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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Elastic Stack skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Elastic Stack over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 703 588 546
Rank change year-on-year -115 -42 +7
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 186 440 967
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.43% 0.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.88% 1.44% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 134 185 266
10th Percentile £56,250 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% - +7.41%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% - +4.35%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Elastic Stack is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,097 30,626 64,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.27% 30.16% 40.72%
Number of salaries quoted 15,763 18,846 30,127
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +7.57% +14.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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 8 May 2024.

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 8 May 2024. 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 -114 170 £80,000 +10.34% 44
UK excluding London -102 102 £80,000 +33.33% 27
London +15 92 £88,750 +10.94% 21
Work from Home -36 79 £79,875 +18.33% 34
South East +10 48 £82,500 +26.92% 7
South West -30 31 £80,000 +6.67% 5
North of England -13 12 £60,000 - 6
East of England -5 6 £57,500 -11.54% 1
North West -42 6 £50,000 -28.57% 2
Yorkshire +72 4 £80,000 +60.00% 4
North East - 4 £70,000 -
Midlands -2 2 £57,500 +4.55% 4
Scotland -66 2 - - 4
East Midlands - 2 £57,500 - 3
Northern Ireland +19 1 - -
Wales +6 1 - -

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 44 (23.66%) OpenStack
2 25 (13.44%) nginx
3 20 (10.75%) Apache Spark
4 18 (9.68%) Apache
5 17 (9.14%) Jupyter
6 10 (5.38%) JBoss
6 10 (5.38%) Red Hat Fuse
7 6 (3.23%) Confluence
8 4 (2.15%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.54%) IIS
9 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.54%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.54%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.54%) PTC Creo
1 1 (0.54%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 117 (62.90%) AWS
2 93 (50.00%) Azure
3 66 (35.48%) Amazon EKS
4 61 (32.80%) Serverless
5 43 (23.12%) Amazon ECS
6 36 (19.35%) Amazon S3
7 31 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 27 (14.52%) GCP
9 25 (13.44%) Azure DevOps
10 24 (12.90%) OpenShift
11 18 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
12 17 (9.14%) MinIO
13 15 (8.06%) GitHub
14 14 (7.53%) Amazon EC2
15 12 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 8 (4.30%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (4.30%) PaaS
17 7 (3.76%) Azure Monitor
18 6 (3.23%) Azure AKS
18 6 (3.23%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 24 (12.90%) Network Security
2 21 (11.29%) DNS
3 17 (9.14%) Firewall
4 14 (7.53%) TCP/IP
5 13 (6.99%) Internet
6 10 (5.38%) SNMP
6 10 (5.38%) tcpdump
7 7 (3.76%) VPN
8 4 (2.15%) HTTP
8 4 (2.15%) IPv4
9 3 (1.61%) IPv6
10 2 (1.08%) VLAN
11 1 (0.54%) FTP
11 1 (0.54%) Multicast
11 1 (0.54%) OSPF
11 1 (0.54%) SSL
11 1 (0.54%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (26.88%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 29 (15.59%) Relational Database
4 23 (12.37%) Elasticsearch
5 22 (11.83%) MySQL
6 20 (10.75%) Hadoop
6 20 (10.75%) MongoDB
7 19 (10.22%) Big Data
8 17 (9.14%) Presto
9 12 (6.45%) InfluxDB
10 10 (5.38%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (4.30%) Redis
12 7 (3.76%) SQL Server
13 5 (2.69%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (2.15%) MariaDB
15 3 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
15 3 (1.61%) DynamoDB
16 2 (1.08%) Apache Cassandra
17 1 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
17 1 (0.54%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 119 (63.98%) Jenkins
2 68 (36.56%) Git
3 41 (22.04%) GitLab
4 18 (9.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 18 (9.68%) SonarQube
5 14 (7.53%) JUnit
6 11 (5.91%) CircleCI
7 10 (5.38%) Bitbucket
8 9 (4.84%) JIRA
9 7 (3.76%) git-flow
9 7 (3.76%) Octopus Deploy
10 5 (2.69%) Selenium
11 3 (1.61%) JMeter
11 3 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (1.61%) Subversion
11 3 (1.61%) TestNG
11 3 (1.61%) Travis CI
12 2 (1.08%) Artifactory
12 2 (1.08%) Maven
12 2 (1.08%) Robot Framework
General
1 39 (20.97%) Public Sector
2 33 (17.74%) Social Skills
3 20 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (8.06%) Military
5 11 (5.91%) Telecoms
6 10 (5.38%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (3.76%) Retail
8 5 (2.69%) Finance
9 4 (2.15%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.61%) Law
10 3 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.08%) Banking
11 2 (1.08%) Games
11 2 (1.08%) Marketing
12 1 (0.54%) Advertising
12 1 (0.54%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.54%) Cantonese Language
12 1 (0.54%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 81 (43.55%) DevOps Engineer
2 48 (25.81%) Developer
3 43 (23.12%) Java Developer
4 31 (16.67%) Senior
5 25 (13.44%) Consultant
6 24 (12.90%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 24 (12.90%) Security Consultant
7 21 (11.29%) Data Engineer
8 18 (9.68%) AWS Engineer
8 18 (9.68%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 17 (9.14%) Azure Engineer
9 17 (9.14%) Big Data Engineer
10 16 (8.60%) AWS DevOps
10 16 (8.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 16 (8.60%) Full Stack Developer
11 15 (8.06%) Full Stack Java Developer
12 14 (7.53%) Senior DevOps
12 14 (7.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 13 (6.99%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 13 (6.99%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (24.73%) Node.js
2 45 (24.19%) REST
3 44 (23.66%) Spring
4 43 (23.12%) AngularJS
4 43 (23.12%) Apache Camel
4 43 (23.12%) Spring Boot
5 39 (20.97%) Web Services
6 30 (16.13%) XML
7 29 (15.59%) JSON
7 29 (15.59%) YAML
8 19 (10.22%) Apache NiFi
9 18 (9.68%) RabbitMQ
10 17 (9.14%) ActiveMQ
11 10 (5.38%) RESTful
12 9 (4.84%) SOAP
13 8 (4.30%) J2EE
14 5 (2.69%) Kafka
15 4 (2.15%) .NET
15 4 (2.15%) AWS SAM
16 3 (1.61%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 51 (27.42%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (12.90%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 17 (9.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (8.60%) Public Cloud
5 15 (8.06%) Cyber Defence
5 15 (8.06%) Security Operations Centre
6 11 (5.91%) Clustering
7 10 (5.38%) Management Information System
7 10 (5.38%) Onboarding
8 9 (4.84%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (3.76%) Virtual Team
10 6 (3.23%) Client/Server
11 4 (2.15%) Hedge funds
11 4 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (1.08%) Cloud Native
13 2 (1.08%) Data Centre
13 2 (1.08%) Online Games
14 1 (0.54%) FMCG
14 1 (0.54%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 88 (47.31%) Linux
2 42 (22.58%) Windows
3 8 (4.30%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.69%) CentOS
4 5 (2.69%) Debian
5 4 (2.15%) Unix
6 2 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.08%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.54%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (77.42%) DevOps
2 105 (56.45%) Agile
3 96 (51.61%) CI/CD
4 87 (46.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 68 (36.56%) Containerisation
6 63 (33.87%) Microservices
6 63 (33.87%) Scrum
7 62 (33.33%) Kanban
8 45 (24.19%) Analytics
9 42 (22.58%) BDD
9 42 (22.58%) TDD
10 39 (20.97%) Cybersecurity
11 38 (20.43%) Problem-Solving
12 37 (19.89%) Data Analytics
13 32 (17.20%) BPEL
14 26 (13.98%) Continuous Integration
14 26 (13.98%) Software Engineering
15 25 (13.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 24 (12.90%) Incident Management
16 24 (12.90%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 99 (53.23%) Python
2 70 (37.63%) Bash
3 60 (32.26%) Java
4 48 (25.81%) JavaScript
5 44 (23.66%) PowerShell
6 38 (20.43%) Shell Script
7 31 (16.67%) SQL
8 16 (8.60%) Perl
9 5 (2.69%) C#
9 5 (2.69%) C++
9 5 (2.69%) Go
9 5 (2.69%) Ruby
10 4 (2.15%) C
10 4 (2.15%) Groovy
11 3 (1.61%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.08%) R
13 1 (0.54%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 104 (55.91%) Security Cleared
2 58 (31.18%) SC Cleared
3 41 (22.04%) DV Cleared
4 20 (10.75%) AWS Certification
5 11 (5.91%) Azure Certification
6 8 (4.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (4.30%) Degree
7 7 (3.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (3.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (2.69%) MCSE
9 5 (2.69%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (2.15%) CCNA
10 4 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (2.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.54%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (14.52%) NIST
2 5 (2.69%) SLA
3 3 (1.61%) HIPAA
3 3 (1.61%) QA
3 3 (1.61%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
System Software
1 131 (70.43%) Docker
2 32 (17.20%) Hyper-V
3 24 (12.90%) vSphere
4 16 (8.60%) Active Directory
5 13 (6.99%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (5.38%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.61%) VirtualBox
9 2 (1.08%) Firmware
9 2 (1.08%) HDFS
10 1 (0.54%) KVM
Systems Management
1 131 (70.43%) Terraform
2 128 (68.82%) Ansible
3 123 (66.13%) Kubernetes
4 63 (33.87%) Grafana
5 54 (29.03%) Prometheus
6 27 (14.52%) HAProxy
7 22 (11.83%) Puppet
8 20 (10.75%) Kibana
9 16 (8.60%) Nagios
10 13 (6.99%) Graphite
11 10 (5.38%) Rancher
11 10 (5.38%) vCenter Server
12 9 (4.84%) logstash
12 9 (4.84%) Progress Chef
13 8 (4.30%) Packer
14 7 (3.76%) ZABBIX
15 4 (2.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (2.15%) Consul
16 1 (0.54%) Kustomize
16 1 (0.54%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 42 (22.58%) WSO2
2 24 (12.90%) SolarWinds
2 24 (12.90%) Tanium
2 24 (12.90%) Tripwire
3 19 (10.22%) Splunk
3 19 (10.22%) VMware
4 12 (6.45%) Microsoft
5 10 (5.38%) Google
6 8 (4.30%) Dynatrace
6 8 (4.30%) New Relic
7 7 (3.76%) McAfee
7 7 (3.76%) Red Hat
8 6 (3.23%) Oracle
9 5 (2.69%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.61%) Black Duck
11 2 (1.08%) AppDynamics
11 2 (1.08%) Apple
11 2 (1.08%) Facebook
11 2 (1.08%) IBM
11 2 (1.08%) Intel