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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 578 318 682
Rank change year-on-year -260 +364 -118
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 111 346 164
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.13% 0.90% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.32% 4.61% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 55 53 126
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,050 £56,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £56,250 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £81,250
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -26.15% +16.07%
75th Percentile £86,250 £88,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £97,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £60,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +20.83% -25.00% +14.29%

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 8,439 7,508 17,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.14% 19.61% 19.79%
Number of salaries quoted 6,423 5,127 14,254
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,698 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,350 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +10.58% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,064
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,240 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.87% +10.40% -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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -36 42 £90,000 +50.00% 8
North of England -199 34 £47,500 -20.83% 5
South West -39 21 £45,000 -50.00% 5
South East -21 20 £82,500 -2.94% 7
Yorkshire -41 16 £65,000 -7.14%
North East -26 13 £47,500 -17.39% 1
North West -169 5 £47,500 -20.83% 4
Midlands -39 2 £62,500 +5.93% 1
West Midlands -36 1 £62,500 +5.93% 1
East Midlands -41 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 11 (9.91%) OpenStack
2 8 (7.21%) Apache
2 8 (7.21%) Confluence
3 1 (0.90%) JBoss
3 1 (0.90%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (2.70%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 94 (84.68%) AWS
2 48 (43.24%) Azure
3 34 (30.63%) GCP
4 28 (25.23%) Serverless
5 22 (19.82%) Amazon EKS
6 20 (18.02%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (18.02%) GitHub
7 18 (16.22%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (16.22%) Pulumi
8 15 (13.51%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (11.71%) Amazon S3
10 11 (9.91%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (9.01%) Datadog
12 9 (8.11%) OpenShift
13 7 (6.31%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (5.41%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
15 4 (3.60%) SaaS
16 3 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
16 3 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (16.22%) Broadband
1 18 (16.22%) Firewall
2 16 (14.41%) DNS
2 16 (14.41%) HTTP
3 15 (13.51%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (27.03%) Relational Database
2 29 (26.13%) NoSQL
3 18 (16.22%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (16.22%) RDBMS
4 7 (6.31%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (6.31%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.50%) DB2
5 5 (4.50%) InfluxDB
6 4 (3.60%) CockroachDB
7 3 (2.70%) Big Data
8 1 (0.90%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.90%) MySQL
8 1 (0.90%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 69 (62.16%) Jenkins
2 33 (29.73%) GitLab
3 27 (24.32%) Git
4 19 (17.12%) Cucumber
5 18 (16.22%) Jaeger
5 18 (16.22%) JIRA
6 17 (15.32%) SonarQube
7 11 (9.91%) Selenium
8 10 (9.01%) CircleCI
9 8 (7.21%) Bitbucket
10 6 (5.41%) Cypress.io
10 6 (5.41%) Robot Framework
10 6 (5.41%) TeamCity
11 5 (4.50%) Artifactory
11 5 (4.50%) JUnit
11 5 (4.50%) TestRail
12 4 (3.60%) TestNG
13 2 (1.80%) Gradle
13 2 (1.80%) Mockito
13 2 (1.80%) SoapUI
General
1 23 (20.72%) Social Skills
2 19 (17.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 17 (15.32%) Finance
4 16 (14.41%) Telecoms
5 15 (13.51%) Law
6 10 (9.01%) Banking
7 7 (6.31%) Public Sector
8 5 (4.50%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.80%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.80%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.90%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.90%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (30.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 23 (20.72%) Developer
3 20 (18.02%) Java Developer
4 19 (17.12%) Lead
5 16 (14.41%) Cloud Engineer
