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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 164 211
Rank change year-on-year -38 +47 +4
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 25 4 46
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.29% 0.12% 0.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.38% 0.86% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 41
10th Percentile £45,500 - £60,000
25th Percentile £46,250 - £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -44.44% +12.50% +18.52%
75th Percentile £56,250 - £97,250
90th Percentile £58,500 - -
England median annual salary £77,500 £60,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +29.17% -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 740 463 1,299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 8.61% 13.52% 15.41%
Number of salaries quoted 589 351 1,006
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,886 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £92,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -8.89%

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 29 July 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 - 1
Wiltshire - 3 - - 3
Dorset -6 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 (32.00%) Apache
2 1 (4.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (40.00%) Azure
3 8 (32.00%) OpenShift
4 6 (24.00%) GCP
5 5 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (8.00%) Azure AKS
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (4.00%) GitHub
7 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (36.00%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (28.00%) InfluxDB
3 2 (8.00%) Big Data
3 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.00%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 21 (84.00%) GitLab
2 20 (80.00%) Jenkins
3 9 (36.00%) SonarQube
4 8 (32.00%) Cucumber
5 7 (28.00%) Cypress.io
5 7 (28.00%) Robot Framework
5 7 (28.00%) Selenium
5 7 (28.00%) TestRail
6 6 (24.00%) Git
7 1 (4.00%) JUnit
7 1 (4.00%) NUnit
7 1 (4.00%) Postman
7 1 (4.00%) Snyk
General
1 8 (32.00%) Finance
2 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Law
4 1 (4.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 8 (32.00%) Software Engineer
1 8 (32.00%) Test Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Test Automation Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Automation Tester
3 3 (12.00%) Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Tester
4 2 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Principal Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Principal Software Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Python Developer
5 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Site Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (32.00%) Apache NiFi
1 8 (32.00%) pytest
2 7 (28.00%) Vue
3 6 (24.00%) Playwright
4 3 (12.00%) AngularJS
4 3 (12.00%) React
5 2 (8.00%) RESTful
5 2 (8.00%) Spring
5 2 (8.00%) Spring Boot
6 1 (4.00%) .NET
6 1 (4.00%) .NET Core
6 1 (4.00%) Django
6 1 (4.00%) FastAPI
6 1 (4.00%) Flask
6 1 (4.00%) Keycloak
6 1 (4.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (12.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 14 (56.00%) Linux
2 7 (28.00%) CentOS
2 7 (28.00%) Windows
3 4 (16.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (96.00%) CI/CD
2 18 (72.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 18 (72.00%) DevOps
3 14 (56.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (52.00%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (52.00%) Test Automation
5 12 (48.00%) Agile
6 11 (44.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 11 (44.00%) Software Engineering
7 10 (40.00%) Containerisation
8 8 (32.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (28.00%) Software Testing
9 7 (28.00%) Test Management
10 6 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (24.00%) Dashboard Development
11 5 (20.00%) Service Delivery
11 5 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 4 (16.00%) Microservices
12 4 (16.00%) Test Scripting
12 4 (16.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 22 (88.00%) Python
2 19 (76.00%) Bash
3 15 (60.00%) JavaScript
4 11 (44.00%) Java
5 8 (32.00%) TypeScript
6 7 (28.00%) C++
6 7 (28.00%) PowerShell
6 7 (28.00%) Rust
7 6 (24.00%) Go
8 2 (8.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (92.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (28.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 5 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
5 3 (12.00%) Degree
6 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (8.00%) RHCSA
7 1 (4.00%) OCP
7 1 (4.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (60.00%) Docker
2 6 (24.00%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (24.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (88.00%) Grafana
2 21 (84.00%) Terraform
3 18 (72.00%) Ansible
4 16 (64.00%) Kubernetes
5 14 (56.00%) Kibana
5 14 (56.00%) logstash
6 7 (28.00%) Prometheus
7 6 (24.00%) vCenter Server
8 4 (16.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Red Hat
2 7 (28.00%) Splunk
3 6 (24.00%) Atlassian
3 6 (24.00%) VMware
4 2 (8.00%) Oracle