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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 492 553 558
Rank change year-on-year +61 +5 +67
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 119 117 198
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.25% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.85% 1.15% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 67 63 139
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £53,700 £62,500 £59,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% - -1.59%
75th Percentile £106,250 £90,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £111,250 £99,450 £96,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.68% - -

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 6,420 10,187 15,111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.41% 21.88% 23.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4,904 5,945 12,881
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 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -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 2 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 2 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 +47 62 £92,500 +15.63% 12
North of England -1 30 £53,850 -28.20% 11
Yorkshire -12 14 £56,250 - 1
South West -6 13 £42,750 -46.56% 5
South East +20 10 £41,000 -47.44% 6
North West +16 8 £60,000 -20.00% 7
North East +3 8 £50,000 -13.04% 3
Midlands - 5 £55,200 - 5
West Midlands - 3 £55,200 - 5
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 (11.76%) Confluence
2 13 (10.92%) OpenStack
3 8 (6.72%) Apache
4 5 (4.20%) Apache Spark
5 4 (3.36%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.68%) Luigi
7 1 (0.84%) JBoss
7 1 (0.84%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (7.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (7.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 90 (75.63%) AWS
2 43 (36.13%) Azure
3 29 (24.37%) GitHub
4 23 (19.33%) GCP
5 21 (17.65%) Serverless
6 20 (16.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 19 (15.97%) AWS CloudFormation
7 19 (15.97%) Pulumi
8 18 (15.13%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (13.45%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (12.61%) Amazon ECS
11 15 (12.61%) OpenShift
12 13 (10.92%) Amazon S3
13 8 (6.72%) Datadog
14 7 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
15 6 (5.04%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (5.04%) AWS Lambda
15 6 (5.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 4 (3.36%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (15.97%) Broadband
2 13 (10.92%) Firewall
3 12 (10.08%) DNS
3 12 (10.08%) TCP/IP
4 10 (8.40%) HTTP
5 2 (1.68%) SAN
5 2 (1.68%) SSL
5 2 (1.68%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (29.41%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (28.57%) Relational Database
3 30 (25.21%) NoSQL
4 22 (18.49%) SQL Server
5 19 (15.97%) RDBMS
6 13 (10.92%) DB2
7 8 (6.72%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (3.36%) CockroachDB
9 3 (2.52%) InfluxDB
9 3 (2.52%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.52%) MySQL
10 2 (1.68%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.68%) Big Data
10 2 (1.68%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.68%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (1.68%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.68%) Redis
Development Applications
1 75 (63.03%) Jenkins
2 32 (26.89%) GitLab
3 28 (23.53%) Git
4 26 (21.85%) Cucumber
4 26 (21.85%) Selenium
5 21 (17.65%) Jaeger
5 21 (17.65%) JIRA
6 18 (15.13%) TeamCity
7 17 (14.29%) Bitbucket
8 14 (11.76%) JUnit
9 12 (10.08%) SonarQube
10 9 (7.56%) Artifactory
11 8 (6.72%) Robot Framework
12 5 (4.20%) CircleCI
12 5 (4.20%) Maven
12 5 (4.20%) TestRail
13 4 (3.36%) Gradle
13 4 (3.36%) JMeter
13 4 (3.36%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (3.36%) TestNG
General
1 37 (31.09%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (15.13%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (12.61%) Finance
4 15 (12.61%) Telecoms
5 14 (11.76%) Banking
6 11 (9.24%) Law
7 9 (7.56%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.68%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (28.57%) Developer
2 29 (24.37%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (21.01%) Java Developer
4 21 (17.65%) Lead
5 15 (12.61%) Full-Stack Developer
6 14 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
6 14 (11.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 12 (10.08%) Senior
