Elastic Stack Job Trends in the South East

Elastic Stack (formerly ELK Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Elastic Stack skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 268 366
Rank change year-on-year -14 +98 -29
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 20 10 36
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.14% 0.13% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.38% 0.89% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 9 3 19
10th Percentile - £51,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £80,000 £63,750 £61,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +3.03% +20.44%
75th Percentile £83,750 - £83,750
90th Percentile £84,000 - -
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -25.00% +14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,445 1,121 3,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 9.86% 14.36% 17.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,245 779 2,575
10th Percentile £41,250 £31,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £44,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -11.11%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Elastic Stack job vacancy trend in the South East

Elastic Stack
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Elastic Stack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Elastic Stack

Elastic Stack
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Elastic Stack within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 June 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
Thames Valley +16 13 £82,500 -2.94% 1
Berkshire +14 13 £82,500 -2.94% 1
Hampshire -27 7 £80,000 - 3
Elastic Stack
England

Elastic Stack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (25.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (5.00%) JBoss
2 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 16 (80.00%) AWS
2 13 (65.00%) Amazon EKS
2 13 (65.00%) Serverless
3 9 (45.00%) Amazon ECS
4 8 (40.00%) Amazon S3
4 8 (40.00%) Azure
5 6 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (20.00%) OpenShift
6 4 (20.00%) SaaS
7 3 (15.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 5 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (65.00%) Git
1 13 (65.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (35.00%) JIRA
3 4 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 4 (20.00%) GitLab
3 4 (20.00%) SonarQube
4 3 (15.00%) Artifactory
5 1 (5.00%) JUnit
General
1 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Developer
1 11 (55.00%) Java Developer
2 4 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Applications Support
3 3 (15.00%) Applications Support Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Backend Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Java Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) Service Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Service Desk Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Service Desk Support
3 3 (15.00%) Service Desk Support Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Support Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) DevOps Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (5.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (80.00%) REST
2 9 (45.00%) Spring
2 9 (45.00%) Spring Boot
2 9 (45.00%) Web Services
3 8 (40.00%) RabbitMQ
3 8 (40.00%) React
4 7 (35.00%) Kafka
5 5 (25.00%) AngularJS
5 5 (25.00%) Mustache
5 5 (25.00%) Node.js
6 4 (20.00%) Java EE
6 4 (20.00%) JMS
6 4 (20.00%) JPA
6 4 (20.00%) JSON
6 4 (20.00%) YAML
7 2 (10.00%) RESTful
8 1 (5.00%) Apache Camel
8 1 (5.00%) Hibernate
8 1 (5.00%) J2EE
8 1 (5.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (65.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (15.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (10.00%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Linux
2 4 (20.00%) CentOS
2 4 (20.00%) Ubuntu
2 4 (20.00%) Windows
2 4 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (85.00%) Agile
2 13 (65.00%) Microservices
3 11 (55.00%) CI/CD
4 9 (45.00%) DevOps
4 9 (45.00%) Scrum
4 9 (45.00%) TDD
5 8 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (25.00%) Kanban
7 4 (20.00%) Application Packaging
7 4 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
7 4 (20.00%) DevSecOps
7 4 (20.00%) Domain-Driven Design
7 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Maintenance
7 4 (20.00%) Issue Tracking
7 4 (20.00%) Observability
7 4 (20.00%) SDLC
7 4 (20.00%) Secrets Management
7 4 (20.00%) Security Hardening
7 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) Java
2 7 (35.00%) SQL
3 4 (20.00%) Groovy
3 4 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (20.00%) Python
4 2 (10.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (55.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 10 (50.00%) Docker
2 4 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (85.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (65.00%) Ansible
3 12 (60.00%) Terraform
4 7 (35.00%) Kibana
5 4 (20.00%) Nessus
5 4 (20.00%) Packer
5 4 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (20.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) AppDynamics
1 8 (40.00%) IBM
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) Oracle
2 4 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (20.00%) VMware