Elastic Stack Jobs

Elastic Stack (formerly ELK Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Elastic Stack skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Elastic Stack over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 566 703 588
Rank change year-on-year +137 -115 -38
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 118 184 453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.19% 0.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.39% 0.87% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 74 134 186
10th Percentile £47,500 £56,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £70,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +10.34% +1.75%
75th Percentile £89,688 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £80,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year -21.88% +31.15% +6.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,493 21,046 31,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.28% 21.40% 30.24%
Number of salaries quoted 6,474 15,738 19,371
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £50,509 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £79,900 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Elastic Stack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Elastic Stack in the UK

Elastic Stack
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Elastic Stack.

Salary trend for Elastic Stack in the UK

Elastic Stack
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Elastic Stack over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Elastic Stack in the UK

Elastic Stack
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Elastic Stack within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +118 96 £65,000 -18.75% 91
Work from Home +166 63 £60,000 -24.88% 65
London +78 63 £65,000 -25.71% 40
UK excluding London +156 51 £62,500 -21.88% 50
South East +81 15 £78,000 -5.45% 4
North of England +84 13 £70,000 +16.67% 19
North West +36 9 £75,000 +50.00% 13
East of England +60 8 £50,000 -13.04% 1
Northern Ireland +42 7 £55,000 - 1
Scotland +131 5 £92,500 -
North East +51 3 £57,500 -17.86% 2
South West +86 2 £90,000 +12.50% 16
Midlands +61 2 - - 9
West Midlands - 2 - - 6
Yorkshire +66 1 - - 4

