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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 741 579 523
Rank change year-on-year -162 -56 +22
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 170 428 1,078
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.44% 0.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.79% 1.47% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 130 188 272
10th Percentile £56,250 £46,250 £45,063
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 £88,125
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 21,396 29,097 68,823
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.72% 29.95% 41.31%
Number of salaries quoted 15,919 18,040 29,839
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,810 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,500 £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 29 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 29 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 -135 163 £81,250 +16.07% 57
London -8 91 £90,000 +12.50% 24
UK excluding London -123 90 £80,000 +31.15% 37
Work from Home -51 76 £80,000 +18.52% 32
South East -18 41 £82,500 +20.44% 6
South West -22 33 £80,000 +14.29% 10
North of England -24 10 £60,000 -4.00% 11
East of England -25 7 £57,500 +49.32% 2
Yorkshire +69 4 £80,000 +52.38% 4
North West -49 4 £50,000 -24.53% 6
North East - 4 £70,000 - 1

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 40 (23.53%) OpenStack
2 23 (13.53%) nginx
3 19 (11.18%) Apache Spark
4 18 (10.59%) Apache
5 16 (9.41%) Jupyter
6 9 (5.29%) JBoss
6 9 (5.29%) Red Hat Fuse
7 6 (3.53%) Confluence
8 4 (2.35%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.59%) IIS
9 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.59%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.59%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.59%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.59%) PTC Creo
1 1 (0.59%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 106 (62.35%) AWS
2 76 (44.71%) Azure
3 59 (34.71%) Amazon EKS
4 55 (32.35%) Serverless
5 39 (22.94%) Amazon ECS
6 36 (21.18%) Amazon S3
7 23 (13.53%) GCP
7 23 (13.53%) OpenShift
8 19 (11.18%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (9.41%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (9.41%) MinIO
10 14 (8.24%) Amazon EC2
10 14 (8.24%) GitHub
11 11 (6.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (5.88%) PaaS
13 8 (4.71%) Azure AKS
14 7 (4.12%) Azure Monitor
15 6 (3.53%) Datadog
16 5 (2.94%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 27 (15.88%) Network Security
2 19 (11.18%) DNS
3 16 (9.41%) Firewall
4 12 (7.06%) TCP/IP
5 11 (6.47%) Internet
6 9 (5.29%) SNMP
6 9 (5.29%) tcpdump
7 6 (3.53%) VPN
8 4 (2.35%) HTTP
9 3 (1.76%) IPv4
9 3 (1.76%) IPv6
10 1 (0.59%) FTP
10 1 (0.59%) Multicast
10 1 (0.59%) SSL
10 1 (0.59%) VLAN
10 1 (0.59%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (27.06%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (16.47%) NoSQL
3 26 (15.29%) Relational Database
4 22 (12.94%) MySQL
5 20 (11.76%) Elasticsearch
5 20 (11.76%) MongoDB
6 18 (10.59%) Big Data
6 18 (10.59%) Hadoop
7 16 (9.41%) Presto
8 10 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (5.29%) Redis
10 6 (3.53%) SQL Server
11 4 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (2.35%) MariaDB
12 3 (1.76%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.76%) DynamoDB
13 2 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (1.18%) Flink
14 1 (0.59%) Power BI
14 1 (0.59%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 100 (58.82%) Jenkins
2 63 (37.06%) Git
3 24 (14.12%) GitLab
4 17 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 13 (7.65%) JUnit
6 11 (6.47%) Bitbucket
7 9 (5.29%) JIRA
7 9 (5.29%) Octopus Deploy
8 7 (4.12%) CircleCI
8 7 (4.12%) SonarQube
9 5 (2.94%) Selenium
10 4 (2.35%) git-flow
10 4 (2.35%) JMeter
11 3 (1.76%) Eclipse
11 3 (1.76%) Robot Framework
11 3 (1.76%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (1.76%) Subversion
11 3 (1.76%) TestNG
11 3 (1.76%) Travis CI
12 2 (1.18%) Cucumber
General
1 34 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 34 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 19 (11.18%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (8.82%) Military
4 10 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
4 10 (5.88%) Telecoms
5 7 (4.12%) Retail
6 5 (2.94%) Finance
7 4 (2.35%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.76%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.76%) Law
8 3 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.18%) Banking
9 2 (1.18%) Games
9 2 (1.18%) Marketing
10 1 (0.59%) Advertising
10 1 (0.59%) Cantonese Language
10 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.59%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 65 (38.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 44 (25.88%) Developer
3 39 (22.94%) Java Developer
4 29 (17.06%) Senior
5 27 (15.88%) Consultant
5 27 (15.88%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 27 (15.88%) Security Consultant
6 20 (11.76%) Data Engineer
