Elastic Stack Jobs

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 739 570 525
Rank change year-on-year -169 -45 +21
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 169 418 1,086
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.44% 0.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.78% 1.51% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 130 187 270
10th Percentile £56,250 £47,500 £47,313
25th Percentile £72,500 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £88,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +31.15% +1.67% +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 21,541 27,618 70,092
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.52% 29.18% 41.54%
Number of salaries quoted 16,014 17,838 29,844
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +4.65% +17.27%
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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -159 162 £82,500 +17.86% 49
UK excluding London -138 90 £80,000 +31.15% 31
London +14 89 £90,000 +12.50% 21
Work from Home -62 75 £82,500 +22.22% 27
South East -20 39 £82,500 +20.44% 6
South West -30 35 £80,000 +6.67% 8
North of England -22 10 £60,000 -2.04% 8
East of England -26 7 £57,500 +49.32% 1
Yorkshire +54 4 £80,000 +52.38% 1
North West -52 4 £50,000 -20.00% 6
North East - 4 £70,000 - 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 38 (22.49%) OpenStack
2 24 (14.20%) nginx
3 19 (11.24%) Apache Spark
4 17 (10.06%) Apache
5 16 (9.47%) Jupyter
6 9 (5.33%) JBoss
6 9 (5.33%) Red Hat Fuse
7 6 (3.55%) Confluence
8 4 (2.37%) SharePoint
9 2 (1.18%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 103 (60.95%) AWS
2 72 (42.60%) Azure
3 57 (33.73%) Amazon EKS
4 53 (31.36%) Serverless
5 37 (21.89%) Amazon ECS
6 35 (20.71%) Amazon S3
7 23 (13.61%) OpenShift
8 21 (12.43%) GCP
9 19 (11.24%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (9.47%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (9.47%) MinIO
11 14 (8.28%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (8.28%) GitHub
12 11 (6.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (5.33%) PaaS
14 8 (4.73%) Azure AKS
15 7 (4.14%) Azure Monitor
16 6 (3.55%) Datadog
17 5 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 28 (16.57%) Network Security
2 18 (10.65%) DNS
3 15 (8.88%) Firewall
4 11 (6.51%) TCP/IP
5 10 (5.92%) Internet
6 8 (4.73%) SNMP
6 8 (4.73%) tcpdump
7 6 (3.55%) VPN
8 4 (2.37%) HTTP
9 3 (1.78%) IPv4
9 3 (1.78%) IPv6
10 1 (0.59%) FTP
10 1 (0.59%) Multicast
10 1 (0.59%) SSL
10 1 (0.59%) VLAN
10 1 (0.59%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (27.22%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (15.98%) NoSQL
3 24 (14.20%) Relational Database
4 21 (12.43%) MySQL
5 20 (11.83%) Elasticsearch
6 19 (11.24%) MongoDB
7 18 (10.65%) Big Data
7 18 (10.65%) Hadoop
8 16 (9.47%) Presto
9 11 (6.51%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (5.33%) Redis
11 5 (2.96%) SQL Server
12 4 (2.37%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (2.37%) MariaDB
13 3 (1.78%) DynamoDB
14 2 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (1.18%) Flink
15 1 (0.59%) Power BI
15 1 (0.59%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 97 (57.40%) Jenkins
2 60 (35.50%) Git
3 24 (14.20%) GitLab
4 17 (10.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 14 (8.28%) JUnit
6 12 (7.10%) Bitbucket
7 9 (5.33%) JIRA
7 9 (5.33%) Octopus Deploy
8 8 (4.73%) SonarQube
9 7 (4.14%) CircleCI
10 6 (3.55%) Selenium
11 4 (2.37%) git-flow
11 4 (2.37%) JMeter
11 4 (2.37%) TestNG
12 3 (1.78%) Eclipse
12 3 (1.78%) Maven
12 3 (1.78%) Robot Framework
12 3 (1.78%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (1.78%) Subversion
12 3 (1.78%) Travis CI
General
1 33 (19.53%) Public Sector
1 33 (19.53%) Social Skills
2 19 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (8.88%) Military
4 9 (5.33%) Presentation Skills
4 9 (5.33%) Telecoms
5 7 (4.14%) Retail
6 6 (3.55%) Finance
7 5 (2.96%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.78%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.78%) Law
9 2 (1.18%) Banking
9 2 (1.18%) Games
9 2 (1.18%) Marketing
9 2 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.59%) Advertising
10 1 (0.59%) Cantonese Language
10 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.59%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 65 (38.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 43 (25.44%) Developer
3 38 (22.49%) Java Developer
4 28 (16.57%) Consultant
4 28 (16.57%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 28 (16.57%) Security Consultant
4 28 (16.57%) Senior
5 20 (11.83%) Data Engineer
6 18 (10.65%) AWS Engineer
7 17 (10.06%) AWS DevOps
7 17 (10.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 17 (10.06%) Lead
