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

6 months to
10 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 750 554
Rank change year-on-year +451 -196 -6
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 577 150 379
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.96% 0.14% 0.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.79% 0.72% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 71 119 213
10th Percentile £46,250 £60,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £72,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £85,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% +25.93% -12.90%
75th Percentile £85,000 £97,250 £88,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £101,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,500 £80,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -25.63% +32.23% -3.20%

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 9,958 20,948 24,363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.55% 20.06% 28.03%
Number of salaries quoted 6,062 15,424 17,304
10th Percentile £38,025 £36,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £66,028
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -9.13% +1.58%
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 10 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 10 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 +414 563 £60,000 -29.41% 77
Work from Home +389 519 £60,000 -27.27% 49
UK excluding London +393 375 £59,500 -25.63% 51
North of England +232 269 £60,000 -25.00% 13
North West +193 262 £60,000 +20.00% 7
London +133 118 £70,000 -22.22% 34
South East +91 36 £85,000 +3.03% 10
East of England +57 33 £50,000 -13.04% 2
Midlands - 18 £58,000 - 6
East Midlands - 10 - - 3
South West +72 9 £90,000 +12.50% 13
West Midlands - 8 £58,000 - 3
Northern Ireland - 6 £55,000 - 4
North East +45 5 £60,000 -25.00% 3
Scotland - 4 £95,000 - 3
Yorkshire +43 2 £70,000 -12.50% 3

