Elastic Stack Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Elastic Stack (formerly ELK Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Elastic Stack skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 531 269 661
Rank change year-on-year -262 +392 -128
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 67 306 91
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.10% 1.03% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.25% 6.12% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 34 33 68
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,950 £56,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £59,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.14% -26.25% +31.15%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £89,500 £97,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -25.00% +14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,367 5,002 14,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.06% 16.84% 18.86%
Number of salaries quoted 4,285 3,194 10,663
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,230 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.86% +10.38% -11.11%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Elastic Stack job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Elastic Stack
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Elastic Stack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Elastic Stack

Elastic Stack
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Elastic Stack in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Elastic Stack in the UK excluding London

Elastic Stack
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Elastic Stack within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 June 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 of England -198 33 £47,500 -20.83% 9
South East -16 20 £82,500 -2.94% 5
South West -38 19 £45,000 -50.00% 5
Yorkshire -24 15 £65,000 -7.14% 1
North East -32 13 £47,500 -19.15% 1
North West -171 5 £47,500 -20.83% 7
Midlands -42 2 £62,500 +7.76% 1
West Midlands -34 1 £62,500 +7.76% 1
East Midlands -38 1 - -
Elastic Stack
UK

Elastic Stack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (13.43%) OpenStack
2 6 (8.96%) Apache
3 3 (4.48%) Confluence
4 1 (1.49%) JBoss
4 1 (1.49%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 59 (88.06%) AWS
2 34 (50.75%) Azure
3 23 (34.33%) GCP
4 20 (29.85%) Amazon EKS
4 20 (29.85%) GitHub
5 18 (26.87%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (26.87%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (25.37%) Serverless
7 13 (19.40%) Amazon ECS
8 12 (17.91%) Amazon S3
9 9 (13.43%) OpenShift
10 7 (10.45%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (8.96%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (7.46%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (7.46%) SaaS
13 4 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
14 3 (4.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 3 (4.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 2 (2.99%) Pulumi
15 2 (2.99%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 17 (25.37%) Firewall
2 16 (23.88%) HTTP
3 15 (22.39%) DNS
3 15 (22.39%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.99%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (19.40%) Relational Database
2 11 (16.42%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (8.96%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (7.46%) InfluxDB
5 3 (4.48%) Big Data
5 3 (4.48%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.99%) CockroachDB
6 2 (2.99%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.99%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.49%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 48 (71.64%) Jenkins
2 21 (31.34%) Git
3 19 (28.36%) GitLab
4 14 (20.90%) SonarQube
5 12 (17.91%) JIRA
6 10 (14.93%) Cucumber
7 6 (8.96%) Cypress.io
7 6 (8.96%) Selenium
8 5 (7.46%) Artifactory
8 5 (7.46%) Robot Framework
8 5 (7.46%) TestRail
9 3 (4.48%) JUnit
10 2 (2.99%) Checkstyle
10 2 (2.99%) ESLint
10 2 (2.99%) Jaeger
10 2 (2.99%) Maven
10 2 (2.99%) Mockito
10 2 (2.99%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (2.99%) TeamCity
10 2 (2.99%) TestNG
General
1 15 (22.39%) Law
1 15 (22.39%) Telecoms
2 7 (10.45%) Finance
3 6 (8.96%) Social Skills
4 5 (7.46%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.99%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 21 (31.34%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (25.37%) Developer
3 15 (22.39%) Java Developer
4 9 (13.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (7.46%) Software Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) Test Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Analyst
6 4 (5.97%) Applications Support
6 4 (5.97%) Applications Support Analyst
6 4 (5.97%) Backend Developer
6 4 (5.97%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 4 (5.97%) Senior
6 4 (5.97%) Support Analyst
6 4 (5.97%) Test Automation Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Tester
7 3 (4.48%) Automation Tester
7 3 (4.48%) Java Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (32.84%) REST
2 17 (25.37%) Spring
2 17 (25.37%) Spring Boot
3 13 (19.40%) Web Services
4 12 (17.91%) React
5 9 (13.43%) AngularJS
5 9 (13.43%) Kafka
5 9 (13.43%) Node.js
6 8 (11.94%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (10.45%) Mustache
8 6 (8.96%) Apache NiFi
8 6 (8.96%) Vue
9 5 (7.46%) JSON
10 4 (5.97%) Java EE
10 4 (5.97%) JMS
10 4 (5.97%) JPA
10 4 (5.97%) Playwright
10 4 (5.97%) pytest
10 4 (5.97%) YAML
11 3 (4.48%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 19 (28.36%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.97%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.48%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (4.48%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.99%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.99%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 22 (32.84%) Linux
2 11 (16.42%) Windows
3 9 (13.43%) CentOS
4 5 (7.46%) Unix
5 4 (5.97%) Ubuntu
5 4 (5.97%) Windows Server
5 4 (5.97%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (74.63%) CI/CD
2 48 (71.64%) DevOps
3 35 (52.24%) Agile
3 35 (52.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (44.78%) Containerisation
5 21 (31.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 19 (28.36%) Continuous Integration
6 19 (28.36%) DevSecOps
6 19 (28.36%) High Availability
6 19 (28.36%) Microservices
7 17 (25.37%) Static Code Analysis
8 16 (23.88%) Continuous Delivery
9 15 (22.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 15 (22.39%) Test Automation
9 15 (22.39%) Vulnerability Scanning
10 14 (20.90%) Scrum
11 13 (19.40%) Collaborative Culture
11 13 (19.40%) Full-Stack Development
11 13 (19.40%) TDD
12 10 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 42 (62.69%) Python
2 37 (55.22%) Bash
3 31 (46.27%) Java
4 20 (29.85%) Go
4 20 (29.85%) JavaScript
5 12 (17.91%) PowerShell
5 12 (17.91%) SQL
6 6 (8.96%) TypeScript
7 5 (7.46%) C++
7 5 (7.46%) Rust
8 4 (5.97%) Groovy
8 4 (5.97%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.99%) C#
9 2 (2.99%) Perl
9 2 (2.99%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (38.81%) Security Cleared
2 12 (17.91%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.96%) DV Cleared
4 5 (7.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 5 (7.46%) Degree
5 3 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.99%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.45%) QA
2 4 (5.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.48%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.49%) GDPR
4 1 (1.49%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (49.25%) Docker
2 8 (11.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (8.96%) vSphere
4 4 (5.97%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (73.13%) Terraform
2 48 (71.64%) Ansible
3 40 (59.70%) Kubernetes
4 37 (55.22%) Grafana
5 24 (35.82%) Prometheus
6 17 (25.37%) Kibana
7 10 (14.93%) logstash
8 8 (11.94%) vCenter Server
9 5 (7.46%) Argo
10 4 (5.97%) Nessus
10 4 (5.97%) Packer
10 4 (5.97%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (4.48%) Puppet
12 2 (2.99%) Control-M
12 2 (2.99%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (2.99%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 10 (14.93%) VMware
2 9 (13.43%) AppDynamics
2 9 (13.43%) Red Hat
2 9 (13.43%) Splunk
3 8 (11.94%) IBM
3 8 (11.94%) Oracle
4 6 (8.96%) Atlassian
4 6 (8.96%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.97%) Google
6 2 (2.99%) Pega
6 2 (2.99%) WSO2
7 1 (1.49%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.49%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.49%) Workday