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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 176 206
Rank change year-on-year +9 +30 +78
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 3 41 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.083% 0.64% 0.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.72% 4.00% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 0 36 19
10th Percentile - £60,000 £51,000
25th Percentile - £71,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +23.08% -23.53%
75th Percentile - £97,250 £80,000
90th Percentile - - £100,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £90,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -22.22% +38.46% -23.53%

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 417 1,025 1,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 11.49% 16.00% 25.49%
Number of salaries quoted 311 609 910
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +5.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £86,250 £83,781
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

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 21 October 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
Gloucestershire +22 1 - - 1
Devon - 1 - -
Dorset - 1 - -
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (33.33%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Broadband
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) InfluxDB
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jaeger
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) Robot Framework
1 1 (33.33%) TestRail
General
1 2 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Tester
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Team Leader
1 1 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Android
3 1 (33.33%) CentOS
3 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Budget Control
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Line Management
2 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Product Management
2 1 (33.33%) Resource Management
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Go
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
2 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Argo
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Kustomize
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) 3PAR
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Juniper
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat