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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 566 471 672
Rank change year-on-year -95 +201 -101
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 116 164 164
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.14% 0.42% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.44% 2.11% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 60 59 126
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,950 £56,250
25th Percentile £47,188 £55,625 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -25.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £86,563 £88,125 £95,000
90th Percentile £106,375 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -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 8,047 7,756 17,004
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.00% 19.84% 20.19%
Number of salaries quoted 6,107 5,650 14,146
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,884 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,028
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,254 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 12 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 12 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 -27 45 £90,000 +50.00% 8
North of England -73 40 £47,500 -24.00% 3
South East -4 19 £82,500 +5.77% 7
South West -30 19 - - 5
Yorkshire - 19 £63,750 -
North East -24 15 £47,500 -17.39% 3
North West -73 6 £47,500 -36.67%
Midlands -31 2 £62,500 - 1
West Midlands -26 1 £62,500 - 1
East Midlands - 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 12 (10.34%) OpenStack
2 11 (9.48%) Confluence
3 7 (6.03%) Apache
4 1 (0.86%) JBoss
4 1 (0.86%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 5 (4.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (4.31%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 97 (83.62%) AWS
2 51 (43.97%) Azure
3 37 (31.90%) GCP
4 30 (25.86%) Serverless
5 25 (21.55%) GitHub
6 24 (20.69%) Amazon EKS
7 23 (19.83%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (19.83%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (15.52%) Pulumi
9 16 (13.79%) Amazon ECS
10 15 (12.93%) Amazon S3
11 13 (11.21%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (9.48%) Datadog
13 7 (6.03%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (6.03%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (6.03%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (6.03%) OpenShift
14 5 (4.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 3 (2.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 2 (1.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (18.97%) Firewall
2 19 (16.38%) DNS
2 19 (16.38%) HTTP
3 18 (15.52%) Broadband
3 18 (15.52%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.86%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (26.72%) Relational Database
2 30 (25.86%) NoSQL
3 21 (18.10%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (15.52%) RDBMS
5 11 (9.48%) SQL Server
6 8 (6.90%) DB2
7 6 (5.17%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (4.31%) InfluxDB
9 4 (3.45%) CockroachDB
10 2 (1.72%) Big Data
11 1 (0.86%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.86%) MySQL
11 1 (0.86%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 77 (66.38%) Jenkins
2 33 (28.45%) GitLab
3 28 (24.14%) Git
4 22 (18.97%) JIRA
5 21 (18.10%) Cucumber
6 18 (15.52%) Jaeger
6 18 (15.52%) SonarQube
7 15 (12.93%) Selenium
8 13 (11.21%) Bitbucket
9 10 (8.62%) CircleCI
9 10 (8.62%) TeamCity
10 6 (5.17%) Artifactory
10 6 (5.17%) Cypress.io
10 6 (5.17%) JUnit
10 6 (5.17%) Robot Framework
11 5 (4.31%) TestRail
12 4 (3.45%) TestNG
13 3 (2.59%) JMeter
13 3 (2.59%) Octopus Deploy
13 3 (2.59%) REST Assured
General
1 26 (22.41%) Social Skills
2 19 (16.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 19 (16.38%) Telecoms
3 18 (15.52%) Law
4 17 (14.66%) Finance
5 12 (10.34%) Banking
6 8 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (6.03%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.72%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.72%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (33.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (22.41%) Developer
3 23 (19.83%) Java Developer
4 20 (17.24%) Lead
5 17 (14.66%) Cloud Engineer
