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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Elastic Stack skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 674 360 718
Rank change year-on-year -314 +358 -164
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 98 361 130
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.098% 0.73% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.96% 4.07% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 59 70 104
10th Percentile £44,500 £46,250 £60,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -33.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £97,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.78% -26.25% +32.23%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 10,218 8,861 18,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.21% 18.01% 19.64%
Number of salaries quoted 7,644 5,854 13,720
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,375 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Elastic Stack job vacancy trend in the UK

Elastic Stack
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Elastic Stack

Elastic Stack
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Elastic Stack over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Elastic Stack in the UK

Elastic Stack
Top 13 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 21 July 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
England -263 96 £77,500 +29.17% 22
UK excluding London -273 69 £55,000 -6.78% 12
London -32 29 £90,000 +28.57% 12
North of England -187 29 £47,500 -20.83% 2
South West -38 24 £50,000 -44.44% 4
South East -25 18 £82,500 -2.94% 4
North East -39 12 £47,500 -20.83%
Yorkshire -29 10 £65,000 -7.14%
Work from Home -265 9 £65,000 +8.33% 7
North West -171 7 £47,500 -20.83% 2
West Midlands -24 2 £53,250 -8.19% 2
Midlands -45 2 £53,250 -8.19% 2
Wales - 1 £55,000 -

