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

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 348 370
Rank change year-on-year +30 +22 +137
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 50 76 77
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.36% 0.49% 0.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.89% 1.84% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 40 31 47
10th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
25th Percentile £64,688 £66,875 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -6.25%

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 2,642 4,136 4,948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.20% 26.59% 27.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,903 2,543 4,291
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £62,014
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - -
75th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £125,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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 5 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 5 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
Central London +40 4 £106,250 +51.79% 19
South London +28 3 £62,600 +4.33% 29
West London - 1 - - 24
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 (22.00%) Confluence
2 5 (10.00%) Apache Spark
3 4 (8.00%) Apache
4 2 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (4.00%) Luigi
5 1 (2.00%) JBoss
5 1 (2.00%) OpenStack
5 1 (2.00%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (18.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (18.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 30 (60.00%) AWS
2 18 (36.00%) Azure
3 13 (26.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 12 (24.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (16.00%) GCP
6 7 (14.00%) GitHub
6 7 (14.00%) Serverless
7 6 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (10.00%) Amazon S3
8 5 (10.00%) Datadog
8 5 (10.00%) Pulumi
9 4 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (8.00%) OpenShift
9 4 (8.00%) PaaS
9 4 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (4.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.00%) Broadband
2 2 (4.00%) Firewall
2 2 (4.00%) SSL
2 2 (4.00%) VPN
3 1 (2.00%) DNS
3 1 (2.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (34.00%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (30.00%) SQL Server
3 13 (26.00%) DB2
3 13 (26.00%) NoSQL
4 7 (14.00%) Relational Database
5 5 (10.00%) RDBMS
6 4 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (8.00%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (4.00%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (4.00%) Hadoop
7 2 (4.00%) MongoDB
7 2 (4.00%) MySQL
7 2 (4.00%) Redis
8 1 (2.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 24 (48.00%) Jenkins
2 15 (30.00%) TeamCity
3 14 (28.00%) Cucumber
3 14 (28.00%) Selenium
4 13 (26.00%) Bitbucket
4 13 (26.00%) JIRA
5 7 (14.00%) Git
5 7 (14.00%) Jaeger
6 6 (12.00%) GitLab
7 5 (10.00%) Artifactory
8 3 (6.00%) JUnit
8 3 (6.00%) Maven
8 3 (6.00%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (4.00%) Eclipse
9 2 (4.00%) Gradle
9 2 (4.00%) JMeter
9 2 (4.00%) Robot Framework
9 2 (4.00%) SonarQube
9 2 (4.00%) webpack
10 1 (2.00%) Ant
General
1 22 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (28.00%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (26.00%) Banking
3 13 (26.00%) Finance
4 5 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (10.00%) Telecoms
5 4 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.00%) Retail
7 1 (2.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 15 (30.00%) Developer
2 13 (26.00%) Java Developer
3 11 (22.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (18.00%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (16.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (14.00%) Agile Developer
6 7 (14.00%) Agile Java Developer
6 7 (14.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 6 (12.00%) Lead
8 5 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (10.00%) Senior
9 4 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (8.00%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (8.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 3 (6.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 3 (6.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 3 (6.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 3 (6.00%) Software Engineer
10 3 (6.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (30.00%) React
2 13 (26.00%) CSS
2 13 (26.00%) HTML
2 13 (26.00%) Node.js
2 13 (26.00%) RESTful
3 11 (22.00%) Gherkin
3 11 (22.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (10.00%) Kafka
5 3 (6.00%) Express.js
5 3 (6.00%) pytest
5 3 (6.00%) YAML
6 2 (4.00%) AWS SAM
6 2 (4.00%) CSS3
6 2 (4.00%) HTML5
6 2 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (4.00%) Sass
6 2 (4.00%) Spring
6 2 (4.00%) Spring Boot
7 1 (2.00%) AWS CDK
7 1 (2.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (26.00%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (14.00%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (12.00%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.00%) Algorithms
5 2 (4.00%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (4.00%) Data Structures
5 2 (4.00%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.00%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 29 (58.00%) Linux
2 17 (34.00%) Windows
3 12 (24.00%) Unix
4 5 (10.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (76.00%) CI/CD
2 29 (58.00%) Agile
2 29 (58.00%) DevOps
3 26 (52.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (46.00%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (42.00%) Continuous Integration
6 16 (32.00%) Containerisation
6 16 (32.00%) Software Engineering
7 15 (30.00%) Design Patterns
7 15 (30.00%) Microservices
7 15 (30.00%) Test Automation
8 13 (26.00%) BDD
8 13 (26.00%) Dynamic Code Analysis
8 13 (26.00%) Front End Development
8 13 (26.00%) Scrum
8 13 (26.00%) Static Code Analysis
9 11 (22.00%) Computer Science
9 11 (22.00%) Integration Testing
9 11 (22.00%) Unit Testing
9 11 (22.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 30 (60.00%) Python
2 24 (48.00%) SQL
3 23 (46.00%) Bash
4 22 (44.00%) Java
5 21 (42.00%) JavaScript
6 10 (20.00%) Go
6 10 (20.00%) PowerShell
7 3 (6.00%) Groovy
7 3 (6.00%) RPG
7 3 (6.00%) TypeScript
8 2 (4.00%) Scala
8 2 (4.00%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.00%) Bicep
9 1 (2.00%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 12 (24.00%) Degree
2 11 (22.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 11 (22.00%) Security Cleared
3 9 (18.00%) DV Cleared
4 6 (12.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 39 (78.00%) Docker
2 4 (8.00%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 41 (82.00%) Kubernetes
2 28 (56.00%) Ansible
3 26 (52.00%) Terraform
4 24 (48.00%) Prometheus
5 17 (34.00%) Grafana
6 7 (14.00%) Argo
7 5 (10.00%) Kustomize
8 3 (6.00%) Kibana
8 3 (6.00%) logstash
8 3 (6.00%) Puppet
9 2 (4.00%) Progress Chef
10 1 (2.00%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (2.00%) Podman
10 1 (2.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 11 (22.00%) Atlassian
2 8 (16.00%) Splunk
3 7 (14.00%) VMware
4 6 (12.00%) Google
5 4 (8.00%) Foundry
5 4 (8.00%) Oracle
5 4 (8.00%) Palantir
6 3 (6.00%) IBM
7 2 (4.00%) Dynatrace
8 1 (2.00%) BMC
8 1 (2.00%) Microsoft
8 1 (2.00%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.00%) SolarWinds