Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 17 August 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 17 August 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
17 Aug 2019		 Same period 2018 Same period 2017
Rank 501 650 683
Rank change year-on-year +149 +33 +277
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 710 553 530
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in England 0.54% 0.35% 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.43% 0.86% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 528 448 394
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median salary % change year-on-year +4.00% - +4.17%
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £34,125
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £86,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -

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 49,515 64,170 67,365
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in England 37.50% 40.35% 40.65%
Number of salaries quoted 41,133 53,632 56,458
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £48,500
Median salary % change year-on-year +10.00% +3.09% +2.11%
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £29,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +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 17 August 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 17 August 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 +118 405 £75,000 +7.14% 43
South East +39 93 £65,000 +3.17% 12
North of England +25 72 £55,000 +4.97% 14
South West +27 58 £50,000 +25.00% 10
East of England +115 50 £50,000 -9.09% 9
North West +32 43 £60,000 +36.55% 10
Midlands +48 31 £45,000 -10.00% 11
Yorkshire +8 26 £50,000 -4.76% 3
West Midlands +27 20 £40,000 -15.79% 6
East Midlands +26 11 £62,500 +19.05% 5
North East +19 3 £55,000 -27.87% 1
Elastic Stack
UK

For the 6 months to 17 August 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.

1 529 (74.51%) DevOps
2 502 (70.70%) Linux
3 480 (67.61%) Python
4 434 (61.13%) Amazon AWS
5 396 (55.77%) Docker
6 373 (52.54%) Ansible
7 328 (46.20%) Jenkins
8 305 (42.96%) Kubernetes
9 301 (42.39%) Agile Software Development
10 291 (40.99%) Terraform
11 290 (40.85%) Puppet
12 281 (39.58%) Git (software)
13 256 (36.06%) Microsoft Azure
14 231 (32.54%) Bash Shell
15 212 (29.86%) Elasticsearch
16 202 (28.45%) Continuous Integration
17 201 (28.31%) Windows
18 196 (27.61%) Opscode Chef
19 195 (27.46%) Kibana
20 194 (27.32%) Configuration Management
21 193 (27.18%) Java
22 189 (26.62%) Splunk
23 160 (22.54%) Google Cloud Platform
24 156 (21.97%) logstash
25 152 (21.41%) Finance
26 139 (19.58%) Open Source
27 138 (19.44%) Microservices
28 135 (19.01%) Kafka
29 134 (18.87%) Prometheus
30 132 (18.59%) Grafana

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
1 212 (29.86%) Elasticsearch
2 105 (14.79%) Apache Spark
3 92 (12.96%) Apache
4 57 (8.03%) nginx
5 35 (4.93%) Confluence
6 31 (4.37%) Tomcat
7 21 (2.96%) IIS
8 10 (1.41%) OpenStack
9 9 (1.27%) WebLogic
9 9 (1.27%) WebSphere
10 8 (1.13%) JBoss
11 6 (0.85%) Apache TomEE
12 5 (0.70%) Cloud Foundry
13 4 (0.56%) GlassFish
14 3 (0.42%) Drupal
15 2 (0.28%) CloudStack
16 1 (0.14%) Apache Pig
16 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
16 1 (0.14%) CMS
16 1 (0.14%) WildFly
Applications
1 8 (1.13%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.99%) Gephi
3 1 (0.14%) HipChat
Business Applications
1 4 (0.56%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.14%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 434 (61.13%) Amazon AWS
2 256 (36.06%) Microsoft Azure
3 160 (22.54%) Google Cloud Platform
4 100 (14.08%) Serverless
5 98 (13.80%) AWS Lambda
6 86 (12.11%) Amazon ECS
7 80 (11.27%) Amazon S3
8 79 (11.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 75 (10.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 63 (8.87%) PaaS
11 53 (7.46%) GitHub
12 49 (6.90%) Amazon Kinesis
13 44 (6.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 43 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