6 13 (11.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (10.34%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (8.62%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (8.62%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 10 (8.62%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 9 (7.76%) Senior
10 8 (6.90%) AWS DevOps
10 8 (6.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 7 (6.03%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (6.03%) DevOps Engineer - Fintech
11 7 (6.03%) Software Engineer
12 6 (5.17%) Team Leader
12 6 (5.17%) Test Engineer
13 5 (4.31%) Azure Engineer
13 5 (4.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (21.55%) REST
2 22 (18.97%) React
3 20 (17.24%) Kafka
4 19 (16.38%) Spring
4 19 (16.38%) Spring Boot
5 18 (15.52%) Node.js
5 18 (15.52%) OpenTelemetry
6 15 (12.93%) Web Services
7 10 (8.62%) Mustache
7 10 (8.62%) RESTful
8 9 (7.76%) AngularJS
8 9 (7.76%) RabbitMQ
9 8 (6.90%) CSS
9 8 (6.90%) Gherkin
9 8 (6.90%) HTML
10 7 (6.03%) Apache NiFi
10 7 (6.03%) pytest
10 7 (6.03%) Vue
11 6 (5.17%) JSON
11 6 (5.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (18.97%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (6.03%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (4.31%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.59%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.59%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.72%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.72%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 46 (39.66%) Linux
2 23 (19.83%) Unix
3 15 (12.93%) Windows
4 6 (5.17%) CentOS
5 2 (1.72%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.86%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (76.72%) DevOps
2 83 (71.55%) CI/CD
3 70 (60.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 65 (56.03%) Containerisation
5 60 (51.72%) Agile
6 57 (49.14%) Continuous Integration
7 47 (40.52%) High Availability
8 38 (32.76%) Microservices
9 28 (24.14%) Continuous Delivery
9 28 (24.14%) Mentoring
9 28 (24.14%) Test Automation
10 27 (23.28%) Static Code Analysis
11 25 (21.55%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (21.55%) Scrum
11 25 (21.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 23 (19.83%) Software Engineering
13 22 (18.97%) Full-Stack Development
14 21 (18.10%) GitOps
14 21 (18.10%) Task Automation
15 20 (17.24%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 81 (69.83%) Python
2 71 (61.21%) Bash
3 66 (56.90%) Java
4 49 (42.24%) JavaScript
5 48 (41.38%) Go
6 32 (27.59%) SQL
7 15 (12.93%) PowerShell
8 7 (6.03%) Rust
8 7 (6.03%) TypeScript
9 6 (5.17%) C#
10 5 (4.31%) C++
11 4 (3.45%) Groovy
11 4 (3.45%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.72%) Bicep
12 2 (1.72%) Perl
12 2 (1.72%) RPG
12 2 (1.72%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.86%) Ruby
13 1 (0.86%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.86%) VBA
Qualifications
1 27 (23.28%) Security Cleared
2 18 (15.52%) AWS Certification
3 10 (8.62%) SC Cleared
4 9 (7.76%) Degree
5 7 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (5.17%) DV Cleared
7 5 (4.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.86%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.21%) QA
2 12 (10.34%) SOC 2
3 10 (8.62%) GDPR
4 9 (7.76%) PCI DSS
5 5 (4.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.86%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.86%) NIST
System Software
1 77 (66.38%) Docker
2 6 (5.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (3.45%) vSphere
4 1 (0.86%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 83 (71.55%) Terraform
2 82 (70.69%) Ansible
3 81 (69.83%) Kubernetes
4 58 (50.00%) Prometheus
5 57 (49.14%) Grafana
6 22 (18.97%) Argo
7 18 (15.52%) Kustomize
8 17 (14.66%) Kibana
9 10 (8.62%) logstash
10 5 (4.31%) vCenter Server
11 4 (3.45%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (3.45%) Packer
11 4 (3.45%) Puppet
12 3 (2.59%) Control-M
13 1 (0.86%) Nessus
13 1 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (17.24%) Google
2 14 (12.07%) Splunk
3 13 (11.21%) Atlassian
4 10 (8.62%) IBM
4 10 (8.62%) Oracle
5 9 (7.76%) AppDynamics
5 9 (7.76%) VMware
6 6 (5.17%) Microsoft
6 6 (5.17%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.72%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.72%) Pega
7 2 (1.72%) WSO2
8 1 (0.86%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.86%) Workday