Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 19 November 2019

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 19 November 2019 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Elastic Stack (formerly ELK Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana)
UK > England
6 months to
19 Nov 2019		 Same period 2018 Same period 2017
Rank 497 619 711
Rank change year-on-year +122 +92 +164
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 650 596 509
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in England 0.51% 0.39% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.36% 0.99% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 468 457 391
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median salary % change year-on-year -7.69% - +4.00%
10th Percentile £42,250 £33,750 £41,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

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 advertised in England with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 47,924 60,285 67,395
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in England 37.92% 39.95% 40.30%
Number of salaries quoted 40,008 50,187 56,417
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median salary % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £29,825
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Elastic Stack as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Elastic Stack in England

Elastic Stack
Salary Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Elastic Stack in England.

Salary trend for Elastic Stack in England

Elastic Stack
Salary Histogram in England

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing Elastic Stack in England over the 6 months to 19 November 2019.

Salary histogram for Elastic Stack in England

Elastic Stack
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Elastic Stack within the England region over the 6 months to 19 November 2019. 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
Job
Vacancies
London +125 397 £72,500 - 50
North of England +4 60 £50,000 -9.09% 11
South East -11 54 £67,500 +7.14% 13
East of England +90 49 £50,000 -9.09% 7
South West +29 45 £50,000 +33.33% 9
Midlands +41 44 £52,500 +16.67% 5
West Midlands +41 32 £60,000 +33.33% 2
North West +8 31 £59,500 +8.18% 7
Yorkshire +21 29 £45,000 -14.29% 3
East Midlands +22 12 £47,500 -2.56% 3
Elastic Stack
UK

For the 6 months to 19 November 2019, IT jobs citing Elastic Stack also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region with a requirement for Elastic Stack.

1 437 (67.23%) Linux
2 425 (65.38%) DevOps
3 372 (57.23%) Python
4 362 (55.69%) AWS
5 354 (54.46%) Docker
6 311 (47.85%) Jenkins
7 287 (44.15%) Ansible
8 278 (42.77%) Kubernetes
9 262 (40.31%) Azure
10 250 (38.46%) Puppet
11 245 (37.69%) Git (software)
12 241 (37.08%) Terraform
13 239 (36.77%) Bash Shell
14 228 (35.08%) Agile Software Development
15 213 (32.77%) Elasticsearch
16 187 (28.77%) Configuration Management
17 186 (28.62%) Java
18 177 (27.23%) Kibana
19 176 (27.08%) Splunk
20 171 (26.31%) GCP
21 169 (26.00%) Continuous Integration
22 164 (25.23%) Opscode Chef
23 163 (25.08%) Windows
24 147 (22.62%) Grafana
25 143 (22.00%) Finance
26 137 (21.08%) Microservices
27 136 (20.92%) Prometheus
28 134 (20.62%) SQL
29 128 (19.69%) JIRA
30 125 (19.23%) Open Source