8 11 (9.24%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (8.40%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 7 (5.88%) Agile Developer
10 7 (5.88%) Agile Java Developer
10 7 (5.88%) Senior Developer
10 7 (5.88%) Software Developer
10 7 (5.88%) Software Engineer
10 7 (5.88%) Team Leader
11 5 (4.20%) Senior DevOps
11 5 (4.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 5 (4.20%) Senior Software Developer
11 5 (4.20%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (21.01%) Node.js
1 25 (21.01%) OpenTelemetry
2 23 (19.33%) React
3 22 (18.49%) Spring
3 22 (18.49%) Spring Boot
4 15 (12.61%) Kafka
4 15 (12.61%) REST
5 13 (10.92%) CSS
5 13 (10.92%) HTML
5 13 (10.92%) pytest
5 13 (10.92%) RESTful
6 12 (10.08%) Web Services
7 11 (9.24%) Gherkin
8 9 (7.56%) Mustache
9 7 (5.88%) Django
9 7 (5.88%) Flask
10 5 (4.20%) AngularJS
11 4 (3.36%) Apache Camel
11 4 (3.36%) Apache NiFi
11 4 (3.36%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.13%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (10.92%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (6.72%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.36%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.52%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.68%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.68%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.68%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.68%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.68%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.68%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.68%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.84%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 56 (47.06%) Linux
2 27 (22.69%) Unix
3 23 (19.33%) Windows
4 5 (4.20%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.52%) CentOS
6 2 (1.68%) Debian
6 2 (1.68%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (73.95%) DevOps
2 87 (73.11%) CI/CD
3 69 (57.98%) Agile
4 64 (53.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 61 (51.26%) Containerisation
6 56 (47.06%) Continuous Integration
7 37 (31.09%) High Availability
7 37 (31.09%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (27.73%) Microservices
9 31 (26.05%) Test Automation
10 29 (24.37%) Mentoring
10 29 (24.37%) Software Engineering
11 27 (22.69%) Task Automation
12 26 (21.85%) Scrum
13 25 (21.01%) Static Code Analysis
14 23 (19.33%) BDD
15 22 (18.49%) Full-Stack Development
15 22 (18.49%) TDD
16 21 (17.65%) GitOps
17 20 (16.81%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 80 (67.23%) Python
2 67 (56.30%) Java
3 65 (54.62%) Bash
4 53 (44.54%) JavaScript
5 37 (31.09%) Go
6 32 (26.89%) SQL
7 16 (13.45%) PowerShell
8 7 (5.88%) Delphi
9 6 (5.04%) TypeScript
10 5 (4.20%) C#
11 3 (2.52%) Groovy
11 3 (2.52%) RPG
11 3 (2.52%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.68%) Rust
12 2 (1.68%) Scala
13 1 (0.84%) Bicep
13 1 (0.84%) C++
13 1 (0.84%) Ruby
13 1 (0.84%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (20.17%) Security Cleared
2 21 (17.65%) AWS Certification
3 17 (14.29%) DV Cleared
4 13 (10.92%) Degree
5 12 (10.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (2.52%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.68%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.84%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.20%) QA
2 2 (1.68%) GDPR
2 2 (1.68%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.68%) SOC 2
System Software
1 88 (73.95%) Docker
2 6 (5.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.36%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.68%) vSphere
5 1 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 92 (77.31%) Kubernetes
2 73 (61.34%) Terraform
3 71 (59.66%) Ansible
4 61 (51.26%) Prometheus
5 55 (46.22%) Grafana
6 22 (18.49%) Argo
7 19 (15.97%) Kustomize
8 8 (6.72%) Kibana
8 8 (6.72%) logstash
9 4 (3.36%) Puppet
10 3 (2.52%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (1.68%) Control-M
11 2 (1.68%) Nessus
11 2 (1.68%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.68%) Sysdig
12 1 (0.84%) Podman
12 1 (0.84%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (18.49%) Google
2 18 (15.13%) Splunk
3 15 (12.61%) Atlassian
4 14 (11.76%) Oracle
5 9 (7.56%) VMware
6 4 (3.36%) Foundry
6 4 (3.36%) Palantir
6 4 (3.36%) Pega
6 4 (3.36%) Red Hat
6 4 (3.36%) WSO2
7 3 (2.52%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.52%) IBM
7 3 (2.52%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.84%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.84%) Workday