Elastic Stack Job Trends in Wales

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Elastic Stack skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 - 85
Rank change year-on-year - - +35
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 1 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.089% - 0.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.09% - 2.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £42,875
25th Percentile £52,400 - £43,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 - £48,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.00%
75th Percentile £58,000 - £55,688
90th Percentile - - £58,275
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -9.68%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Wales

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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 92 221 207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 8.19% 23.00% 26.50%
Number of salaries quoted 84 142 150
10th Percentile £38,750 £23,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,100 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £74,144 £75,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,066
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.10% +0.10%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Elastic Stack relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Elastic Stack job vacancy trend in Wales

Elastic Stack
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Elastic Stack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Elastic Stack

Elastic Stack
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Elastic Stack within the Wales region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
West Wales - 1 £55,200 -
Elastic Stack
UK

Elastic Stack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Software Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) SEO
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Delphi
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle