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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Elastic Stack skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Elastic Stack over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 714 565 570
Rank change year-on-year -149 +5 -12
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 182 462 880
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.44% 0.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.87% 1.46% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 132 187 256
10th Percentile £56,250 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £61,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +31.15% +6.09% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Elastic Stack is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 20,974 31,729 61,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.39% 30.32% 40.17%
Number of salaries quoted 15,673 19,469 30,328
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,117 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £79,600 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Elastic Stack in the UK

Elastic Stack
Top 16 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 27 April 2024. 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 -101 165 £80,000 +6.67% 36
UK excluding London -94 101 £80,000 +31.15% 20
London +14 88 £86,250 +4.55% 18
Work from Home -27 77 £79,750 +18.15% 23
South East +19 47 £82,500 +25.00% 4
South West -9 30 £80,000 - 4
North of England -3 13 £60,000 - 6
East of England -7 6 £57,500 -11.54% 2
North West -35 6 £50,000 -28.57% 1
Yorkshire +84 5 £80,000 +60.00% 5
North East - 4 £70,000 -
Midlands 0 2 £57,500 +4.55% 2
East Midlands -14 2 £57,500 - 2
Scotland -73 2 - - 2
Northern Ireland +23 1 - -
Wales +10 1 - -

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 44 (24.18%) OpenStack
2 26 (14.29%) nginx
3 20 (10.99%) Apache Spark
4 18 (9.89%) Apache
5 17 (9.34%) Jupyter
6 10 (5.49%) JBoss
6 10 (5.49%) Red Hat Fuse
7 7 (3.85%) Confluence
8 4 (2.20%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.55%) IIS
9 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.55%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.55%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.55%) PTC Creo
1 1 (0.55%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 116 (63.74%) AWS
2 87 (47.80%) Azure
3 68 (37.36%) Amazon EKS
4 63 (34.62%) Serverless
5 43 (23.63%) Amazon ECS
6 36 (19.78%) Amazon S3
7 31 (17.03%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (14.29%) GCP
9 23 (12.64%) OpenShift
10 20 (10.99%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (9.34%) MinIO
12 14 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (7.69%) GitHub
13 12 (6.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (4.95%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (3.30%) Azure Monitor
16 5 (2.75%) PaaS
16 5 (2.75%) Route 53
16 5 (2.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (13.19%) Network Security
2 20 (10.99%) DNS
3 16 (8.79%) Firewall
4 14 (7.69%) TCP/IP
5 13 (7.14%) Internet
6 10 (5.49%) SNMP
6 10 (5.49%) tcpdump
7 6 (3.30%) VPN
8 4 (2.20%) HTTP
9 3 (1.65%) IPv4
10 2 (1.10%) IPv6
10 2 (1.10%) VLAN
11 1 (0.55%) FTP
11 1 (0.55%) Multicast
11 1 (0.55%) OSPF
11 1 (0.55%) SSL
11 1 (0.55%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (26.37%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (17.03%) NoSQL
3 29 (15.93%) Relational Database
4 23 (12.64%) Elasticsearch
5 20 (10.99%) Hadoop
6 19 (10.44%) Big Data
6 19 (10.44%) MySQL
7 17 (9.34%) MongoDB
7 17 (9.34%) Presto
8 12 (6.59%) InfluxDB
9 9 (4.95%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (3.85%) SQL Server
11 6 (3.30%) Redis
12 5 (2.75%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (1.65%) DynamoDB
14 2 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (1.10%) MariaDB
15 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
15 1 (0.55%) Hazelcast
15 1 (0.55%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 118 (64.84%) Jenkins
2 67 (36.81%) Git
3 43 (23.63%) GitLab
4 18 (9.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 17 (9.34%) SonarQube
6 14 (7.69%) JUnit
7 13 (7.14%) CircleCI
8 11 (6.04%) JIRA
9 9 (4.95%) Bitbucket
10 8 (4.40%) git-flow
11 5 (2.75%) Octopus Deploy
11 5 (2.75%) Selenium
12 3 (1.65%) Artifactory
12 3 (1.65%) Cucumber
12 3 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (1.65%) Subversion
12 3 (1.65%) TestNG
12 3 (1.65%) Travis CI
13 2 (1.10%) JMeter
13 2 (1.10%) Maven
General
1 39 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 30 (16.48%) Social Skills
3 19 (10.44%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (8.24%) Military
5 11 (6.04%) Telecoms
6 9 (4.95%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (3.85%) Retail
8 4 (2.20%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.65%) Finance
9 3 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.10%) Banking
10 2 (1.10%) Games
10 2 (1.10%) Law
10 2 (1.10%) Marketing
11 1 (0.55%) Advertising
11 1 (0.55%) Cantonese Language
11 1 (0.55%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 82 (45.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 48 (26.37%) Developer
