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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Elastic Stack skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Elastic Stack over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 743 571 515
Rank change year-on-year -172 -56 +30
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 172 431 1,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.44% 0.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.81% 1.48% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 132 189 273
10th Percentile £56,375 £47,250 £45,125
25th Percentile £72,500 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £88,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +31.15% +1.67% +4.35%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Elastic Stack is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,317 29,159 68,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.77% 29.95% 41.26%
Number of salaries quoted 15,893 18,093 29,995
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Elastic Stack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Elastic Stack in the UK

Elastic Stack
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Elastic Stack.

Salary trend for Elastic Stack in the UK

Elastic Stack
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Elastic Stack over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Elastic Stack in the UK

Elastic Stack
Top 11 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 28 May 2024. 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 -120 165 £81,250 +16.07% 57
London +37 92 £90,000 +12.50% 24
UK excluding London -122 92 £80,000 +31.15% 37
Work from Home -41 77 £81,250 +20.37% 33
South East -11 43 £82,500 +20.44% 6
South West -29 34 £80,000 +14.29% 11
North of England -7 9 £60,000 -4.00% 10
East of England -27 7 £57,500 +49.32% 2
North West -41 4 £50,000 -24.53% 5
North East - 4 £70,000 - 1
Yorkshire +69 3 £80,000 +52.38% 4

