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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 461 505 456
Rank change year-on-year +44 -49 +125
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 48 61 117
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.17% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.24% 0.87% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 19 39 68
10th Percentile £41,740 £47,500 £44,075
25th Percentile £49,950 £71,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% +10.71% +3.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £68,500 £97,250 -
UK median annual salary £71,250 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -10.94% +6.67% -3.23%

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 3,886 7,008 8,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.16% 19.51% 23.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2,980 3,898 6,314
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £36,270
25th Percentile £43,497 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 +13 24 £60,000 -20.00% 13
Yorkshire -6 11 £65,000 - 3
South East +25 10 £41,000 -47.44% 13
South West +2 9 £42,750 -46.56% 7
North West +16 8 £60,000 -20.00% 6
North East +14 5 £57,600 -8.93% 4
Scotland +11 5 - - 1
Midlands - 5 £55,200 - 5
West Midlands - 3 £55,200 - 4
East Midlands - 2 £55,200 - 1
Wales - 1 £55,200 -
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 12 (25.00%) OpenStack
2 2 (4.17%) Apache
2 2 (4.17%) Confluence
3 1 (2.08%) JBoss
3 1 (2.08%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 38 (79.17%) AWS
2 15 (31.25%) Azure
3 14 (29.17%) GitHub
4 12 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 12 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
4 12 (25.00%) Serverless
5 10 (20.83%) OpenShift
6 9 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (14.58%) Amazon S3
7 7 (14.58%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (14.58%) GCP
8 6 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (6.25%) AWS CodeBuild
10 3 (6.25%) Route 53
10 3 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (4.17%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.33%) DNS
1 4 (8.33%) Firewall
1 4 (8.33%) HTTP
1 4 (8.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.17%) Broadband
2 2 (4.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (31.25%) Relational Database
3 8 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 6 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (8.33%) CockroachDB
6 3 (6.25%) NoSQL
7 2 (4.17%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (4.17%) InfluxDB
7 2 (4.17%) RDBMS
8 1 (2.08%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 37 (77.08%) Jenkins
2 22 (45.83%) Git
3 20 (41.67%) GitLab
4 11 (22.92%) JUnit
5 10 (20.83%) Selenium
6 9 (18.75%) Cucumber
7 8 (16.67%) JIRA
8 5 (10.42%) Artifactory
8 5 (10.42%) SonarQube
9 4 (8.33%) CircleCI
9 4 (8.33%) Robot Framework
9 4 (8.33%) TestNG
9 4 (8.33%) TestRail
10 3 (6.25%) Maven
10 3 (6.25%) TeamCity
11 2 (4.17%) Checkstyle
11 2 (4.17%) Cypress.io
11 2 (4.17%) Mockito
11 2 (4.17%) SoapUI
11 2 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.42%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.33%) Finance
3 4 (8.33%) Law
3 4 (8.33%) Telecoms
4 3 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Aerospace
5 2 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.08%) Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (37.50%) Developer
2 12 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 9 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (16.67%) Senior
5 7 (14.58%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (14.58%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 6 (12.50%) Senior Developer
7 5 (10.42%) Software Developer
8 4 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (8.33%) Senior Software Developer
8 4 (8.33%) Tester
9 3 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
9 3 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
10 2 (4.17%) Automation Engineer
10 2 (4.17%) Manual Tester
10 2 (4.17%) QA Engineer
10 2 (4.17%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 2 (4.17%) Senior Java Developer
10 2 (4.17%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (41.67%) Spring
1 20 (41.67%) Spring Boot
2 14 (29.17%) REST
3 12 (25.00%) Node.js
4 11 (22.92%) Web Services
5 10 (20.83%) Kafka
6 8 (16.67%) Mustache
6 8 (16.67%) pytest
6 8 (16.67%) React
7 6 (12.50%) Django
7 6 (12.50%) Flask
8 4 (8.33%) AngularJS
8 4 (8.33%) Apache Camel
9 2 (4.17%) JWT
9 2 (4.17%) OAuth
9 2 (4.17%) OAuth2
9 2 (4.17%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (4.17%) Spring MVC
9 2 (4.17%) Spring Security
9 2 (4.17%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.17%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (4.17%) Private Cloud
3 2 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (27.08%) Linux
2 6 (12.50%) Windows
3 3 (6.25%) Debian
3 3 (6.25%) Ubuntu
4 2 (4.17%) CentOS
4 2 (4.17%) Unix
5 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 35 (72.92%) DevOps
3 23 (47.92%) Agile
3 23 (47.92%) Containerisation
4 18 (37.50%) TDD
5 16 (33.33%) Microservices
6 15 (31.25%) Continuous Integration
6 15 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 12 (25.00%) Scrum
7 12 (25.00%) Test Automation
8 9 (18.75%) BDD
8 9 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (18.75%) SDLC
9 8 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
10 7 (14.58%) High Availability
10 7 (14.58%) Software Engineering
11 6 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (12.50%) Mentoring
11 6 (12.50%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 28 (58.33%) Java
2 27 (56.25%) Python
3 19 (39.58%) Bash
4 17 (35.42%) JavaScript
5 7 (14.58%) Go
6 6 (12.50%) Delphi
7 5 (10.42%) C#
7 5 (10.42%) PowerShell
7 5 (10.42%) SQL
8 1 (2.08%) Groovy
8 1 (2.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (14.58%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.42%) DV Cleared
3 2 (4.17%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.17%) Degree
3 2 (4.17%) ISTQB
3 2 (4.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 32 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (4.17%) vSphere
3 1 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (72.92%) Kubernetes
2 26 (54.17%) Grafana
3 21 (43.75%) Terraform
4 19 (39.58%) Ansible
5 16 (33.33%) Prometheus
6 6 (12.50%) Kibana
6 6 (12.50%) logstash
7 2 (4.17%) Argo
7 2 (4.17%) Control-M
7 2 (4.17%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (4.17%) Kustomize
7 2 (4.17%) Nessus
7 2 (4.17%) Sysdig
8 1 (2.08%) Podman
8 1 (2.08%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (20.83%) Oracle
2 9 (18.75%) Splunk
3 5 (10.42%) Google
4 4 (8.33%) Pega
4 4 (8.33%) WSO2
5 2 (4.17%) Atlassian
5 2 (4.17%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.17%) Red Hat
5 2 (4.17%) VMware