Elastic Stack
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 213 (32.77%) Elasticsearch
2 82 (12.62%) Apache Spark
3 48 (7.38%) nginx
4 46 (7.08%) Confluence
5 44 (6.77%) Apache
6 38 (5.85%) Tomcat
7 36 (5.54%) IIS
8 20 (3.08%) WebSphere
9 19 (2.92%) JBoss
10 14 (2.15%) Apache TomEE
11 12 (1.85%) OpenStack
12 10 (1.54%) Apache Solr
13 9 (1.38%) WebLogic
14 7 (1.08%) Cloud Foundry
15 3 (0.46%) Drupal
16 2 (0.31%) CloudStack
16 2 (0.31%) Jetty
16 2 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
17 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
17 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 7 (1.08%) Gephi
2 4 (0.62%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.62%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 362 (55.69%) AWS
2 262 (40.31%) Azure
3 171 (26.31%) GCP
4 75 (11.54%) AWS CloudFormation
5 68 (10.46%) PaaS
5 68 (10.46%) Serverless
6 63 (9.69%) GitHub
7 61 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
8 56 (8.62%) Amazon ECS
9 49 (7.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 49 (7.54%) Amazon S3
10 36 (5.54%) Amazon EC2
10 36 (5.54%) SaaS
11 32 (4.92%) IaaS
12 29 (4.46%) Amazon Kinesis
13 27 (4.15%) Datadog
14 24 (3.69%) Amazon EKS
14 24 (3.69%) Route 53
15 22 (3.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 20 (3.08%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 76 (11.69%) Firewall
2 59 (9.08%) DNS
3 47 (7.23%) TCP/IP
4 45 (6.92%) VPN
5 43 (6.62%) SSL
6 26 (4.00%) HTTP
7 19 (2.92%) DHCP
8 11 (1.69%) VLAN
9 9 (1.38%) HTTPS
9 9 (1.38%) Kerberos
10 8 (1.23%) Ethernet
10 8 (1.23%) Internet
10 8 (1.23%) MPLS
10 8 (1.23%) SMTP
11 7 (1.08%) Cisco Nexus
11 7 (1.08%) SNMP
12 5 (0.77%) Intrusion Detection
12 5 (0.77%) VRRP
12 5 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.62%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (14.92%) Big Data
2 69 (10.62%) Apache Hive
3 63 (9.69%) PostgreSQL
4 59 (9.08%) MySQL
5 55 (8.46%) SQL Server
6 54 (8.31%) Impala
7 48 (7.38%) Amazon DynamoDB
8 44 (6.77%) NoSQL
9 41 (6.31%) Hadoop
10 40 (6.15%) MongoDB
11 29 (4.46%) Amazon Athena
12 25 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
13 22 (3.38%) Redis
14 13 (2.00%) HBase
15 12 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
16 9 (1.38%) Sqoop
17 8 (1.23%) Blockchain
17 8 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
17 8 (1.23%) Relational Database
18 7 (1.08%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 311 (47.85%) Jenkins
2 245 (37.69%) Git (software)
3 128 (19.69%) JIRA
4 111 (17.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 98 (15.08%) Bitbucket
6 90 (13.85%) GitLab
7 74 (11.38%) Octopus Deploy
8 64 (9.85%) Team Foundation Server
9 63 (9.69%) TeamCity
10 51 (7.85%) IBM UrbanCode
11 48 (7.38%) Maven
11 48 (7.38%) Selenium
12 45 (6.92%) Bitbucket Server
12 45 (6.92%) SonarQube
13 44 (6.77%) git-flow
13 44 (6.77%) Subversion
14 42 (6.46%) JUnit
15 40 (6.15%) Travis CI
16 37 (5.69%) Cucumber
17 35 (5.38%) Ant
General
1 143 (22.00%) Finance
2 22 (3.38%) Banking
2 22 (3.38%) Public Sector
3 19 (2.92%) Games
4 15 (2.31%) Law
5 14 (2.15%) Financial Institution
6 13 (2.00%) Marketing
7 11 (1.69%) Telecoms
8 10 (1.54%) Electronics
8 10 (1.54%) Retail
9 9 (1.38%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.62%) Advertising
11 3 (0.46%) Legal
12 2 (0.31%) Front Office
13 1 (0.15%) Automotive
13 1 (0.15%) Dutch Language
13 1 (0.15%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 284 (43.69%) DevOps Engineer
2 108 (16.62%) Consultant
3 101 (15.54%) Developer
4 91 (14.00%) Senior DevOps
5 82 (12.62%) AWS Engineer
6 75 (11.54%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 73 (11.23%) AWS DevOps
8 72 (11.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 59 (9.08%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 59 (9.08%) Platform Engineer
10 46 (7.08%) Senior Developer
11 45 (6.92%) DevOps Consultant
12 44 (6.77%) Linux Engineer
13 40 (6.15%) Linux/Unix DevOps
14 39 (6.00%) Data Consultant
14 39 (6.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
15 32 (4.92%) Analyst
15 32 (4.92%) Java Developer
16 28 (4.31%) PHP Developer
17 27 (4.15%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (15.85%) Kafka
2 57 (8.77%) Node.js
3 53 (8.15%) Web Services
4 43 (6.62%) .NET
5 39 (6.00%) HTML
6 35 (5.38%) Spring
7 34 (5.23%) CSS
8 32 (4.92%) Spring Boot
9 28 (4.31%) RabbitMQ
9 28 (4.31%) Symfony
10 27 (4.15%) Vue.js
11 26 (4.00%) RESTful
12 24 (3.69%) jQuery
13 23 (3.54%) Behat
13 23 (3.54%) phpspec
14 21 (3.23%) .NET Core
15 20 (3.08%) AngularJS
15 20 (3.08%) JSON
15 20 (3.08%) LAMP
16 18 (2.77%) Sensu
Miscellaneous
1 85 (13.08%) Analytical Skills
