Hybrid/Remote Elastic Stack Job Trends

Elastic Stack (formerly ELK Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Elastic Stack skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 175 518
Rank change year-on-year -216 +343 -43
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 27 310 67
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.14% 2.02% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.75% 7.28% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 6 29 49
10th Percentile £60,625 £47,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £62,500 - £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -27.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £95,313 £83,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £90,250 £107,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -25.00% +14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 3,585 4,256 9,137
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.96% 27.72% 26.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,637 2,860 7,771
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -8.19%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,254 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -11.11%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Elastic Stack and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Elastic Stack job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Elastic Stack
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Elastic Stack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Elastic Stack

Elastic Stack
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Elastic Stack over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Elastic Stack salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Elastic Stack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.70%) JBoss
1 1 (3.70%) OpenStack
1 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 25 (92.59%) AWS
2 18 (66.67%) Pulumi
3 5 (18.52%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 3 (11.11%) GitHub
4 3 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (7.41%) Azure
5 2 (7.41%) OpenShift
5 2 (7.41%) Serverless
6 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 18 (66.67%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (70.37%) Relational Database
2 18 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 18 (66.67%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.70%) InfluxDB
3 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.70%) MySQL
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (66.67%) Jaeger
2 4 (14.81%) Jenkins
3 2 (7.41%) Git
3 2 (7.41%) Robot Framework
4 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.70%) Eclipse
4 1 (3.70%) JMeter
4 1 (3.70%) JUnit
4 1 (3.70%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.70%) TestRail
General
1 20 (74.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (66.67%) Lead
2 9 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 9 (33.33%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 6 (22.22%) Team Leader
4 3 (11.11%) CloudOps Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Team Leader
4 3 (11.11%) Lead CloudOps Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Lead DevOps
4 3 (11.11%) Lead Systems Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Operations Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Developer
5 2 (7.41%) IT Security Specialist
5 2 (7.41%) Java Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Security Specialist
6 1 (3.70%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (66.67%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (7.41%) AngularJS
2 2 (7.41%) REST
2 2 (7.41%) Spring
2 2 (7.41%) Spring Boot
2 2 (7.41%) Web Services
3 1 (3.70%) Apache Camel
3 1 (3.70%) J2EE
3 1 (3.70%) Java EE
3 1 (3.70%) JMS
3 1 (3.70%) JPA
3 1 (3.70%) Mustache
3 1 (3.70%) Node.js
3 1 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (3.70%) React
3 1 (3.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Management Information System
1 2 (7.41%) Security Posture
2 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (81.48%) Linux
2 18 (66.67%) Unix
3 4 (14.81%) Windows
4 1 (3.70%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (88.89%) DevOps
2 22 (81.48%) Agile
2 22 (81.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (77.78%) GitOps
4 20 (74.07%) Containerisation
5 18 (66.67%) Budget Control
5 18 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
5 18 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
5 18 (66.67%) High Availability
5 18 (66.67%) Mentoring
5 18 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
5 18 (66.67%) Product Management
5 18 (66.67%) Resource Management
5 18 (66.67%) Roadmaps
5 18 (66.67%) Task Automation
6 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
7 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (11.11%) Cloud Operations
8 3 (11.11%) Observability
8 3 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (85.19%) Bash
2 21 (77.78%) Python
3 20 (74.07%) Java
4 18 (66.67%) Go
4 18 (66.67%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.70%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (66.67%) AWS Certification
2 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
3 4 (14.81%) DV Cleared
4 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (11.11%) SOC 2
3 2 (7.41%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (7.41%) Def Stans
4 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 25 (92.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (92.59%) Kubernetes
2 23 (85.19%) Terraform
3 21 (77.78%) Ansible
3 21 (77.78%) Argo
4 18 (66.67%) Kustomize
4 18 (66.67%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.70%) Grafana
5 1 (3.70%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (66.67%) Google
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle
2 2 (7.41%) Splunk
3 1 (3.70%) AppDynamics
3 1 (3.70%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.70%) IBM
3 1 (3.70%) Red Hat