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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 399 402
Rank change year-on-year +44 +3 +111
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 41 62 89
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.34% 0.32% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.34% 1.27% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 29 29 66
10th Percentile £47,250 £79,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £87,500 £60,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £100,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +33.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £105,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £123,500 £110,000 £97,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £90,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -33.33% +38.46% -23.53%

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 3,058 4,898 6,731
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.59% 25.40% 30.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,065 3,340 5,833
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £64,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £142,500 £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

Job postings citing Elastic Stack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Elastic Stack 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +41 5 £55,000 -30.16% 12
South London +9 2 - -
East London - 1 - -
Elastic Stack
England

Elastic Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (7.32%) Apache
1 3 (7.32%) Confluence
1 3 (7.32%) JBoss
1 3 (7.32%) nginx
1 3 (7.32%) Tomcat
1 3 (7.32%) WebSphere
2 2 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.88%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.88%) Luigi
2 2 (4.88%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.44%) GemFire
Applications
1 3 (7.32%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.44%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 36 (87.80%) AWS
2 16 (39.02%) Azure
3 13 (31.71%) Serverless
4 12 (29.27%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (24.39%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (24.39%) GCP
6 8 (19.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (19.51%) Amazon S3
7 6 (14.63%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (14.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (12.20%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (12.20%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (9.76%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (7.32%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 3 (7.32%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 3 (7.32%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (7.32%) AWS Control Tower
10 3 (7.32%) AWS KMS
10 3 (7.32%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.20%) Network Security
2 3 (7.32%) Firewall
3 2 (4.88%) VPN
4 1 (2.44%) Broadband
4 1 (2.44%) DNS
4 1 (2.44%) SSL
4 1 (2.44%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.44%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (26.83%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (21.95%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (14.63%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (14.63%) Relational Database
4 4 (9.76%) SQL Server
5 3 (7.32%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (7.32%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.88%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (4.88%) Hadoop
6 2 (4.88%) Redis
7 1 (2.44%) DB2
7 1 (2.44%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.44%) MySQL
7 1 (2.44%) Power BI
7 1 (2.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (34.15%) Jenkins
2 10 (24.39%) Git
3 8 (19.51%) JIRA
4 7 (17.07%) Maven
5 6 (14.63%) Bitbucket
6 4 (9.76%) Artifactory
6 4 (9.76%) Cucumber
6 4 (9.76%) Postman
6 4 (9.76%) Selenium
7 3 (7.32%) Ant
7 3 (7.32%) GitLab
7 3 (7.32%) JUnit
7 3 (7.32%) Mockito
7 3 (7.32%) SonarQube
7 3 (7.32%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (7.32%) TestNG
8 2 (4.88%) TeamCity
9 1 (2.44%) Gatling
9 1 (2.44%) Gradle
9 1 (2.44%) Locust
General
1 20 (48.78%) Social Skills
2 11 (26.83%) Finance
3 6 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (14.63%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.32%) Banking
4 3 (7.32%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.88%) Advertising
5 2 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.44%) Law
Job Titles
1 11 (26.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (21.95%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (14.63%) AWS DevOps
3 6 (14.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) Architect
4 5 (12.20%) Cloud Architect
4 5 (12.20%) Senior
4 5 (12.20%) Senior DevOps
4 5 (12.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Applications Support
5 4 (9.76%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Junior
5 4 (9.76%) Lead
5 4 (9.76%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) AWS Architect
6 3 (7.32%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Linux Scripter
6 3 (7.32%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Windows DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (39.02%) Kafka
2 6 (14.63%) REST
3 5 (12.20%) Mustache
3 5 (12.20%) Node.js
3 5 (12.20%) Spring
3 5 (12.20%) Spring Boot
4 4 (9.76%) Gherkin
4 4 (9.76%) Middleware
4 4 (9.76%) React
4 4 (9.76%) RESTful
5 3 (7.32%) Guice
5 3 (7.32%) JAX-RS
5 3 (7.32%) OpenAPI
5 3 (7.32%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (7.32%) Swagger
5 3 (7.32%) WireMock
6 2 (4.88%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (4.88%) Web Services
6 2 (4.88%) YAML
7 1 (2.44%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Distributed Systems
1 6 (14.63%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.32%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.32%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (7.32%) Life Science
3 2 (4.88%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.88%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.88%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (4.88%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.44%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (2.44%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.44%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.44%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.44%) NHS
4 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.44%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 21 (51.22%) Linux
2 9 (21.95%) Windows
3 5 (12.20%) Unix
4 4 (9.76%) Windows Server
5 3 (7.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.44%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (73.17%) CI/CD
2 27 (65.85%) DevOps
3 18 (43.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (41.46%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (34.15%) Containerisation
6 12 (29.27%) Agile
7 10 (24.39%) High Availability
8 9 (21.95%) Configuration Management
8 9 (21.95%) Microservices
9 8 (19.51%) Design Patterns
9 8 (19.51%) Mentoring
9 8 (19.51%) Resource Management
9 8 (19.51%) Software Engineering
10 7 (17.07%) Deployment Automation
10 7 (17.07%) Observability
11 6 (14.63%) Computer Science
11 6 (14.63%) Data Protection
11 6 (14.63%) Performance Tuning
11 6 (14.63%) Root Cause Analysis
11 6 (14.63%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (56.10%) Python
2 16 (39.02%) Bash
3 14 (34.15%) Java
4 8 (19.51%) SQL
5 7 (17.07%) JavaScript
6 6 (14.63%) Go
7 5 (12.20%) PowerShell
8 3 (7.32%) Groovy
8 3 (7.32%) Shell Script
9 2 (4.88%) Scala
10 1 (2.44%) Bicep
10 1 (2.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (26.83%) Security Cleared
2 8 (19.51%) SC Cleared
3 7 (17.07%) AWS Certification
4 6 (14.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (14.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (14.63%) Degree
5 4 (9.76%) DV Cleared
6 2 (4.88%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.44%) ISTQB
7 1 (2.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.07%) GDPR
2 5 (12.20%) HIPAA
3 4 (9.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (4.88%) NIST
4 2 (4.88%) SLA
4 2 (4.88%) SOC 2
5 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 30 (73.17%) Docker
2 2 (4.88%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (73.17%) Kubernetes
2 22 (53.66%) Terraform
3 20 (48.78%) Grafana
4 18 (43.90%) Prometheus
5 17 (41.46%) Ansible
6 5 (12.20%) Kibana
6 5 (12.20%) logstash
6 5 (12.20%) Puppet
7 4 (9.76%) Kustomize
8 3 (7.32%) Packer
8 3 (7.32%) Podman
9 2 (4.88%) Argo
9 2 (4.88%) Progress Chef
10 1 (2.44%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (2.44%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (17.07%) Splunk
2 4 (9.76%) Red Hat
3 3 (7.32%) Dynatrace
3 3 (7.32%) Google
3 3 (7.32%) VMware
4 2 (4.88%) AppDynamics
4 2 (4.88%) ESRI
4 2 (4.88%) Foundry
4 2 (4.88%) Palantir
5 1 (2.44%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.44%) BMC
5 1 (2.44%) Databricks
5 1 (2.44%) FXall
5 1 (2.44%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.44%) Oracle
5 1 (2.44%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.44%) TIBCO