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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 550 556
Rank change year-on-year +34 +6 +66
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 115 113 195
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.20% 0.25% 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.76% 1.13% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 63 60 139
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £52,400 £61,875 £59,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £76,250 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.92% -4.69% +3.23%
75th Percentile £106,875 £89,063 £90,625
90th Percentile £111,250 £97,525 £100,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -6.45% - -

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 6,521 10,000 15,189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.31% 22.04% 22.98%
Number of salaries quoted 5,002 5,932 12,943
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 £66,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.52% +5.60% -7.41%

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 9 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 9 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 +24 58 £98,750 +23.44% 12
North of England +8 31 £52,500 -30.00% 12
Yorkshire -20 14 £56,250 - 2
South West -7 13 £42,750 -46.56% 3
South East -2 10 £41,000 -47.44% 4
North East +4 9 £48,750 -15.22% 2
North West +18 8 £60,000 -20.00% 8
Midlands - 5 £55,200 - 4
West Midlands - 3 £55,200 - 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 (12.17%) Confluence
2 13 (11.30%) OpenStack
3 8 (6.96%) Apache
4 5 (4.35%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.74%) Luigi
5 2 (1.74%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.87%) JBoss
6 1 (0.87%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (7.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (7.83%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 88 (76.52%) AWS
2 44 (38.26%) Azure
3 29 (25.22%) GitHub
4 26 (22.61%) GCP
5 19 (16.52%) AWS CloudFormation
5 19 (16.52%) Pulumi
5 19 (16.52%) Serverless
6 18 (15.65%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (15.65%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (14.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (13.04%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (12.17%) OpenShift
10 13 (11.30%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (8.70%) Amazon S3
12 9 (7.83%) Datadog
13 7 (6.09%) Amazon SQS
14 3 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (2.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 2 (1.74%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 19 (16.52%) Broadband
2 15 (13.04%) Firewall
3 12 (10.43%) DNS
3 12 (10.43%) HTTP
3 12 (10.43%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.74%) SAN
4 2 (1.74%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (30.43%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (28.70%) Relational Database
3 31 (26.96%) NoSQL
4 22 (19.13%) SQL Server
5 19 (16.52%) RDBMS
6 13 (11.30%) DB2
7 7 (6.09%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (3.48%) CockroachDB
9 3 (2.61%) InfluxDB
9 3 (2.61%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.61%) MySQL
10 2 (1.74%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.74%) Big Data
10 2 (1.74%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (1.74%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.74%) Redis
11 1 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 75 (65.22%) Jenkins
2 32 (27.83%) GitLab
3 27 (23.48%) Git
4 26 (22.61%) Cucumber
4 26 (22.61%) Selenium
5 21 (18.26%) Jaeger
5 21 (18.26%) JIRA
6 17 (14.78%) Bitbucket
6 17 (14.78%) TeamCity
7 14 (12.17%) JUnit
8 12 (10.43%) SonarQube
9 9 (7.83%) Artifactory
10 8 (6.96%) Robot Framework
11 6 (5.22%) CircleCI
12 5 (4.35%) Maven
12 5 (4.35%) TestRail
13 4 (3.48%) Gradle
13 4 (3.48%) JMeter
13 4 (3.48%) TestNG
14 3 (2.61%) Cypress.io
General
1 35 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 19 (16.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 17 (14.78%) Telecoms
4 15 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (12.17%) Finance
6 13 (11.30%) Banking
7 12 (10.43%) Law
8 7 (6.09%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.74%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (29.57%) Developer
2 29 (25.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (21.74%) Java Developer
4 21 (18.26%) Lead
5 15 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
6 14 (12.17%) Cloud Engineer
