Elastic Stack Job Trends in London

Elastic Stack (formerly ELK Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Elastic Stack skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 318 419
Rank change year-on-year -57 +101 -6
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 41 56 88
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.19% 0.46% 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.23% 1.73% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 21 35 61
10th Percentile £67,500 £56,250 £72,500
25th Percentile £78,750 £60,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £70,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -22.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £98,750 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £99,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -25.00% +14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,336 3,245 5,906
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.79% 26.53% 24.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,266 2,229 4,697
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £130,250 £135,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,350 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.03% +10.58% -11.11%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Elastic Stack relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Elastic Stack job vacancy trend in London

Elastic Stack
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Elastic Stack.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Elastic Stack

Elastic Stack
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Elastic Stack in London over the 6 months to 9 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Elastic Stack in London

Elastic Stack
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Elastic Stack within the London region over the 6 months to 9 June 2026. 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
West London - 7 - -
Central London -9 5 £90,000 +100.00% 6
South London +15 3 £70,000 +16.67%
East London -9 2 - -
Elastic Stack
England

Elastic Stack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (7.32%) Confluence
2 2 (4.88%) Apache
2 2 (4.88%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.44%) JBoss
3 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (4.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 34 (82.93%) AWS
2 15 (36.59%) Pulumi
3 14 (34.15%) Azure
4 11 (26.83%) AWS CloudFormation
4 11 (26.83%) GCP
4 11 (26.83%) Serverless
5 10 (24.39%) Datadog
6 2 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.88%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (2.44%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 15 (36.59%) Broadband
2 1 (2.44%) DNS
2 1 (2.44%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (60.98%) NoSQL
2 16 (39.02%) Relational Database
3 15 (36.59%) RDBMS
4 5 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (7.32%) Db2
5 3 (7.32%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.44%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.44%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 17 (41.46%) Jenkins
2 15 (36.59%) Jaeger
3 12 (29.27%) GitLab
4 10 (24.39%) CircleCI
5 5 (12.20%) Cucumber
6 4 (9.76%) Bitbucket
6 4 (9.76%) Git
7 3 (7.32%) JIRA
7 3 (7.32%) Selenium
7 3 (7.32%) SonarQube
8 2 (4.88%) TeamCity
9 1 (2.44%) Eclipse
9 1 (2.44%) JMeter
9 1 (2.44%) JUnit
9 1 (2.44%) Robot Framework
General
1 17 (41.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 15 (36.59%) Social Skills
3 9 (21.95%) Finance
4 8 (19.51%) Banking
5 2 (4.88%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (36.59%) Cloud Engineer
1 15 (36.59%) Lead
2 13 (31.71%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (21.95%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 8 (19.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (17.07%) AWS DevOps
5 7 (17.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 7 (17.07%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (17.07%) DevOps Engineer - Fintech
6 6 (14.63%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (9.76%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (9.76%) Developer
7 4 (9.76%) Java Developer
7 4 (9.76%) Senior
8 3 (7.32%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 3 (7.32%) Lead Systems Engineer
8 3 (7.32%) Operations Engineer
8 3 (7.32%) Software Engineer
8 3 (7.32%) Systems Engineer
8 3 (7.32%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (36.59%) OpenTelemetry
2 8 (19.51%) Kafka
3 5 (12.20%) Node.js
4 4 (9.76%) React
5 3 (7.32%) CSS
5 3 (7.32%) Gherkin
5 3 (7.32%) HTML
5 3 (7.32%) RESTful
6 2 (4.88%) AngularJS
6 2 (4.88%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (4.88%) Mustache
6 2 (4.88%) REST
6 2 (4.88%) Spring
6 2 (4.88%) Spring Boot
6 2 (4.88%) Vue
6 2 (4.88%) Web Services
6 2 (4.88%) YAML
7 1 (2.44%) Apache Camel
7 1 (2.44%) JSON
7 1 (2.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.32%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.88%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (4.88%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.88%) Security Posture
2 2 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 24 (58.54%) Linux
2 15 (36.59%) Unix
3 6 (14.63%) Windows
4 1 (2.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (85.37%) DevOps
2 31 (75.61%) Infrastructure as Code
3 29 (70.73%) Containerisation
4 28 (68.29%) Continuous Integration
5 24 (58.54%) High Availability
5 24 (58.54%) Mentoring
6 22 (53.66%) Agile
7 20 (48.78%) CI/CD
8 16 (39.02%) Performance Optimisation
9 15 (36.59%) Budget Control
9 15 (36.59%) Cost Optimisation
9 15 (36.59%) GitOps
9 15 (36.59%) Product Management
9 15 (36.59%) Resource Management
9 15 (36.59%) Roadmaps
9 15 (36.59%) Task Automation
10 14 (34.15%) Microservices
10 14 (34.15%) Software Engineering
11 12 (29.27%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (21.95%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 31 (75.61%) Python
2 30 (73.17%) Bash
3 27 (65.85%) Java
4 23 (56.10%) Go
5 19 (46.34%) JavaScript
6 12 (29.27%) SQL
7 4 (9.76%) PowerShell
7 4 (9.76%) Rust
8 2 (4.88%) Bicep
8 2 (4.88%) C#
8 2 (4.88%) VBA
9 1 (2.44%) C++
9 1 (2.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (36.59%) AWS Certification
2 5 (12.20%) Security Cleared
3 4 (9.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (9.76%) Degree
3 4 (9.76%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (21.95%) GDPR
1 9 (21.95%) PCI DSS
1 9 (21.95%) SOC 2
2 4 (9.76%) QA
3 2 (4.88%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (4.88%) Def Stans
3 2 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 35 (85.37%) Docker
2 1 (2.44%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.44%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (85.37%) Kubernetes
2 33 (80.49%) Ansible
3 31 (75.61%) Terraform
4 30 (73.17%) Prometheus
5 16 (39.02%) Grafana
6 15 (36.59%) Argo
6 15 (36.59%) Kustomize
7 1 (2.44%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (2.44%) Kibana
7 1 (2.44%) logstash
7 1 (2.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (39.02%) Google
2 3 (7.32%) Atlassian
2 3 (7.32%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.32%) Splunk
3 1 (2.44%) Cloudera
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle
3 1 (2.44%) VMware