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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 680 340 624
Rank change year-on-year -340 +284 -93
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 89 335 127
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.087% 0.78% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.82% 4.38% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 43 55 80
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,750 £60,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -33.33% +38.46%
75th Percentile £88,125 £83,750 £98,125
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -33.33% +38.46%

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 10,827 7,655 14,752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.57% 17.72% 21.35%
Number of salaries quoted 7,913 5,073 9,652
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -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 19 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 19 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 -47 30 £50,000 - 12
London -81 30 £67,500 -3.57% 78
South East -32 19 £82,500 - 9
North of England -243 12 £70,000 +16.67% 14
Yorkshire -39 6 £82,500 +17.86% 2
East of England -29 3 £82,500 +65.00% 3
North East -68 3 £70,000 +16.67% 3
North West -188 3 £70,000 +16.67% 9
West Midlands -50 1 £44,000 -24.14% 12
Midlands -60 1 £44,000 -24.14% 14
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 (12.36%) Apache
2 8 (8.99%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.12%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.12%) Confluence
3 1 (1.12%) JBoss
3 1 (1.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (7.87%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 73 (82.02%) AWS
2 30 (33.71%) Azure
3 26 (29.21%) Amazon EKS
4 20 (22.47%) Serverless
5 17 (19.10%) OpenShift
6 14 (15.73%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (13.48%) GCP
8 11 (12.36%) Amazon S3
8 11 (12.36%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (11.24%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (11.24%) GitHub
10 9 (10.11%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 8 (8.99%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (8.99%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (8.99%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (5.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (4.49%) SaaS
14 3 (3.37%) Datadog
14 3 (3.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.62%) TCP/IP
2 4 (4.49%) DNS
3 3 (3.37%) 4G
3 3 (3.37%) 5G
3 3 (3.37%) Firewall
3 3 (3.37%) HTTP
3 3 (3.37%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (20.22%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (14.61%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (14.61%) Redis
3 12 (13.48%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (10.11%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (8.99%) InfluxDB
6 7 (7.87%) Relational Database
7 5 (5.62%) MongoDB
8 4 (4.49%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (4.49%) SQL Server
9 3 (3.37%) MySQL
9 3 (3.37%) NoSQL
9 3 (3.37%) ZAP BI
10 2 (2.25%) Big Data
11 1 (1.12%) Db2
11 1 (1.12%) Flink
11 1 (1.12%) Hadoop
11 1 (1.12%) Oracle Database
11 1 (1.12%) Power BI
11 1 (1.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 54 (60.67%) Jenkins
2 40 (44.94%) GitLab
3 37 (41.57%) Git
4 20 (22.47%) SonarQube
5 15 (16.85%) Cucumber
6 13 (14.61%) Selenium
7 11 (12.36%) JIRA
8 9 (10.11%) Cypress.io
9 8 (8.99%) Robot Framework
9 8 (8.99%) TestRail
10 6 (6.74%) Artifactory
11 5 (5.62%) Snyk
12 4 (4.49%) Bitbucket
12 4 (4.49%) JUnit
13 3 (3.37%) NUnit
13 3 (3.37%) Octopus Deploy
13 3 (3.37%) Postman
13 3 (3.37%) TeamCity
14 1 (1.12%) ER Studio
14 1 (1.12%) ERwin
General
1 18 (20.22%) Finance
2 11 (12.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (11.24%) Social Skills
4 7 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.87%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.49%) Military
5 4 (4.49%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.37%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.25%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.25%) Banking
7 2 (2.25%) Law
8 1 (1.12%) Front Office
8 1 (1.12%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 26 (29.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (21.35%) Developer
3 16 (17.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 15 (16.85%) AWS Engineer
5 14 (15.73%) AWS DevOps
5 14 (15.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 11 (12.36%) Software Engineer
7 9 (10.11%) Java Developer
7 9 (10.11%) Test Engineer
8 6 (6.74%) Senior