Elastic Stack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 10 (10.20%) Apache
2 5 (5.10%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.04%) Confluence
4 1 (1.02%) JBoss
4 1 (1.02%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 83 (84.69%) AWS
2 52 (53.06%) Azure
3 35 (35.71%) GCP
4 22 (22.45%) Serverless
5 20 (20.41%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (20.41%) GitHub
5 20 (20.41%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (17.35%) Amazon EKS
7 13 (13.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (12.24%) OpenShift
9 11 (11.22%) Datadog
10 9 (9.18%) Amazon S3
11 8 (8.16%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (8.16%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (5.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (5.10%) SaaS
14 4 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
15 3 (3.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 2 (2.04%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 15 (15.31%) Firewall
2 14 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 13 (13.27%) DNS
3 13 (13.27%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.22%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (9.18%) NoSQL
3 7 (7.14%) InfluxDB
3 7 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (7.14%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.08%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.04%) Big Data
5 2 (2.04%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.02%) Db2
6 1 (1.02%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.02%) Redis
Development Applications
1 60 (61.22%) Jenkins
2 42 (42.86%) GitLab
3 23 (23.47%) Git
4 17 (17.35%) SonarQube
5 15 (15.31%) Cucumber
6 12 (12.24%) JIRA
7 10 (10.20%) CircleCI
8 7 (7.14%) Robot Framework
8 7 (7.14%) Selenium
8 7 (7.14%) TestRail
9 6 (6.12%) Artifactory
9 6 (6.12%) Cypress.io
10 4 (4.08%) Bitbucket
11 3 (3.06%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (3.06%) TeamCity
12 1 (1.02%) Gatling
12 1 (1.02%) JMeter
12 1 (1.02%) JUnit
12 1 (1.02%) LoadRunner
General
1 21 (21.43%) Finance
2 20 (20.41%) Social Skills
3 13 (13.27%) Telecoms
4 12 (12.24%) Law
5 8 (8.16%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.12%) Banking
7 3 (3.06%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.04%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.02%) Front Office
9 1 (1.02%) Games
9 1 (1.02%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 37 (37.76%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 13 (13.27%) Developer
4 12 (12.24%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (11.22%) Software Engineer
6 10 (10.20%) AWS DevOps
6 10 (10.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 10 (10.20%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (10.20%) Java Developer
7 8 (8.16%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (8.16%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (8.16%) Test Engineer
8 7 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer - Fintech
9 6 (6.12%) Senior
9 6 (6.12%) Test Automation Engineer
10 5 (5.10%) Java Engineer
11 4 (4.08%) Analyst
11 4 (4.08%) Applications Support
11 4 (4.08%) Applications Support Analyst
11 4 (4.08%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.31%) REST
2 13 (13.27%) Kafka
3 11 (11.22%) Spring
3 11 (11.22%) Spring Boot
4 10 (10.20%) Apache NiFi
5 9 (9.18%) AngularJS
5 9 (9.18%) RabbitMQ
5 9 (9.18%) Vue
6 8 (8.16%) pytest
6 8 (8.16%) React
6 8 (8.16%) Web Services
7 6 (6.12%) Playwright
7 6 (6.12%) RESTful
7 6 (6.12%) YAML
8 5 (5.10%) Jakarta EE
8 5 (5.10%) Node.js
9 4 (4.08%) JMS
9 4 (4.08%) JPA
9 4 (4.08%) JSON
10 3 (3.06%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.31%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (11.22%) Onboarding
3 8 (8.16%) Cloud Native
3 8 (8.16%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.06%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (3.06%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.04%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.02%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.02%) Insider Threat
6 1 (1.02%) IoT
6 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.02%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 44 (44.90%) Linux
2 20 (20.41%) Windows
3 11 (11.22%) CentOS
4 5 (5.10%) Unix
4 5 (5.10%) Windows Server
5 4 (4.08%) Ubuntu
5 4 (4.08%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.02%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (76.53%) DevOps
2 71 (72.45%) CI/CD
3 60 (61.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (51.02%) Containerisation
5 36 (36.73%) Agile
6 29 (29.59%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (29.59%) Software Engineering
7 27 (27.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 27 (27.55%) Microservices
8 25 (25.51%) Continuous Integration
9 24 (24.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 23 (23.47%) Continuous Delivery
10 23 (23.47%) High Availability
11 22 (22.45%) Test Automation
12 18 (18.37%) Collaborative Culture
12 18 (18.37%) DevSecOps
13 16 (16.33%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (16.33%) Observability
14 15 (15.31%) Computer Science
14 15 (15.31%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 71 (72.45%) Python
2 59 (60.20%) Bash
3 39 (39.80%) Java
4 25 (25.51%) Go
5 22 (22.45%) SQL
6 21 (21.43%) PowerShell
7 18 (18.37%) JavaScript
8 16 (16.33%) Rust
9 10 (10.20%) C#
10 8 (8.16%) C++
10 8 (8.16%) TypeScript
11 7 (7.14%) VBA
12 4 (4.08%) Groovy
12 4 (4.08%) PL/SQL
13 3 (3.06%) Bicep
13 3 (3.06%) Shell Script
14 2 (2.04%) Perl
15 1 (1.02%) Ruby
15 1 (1.02%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (40.82%) Security Cleared
2 18 (18.37%) SC Cleared
3 15 (15.31%) Degree
4 12 (12.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (10.20%) DV Cleared
6 7 (7.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (2.04%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.04%) RHCSA
8 1 (1.02%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.27%) QA
2 12 (12.24%) SOC 2
3 10 (10.20%) GDPR
4 9 (9.18%) PCI DSS
5 6 (6.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (2.04%) Def Stans
7 1 (1.02%) NIST
System Software
1 55 (56.12%) Docker
2 11 (11.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (7.14%) vSphere
4 6 (6.12%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (6.12%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.02%) Firmware
5 1 (1.02%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 76 (77.55%) Terraform
2 70 (71.43%) Ansible
3 66 (67.35%) Grafana
4 64 (65.31%) Kubernetes
5 45 (45.92%) Prometheus
6 23 (23.47%) Kibana
7 16 (16.33%) logstash
8 10 (10.20%) vCenter Server
9 5 (5.10%) Argo
9 5 (5.10%) Puppet
10 4 (4.08%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (4.08%) Nessus
10 4 (4.08%) Packer
10 4 (4.08%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (3.06%) Control-M
12 1 (1.02%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 17 (17.35%) Splunk
2 14 (14.29%) VMware
3 11 (11.22%) Microsoft
3 11 (11.22%) Red Hat
4 9 (9.18%) AppDynamics
4 9 (9.18%) Atlassian
5 8 (8.16%) IBM
6 7 (7.14%) Oracle
7 2 (2.04%) Google
7 2 (2.04%) Pega
7 2 (2.04%) WSO2
8 1 (1.02%) ArcSight
8 1 (1.02%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.02%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (1.02%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.02%) Percona
8 1 (1.02%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.02%) Workday