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

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 735 580 527
Rank change year-on-year -155 -53 +6
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 170 413 1,099
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% 1.52% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 130 185 280
10th Percentile £56,250 £47,500 £48,625
25th Percentile £72,500 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -9.68% +10.71%
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 £62,000
% change year-on-year +31.15% -1.61% +7.83%

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 21,805 27,260 70,832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.38% 29.04% 41.39%
Number of salaries quoted 16,126 17,774 30,060
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £37,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +18.18%
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 6 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 6 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 -151 164 £82,500 +17.86% 44
UK excluding London -149 92 £80,000 +31.15% 29
London -4 89 £90,000 +12.50% 18
Work from Home -68 74 £82,500 +22.22% 24
South East -15 39 £82,500 +20.44% 6
South West -36 36 £80,000 +6.67% 8
North of England -36 11 £60,000 -2.04% 8
East of England -40 7 £57,500 +49.32%
North West -58 5 £50,000 -20.00% 6
Yorkshire +60 4 £80,000 +52.38% 1
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 (22.35%) OpenStack
2 24 (14.12%) nginx
3 19 (11.18%) Apache Spark
4 17 (10.00%) Apache
5 16 (9.41%) Jupyter
6 9 (5.29%) JBoss
6 9 (5.29%) Red Hat Fuse
7 6 (3.53%) Confluence
8 4 (2.35%) SharePoint
9 2 (1.18%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 103 (60.59%) AWS
2 72 (42.35%) Azure
3 56 (32.94%) Amazon EKS
4 52 (30.59%) Serverless
5 37 (21.76%) Amazon ECS
6 35 (20.59%) Amazon S3
7 23 (13.53%) OpenShift
8 20 (11.76%) GCP
9 19 (11.18%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (9.41%) MinIO
11 15 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (8.24%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (7.65%) GitHub
14 11 (6.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (5.29%) PaaS
16 8 (4.71%) Azure AKS
16 8 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
17 7 (4.12%) Azure Monitor
18 6 (3.53%) Datadog
19 5 (2.94%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 29 (17.06%) Network Security
2 18 (10.59%) DNS
3 15 (8.82%) Firewall
4 11 (6.47%) TCP/IP
5 10 (5.88%) Internet
6 8 (4.71%) SNMP
6 8 (4.71%) tcpdump
7 6 (3.53%) VPN
8 4 (2.35%) HTTP
9 3 (1.76%) IPv4
9 3 (1.76%) 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 (27.06%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (15.88%) NoSQL
3 24 (14.12%) Relational Database
4 21 (12.35%) MySQL
5 20 (11.76%) Elasticsearch
6 19 (11.18%) MongoDB
7 18 (10.59%) Big Data
7 18 (10.59%) Hadoop
8 16 (9.41%) Presto
9 11 (6.47%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (5.29%) Redis
11 5 (2.94%) SQL Server
12 4 (2.35%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (2.35%) MariaDB
13 3 (1.76%) 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 96 (56.47%) Jenkins
2 59 (34.71%) Git
3 23 (13.53%) GitLab
4 17 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 14 (8.24%) JUnit
6 12 (7.06%) Bitbucket
7 9 (5.29%) JIRA
7 9 (5.29%) Octopus Deploy
8 8 (4.71%) SonarQube
9 6 (3.53%) CircleCI
9 6 (3.53%) Selenium
10 4 (2.35%) JMeter
10 4 (2.35%) TestNG
11 3 (1.76%) Eclipse
11 3 (1.76%) git-flow
11 3 (1.76%) Maven
11 3 (1.76%) Robot Framework
11 3 (1.76%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (1.76%) Subversion
11 3 (1.76%) Travis CI
General
1 33 (19.41%) Social Skills
2 32 (18.82%) Public Sector
3 19 (11.18%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.41%) Military
5 9 (5.29%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (5.29%) Telecoms
6 7 (4.12%) Retail
7 6 (3.53%) Finance
8 5 (2.94%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.76%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.76%) Law
10 2 (1.18%) Banking
10 2 (1.18%) Games
10 2 (1.18%) Marketing
10 2 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.59%) Advertising
11 1 (0.59%) Cantonese Language
11 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.59%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 64 (37.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 43 (25.29%) Developer
3 38 (22.35%) Java Developer
4 29 (17.06%) Consultant
4 29 (17.06%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 29 (17.06%) Security Consultant
5 28 (16.47%) Senior
6 20 (11.76%) Data Engineer
7 18 (10.59%) AWS Engineer
8 17 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
8 17 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 17 (10.00%) Lead