7 18 (10.59%) AWS Engineer
8 17 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
8 17 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 17 (10.00%) Full Stack Developer
8 17 (10.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 16 (9.41%) Big Data Engineer
9 16 (9.41%) Full Stack Java Developer
9 16 (9.41%) Lead
10 14 (8.24%) Platform Engineer
10 14 (8.24%) Senior DevOps
10 14 (8.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 12 (7.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (24.71%) Node.js
1 42 (24.71%) REST
2 40 (23.53%) Spring
3 39 (22.94%) AngularJS
3 39 (22.94%) Apache Camel
3 39 (22.94%) Spring Boot
4 35 (20.59%) Web Services
5 27 (15.88%) XML
5 27 (15.88%) YAML
6 26 (15.29%) JSON
7 20 (11.76%) Apache NiFi
8 17 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
9 16 (9.41%) ActiveMQ
10 8 (4.71%) RESTful
11 7 (4.12%) SOAP
12 6 (3.53%) J2EE
13 5 (2.94%) Kafka
14 4 (2.35%) .NET
14 4 (2.35%) AWS SAM
15 3 (1.76%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 35 (20.59%) Distributed Systems
2 28 (16.47%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 16 (9.41%) Cyber Defence
3 16 (9.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (8.82%) Security Operations Centre
5 11 (6.47%) Clustering
6 9 (5.29%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (4.71%) Management Information System
8 7 (4.12%) Onboarding
9 6 (3.53%) Client/Server
10 4 (2.35%) Hedge funds
10 4 (2.35%) Public Cloud
10 4 (2.35%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.76%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (1.18%) Data Centre
12 2 (1.18%) FMCG
12 2 (1.18%) Online Games
13 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 69 (40.59%) Linux
2 29 (17.06%) Windows
3 8 (4.71%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.94%) CentOS
5 4 (2.35%) Debian
5 4 (2.35%) Unix
6 2 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.59%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.59%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (72.94%) DevOps
2 88 (51.76%) Agile
3 76 (44.71%) CI/CD
4 70 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 48 (28.24%) Containerisation
5 48 (28.24%) Microservices
6 43 (25.29%) Kanban
6 43 (25.29%) Scrum
7 42 (24.71%) Cybersecurity
8 38 (22.35%) BDD
8 38 (22.35%) TDD
9 36 (21.18%) Analytics
9 36 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
10 29 (17.06%) BPEL
10 29 (17.06%) Data Analytics
11 28 (16.47%) Incident Management
11 28 (16.47%) SIEM
12 27 (15.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 27 (15.88%) Vulnerability Management
13 23 (13.53%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 93 (54.71%) Python
2 59 (34.71%) Bash
3 57 (33.53%) Java
4 44 (25.88%) JavaScript
5 34 (20.00%) PowerShell
6 32 (18.82%) Shell Script
7 30 (17.65%) SQL
8 15 (8.82%) Perl
9 5 (2.94%) C#
9 5 (2.94%) C++
9 5 (2.94%) Go
9 5 (2.94%) Ruby
10 4 (2.35%) C
10 4 (2.35%) Groovy
11 3 (1.76%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.59%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.59%) R
Qualifications
1 102 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 51 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 45 (26.47%) DV Cleared
4 20 (11.76%) AWS Certification
5 11 (6.47%) Azure Certification
6 8 (4.71%) Degree
7 7 (4.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (3.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (2.94%) MCSE
9 5 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (2.35%) CCNA
10 4 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (2.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.59%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (18.24%) NIST
2 5 (2.94%) SLA
3 3 (1.76%) HIPAA
3 3 (1.76%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.18%) QA
5 1 (0.59%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.59%) NIST 800
System Software
1 112 (65.88%) Docker
2 29 (17.06%) Hyper-V
3 27 (15.88%) vSphere
4 15 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (8.24%) Active Directory
6 9 (5.29%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.76%) VirtualBox
9 2 (1.18%) Firmware
9 2 (1.18%) HDFS
10 1 (0.59%) KVM
Systems Management
1 113 (66.47%) Terraform
2 110 (64.71%) Ansible
3 106 (62.35%) Kubernetes
4 49 (28.82%) Grafana
5 41 (24.12%) Prometheus
6 25 (14.71%) HAProxy
7 20 (11.76%) Puppet
8 18 (10.59%) Kibana
9 15 (8.82%) Nagios
10 12 (7.06%) Graphite
11 10 (5.88%) logstash
12 9 (5.29%) Progress Chef
12 9 (5.29%) Rancher
12 9 (5.29%) vCenter Server
13 8 (4.71%) Packer
14 7 (4.12%) ZABBIX
15 5 (2.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 5 (2.94%) Karpenter
16 4 (2.35%) Consul
17 1 (0.59%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 38 (22.35%) WSO2
2 28 (16.47%) Tanium
3 27 (15.88%) SolarWinds
3 27 (15.88%) Tripwire
4 19 (11.18%) VMware
5 18 (10.59%) Splunk
6 16 (9.41%) Microsoft
7 8 (4.71%) Dynatrace
7 8 (4.71%) New Relic
8 7 (4.12%) Google
8 7 (4.12%) Red Hat
9 6 (3.53%) Atlassian
9 6 (3.53%) Oracle
10 4 (2.35%) McAfee
11 3 (1.76%) Black Duck
12 2 (1.18%) AppDynamics
12 2 (1.18%) Apple
12 2 (1.18%) Facebook
12 2 (1.18%) IBM
12 2 (1.18%) Intel