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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 680 332 612
Rank change year-on-year -348 +280 -80
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 85 334 132
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.082% 0.77% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.79% 4.48% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 40 55 79
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £60,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -27.78% +38.46%
75th Percentile £91,250 £85,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £95,375 £120,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -30.56% +38.46%

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 10,769 7,452 14,517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.36% 17.23% 21.68%
Number of salaries quoted 7,818 4,917 9,120
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,857 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,500 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -6.40%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,600
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -72 32 £70,000 -3.45% 94
South West -41 31 £50,000 - 12
South East -40 12 £80,000 - 15
North of England -242 7 £70,000 +16.67% 18
East of England -42 3 £82,500 +65.00% 2
North East -62 3 £70,000 +16.67% 2
North West -194 3 £70,000 +16.67% 13
Yorkshire -33 1 - - 3
West Midlands -48 1 £44,000 -24.14% 13
Midlands -63 1 £44,000 -24.14% 16
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 11 (12.94%) Apache
2 8 (9.41%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.35%) Confluence
4 1 (1.18%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.18%) JBoss
4 1 (1.18%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (8.24%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 67 (78.82%) AWS
2 28 (32.94%) Azure
3 18 (21.18%) Amazon EKS
4 17 (20.00%) OpenShift
5 13 (15.29%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (15.29%) GCP
5 13 (15.29%) Serverless
6 10 (11.76%) GitHub
7 9 (10.59%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 9 (10.59%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (9.41%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (8.24%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (8.24%) Amazon S3
9 7 (8.24%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (7.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (4.71%) SaaS
12 3 (3.53%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (3.53%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (3.53%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.88%) TCP/IP
2 4 (4.71%) DNS
2 4 (4.71%) Firewall
3 3 (3.53%) 4G
3 3 (3.53%) 5G
3 3 (3.53%) HTTP
3 3 (3.53%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (17.65%) Redis
3 13 (15.29%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (14.12%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (10.59%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (9.41%) InfluxDB
7 5 (5.88%) MongoDB
7 5 (5.88%) MySQL
8 4 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (4.71%) Relational Database
8 4 (4.71%) SQL Server
9 3 (3.53%) NoSQL
9 3 (3.53%) ZAP BI
10 2 (2.35%) Big Data
11 1 (1.18%) Db2
11 1 (1.18%) Flink
11 1 (1.18%) Hadoop
11 1 (1.18%) Oracle Database
11 1 (1.18%) Power BI
11 1 (1.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (57.65%) Jenkins
2 38 (44.71%) GitLab
3 32 (37.65%) Git
4 16 (18.82%) SonarQube
5 13 (15.29%) Selenium
6 11 (12.94%) Cucumber
7 9 (10.59%) Cypress.io
8 8 (9.41%) JIRA
8 8 (9.41%) Robot Framework
8 8 (9.41%) TestRail
9 5 (5.88%) Snyk
10 4 (4.71%) Artifactory
10 4 (4.71%) Bitbucket
10 4 (4.71%) JUnit
11 3 (3.53%) NUnit
11 3 (3.53%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (3.53%) Postman
11 3 (3.53%) TeamCity
12 1 (1.18%) ER Studio
12 1 (1.18%) ERwin
General
1 19 (22.35%) Finance
2 11 (12.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (8.24%) Social Skills
4 4 (4.71%) Military
4 4 (4.71%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.71%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.53%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.35%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.35%) Banking
6 2 (2.35%) Law
7 1 (1.18%) Front Office
7 1 (1.18%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 23 (27.06%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (18.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (16.47%) Developer
4 13 (15.29%) AWS DevOps
4 13 (15.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 13 (15.29%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (12.94%) Software Engineer
6 9 (10.59%) Test Engineer