15 37 (5.21%) Route 53
16 36 (5.07%) SaaS
17 31 (4.37%) Amazon SQS
18 30 (4.23%) Cloud Computing
19 27 (3.80%) Datadog
20 14 (1.97%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 44 (6.20%) DNS
1 44 (6.20%) Firewall
2 37 (5.21%) VPN
3 35 (4.93%) TCP/IP
4 33 (4.65%) SSL
5 29 (4.08%) HTTP
6 24 (3.38%) DHCP
7 13 (1.83%) SMTP
7 13 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (1.69%) VRRP
9 10 (1.41%) Internet
10 8 (1.13%) SNMP
11 7 (0.99%) Ethernet
11 7 (0.99%) MPLS
11 7 (0.99%) VLAN
12 6 (0.85%) Cisco ASA
13 5 (0.70%) Asterisk PBX
14 4 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
14 4 (0.56%) VoIP
14 4 (0.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (17.32%) Big Data
2 77 (10.85%) Amazon DynamoDB
3 69 (9.72%) MySQL
4 58 (8.17%) Apache Hive
4 58 (8.17%) PostgreSQL
5 54 (7.61%) NoSQL
6 53 (7.46%) MongoDB
7 50 (7.04%) Impala
8 47 (6.62%) Amazon Athena
9 41 (5.77%) Amazon RDS
10 32 (4.51%) Hadoop
11 28 (3.94%) SQL Server
12 21 (2.96%) Redis
13 17 (2.39%) Apache Cassandra
14 13 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
15 11 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
15 11 (1.55%) Blockchain
15 11 (1.55%) Relational Database
16 6 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
16 6 (0.85%) HBase
Development Applications
1 328 (46.20%) Jenkins
2 281 (39.58%) Git (software)
3 116 (16.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 108 (15.21%) JIRA
5 106 (14.93%) GitLab
6 82 (11.55%) Bitbucket
7 62 (8.73%) Octopus Deploy
8 58 (8.17%) git-flow
9 57 (8.03%) Team Foundation Server
10 53 (7.46%) IBM UrbanCode
11 52 (7.32%) TeamCity
12 50 (7.04%) Subversion
13 44 (6.20%) Travis CI
14 41 (5.77%) Bitbucket Server
15 35 (4.93%) Selenium
16 26 (3.66%) GoCD
17 23 (3.24%) Vagrant
18 22 (3.10%) Cucumber
18 22 (3.10%) RSpec
19 21 (2.96%) Maven
General
1 152 (21.41%) Finance
2 26 (3.66%) Banking
2 26 (3.66%) Financial Institution
3 14 (1.97%) Retail
4 12 (1.69%) Telecoms
5 8 (1.13%) Games
6 6 (0.85%) Automotive
6 6 (0.85%) Law
6 6 (0.85%) Marketing
7 4 (0.56%) Electronics
8 3 (0.42%) Advertising
8 3 (0.42%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.28%) Front Office
9 2 (0.28%) Legal
10 1 (0.14%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.14%) International Banking
10 1 (0.14%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 334 (47.04%) DevOps Engineer
2 132 (18.59%) Senior DevOps
3 121 (17.04%) Consultant
4 104 (14.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 80 (11.27%) AWS Engineer
5 80 (11.27%) Developer
6 69 (9.72%) AWS DevOps
7 65 (9.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 63 (8.87%) Platform Engineer
9 62 (8.73%) Linux Engineer
10 54 (7.61%) DevOps Consultant
11 48 (6.76%) Linux DevOps Engineer
11 48 (6.76%) Linux/Unix DevOps
12 36 (5.07%) Data Consultant
13 35 (4.93%) Kubernetes Engineer
14 31 (4.37%) Lead DevOps
15 30 (4.23%) Lead DevOps Engineer
16 28 (3.94%) Python Engineer
16 28 (3.94%) Senior Consultant
16 28 (3.94%) Senior DevOps Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (19.01%) Kafka
2 104 (14.65%) Node.js
3 63 (8.87%) .NET
4 62 (8.73%) Web Services
5 56 (7.89%) HTML
6 54 (7.61%) CSS
7 42 (5.92%) .NET Core
8 34 (4.79%) AngularJS
9 31 (4.37%) Spring
10 24 (3.38%) RESTful
11 21 (2.96%) Vue.js
12 20 (2.82%) Spring Boot
13 17 (2.39%) REST
14 16 (2.25%) JSON
15 15 (2.11%) Sensu
16 14 (1.97%) NumPy
17 12 (1.69%) React
17 12 (1.69%) Redux
18 11 (1.55%) RabbitMQ
18 11 (1.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 80 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
2 48 (6.76%) Public Cloud
3 41 (5.77%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 38 (5.35%) Analytical Mindset
5 35 (4.93%) Data Centre
6 31 (4.37%) Virtual Team
7 28 (3.94%) Mobile App
8 27 (3.80%) PlayStation
9 20 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
10 16 (2.25%) Linux Command Line
11 13 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.69%) PKI
13 7 (0.99%) Cybercrime
13 7 (0.99%) Hedge funds
13 7 (0.99%) NHS
14 6 (0.85%) Private Cloud
14 6 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
