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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 542 570
Rank change year-on-year +39 +28 +68
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 119 115 191
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.20% 0.26% 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.80% 1.15% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 66 61 136
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £52,400 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £106,250 £88,750 £92,188
90th Percentile £111,250 £97,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £78,500
% change year-on-year -6.45% -1.27% +1.29%

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 6,611 9,958 15,031
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.27% 22.17% 22.91%
Number of salaries quoted 5,069 6,017 12,805
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £111,250 £101,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £61,500
% change year-on-year -1.66% +7.48% -8.89%

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 12 February 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 12 February 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 +16 59 £95,000 +18.75% 9
North of England +7 32 £53,850 -28.20% 11
Yorkshire -24 15 £60,000 - 2
South West -11 14 £42,750 -46.56% 1
South East +5 10 £41,000 -47.44% 2
North East +2 9 £48,750 -15.22% 2
North West +12 8 £60,000 -20.00% 7
Midlands - 6 £55,200 - 4
West Midlands - 4 £58,850 - 4
East Midlands - 2 £55,200 -
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 (11.76%) Confluence
2 13 (10.92%) OpenStack
3 8 (6.72%) Apache
4 5 (4.20%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.68%) Luigi
5 2 (1.68%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.84%) JBoss
6 1 (0.84%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (7.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (7.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 92 (77.31%) AWS
2 47 (39.50%) Azure
3 30 (25.21%) GitHub
4 29 (24.37%) GCP
5 20 (16.81%) AWS CloudFormation
5 20 (16.81%) Serverless
6 19 (15.97%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (15.97%) Pulumi
7 18 (15.13%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 16 (13.45%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (11.76%) OpenShift
11 13 (10.92%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (9.24%) Amazon S3
13 10 (8.40%) Datadog
14 7 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
15 4 (3.36%) Amazon EC2
15 4 (3.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 3 (2.52%) AWS Lambda
17 2 (1.68%) Logz.io
Communications & Networking
1 19 (15.97%) Broadband
2 15 (12.61%) Firewall
3 12 (10.08%) DNS
3 12 (10.08%) HTTP
3 12 (10.08%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.68%) SAN
4 2 (1.68%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (30.25%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (27.73%) Relational Database
3 32 (26.89%) NoSQL
4 22 (18.49%) SQL Server
5 19 (15.97%) RDBMS
6 13 (10.92%) DB2
7 7 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (3.36%) CockroachDB
9 3 (2.52%) InfluxDB
9 3 (2.52%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.52%) MySQL
10 2 (1.68%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.68%) Big Data
10 2 (1.68%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (1.68%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.68%) Redis
11 1 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 76 (63.87%) Jenkins
2 33 (27.73%) GitLab
3 27 (22.69%) Git
4 26 (21.85%) Cucumber
4 26 (21.85%) Selenium
5 21 (17.65%) Jaeger
5 21 (17.65%) JIRA
6 17 (14.29%) Bitbucket
6 17 (14.29%) TeamCity
7 14 (11.76%) JUnit
8 12 (10.08%) SonarQube
9 9 (7.56%) Artifactory
10 8 (6.72%) Robot Framework
11 7 (5.88%) CircleCI
12 5 (4.20%) Maven
12 5 (4.20%) TestRail
13 4 (3.36%) Gradle
13 4 (3.36%) JMeter
13 4 (3.36%) TestNG
14 3 (2.52%) Cypress.io
General
1 38 (31.93%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 17 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 15 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (12.61%) Finance
5 13 (10.92%) Banking
6 12 (10.08%) Law
7 7 (5.88%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.68%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (28.57%) Developer
2 30 (25.21%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (21.01%) Java Developer
4 21 (17.65%) Lead
5 15 (12.61%) Cloud Engineer
5 15 (12.61%) Full-Stack Developer
6 14 (11.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 11 (9.24%) Senior
