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 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 755 558
Rank change year-on-year +463 -197 -5
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 578 152 399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.97% 0.14% 0.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.83% 0.71% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 71 121 212
10th Percentile £46,250 £57,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £72,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £82,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +22.22% -12.90%
75th Percentile £86,875 £97,250 £88,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £80,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +33.33% -4.00%

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 9,912 21,423 25,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.59% 20.16% 28.43%
Number of salaries quoted 6,024 15,871 17,362
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -9.43% +1.92%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £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 7 July 2025.

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 7 July 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 +426 564 £60,000 -27.27% 124
Work from Home +407 519 £60,000 -27.27% 72
UK excluding London +387 375 £60,000 -25.00% 71
North of England +246 269 £60,000 -14.29% 25
North West +188 262 £60,000 +20.00% 16
London +155 120 £75,000 -16.67% 57
South East +88 37 £85,000 +3.03% 14
East of England +60 33 £50,000 -13.04% 2
Midlands - 17 £57,000 - 7
East Midlands - 10 - - 4
South West +67 9 £90,000 +12.50% 18
West Midlands - 7 £57,000 - 3
Northern Ireland - 6 £55,000 - 4
North East +46 5 £60,000 -25.00% 3
Scotland - 4 £95,000 - 1
Yorkshire +41 2 £70,000 -12.50% 6

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 8 (1.38%) nginx
1 8 (1.38%) Tomcat
2 6 (1.04%) OpenStack
3 5 (0.87%) Confluence
4 4 (0.69%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.35%) Apache
5 2 (0.35%) GemFire
5 2 (0.35%) JBoss
5 2 (0.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.35%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.17%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 287 (49.65%) AWS
2 216 (37.37%) Pulumi
3 31 (5.36%) Azure
4 30 (5.19%) AWS CloudFormation
5 28 (4.84%) Serverless
6 22 (3.81%) GCP
7 21 (3.63%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (2.42%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (2.42%) Amazon SQS
9 13 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 12 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (2.08%) Amazon S3
11 11 (1.90%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (1.73%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 10 (1.73%) AWS KMS
13 9 (1.56%) GitHub
13 9 (1.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (1.38%) Amazon ElastiCache
15 7 (1.21%) Azure DevOps
16 6 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 265 (45.85%) VPN
2 262 (45.33%) Cisco IOS
3 215 (37.20%) Broadband
4 14 (2.42%) Network Security
5 8 (1.38%) Firewall
6 3 (0.52%) SAN
6 3 (0.52%) VLAN
7 2 (0.35%) DHCP
7 2 (0.35%) DNS
7 2 (0.35%) HTTP
7 2 (0.35%) SSL
7 2 (0.35%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.17%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 229 (39.62%) NoSQL
2 226 (39.10%) Relational Database
3 215 (37.20%) RDBMS
4 26 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (4.15%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (1.90%) SQL Server
7 9 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (1.56%) MySQL
8 8 (1.38%) MongoDB
9 7 (1.21%) Redis
10 2 (0.35%) Big Data
10 2 (0.35%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.35%) HBase
11 1 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.17%) Hazelcast
11 1 (0.17%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.17%) InterSystems Cache
11 1 (0.17%) Pentaho
11 1 (0.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 215 (37.20%) Jaeger
2 42 (7.27%) Jenkins
3 21 (3.63%) Git
4 18 (3.11%) JIRA
5 16 (2.77%) Bitbucket
5 16 (2.77%) GitLab
6 15 (2.60%) SonarQube
7 13 (2.25%) Maven
7 13 (2.25%) Postman
8 11 (1.90%) Cucumber
9 10 (1.73%) JUnit
10 9 (1.56%) Artifactory
10 9 (1.56%) TeamCity
11 8 (1.38%) CircleCI
11 8 (1.38%) Mockito
11 8 (1.38%) Selenium
11 8 (1.38%) TestNG
12 4 (0.69%) Fiddler
12 4 (0.69%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 480 (83.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 279 (48.27%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (7.61%) Social Skills
4 23 (3.98%) Finance
5 12 (2.08%) Public Sector
6 9 (1.56%) Manufacturing
7 5 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (0.69%) Advertising
8 4 (0.69%) Automotive
8 4 (0.69%) Banking
9 3 (0.52%) Games
9 3 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.35%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.35%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.35%) Law
11 1 (0.17%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 265 (45.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 223 (38.58%) Lead
3 215 (37.20%) Team Leader
4 33 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (2.77%) Developer
5 16 (2.77%) Senior
6 12 (2.08%) Architect
6 12 (2.08%) AWS Engineer
6 12 (2.08%) Cloud Architect
7 10 (1.73%) AWS Architect
7 10 (1.73%) AWS DevOps
7 10 (1.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 9 (1.56%) Senior DevOps
8 9 (1.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 8 (1.38%) Java Engineer
10 7 (1.21%) Java Developer
11 5 (0.87%) Applications Support
11 5 (0.87%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (0.87%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
12 4 (0.69%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (37.20%) OpenTelemetry
2 40 (6.92%) Kafka
3 27 (4.67%) REST
4 18 (3.11%) RESTful
4 18 (3.11%) Spring
5 16 (2.77%) Spring Boot
6 14 (2.42%) Mustache
6 14 (2.42%) Web Services
7 13 (2.25%) React
8 12 (2.08%) Swagger
9 10 (1.73%) RabbitMQ
10 9 (1.56%) .NET
10 9 (1.56%) CSS
10 9 (1.56%) JSON
11 8 (1.38%) .NET Framework
11 8 (1.38%) ASP.NET
11 8 (1.38%) CSS3
11 8 (1.38%) Entity Framework
11 8 (1.38%) Guice
11 8 (1.38%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 262 (45.33%) Cyberattack
2 15 (2.60%) Management Information System
3 12 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (1.38%) Life Science
5 5 (0.87%) Cloud Native
6 4 (0.69%) Product Ownership
7 3 (0.52%) Data Centre
7 3 (0.52%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.35%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (0.35%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.35%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.35%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.35%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.35%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.35%) Mobile Games
9 1 (0.17%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.17%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.17%) NHS
9 1 (0.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 518 (89.62%) Linux
2 274 (47.40%) Windows
3 262 (45.33%) Android
4 224 (38.75%) Unix
5 9 (1.56%) Ubuntu
6 8 (1.38%) Debian
7 4 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.69%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.35%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 540 (93.43%) DevOps
2 479 (82.87%) Task Automation
3 295 (51.04%) Problem-Solving
4 267 (46.19%) Platform Engineering
5 265 (45.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 264 (45.67%) Storage Management
7 262 (45.33%) Line Management
7 262 (45.33%) Mathematics
7 262 (45.33%) Risk Management
8 257 (44.46%) Infrastructure as Code
9 256 (44.29%) Containerisation
10 239 (41.35%) Agile
11 238 (41.18%) High Availability
12 233 (40.31%) Mentoring
13 229 (39.62%) Continuous Integration
13 229 (39.62%) Resource Management
14 227 (39.27%) Cost Optimisation
14 227 (39.27%) Product Management
15 218 (37.72%) Performance Optimisation
16 216 (37.37%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 521 (90.14%) Python
2 507 (87.72%) Bash
3 274 (47.40%) PowerShell
4 256 (44.29%) Java
5 232 (40.14%) JavaScript
6 221 (38.24%) Go
7 13 (2.25%) SQL
8 9 (1.56%) C#
9 6 (1.04%) Groovy
9 6 (1.04%) Perl
9 6 (1.04%) Shell Script
9 6 (1.04%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.69%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.35%) Ruby
12 1 (0.17%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 232 (40.14%) AWS Certification
2 28 (4.84%) Security Cleared
3 22 (3.81%) Degree
4 21 (3.63%) SC Cleared
5 18 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (0.69%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.35%) A+ Certification
8 2 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.35%) CISSP
8 2 (0.35%) CompTIA CySA+
8 2 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.17%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.17%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.17%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (2.77%) GDPR
2 13 (2.25%) HIPAA
3 8 (1.38%) QA
4 7 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.87%) SLA
6 3 (0.52%) NIST
7 2 (0.35%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 547 (94.64%) Docker
2 265 (45.85%) vSphere
3 262 (45.33%) Hyper-V
3 262 (45.33%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 533 (92.21%) Terraform
2 518 (89.62%) Ansible
3 288 (49.83%) Kubernetes
4 257 (44.46%) Prometheus
5 224 (38.75%) Kustomize
6 218 (37.72%) Argo
7 50 (8.65%) Grafana
8 12 (2.08%) Packer
9 9 (1.56%) Kibana
10 8 (1.38%) logstash
11 5 (0.87%) Puppet
12 4 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.69%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.52%) Control-M
14 2 (0.35%) Graylog
14 2 (0.35%) Kubespray
14 2 (0.35%) Podman
14 2 (0.35%) Proxmox
14 2 (0.35%) SCOM
15 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 284 (49.13%) Splunk
2 262 (45.33%) 3PAR
2 262 (45.33%) Cisco
2 262 (45.33%) Juniper
3 223 (38.58%) Google
4 11 (1.90%) Red Hat
5 8 (1.38%) Atlassian
6 7 (1.21%) AppDynamics
7 5 (0.87%) Microsoft
8 4 (0.69%) Dynatrace
8 4 (0.69%) IBM
9 3 (0.52%) LogRhythm
9 3 (0.52%) New Relic
9 3 (0.52%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.52%) VMware
10 2 (0.35%) ArcSight
10 2 (0.35%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.35%) ESRI
10 2 (0.35%) TIBCO
11 1 (0.17%) Imperva