7 17 (10.06%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 16 (9.47%) Big Data Engineer
9 15 (8.88%) Full Stack Developer
10 14 (8.28%) Full Stack Java Developer
10 14 (8.28%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (7.69%) Lead Consultant
11 13 (7.69%) Lead Security Consultant
11 13 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (24.26%) REST
2 40 (23.67%) Node.js
3 39 (23.08%) Spring
4 38 (22.49%) Spring Boot
5 37 (21.89%) AngularJS
5 37 (21.89%) Apache Camel
6 34 (20.12%) Web Services
7 25 (14.79%) JSON
7 25 (14.79%) XML
7 25 (14.79%) YAML
8 21 (12.43%) Apache NiFi
9 17 (10.06%) RabbitMQ
10 16 (9.47%) ActiveMQ
11 9 (5.33%) RESTful
12 7 (4.14%) Kafka
12 7 (4.14%) SOAP
13 6 (3.55%) J2EE
14 4 (2.37%) .NET
14 4 (2.37%) AWS SAM
15 3 (1.78%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (20.12%) Distributed Systems
2 29 (17.16%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 16 (9.47%) Cyber Defence
3 16 (9.47%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (8.88%) Security Operations Centre
5 10 (5.92%) Clustering
6 8 (4.73%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (4.73%) Management Information System
7 7 (4.14%) Onboarding
8 6 (3.55%) Client/Server
9 4 (2.37%) Hedge funds
9 4 (2.37%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.78%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.78%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.18%) Data Centre
11 2 (1.18%) FMCG
11 2 (1.18%) Online Games
11 2 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.59%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 68 (40.24%) Linux
2 27 (15.98%) Windows
3 7 (4.14%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.96%) CentOS
5 4 (2.37%) Debian
5 4 (2.37%) Unix
6 2 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.59%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.59%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (71.60%) DevOps
2 85 (50.30%) Agile
3 75 (44.38%) CI/CD
4 68 (40.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 47 (27.81%) Containerisation
6 46 (27.22%) Microservices
7 42 (24.85%) Cybersecurity
8 41 (24.26%) Kanban
8 41 (24.26%) Scrum
9 37 (21.89%) Analytics
9 37 (21.89%) BDD
10 36 (21.30%) TDD
11 35 (20.71%) Problem-Solving
12 30 (17.75%) Data Analytics
13 29 (17.16%) Incident Management
13 29 (17.16%) SIEM
14 28 (16.57%) Vulnerability Management
15 27 (15.98%) BPEL
15 27 (15.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 22 (13.02%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 92 (54.44%) Python
2 57 (33.73%) Bash
3 56 (33.14%) Java
4 42 (24.85%) JavaScript
5 32 (18.93%) PowerShell
5 32 (18.93%) Shell Script
6 30 (17.75%) SQL
7 14 (8.28%) Perl
8 5 (2.96%) C#
8 5 (2.96%) C++
8 5 (2.96%) Go
8 5 (2.96%) Ruby
9 4 (2.37%) C
9 4 (2.37%) Groovy
10 3 (1.78%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.59%) R
Qualifications
1 102 (60.36%) Security Cleared
2 49 (28.99%) SC Cleared
3 47 (27.81%) DV Cleared
4 18 (10.65%) AWS Certification
5 9 (5.33%) Azure Certification
6 8 (4.73%) Degree
7 6 (3.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (3.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (2.37%) CCNA
9 4 (2.37%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (2.37%) MCSE
9 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (2.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (18.93%) NIST
2 5 (2.96%) SLA
3 3 (1.78%) HIPAA
3 3 (1.78%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.18%) QA
5 1 (0.59%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.59%) NIST 800
System Software
1 110 (65.09%) Docker
2 28 (16.57%) vSphere
3 27 (15.98%) Hyper-V
4 15 (8.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (7.69%) Active Directory
6 8 (4.73%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.78%) VirtualBox
9 2 (1.18%) Firmware
9 2 (1.18%) HDFS
10 1 (0.59%) KVM
Systems Management
1 110 (65.09%) Terraform
2 108 (63.91%) Ansible
3 106 (62.72%) Kubernetes
4 49 (28.99%) Grafana
5 42 (24.85%) Prometheus
6 24 (14.20%) HAProxy
7 19 (11.24%) Puppet
8 18 (10.65%) Kibana
9 14 (8.28%) Nagios
10 11 (6.51%) Graphite
11 10 (5.92%) logstash
12 9 (5.33%) Packer
12 9 (5.33%) Progress Chef
12 9 (5.33%) Rancher
13 8 (4.73%) vCenter Server
14 7 (4.14%) ZABBIX
15 5 (2.96%) Karpenter
16 4 (2.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 4 (2.37%) Consul
17 2 (1.18%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 36 (21.30%) WSO2
2 29 (17.16%) Tanium
3 28 (16.57%) SolarWinds
3 28 (16.57%) Tripwire
4 19 (11.24%) VMware
5 18 (10.65%) Splunk
6 15 (8.88%) Microsoft
7 8 (4.73%) Dynatrace
7 8 (4.73%) New Relic
8 7 (4.14%) Google
8 7 (4.14%) Red Hat
9 6 (3.55%) Atlassian
10 5 (2.96%) Oracle
11 4 (2.37%) McAfee
12 3 (1.78%) Black Duck
13 2 (1.18%) AppDynamics
13 2 (1.18%) Apple
13 2 (1.18%) Facebook
13 2 (1.18%) Intel
14 1 (0.59%) ServiceNow