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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 718 581 541
Rank change year-on-year -137 -40 +2
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 173 439 1,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.44% 0.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.82% 1.46% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 132 188 261
10th Percentile £56,375 £45,585 £45,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £95,000 £88,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £99,725 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +32.23% +0.83% +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 21,101 29,987 65,773
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.12% 30.24% 40.92%
Number of salaries quoted 15,749 18,481 29,851
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,588 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +15.91%
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 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Elastic Stack in the UK

Elastic Stack
Top 11 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 18 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 -109 164 £80,000 +14.29% 56
UK excluding London -135 92 £80,000 +32.23% 39
London +2 91 £90,000 +12.50% 26
Work from Home -35 78 £80,000 +18.52% 36
South East -8 45 £82,500 +25.00% 14
South West -31 32 £80,000 +14.29% 7
North of England -4 10 £60,000 -4.00% 9
East of England -17 6 £57,500 +49.32%
North West -44 5 £50,000 -28.57% 4
North East - 4 £70,000 - 2
Yorkshire +74 3 £80,000 +68.42% 3

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 43 (24.86%) OpenStack
2 24 (13.87%) nginx
3 20 (11.56%) Apache Spark
4 19 (10.98%) Apache
5 17 (9.83%) Jupyter
6 9 (5.20%) JBoss
6 9 (5.20%) Red Hat Fuse
7 6 (3.47%) Confluence
8 4 (2.31%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.58%) IIS
9 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.58%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.58%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.58%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.58%) PTC Creo
1 1 (0.58%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 111 (64.16%) AWS
2 80 (46.24%) Azure
3 63 (36.42%) Amazon EKS
4 58 (33.53%) Serverless
5 42 (24.28%) Amazon ECS
6 35 (20.23%) Amazon S3
7 25 (14.45%) OpenShift
8 24 (13.87%) GCP
9 19 (10.98%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (9.83%) MinIO
11 16 (9.25%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (8.67%) GitHub
13 13 (7.51%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (6.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (6.36%) Azure DevOps
15 10 (5.78%) PaaS
16 8 (4.62%) Azure AKS
17 7 (4.05%) Azure Monitor
18 6 (3.47%) Datadog
18 6 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 26 (15.03%) Network Security
2 20 (11.56%) DNS
3 16 (9.25%) Firewall
4 13 (7.51%) TCP/IP
5 12 (6.94%) Internet
6 9 (5.20%) SNMP
6 9 (5.20%) tcpdump
7 7 (4.05%) VPN
8 4 (2.31%) HTTP
8 4 (2.31%) IPv4
9 3 (1.73%) IPv6
10 2 (1.16%) VLAN
11 1 (0.58%) FTP
11 1 (0.58%) Multicast
11 1 (0.58%) OSPF
11 1 (0.58%) SSL
11 1 (0.58%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (28.32%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (17.92%) NoSQL
3 28 (16.18%) Relational Database
4 22 (12.72%) MySQL
5 21 (12.14%) Elasticsearch
6 20 (11.56%) MongoDB
7 19 (10.98%) Big Data
7 19 (10.98%) Hadoop
8 17 (9.83%) Presto
9 9 (5.20%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (5.20%) Redis
10 6 (3.47%) SQL Server
11 4 (2.31%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (2.31%) MariaDB
12 3 (1.73%) DynamoDB
13 2 (1.16%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (1.16%) Flink
14 1 (0.58%) Power BI
14 1 (0.58%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 104 (60.12%) Jenkins
2 66 (38.15%) Git
3 25 (14.45%) GitLab
4 18 (10.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 13 (7.51%) JUnit
6 11 (6.36%) Bitbucket
7 9 (5.20%) JIRA
7 9 (5.20%) Octopus Deploy
8 8 (4.62%) CircleCI
9 7 (4.05%) SonarQube
10 5 (2.89%) git-flow
10 5 (2.89%) Selenium
11 4 (2.31%) JMeter
12 3 (1.73%) Eclipse
12 3 (1.73%) Robot Framework
12 3 (1.73%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (1.73%) Subversion
12 3 (1.73%) TestNG
12 3 (1.73%) Travis CI
13 2 (1.16%) Cucumber
General
1 37 (21.39%) Public Sector
2 33 (19.08%) Social Skills
3 19 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (8.67%) Military
5 10 (5.78%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (5.78%) Telecoms
6 7 (4.05%) Retail
7 5 (2.89%) Finance
8 4 (2.31%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.73%) Law
9 3 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.16%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.16%) Banking
10 2 (1.16%) Games
10 2 (1.16%) Marketing
11 1 (0.58%) Advertising
11 1 (0.58%) Cantonese Language
11 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 67 (38.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 47 (27.17%) Developer
3 42 (24.28%) Java Developer
4 29 (16.76%) Senior
5 26 (15.03%) Consultant
5 26 (15.03%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 26 (15.03%) Security Consultant
