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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 673 340 633
Rank change year-on-year -333 +293 -101
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 87 339 120
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.090% 0.77% 0.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.81% 4.24% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 44 58 81
10th Percentile £43,250 £47,125 £60,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £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 £90,000 £83,750 £97,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,125 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £60,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -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 10,724 7,997 14,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.04% 18.27% 20.82%
Number of salaries quoted 7,963 5,346 10,433
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,500 £39,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,442 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% +6.83% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £88,438 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -46 30 £50,000 - 11
London -68 26 £90,000 +28.57% 77
South East -29 18 £82,500 -2.94% 14
North of England -216 17 £70,000 +16.67% 9
Yorkshire -33 7 £73,750 +5.36% 1
North East -56 6 £58,750 -2.08% 2
North West -189 4 £70,000 +16.67% 6
East of England -26 1 £82,500 +65.00% 4
West Midlands -28 1 £44,000 -24.14% 8
Midlands -56 1 £44,000 -24.14% 10
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 10 (11.49%) Apache
2 6 (6.90%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.15%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.15%) Confluence
3 1 (1.15%) JBoss
3 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (8.05%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 73 (83.91%) AWS
2 36 (41.38%) Azure
3 21 (24.14%) Amazon EKS
4 19 (21.84%) Serverless
5 18 (20.69%) OpenShift
6 17 (19.54%) GCP
7 13 (14.94%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (14.94%) GitHub
8 11 (12.64%) Amazon S3
8 11 (12.64%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (12.64%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (11.49%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (11.49%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (6.90%) Datadog
12 5 (5.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (4.60%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (4.60%) SaaS
13 4 (4.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 3 (3.45%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.75%) Firewall
1 5 (5.75%) TCP/IP
2 4 (4.60%) DNS
2 4 (4.60%) HTTP
3 1 (1.15%) 4G
3 1 (1.15%) 5G
3 1 (1.15%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.64%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (11.49%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (10.34%) InfluxDB
4 7 (8.05%) Relational Database
5 6 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (5.75%) Redis
7 4 (4.60%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (4.60%) NoSQL
7 4 (4.60%) SQL Server
8 3 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (3.45%) MongoDB
8 3 (3.45%) ZAP BI
9 2 (2.30%) Big Data
10 1 (1.15%) Db2
10 1 (1.15%) Flink
10 1 (1.15%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.15%) Looker
10 1 (1.15%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.15%) Power BI
10 1 (1.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 51 (58.62%) Jenkins
2 41 (47.13%) GitLab
3 30 (34.48%) Git
4 19 (21.84%) SonarQube
5 14 (16.09%) Cucumber
6 12 (13.79%) Selenium
7 11 (12.64%) JIRA
8 10 (11.49%) Cypress.io
9 9 (10.34%) Robot Framework
9 9 (10.34%) TestRail
10 6 (6.90%) Artifactory
11 5 (5.75%) Snyk
12 4 (4.60%) Bitbucket
12 4 (4.60%) JUnit
13 3 (3.45%) CircleCI
13 3 (3.45%) NUnit
13 3 (3.45%) Octopus Deploy
13 3 (3.45%) Postman
13 3 (3.45%) TeamCity
14 1 (1.15%) ER Studio
General
1 20 (22.99%) Finance
2 13 (14.94%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.05%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.75%) Banking
5 5 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.60%) Law
6 4 (4.60%) Military
6 4 (4.60%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.45%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.30%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.15%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.15%) Front Office
9 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 25 (28.74%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (21.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 17 (19.54%) Developer
4 13 (14.94%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (12.64%) AWS DevOps
5 11 (12.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 10 (11.49%) Java Developer
6 10 (11.49%) Software Engineer
6 10 (11.49%) Test Engineer
7 7 (8.05%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (8.05%) Test Automation Engineer
8 6 (6.90%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (6.90%) Senior
9 5 (5.75%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (5.75%) Java Engineer
9 5 (5.75%) Tester
10 4 (4.60%) Automation Tester
10 4 (4.60%) Full-Stack Developer
11 3 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
11 3 (3.45%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (77.01%) Terraform
2 16 (18.39%) REST
3 13 (14.94%) Kafka
3 13 (14.94%) pytest
4 11 (12.64%) AngularJS
4 11 (12.64%) RESTful
5 10 (11.49%) Apache NiFi
5 10 (11.49%) RabbitMQ
5 10 (11.49%) React
5 10 (11.49%) Spring
5 10 (11.49%) Spring Boot
6 8 (9.20%) Node.js
6 8 (9.20%) Playwright
6 8 (9.20%) Vue
6 8 (9.20%) Web Services
7 6 (6.90%) Keycloak
7 6 (6.90%) YAML
8 5 (5.75%) Jakarta EE
9 4 (4.60%) JMS
9 4 (4.60%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.09%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (13.79%) Cloud Native
3 11 (12.64%) Onboarding
4 9 (10.34%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.60%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.45%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (3.45%) Replication
7 2 (2.30%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.30%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.15%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.15%) IoT
8 1 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 46 (52.87%) Linux
2 21 (24.14%) Windows
3 13 (14.94%) CentOS
4 5 (5.75%) Unix
4 5 (5.75%) Windows Server
5 4 (4.60%) Ubuntu
5 4 (4.60%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.15%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (72.41%) DevOps
2 61 (70.11%) CI/CD
3 52 (59.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (47.13%) Agile
5 38 (43.68%) Containerisation
6 32 (36.78%) Test Automation
7 27 (31.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 24 (27.59%) Software Engineering
9 23 (26.44%) Collaborative Culture
9 23 (26.44%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (25.29%) Observability
11 20 (22.99%) Microservices
12 17 (19.54%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (19.54%) Platform Engineering
13 15 (17.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 13 (14.94%) Deployment Automation
14 13 (14.94%) Full-Stack Development
15 12 (13.79%) Code Quality
15 12 (13.79%) Computer Science
16 11 (12.64%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 59 (67.82%) Python
2 45 (51.72%) Bash
3 37 (42.53%) Java
4 23 (26.44%) JavaScript
5 20 (22.99%) PowerShell
6 16 (18.39%) SQL
7 15 (17.24%) Rust
8 13 (14.94%) Go
9 10 (11.49%) C#
10 8 (9.20%) C++
10 8 (9.20%) TypeScript
11 7 (8.05%) Groovy
11 7 (8.05%) VBA
12 4 (4.60%) PL/SQL
12 4 (4.60%) Shell Script
13 2 (2.30%) Bicep
13 2 (2.30%) Perl
Qualifications
1 49 (56.32%) Security Cleared
2 26 (29.89%) SC Cleared
3 15 (17.24%) Degree
4 10 (11.49%) DV Cleared
5 9 (10.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 9 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (4.60%) OCP
6 4 (4.60%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (2.30%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.30%) RHCSA
8 1 (1.15%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.94%) QA
2 5 (5.75%) SOC 2
3 4 (4.60%) GDPR
3 4 (4.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.45%) NIST
4 3 (3.45%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.30%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.30%) Def Stans
6 1 (1.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.15%) HIPAA
System Software
1 58 (66.67%) Docker
2 12 (13.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (8.05%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (8.05%) vSphere
4 6 (6.90%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.15%) Firmware
5 1 (1.15%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 66 (75.86%) Kubernetes
2 57 (65.52%) Grafana
3 54 (62.07%) Ansible
4 34 (39.08%) Prometheus
5 24 (27.59%) Kibana
6 17 (19.54%) logstash
7 11 (12.64%) vCenter Server
8 6 (6.90%) Argo
8 6 (6.90%) Puppet
9 4 (4.60%) Nessus
9 4 (4.60%) Packer
9 4 (4.60%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (3.45%) Control-M
10 3 (3.45%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (3.45%) Rancher
11 1 (1.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 17 (19.54%) Red Hat
2 16 (18.39%) Splunk
3 15 (17.24%) VMware
4 10 (11.49%) Atlassian
4 10 (11.49%) Microsoft
5 9 (10.34%) AppDynamics
6 8 (9.20%) IBM
7 7 (8.05%) Oracle
8 4 (4.60%) Dynatrace
9 3 (3.45%) ServiceNow
10 2 (2.30%) Pega
10 2 (2.30%) WSO2
11 1 (1.15%) Cloudera
11 1 (1.15%) Google
11 1 (1.15%) Percona
11 1 (1.15%) Sparx