5 16 (14.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (9.91%) Full-Stack Developer
7 10 (9.01%) AWS Engineer
8 9 (8.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 9 (8.11%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 8 (7.21%) AWS DevOps
9 8 (7.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 8 (7.21%) Senior
9 8 (7.21%) Software Engineer
10 7 (6.31%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (6.31%) DevOps Engineer - Fintech
11 6 (5.41%) Team Leader
12 5 (4.50%) Test Engineer
13 4 (3.60%) Applications Support Analyst
13 4 (3.60%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (21.62%) REST
2 19 (17.12%) Kafka
2 19 (17.12%) React
2 19 (17.12%) Spring
2 19 (17.12%) Spring Boot
3 18 (16.22%) OpenTelemetry
4 15 (13.51%) Node.js
4 15 (13.51%) Web Services
5 10 (9.01%) AngularJS
6 9 (8.11%) Mustache
6 9 (8.11%) RabbitMQ
7 8 (7.21%) Apache NiFi
7 8 (7.21%) Vue
8 7 (6.31%) RESTful
9 6 (5.41%) JSON
9 6 (5.41%) pytest
9 6 (5.41%) YAML
10 5 (4.50%) CSS
10 5 (4.50%) Gherkin
10 5 (4.50%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (18.92%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (5.41%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.50%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.60%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.60%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.70%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.80%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.80%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.90%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 45 (40.54%) Linux
2 21 (18.92%) Unix
3 15 (13.51%) Windows
4 8 (7.21%) CentOS
5 4 (3.60%) Windows Server
6 3 (2.70%) Ubuntu
6 3 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (76.58%) DevOps
2 74 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 66 (59.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 60 (54.05%) Containerisation
5 59 (53.15%) Agile
6 50 (45.05%) Continuous Integration
7 44 (39.64%) High Availability
8 35 (31.53%) Microservices
9 27 (24.32%) Mentoring
10 25 (22.52%) Continuous Delivery
11 24 (21.62%) Software Engineering
11 24 (21.62%) Test Automation
12 23 (20.72%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (20.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 22 (19.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 21 (18.92%) Full-Stack Development
14 21 (18.92%) GitOps
14 21 (18.92%) Scrum
14 21 (18.92%) Static Code Analysis
15 20 (18.02%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 76 (68.47%) Python
2 68 (61.26%) Bash
3 63 (56.76%) Java
4 45 (40.54%) JavaScript
5 44 (39.64%) Go
6 28 (25.23%) SQL
7 15 (13.51%) PowerShell
8 9 (8.11%) Rust
9 7 (6.31%) TypeScript
10 6 (5.41%) C#
10 6 (5.41%) C++
11 4 (3.60%) Groovy
11 4 (3.60%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.80%) Bicep
12 2 (1.80%) Perl
12 2 (1.80%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.80%) VBA
13 1 (0.90%) RPG
13 1 (0.90%) Ruby
13 1 (0.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (26.13%) Security Cleared
2 18 (16.22%) AWS Certification
3 12 (10.81%) SC Cleared
4 9 (8.11%) Degree
5 8 (7.21%) DV Cleared
6 7 (6.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (4.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.90%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.81%) QA
1 12 (10.81%) SOC 2
2 10 (9.01%) GDPR
3 9 (8.11%) PCI DSS
4 5 (4.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.90%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.90%) NIST
System Software
1 71 (63.96%) Docker
2 8 (7.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.50%) vSphere
4 4 (3.60%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.90%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 80 (72.07%) Ansible
1 80 (72.07%) Terraform
2 77 (69.37%) Kubernetes
3 55 (49.55%) Prometheus
4 53 (47.75%) Grafana
5 21 (18.92%) Argo
6 18 (16.22%) Kibana
6 18 (16.22%) Kustomize
7 11 (9.91%) logstash
8 7 (6.31%) vCenter Server
9 4 (3.60%) Packer
9 4 (3.60%) Puppet
10 3 (2.70%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (2.70%) Nessus
10 3 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.80%) Control-M
Vendors
1 21 (18.92%) Google
2 14 (12.61%) Splunk
3 11 (9.91%) Oracle
4 10 (9.01%) Atlassian
4 10 (9.01%) VMware
5 9 (8.11%) AppDynamics
5 9 (8.11%) IBM
6 8 (7.21%) Red Hat
7 7 (6.31%) Microsoft
8 2 (1.80%) Pega
8 2 (1.80%) WSO2
9 1 (0.90%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.90%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.90%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.90%) Workday