15 4 (0.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 4 (0.56%) Enterprise Cloud
15 4 (0.56%) User Experience
Operating Systems
1 502 (70.70%) Linux
2 201 (28.31%) Windows
3 73 (10.28%) CentOS
4 69 (9.72%) Unix
5 37 (5.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 34 (4.79%) Ubuntu
6 34 (4.79%) Windows Server
7 27 (3.80%) Mesosphere
8 16 (2.25%) Solaris
9 14 (1.97%) Windows Server 2008
10 13 (1.83%) Debian
11 10 (1.41%) DC/OS
12 7 (0.99%) Android
12 7 (0.99%) Apple iOS
13 6 (0.85%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.42%) VyOS
14 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.28%) CoreOS
15 2 (0.28%) Windows 10
15 2 (0.28%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 529 (74.51%) DevOps
2 301 (42.39%) Agile Software Development
3 202 (28.45%) Continuous Integration
4 194 (27.32%) Configuration Management
5 139 (19.58%) Open Source
6 138 (19.44%) Microservices
7 122 (17.18%) Infrastructure as Code
8 98 (13.80%) Continuous Delivery
9 81 (11.41%) Test Automation
10 73 (10.28%) Machine Learning
11 72 (10.14%) Scrum
12 70 (9.86%) Software Engineering
13 67 (9.44%) Data Science
14 61 (8.59%) Problem-Solving
15 60 (8.45%) BDD
15 60 (8.45%) Fintech
15 60 (8.45%) Load Balancing
15 60 (8.45%) Mathematics
15 60 (8.45%) Mentoring
15 60 (8.45%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 480 (67.61%) Python
2 231 (32.54%) Bash Shell
3 193 (27.18%) Java
4 130 (18.31%) Ruby
5 105 (14.79%) SQL
6 99 (13.94%) PowerShell
7 94 (13.24%) Go
8 93 (13.10%) JavaScript
9 85 (11.97%) Perl
10 54 (7.61%) C#
11 50 (7.04%) R
12 43 (6.06%) C
13 41 (5.77%) Scala
14 35 (4.93%) PHP
15 31 (4.37%) C++
16 24 (3.38%) Java 8
17 16 (2.25%) Shell Script
18 13 (1.83%) Lua
19 12 (1.69%) PHP 5
19 12 (1.69%) PHP 7
Qualifications
1 55 (7.75%) Degree
2 30 (4.23%) Security Cleared
3 25 (3.52%) RHCE
3 25 (3.52%) RHCSA
4 21 (2.96%) DV Cleared
5 16 (2.25%) AWS Certification
6 13 (1.83%) SC Cleared
7 8 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.14%) CCENT
8 1 (0.14%) CCNA
8 1 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.14%) CISSP
8 1 (0.14%) CSSLP
8 1 (0.14%) GWAPT
8 1 (0.14%) ISEB
8 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.14%) MCSE
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.14%) SANS
8 1 (0.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (5.49%) QA
2 19 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (0.70%) GDPR
4 4 (0.56%) SLA
5 2 (0.28%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.28%) PSD2
6 1 (0.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 396 (55.77%) Docker
2 62 (8.73%) Apache Flume
3 44 (6.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (4.23%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (2.25%) Hyper-V
6 14 (1.97%) Active Directory
7 10 (1.41%) VirtualBox
8 9 (1.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 8 (1.13%) vSphere
10 6 (0.85%) HDFS
10 6 (0.85%) NFS
11 4 (0.56%) etcd
12 3 (0.42%) Varnish
12 3 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.28%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.28%) KVM
13 2 (0.28%) XenApp
14 1 (0.14%) oVirt
14 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 373 (52.54%) Ansible
2 305 (42.96%) Kubernetes
3 291 (40.99%) Terraform
4 290 (40.85%) Puppet
5 196 (27.61%) Opscode Chef
6 195 (27.46%) Kibana
7 156 (21.97%) logstash
8 134 (18.87%) Prometheus
9 132 (18.59%) Grafana
10 129 (18.17%) Consul
11 120 (16.90%) Packer
12 102 (14.37%) Nagios
13 62 (8.73%) Docker Swarm
14 47 (6.62%) Oozie
15 40 (5.63%) Icinga
16 39 (5.49%) Opsview
16 39 (5.49%) Salt
17 36 (5.07%) Graphite
18 33 (4.65%) HAProxy
19 27 (3.80%) Automic
Vendors
1 189 (26.62%) Splunk
2 51 (7.18%) Red Hat
3 49 (6.90%) New Relic
3 49 (6.90%) VMware
4 47 (6.62%) Microsoft
5 33 (4.65%) Google
6 27 (3.80%) ServiceNow
7 26 (3.66%) Delphix
7 26 (3.66%) RedGate
8 19 (2.68%) AppDynamics
9 18 (2.54%) Oracle
10 15 (2.11%) Sybase
11 14 (1.97%) Cisco
12 10 (1.41%) Dynatrace
12 10 (1.41%) Hortonworks
12 10 (1.41%) IBM
13 7 (0.99%) BT
13 7 (0.99%) F5
14 6 (0.85%) Atlassian
14 6 (0.85%) SolarWinds