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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 177 194
Rank change year-on-year +5 +17 +75
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 6 21 28
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.12% 0.47% 0.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.27% 2.50% 2.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1 20 23
10th Percentile - £69,125 £52,050
25th Percentile £41,925 £72,188 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,750 £85,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -50.15% +22.50% +1.82%
75th Percentile £43,575 £97,250 £80,000
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -6.25%

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 471 841 1,121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.47% 18.73% 26.95%
Number of salaries quoted 362 497 906
10th Percentile £36,063 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.77%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,886 £72,433
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £67,250
% change year-on-year - -3.35% -0.37%

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 19 December 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 +20 3 - - 2
Dorset - 2 - - 4
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 1 (16.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) CockroachDB
1 2 (33.33%) InfluxDB
2 1 (16.67%) Big Data
2 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (16.67%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 4 (66.67%) GitLab
3 3 (50.00%) Git
3 3 (50.00%) JUnit
4 2 (33.33%) Postman
4 2 (33.33%) REST Assured
4 2 (33.33%) Robot Framework
4 2 (33.33%) SoapUI
4 2 (33.33%) TestNG
4 2 (33.33%) TestRail
5 1 (16.67%) JIRA
5 1 (16.67%) Selenium
5 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Automation Tester
1 2 (33.33%) QA Automation Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) QA Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) pytest
2 1 (16.67%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (16.67%) Django
2 1 (16.67%) Flask
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (16.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) CentOS
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) API Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) QA Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Test Management
4 1 (16.67%) Community of Practice
4 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) SDLC
4 1 (16.67%) Secure Coding
4 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (16.67%) Sprint Retrospective
4 1 (16.67%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Bash
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
4 1 (16.67%) Delphi
4 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Grafana
2 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (16.67%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) Kibana
3 1 (16.67%) logstash
3 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Splunk
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle
3 2 (33.33%) Red Hat