7 6 (7.06%) Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Automation Tester
8 5 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Java Developer
8 5 (5.88%) Python Developer
8 5 (5.88%) Senior
8 5 (5.88%) Tester
9 4 (4.71%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (4.71%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.53%) Java Engineer
10 3 (3.53%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (69.41%) Terraform
2 20 (23.53%) Kafka
3 14 (16.47%) pytest
4 12 (14.12%) Keycloak
4 12 (14.12%) REST
5 11 (12.94%) Apache NiFi
5 11 (12.94%) RESTful
6 9 (10.59%) Playwright
6 9 (10.59%) React
6 9 (10.59%) Vue
7 8 (9.41%) Node.js
8 7 (8.24%) Spring
8 7 (8.24%) Spring Boot
9 6 (7.06%) AngularJS
9 6 (7.06%) FastAPI
10 5 (5.88%) Flask
10 5 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (5.88%) Web Services
11 4 (4.71%) CSS
11 4 (4.71%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.12%) Cloud Native
2 11 (12.94%) Onboarding
3 9 (10.59%) Replication
4 8 (9.41%) Product Ownership
5 6 (7.06%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (4.71%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.53%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (2.35%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.35%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.18%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (1.18%) IoT
9 1 (1.18%) PKI
9 1 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 47 (55.29%) Linux
2 21 (24.71%) Windows
3 12 (14.12%) CentOS
4 7 (8.24%) Unix
5 6 (7.06%) Windows Server
6 4 (4.71%) Ubuntu
6 4 (4.71%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.18%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (70.59%) CI/CD
2 58 (68.24%) DevOps
3 50 (58.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (48.24%) Agile
5 35 (41.18%) Test Automation
6 31 (36.47%) Containerisation
7 27 (31.76%) Observability
8 26 (30.59%) Software Engineering
9 25 (29.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 24 (28.24%) Collaborative Culture
11 20 (23.53%) Platform Engineering
11 20 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (18.82%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (16.47%) Full-Stack Development
14 12 (14.12%) Change Management
14 12 (14.12%) Computer Science
14 12 (14.12%) Secrets Management
14 12 (14.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 11 (12.94%) Identity Management
16 10 (11.76%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 58 (68.24%) Python
2 48 (56.47%) Bash
3 31 (36.47%) Java
4 25 (29.41%) JavaScript
5 21 (24.71%) PowerShell
6 16 (18.82%) Rust
7 14 (16.47%) SQL
8 10 (11.76%) C#
9 9 (10.59%) C++
9 9 (10.59%) Go
9 9 (10.59%) Groovy
9 9 (10.59%) TypeScript
10 7 (8.24%) Shell Script
10 7 (8.24%) VBA
11 2 (2.35%) Bicep
12 1 (1.18%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (58.82%) Security Cleared
2 26 (30.59%) SC Cleared
3 15 (17.65%) Degree
4 11 (12.94%) DV Cleared
5 9 (10.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (9.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (4.71%) OCP
7 4 (4.71%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (2.35%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.35%) RHCSA
9 1 (1.18%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.94%) QA
2 3 (3.53%) NIST
3 2 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.35%) Def Stans
3 2 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.18%) GDPR
4 1 (1.18%) HIPAA
System Software
1 58 (68.24%) Docker
2 12 (14.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (8.24%) vSphere
4 6 (7.06%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (7.06%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.18%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.18%) Firmware
5 1 (1.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 63 (74.12%) Grafana
2 61 (71.76%) Kubernetes
3 41 (48.24%) Ansible
4 39 (45.88%) Prometheus
5 22 (25.88%) Kibana
6 18 (21.18%) logstash
7 10 (11.76%) vCenter Server
8 9 (10.59%) Rancher
9 7 (8.24%) Puppet
10 4 (4.71%) Argo
10 4 (4.71%) Nessus
10 4 (4.71%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (3.53%) Control-M
11 3 (3.53%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (1.18%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 16 (18.82%) Red Hat
2 15 (17.65%) Splunk
2 15 (17.65%) VMware
3 10 (11.76%) Microsoft
4 9 (10.59%) Atlassian
4 9 (10.59%) Dynatrace
4 9 (10.59%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.71%) Oracle
6 1 (1.18%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.18%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.18%) Google
6 1 (1.18%) IBM
6 1 (1.18%) Percona
6 1 (1.18%) Sparx
6 1 (1.18%) YouTube