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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 661 342 643
Rank change year-on-year -319 +301 -116
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 83 340 120
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.085% 0.77% 0.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.77% 4.22% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 42 59 81
10th Percentile £45,125 £47,250 £60,000
25th Percentile £60,406 £55,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £60,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -33.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £97,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £60,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -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 10,723 8,049 14,820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.03% 18.35% 20.79%
Number of salaries quoted 7,974 5,390 10,428
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £39,380
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £68,525 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% +5.42% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -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 31 August 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 31 August 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 -44 28 £50,000 - 4
London -68 24 £90,000 +30.91% 31
South East -19 18 £82,500 -2.94% 10
North of England -235 17 £70,000 +16.67% 7
Yorkshire -33 7 £73,750 +5.36% 2
North East -56 6 £58,750 -2.08% 2
North West -188 4 £70,000 +16.67% 3
East of England -19 1 £82,500 +65.00% 4
West Midlands -32 1 £44,000 -24.14% 6
Midlands -47 1 £44,000 -24.14% 7
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 (12.05%) Apache
2 6 (7.23%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.20%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.20%) Confluence
3 1 (1.20%) JBoss
3 1 (1.20%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (8.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 69 (83.13%) AWS
2 35 (42.17%) Azure
3 19 (22.89%) Amazon EKS
4 18 (21.69%) Serverless
5 17 (20.48%) OpenShift
6 16 (19.28%) GCP
7 13 (15.66%) GitHub
8 12 (14.46%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (13.25%) Amazon S3
9 11 (13.25%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (13.25%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (12.05%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (10.84%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (10.84%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (7.23%) Datadog
13 5 (6.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (4.82%) Microsoft 365
14 4 (4.82%) SaaS
14 4 (4.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 2 (2.41%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.02%) Firewall
1 5 (6.02%) TCP/IP
2 4 (4.82%) DNS
2 4 (4.82%) HTTP
3 1 (1.20%) 4G
3 1 (1.20%) 5G
3 1 (1.20%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.25%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (9.64%) InfluxDB
2 8 (9.64%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (8.43%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.82%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (4.82%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (4.82%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.82%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.61%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.61%) Redis
5 3 (3.61%) ZAP BI
6 2 (2.41%) Big Data
7 1 (1.20%) Db2
7 1 (1.20%) Flink
7 1 (1.20%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.20%) Looker
7 1 (1.20%) MySQL
7 1 (1.20%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.20%) Power BI
7 1 (1.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 47 (56.63%) Jenkins
2 39 (46.99%) GitLab
3 27 (32.53%) Git
4 19 (22.89%) SonarQube
5 14 (16.87%) Cucumber
6 11 (13.25%) JIRA
6 11 (13.25%) Selenium
7 9 (10.84%) Cypress.io
8 8 (9.64%) Robot Framework
8 8 (9.64%) TestRail
9 6 (7.23%) Artifactory
10 5 (6.02%) Snyk
11 4 (4.82%) Bitbucket
11 4 (4.82%) JUnit
12 3 (3.61%) CircleCI
12 3 (3.61%) NUnit
12 3 (3.61%) Octopus Deploy
12 3 (3.61%) Postman
12 3 (3.61%) TeamCity
13 1 (1.20%) ER Studio
General
1 19 (22.89%) Finance
2 13 (15.66%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.43%) Public Sector
4 6 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.02%) Banking
6 4 (4.82%) Law
6 4 (4.82%) Military
6 4 (4.82%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.61%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.41%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.20%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.20%) Front Office
9 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 23 (27.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (20.48%) Developer