6 14 (12.17%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 10 (8.70%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 10 (8.70%) Senior
8 9 (7.83%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (6.09%) Agile Developer
9 7 (6.09%) Agile Java Developer
9 7 (6.09%) Senior Developer
9 7 (6.09%) Software Developer
9 7 (6.09%) Software Engineer
9 7 (6.09%) Team Leader
10 5 (4.35%) Senior Software Developer
10 5 (4.35%) Tester
11 4 (3.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (3.48%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (20.87%) Node.js
2 23 (20.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 22 (19.13%) React
3 22 (19.13%) Spring
3 22 (19.13%) Spring Boot
4 16 (13.91%) Kafka
5 15 (13.04%) REST
6 13 (11.30%) CSS
6 13 (11.30%) HTML
6 13 (11.30%) pytest
6 13 (11.30%) RESTful
7 12 (10.43%) Web Services
8 11 (9.57%) Gherkin
9 9 (7.83%) Mustache
10 7 (6.09%) Django
10 7 (6.09%) Flask
11 5 (4.35%) AngularJS
12 4 (3.48%) Apache Camel
12 4 (3.48%) Apache NiFi
12 4 (3.48%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.65%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (11.30%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (6.96%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (6.09%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.61%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.74%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.74%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.74%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.74%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.74%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.87%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.87%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.87%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.87%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 52 (45.22%) Linux
2 27 (23.48%) Unix
3 19 (16.52%) Windows
4 3 (2.61%) CentOS
5 2 (1.74%) Debian
5 2 (1.74%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.74%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (73.91%) DevOps
2 84 (73.04%) CI/CD
3 65 (56.52%) Agile
4 62 (53.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 59 (51.30%) Containerisation
6 55 (47.83%) Continuous Integration
7 40 (34.78%) High Availability
8 34 (29.57%) Microservices
9 32 (27.83%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (26.96%) Test Automation
11 28 (24.35%) Mentoring
11 28 (24.35%) Software Engineering
12 27 (23.48%) Static Code Analysis
12 27 (23.48%) Task Automation
13 24 (20.87%) Scrum
14 23 (20.00%) BDD
15 22 (19.13%) Full-Stack Development
15 22 (19.13%) TDD
16 21 (18.26%) GitOps
17 20 (17.39%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 78 (67.83%) Python
2 67 (58.26%) Java
3 63 (54.78%) Bash
4 53 (46.09%) JavaScript
5 38 (33.04%) Go
6 31 (26.96%) SQL
7 15 (13.04%) PowerShell
8 7 (6.09%) Delphi
9 5 (4.35%) TypeScript
10 4 (3.48%) C#
11 3 (2.61%) Groovy
11 3 (2.61%) RPG
11 3 (2.61%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.74%) Rust
12 2 (1.74%) Scala
13 1 (0.87%) Bicep
13 1 (0.87%) C++
13 1 (0.87%) Ruby
13 1 (0.87%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 19 (16.52%) AWS Certification
3 13 (11.30%) Degree
3 13 (11.30%) DV Cleared
4 12 (10.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (1.74%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.74%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.87%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.35%) QA
2 3 (2.61%) GDPR
2 3 (2.61%) PCI DSS
2 3 (2.61%) SOC 2
System Software
1 83 (72.17%) Docker
2 4 (3.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.74%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.74%) vSphere
4 1 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 88 (76.52%) Kubernetes
2 71 (61.74%) Ansible
2 71 (61.74%) Terraform
3 60 (52.17%) Prometheus
4 55 (47.83%) Grafana
5 22 (19.13%) Argo
6 19 (16.52%) Kustomize
7 8 (6.96%) Kibana
7 8 (6.96%) logstash
8 4 (3.48%) Puppet
9 2 (1.74%) Control-M
9 2 (1.74%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (1.74%) Nessus
9 2 (1.74%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.74%) Sysdig
10 1 (0.87%) Podman
10 1 (0.87%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (19.13%) Google
2 18 (15.65%) Splunk
3 15 (13.04%) Atlassian
4 14 (12.17%) Oracle
5 7 (6.09%) VMware
6 4 (3.48%) Pega
6 4 (3.48%) WSO2
7 3 (2.61%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.61%) IBM
7 3 (2.61%) Microsoft
7 3 (2.61%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.74%) Foundry
8 2 (1.74%) Palantir
9 1 (0.87%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.87%) Workday