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

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 370 395
Rank change year-on-year +30 +25 +140
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 47 69 72
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.37% 0.40% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.61% 1.50% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 36 29 50
10th Percentile £55,000 £67,250 £50,100
25th Percentile £63,438 £89,250 £55,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £100,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +33.33% -11.76%
75th Percentile £110,313 £105,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £97,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £89,500 £66,250
% change year-on-year -21.79% +35.09% -22.06%

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 2,927 4,591 5,771
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.28% 26.72% 29.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,977 2,905 4,987
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 £112,500 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £140,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

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 11 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 11 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 +42 4 £106,250 +54.55% 19
South London +19 3 £55,200 - 2
East London - 1 - - 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 5 (10.64%) Apache
1 5 (10.64%) Apache Spark
2 4 (8.51%) Confluence
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 4 (8.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (8.51%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.13%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 34 (72.34%) AWS
2 21 (44.68%) Azure
3 13 (27.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 12 (25.53%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (19.15%) GCP
6 7 (14.89%) Amazon S3
6 7 (14.89%) Serverless
7 6 (12.77%) Datadog
7 6 (12.77%) GitHub
8 5 (10.64%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (10.64%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (10.64%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (10.64%) OpenShift
9 4 (8.51%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (8.51%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (8.51%) PaaS
9 4 (8.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (6.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 3 (6.38%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.38%) Firewall
2 2 (4.26%) Broadband
2 2 (4.26%) SSL
2 2 (4.26%) VPN
3 1 (2.13%) DNS
3 1 (2.13%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.13%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (27.66%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (19.15%) SQL Server
3 8 (17.02%) NoSQL
4 7 (14.89%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (12.77%) DB2
5 6 (12.77%) 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
7 2 (4.26%) RDBMS
8 1 (2.13%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 21 (44.68%) Jenkins
2 9 (19.15%) Git
2 9 (19.15%) JIRA
2 9 (19.15%) TeamCity
3 8 (17.02%) Bitbucket
4 7 (14.89%) Cucumber
4 7 (14.89%) GitLab
4 7 (14.89%) Selenium
5 6 (12.77%) Artifactory
6 4 (8.51%) Jaeger
6 4 (8.51%) Maven
6 4 (8.51%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (6.38%) JUnit
8 2 (4.26%) Ant
8 2 (4.26%) Eclipse
8 2 (4.26%) Gradle
8 2 (4.26%) JMeter
8 2 (4.26%) Robot Framework
8 2 (4.26%) SonarQube
General
1 17 (36.17%) Social Skills
2 11 (23.40%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (19.15%) Finance
4 6 (12.77%) Banking
5 4 (8.51%) Public Sector
5 4 (8.51%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Law
Job Titles
1 14 (29.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (19.15%) Developer
3 8 (17.02%) AWS Engineer
3 8 (17.02%) Java Developer
3 8 (17.02%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (12.77%) Senior
5 5 (10.64%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (10.64%) Senior DevOps
5 5 (10.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Agile Developer
6 4 (8.51%) Agile Java Developer
6 4 (8.51%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (8.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Lead
7 3 (6.38%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Support Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (21.28%) Node.js
2 9 (19.15%) React
3 8 (17.02%) Kafka
3 8 (17.02%) OpenTelemetry
4 6 (12.77%) CSS
4 6 (12.77%) HTML
4 6 (12.77%) RESTful
5 4 (8.51%) Gherkin
6 3 (6.38%) Express.js
6 3 (6.38%) pytest
6 3 (6.38%) REST
6 3 (6.38%) Spring
6 3 (6.38%) Spring Boot
6 3 (6.38%) YAML
7 2 (4.26%) Middleware
7 2 (4.26%) Mustache
7 2 (4.26%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (4.26%) Web Services
8 1 (2.13%) Flask
8 1 (2.13%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.89%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (12.77%) Greenfield Project
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 32 (68.09%) Linux
2 18 (38.30%) Windows
3 9 (19.15%) Unix
4 6 (12.77%) Windows Server
5 2 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (74.47%) CI/CD
2 30 (63.83%) DevOps
3 24 (51.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (48.94%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (44.68%) Agile
6 12 (25.53%) Containerisation
7 11 (23.40%) Configuration Management
7 11 (23.40%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (23.40%) Continuous Integration
7 11 (23.40%) Observability
7 11 (23.40%) Root Cause Analysis
7 11 (23.40%) Software Engineering
8 10 (21.28%) Computer Science
9 9 (19.15%) Microservices
10 8 (17.02%) Design Patterns
10 8 (17.02%) High Availability
10 8 (17.02%) Test Automation
11 7 (14.89%) Scrum
12 6 (12.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 6 (12.77%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 31 (65.96%) Python
2 22 (46.81%) Bash
3 16 (34.04%) SQL
4 13 (27.66%) Java
4 13 (27.66%) JavaScript
5 9 (19.15%) PowerShell
6 8 (17.02%) 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%) Security Cleared
2 11 (23.40%) Degree
3 10 (21.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (19.15%) DV Cleared
5 3 (6.38%) AWS Certification
5 3 (6.38%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 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 24 (51.06%) Prometheus
4 20 (42.55%) Grafana
5 6 (12.77%) Kibana
5 6 (12.77%) logstash
6 4 (8.51%) Argo
6 4 (8.51%) Puppet
7 2 (4.26%) Kustomize
7 2 (4.26%) Podman
7 2 (4.26%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.13%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (2.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 9 (19.15%) Splunk
2 7 (14.89%) VMware
3 6 (12.77%) Atlassian
4 4 (8.51%) Dynatrace
4 4 (8.51%) Foundry
4 4 (8.51%) Oracle
4 4 (8.51%) Palantir
5 3 (6.38%) Google
6 2 (4.26%) AppDynamics
7 1 (2.13%) BMC
7 1 (2.13%) Databricks
7 1 (2.13%) IBM
7 1 (2.13%) Microsoft
7 1 (2.13%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.13%) SolarWinds