3 43 (23.63%) Java Developer
4 30 (16.48%) Senior
5 25 (13.74%) Consultant
6 24 (13.19%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 24 (13.19%) Security Consultant
7 21 (11.54%) Data Engineer
8 18 (9.89%) AWS Engineer
8 18 (9.89%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 17 (9.34%) Big Data Engineer
10 16 (8.79%) AWS DevOps
10 16 (8.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 16 (8.79%) Full Stack Developer
11 15 (8.24%) Azure Engineer
11 15 (8.24%) Full Stack Java Developer
12 13 (7.14%) Lead
12 13 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
12 13 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 12 (6.59%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (25.27%) REST
2 45 (24.73%) Node.js
3 44 (24.18%) Spring
4 43 (23.63%) AngularJS
4 43 (23.63%) Apache Camel
4 43 (23.63%) Spring Boot
5 39 (21.43%) Web Services
6 30 (16.48%) JSON
6 30 (16.48%) XML
7 29 (15.93%) YAML
8 19 (10.44%) Apache NiFi
8 19 (10.44%) RabbitMQ
9 17 (9.34%) ActiveMQ
10 10 (5.49%) RESTful
11 9 (4.95%) SOAP
12 8 (4.40%) J2EE
13 5 (2.75%) Kafka
14 4 (2.20%) .NET
14 4 (2.20%) AWS SAM
15 3 (1.65%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (13.19%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 17 (9.34%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (8.24%) Cyber Defence
4 15 (8.24%) Public Cloud
4 15 (8.24%) Security Operations Centre
5 11 (6.04%) Clustering
5 11 (6.04%) Onboarding
6 10 (5.49%) Management Information System
7 9 (4.95%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (4.40%) Virtual Team
9 6 (3.30%) Client/Server
10 4 (2.20%) Hedge funds
10 4 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (1.10%) Cloud Native
12 2 (1.10%) Data Centre
12 2 (1.10%) Online Games
13 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
13 1 (0.55%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 89 (48.90%) Linux
2 39 (21.43%) Windows
3 6 (3.30%) Debian
3 6 (3.30%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.20%) CentOS
5 3 (1.65%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.65%) Unix
6 2 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.55%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (76.92%) DevOps
2 105 (57.69%) Agile
3 96 (52.75%) CI/CD
4 85 (46.70%) Infrastructure as Code
5 69 (37.91%) Containerisation
6 64 (35.16%) Microservices
6 64 (35.16%) Scrum
7 63 (34.62%) Kanban
8 43 (23.63%) Analytics
9 42 (23.08%) BDD
9 42 (23.08%) TDD
10 38 (20.88%) Cybersecurity
11 36 (19.78%) Data Analytics
11 36 (19.78%) Problem-Solving
12 32 (17.58%) BPEL
13 30 (16.48%) Continuous Integration
14 27 (14.84%) Software Engineering
15 26 (14.29%) Test Automation
16 24 (13.19%) Incident Management
16 24 (13.19%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 97 (53.30%) Python
2 65 (35.71%) Bash
3 59 (32.42%) Java
4 47 (25.82%) JavaScript
5 40 (21.98%) Shell Script
6 39 (21.43%) PowerShell
7 29 (15.93%) SQL
8 16 (8.79%) Perl
9 6 (3.30%) Go
10 5 (2.75%) C#
10 5 (2.75%) C++
10 5 (2.75%) Groovy
10 5 (2.75%) Ruby
11 4 (2.20%) C
12 3 (1.65%) TypeScript
13 2 (1.10%) R
14 1 (0.55%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 104 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 57 (31.32%) SC Cleared
3 41 (22.53%) DV Cleared
4 20 (10.99%) AWS Certification
5 11 (6.04%) Azure Certification
6 9 (4.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (3.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (3.30%) Degree
9 5 (2.75%) MCSE
9 5 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (2.20%) CCNA
10 4 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (2.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.55%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (14.84%) NIST
2 5 (2.75%) SLA
3 4 (2.20%) QA
4 3 (1.65%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.10%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
System Software
1 128 (70.33%) Docker
2 32 (17.58%) Hyper-V
3 24 (13.19%) vSphere
4 15 (8.24%) Active Directory
5 12 (6.59%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (5.49%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.65%) VirtualBox
9 2 (1.10%) Firmware
9 2 (1.10%) HDFS
10 1 (0.55%) KVM
Systems Management
1 128 (70.33%) Terraform
2 126 (69.23%) Ansible
3 122 (67.03%) Kubernetes
4 62 (34.07%) Grafana
5 53 (29.12%) Prometheus
6 27 (14.84%) HAProxy
7 21 (11.54%) Puppet
8 20 (10.99%) Kibana
9 15 (8.24%) Nagios
10 12 (6.59%) Graphite
11 11 (6.04%) Rancher
12 10 (5.49%) vCenter Server
13 9 (4.95%) logstash
13 9 (4.95%) Progress Chef
14 8 (4.40%) Packer
15 6 (3.30%) ZABBIX
16 4 (2.20%) Consul
17 2 (1.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 1 (0.55%) Kustomize
18 1 (0.55%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 42 (23.08%) WSO2
2 24 (13.19%) SolarWinds
2 24 (13.19%) Tanium
2 24 (13.19%) Tripwire
3 19 (10.44%) VMware
4 17 (9.34%) Splunk
5 11 (6.04%) Google
6 9 (4.95%) Microsoft
7 8 (4.40%) McAfee
8 7 (3.85%) Red Hat
9 6 (3.30%) Dynatrace
9 6 (3.30%) New Relic
10 5 (2.75%) Atlassian
10 5 (2.75%) Oracle
11 3 (1.65%) AppDynamics
11 3 (1.65%) IBM
12 2 (1.10%) Apple
12 2 (1.10%) Black Duck
12 2 (1.10%) Intel
12 2 (1.10%) ServiceNow