Elastic Stack Job Trends in the South West

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Elastic Stack skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 171 204
Rank change year-on-year -35 +33 +3
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 27 3 46
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.31% 0.086% 0.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.51% 0.66% 3.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 41
10th Percentile £45,500 - £60,000
25th Percentile £46,250 - £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.08%
75th Percentile £56,250 - £97,250
90th Percentile £58,500 - -
England median annual salary £80,000 £60,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -33.33% +33.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 770 452 1,207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 8.76% 13.01% 14.88%
Number of salaries quoted 607 340 912
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,813 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,750 £72,813 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,375 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Elastic Stack job vacancy trend in the South West

Elastic Stack
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

Elastic Stack
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 5 August 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
Gloucestershire - 20 £55,000 - 10
Wiltshire - 5 - - 1
Dorset -4 2 £45,000 -
Elastic Stack
England

Elastic Stack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (29.63%) Apache
2 1 (3.70%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 27 (100.00%) AWS
2 12 (44.44%) Azure
3 10 (37.04%) OpenShift
4 7 (25.93%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (22.22%) GCP
6 3 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (11.11%) GitHub
6 3 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (7.41%) Azure AKS
8 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
8 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (25.93%) InfluxDB
3 3 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (11.11%) ZAP BI
4 2 (7.41%) Big Data
4 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 23 (85.19%) GitLab
2 22 (81.48%) Jenkins
3 11 (40.74%) SonarQube
4 9 (33.33%) Cypress.io
4 9 (33.33%) Selenium
5 8 (29.63%) Cucumber
6 7 (25.93%) Robot Framework
6 7 (25.93%) TestRail
7 6 (22.22%) Git
8 3 (11.11%) JUnit
8 3 (11.11%) NUnit
8 3 (11.11%) Postman
8 3 (11.11%) Snyk
General
1 8 (29.63%) Finance
2 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Military
4 2 (7.41%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 8 (29.63%) Software Engineer
1 8 (29.63%) Test Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) Test Automation Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Automation Tester
4 3 (11.11%) Software Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Tester
5 2 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Principal Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Principal Software Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Senior
6 1 (3.70%) Site Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (37.04%) pytest
2 8 (29.63%) Apache NiFi
3 7 (25.93%) Vue
4 6 (22.22%) Playwright
5 5 (18.52%) AngularJS
5 5 (18.52%) React
6 4 (14.81%) RESTful
7 3 (11.11%) .NET
7 3 (11.11%) .NET Core
7 3 (11.11%) Keycloak
7 3 (11.11%) Node.js
8 2 (7.41%) Spring
8 2 (7.41%) Spring Boot
9 1 (3.70%) Django
9 1 (3.70%) FastAPI
9 1 (3.70%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 5 (18.52%) Cloud Native
3 3 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 14 (51.85%) Linux
2 7 (25.93%) CentOS
2 7 (25.93%) Windows
3 4 (14.81%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (96.30%) CI/CD
2 20 (74.07%) Collaborative Culture
2 20 (74.07%) DevOps
3 16 (59.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (55.56%) Test Automation
5 14 (51.85%) Agile
6 13 (48.15%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (48.15%) Software Engineering
7 12 (44.44%) Containerisation
8 11 (40.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 10 (37.04%) Full-Stack Development
10 8 (29.63%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (25.93%) Software Testing
11 7 (25.93%) Test Management
12 6 (22.22%) Dashboard Development
13 5 (18.52%) Service Delivery
13 5 (18.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 4 (14.81%) Microservices
14 4 (14.81%) Test Scripting
14 4 (14.81%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 24 (88.89%) Python
2 19 (70.37%) Bash
3 17 (62.96%) JavaScript
4 13 (48.15%) Java
5 8 (29.63%) Go
5 8 (29.63%) TypeScript
6 7 (25.93%) C++
6 7 (25.93%) PowerShell
6 7 (25.93%) Rust
7 2 (7.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (92.59%) Security Cleared
2 7 (25.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 6 (22.22%) SC Cleared
4 5 (18.52%) Degree
4 5 (18.52%) DV Cleared
5 3 (11.11%) OCP
5 3 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (7.41%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) NIST
2 2 (7.41%) QA
System Software
1 17 (62.96%) Docker
2 6 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (88.89%) Grafana
2 23 (85.19%) Terraform
3 18 (66.67%) Ansible
3 18 (66.67%) Kubernetes
4 14 (51.85%) Kibana
4 14 (51.85%) logstash
5 9 (33.33%) Prometheus
6 6 (22.22%) vCenter Server
7 4 (14.81%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) Red Hat
2 7 (25.93%) Splunk
3 6 (22.22%) Atlassian
3 6 (22.22%) VMware
4 3 (11.11%) Oracle