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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 578 719 580
Rank change year-on-year +141 -139 -44
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 112 185 443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.19% 0.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.29% 0.88% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 71 133 189
10th Percentile £46,250 £56,250 £45,807
25th Percentile £50,000 £70,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £80,000 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +11.11% -0.69%
75th Percentile £89,375 £95,000 £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% -

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 8,710 21,062 30,557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.08% 21.25% 30.15%
Number of salaries quoted 6,365 15,764 18,834
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,775
25th Percentile £51,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £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 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Elastic Stack in the UK

Elastic Stack
Top 14 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 9 May 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 +81 91 £60,000 -25.00% 123
London +81 61 £60,000 -32.39% 62
Work from Home +125 59 £60,000 -25.00% 87
UK excluding London +128 47 £60,000 -25.00% 90
South East +60 14 £78,000 -5.45% 28
North of England +48 10 £62,500 +4.17% 20
East of England +39 8 £50,000 -13.04% 4
North West +14 7 £75,000 +50.00% 13
Northern Ireland +43 6 £55,000 - 5
Scotland +129 5 £92,500 - 1
North East +49 3 £57,500 -17.86% 2
South West +85 2 £90,000 +12.50% 16
Midlands +63 2 - - 11
West Midlands - 2 - - 7

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 9 (8.04%) Tomcat
2 8 (7.14%) Confluence
2 8 (7.14%) nginx
3 6 (5.36%) OpenStack
4 5 (4.46%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.79%) GemFire
6 1 (0.89%) Apache
6 1 (0.89%) JBoss
6 1 (0.89%) Jetty
6 1 (0.89%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.79%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 80 (71.43%) AWS
2 48 (42.86%) Azure
3 38 (33.93%) Serverless
4 32 (28.57%) GCP
5 28 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 26 (23.21%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (13.39%) Amazon EKS
7 15 (13.39%) GitHub
8 14 (12.50%) Amazon S3
8 14 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
9 13 (11.61%) AWS KMS
10 12 (10.71%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (9.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 10 (8.93%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (8.93%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (8.04%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (7.14%) Amazon ElastiCache
15 7 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (13.39%) Network Security
2 10 (8.93%) Firewall
3 4 (3.57%) VPN
4 3 (2.68%) DNS
5 2 (1.79%) DHCP
5 2 (1.79%) HTTP
5 2 (1.79%) SAN
5 2 (1.79%) SSL
5 2 (1.79%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.79%) VLAN
6 1 (0.89%) Internet
6 1 (0.89%) IPv6
6 1 (0.89%) Multicast
6 1 (0.89%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (20.54%) Elasticsearch
3 19 (16.96%) NoSQL
3 19 (16.96%) SQL Server
4 17 (15.18%) Relational Database
5 13 (11.61%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (10.71%) MongoDB
6 12 (10.71%) MySQL
7 11 (9.82%) Amazon Aurora
8 8 (7.14%) Redis
9 3 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (2.68%) Hadoop
9 3 (2.68%) HBase
10 2 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.79%) Big Data
10 2 (1.79%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.79%) Hazelcast
11 1 (0.89%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.89%) Pentaho
11 1 (0.89%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 39 (34.82%) Jenkins
2 29 (25.89%) Git
3 17 (15.18%) JIRA
4 15 (13.39%) Maven
5 14 (12.50%) GitLab
5 14 (12.50%) Postman
5 14 (12.50%) SonarQube
6 13 (11.61%) Bitbucket
7 11 (9.82%) Cucumber
7 11 (9.82%) JUnit
8 9 (8.04%) Artifactory
8 9 (8.04%) Selenium
8 9 (8.04%) TeamCity
9 8 (7.14%) Mockito
9 8 (7.14%) TestNG
10 6 (5.36%) CircleCI
11 5 (4.46%) Fiddler
11 5 (4.46%) Gradle
11 5 (4.46%) Visual Studio
12 3 (2.68%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 54 (48.21%) Social Skills
2 25 (22.32%) Finance
3 16 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.71%) Public Sector
5 9 (8.04%) Manufacturing
6 7 (6.25%) Games
7 6 (5.36%) Automotive
8 5 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (3.57%) Advertising
9 4 (3.57%) Banking
10 3 (2.68%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.79%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.79%) Law
12 1 (0.89%) Back Office
12 1 (0.89%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 27 (24.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (23.21%) Developer
3 20 (17.86%) Senior
4 17 (15.18%) Architect
4 17 (15.18%) Cloud Architect
5 15 (13.39%) AWS Architect
6 8 (7.14%) .NET Developer
