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 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 355 375
Rank change year-on-year +32 +20 +135
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 62 75 99
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.42% 0.49% 0.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.29% 1.84% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 40 28 68
10th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,938 £62,500 £72,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% - -
75th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £101,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.68% - -

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 2,702 4,079 5,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 18.49% 26.38% 27.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,917 2,520 4,784
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - -
75th Percentile £107,500 £107,729 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £125,000 £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 26 January 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 26 January 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 - - 2
Central London +25 4 £135,000 +92.86% 5
South London +33 3 £62,600 +4.33%
East London -4 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
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 13 (20.97%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (19.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (14.52%) GCP
7 7 (11.29%) GitHub
7 7 (11.29%) Serverless
8 6 (9.68%) Datadog
8 6 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (8.06%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (6.45%) Amazon S3
10 4 (6.45%) OpenShift
10 4 (6.45%) PaaS
11 3 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (4.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (3.23%) AWS Control Tower
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 25 (40.32%) NoSQL
2 18 (29.03%) Relational Database
3 17 (27.42%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (25.81%) RDBMS
5 15 (24.19%) 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 26 (41.94%) 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 8 (12.90%) 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%) Gradle
10 2 (3.23%) Maven
10 2 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (3.23%) webpack
11 1 (1.61%) CircleCI
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 11 (17.74%) 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%) Java Developer
4 12 (19.35%) Cloud Engineer
4 12 (19.35%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (14.52%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 9 (14.52%) Platform Engineer
6 8 (12.90%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (11.29%) Agile Developer
7 7 (11.29%) Agile Java Developer
7 7 (11.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 5 (8.06%) Senior
9 4 (6.45%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (6.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (6.45%) Software Engineer
9 4 (6.45%) Team Leader
10 3 (4.84%) Azure Engineer
10 3 (4.84%) Lead Systems Engineer
10 3 (4.84%) Operations Engineer
10 3 (4.84%) Support 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 4 (6.45%) 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%) REST
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%) Cloud Native
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 17 (27.42%) Windows
4 5 (8.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (67.74%) Agile
2 41 (66.13%) DevOps
3 39 (62.90%) CI/CD
3 39 (62.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (53.23%) Continuous Integration
5 28 (45.16%) Containerisation
6 25 (40.32%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (35.48%) High Availability
8 21 (33.87%) Task Automation
9 19 (30.65%) Mentoring
10 18 (29.03%) GitOps
10 18 (29.03%) Software Engineering
11 16 (25.81%) Budget Control
11 16 (25.81%) Cost Optimisation
11 16 (25.81%) Microservices
11 16 (25.81%) Performance Optimisation
11 16 (25.81%) Product Management
11 16 (25.81%) Resource Management
11 16 (25.81%) Roadmaps
11 16 (25.81%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 41 (66.13%) Python
2 35 (56.45%) Bash
3 34 (54.84%) Java
4 32 (51.61%) JavaScript
5 25 (40.32%) SQL
6 21 (33.87%) Go
7 11 (17.74%) PowerShell
8 3 (4.84%) RPG
8 3 (4.84%) TypeScript
9 2 (3.23%) Groovy
9 2 (3.23%) Scala
9 2 (3.23%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.61%) Bicep
10 1 (1.61%) Delphi
10 1 (1.61%) Ruby
10 1 (1.61%) Rust
Qualifications
1 17 (27.42%) AWS Certification
2 13 (20.97%) Security Cleared
3 12 (19.35%) Degree
4 11 (17.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (17.74%) DV Cleared
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 1 (1.61%) GDPR
1 1 (1.61%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.61%) QA
1 1 (1.61%) SOC 2
System Software
1 51 (82.26%) Docker
2 4 (6.45%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 53 (85.48%) Kubernetes
2 41 (66.13%) Ansible
3 39 (62.90%) 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
9 1 (1.61%) SCOM
Vendors
1 17 (27.42%) Google
2 12 (19.35%) Atlassian
3 9 (14.52%) Splunk
4 7 (11.29%) VMware
5 5 (8.06%) Oracle
6 4 (6.45%) Foundry
6 4 (6.45%) Palantir
7 3 (4.84%) IBM
8 2 (3.23%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.61%) BMC
9 1 (1.61%) Microsoft
9 1 (1.61%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.61%) SolarWinds