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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 191 202
Rank change year-on-year +24 +11 +66
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 2 49 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.057% 0.65% 0.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.50% 4.20% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 0 44 17
10th Percentile - £60,000 £51,000
25th Percentile - £72,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +23.08% -23.53%
75th Percentile - £97,250 £75,000
90th Percentile - - £100,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £90,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% -20.59%

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 404 1,167 1,156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 11.56% 15.53% 24.18%
Number of salaries quoted 305 751 914
10th Percentile £27,500 £40,000 £34,950
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,000 £85,000 £83,389
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Elastic Stack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Elastic Stack 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 17 September 2025. 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
Devon - 1 - -
Dorset - 1 - -
Elastic Stack
England

Elastic Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Broadband
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jaeger
General
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Android
2 1 (50.00%) Unix
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Budget Control
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) GitOps
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Line Management
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Product Management
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Go
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Argo
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Kustomize
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) 3PAR
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Juniper
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk