Elastic Stack Job Trends in Reading

Elastic Stack (formerly ELK Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Elastic Stack skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 54 84
Rank change year-on-year -3 +30 +16
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 16 7 28
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 1.39% 1.37% 1.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.12% 5.65% 9.79%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 9
10th Percentile - - £72,500
25th Percentile £81,250 - £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 - £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.92%
75th Percentile £83,750 - £83,750
90th Percentile £84,500 - £85,250
Berkshire median annual salary £82,500 £85,000 £78,750
% change year-on-year -2.94% +7.94% +12.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 132 124 286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 11.50% 24.27% 18.78%
Number of salaries quoted 88 71 188
10th Percentile £45,875 £31,750 £39,464
25th Percentile £60,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +20.83% -14.29%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +11.11% -6.67%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Elastic Stack job vacancy trend in Reading

Elastic Stack
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Elastic Stack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Elastic Stack

Elastic Stack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 8 (50.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (6.25%) JBoss
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 16 (100.00%) AWS
1 16 (100.00%) Serverless
2 12 (75.00%) Amazon ECS
3 11 (68.75%) Amazon S3
4 7 (43.75%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (68.75%) Relational Database
2 8 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 16 (100.00%) Git
1 16 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 4 (25.00%) GitLab
2 4 (25.00%) JIRA
2 4 (25.00%) SonarQube
3 3 (18.75%) Artifactory
4 2 (12.50%) JUnit
General
1 5 (31.25%) Public Sector
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (87.50%) Developer
1 14 (87.50%) Java Developer
2 4 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Backend Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Java Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Senior
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (100.00%) REST
2 12 (75.00%) Spring
2 12 (75.00%) Spring Boot
3 11 (68.75%) React
3 11 (68.75%) Web Services
4 8 (50.00%) Mustache
4 8 (50.00%) Node.js
4 8 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
5 7 (43.75%) Kafka
6 5 (31.25%) AngularJS
7 4 (25.00%) Java EE
7 4 (25.00%) JMS
7 4 (25.00%) JPA
7 4 (25.00%) JSON
7 4 (25.00%) YAML
8 2 (12.50%) RESTful
9 1 (6.25%) Apache Camel
9 1 (6.25%) Hibernate
9 1 (6.25%) J2EE
9 1 (6.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (12.50%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Agile
1 16 (100.00%) Microservices
2 14 (87.50%) CI/CD
3 12 (75.00%) Scrum
3 12 (75.00%) TDD
4 10 (62.50%) DevOps
5 7 (43.75%) SDLC
6 5 (31.25%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (31.25%) Kanban
7 4 (25.00%) Auto-Scaling
7 4 (25.00%) BDD
7 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
7 4 (25.00%) Design Patterns
7 4 (25.00%) Domain-Driven Design
7 4 (25.00%) Issue Tracking
7 4 (25.00%) Secrets Management
7 4 (25.00%) Security Hardening
7 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (43.75%) JavaScript
3 4 (25.00%) Groovy
3 4 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 4 (25.00%) Python
3 4 (25.00%) SQL
4 2 (12.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (43.75%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) QA
System Software
1 13 (81.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (56.25%) Ansible
3 8 (50.00%) Terraform
4 4 (25.00%) Kibana
4 4 (25.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) AppDynamics
1 8 (50.00%) IBM
2 4 (25.00%) Oracle