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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 595 512
Rank change year-on-year +80 -83 +150
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 90 126 175
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.20% 0.21% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.40% 1.02% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 67 76 122
10th Percentile £47,500 £60,000 £48,900
25th Percentile £55,000 £72,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £88,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year -23.30% +28.00% -19.12%
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £114,750 £105,000 £99,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £88,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -20.45% +30.37% -15.63%

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 6,435 12,312 12,338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.95% 20.45% 26.66%
Number of salaries quoted 4,780 7,370 10,124
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +1.89%
75th Percentile £87,500 £86,000 £86,438
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%

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 20 November 2025.

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 20 November 2025. 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 +20 46 £82,500 -17.50% 40
North of England +46 21 £60,000 -20.00% 8
North West +38 11 £60,000 -20.00% 3
Midlands - 8 £56,100 - 12
South East +38 7 £41,000 -48.10% 8
West Midlands - 7 £57,000 - 8
North East +13 6 £60,000 -14.29% 3
Yorkshire +4 4 £62,500 - 2
South West -2 4 £42,750 -46.56% 5
East of England +24 3 £50,000 -21.57% 1
East Midlands - 1 £55,200 - 4
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 7 (7.78%) Apache
2 6 (6.67%) OpenStack
3 5 (5.56%) Apache Spark
3 5 (5.56%) Confluence
4 3 (3.33%) JBoss
4 3 (3.33%) WebSphere
5 2 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (2.22%) Luigi
Applications
1 5 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (5.56%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.11%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 64 (71.11%) AWS
2 37 (41.11%) Azure
3 27 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 23 (25.56%) AWS CloudFormation
5 19 (21.11%) GitHub
6 18 (20.00%) GCP
7 15 (16.67%) OpenShift
8 12 (13.33%) Serverless
9 11 (12.22%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (12.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 10 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (8.89%) Amazon S3
12 8 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (8.89%) Datadog
13 6 (6.67%) AWS CodeBuild
13 6 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (6.67%) Route 53
14 4 (4.44%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.67%) Firewall
2 5 (5.56%) DNS
2 5 (5.56%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.44%) SAN
4 3 (3.33%) HTTP
4 3 (3.33%) VPN
5 2 (2.22%) Network Security
5 2 (2.22%) SSL
6 1 (1.11%) Broadband
6 1 (1.11%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (21.11%) SQL Server
3 13 (14.44%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (12.22%) NoSQL
4 11 (12.22%) Relational Database
5 7 (7.78%) DB2
5 7 (7.78%) Redis
6 5 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (2.22%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.22%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (2.22%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.22%) InfluxDB
7 2 (2.22%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.22%) MySQL
8 1 (1.11%) Big Data
8 1 (1.11%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 50 (55.56%) Jenkins
2 28 (31.11%) GitLab
3 24 (26.67%) Git
4 17 (18.89%) JIRA
5 16 (17.78%) Selenium
6 15 (16.67%) Cucumber
7 14 (15.56%) TeamCity
8 13 (14.44%) Artifactory
8 13 (14.44%) Bitbucket
9 9 (10.00%) JUnit
10 8 (8.89%) SonarQube
11 7 (7.78%) CircleCI
11 7 (7.78%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (6.67%) Robot Framework
13 5 (5.56%) Maven
14 4 (4.44%) Octopus Deploy
14 4 (4.44%) TestRail
15 3 (3.33%) Ant
15 3 (3.33%) Jaeger
16 2 (2.22%) Eclipse
General
1 37 (41.11%) Social Skills
2 18 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (17.78%) Finance
4 9 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 8 (8.89%) Banking
5 8 (8.89%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.44%) Law
7 3 (3.33%) Automotive
8 2 (2.22%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.11%) Games
Job Titles
1 28 (31.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 23 (25.56%) Developer
3 13 (14.44%) Java Developer
3 13 (14.44%) Platform Engineer
4 12 (13.33%) Senior
