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 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 364 378
Rank change year-on-year +47 +14 +108
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 62 73 107
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.42% 0.48% 0.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.30% 1.81% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 40 27 75
10th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,938 £62,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £109,063 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £103,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.68% - -1.59%

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 2,701 4,039 5,709
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 18.23% 26.40% 26.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,919 2,497 4,938
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - -
75th Percentile £107,500 £106,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £130,350 £123,750 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%

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 2 February 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 2 February 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 +23 4 £135,000 +92.86% 4
South London +20 3 £62,600 +4.33%
East London -8 2 - - 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 11 (17.74%) Confluence
2 5 (8.06%) Apache Spark
3 4 (6.45%) Apache
3 4 (6.45%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (3.23%) Luigi
5 1 (1.61%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (14.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (14.52%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 42 (67.74%) AWS
2 19 (30.65%) Azure
3 16 (25.81%) Pulumi
4 14 (22.58%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (17.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (14.52%) GCP
7 8 (12.90%) Serverless
8 7 (11.29%) Datadog
8 7 (11.29%) GitHub
9 6 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (8.06%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (6.45%) Amazon S3
11 4 (6.45%) OpenShift
11 4 (6.45%) PaaS
12 3 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (4.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 2 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (3.23%) Logz.io
Communications & Networking
1 16 (25.81%) Broadband
2 2 (3.23%) Firewall
2 2 (3.23%) SSL
3 1 (1.61%) DNS
3 1 (1.61%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (41.94%) NoSQL
2 18 (29.03%) Relational Database
3 17 (27.42%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (25.81%) RDBMS
5 14 (22.58%) SQL Server
6 13 (20.97%) DB2
7 4 (6.45%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (4.84%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (4.84%) MongoDB
8 3 (4.84%) MySQL
9 2 (3.23%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (3.23%) Hadoop
9 2 (3.23%) Redis
10 1 (1.61%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 27 (43.55%) Jenkins
2 18 (29.03%) Jaeger
3 15 (24.19%) Cucumber
3 15 (24.19%) TeamCity
4 14 (22.58%) Bitbucket
4 14 (22.58%) Selenium
5 12 (19.35%) JIRA
6 9 (14.52%) GitLab
7 5 (8.06%) Git
8 4 (6.45%) Artifactory
8 4 (6.45%) SonarQube
9 3 (4.84%) Eclipse
9 3 (4.84%) JMeter
9 3 (4.84%) JUnit
9 3 (4.84%) Robot Framework
10 2 (3.23%) CircleCI
10 2 (3.23%) Gradle
10 2 (3.23%) Maven
10 2 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (3.23%) webpack
General
1 24 (38.71%) Social Skills
2 16 (25.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (20.97%) Banking
5 10 (16.13%) Finance
6 5 (8.06%) Telecoms
7 4 (6.45%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.23%) Retail
9 1 (1.61%) Law
Job Titles
1 17 (27.42%) Lead
2 15 (24.19%) Developer
3 13 (20.97%) Cloud Engineer
3 13 (20.97%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (20.97%) Java Developer
4 9 (14.52%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 9 (14.52%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (12.90%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (11.29%) Agile Developer
6 7 (11.29%) Agile Java Developer
6 7 (11.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 5 (8.06%) Senior
8 4 (6.45%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (6.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 4 (6.45%) Software Engineer
8 4 (6.45%) Team Leader
9 3 (4.84%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) CloudOps Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) Support Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (35.48%) OpenTelemetry
2 15 (24.19%) React
3 13 (20.97%) CSS
3 13 (20.97%) HTML
3 13 (20.97%) Node.js
3 13 (20.97%) RESTful
4 11 (17.74%) Gherkin
5 5 (8.06%) Kafka
6 3 (4.84%) Express.js
6 3 (4.84%) pytest
6 3 (4.84%) YAML
7 2 (3.23%) AWS SAM
7 2 (3.23%) CSS3
7 2 (3.23%) HTML5
7 2 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (3.23%) Sass
7 2 (3.23%) Spring
7 2 (3.23%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.61%) AWS CDK
8 1 (1.61%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.97%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (12.90%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (9.68%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.23%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.23%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (3.23%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.23%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 40 (64.52%) Linux
2 23 (37.10%) Unix
3 16 (25.81%) Windows
4 5 (8.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (67.74%) Agile
1 42 (67.74%) DevOps
2 40 (64.52%) CI/CD
3 39 (62.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (54.84%) Continuous Integration
5 29 (46.77%) Containerisation
6 25 (40.32%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (37.10%) High Availability
8 21 (33.87%) Task Automation
9 20 (32.26%) Mentoring
10 19 (30.65%) Software Engineering
11 18 (29.03%) GitOps
12 17 (27.42%) Microservices
13 16 (25.81%) Budget Control
13 16 (25.81%) Cost Optimisation
13 16 (25.81%) Performance Optimisation
13 16 (25.81%) Product Management
13 16 (25.81%) Resource Management
13 16 (25.81%) Roadmaps
13 16 (25.81%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 41 (66.13%) Python
2 35 (56.45%) Bash
2 35 (56.45%) Java
3 32 (51.61%) JavaScript
4 26 (41.94%) SQL
5 22 (35.48%) Go
6 10 (16.13%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.84%) RPG
7 3 (4.84%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.23%) Groovy
8 2 (3.23%) Scala
8 2 (3.23%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.61%) Bicep
9 1 (1.61%) Delphi
9 1 (1.61%) Ruby
9 1 (1.61%) Rust
Qualifications
1 17 (27.42%) AWS Certification
2 13 (20.97%) Security Cleared
3 11 (17.74%) Degree
3 11 (17.74%) DV Cleared
4 10 (16.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.61%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.61%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.23%) GDPR
1 2 (3.23%) PCI DSS
1 2 (3.23%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.61%) QA
System Software
1 52 (83.87%) Docker
2 4 (6.45%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 53 (85.48%) Kubernetes
2 42 (67.74%) Ansible
3 40 (64.52%) Terraform
4 36 (58.06%) Prometheus
5 18 (29.03%) Argo
5 18 (29.03%) Grafana
6 16 (25.81%) Kustomize
7 3 (4.84%) Kibana
7 3 (4.84%) logstash
8 2 (3.23%) Progress Chef
8 2 (3.23%) Puppet
9 1 (1.61%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 16 (25.81%) Google
2 12 (19.35%) Atlassian
3 8 (12.90%) Splunk
4 6 (9.68%) VMware
5 4 (6.45%) Foundry
5 4 (6.45%) Oracle
5 4 (6.45%) Palantir
6 3 (4.84%) IBM
7 2 (3.23%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.61%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.61%) Red Hat