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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 603 344 703
Rank change year-on-year -259 +359 -167
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 112 352 148
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.13% 0.82% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.22% 4.39% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 59 61 118
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £57,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -27.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £97,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -27.27% +22.22%

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 9,175 8,016 17,389
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.58% 18.61% 19.34%
Number of salaries quoted 7,013 5,440 13,888
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,875
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -9.09%

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 July 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 July 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 -35 39 £90,000 +20.00% 13
North of England -198 30 £47,500 -20.83% 8
South West -35 28 £50,000 -44.44% 7
South East -31 18 £82,500 -2.94% 4
North East -35 13 £47,500 -20.83% 2
Yorkshire -25 11 £63,750 -8.93%
North West -170 6 £47,500 -20.83% 6
West Midlands -27 2 £53,250 -8.19% 3
Midlands -41 2 £53,250 -8.19% 3
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 12 (10.71%) Apache
2 5 (4.46%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.79%) Confluence
4 1 (0.89%) JBoss
4 1 (0.89%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (5.36%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 100 (89.29%) AWS
2 55 (49.11%) Azure
3 37 (33.04%) GCP
4 22 (19.64%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (19.64%) Serverless
5 21 (18.75%) GitHub
5 21 (18.75%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (15.18%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (12.50%) Pulumi
8 13 (11.61%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (11.61%) OpenShift
9 10 (8.93%) Datadog
10 9 (8.04%) Amazon S3
11 8 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (4.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (4.46%) SaaS
14 4 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
15 3 (2.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (16.07%) Firewall
2 15 (13.39%) DNS
2 15 (13.39%) HTTP
2 15 (13.39%) TCP/IP
3 12 (10.71%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (18.75%) NoSQL
2 19 (16.96%) Relational Database
3 12 (10.71%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (10.71%) RDBMS
4 8 (7.14%) InfluxDB
5 7 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.57%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.68%) Big Data
8 2 (1.79%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.89%) Db2
9 1 (0.89%) MySQL
9 1 (0.89%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 66 (58.93%) Jenkins
2 44 (39.29%) GitLab
3 23 (20.54%) Git
4 20 (17.86%) SonarQube
5 17 (15.18%) Cucumber
6 12 (10.71%) Jaeger
6 12 (10.71%) JIRA
7 10 (8.93%) CircleCI
8 9 (8.04%) Robot Framework
9 8 (7.14%) Selenium
9 8 (7.14%) TestRail
10 7 (6.25%) Cypress.io
11 6 (5.36%) Artifactory
12 5 (4.46%) Bitbucket
13 3 (2.68%) Octopus Deploy
13 3 (2.68%) TeamCity
14 2 (1.79%) JMeter
15 1 (0.89%) Eclipse
15 1 (0.89%) JUnit
15 1 (0.89%) LoadRunner
General
1 20 (17.86%) Finance
1 20 (17.86%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.39%) Telecoms
3 14 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (12.50%) Law
4 7 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.36%) Banking
6 3 (2.68%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.79%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.89%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 40 (35.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (19.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 13 (11.61%) Developer
4 13 (11.61%) Lead
5 12 (10.71%) AWS Engineer
5 12 (10.71%) Software Engineer
6 10 (8.93%) AWS DevOps
6 10 (8.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 10 (8.93%) Java Developer
7 9 (8.04%) Test Engineer
8 8 (7.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer - Fintech