8 17 (10.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 16 (9.41%) Big Data Engineer
10 15 (8.82%) Full Stack Developer
11 14 (8.24%) Full Stack Java Developer
11 14 (8.24%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (7.65%) Lead Consultant
12 13 (7.65%) Lead Security Consultant
12 13 (7.65%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (24.12%) REST
2 40 (23.53%) Node.js
3 39 (22.94%) Spring
4 38 (22.35%) Spring Boot
5 37 (21.76%) AngularJS
5 37 (21.76%) Apache Camel
6 34 (20.00%) Web Services
7 25 (14.71%) JSON
7 25 (14.71%) XML
7 25 (14.71%) YAML
8 21 (12.35%) Apache NiFi
9 17 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
10 16 (9.41%) ActiveMQ
11 9 (5.29%) RESTful
12 7 (4.12%) Kafka
12 7 (4.12%) SOAP
13 6 (3.53%) J2EE
14 4 (2.35%) .NET
14 4 (2.35%) AWS SAM
15 3 (1.76%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 34 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 30 (17.65%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 17 (10.00%) Cyber Defence
4 16 (9.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (9.41%) Security Operations Centre
5 10 (5.88%) Clustering
6 8 (4.71%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (4.12%) Management Information System
8 6 (3.53%) Client/Server
8 6 (3.53%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.35%) Hedge funds
10 3 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.76%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.76%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.76%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (1.18%) Data Centre
11 2 (1.18%) FMCG
11 2 (1.18%) Online Games
11 2 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 68 (40.00%) Linux
2 28 (16.47%) Windows
3 7 (4.12%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.94%) CentOS
5 4 (2.35%) Debian
5 4 (2.35%) 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
1 120 (70.59%) DevOps
2 85 (50.00%) Agile
3 74 (43.53%) CI/CD
4 67 (39.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 46 (27.06%) Containerisation
5 46 (27.06%) Microservices
6 44 (25.88%) Cybersecurity
7 40 (23.53%) Kanban
7 40 (23.53%) Scrum
8 38 (22.35%) Analytics
9 37 (21.76%) BDD
10 36 (21.18%) TDD
11 35 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
12 31 (18.24%) Data Analytics
12 31 (18.24%) SIEM
13 30 (17.65%) Incident Management
14 29 (17.06%) Vulnerability Management
15 27 (15.88%) BPEL
15 27 (15.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 22 (12.94%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 92 (54.12%) Python
2 57 (33.53%) Bash
3 56 (32.94%) Java
4 42 (24.71%) JavaScript
5 32 (18.82%) PowerShell
6 31 (18.24%) Shell Script
7 30 (17.65%) SQL
8 14 (8.24%) Perl
9 5 (2.94%) C#
9 5 (2.94%) C++
9 5 (2.94%) Go
9 5 (2.94%) Ruby
10 4 (2.35%) C
10 4 (2.35%) Groovy
11 3 (1.76%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.59%) R
Qualifications
1 102 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 48 (28.24%) DV Cleared
2 48 (28.24%) SC Cleared
3 18 (10.59%) AWS Certification
4 9 (5.29%) Azure Certification
5 8 (4.71%) Degree
6 6 (3.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 6 (3.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.35%) CCNA
7 4 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.35%) MCSE
7 4 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (19.41%) NIST
2 5 (2.94%) SLA
3 3 (1.76%) HIPAA
3 3 (1.76%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.18%) QA
5 1 (0.59%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.59%) NIST 800
System Software
1 109 (64.12%) Docker
2 29 (17.06%) vSphere
3 27 (15.88%) Hyper-V
4 15 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (7.06%) Active Directory
6 8 (4.71%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.76%) VirtualBox
9 2 (1.18%) Firmware
9 2 (1.18%) HDFS
10 1 (0.59%) KVM
Systems Management
1 109 (64.12%) Terraform
2 107 (62.94%) Ansible
3 105 (61.76%) Kubernetes
4 49 (28.82%) Grafana
5 42 (24.71%) Prometheus
6 24 (14.12%) HAProxy
7 19 (11.18%) Puppet
8 18 (10.59%) Kibana
9 14 (8.24%) Nagios
10 11 (6.47%) Graphite
11 10 (5.88%) logstash
12 9 (5.29%) Packer
12 9 (5.29%) Progress Chef
12 9 (5.29%) Rancher
13 8 (4.71%) vCenter Server
14 7 (4.12%) ZABBIX
15 5 (2.94%) Karpenter
16 4 (2.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 4 (2.35%) Consul
17 2 (1.18%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 36 (21.18%) WSO2
2 30 (17.65%) Tanium
3 29 (17.06%) SolarWinds
3 29 (17.06%) Tripwire
4 19 (11.18%) VMware
5 18 (10.59%) Splunk
6 15 (8.82%) Microsoft
7 8 (4.71%) Dynatrace
7 8 (4.71%) New Relic
8 7 (4.12%) Red Hat
9 6 (3.53%) Atlassian
9 6 (3.53%) Google
10 5 (2.94%) Oracle
11 3 (1.76%) Black Duck
11 3 (1.76%) Intel
11 3 (1.76%) McAfee
12 2 (1.18%) AppDynamics
12 2 (1.18%) Apple
12 2 (1.18%) Facebook
13 1 (0.59%) ServiceNow