5.60%) Amazon SQS
14 3 (2.40%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (2.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 2 (1.60%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 21 (16.80%) Firewall
2 19 (15.20%) Broadband
2 19 (15.20%) HTTP
3 18 (14.40%) DNS
3 18 (14.40%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.80%) SAN
4 1 (0.80%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (27.20%) NoSQL
1 34 (27.20%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (26.40%) Relational Database
3 20 (16.00%) SQL Server
4 19 (15.20%) RDBMS
5 12 (9.60%) DB2
6 7 (5.60%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (3.20%) CockroachDB
7 4 (3.20%) InfluxDB
8 3 (2.40%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.40%) MySQL
9 2 (1.60%) Big Data
9 2 (1.60%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (1.60%) Redis
10 1 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 85 (68.00%) Jenkins
2 37 (29.60%) GitLab
3 26 (20.80%) Git
3 26 (20.80%) Selenium
4 25 (20.00%) Cucumber
5 21 (16.80%) Jaeger
6 18 (14.40%) JIRA
7 15 (12.00%) Bitbucket
7 15 (12.00%) TeamCity
8 14 (11.20%) JUnit
9 11 (8.80%) SonarQube
10 10 (8.00%) CircleCI
11 9 (7.20%) Robot Framework
12 6 (4.80%) Artifactory
12 6 (4.80%) TestRail
13 5 (4.00%) JMeter
14 4 (3.20%) Cypress.io
14 4 (3.20%) TestNG
15 3 (2.40%) Eclipse
15 3 (2.40%) Gradle
General
1 41 (32.80%) Social Skills
2 23 (18.40%) Telecoms
3 19 (15.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (14.40%) Law
5 15 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (12.00%) Banking
6 13 (10.40%) Finance
7 7 (5.60%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.60%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.60%) Retail
9 1 (0.80%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 37 (29.60%) DevOps Engineer
2 34 (27.20%) Developer
3 25 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 21 (16.80%) Lead
5 16 (12.80%) Cloud Engineer
5 16 (12.80%) Full-Stack Developer
6 15 (12.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 12 (9.60%) Senior
8 10 (8.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 9 (7.20%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (6.40%) AWS DevOps
10 8 (6.40%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (5.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (5.60%) Senior Developer
11 7 (5.60%) Software Developer
11 7 (5.60%) Software Engineer
11 7 (5.60%) Team Leader
12 6 (4.80%) Agile Developer
12 6 (4.80%) Agile Java Developer
12 6 (4.80%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (19.20%) Node.js
1 24 (19.20%) Spring
1 24 (19.20%) Spring Boot
2 23 (18.40%) OpenTelemetry
3 22 (17.60%) React
4 18 (14.40%) Kafka
5 16 (12.80%) REST
6 14 (11.20%) pytest
7 13 (10.40%) Web Services
8 12 (9.60%) CSS
8 12 (9.60%) HTML
8 12 (9.60%) RESTful
9 10 (8.00%) Gherkin
10 9 (7.20%) Mustache
11 7 (5.60%) AngularJS
11 7 (5.60%) Django
11 7 (5.60%) Flask
12 5 (4.00%) Apache Camel
13 4 (3.20%) Apache NiFi
13 4 (3.20%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.20%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (9.60%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (6.40%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (5.60%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.20%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.40%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.60%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.60%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.80%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.80%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.80%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 49 (39.20%) Linux
2 27 (21.60%) Unix
3 17 (13.60%) Windows
4 4 (3.20%) CentOS
5 2 (1.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (76.80%) DevOps
2 93 (74.40%) CI/CD
3 72 (57.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 71 (56.80%) Containerisation
5 67 (53.60%) Agile
6 63 (50.40%) Continuous Integration
7 52 (41.60%) High Availability
8 40 (32.00%) Microservices
9 38 (30.40%) Problem-Solving
10 33 (26.40%) Mentoring
11 32 (25.60%) Software Engineering
11 32 (25.60%) Static Code Analysis
11 32 (25.60%) Test Automation
12 27 (21.60%) Task Automation
13 26 (20.80%) Continuous Delivery
13 26 (20.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 25 (20.00%) Scrum
15 24 (19.20%) BDD
15 24 (19.20%) Full-Stack Development
16 22 (17.60%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 86 (68.80%) Python
2 75 (60.00%) Bash
3 66 (52.80%) Java
4 54 (43.20%) JavaScript
5 48 (38.40%) Go
6 33 (26.40%) SQL
7 16 (12.80%) PowerShell
8 7 (5.60%) Delphi
9 5 (4.00%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.40%) C#
10 3 (2.40%) RPG
11 2 (1.60%) Groovy
11 2 (1.60%) Rust
11 2 (1.60%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.80%) C++
12 1 (0.80%) Ruby
12 1 (0.80%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (16.80%) Security Cleared
2 19 (15.20%) AWS Certification
3 13 (10.40%) Degree
3 13 (10.40%) DV Cleared
4 12 (9.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (1.60%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.60%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.00%) SOC 2
2 9 (7.20%) GDPR
3 8 (6.40%) PCI DSS
4 6 (4.80%) QA
5 3 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.80%) NIST
System Software
1 88 (70.40%) Docker
2 4 (3.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.60%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.80%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 92 (73.60%) Kubernetes
2 83 (66.40%) Terraform
3 78 (62.40%) Ansible
4 69 (55.20%) Prometheus
5 66 (52.80%) Grafana
6 23 (18.40%) Argo
7 19 (15.20%) Kustomize
8 9 (7.20%) Kibana
8 9 (7.20%) logstash
9 2 (1.60%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (1.60%) Nessus
9 2 (1.60%) Sysdig
9 2 (1.60%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.80%) Control-M
10 1 (0.80%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (16.80%) Google
2 18 (14.40%) Splunk
3 15 (12.00%) Oracle
4 14 (11.20%) Atlassian
5 7 (5.60%) VMware
6 5 (4.00%) Pega
6 5 (4.00%) WSO2
7 4 (3.20%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.40%) Dynatrace
8 3 (2.40%) IBM
9 2 (1.60%) Foundry
9 2 (1.60%) Palantir
10 1 (0.80%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.80%) Microsoft
10 1 (0.80%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.80%) Workday