9 7 (6.25%) Test Automation Engineer
10 6 (5.36%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 6 (5.36%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.36%) Senior
11 5 (4.46%) Java Engineer
11 5 (4.46%) Tester
12 4 (3.57%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.39%) REST
2 13 (11.61%) OpenTelemetry
3 12 (10.71%) Apache NiFi
3 12 (10.71%) Kafka
4 11 (9.82%) Spring
4 11 (9.82%) Spring Boot
4 11 (9.82%) Vue
5 9 (8.04%) AngularJS
6 8 (7.14%) pytest
6 8 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
6 8 (7.14%) React
6 8 (7.14%) Web Services
7 7 (6.25%) Playwright
8 6 (5.36%) YAML
9 5 (4.46%) Node.js
9 5 (4.46%) RESTful
10 4 (3.57%) Java EE
10 4 (3.57%) JMS
10 4 (3.57%) JPA
10 4 (3.57%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.39%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (8.93%) Onboarding
3 9 (8.04%) Product Ownership
4 7 (6.25%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.68%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.68%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.79%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.89%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.89%) IoT
7 1 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 56 (50.00%) Linux
2 21 (18.75%) Windows
3 17 (15.18%) Unix
4 12 (10.71%) CentOS
5 5 (4.46%) Windows Server
6 4 (3.57%) Ubuntu
6 4 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.89%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (80.36%) DevOps
2 75 (66.96%) CI/CD
2 75 (66.96%) Infrastructure as Code
3 62 (55.36%) Containerisation
4 49 (43.75%) Agile
5 39 (34.82%) Continuous Integration
6 37 (33.04%) High Availability
7 32 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (26.79%) Software Engineering
9 29 (25.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 27 (24.11%) Microservices
11 25 (22.32%) Continuous Delivery
11 25 (22.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 24 (21.43%) Test Automation
13 23 (20.54%) Collaborative Culture
14 21 (18.75%) Mentoring
15 19 (16.96%) DevSecOps
16 17 (15.18%) Continuous Improvement
17 15 (13.39%) GitOps
18 14 (12.50%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 85 (75.89%) Python
2 75 (66.96%) Bash
3 52 (46.43%) Java
4 40 (35.71%) Go
5 33 (29.46%) JavaScript
6 22 (19.64%) PowerShell
7 21 (18.75%) SQL
8 16 (14.29%) Rust
9 10 (8.93%) TypeScript
10 9 (8.04%) C#
10 9 (8.04%) C++
11 6 (5.36%) VBA
12 4 (3.57%) Groovy
12 4 (3.57%) PL/SQL
13 3 (2.68%) Shell Script
14 2 (1.79%) Bicep
14 2 (1.79%) Perl
15 1 (0.89%) Ruby
15 1 (0.89%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (40.18%) Security Cleared
2 18 (16.07%) SC Cleared
3 14 (12.50%) Degree
4 12 (10.71%) AWS Certification
4 12 (10.71%) DV Cleared
5 11 (9.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (7.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (1.79%) RHCSA
8 1 (0.89%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.61%) QA
2 12 (10.71%) SOC 2
3 10 (8.93%) GDPR
4 9 (8.04%) PCI DSS
5 6 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.79%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.89%) NIST
System Software
1 67 (59.82%) Docker
2 12 (10.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (6.25%) vSphere
4 5 (4.46%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.89%) Firmware
5 1 (0.89%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 93 (83.04%) Terraform
2 87 (77.68%) Ansible
3 75 (66.96%) Kubernetes
4 68 (60.71%) Grafana
5 56 (50.00%) Prometheus
6 25 (22.32%) Kibana
7 18 (16.07%) logstash
8 17 (15.18%) Argo
9 12 (10.71%) Kustomize
10 11 (9.82%) vCenter Server
11 6 (5.36%) Puppet
12 4 (3.57%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (3.57%) Nessus
12 4 (3.57%) Packer
12 4 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (2.68%) Control-M
Vendors
1 17 (15.18%) Splunk
2 15 (13.39%) VMware
3 13 (11.61%) Google
4 12 (10.71%) Red Hat
5 11 (9.82%) Atlassian
6 10 (8.93%) Microsoft
7 9 (8.04%) AppDynamics
8 8 (7.14%) IBM
9 7 (6.25%) Oracle
10 2 (1.79%) Pega
10 2 (1.79%) WSO2
11 1 (0.89%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.89%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.89%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.89%) Workday