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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 631 347 703
Rank change year-on-year -284 +356 -176
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 100 348 140
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.11% 0.80% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.09% 4.36% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 58 60 111
10th Percentile £44,250 £46,250 £60,000
25th Percentile £46,875 £55,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £60,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.17% -33.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £86,250 £84,063 £97,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,375 £100,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -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 9,165 7,978 16,940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.46% 18.41% 19.18%
Number of salaries quoted 7,025 5,404 13,470
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,625
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -10.45%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -49 34 £90,000 +28.57% 12
North of England -192 28 £47,500 -20.83% 4
South West -36 24 £50,000 -44.44% 4
South East -5 18 £82,500 -2.94% 2
North East -46 12 £47,500 -20.83%
Yorkshire -25 10 £65,000 -7.14%
North West -171 6 £47,500 -20.83% 4
Midlands -31 2 £53,250 -8.19% 2
West Midlands -33 2 £53,250 -8.19% 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 10 (10.00%) Apache
2 5 (5.00%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.00%) Confluence
4 1 (1.00%) JBoss
4 1 (1.00%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (7.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 88 (88.00%) AWS
2 51 (51.00%) Azure
3 34 (34.00%) GCP
4 22 (22.00%) Serverless
5 19 (19.00%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (19.00%) GitHub
5 19 (19.00%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (17.00%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (12.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (11.00%) OpenShift
9 10 (10.00%) Datadog
10 9 (9.00%) Amazon S3
11 8 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (8.00%) Pulumi
12 7 (7.00%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (5.00%) SaaS
14 4 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
15 3 (3.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (15.00%) Firewall
2 14 (14.00%) TCP/IP
3 13 (13.00%) DNS
3 13 (13.00%) HTTP
4 6 (6.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.00%) NoSQL
2 13 (13.00%) Relational Database
3 10 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (7.00%) InfluxDB
4 7 (7.00%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (6.00%) RDBMS
6 4 (4.00%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.00%) Big Data
8 1 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.00%) Db2
8 1 (1.00%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 59 (59.00%) Jenkins
2 40 (40.00%) GitLab
3 22 (22.00%) Git
4 17 (17.00%) SonarQube
5 15 (15.00%) Cucumber
6 12 (12.00%) JIRA
7 10 (10.00%) CircleCI
8 7 (7.00%) Robot Framework
8 7 (7.00%) Selenium
8 7 (7.00%) TestRail
9 6 (6.00%) Artifactory
9 6 (6.00%) Cypress.io
9 6 (6.00%) Jaeger
10 4 (4.00%) Bitbucket
11 3 (3.00%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (3.00%) TeamCity
12 1 (1.00%) Gatling
12 1 (1.00%) JMeter
12 1 (1.00%) JUnit
12 1 (1.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 20 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 19 (19.00%) Finance
3 13 (13.00%) Telecoms
4 12 (12.00%) Law
5 8 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (7.00%) Public Sector
7 6 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (6.00%) Banking
8 3 (3.00%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.00%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 37 (37.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (21.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 13 (13.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 12 (12.00%) AWS Engineer
4 12 (12.00%) Developer
5 11 (11.00%) Software Engineer
6 10 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
6 10 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 10 (10.00%) Java Developer
7 8 (8.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (8.00%) Test Engineer
8 7 (7.00%) DevOps Engineer - Fintech
8 7 (7.00%) Lead
8 7 (7.00%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (6.00%) Senior
9 6 (6.00%) Test Automation Engineer
10 5 (5.00%) Java Engineer
11 4 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (4.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.00%) REST
2 12 (12.00%) Kafka
3 11 (11.00%) Spring
3 11 (11.00%) Spring Boot
4 10 (10.00%) Apache NiFi
5 9 (9.00%) AngularJS
5 9 (9.00%) Vue
6 8 (8.00%) RabbitMQ
6 8 (8.00%) React
6 8 (8.00%) Web Services
7 7 (7.00%) OpenTelemetry
7 7 (7.00%) pytest
8 6 (6.00%) Playwright
8 6 (6.00%) YAML
9 5 (5.00%) Node.js
9 5 (5.00%) RESTful
10 4 (4.00%) Java EE
10 4 (4.00%) JMS
10 4 (4.00%) JPA
10 4 (4.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.00%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (11.00%) Onboarding
3 8 (8.00%) Product Ownership
4 7 (7.00%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.00%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (3.00%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.00%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.00%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.00%) IoT
7 1 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 48 (48.00%) Linux
2 19 (19.00%) Windows
3 11 (11.00%) CentOS
4 10 (10.00%) Unix
5 5 (5.00%) Windows Server
6 4 (4.00%) Ubuntu
6 4 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.00%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (79.00%) DevOps
2 68 (68.00%) CI/CD
3 65 (65.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (54.00%) Containerisation
5 41 (41.00%) Agile
6 31 (31.00%) Continuous Integration
7 29 (29.00%) High Availability
7 29 (29.00%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (29.00%) Software Engineering
8 27 (27.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 27 (27.00%) Microservices
9 23 (23.00%) Continuous Delivery
10 22 (22.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 22 (22.00%) Test Automation
11 18 (18.00%) Collaborative Culture
12 17 (17.00%) DevSecOps
13 15 (15.00%) Computer Science
13 15 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (15.00%) Mentoring
14 14 (14.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 74 (74.00%) Python
2 63 (63.00%) Bash
3 45 (45.00%) Java
4 31 (31.00%) Go
5 24 (24.00%) JavaScript
6 21 (21.00%) SQL
7 20 (20.00%) PowerShell
8 16 (16.00%) Rust
9 10 (10.00%) C#
10 8 (8.00%) C++
10 8 (8.00%) TypeScript
11 7 (7.00%) VBA
12 4 (4.00%) Groovy
12 4 (4.00%) PL/SQL
13 2 (2.00%) Bicep
13 2 (2.00%) Perl
13 2 (2.00%) Shell Script
14 1 (1.00%) Ruby
14 1 (1.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (18.00%) SC Cleared
3 15 (15.00%) Degree
4 12 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (10.00%) DV Cleared
6 7 (7.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (6.00%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.00%) RHCSA
9 1 (1.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.00%) QA
2 12 (12.00%) SOC 2
3 10 (10.00%) GDPR
4 9 (9.00%) PCI DSS
5 6 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (2.00%) Def Stans
7 1 (1.00%) NIST
System Software
1 59 (59.00%) Docker
2 11 (11.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (7.00%) vSphere
4 6 (6.00%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (6.00%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.00%) Firmware
5 1 (1.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 81 (81.00%) Terraform
2 75 (75.00%) Ansible
3 67 (67.00%) Kubernetes
4 63 (63.00%) Grafana
5 48 (48.00%) Prometheus
6 22 (22.00%) Kibana
7 15 (15.00%) logstash
8 11 (11.00%) Argo
9 10 (10.00%) vCenter Server
10 6 (6.00%) Kustomize
11 5 (5.00%) Puppet
12 4 (4.00%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (4.00%) Nessus
12 4 (4.00%) Packer
12 4 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (3.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 16 (16.00%) Splunk
2 14 (14.00%) VMware
3 11 (11.00%) Red Hat
4 10 (10.00%) Microsoft
5 9 (9.00%) AppDynamics
5 9 (9.00%) Atlassian
6 8 (8.00%) IBM
7 7 (7.00%) Google
8 6 (6.00%) Oracle
9 2 (2.00%) Pega
9 2 (2.00%) WSO2
10 1 (1.00%) Cloudera
10 1 (1.00%) Dynatrace
10 1 (1.00%) Salesforce
10 1 (1.00%) Workday