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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 515 627
Rank change year-on-year -15 +112 -42
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 128 94 187
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.18% 0.26% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.74% 1.19% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 71 62 140
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £46,875 £60,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £86,875 £87,188 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £95,625 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +3.23%

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 7,338 7,920 16,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.42% 21.67% 21.17%
Number of salaries quoted 5,578 5,948 13,883
10th Percentile £37,100 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,345 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +10.58% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,212 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.83% +10.35% -11.11%

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 April 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 April 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 -17 53 £87,500 +9.38% 14
North of England -27 44 £47,500 -36.67% 11
Yorkshire -30 22 £65,000 - 4
South East -33 17 £82,500 +5.77% 13
South West -24 15 £42,750 -52.50% 3
North East -16 14 £47,500 -22.45% 5
North West -26 8 £47,500 -36.67% 2
Midlands - 6 £55,200 - 1
West Midlands - 4 £58,850 -
East Midlands - 2 £55,200 - 1
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 15 (11.72%) OpenStack
2 12 (9.38%) Confluence
3 4 (3.13%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (5.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (5.47%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 106 (82.81%) AWS
2 58 (45.31%) Azure
3 38 (29.69%) GCP
3 38 (29.69%) GitHub
4 33 (25.78%) Serverless
5 27 (21.09%) Amazon EKS
5 27 (21.09%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (17.97%) AWS CloudFormation
7 22 (17.19%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (14.84%) Pulumi
9 18 (14.06%) Amazon ECS
10 15 (11.72%) Amazon S3
10 15 (11.72%) Datadog
11 14 (10.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (10.94%) OpenShift
12 8 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (5.47%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (5.47%) Amazon SQS
14 3 (2.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 2 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 21 (16.41%) Firewall
2 19 (14.84%) Broadband
2 19 (14.84%) HTTP
3 18 (14.06%) DNS
3 18 (14.06%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.78%) SAN
4 1 (0.78%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (28.91%) Relational Database
2 35 (27.34%) NoSQL
3 34 (26.56%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (14.84%) RDBMS
4 19 (14.84%) SQL Server
5 11 (8.59%) DB2
6 4 (3.13%) CockroachDB
6 4 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (3.13%) InfluxDB
7 3 (2.34%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.34%) MySQL
8 2 (1.56%) Big Data
8 2 (1.56%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 93 (72.66%) Jenkins
2 42 (32.81%) GitLab
3 34 (26.56%) Git
4 28 (21.88%) Cucumber
5 25 (19.53%) Selenium
6 21 (16.41%) Jaeger
6 21 (16.41%) JIRA
7 15 (11.72%) SonarQube
8 14 (10.94%) Bitbucket
8 14 (10.94%) JUnit
8 14 (10.94%) TeamCity
9 11 (8.59%) CircleCI
10 9 (7.03%) Artifactory
10 9 (7.03%) Robot Framework
11 6 (4.69%) TestRail
12 5 (3.91%) JMeter
13 4 (3.13%) Cypress.io
13 4 (3.13%) TestNG
14 3 (2.34%) Eclipse
14 3 (2.34%) Gradle
General
1 43 (33.59%) Social Skills
2 23 (17.97%) Telecoms
3 19 (14.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (14.06%) Law
5 15 (11.72%) Banking
6 13 (10.16%) Finance
7 12 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (7.03%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.56%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.56%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (32.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (30.47%) Developer
3 29 (22.66%) Java Developer
4 21 (16.41%) Lead
5 17 (13.28%) Full-Stack Developer
6 16 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
7 15 (11.72%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 14 (10.94%) Senior
9 10 (7.81%) AWS DevOps
9 10 (7.81%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (7.81%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 8 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 8 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (5.47%) DevOps Engineer - Fintech
11 7 (5.47%) Senior Developer
11 7 (5.47%) Software Developer
11 7 (5.47%) Team Leader
12 6 (4.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 6 (4.69%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (21.88%) Spring
1 28 (21.88%) Spring Boot
2 24 (18.75%) Node.js
2 24 (18.75%) React
2 24 (18.75%) REST
3 21 (16.41%) OpenTelemetry
4 19 (14.84%) Kafka
5 17 (13.28%) Web Services
6 14 (10.94%) pytest
7 13 (10.16%) RESTful
8 11 (8.59%) AngularJS
8 11 (8.59%) CSS
8 11 (8.59%) HTML
9 9 (7.03%) Gherkin
9 9 (7.03%) Mustache
10 8 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (5.47%) Django
11 7 (5.47%) Flask
12 6 (4.69%) Apache Camel
12 6 (4.69%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.75%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (8.59%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (5.47%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.13%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.34%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.34%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.56%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.78%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 48 (37.50%) Linux
2 27 (21.09%) Unix
3 15 (11.72%) Windows
4 4 (3.13%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (81.25%) DevOps
2 97 (75.78%) CI/CD
3 75 (58.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (56.25%) Agile
4 72 (56.25%) Containerisation
5 63 (49.22%) Continuous Integration
6 50 (39.06%) High Availability
7 48 (37.50%) Microservices
8 37 (28.91%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (27.34%) Test Automation
10 34 (26.56%) Mentoring
11 31 (24.22%) Static Code Analysis
12 28 (21.88%) Scrum
12 28 (21.88%) Software Engineering
13 27 (21.09%) BDD
13 27 (21.09%) Continuous Delivery
13 27 (21.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 27 (21.09%) Task Automation
14 25 (19.53%) Full-Stack Development
14 25 (19.53%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 88 (68.75%) Python
2 76 (59.38%) Bash
3 73 (57.03%) Java
4 54 (42.19%) JavaScript
5 49 (38.28%) Go
6 33 (25.78%) SQL
7 16 (12.50%) PowerShell
8 7 (5.47%) Delphi
9 6 (4.69%) Groovy
10 5 (3.91%) TypeScript
11 3 (2.34%) C#
11 3 (2.34%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.34%) RPG
12 2 (1.56%) Perl
12 2 (1.56%) Rust
12 2 (1.56%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.78%) C++
13 1 (0.78%) Ruby
13 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (19.53%) Security Cleared
2 19 (14.84%) AWS Certification
3 10 (7.81%) Degree
3 10 (7.81%) DV Cleared
4 9 (7.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (6.25%) SC Cleared
6 4 (3.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (1.56%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.38%) SOC 2
2 10 (7.81%) GDPR
2 10 (7.81%) QA
3 9 (7.03%) PCI DSS
4 4 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.78%) NIST
System Software
1 92 (71.88%) Docker
2 2 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 99 (77.34%) Kubernetes
2 90 (70.31%) Terraform
3 84 (65.63%) Ansible
4 65 (50.78%) Prometheus
5 64 (50.00%) Grafana
6 24 (18.75%) Argo
7 19 (14.84%) Kustomize
8 9 (7.03%) Kibana
9 6 (4.69%) logstash
10 4 (3.13%) Packer
11 2 (1.56%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (1.56%) Nessus
11 2 (1.56%) Sysdig
11 2 (1.56%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.78%) Control-M
12 1 (0.78%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (16.41%) Google
2 18 (14.06%) Oracle
2 18 (14.06%) Splunk
3 13 (10.16%) Atlassian
4 10 (7.81%) IBM
5 8 (6.25%) AppDynamics
6 6 (4.69%) Pega
6 6 (4.69%) WSO2
7 5 (3.91%) VMware
8 4 (3.13%) Red Hat
9 3 (2.34%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.78%) Microsoft
10 1 (0.78%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.78%) Workday