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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 723 567 561
Rank change year-on-year -156 -6 -51
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 119 346 1,005
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.43% 0.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.68% 1.55% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 90 200 284
10th Percentile £60,000 £47,375 £50,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £57,188 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £67,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -12.90% +10.71%
75th Percentile £97,250 £87,813 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £61,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +31.15% -6.15% +18.18%

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 17,601 22,313 69,061
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.48% 27.65% 39.40%
Number of salaries quoted 12,656 16,103 29,822
10th Percentile £36,750 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,875 £83,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,289 £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 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Elastic Stack in the UK

Elastic Stack
Top 10 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 26 July 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 -155 119 £90,000 +33.33% 22
UK excluding London -132 70 £80,000 +31.15% 12
London -12 55 £100,000 +25.00% 11
South West -2 46 £80,000 +14.29% 6
Work from Home -80 31 £88,000 +35.38% 11
South East -34 15 £82,500 +17.86%
North of England -29 6 £88,000 +40.80% 4
North West -32 4 £88,000 +40.80% 4
East of England -36 3 £77,500 +56.57%
Yorkshire +44 2 - -

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 20 (16.81%) nginx
2 17 (14.29%) Apache
3 16 (13.45%) Apache Spark
3 16 (13.45%) Jupyter
4 14 (11.76%) OpenStack
5 5 (4.20%) JBoss
5 5 (4.20%) Red Hat Fuse
6 3 (2.52%) Confluence
7 2 (1.68%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.84%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 50 (42.02%) AWS
2 42 (35.29%) Azure
3 28 (23.53%) Amazon S3
4 22 (18.49%) Serverless
5 21 (17.65%) OpenShift
6 17 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
7 16 (13.45%) MinIO
8 14 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (10.08%) Amazon ECS
10 11 (9.24%) GCP
11 10 (8.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (8.40%) PaaS
12 9 (7.56%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (6.72%) Amazon ELB
13 8 (6.72%) Azure AKS
14 7 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 6 (5.04%) Amazon Kinesis
15 6 (5.04%) Datadog
15 6 (5.04%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 32 (26.89%) Network Security
2 11 (9.24%) DNS
3 7 (5.88%) Firewall
4 4 (3.36%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.36%) VPN
5 3 (2.52%) IPv4
5 3 (2.52%) IPv6
6 2 (1.68%) HTTP
6 2 (1.68%) Internet
7 1 (0.84%) Multicast
7 1 (0.84%) SNMP
7 1 (0.84%) tcpdump
7 1 (0.84%) VLAN
7 1 (0.84%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (15.97%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (14.29%) Big Data
3 16 (13.45%) Hadoop
3 16 (13.45%) Presto
4 13 (10.92%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (9.24%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (8.40%) MongoDB
6 10 (8.40%) MySQL
7 8 (6.72%) Relational Database
8 7 (5.88%) NoSQL
9 4 (3.36%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (3.36%) MariaDB
9 4 (3.36%) Redis
10 3 (2.52%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (1.68%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.84%) Flink
12 1 (0.84%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 52 (43.70%) Jenkins
2 28 (23.53%) Git
3 16 (13.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 16 (13.45%) GitLab
4 8 (6.72%) JUnit
4 8 (6.72%) SonarQube
5 7 (5.88%) Bitbucket
6 5 (4.20%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (3.36%) JIRA
7 4 (3.36%) JMeter
7 4 (3.36%) Selenium
8 3 (2.52%) Eclipse
8 3 (2.52%) Maven
8 3 (2.52%) Robot Framework
8 3 (2.52%) TestNG
9 2 (1.68%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.68%) Mockito
9 2 (1.68%) Postman
10 1 (0.84%) Travis CI
10 1 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (20.17%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.45%) Public Sector
3 14 (11.76%) Finance
4 8 (6.72%) Military
5 7 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.20%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.52%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.52%) Law
7 3 (2.52%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.52%) Retail
8 2 (1.68%) Banking
8 2 (1.68%) Marketing
9 1 (0.84%) Advertising
9 1 (0.84%) Cantonese Language
9 1 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.84%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (36.13%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (21.85%) Consultant
2 26 (21.85%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 26 (21.85%) Security Consultant
3 18 (15.13%) Lead
3 18 (15.13%) Lead Consultant
3 18 (15.13%) Lead Security Consultant
