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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 346 373
Rank change year-on-year +7 +27 +102
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 57 72 101
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.37% 0.48% 0.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.06% 1.79% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 35 28 71
10th Percentile £59,500 - £57,500
25th Percentile £68,750 £60,000 £73,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £108,750 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £105,625 £105,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +3.23%

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 2,762 4,019 5,630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 17.85% 26.79% 26.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,980 2,531 4,870
10th Percentile £51,225 £52,500 £49,898
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £107,500 £109,375 £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 15 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 15 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 - -
South London +27 3 £62,600 +4.33%
Central London +7 2 £77,500 +3.33% 3
East London -6 2 - - 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 11 (19.30%) Confluence
2 4 (7.02%) Apache
3 3 (5.26%) Apache Spark
4 2 (3.51%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (1.75%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (15.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (15.79%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 38 (66.67%) AWS
2 19 (33.33%) Azure
3 16 (28.07%) Pulumi
4 15 (26.32%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (15.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (15.79%) Datadog
5 9 (15.79%) GCP
6 8 (14.04%) Serverless
7 6 (10.53%) GitHub
8 5 (8.77%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (7.02%) OpenShift
10 3 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (3.51%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 2 (3.51%) AWS Control Tower
11 2 (3.51%) Logz.io
11 2 (3.51%) PaaS
12 1 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (1.75%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 16 (28.07%) Broadband
2 2 (3.51%) Firewall
2 2 (3.51%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (45.61%) NoSQL
2 16 (28.07%) RDBMS
2 16 (28.07%) Relational Database
3 15 (26.32%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (24.56%) SQL Server
5 13 (22.81%) DB2
6 3 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (5.26%) MongoDB
6 3 (5.26%) MySQL
7 2 (3.51%) Redis
8 1 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 28 (49.12%) Jenkins
2 18 (31.58%) Jaeger
3 15 (26.32%) Cucumber
3 15 (26.32%) TeamCity
4 14 (24.56%) Bitbucket
4 14 (24.56%) Selenium
5 12 (21.05%) JIRA
6 11 (19.30%) GitLab
7 5 (8.77%) Git
8 4 (7.02%) Artifactory
8 4 (7.02%) CircleCI
8 4 (7.02%) SonarQube
9 3 (5.26%) Eclipse
9 3 (5.26%) JMeter
9 3 (5.26%) JUnit
9 3 (5.26%) Robot Framework
10 2 (3.51%) Gradle
10 2 (3.51%) Maven
10 2 (3.51%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (3.51%) webpack
General
1 24 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 16 (28.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 13 (22.81%) Banking
4 11 (19.30%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (17.54%) Finance
6 5 (8.77%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.51%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.51%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (29.82%) Lead
2 15 (26.32%) Developer
3 14 (24.56%) Cloud Engineer
3 14 (24.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (22.81%) Java Developer
5 9 (15.79%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 8 (14.04%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (12.28%) Agile Developer
7 7 (12.28%) Agile Java Developer
7 7 (12.28%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 7 (12.28%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) DevOps Engineer - Fintech
8 4 (7.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) Senior
8 4 (7.02%) Software Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) Team Leader
9 3 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (35.09%) OpenTelemetry
2 14 (24.56%) React
3 13 (22.81%) CSS
3 13 (22.81%) HTML
3 13 (22.81%) RESTful
4 12 (21.05%) Node.js
5 11 (19.30%) Gherkin
6 5 (8.77%) Kafka
7 3 (5.26%) Express.js
7 3 (5.26%) pytest
7 3 (5.26%) YAML
8 2 (3.51%) AWS SAM
8 2 (3.51%) CSS3
8 2 (3.51%) HTML5
8 2 (3.51%) Sass
8 2 (3.51%) Spring
8 2 (3.51%) Spring Boot
9 1 (1.75%) Django
9 1 (1.75%) JSON
9 1 (1.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (22.81%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (14.04%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (7.02%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 37 (64.91%) Linux
2 23 (40.35%) Unix
3 13 (22.81%) Windows
4 2 (3.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (70.18%) DevOps
2 38 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 37 (64.91%) Agile
3 37 (64.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (57.89%) Continuous Integration
5 28 (49.12%) Containerisation
6 25 (43.86%) High Availability
7 21 (36.84%) Mentoring
7 21 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (36.84%) Task Automation
8 19 (33.33%) Microservices
8 19 (33.33%) Software Engineering
9 18 (31.58%) GitOps
10 16 (28.07%) Budget Control
10 16 (28.07%) Cost Optimisation
10 16 (28.07%) Performance Optimisation
10 16 (28.07%) Product Management
10 16 (28.07%) Resource Management
10 16 (28.07%) Roadmaps
10 16 (28.07%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 38 (66.67%) Python
2 35 (61.40%) Java
3 34 (59.65%) Bash
4 32 (56.14%) JavaScript
5 25 (43.86%) SQL
6 23 (40.35%) Go
7 9 (15.79%) PowerShell
8 3 (5.26%) RPG
9 2 (3.51%) Groovy
9 2 (3.51%) Shell Script
9 2 (3.51%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.75%) Bicep
10 1 (1.75%) Delphi
10 1 (1.75%) Ruby
10 1 (1.75%) Rust
Qualifications
1 16 (28.07%) AWS Certification
2 10 (17.54%) Degree
3 9 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (15.79%) Security Cleared
4 7 (12.28%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.02%) GDPR
1 4 (7.02%) PCI DSS
1 4 (7.02%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.75%) QA
System Software
1 50 (87.72%) Docker
2 2 (3.51%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 52 (91.23%) Kubernetes
2 39 (68.42%) Ansible
3 38 (66.67%) Terraform
4 35 (61.40%) Prometheus
5 19 (33.33%) Grafana
6 18 (31.58%) Argo
7 16 (28.07%) Kustomize
8 3 (5.26%) Kibana
8 3 (5.26%) logstash
Vendors
1 16 (28.07%) Google
2 12 (21.05%) Atlassian
3 8 (14.04%) Splunk
4 4 (7.02%) Oracle
4 4 (7.02%) VMware
5 3 (5.26%) IBM
6 2 (3.51%) Dynatrace
6 2 (3.51%) Foundry
6 2 (3.51%) Palantir
7 1 (1.75%) Microsoft