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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 522 571 486
Rank change year-on-year +49 -85 +184
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 92 128 171
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.18% 0.24% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.50% 1.13% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 65 77 120
10th Percentile £52,400 £56,000 £52,350
25th Percentile £55,000 £71,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +8.47% -7.81%
75th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £116,500 £105,000 £92,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -9.68%

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 6,145 11,306 11,466
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.07% 21.61% 26.12%
Number of salaries quoted 4,758 6,915 9,528
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,883 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.36% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,210 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%

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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 2025. 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 +42 49 £95,000 -5.00% 21
North of England +32 24 £60,000 -20.00% 12
North West +33 10 £60,000 -20.00% 6
South East +29 9 £41,000 -47.44% 18
Yorkshire +3 9 £65,000 - 4
South West -5 6 £42,750 -50.15% 9
North East +6 5 £60,000 -14.29% 2
Midlands - 5 £55,200 - 12
West Midlands - 4 £57,100 - 10
East Midlands - 1 £55,200 - 2
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 (13.04%) OpenStack
2 10 (10.87%) Confluence
3 7 (7.61%) Apache
4 5 (5.43%) Apache Spark
5 3 (3.26%) JBoss
5 3 (3.26%) WebSphere
6 2 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (2.17%) Luigi
Applications
1 8 (8.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 8 (8.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 66 (71.74%) AWS
2 36 (39.13%) Azure
3 25 (27.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 20 (21.74%) AWS CloudFormation
4 20 (21.74%) GitHub
5 19 (20.65%) Serverless
6 16 (17.39%) Amazon EKS
7 15 (16.30%) GCP
7 15 (16.30%) OpenShift
8 14 (15.22%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (14.13%) Amazon S3
10 11 (11.96%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (10.87%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (10.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (7.61%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (6.52%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (6.52%) Datadog
15 5 (5.43%) AWS CodeBuild
15 5 (5.43%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.43%) DNS
1 5 (5.43%) Firewall
1 5 (5.43%) TCP/IP
2 3 (3.26%) HTTP
2 3 (3.26%) SAN
2 3 (3.26%) VPN
3 2 (2.17%) SSL
4 1 (1.09%) Broadband
4 1 (1.09%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (35.87%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 15 (16.30%) Relational Database
4 12 (13.04%) DB2
5 10 (10.87%) NoSQL
6 7 (7.61%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (5.43%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (2.17%) CockroachDB
8 2 (2.17%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.17%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (2.17%) Hadoop
8 2 (2.17%) InfluxDB
8 2 (2.17%) MongoDB
8 2 (2.17%) MySQL
8 2 (2.17%) Redis
9 1 (1.09%) Big Data
9 1 (1.09%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 61 (66.30%) Jenkins
2 29 (31.52%) Git
3 27 (29.35%) GitLab
4 22 (23.91%) Cucumber
4 22 (23.91%) Selenium
5 20 (21.74%) JIRA
6 18 (19.57%) TeamCity
7 16 (17.39%) Bitbucket
8 12 (13.04%) Artifactory
8 12 (13.04%) JUnit
9 8 (8.70%) SonarQube
10 7 (7.61%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (6.52%) CircleCI
11 6 (6.52%) Robot Framework
12 5 (5.43%) Maven
13 4 (4.35%) TestRail
14 3 (3.26%) Ant
14 3 (3.26%) Jaeger
14 3 (3.26%) JMeter
14 3 (3.26%) REST Assured
General
1 38 (41.30%) Social Skills
2 18 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (19.57%) Finance
3 13 (14.13%) Banking
4 9 (9.78%) Public Sector
5 8 (8.70%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.35%) Law
7 2 (2.17%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.17%) Retail
8 1 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.09%) Games
8 1 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 31 (33.70%) Developer
2 24 (26.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 23 (25.00%) Java Developer
4 14 (15.22%) Full-Stack Developer
5 13 (14.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 13 (14.13%) Platform Engineer
6 11 (11.96%) Senior