6 21 (12.14%) Data Engineer
7 18 (10.40%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 17 (9.83%) AWS Engineer
8 17 (9.83%) Big Data Engineer
9 16 (9.25%) AWS DevOps
9 16 (9.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 16 (9.25%) Full Stack Developer
10 15 (8.67%) Full Stack Java Developer
10 15 (8.67%) Lead
11 14 (8.09%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (7.51%) Senior DevOps
12 13 (7.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 12 (6.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (26.01%) Node.js
1 45 (26.01%) REST
2 43 (24.86%) Spring
3 42 (24.28%) AngularJS
3 42 (24.28%) Apache Camel
3 42 (24.28%) Spring Boot
4 38 (21.97%) Web Services
5 30 (17.34%) XML
6 29 (16.76%) JSON
7 28 (16.18%) YAML
8 20 (11.56%) Apache NiFi
9 18 (10.40%) RabbitMQ
10 17 (9.83%) ActiveMQ
11 9 (5.20%) RESTful
12 8 (4.62%) SOAP
13 7 (4.05%) J2EE
14 4 (2.31%) .NET
14 4 (2.31%) AWS SAM
14 4 (2.31%) Kafka
15 3 (1.73%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 38 (21.97%) Distributed Systems
2 26 (15.03%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 17 (9.83%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (8.67%) Cyber Defence
4 15 (8.67%) Security Operations Centre
5 10 (5.78%) Clustering
6 9 (5.20%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (4.62%) Management Information System
7 8 (4.62%) Onboarding
8 6 (3.47%) Client/Server
9 5 (2.89%) Virtual Team
10 4 (2.31%) Hedge funds
10 4 (2.31%) Public Cloud
10 4 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.73%) Private Cloud
12 2 (1.16%) Data Centre
12 2 (1.16%) Online Games
13 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
13 1 (0.58%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 73 (42.20%) Linux
2 30 (17.34%) Windows
3 8 (4.62%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.89%) CentOS
5 4 (2.31%) Debian
5 4 (2.31%) Unix
6 2 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.58%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.58%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (74.57%) DevOps
2 92 (53.18%) Agile
3 79 (45.66%) CI/CD
4 73 (42.20%) Infrastructure as Code
5 52 (30.06%) Containerisation
6 50 (28.90%) Microservices
7 47 (27.17%) Kanban
7 47 (27.17%) Scrum
8 41 (23.70%) BDD
8 41 (23.70%) TDD
9 40 (23.12%) Cybersecurity
10 37 (21.39%) Problem-Solving
11 34 (19.65%) Analytics
12 32 (18.50%) BPEL
13 27 (15.61%) Data Analytics
13 27 (15.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 26 (15.03%) Incident Management
14 26 (15.03%) SIEM
14 26 (15.03%) Vulnerability Management
15 23 (13.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 96 (55.49%) Python
2 60 (34.68%) Java
3 59 (34.10%) Bash
4 47 (27.17%) JavaScript
5 36 (20.81%) Shell Script
6 34 (19.65%) PowerShell
7 31 (17.92%) SQL
8 15 (8.67%) Perl
9 5 (2.89%) C#
9 5 (2.89%) C++
9 5 (2.89%) Go
9 5 (2.89%) Ruby
10 4 (2.31%) C
10 4 (2.31%) Groovy
11 3 (1.73%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.58%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.58%) R
Qualifications
1 104 (60.12%) Security Cleared
2 56 (32.37%) SC Cleared
3 43 (24.86%) DV Cleared
4 20 (11.56%) AWS Certification
5 11 (6.36%) Azure Certification
6 8 (4.62%) Degree
7 7 (4.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (3.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (3.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (2.89%) MCSE
9 5 (2.89%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (2.31%) CCNA
10 4 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (2.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.58%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (16.76%) NIST
2 5 (2.89%) SLA
3 3 (1.73%) HIPAA
3 3 (1.73%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.16%) QA
5 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
System Software
1 118 (68.21%) Docker
2 32 (18.50%) Hyper-V
3 26 (15.03%) vSphere
4 15 (8.67%) Active Directory
5 13 (7.51%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (5.20%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.73%) VirtualBox
9 2 (1.16%) Firmware
9 2 (1.16%) HDFS
10 1 (0.58%) KVM
Systems Management
1 118 (68.21%) Terraform
2 114 (65.90%) Ansible
3 111 (64.16%) Kubernetes
4 49 (28.32%) Grafana
5 41 (23.70%) Prometheus
6 26 (15.03%) HAProxy
7 21 (12.14%) Puppet
8 19 (10.98%) Kibana
9 15 (8.67%) Nagios
10 12 (6.94%) Graphite
11 9 (5.20%) logstash
11 9 (5.20%) Progress Chef
11 9 (5.20%) Rancher
11 9 (5.20%) vCenter Server
12 8 (4.62%) Packer
13 7 (4.05%) ZABBIX
14 5 (2.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (2.31%) Consul
16 1 (0.58%) Kustomize
16 1 (0.58%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 41 (23.70%) WSO2
2 26 (15.03%) SolarWinds
2 26 (15.03%) Tanium
2 26 (15.03%) Tripwire
3 18 (10.40%) Splunk
3 18 (10.40%) VMware
4 15 (8.67%) Microsoft
5 8 (4.62%) Dynatrace
5 8 (4.62%) Google
5 8 (4.62%) New Relic
6 7 (4.05%) Red Hat
7 6 (3.47%) Atlassian
7 6 (3.47%) Oracle
8 5 (2.89%) McAfee
9 3 (1.73%) Black Duck
10 2 (1.16%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.16%) Apple
10 2 (1.16%) Facebook
10 2 (1.16%) IBM
10 2 (1.16%) Intel