2 17 (20.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (13.25%) AWS Engineer
4 10 (12.05%) Java Developer
4 10 (12.05%) Software Engineer
5 9 (10.84%) AWS DevOps
5 9 (10.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 8 (9.64%) Test Engineer
7 6 (7.23%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (7.23%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (7.23%) Senior
7 6 (7.23%) Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (6.02%) Java Engineer
8 5 (6.02%) Tester
9 4 (4.82%) Automation Tester
9 4 (4.82%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (3.61%) Service Desk Support
10 3 (3.61%) Service Desk Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (75.90%) Terraform
2 16 (19.28%) REST
3 12 (14.46%) pytest
4 11 (13.25%) AngularJS
4 11 (13.25%) Kafka
4 11 (13.25%) RESTful
5 10 (12.05%) Apache NiFi
5 10 (12.05%) RabbitMQ
5 10 (12.05%) React
5 10 (12.05%) Spring
5 10 (12.05%) Spring Boot
6 8 (9.64%) Node.js
6 8 (9.64%) Vue
6 8 (9.64%) Web Services
7 7 (8.43%) Playwright
8 6 (7.23%) YAML
9 5 (6.02%) Jakarta EE
10 4 (4.82%) JMS
10 4 (4.82%) JPA
10 4 (4.82%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.87%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (14.46%) Cloud Native
3 11 (13.25%) Onboarding
4 8 (9.64%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.82%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.61%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.41%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.41%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.20%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.20%) IoT
8 1 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.20%) Replication
8 1 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 44 (53.01%) Linux
2 20 (24.10%) Windows
3 12 (14.46%) CentOS
4 5 (6.02%) Windows Server
5 4 (4.82%) Ubuntu
5 4 (4.82%) Unix
5 4 (4.82%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.20%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (72.29%) DevOps
2 57 (68.67%) CI/CD
3 48 (57.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (45.78%) Agile
5 37 (44.58%) Containerisation
6 28 (33.73%) Test Automation
7 25 (30.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 24 (28.92%) Software Engineering
9 23 (27.71%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (26.51%) Collaborative Culture
11 20 (24.10%) Microservices
11 20 (24.10%) Observability
12 17 (20.48%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (18.07%) Platform Engineering
14 14 (16.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 13 (15.66%) Deployment Automation
15 13 (15.66%) Full-Stack Development
16 12 (14.46%) Code Quality
16 12 (14.46%) Computer Science
17 11 (13.25%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 55 (66.27%) Python
2 41 (49.40%) Bash
3 37 (44.58%) Java
4 22 (26.51%) JavaScript
5 19 (22.89%) PowerShell
6 16 (19.28%) SQL
7 15 (18.07%) Rust
8 13 (15.66%) Go
9 10 (12.05%) C#
10 8 (9.64%) C++
10 8 (9.64%) TypeScript
11 7 (8.43%) VBA
12 5 (6.02%) Groovy
13 4 (4.82%) PL/SQL
13 4 (4.82%) Shell Script
14 2 (2.41%) Bicep
14 2 (2.41%) Perl
Qualifications
1 45 (54.22%) Security Cleared
2 23 (27.71%) SC Cleared
3 15 (18.07%) Degree
4 10 (12.05%) DV Cleared
5 9 (10.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (9.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (4.82%) OCP
7 4 (4.82%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (2.41%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.41%) RHCSA
9 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.46%) QA
2 5 (6.02%) SOC 2
3 4 (4.82%) GDPR
3 4 (4.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.61%) NIST
4 3 (3.61%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.41%) Def Stans
6 1 (1.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.20%) HIPAA
System Software
1 54 (65.06%) Docker
2 11 (13.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (8.43%) vSphere
4 6 (7.23%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (7.23%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.20%) Firmware
5 1 (1.20%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 62 (74.70%) Kubernetes
2 53 (63.86%) Grafana
3 52 (62.65%) Ansible
4 31 (37.35%) Prometheus
5 23 (27.71%) Kibana
6 16 (19.28%) logstash
7 10 (12.05%) vCenter Server
8 6 (7.23%) Argo
9 5 (6.02%) Puppet
10 4 (4.82%) Nessus
10 4 (4.82%) Packer
10 4 (4.82%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (3.61%) Control-M
11 3 (3.61%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (1.20%) Progress Chef
12 1 (1.20%) Rancher
Vendors
1 16 (19.28%) Red Hat
2 15 (18.07%) Splunk
3 14 (16.87%) VMware
4 10 (12.05%) Microsoft
5 9 (10.84%) AppDynamics
5 9 (10.84%) Atlassian
6 8 (9.64%) IBM
7 7 (8.43%) Oracle
8 2 (2.41%) Dynatrace
8 2 (2.41%) Pega
8 2 (2.41%) WSO2
9 1 (1.20%) Cloudera
9 1 (1.20%) Google
9 1 (1.20%) Percona
9 1 (1.20%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.20%) Sparx