5 9 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (7.78%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (7.78%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (7.78%) Senior DevOps
6 7 (7.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Software Developer
8 5 (5.56%) Agile Developer
8 5 (5.56%) Agile Java Developer
8 5 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (5.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 5 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Senior Developer
8 5 (5.56%) Senior Software Developer
8 5 (5.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.56%) Node.js
2 13 (14.44%) Spring
2 13 (14.44%) Spring Boot
3 10 (11.11%) CSS
3 10 (11.11%) HTML
3 10 (11.11%) React
3 10 (11.11%) RESTful
4 9 (10.00%) Kafka
4 9 (10.00%) pytest
4 9 (10.00%) Web Services
5 7 (7.78%) Django
5 7 (7.78%) Flask
5 7 (7.78%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (6.67%) REST
7 5 (5.56%) Gherkin
7 5 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (4.44%) .NET
8 4 (4.44%) AngularJS
8 4 (4.44%) Apache Camel
9 3 (3.33%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.22%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (7.78%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (7.78%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.44%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (3.33%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.22%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.22%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (2.22%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (2.22%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.22%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (2.22%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.22%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.22%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.11%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.11%) e-Learning
8 1 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 47 (52.22%) Linux
2 26 (28.89%) Windows
3 9 (10.00%) Unix
4 6 (6.67%) Debian
4 6 (6.67%) Ubuntu
5 5 (5.56%) Windows Server
6 3 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (2.22%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (74.44%) CI/CD
2 62 (68.89%) DevOps
3 44 (48.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (45.56%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (38.89%) Containerisation
6 33 (36.67%) Agile
7 30 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
8 21 (23.33%) Microservices
9 20 (22.22%) Software Engineering
10 18 (20.00%) Configuration Management
10 18 (20.00%) Test Automation
11 16 (17.78%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (17.78%) Root Cause Analysis
12 15 (16.67%) Computer Science
12 15 (16.67%) TDD
13 14 (15.56%) BDD
13 14 (15.56%) Observability
14 13 (14.44%) Incident Response
14 13 (14.44%) Scrum
15 12 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 57 (63.33%) Python
2 42 (46.67%) Bash
3 29 (32.22%) Java
4 19 (21.11%) SQL
5 18 (20.00%) JavaScript
6 17 (18.89%) PowerShell
7 11 (12.22%) Go
8 8 (8.89%) C#
9 7 (7.78%) Delphi
10 5 (5.56%) Groovy
11 4 (4.44%) Shell Script
12 3 (3.33%) T-SQL
13 2 (2.22%) Perl
13 2 (2.22%) Scala
13 2 (2.22%) TypeScript
14 1 (1.11%) Bicep
14 1 (1.11%) RPG
Qualifications
1 23 (25.56%) Security Cleared
2 16 (17.78%) Degree
3 15 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (15.56%) DV Cleared
5 9 (10.00%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.33%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.22%) CISSP
7 2 (2.22%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (2.22%) ISTQB
7 2 (2.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (2.22%) GDPR
1 2 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.22%) NIST
1 2 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 64 (71.11%) Docker
2 7 (7.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.44%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (4.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 68 (75.56%) Kubernetes
2 52 (57.78%) Grafana
2 52 (57.78%) Terraform
3 47 (52.22%) Ansible
4 40 (44.44%) Prometheus
5 9 (10.00%) Kibana
6 7 (7.78%) logstash
7 5 (5.56%) Docker Swarm
7 5 (5.56%) Puppet
8 4 (4.44%) Argo
8 4 (4.44%) Control-M
9 3 (3.33%) Podman
10 2 (2.22%) Nessus
10 2 (2.22%) Progress Chef
10 2 (2.22%) Sysdig
11 1 (1.11%) Kustomize
11 1 (1.11%) Nagios
11 1 (1.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 23 (25.56%) Splunk
2 11 (12.22%) Atlassian
2 11 (12.22%) VMware
3 10 (11.11%) Oracle
4 7 (7.78%) Microsoft
5 5 (5.56%) Google
6 4 (4.44%) Dynatrace
6 4 (4.44%) Foundry
6 4 (4.44%) LogRhythm
6 4 (4.44%) Palantir
6 4 (4.44%) Pega
6 4 (4.44%) WSO2
7 3 (3.33%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.22%) AppDynamics
8 2 (2.22%) IBM
9 1 (1.11%) BMC
9 1 (1.11%) SolarWinds