6 8 (7.14%) Java Engineer
7 7 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (6.25%) Lead
7 7 (6.25%) React Developer
7 7 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
7 7 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 6 (5.36%) AWS DevOps
8 6 (5.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 6 (5.36%) Java Developer
9 5 (4.46%) Cloud Developer
9 5 (4.46%) Senior Developer
9 5 (4.46%) Senior Software Developer
9 5 (4.46%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (41.07%) Kafka
2 29 (25.89%) REST
3 24 (21.43%) RESTful
4 21 (18.75%) React
5 20 (17.86%) .NET
5 20 (17.86%) Spring
6 18 (16.07%) .NET Core
6 18 (16.07%) CSS
7 17 (15.18%) HTML
7 17 (15.18%) RabbitMQ
7 17 (15.18%) Web Services
8 15 (13.39%) Spring Boot
9 14 (12.50%) Mustache
10 13 (11.61%) .NET Framework
10 13 (11.61%) Entity Framework
10 13 (11.61%) Swagger
11 12 (10.71%) CSS3
11 12 (10.71%) HTML5
12 11 (9.82%) JSON
13 10 (8.93%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 22 (19.64%) Management Information System
2 13 (11.61%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (9.82%) Cloud Native
4 8 (7.14%) Life Science
5 6 (5.36%) Data Centre
6 5 (4.46%) Educational Technology
6 5 (4.46%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (4.46%) Mobile Games
6 5 (4.46%) Product Ownership
7 4 (3.57%) Clustering
7 4 (3.57%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (3.57%) Replication
8 3 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.79%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.79%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.79%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.79%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.89%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 35 (31.25%) Linux
2 17 (15.18%) Windows
3 6 (5.36%) Unix
4 4 (3.57%) Debian
4 4 (3.57%) Ubuntu
4 4 (3.57%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.79%) CentOS
7 1 (0.89%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (67.86%) CI/CD
2 69 (61.61%) DevOps
3 58 (51.79%) Microservices
4 45 (40.18%) Containerisation
5 42 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 40 (35.71%) Agile
6 40 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (26.79%) Computer Science
8 28 (25.00%) Test Automation
9 27 (24.11%) Event-Driven
9 27 (24.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 26 (23.21%) High Availability
11 23 (20.54%) Design Patterns
12 22 (19.64%) Deployment Automation
12 22 (19.64%) Software Engineering
13 20 (17.86%) Architectural Patterns
14 19 (16.96%) Cloud Security
14 19 (16.96%) Incident Response
14 19 (16.96%) Mentoring
15 18 (16.07%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 47 (41.96%) Java
2 43 (38.39%) Python
3 29 (25.89%) Bash
4 24 (21.43%) JavaScript
4 24 (21.43%) SQL
5 18 (16.07%) C#
6 15 (13.39%) PowerShell
7 10 (8.93%) TypeScript
8 6 (5.36%) Groovy
8 6 (5.36%) T-SQL
9 5 (4.46%) Perl
10 4 (3.57%) Go
10 4 (3.57%) Shell Script
11 3 (2.68%) Ruby
12 2 (1.79%) Delphi
13 1 (0.89%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 34 (30.36%) Degree
2 28 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (23.21%) Security Cleared
4 23 (20.54%) AWS Certification
5 20 (17.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 19 (16.96%) SC Cleared
7 5 (4.46%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.79%) A+ Certification
8 2 (1.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.79%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.89%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.89%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.89%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.89%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (16.07%) GDPR
2 17 (15.18%) QA
3 16 (14.29%) HIPAA
4 6 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (4.46%) SLA
6 2 (1.79%) NIST
6 2 (1.79%) SOC 2
System Software
1 82 (73.21%) Docker
2 6 (5.36%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.57%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.89%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 87 (77.68%) Kubernetes
2 58 (51.79%) Terraform
3 49 (43.75%) Prometheus
4 45 (40.18%) Grafana
5 38 (33.93%) Ansible
6 12 (10.71%) Packer
7 10 (8.93%) Kustomize
8 8 (7.14%) Argo
9 6 (5.36%) Progress Chef
10 5 (4.46%) Kibana
10 5 (4.46%) logstash
10 5 (4.46%) Puppet
11 4 (3.57%) Failover Clustering
12 3 (2.68%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (1.79%) Graylog
13 2 (1.79%) Kubespray
13 2 (1.79%) MIIS
13 2 (1.79%) Proxmox
13 2 (1.79%) SCOM
14 1 (0.89%) Control-M
Vendors
1 14 (12.50%) Splunk
2 13 (11.61%) Google
3 11 (9.82%) Red Hat
4 10 (8.93%) Microsoft
5 9 (8.04%) Atlassian
6 7 (6.25%) New Relic
6 7 (6.25%) VMware
7 5 (4.46%) AppDynamics
8 4 (3.57%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.68%) Cloudera
9 3 (2.68%) IBM
10 2 (1.79%) ArcSight
10 2 (1.79%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.79%) ESRI
10 2 (1.79%) Snow
10 2 (1.79%) TIBCO
11 1 (0.89%) BigPanda
11 1 (0.89%) FXall
11 1 (0.89%) Okta
11 1 (0.89%) YouTube