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 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 173 244
Rank change year-on-year -2 +71 +23
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 14 12 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.24% 0.33% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.62% 1.62% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1 11 16
10th Percentile - - £61,700
25th Percentile £41,925 £71,250 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,750 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -46.56% +6.67% -1.64%
75th Percentile £43,575 £97,250 £87,500
90th Percentile - - £97,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +3.23%

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 534 743 1,715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.16% 20.52% 25.80%
Number of salaries quoted 390 428 1,409
10th Percentile £36,588 £45,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,625 £93,778 £81,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%

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 15 February 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 +18 7 - -
Dorset - 5 - - 1
Cornwall - 1 - -
Devon - 1 £42,750 -
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 3 (21.43%) Apache
2 2 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) OpenShift
3 3 (21.43%) Azure
3 3 (21.43%) GitHub
4 2 (14.29%) GCP
4 2 (14.29%) Slack
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Broadband
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) CockroachDB
2 3 (21.43%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (21.43%) InfluxDB
3 2 (14.29%) Big Data
3 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
4 1 (7.14%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
4 1 (7.14%) RDBMS
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (85.71%) Jenkins
2 10 (71.43%) GitLab
3 6 (42.86%) Cucumber
4 5 (35.71%) JUnit
4 5 (35.71%) SonarQube
5 4 (28.57%) Git
5 4 (28.57%) Selenium
5 4 (28.57%) TestNG
6 3 (21.43%) Cypress.io
6 3 (21.43%) JIRA
6 3 (21.43%) Robot Framework
6 3 (21.43%) TestRail
7 2 (14.29%) Checkstyle
7 2 (14.29%) ESLint
7 2 (14.29%) Gradle
7 2 (14.29%) Maven
7 2 (14.29%) Mockito
7 2 (14.29%) Postman
7 2 (14.29%) REST Assured
7 2 (14.29%) SoapUI
General
1 2 (14.29%) Finance
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Automation Tester
1 3 (21.43%) Tester
2 2 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Developer
2 2 (14.29%) QA Automation Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) QA Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Software Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Team Leader
3 1 (7.14%) Lead
3 1 (7.14%) Team Leader
3 1 (7.14%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) pytest
1 4 (28.57%) Spring
1 4 (28.57%) Spring Boot
2 3 (21.43%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (21.43%) Vue
3 2 (14.29%) JWT
3 2 (14.29%) OAuth
3 2 (14.29%) OAuth2
3 2 (14.29%) OpenAPI
3 2 (14.29%) REST
3 2 (14.29%) Spring MVC
3 2 (14.29%) Spring Security
3 2 (14.29%) Swagger
4 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
4 1 (7.14%) Django
4 1 (7.14%) Flask
4 1 (7.14%) Kafka
4 1 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (7.14%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 2 (14.29%) Private Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Linux
2 3 (21.43%) CentOS
2 3 (21.43%) Windows
3 2 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
1 11 (78.57%) DevOps
2 8 (57.14%) Agile
2 8 (57.14%) Containerisation
3 7 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 7 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
5 4 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (21.43%) Migration
6 3 (21.43%) Software Testing
6 3 (21.43%) Task Automation
6 3 (21.43%) Test Management
7 2 (14.29%) Agile Project Management
7 2 (14.29%) Dependency Management
7 2 (14.29%) High Availability
7 2 (14.29%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) Python
2 10 (71.43%) Bash
2 10 (71.43%) Java
3 7 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (28.57%) SQL
5 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
5 3 (21.43%) TypeScript
6 2 (14.29%) C#
6 2 (14.29%) Go
7 1 (7.14%) C++
7 1 (7.14%) Delphi
7 1 (7.14%) Rust
7 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
4 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 9 (64.29%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (78.57%) Grafana
2 9 (64.29%) Kubernetes
3 6 (42.86%) Ansible
3 6 (42.86%) Terraform
4 5 (35.71%) Prometheus
5 4 (28.57%) Kibana
5 4 (28.57%) logstash
6 1 (7.14%) Argo
6 1 (7.14%) Kustomize
6 1 (7.14%) Puppet
6 1 (7.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Splunk
2 6 (42.86%) Oracle
3 3 (21.43%) Google
3 3 (21.43%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
4 1 (7.14%) VMware