Elastic Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (8.47%) Confluence
2 9 (7.63%) Tomcat
3 8 (6.78%) nginx
4 6 (5.08%) OpenStack
5 5 (4.24%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.69%) GemFire
7 1 (0.85%) Jetty
Applications
1 3 (2.54%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 85 (72.03%) AWS
2 53 (44.92%) Azure
3 39 (33.05%) Serverless
4 37 (31.36%) GCP
5 29 (24.58%) AWS CloudFormation
6 27 (22.88%) AWS Lambda
7 18 (15.25%) GitHub
8 16 (13.56%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (11.86%) Amazon S3
9 14 (11.86%) Amazon SQS
10 13 (11.02%) AWS KMS
11 12 (10.17%) Azure Monitor
11 12 (10.17%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (9.32%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 11 (9.32%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (8.47%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (7.63%) Amazon ECS
15 8 (6.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (6.78%) Amazon ElastiCache
15 8 (6.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (13.56%) Network Security
2 11 (9.32%) Firewall
3 5 (4.24%) VPN
4 4 (3.39%) DNS
5 2 (1.69%) DHCP
5 2 (1.69%) HTTP
5 2 (1.69%) IPv6
5 2 (1.69%) Multicast
5 2 (1.69%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (1.69%) SAN
5 2 (1.69%) SSL
5 2 (1.69%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.69%) VLAN
6 1 (0.85%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (25.42%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (18.64%) Elasticsearch
3 20 (16.95%) NoSQL
4 19 (16.10%) SQL Server
5 17 (14.41%) Relational Database
6 14 (11.86%) MongoDB
6 14 (11.86%) MySQL
7 13 (11.02%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (9.32%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (7.63%) Redis
10 5 (4.24%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (2.54%) Hadoop
11 3 (2.54%) HBase
12 2 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (1.69%) Big Data
12 2 (1.69%) DynamoDB
12 2 (1.69%) Hazelcast
13 1 (0.85%) InfluxDB
13 1 (0.85%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 41 (34.75%) Jenkins
2 31 (26.27%) Git
3 17 (14.41%) JIRA
4 16 (13.56%) GitLab
5 15 (12.71%) Maven
5 15 (12.71%) SonarQube
6 14 (11.86%) Bitbucket
6 14 (11.86%) Postman
7 12 (10.17%) Cucumber
8 11 (9.32%) JUnit
9 10 (8.47%) Artifactory
10 9 (7.63%) Selenium
10 9 (7.63%) TeamCity
11 8 (6.78%) Mockito
11 8 (6.78%) TestNG
12 6 (5.08%) CircleCI
12 6 (5.08%) Gradle
13 5 (4.24%) Fiddler
13 5 (4.24%) Visual Studio
14 3 (2.54%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 57 (48.31%) Social Skills
2 23 (19.49%) Finance
3 18 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.17%) Public Sector
5 10 (8.47%) Games
6 9 (7.63%) Manufacturing
7 6 (5.08%) Automotive
8 5 (4.24%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.54%) Advertising
9 3 (2.54%) Banking
9 3 (2.54%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.69%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.69%) Law
11 1 (0.85%) Back Office
11 1 (0.85%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 29 (24.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (22.88%) Developer
3 21 (17.80%) Senior
4 18 (15.25%) Architect
4 18 (15.25%) Cloud Architect
5 15 (12.71%) AWS Architect
6 8 (6.78%) .NET Developer
6 8 (6.78%) Java Engineer
6 8 (6.78%) Lead
7 7 (5.93%) React Developer
7 7 (5.93%) Senior DevOps
7 7 (5.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 6 (5.08%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (5.08%) Java Developer
8 6 (5.08%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (5.08%) Senior Developer
8 6 (5.08%) Senior Software Developer
8 6 (5.08%) Software Developer
9 5 (4.24%) Cloud Developer
9 5 (4.24%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (39.83%) Kafka
2 30 (25.42%) REST
3 25 (21.19%) RESTful
4 21 (17.80%) React
4 21 (17.80%) Spring
5 20 (16.95%) .NET
6 19 (16.10%) RabbitMQ
7 18 (15.25%) .NET Core
7 18 (15.25%) CSS
8 17 (14.41%) HTML
8 17 (14.41%) Web Services
9 15 (12.71%) Spring Boot
10 14 (11.86%) Mustache
11 13 (11.02%) .NET Framework
11 13 (11.02%) Entity Framework
11 13 (11.02%) Swagger
12 12 (10.17%) CSS3
12 12 (10.17%) HTML5
12 12 (10.17%) JSON
13 10 (8.47%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 22 (18.64%) Management Information System
2 14 (11.86%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (11.02%) Cloud Native
4 8 (6.78%) Life Science
5 6 (5.08%) Data Centre
5 6 (5.08%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (5.08%) Mobile Games
5 6 (5.08%) Product Ownership
6 5 (4.24%) Educational Technology
7 4 (3.39%) Clustering
7 4 (3.39%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (3.39%) Replication
8 3 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.69%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.69%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.69%) PKI
9 2 (1.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 37 (31.36%) Linux
2 20 (16.95%) Windows
3 6 (5.08%) Unix
4 5 (4.24%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.39%) Debian
5 4 (3.39%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.69%) CentOS
6 2 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (67.80%) CI/CD
2 74 (62.71%) DevOps
3 61 (51.69%) Microservices
4 48 (40.68%) Containerisation
5 47 (39.83%) Infrastructure as Code
6 45 (38.14%) Agile
7 42 (35.59%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (27.12%) Computer Science
9 30 (25.42%) Test Automation
10 29 (24.58%) Event-Driven
10 29 (24.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 27 (22.88%) High Availability
12 26 (22.03%) Design Patterns
13 24 (20.34%) Deployment Automation
14 23 (19.49%) Software Engineering
15 21 (17.80%) Architectural Patterns
16 20 (16.95%) Cloud Security
16 20 (16.95%) Incident Response
16 20 (16.95%) Mentoring
17 19 (16.10%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 50 (42.37%) Java
2 43 (36.44%) Python
3 30 (25.42%) Bash
4 26 (22.03%) SQL
5 25 (21.19%) JavaScript
6 18 (15.25%) C#
6 18 (15.25%) PowerShell
7 10 (8.47%) TypeScript
8 6 (5.08%) Groovy
8 6 (5.08%) Perl
8 6 (5.08%) T-SQL
9 5 (4.24%) Shell Script
10 4 (3.39%) Go
11 3 (2.54%) Ruby
12 2 (1.69%) Delphi
13 1 (0.85%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 36 (30.51%) Degree
2 30 (25.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (23.73%) Security Cleared
4 25 (21.19%) AWS Certification
5 22 (18.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 21 (17.80%) SC Cleared
7 5 (4.24%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.69%) A+ Certification
8 2 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.69%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.69%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.85%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.85%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (16.95%) QA
2 19 (16.10%) GDPR
3 17 (14.41%) HIPAA
4 6 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (3.39%) SLA
6 2 (1.69%) NIST
6 2 (1.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 86 (72.88%) Docker
2 8 (6.78%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.39%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 91 (77.12%) Kubernetes
2 64 (54.24%) Terraform
3 54 (45.76%) Prometheus
4 48 (40.68%) Grafana
5 43 (36.44%) Ansible
6 13 (11.02%) Packer
7 11 (9.32%) Kustomize
8 10 (8.47%) Argo
9 6 (5.08%) Progress Chef
10 4 (3.39%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (3.39%) Kibana
10 4 (3.39%) logstash
10 4 (3.39%) Puppet
11 3 (2.54%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (1.69%) Graylog
12 2 (1.69%) Kubespray
12 2 (1.69%) MIIS
12 2 (1.69%) Nagios
12 2 (1.69%) Proxmox
12 2 (1.69%) SCOM
Vendors
1 15 (12.71%) Google
1 15 (12.71%) Splunk
2 12 (10.17%) Microsoft
3 11 (9.32%) Red Hat
4 10 (8.47%) Atlassian
5 8 (6.78%) New Relic
6 7 (5.93%) VMware
7 6 (5.08%) AppDynamics
8 4 (3.39%) IBM
8 4 (3.39%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.54%) Cloudera
10 2 (1.69%) ArcSight
10 2 (1.69%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.69%) ESRI
10 2 (1.69%) Snow
10 2 (1.69%) TIBCO
11 1 (0.85%) FXall
11 1 (0.85%) Imperva
11 1 (0.85%) Optimizely
11 1 (0.85%) Oracle