Elastic Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 42 (24.42%) OpenStack
2 24 (13.95%) nginx
3 20 (11.63%) Apache Spark
4 19 (11.05%) Apache
5 17 (9.88%) Jupyter
6 9 (5.23%) JBoss
6 9 (5.23%) Red Hat Fuse
7 6 (3.49%) Confluence
8 4 (2.33%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.58%) IIS
9 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.58%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.58%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.58%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.58%) PTC Creo
1 1 (0.58%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 108 (62.79%) AWS
2 78 (45.35%) Azure
3 61 (35.47%) Amazon EKS
4 57 (33.14%) Serverless
5 41 (23.84%) Amazon ECS
6 37 (21.51%) Amazon S3
7 24 (13.95%) OpenShift
8 23 (13.37%) GCP
9 19 (11.05%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (9.88%) MinIO
11 16 (9.30%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (8.14%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (8.14%) GitHub
13 11 (6.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (5.81%) PaaS
15 8 (4.65%) Azure AKS
16 7 (4.07%) Azure Monitor
17 6 (3.49%) Datadog
18 5 (2.91%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 27 (15.70%) Network Security
2 19 (11.05%) DNS
3 16 (9.30%) Firewall
4 12 (6.98%) TCP/IP
5 11 (6.40%) Internet
6 9 (5.23%) SNMP
6 9 (5.23%) tcpdump
7 6 (3.49%) VPN
8 4 (2.33%) HTTP
9 3 (1.74%) IPv4
9 3 (1.74%) IPv6
10 1 (0.58%) FTP
10 1 (0.58%) Multicast
10 1 (0.58%) SSL
10 1 (0.58%) VLAN
10 1 (0.58%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (27.91%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (17.44%) NoSQL
3 27 (15.70%) Relational Database
4 22 (12.79%) MySQL
5 20 (11.63%) Elasticsearch
5 20 (11.63%) MongoDB
6 19 (11.05%) Big Data
6 19 (11.05%) Hadoop
7 17 (9.88%) Presto
8 10 (5.81%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (5.23%) Redis
10 6 (3.49%) SQL Server
11 4 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (2.33%) MariaDB
12 3 (1.74%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.74%) DynamoDB
13 2 (1.16%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (1.16%) Flink
14 1 (0.58%) Hazelcast
14 1 (0.58%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 103 (59.88%) Jenkins
2 65 (37.79%) Git
3 24 (13.95%) GitLab
4 18 (10.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 13 (7.56%) JUnit
6 11 (6.40%) Bitbucket
7 9 (5.23%) JIRA
7 9 (5.23%) Octopus Deploy
8 7 (4.07%) CircleCI
8 7 (4.07%) SonarQube
9 5 (2.91%) Selenium
10 4 (2.33%) git-flow
10 4 (2.33%) JMeter
11 3 (1.74%) Eclipse
11 3 (1.74%) Robot Framework
11 3 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (1.74%) Subversion
11 3 (1.74%) TestNG
11 3 (1.74%) Travis CI
12 2 (1.16%) Artifactory
General
1 35 (20.35%) Public Sector
2 33 (19.19%) Social Skills
3 19 (11.05%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (8.72%) Military
5 10 (5.81%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (5.81%) Telecoms
6 7 (4.07%) Retail
7 5 (2.91%) Finance
8 4 (2.33%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.74%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.74%) Law
9 3 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.16%) Banking
10 2 (1.16%) Games
10 2 (1.16%) Marketing
11 1 (0.58%) Advertising
11 1 (0.58%) Cantonese Language
11 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 66 (38.37%) DevOps Engineer
2 46 (26.74%) Developer
3 41 (23.84%) Java Developer
4 29 (16.86%) Senior
5 27 (15.70%) Consultant
5 27 (15.70%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 27 (15.70%) Security Consultant
6 21 (12.21%) Data Engineer
7 18 (10.47%) AWS Engineer
7 18 (10.47%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 17 (9.88%) AWS DevOps
8 17 (9.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 17 (9.88%) Big Data Engineer
8 17 (9.88%) Full Stack Developer
9 16 (9.30%) Full Stack Java Developer
9 16 (9.30%) Lead
10 14 (8.14%) Platform Engineer
10 14 (8.14%) Senior DevOps
10 14 (8.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 12 (6.98%) Lead Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (25.58%) Node.js
1 44 (25.58%) REST
2 42 (24.42%) Spring
3 41 (23.84%) AngularJS
3 41 (23.84%) Apache Camel
3 41 (23.84%) Spring Boot
4 37 (21.51%) Web Services
5 29 (16.86%) XML
6 28 (16.28%) JSON
6 28 (16.28%) YAML
7 21 (12.21%) Apache NiFi
8 18 (10.47%) RabbitMQ
9 17 (9.88%) ActiveMQ
10 8 (4.65%) RESTful
11 7 (4.07%) SOAP
12 6 (3.49%) J2EE
13 5 (2.91%) Kafka
14 4 (2.33%) .NET
14 4 (2.33%) AWS SAM
15 3 (1.74%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (21.51%) Distributed Systems
2 27 (15.70%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 17 (9.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (8.72%) Cyber Defence
4 15 (8.72%) Security Operations Centre
5 11 (6.40%) Clustering
6 9 (5.23%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (4.07%) Management Information System
7 7 (4.07%) Onboarding
8 6 (3.49%) Client/Server
9 4 (2.33%) Hedge funds
9 4 (2.33%) Public Cloud
9 4 (2.33%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.74%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.16%) Data Centre
11 2 (1.16%) FMCG
11 2 (1.16%) Online Games
12 1 (0.58%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 70 (40.70%) Linux
2 29 (16.86%) Windows
3 8 (4.65%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.91%) CentOS
5 4 (2.33%) Debian
5 4 (2.33%) Unix
6 2 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.58%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.58%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (73.84%) DevOps
2 90 (52.33%) Agile
3 78 (45.35%) CI/CD
4 71 (41.28%) Infrastructure as Code
5 50 (29.07%) Microservices
6 49 (28.49%) Containerisation
7 45 (26.16%) Kanban
7 45 (26.16%) Scrum
8 41 (23.84%) Cybersecurity
9 40 (23.26%) BDD
9 40 (23.26%) TDD
10 36 (20.93%) Analytics
10 36 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
11 31 (18.02%) BPEL
12 29 (16.86%) Data Analytics
13 28 (16.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 27 (15.70%) Incident Management
14 27 (15.70%) SIEM
14 27 (15.70%) Vulnerability Management
15 23 (13.37%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 96 (55.81%) Python
2 60 (34.88%) Bash
3 59 (34.30%) Java
4 46 (26.74%) JavaScript
5 34 (19.77%) PowerShell
5 34 (19.77%) Shell Script
6 31 (18.02%) SQL
7 15 (8.72%) Perl
8 5 (2.91%) C#
8 5 (2.91%) C++
8 5 (2.91%) Go
8 5 (2.91%) Ruby
9 4 (2.33%) C
9 4 (2.33%) Groovy
10 3 (1.74%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.58%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.58%) R
Qualifications
1 104 (60.47%) Security Cleared
2 53 (30.81%) SC Cleared
3 45 (26.16%) DV Cleared
4 20 (11.63%) AWS Certification
5 11 (6.40%) Azure Certification
6 8 (4.65%) Degree
7 7 (4.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (3.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (2.91%) MCSE
9 5 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (2.33%) CCNA
10 4 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (2.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.58%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (17.44%) NIST
2 5 (2.91%) SLA
3 3 (1.74%) HIPAA
3 3 (1.74%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.16%) QA
5 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
System Software
1 115 (66.86%) Docker
2 31 (18.02%) Hyper-V
3 27 (15.70%) vSphere
4 15 (8.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (8.14%) Active Directory
6 9 (5.23%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.74%) VirtualBox
9 2 (1.16%) Firmware
9 2 (1.16%) HDFS
10 1 (0.58%) KVM
Systems Management
1 116 (67.44%) Terraform
2 113 (65.70%) Ansible
3 109 (63.37%) Kubernetes
4 50 (29.07%) Grafana
5 42 (24.42%) Prometheus
6 26 (15.12%) HAProxy
7 20 (11.63%) Puppet
8 17 (9.88%) Kibana
9 15 (8.72%) Nagios
10 12 (6.98%) Graphite
11 9 (5.23%) logstash
11 9 (5.23%) Progress Chef
11 9 (5.23%) Rancher
11 9 (5.23%) vCenter Server
12 8 (4.65%) Packer
13 7 (4.07%) ZABBIX
14 5 (2.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (2.91%) Karpenter
15 4 (2.33%) Consul
16 1 (0.58%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 40 (23.26%) WSO2
2 27 (15.70%) SolarWinds
2 27 (15.70%) Tanium
2 27 (15.70%) Tripwire
3 19 (11.05%) VMware
4 18 (10.47%) Splunk
5 15 (8.72%) Microsoft
6 8 (4.65%) Dynatrace
6 8 (4.65%) New Relic
7 7 (4.07%) Google
7 7 (4.07%) Red Hat
8 6 (3.49%) Atlassian
8 6 (3.49%) Oracle
9 4 (2.33%) McAfee
10 3 (1.74%) Black Duck
11 2 (1.16%) AppDynamics
11 2 (1.16%) Apple
11 2 (1.16%) Facebook
11 2 (1.16%) IBM
11 2 (1.16%) Intel