7 7 (7.61%) Agile Developer
7 7 (7.61%) Agile Java Developer
8 6 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) Senior DevOps
8 6 (6.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) Software Developer
9 5 (5.43%) AWS DevOps
9 5 (5.43%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (5.43%) Senior Developer
9 5 (5.43%) Senior Software Developer
9 5 (5.43%) Software Engineer
10 4 (4.35%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (25.00%) Node.js
2 21 (22.83%) React
3 19 (20.65%) Spring
3 19 (20.65%) Spring Boot
4 15 (16.30%) Kafka
5 12 (13.04%) CSS
5 12 (13.04%) HTML
5 12 (13.04%) pytest
5 12 (13.04%) REST
5 12 (13.04%) RESTful
6 11 (11.96%) Web Services
7 10 (10.87%) Gherkin
8 8 (8.70%) Mustache
9 7 (7.61%) Django
9 7 (7.61%) Flask
9 7 (7.61%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (4.35%) AngularJS
10 4 (4.35%) Apache Camel
11 3 (3.26%) Express.js
11 3 (3.26%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 17 (18.48%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (13.04%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (7.61%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (7.61%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (5.43%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (4.35%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.26%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.17%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.17%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (2.17%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.17%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (2.17%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.17%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.17%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.09%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.09%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 43 (46.74%) Linux
2 25 (27.17%) Windows
3 8 (8.70%) Unix
4 5 (5.43%) Debian
4 5 (5.43%) Ubuntu
4 5 (5.43%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.17%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (83.70%) CI/CD
2 62 (67.39%) DevOps
3 44 (47.83%) Agile
4 41 (44.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 36 (39.13%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (38.04%) Containerisation
7 32 (34.78%) Continuous Integration
8 29 (31.52%) Microservices
9 25 (27.17%) Test Automation
10 24 (26.09%) Scrum
11 23 (25.00%) Software Engineering
12 22 (23.91%) BDD
13 21 (22.83%) TDD
14 18 (19.57%) Continuous Improvement
15 16 (17.39%) Configuration Management
15 16 (17.39%) Design Patterns
15 16 (17.39%) Full-Stack Development
15 16 (17.39%) Root Cause Analysis
16 15 (16.30%) Static Code Analysis
17 14 (15.22%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 56 (60.87%) Python
2 42 (45.65%) Java
3 39 (42.39%) Bash
4 30 (32.61%) JavaScript
5 26 (28.26%) SQL
6 16 (17.39%) PowerShell
7 10 (10.87%) Go
8 7 (7.61%) Delphi
9 6 (6.52%) C#
10 5 (5.43%) Groovy
11 4 (4.35%) TypeScript
12 3 (3.26%) RPG
13 2 (2.17%) Scala
13 2 (2.17%) Shell Script
14 1 (1.09%) Bicep
14 1 (1.09%) Perl
Qualifications
1 19 (20.65%) Security Cleared
2 15 (16.30%) Degree
3 14 (15.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (15.22%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.35%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.26%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (2.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.17%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.09%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.43%) QA
2 1 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.09%) GDPR
2 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.09%) NIST
System Software
1 68 (73.91%) Docker
2 6 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (3.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 73 (79.35%) Kubernetes
2 47 (51.09%) Grafana
2 47 (51.09%) Terraform
3 46 (50.00%) Ansible
4 37 (40.22%) Prometheus
5 6 (6.52%) Kibana
6 5 (5.43%) Argo
6 5 (5.43%) logstash
6 5 (5.43%) Puppet
7 4 (4.35%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (3.26%) Control-M
8 3 (3.26%) Podman
9 2 (2.17%) Nessus
9 2 (2.17%) Progress Chef
9 2 (2.17%) Sysdig
10 1 (1.09%) Kustomize
10 1 (1.09%) SCOM
Vendors
1 18 (19.57%) Splunk
2 13 (14.13%) Atlassian
3 12 (13.04%) Oracle
4 10 (10.87%) VMware
5 5 (5.43%) Microsoft
6 4 (4.35%) Foundry
6 4 (4.35%) Google
6 4 (4.35%) Palantir
6 4 (4.35%) Pega
6 4 (4.35%) WSO2
7 3 (3.26%) Dynatrace
7 3 (3.26%) IBM
7 3 (3.26%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.09%) BMC
8 1 (1.09%) LogRhythm
8 1 (1.09%) SolarWinds