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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 372 404
Rank change year-on-year +33 +32 +163
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 47 69 66
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.36% 0.40% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.60% 1.48% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 37 31 43
10th Percentile £55,000 £67,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £84,000 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £100,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +29.03% -8.82%
75th Percentile £111,250 £105,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £99,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £88,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year -20.45% +28.00% -19.12%

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 2,929 4,659 5,547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 22.49% 26.83% 29.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,971 2,973 4,824
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -
75th Percentile £113,750 £110,000 £100,375
90th Percentile £136,250 £138,750 £120,000
England median annual salary £67,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.08% -3.70% +1.69%

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 2025. 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
Central London +49 4 £106,250 +51.79% 17
South London +24 3 £55,200 - 1
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 6 (12.77%) Confluence
2 5 (10.64%) Apache
2 5 (10.64%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (4.26%) JBoss
3 2 (4.26%) Luigi
3 2 (4.26%) OpenStack
3 2 (4.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (12.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (12.77%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.13%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 32 (68.09%) AWS
2 21 (44.68%) Azure
3 14 (29.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 13 (27.66%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (21.28%) GCP
6 8 (17.02%) Serverless
7 7 (14.89%) Amazon S3
7 7 (14.89%) Datadog
7 7 (14.89%) GitHub
8 6 (12.77%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (12.77%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (10.64%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (10.64%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (10.64%) OpenShift
10 4 (8.51%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (8.51%) PaaS
10 4 (8.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (6.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 3 (6.38%) AWS Control Tower
11 3 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.38%) Firewall
2 2 (4.26%) SSL
2 2 (4.26%) VPN
3 1 (2.13%) Broadband
3 1 (2.13%) DNS
3 1 (2.13%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.13%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (31.91%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (21.28%) SQL Server
3 8 (17.02%) DB2
3 8 (17.02%) NoSQL
4 6 (12.77%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (10.64%) Relational Database
6 4 (8.51%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (8.51%) Redis
7 2 (4.26%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (4.26%) Hadoop
7 2 (4.26%) MongoDB
7 2 (4.26%) MySQL
8 1 (2.13%) DynamoDB
8 1 (2.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 23 (48.94%) Jenkins
2 11 (23.40%) JIRA
3 10 (21.28%) Bitbucket
3 10 (21.28%) TeamCity
4 9 (19.15%) Cucumber
4 9 (19.15%) Git
4 9 (19.15%) Selenium
5 8 (17.02%) GitLab
6 6 (12.77%) Artifactory
7 4 (8.51%) Maven
7 4 (8.51%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (6.38%) Jaeger
8 3 (6.38%) JUnit
9 2 (4.26%) Ant
9 2 (4.26%) Eclipse
9 2 (4.26%) Gradle
9 2 (4.26%) JMeter
9 2 (4.26%) Robot Framework
9 2 (4.26%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (40.43%) Social Skills
2 12 (25.53%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (23.40%) Finance
4 8 (17.02%) Banking
5 5 (10.64%) Telecoms
6 4 (8.51%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.13%) Law
Job Titles
1 13 (27.66%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (23.40%) Developer
3 10 (21.28%) Java Developer
4 9 (19.15%) Platform Engineer
5 7 (14.89%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (12.77%) Agile Developer
6 6 (12.77%) Agile Java Developer
6 6 (12.77%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (12.77%) Senior
7 5 (10.64%) Senior DevOps
7 5 (10.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 4 (8.51%) Linux Engineer
9 3 (6.38%) AWS DevOps
9 3 (6.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 3 (6.38%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 3 (6.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 3 (6.38%) Software Engineer
9 3 (6.38%) Support Engineer
10 2 (4.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 2 (4.26%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (23.40%) Node.js
1 11 (23.40%) React
2 8 (17.02%) CSS
2 8 (17.02%) HTML
2 8 (17.02%) Kafka
2 8 (17.02%) RESTful
3 7 (14.89%) OpenTelemetry
4 6 (12.77%) Gherkin
5 3 (6.38%) Express.js
5 3 (6.38%) pytest
5 3 (6.38%) Spring
5 3 (6.38%) Spring Boot
5 3 (6.38%) YAML
6 2 (4.26%) AWS SAM
6 2 (4.26%) Middleware
6 2 (4.26%) Mustache
6 2 (4.26%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (4.26%) REST
6 2 (4.26%) Web Services
7 1 (2.13%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.02%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (14.89%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (10.64%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (10.64%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.26%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.26%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (4.26%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.26%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.26%) Security Posture
4 2 (4.26%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.13%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.13%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 30 (63.83%) Linux
2 18 (38.30%) Windows
3 9 (19.15%) Unix
4 5 (10.64%) Windows Server
5 2 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (78.72%) CI/CD
2 28 (59.57%) DevOps
3 24 (51.06%) Infrastructure as Code
3 24 (51.06%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (44.68%) Agile
5 13 (27.66%) Software Engineering
6 12 (25.53%) Containerisation
6 12 (25.53%) Continuous Integration
6 12 (25.53%) Root Cause Analysis
7 11 (23.40%) Computer Science
7 11 (23.40%) Configuration Management
7 11 (23.40%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (23.40%) Microservices
8 10 (21.28%) Design Patterns
8 10 (21.28%) Observability
8 10 (21.28%) Test Automation
9 9 (19.15%) Scrum
10 8 (17.02%) Dynamic Code Analysis
10 8 (17.02%) Front End Development
10 8 (17.02%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 29 (61.70%) Python
2 22 (46.81%) Bash
3 19 (40.43%) SQL
4 14 (29.79%) Java
4 14 (29.79%) JavaScript
5 10 (21.28%) PowerShell
6 7 (14.89%) Go
7 4 (8.51%) Groovy
7 4 (8.51%) Shell Script
8 2 (4.26%) Scala
9 1 (2.13%) Bicep
9 1 (2.13%) Delphi
9 1 (2.13%) RPG
9 1 (2.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (25.53%) Degree
1 12 (25.53%) Security Cleared
2 11 (23.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (19.15%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.26%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.26%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 35 (74.47%) Docker
2 4 (8.51%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (8.51%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 38 (80.85%) Kubernetes
2 26 (55.32%) Ansible
2 26 (55.32%) Terraform
3 23 (48.94%) Prometheus
4 21 (44.68%) Grafana
5 5 (10.64%) Kibana
5 5 (10.64%) logstash
6 4 (8.51%) Puppet
7 3 (6.38%) Argo
8 2 (4.26%) Podman
8 2 (4.26%) Progress Chef
9 1 (2.13%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (2.13%) Kustomize
9 1 (2.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (21.28%) Splunk
2 8 (17.02%) Atlassian
3 7 (14.89%) VMware
4 4 (8.51%) Dynatrace
4 4 (8.51%) Foundry
4 4 (8.51%) Oracle
4 4 (8.51%) Palantir
5 2 (4.26%) AppDynamics
5 2 (4.26%) Google
6 1 (2.13%) BMC
6 1 (2.13%) IBM
6 1 (2.13%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.13%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.13%) SolarWinds