2 63 (9.69%) Public Cloud
3 46 (7.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 43 (6.62%) Analytical Mindset
5 34 (5.23%) PlayStation
6 22 (3.38%) Data Centre
7 16 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (2.31%) Cloud Native
9 13 (2.00%) Mobile App
10 10 (1.54%) NHS
10 10 (1.54%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 9 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (1.38%) Online Gambling
12 8 (1.23%) User Experience
13 7 (1.08%) Cybercrime
14 6 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
14 6 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
15 5 (0.77%) PKI
15 5 (0.77%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 437 (67.23%) Linux
2 163 (25.08%) Windows
3 82 (12.62%) CentOS
4 58 (8.92%) Unix
5 34 (5.23%) Mesosphere
5 34 (5.23%) Windows Server
6 33 (5.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 23 (3.54%) Ubuntu
8 10 (1.54%) Android
9 8 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
10 7 (1.08%) Debian
11 5 (0.77%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.77%) Solaris
12 4 (0.62%) Windows Server 2003
12 4 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.46%) CoreOS
14 1 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (65.38%) DevOps
2 228 (35.08%) Agile Software Development
3 187 (28.77%) Configuration Management
4 169 (26.00%) Continuous Integration
5 137 (21.08%) Microservices
6 125 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
6 125 (19.23%) Open Source
7 90 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
8 87 (13.38%) Load Balancing
9 83 (12.77%) Scrum
10 74 (11.38%) Machine Learning
11 69 (10.62%) Mathematics
12 64 (9.85%) Continuous Delivery
13 61 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
13 61 (9.38%) Software Engineering
14 55 (8.46%) Kanban
15 54 (8.31%) MapReduce
15 54 (8.31%) Visualisation
16 52 (8.00%) Test Automation
17 50 (7.69%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 372 (57.23%) Python
2 239 (36.77%) Bash Shell
3 186 (28.62%) Java
4 134 (20.62%) SQL
5 122 (18.77%) PowerShell
6 101 (15.54%) Ruby
7 91 (14.00%) JavaScript
8 76 (11.69%) Go
9 67 (10.31%) C#
10 60 (9.23%) C
10 60 (9.23%) Perl
11 52 (8.00%) R
12 42 (6.46%) PHP
13 28 (4.31%) ES6
14 19 (2.92%) Shell Script
15 18 (2.77%) Scala
16 16 (2.46%) Java 8
17 14 (2.15%) T-SQL
18 13 (2.00%) Lua
18 13 (2.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 52 (8.00%) Degree
2 29 (4.46%) Security Cleared
3 23 (3.54%) DV Cleared
4 15 (2.31%) AWS Certification
5 10 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.54%) SC Cleared
6 8 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (0.62%) CCNA
7 4 (0.62%) CCNP
8 3 (0.46%) ISEB
8 3 (0.46%) RHCSA
8 3 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.31%) MCSE
9 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.31%) Sun Certification
10 1 (0.15%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.15%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (0.15%) MCSA
10 1 (0.15%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.15%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (6.77%) QA
2 9 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.23%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.92%) GDPR
5 2 (0.31%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 354 (54.46%) Docker
2 50 (7.69%) Apache Flume
3 25 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.46%) Active Directory
5 15 (2.31%) vSphere
6 13 (2.00%) HDFS
7 8 (1.23%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.92%) NFS
9 5 (0.77%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 5 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.15%) KVM
11 1 (0.15%) oVirt
11 1 (0.15%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 287 (44.15%) Ansible
2 278 (42.77%) Kubernetes
3 250 (38.46%) Puppet
4 241 (37.08%) Terraform
5 177 (27.23%) Kibana
6 164 (25.23%) Opscode Chef
7 147 (22.62%) Grafana
8 136 (20.92%) Prometheus
9 123 (18.92%) logstash
10 99 (15.23%) Consul
11 75 (11.54%) Packer
12 74 (11.38%) Graphite
13 63 (9.69%) Nagios
14 59 (9.08%) Oozie
15 48 (7.38%) Docker Swarm
16 34 (5.23%) Automic
17 28 (4.31%) ZABBIX
18 26 (4.00%) Opsview
19 22 (3.38%) Salt
20 21 (3.23%) Icinga
Vendors
1 176 (27.08%) Splunk
2 46 (7.08%) New Relic
3 38 (5.85%) Microsoft
4 37 (5.69%) Oracle
4 37 (5.69%) VMware
5 34 (5.23%) Red Hat
6 32 (4.92%) Google
7 24 (3.69%) Atlassian
8 16 (2.46%) AppDynamics
8 16 (2.46%) Black Duck
8 16 (2.46%) Delphix
8 16 (2.46%) RedGate
8 16 (2.46%) ServiceNow
8 16 (2.46%) SolarWinds
9 14 (2.15%) IBM
10 11 (1.69%) Cisco
10 11 (1.69%) Hortonworks
11 9 (1.38%) Cloudera
11 9 (1.38%) F5
11 9 (1.38%) SAP