Elastic Stack Job Trends in the North of England

Elastic Stack (formerly ELK Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Elastic Stack skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 254 321
Rank change year-on-year +1 +67 +65
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 37 17 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.27% 0.23% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.91% 1.24% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 25 14 17
10th Percentile £41,000 £46,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £64,375 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% +20.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £67,000 £81,000 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +3.23%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,270 1,366 2,860
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.19% 18.48% 20.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,054 959 2,430
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,258 £71,250
90th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -11.11%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Elastic Stack relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Elastic Stack job vacancy trend in the North of England

Elastic Stack
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Elastic Stack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Elastic Stack

Elastic Stack
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Elastic Stack in the North of England over the 6 months to 7 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Elastic Stack in the North of England

Elastic Stack
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 7 March 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
North East -3 15 £47,500 -22.45% 5
Yorkshire -25 15 £60,000 - 2
North West -9 7 £47,500 -36.67% 1
Elastic Stack
England

Elastic Stack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 11 (29.73%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.70%) Apache
2 1 (2.70%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) JBoss
2 1 (2.70%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 35 (94.59%) AWS
2 27 (72.97%) Azure
3 21 (56.76%) GCP
4 20 (54.05%) GitHub
5 19 (51.35%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (48.65%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (32.43%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (29.73%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (29.73%) Serverless
9 7 (18.92%) Amazon S3
10 6 (16.22%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (5.41%) OpenShift
12 1 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (2.70%) Datadog
12 1 (2.70%) SaaS
12 1 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (51.35%) HTTP
2 18 (48.65%) DNS
2 18 (48.65%) Firewall
2 18 (48.65%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.41%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (32.43%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (27.03%) Relational Database
3 3 (8.11%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 32 (86.49%) Jenkins
2 13 (35.14%) Git
3 4 (10.81%) JIRA
4 3 (8.11%) Artifactory
5 2 (5.41%) Bitbucket
5 2 (5.41%) GitLab
5 2 (5.41%) JUnit
5 2 (5.41%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (5.41%) SonarQube
5 2 (5.41%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.70%) Ant
6 1 (2.70%) CircleCI
6 1 (2.70%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.70%) Gatling
6 1 (2.70%) JMeter
6 1 (2.70%) LoadRunner
6 1 (2.70%) Maven
6 1 (2.70%) Selenium
6 1 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (48.65%) Law
1 18 (48.65%) Telecoms
2 5 (13.51%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.11%) Finance
3 3 (8.11%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (59.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (32.43%) Developer
3 11 (29.73%) Java Developer
4 7 (18.92%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (18.92%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 4 (10.81%) Senior
6 3 (8.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 3 (8.11%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Junior
7 2 (5.41%) Junior DevOps
7 2 (5.41%) Junior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (2.70%) AWS DevOps
8 1 (2.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (32.43%) Spring
1 12 (32.43%) Spring Boot
2 11 (29.73%) Node.js
2 11 (29.73%) REST
3 10 (27.03%) Web Services
4 8 (21.62%) Kafka
5 7 (18.92%) Mustache
5 7 (18.92%) React
6 4 (10.81%) AngularJS
6 4 (10.81%) Apache Camel
7 1 (2.70%) Django
7 1 (2.70%) Flask
7 1 (2.70%) JSON
7 1 (2.70%) Middleware
7 1 (2.70%) pytest
7 1 (2.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (32.43%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.70%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.51%) Linux
2 3 (8.11%) Windows
3 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (86.49%) CI/CD
2 30 (81.08%) DevOps
3 23 (62.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (59.46%) Containerisation
5 20 (54.05%) Continuous Integration
6 19 (51.35%) DevSecOps
6 19 (51.35%) High Availability
6 19 (51.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 19 (51.35%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 18 (48.65%) Continuous Delivery
7 18 (48.65%) Static Code Analysis
8 14 (37.84%) Agile
9 12 (32.43%) Microservices
9 12 (32.43%) TDD
10 11 (29.73%) Scrum
11 9 (24.32%) Full-Stack Development
12 6 (16.22%) BDD
12 6 (16.22%) SDLC
13 5 (13.51%) Kanban
14 4 (10.81%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (64.86%) Python
2 21 (56.76%) Bash
3 18 (48.65%) Go
4 14 (37.84%) Java
5 11 (29.73%) JavaScript
6 3 (8.11%) PowerShell
7 2 (5.41%) C#
8 1 (2.70%) Delphi
8 1 (2.70%) Groovy
8 1 (2.70%) SQL
8 1 (2.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (5.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.70%) QA
1 1 (2.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (40.54%) Docker
2 2 (5.41%) vSphere
3 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (72.97%) Ansible
2 26 (70.27%) Terraform
3 23 (62.16%) Grafana
4 19 (51.35%) Prometheus
5 16 (43.24%) Kubernetes
6 2 (5.41%) Control-M
6 2 (5.41%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (2.70%) Argo
7 1 (2.70%) Podman
7 1 (2.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (10.81%) Pega
1 4 (10.81%) WSO2
2 2 (5.41%) Atlassian
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.41%) VMware
3 1 (2.70%) AppDynamics
3 1 (2.70%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.70%) Google
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle
3 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.70%) Splunk
3 1 (2.70%) Workday