8 6 (6.74%) Test Automation Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) Java Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) Python Developer
10 4 (4.49%) Automation Tester
10 4 (4.49%) Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (4.49%) Senior Developer
10 4 (4.49%) Tester
11 3 (3.37%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (74.16%) Terraform
2 19 (21.35%) Kafka
2 19 (21.35%) REST
3 14 (15.73%) pytest
4 13 (14.61%) RESTful
5 12 (13.48%) Keycloak
5 12 (13.48%) RabbitMQ
6 11 (12.36%) Apache NiFi
6 11 (12.36%) React
7 10 (11.24%) AngularJS
7 10 (11.24%) Spring
7 10 (11.24%) Spring Boot
8 9 (10.11%) Playwright
8 9 (10.11%) Vue
9 8 (8.99%) Node.js
9 8 (8.99%) Web Services
10 7 (7.87%) YAML
11 6 (6.74%) FastAPI
12 5 (5.62%) Flask
12 5 (5.62%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.61%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (13.48%) Cloud Native
3 11 (12.36%) Onboarding
4 9 (10.11%) Replication
5 8 (8.99%) Product Ownership
6 4 (4.49%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.25%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.25%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.25%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.12%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.12%) IoT
8 1 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.12%) PKI
8 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 47 (52.81%) Linux
2 21 (23.60%) Windows
3 12 (13.48%) CentOS
4 6 (6.74%) Windows Server
5 5 (5.62%) Unix
6 4 (4.49%) Ubuntu
6 4 (4.49%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.12%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (73.03%) DevOps
2 64 (71.91%) CI/CD
3 53 (59.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (52.81%) Agile
5 38 (42.70%) Test Automation
6 32 (35.96%) Containerisation
7 27 (30.34%) Observability
8 26 (29.21%) Software Engineering
9 25 (28.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 23 (25.84%) Collaborative Culture
11 21 (23.60%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (22.47%) Platform Engineering
13 17 (19.10%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (19.10%) Microservices
14 16 (17.98%) Secrets Management
15 14 (15.73%) Full-Stack Development
16 13 (14.61%) Scrum
17 12 (13.48%) Change Management
17 12 (13.48%) Code Quality
17 12 (13.48%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 61 (68.54%) Python
2 47 (52.81%) Bash
3 38 (42.70%) Java
4 25 (28.09%) JavaScript
5 20 (22.47%) PowerShell
6 16 (17.98%) Rust
7 15 (16.85%) SQL
8 13 (14.61%) Groovy
9 10 (11.24%) C#
10 9 (10.11%) C++
10 9 (10.11%) Go
10 9 (10.11%) TypeScript
11 7 (7.87%) VBA
12 6 (6.74%) Shell Script
13 4 (4.49%) PL/SQL
14 2 (2.25%) Bicep
14 2 (2.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 56 (62.92%) Security Cleared
2 32 (35.96%) SC Cleared
3 15 (16.85%) Degree
4 11 (12.36%) DV Cleared
5 9 (10.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (8.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (4.49%) OCP
7 4 (4.49%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (2.25%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.25%) RHCSA
9 1 (1.12%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (16.85%) QA
2 3 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.37%) NIST
3 2 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.25%) Def Stans
4 1 (1.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.12%) GDPR
4 1 (1.12%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 61 (68.54%) Docker
2 12 (13.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (7.87%) vSphere
4 6 (6.74%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (6.74%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.12%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.12%) Firmware
5 1 (1.12%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 67 (75.28%) Kubernetes
2 59 (66.29%) Grafana
3 48 (53.93%) Ansible
4 37 (41.57%) Prometheus
5 25 (28.09%) Kibana
6 18 (20.22%) logstash
7 10 (11.24%) vCenter Server
8 9 (10.11%) Rancher
9 6 (6.74%) Puppet
10 5 (5.62%) Argo
11 4 (4.49%) Nessus
11 4 (4.49%) Packer
11 4 (4.49%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (3.37%) Control-M
12 3 (3.37%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (1.12%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 16 (17.98%) Red Hat
2 15 (16.85%) Splunk
2 15 (16.85%) VMware
3 10 (11.24%) Microsoft
4 9 (10.11%) Atlassian
4 9 (10.11%) Dynatrace
4 9 (10.11%) ServiceNow
5 8 (8.99%) AppDynamics
5 8 (8.99%) IBM
6 7 (7.87%) Oracle
7 1 (1.12%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.12%) Google
7 1 (1.12%) Pega
7 1 (1.12%) Percona
7 1 (1.12%) Sparx
7 1 (1.12%) WSO2