Elastic Stack Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Elastic Stack (formerly ELK Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Elastic Stack skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 - 116
Rank change year-on-year - - -30
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 22 0 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 1.24% - 0.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.77% - 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -33.33%
75th Percentile £60,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median annual salary £50,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -44.44% +12.50% +14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Gloucestershire

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 in Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 149 77 360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 8.39% 13.75% 22.06%
Number of salaries quoted 97 58 270
10th Percentile £37,500 £27,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £37,338 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,837
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.09% -8.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,188 £64,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £82,875 £75,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Elastic Stack job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Elastic Stack
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Elastic Stack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Elastic Stack

Elastic Stack
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Elastic Stack within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 15 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
Gloucester - 21 - - 1
Elastic Stack
South West

Elastic Stack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 9 (40.91%) Apache
2 1 (4.55%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 22 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (36.36%) OpenShift
3 5 (22.73%) Azure
4 4 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (18.18%) GCP
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (45.45%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (36.36%) InfluxDB
3 2 (9.09%) Big Data
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 21 (95.45%) Jenkins
2 20 (90.91%) GitLab
3 9 (40.91%) Cucumber
3 9 (40.91%) SonarQube
4 8 (36.36%) Robot Framework
4 8 (36.36%) TestRail
5 7 (31.82%) Cypress.io
5 7 (31.82%) Git
5 7 (31.82%) Selenium
General
1 6 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 9 (40.91%) Software Engineer
1 9 (40.91%) Test Engineer
2 7 (31.82%) Test Automation Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Automation Tester
3 3 (13.64%) Tester
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Python Developer
5 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Site Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (40.91%) Apache NiFi
2 8 (36.36%) pytest
2 8 (36.36%) Vue
3 7 (31.82%) Playwright
4 1 (4.55%) Django
4 1 (4.55%) FastAPI
4 1 (4.55%) Flask
4 1 (4.55%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 13 (59.09%) Linux
2 8 (36.36%) CentOS
2 8 (36.36%) Windows
3 4 (18.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (95.45%) CI/CD
2 19 (86.36%) Collaborative Culture
3 14 (63.64%) DevOps
4 13 (59.09%) Test Automation
5 12 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (54.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (45.45%) Agile
6 10 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (40.91%) Software Engineering
8 8 (36.36%) Containerisation
8 8 (36.36%) Software Testing
8 8 (36.36%) Test Management
9 7 (31.82%) Dashboard Development
10 6 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
10 6 (27.27%) Service Delivery
11 5 (22.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 4 (18.18%) Test Scripting
12 4 (18.18%) Validation
13 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
14 2 (9.09%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 21 (95.45%) Bash
1 21 (95.45%) Python
2 16 (72.73%) JavaScript
3 9 (40.91%) Java
3 9 (40.91%) TypeScript
4 8 (36.36%) C++
4 8 (36.36%) PowerShell
4 8 (36.36%) Rust
5 6 (27.27%) Go
6 2 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (36.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 5 (22.73%) DV Cleared
4 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 13 (59.09%) Docker
2 7 (31.82%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (31.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (95.45%) Grafana
2 20 (90.91%) Ansible
2 20 (90.91%) Terraform
3 16 (72.73%) Kibana
3 16 (72.73%) logstash
4 12 (54.55%) Kubernetes
5 7 (31.82%) vCenter Server
6 4 (18.18%) Prometheus
6 4 (18.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Red Hat
1 8 (36.36%) Splunk
2 7 (31.82%) Atlassian
2 7 (31.82%) VMware