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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 333 403
Rank change year-on-year -27 +70 +21
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 48 63 89
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.24% 0.50% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.52% 1.91% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 27 37 63
10th Percentile £66,400 £56,250 £71,500
25th Percentile £76,875 - £74,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £60,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -31.43% +7.69%
75th Percentile £106,875 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,500 £100,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £65,258 £62,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +4.41% -21.88% +7.02%

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 3,165 3,300 5,739
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.78% 25.97% 24.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,201 2,440 4,726
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
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 £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £126,250 £130,000 £127,500
England median annual salary £67,249 £66,254 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.50% +10.42% -11.11%

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 May 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 May 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 +9 4 £62,600 +4.33%
Central London -9 3 £78,250 +22.75% 3
East London -12 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 9 (18.75%) Confluence
2 2 (4.17%) Apache
2 2 (4.17%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.08%) JBoss
3 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (12.50%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 36 (75.00%) AWS
2 16 (33.33%) Azure
2 16 (33.33%) Pulumi
3 14 (29.17%) AWS CloudFormation
4 12 (25.00%) Serverless
5 11 (22.92%) Datadog
5 11 (22.92%) GCP
6 3 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (6.25%) OpenShift
7 2 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.17%) Azure Pipelines
7 2 (4.17%) GitHub
8 1 (2.08%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (2.08%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (33.33%) Broadband
2 2 (4.17%) Firewall
3 1 (2.08%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (56.25%) NoSQL
2 17 (35.42%) Relational Database
3 16 (33.33%) RDBMS
4 12 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (20.83%) SQL Server
6 9 (18.75%) DB2
7 2 (4.17%) MongoDB
7 2 (4.17%) MySQL
8 1 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 26 (54.17%) Jenkins
2 16 (33.33%) Jaeger
3 14 (29.17%) GitLab
4 12 (25.00%) Cucumber
5 11 (22.92%) Bitbucket
6 10 (20.83%) CircleCI
6 10 (20.83%) Selenium
7 9 (18.75%) JIRA
8 8 (16.67%) TeamCity
9 5 (10.42%) Git
10 4 (8.33%) SonarQube
11 2 (4.17%) Eclipse
11 2 (4.17%) JMeter
11 2 (4.17%) JUnit
11 2 (4.17%) Robot Framework
11 2 (4.17%) webpack
General
1 22 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 16 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 13 (27.08%) Banking
4 11 (22.92%) Finance
5 4 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.17%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.17%) Retail
7 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (35.42%) Lead
2 15 (31.25%) Cloud Engineer
2 15 (31.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (22.92%) Developer
4 9 (18.75%) Java Developer
4 9 (18.75%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 7 (14.58%) AWS DevOps
5 7 (14.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 7 (14.58%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (14.58%) DevOps Engineer - Fintech
5 7 (14.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (12.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (12.50%) Senior
7 5 (10.42%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 4 (8.33%) Agile Developer
8 4 (8.33%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 4 (8.33%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry
2 10 (20.83%) React
3 9 (18.75%) CSS
3 9 (18.75%) Gherkin
3 9 (18.75%) HTML
3 9 (18.75%) Node.js
3 9 (18.75%) RESTful
4 8 (16.67%) Kafka
5 3 (6.25%) Spring
5 3 (6.25%) Spring Boot
6 2 (4.17%) AngularJS
6 2 (4.17%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (4.17%) CSS3
6 2 (4.17%) HTML5
6 2 (4.17%) Mustache
6 2 (4.17%) REST
6 2 (4.17%) Sass
6 2 (4.17%) Vue
6 2 (4.17%) Web Services
6 2 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 25 (52.08%) Linux
2 18 (37.50%) Unix
3 6 (12.50%) Windows
4 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (79.17%) DevOps
2 35 (72.92%) Continuous Integration
3 34 (70.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (64.58%) Containerisation
5 30 (62.50%) Agile
5 30 (62.50%) CI/CD
6 26 (54.17%) High Availability
6 26 (54.17%) Mentoring
7 21 (43.75%) Microservices
8 18 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (37.50%) Software Engineering
9 17 (35.42%) Performance Optimisation
9 17 (35.42%) Task Automation
10 16 (33.33%) Budget Control
10 16 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
10 16 (33.33%) GitOps
10 16 (33.33%) Product Management
10 16 (33.33%) Resource Management
10 16 (33.33%) Roadmaps
11 13 (27.08%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 34 (70.83%) Java
1 34 (70.83%) Python
2 33 (68.75%) Bash
3 27 (56.25%) JavaScript
4 25 (52.08%) Go
5 19 (39.58%) SQL
6 6 (12.50%) PowerShell
7 3 (6.25%) Rust
8 2 (4.17%) Bicep
8 2 (4.17%) RPG
8 2 (4.17%) TypeScript
9 1 (2.08%) C#
9 1 (2.08%) C++
9 1 (2.08%) Delphi
9 1 (2.08%) Ruby
9 1 (2.08%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 5 (10.42%) Security Cleared
3 4 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (8.33%) