Elastic Stack Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 522 446
Rank change year-on-year +382 -76 +60
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 516 40 170
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.45% 0.13% 0.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.21% 0.48% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27 28 105
10th Percentile £47,000 £73,375 £37,791
25th Percentile £53,750 £80,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £82,500 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +25.95% -14.38%
75th Percentile £83,750 £100,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £90,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% -12.90%

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 5,053 8,249 11,143
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 23.94% 26.14% 32.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,904 6,656 8,896
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £51,104
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,206 £60,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -8.19% +4.56%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £67,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -10.45% +3.08%

Elastic Stack
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Elastic Stack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Elastic Stack trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Elastic Stack
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Elastic Stack.

Elastic Stack salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Elastic Stack
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Elastic Stack over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Elastic Stack salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Elastic Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (0.39%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 244 (47.29%) AWS
2 215 (41.67%) Pulumi
3 18 (3.49%) AWS CloudFormation
3 18 (3.49%) Serverless
4 17 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (1.94%) AWS KMS
6 9 (1.74%) Azure
7 6 (1.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (1.16%) Amazon S3
7 6 (1.16%) GCP
8 5 (0.97%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (0.97%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (0.97%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 5 (0.97%) AWS Control Tower
9 3 (0.58%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.39%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (0.39%) GitHub
10 2 (0.39%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (0.19%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 262 (50.78%) Cisco IOS
1 262 (50.78%) VPN
2 215 (41.67%) Broadband
3 10 (1.94%) Network Security
4 6 (1.16%) Firewall
5 2 (0.39%) DHCP
5 2 (0.39%) DNS
5 2 (0.39%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.19%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (42.64%) NoSQL
2 216 (41.86%) Relational Database
3 215 (41.67%) RDBMS
4 9 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (0.97%) MySQL
5 5 (0.97%) Redis
6 4 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.39%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.19%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.19%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.19%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.19%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.19%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.19%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.19%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 215 (41.67%) Jaeger
2 11 (2.13%) Git
3 7 (1.36%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.36%) JIRA
4 4 (0.78%) Artifactory
4 4 (0.78%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.58%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.39%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.19%) Gatling
7 1 (0.19%) GitLab
7 1 (0.19%) JMeter
7 1 (0.19%) Locust
7 1 (0.19%) Maven
7 1 (0.19%) Postman
7 1 (0.19%) TestRail
General
1 479 (92.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 265 (51.36%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (4.07%) Social Skills
4 5 (0.97%) Finance
5 4 (0.78%) Automotive
6 2 (0.39%) Advertising
6 2 (0.39%) Law
7 1 (0.19%) Banking
7 1 (0.19%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.19%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 264 (51.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 218 (42.25%) Lead
3 215 (41.67%) Team Leader
4 13 (2.52%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (1.94%) Architect
5 10 (1.94%) AWS Architect
5 10 (1.94%) Cloud Architect
6 8 (1.55%) AWS DevOps
6 8 (1.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 8 (1.55%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (1.55%) Senior
7 7 (1.36%) Senior DevOps
7 7 (1.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 5 (0.97%) Developer
8 5 (0.97%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.58%) Applications Support
10 2 (0.39%) Applications Support Engineer
10 2 (0.39%) Junior
10 2 (0.39%) Software Engineer
10 2 (0.39%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (41.67%) OpenTelemetry
2 13 (2.52%) Kafka
3 8 (1.55%) RabbitMQ
4 7 (1.36%) REST
5 4 (0.78%) .NET
5 4 (0.78%) .NET Core
5 4 (0.78%) .NET Framework
5 4 (0.78%) ASP.NET
5 4 (0.78%) ASP.NET Core
5 4 (0.78%) CSS
5 4 (0.78%) CSS3
5 4 (0.78%) Entity Framework
5 4 (0.78%) HTML
5 4 (0.78%) HTML5
5 4 (0.78%) LINQ
5 4 (0.78%) MassTransit
5 4 (0.78%) RESTful
5 4 (0.78%) Web Services
6 3 (0.58%) JSON
7 2 (0.39%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 262 (50.78%) Cyberattack
2 13 (2.52%) Management Information System
3 6 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (0.39%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.19%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.19%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (0.19%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.19%) IoT
5 1 (0.19%) NHS
5 1 (0.19%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 493 (95.54%) Linux
2 265 (51.36%) Windows
3 262 (50.78%) Android
4 221 (42.83%) Unix
5 2 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.39%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.39%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.19%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 505 (97.87%) DevOps
2 477 (92.44%) Task Automation
3 275 (53.29%) Problem-Solving
4 264 (51.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 263 (50.97%) Platform Engineering
6 262 (50.78%) Line Management
6 262 (50.78%) Mathematics
6 262 (50.78%) Risk Management
6 262 (50.78%) Storage Management
7 235 (45.54%) Infrastructure as Code
8 234 (45.35%) High Availability
9 233 (45.16%) Containerisation
10 228 (44.19%) Mentoring
11 227 (43.99%) Agile
11 227 (43.99%) Resource Management
12 225 (43.60%) Cost Optimisation
12 225 (43.60%) Product Management
13 216 (41.86%) Roadmaps
14 215 (41.67%) Budget Control
14 215 (41.67%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 497 (96.32%) Python
2 490 (94.96%) Bash
3 265 (51.36%) PowerShell
4 230 (44.57%) Java
5 221 (42.83%) Go
5 221 (42.83%) JavaScript
6 5 (0.97%) Perl
7 4 (0.78%) C#
7 4 (0.78%) SQL
7 4 (0.78%) T-SQL
8 3 (0.58%) Groovy
8 3 (0.58%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.39%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 228 (44.19%) AWS Certification
2 22 (4.26%) Security Cleared
3 15 (2.91%) Degree
3 15 (2.91%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (0.39%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.19%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.19%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.19%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.52%) GDPR
2 11 (2.13%) HIPAA
3 5 (0.97%) QA
4 4 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.39%) NIST
5 2 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 504 (97.67%) Docker
2 262 (50.78%) Hyper-V
2 262 (50.78%) VMware NSX
2 262 (50.78%) vSphere
3 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 498 (96.51%) Terraform
2 489 (94.77%) Ansible
3 242 (46.90%) Kubernetes
4 231 (44.77%) Prometheus
5 216 (41.86%) Argo
5 216 (41.86%) Kustomize
6 22 (4.26%) Grafana
7 5 (0.97%) Kibana
7 5 (0.97%) logstash
8 3 (0.58%) Packer
9 2 (0.39%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.39%) Puppet
9 2 (0.39%) SCOM
10 1 (0.19%) Check_MK
10 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.19%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 267 (51.74%) Splunk
2 262 (50.78%) 3PAR
2 262 (50.78%) Cisco
2 262 (50.78%) Juniper
3 216 (41.86%) Google
4 5 (0.97%) Atlassian
5 4 (0.78%) AppDynamics
6 3 (0.58%) IBM
6 3 (0.58%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.39%) ArcSight
7 2 (0.39%) ESRI
7 2 (0.39%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.19%) Databricks
8 1 (0.19%) Imperva
8 1 (0.19%) New Relic
8 1 (0.19%) Okta
8 1 (0.19%) YouTube