4 16 (13.45%) Big Data Engineer
4 16 (13.45%) Data Engineer
4 16 (13.45%) Developer
5 14 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
5 14 (11.76%) Java Developer
6 13 (10.92%) Platform Engineer
7 12 (10.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 11 (9.24%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 10 (8.40%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (7.56%) AWS DevOps
10 9 (7.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 9 (7.56%) Senior
10 9 (7.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (18.49%) Apache NiFi
2 18 (15.13%) YAML
3 17 (14.29%) REST
4 16 (13.45%) ActiveMQ
4 16 (13.45%) RabbitMQ
5 15 (12.61%) Node.js
5 15 (12.61%) Spring
6 14 (11.76%) Spring Boot
7 13 (10.92%) Web Services
8 12 (10.08%) AngularJS
8 12 (10.08%) Apache Camel
9 8 (6.72%) Kafka
10 7 (5.88%) AWS SAM
10 7 (5.88%) XML
11 6 (5.04%) JSON
12 4 (3.36%) RESTful
13 3 (2.52%) HTML
13 3 (2.52%) Mustache
13 3 (2.52%) React
13 3 (2.52%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 27 (22.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 16 (13.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (10.08%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (7.56%) Cyber Defence
5 8 (6.72%) Security Operations Centre
6 7 (5.88%) Cloud Native
7 6 (5.04%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (4.20%) Public Cloud
9 4 (3.36%) Management Information System
10 3 (2.52%) Clustering
10 3 (2.52%) Private Cloud
11 2 (1.68%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (1.68%) Data Centre
11 2 (1.68%) FMCG
11 2 (1.68%) Life Science
11 2 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.84%) Onboarding
12 1 (0.84%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 48 (40.34%) Linux
2 18 (15.13%) Windows
3 7 (5.88%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.20%) CentOS
5 4 (3.36%) Unix
6 1 (0.84%) CoreOS
6 1 (0.84%) Debian
6 1 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.84%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (63.03%) DevOps
2 49 (41.18%) CI/CD
3 45 (37.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 39 (32.77%) Cybersecurity
5 37 (31.09%) Agile
6 34 (28.57%) Analytics
6 34 (28.57%) SIEM
7 31 (26.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 30 (25.21%) Incident Management
9 29 (24.37%) Containerisation
10 28 (23.53%) Data Analytics
11 26 (21.85%) Vulnerability Management
12 19 (15.97%) Observability
13 18 (15.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 17 (14.29%) Microservices
15 16 (13.45%) Data Engineering
15 16 (13.45%) Requirements Engineering
15 16 (13.45%) Service Delivery
15 16 (13.45%) Thought Leadership
16 14 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 56 (47.06%) Python
2 43 (36.13%) Bash
3 26 (21.85%) Java
4 21 (17.65%) JavaScript
4 21 (17.65%) PowerShell
5 19 (15.97%) Shell Script
6 13 (10.92%) SQL
7 4 (3.36%) Go
7 4 (3.36%) Perl
8 3 (2.52%) C
8 3 (2.52%) C++
9 2 (1.68%) Ruby
9 2 (1.68%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.84%) C#
Qualifications
1 66 (55.46%) Security Cleared
2 48 (40.34%) DV Cleared
3 17 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 10 (8.40%) AWS Certification
5 8 (6.72%) Degree
6 7 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (5.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 6 (5.04%) CCSP
7 6 (5.04%) CISSP
8 4 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (2.52%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.84%) CCNA
11 1 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.84%) MCSE
11 1 (0.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (32.77%) NIST
2 12 (10.08%) SOC 2
3 6 (5.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.52%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.68%) SLA
6 1 (0.84%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.84%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.84%) QA
System Software
1 64 (53.78%) Docker
2 26 (21.85%) vSphere
3 6 (5.04%) Active Directory
3 6 (5.04%) Hyper-V
3 6 (5.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.68%) Firmware
6 1 (0.84%) KVM
6 1 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.84%) VirtualBox
6 1 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 71 (59.66%) Kubernetes
2 61 (51.26%) Ansible
3 58 (48.74%) Terraform
4 34 (28.57%) Grafana
5 31 (26.05%) Prometheus
6 17 (14.29%) HAProxy
7 9 (7.56%) Kibana
8 8 (6.72%) Puppet
9 6 (5.04%) Nagios
9 6 (5.04%) Progress Chef
10 5 (4.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (4.20%) logstash
10 5 (4.20%) Packer
11 4 (3.36%) Graphite
11 4 (3.36%) ZABBIX
12 3 (2.52%) Rancher
13 2 (1.68%) Kustomize
14 1 (0.84%) Failover Clustering
14 1 (0.84%) Sysdig
14 1 (0.84%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 27 (22.69%) Tanium
2 26 (21.85%) SolarWinds
2 26 (21.85%) Tripwire
3 23 (19.33%) Splunk
4 12 (10.08%) Microsoft
5 11 (9.24%) WSO2
6 6 (5.04%) New Relic
6 6 (5.04%) Red Hat
6 6 (5.04%) VMware
7 5 (4.20%) Dynatrace
7 5 (4.20%) Oracle
8 4 (3.36%) AppDynamics
8 4 (3.36%) Atlassian
9 3 (2.52%) Black Duck
10 2 (1.68%) Google
11 1 (0.84%) Amdocs
11 1 (0.84%) Carbon Black
11 1 (0.84%) HP
11 1 (0.84%) Supermicro
11 1 (0.84%) Sybase