8 10 (8.40%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 10 (8.40%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (5.88%) Agile Developer
9 7 (5.88%) Agile Java Developer
9 7 (5.88%) Senior Developer
9 7 (5.88%) Software Developer
9 7 (5.88%) Software Engineer
9 7 (5.88%) Team Leader
10 5 (4.20%) AWS DevOps
10 5 (4.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (4.20%) Senior Software Developer
10 5 (4.20%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (20.17%) Node.js
2 23 (19.33%) OpenTelemetry
2 23 (19.33%) React
2 23 (19.33%) Spring
2 23 (19.33%) Spring Boot
3 17 (14.29%) Kafka
4 15 (12.61%) REST
5 13 (10.92%) CSS
5 13 (10.92%) HTML
5 13 (10.92%) pytest
5 13 (10.92%) RESTful
6 12 (10.08%) Web Services
7 11 (9.24%) Gherkin
8 9 (7.56%) Mustache
9 7 (5.88%) Django
9 7 (5.88%) Flask
10 6 (5.04%) AngularJS
11 4 (3.36%) Apache Camel
11 4 (3.36%) Apache NiFi
11 4 (3.36%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.97%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (10.92%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (6.72%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.52%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.52%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.68%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.68%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.68%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.68%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.68%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.84%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.84%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 52 (43.70%) Linux
2 27 (22.69%) Unix
3 19 (15.97%) Windows
4 3 (2.52%) CentOS
5 2 (1.68%) Debian
5 2 (1.68%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.68%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (74.79%) DevOps
2 87 (73.11%) CI/CD
3 67 (56.30%) Agile
4 64 (53.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 62 (52.10%) Containerisation
6 56 (47.06%) Continuous Integration
7 42 (35.29%) High Availability
8 36 (30.25%) Microservices
9 35 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (26.05%) Software Engineering
10 31 (26.05%) Test Automation
11 29 (24.37%) Mentoring
12 27 (22.69%) Static Code Analysis
12 27 (22.69%) Task Automation
13 25 (21.01%) Scrum
14 24 (20.17%) BDD
15 23 (19.33%) Full-Stack Development
16 22 (18.49%) GitOps
16 22 (18.49%) TDD
17 20 (16.81%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 81 (68.07%) Python
2 69 (57.98%) Java
3 66 (55.46%) Bash
4 53 (44.54%) JavaScript
5 39 (32.77%) Go
6 32 (26.89%) SQL
7 16 (13.45%) PowerShell
8 7 (5.88%) Delphi
9 5 (4.20%) TypeScript
10 4 (3.36%) C#
11 3 (2.52%) Groovy
11 3 (2.52%) RPG
11 3 (2.52%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.68%) Rust
12 2 (1.68%) Scala
13 1 (0.84%) Bicep
13 1 (0.84%) C++
13 1 (0.84%) Ruby
13 1 (0.84%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (16.81%) Security Cleared
2 19 (15.97%) AWS Certification
3 15 (12.61%) Degree
4 14 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (10.92%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (1.68%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.68%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.84%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.04%) QA
2 5 (4.20%) GDPR
2 5 (4.20%) SOC 2
3 4 (3.36%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.84%) NIST
System Software
1 86 (72.27%) Docker
2 4 (3.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.68%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.68%) vSphere
4 1 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 91 (76.47%) Kubernetes
2 73 (61.34%) Terraform
3 72 (60.50%) Ansible
4 62 (52.10%) Prometheus
5 58 (48.74%) Grafana
6 23 (19.33%) Argo
7 19 (15.97%) Kustomize
8 8 (6.72%) Kibana
8 8 (6.72%) logstash
9 4 (3.36%) Puppet
10 2 (1.68%) Control-M
10 2 (1.68%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (1.68%) Nessus
10 2 (1.68%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.68%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.84%) Podman
11 1 (0.84%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (18.49%) Google
2 19 (15.97%) Splunk
3 15 (12.61%) Atlassian
3 15 (12.61%) Oracle
4 7 (5.88%) VMware
5 4 (3.36%) Pega
5 4 (3.36%) WSO2
6 3 (2.52%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.52%) IBM
6 3 (2.52%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.52%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.68%) Foundry
7 2 (1.68%) Palantir
8 1 (0.84%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.84%) Workday