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 (1.39%) nginx
1 8 (1.39%) Tomcat
2 5 (0.87%) Confluence
2 5 (0.87%) OpenStack
3 3 (0.52%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.35%) Apache
4 2 (0.35%) GemFire
4 2 (0.35%) JBoss
4 2 (0.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.35%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.17%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 286 (49.57%) AWS
2 216 (37.44%) Pulumi
3 31 (5.37%) Azure
4 30 (5.20%) AWS CloudFormation
5 27 (4.68%) Serverless
6 22 (3.81%) GCP
7 21 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (2.25%) Amazon SQS
9 12 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (1.91%) Amazon S3
11 10 (1.73%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (1.73%) AWS KMS
12 9 (1.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 9 (1.56%) GitHub
12 9 (1.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (1.39%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 7 (1.21%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 265 (45.93%) VPN
2 262 (45.41%) Cisco IOS
3 215 (37.26%) Broadband
4 14 (2.43%) Network Security
5 8 (1.39%) 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 (39.69%) NoSQL
2 225 (38.99%) Relational Database
3 215 (37.26%) RDBMS
4 25 (4.33%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (4.16%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (1.91%) SQL Server
7 9 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (1.56%) MySQL
8 8 (1.39%) MongoDB
9 7 (1.21%) Redis
10 2 (0.35%) Big Data
11 1 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.17%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.17%) Hazelcast
11 1 (0.17%) HBase
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 (37.26%) Jaeger
2 41 (7.11%) Jenkins
3 20 (3.47%) Git
4 18 (3.12%) 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 (1.91%) Cucumber
9 10 (1.73%) JUnit
10 9 (1.56%) Artifactory
10 9 (1.56%) TeamCity
11 8 (1.39%) CircleCI
11 8 (1.39%) Mockito
11 8 (1.39%) Selenium
11 8 (1.39%) TestNG
12 4 (0.69%) Fiddler
12 4 (0.69%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 480 (83.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 280 (48.53%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (7.80%) Social Skills
4 23 (3.99%) Finance
5 11 (1.91%) 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%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.35%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.35%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.35%) Law
Job Titles
1 265 (45.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 223 (38.65%) Lead
3 215 (37.26%) Team Leader
4 33 (5.72%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (2.60%) Developer
5 15 (2.60%) 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 (1.39%) Java Engineer
10 6 (1.04%) Java Developer
11 5 (0.87%) Applications Support
11 5 (0.87%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
12 4 (0.69%) .NET Developer
12 4 (0.69%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (37.26%) OpenTelemetry
2 38 (6.59%) Kafka
3 26 (4.51%) REST
4 18 (3.12%) RESTful
5 17 (2.95%) Spring
6 15 (2.60%) Spring Boot
7 13 (2.25%) Mustache
7 13 (2.25%) Web Services
8 12 (2.08%) 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 (1.39%) .NET Framework
11 8 (1.39%) CSS3
11 8 (1.39%) Entity Framework
11 8 (1.39%) Gherkin
11 8 (1.39%) HTML
11 8 (1.39%) JAX-RS
Miscellaneous
1 262 (45.41%) Cyberattack
2 15 (2.60%) Management Information System
3 11 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (1.39%) Life Science
5 5 (0.87%) Cloud Native
6 4 (0.69%) Product Ownership
7 3 (0.52%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (0.52%) Data Centre
7 3 (0.52%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.35%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.35%) Cyber Defence
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%) NHS
9 1 (0.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 517 (89.60%) Linux
2 274 (47.49%) Windows
3 262 (45.41%) Android
4 224 (38.82%) Unix
5 9 (1.56%) Ubuntu
6 8 (1.39%) Debian
7 4 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.69%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.35%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 540 (93.59%) DevOps
2 480 (83.19%) Task Automation
3 295 (51.13%) Problem-Solving
4 266 (46.10%) Platform Engineering
5 265 (45.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 264 (45.75%) Storage Management
7 262 (45.41%) Line Management
7 262 (45.41%) Mathematics
7 262 (45.41%) Risk Management
8 257 (44.54%) Infrastructure as Code
9 256 (44.37%) Containerisation
10 238 (41.25%) Agile
10 238 (41.25%) High Availability
11 233 (40.38%) Mentoring
12 229 (39.69%) Continuous Integration
12 229 (39.69%) Resource Management
13 227 (39.34%) Cost Optimisation
13 227 (39.34%) Product Management
14 218 (37.78%) Performance Optimisation
15 216 (37.44%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 522 (90.47%) Python
2 508 (88.04%) Bash
3 274 (47.49%) PowerShell
4 255 (44.19%) Java
5 231 (40.03%) JavaScript
6 221 (38.30%) Go
7 13 (2.25%) SQL
8 9 (1.56%) C#
9 7 (1.21%) Perl
10 6 (1.04%) Groovy
10 6 (1.04%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.04%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.69%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.35%) Ruby
13 1 (0.17%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 232 (40.21%) AWS Certification
2 28 (4.85%) Security Cleared
3 22 (3.81%) Degree
4 21 (3.64%) SC Cleared
5 18 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (0.52%) 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 17 (2.95%) GDPR
2 13 (2.25%) HIPAA
3 8 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.39%) QA
4 5 (0.87%) SLA
5 4 (0.69%) NIST
6 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 546 (94.63%) Docker
2 265 (45.93%) vSphere
3 262 (45.41%) Hyper-V
3 262 (45.41%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 533 (92.37%) Terraform
2 518 (89.77%) Ansible
3 286 (49.57%) Kubernetes
4 257 (44.54%) Prometheus
5 224 (38.82%) Kustomize
6 218 (37.78%) Argo
7 50 (8.67%) Grafana
8 12 (2.08%) Packer
9 10 (1.73%) Kibana
10 8 (1.39%) 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%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 285 (49.39%) Splunk
2 262 (45.41%) 3PAR
2 262 (45.41%) Cisco
2 262 (45.41%) Juniper
3 223 (38.65%) Google
4 11 (1.91%) Red Hat
5 8 (1.39%) Atlassian
6 7 (1.21%) AppDynamics
7 6 (1.04%) Microsoft
8 4 (0.69%) Dynatrace
8 4 (0.69%) IBM
8 4 (0.69%) 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%) ESRI
10 2 (0.35%) TIBCO
11 1 (0.17%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.17%) Oracle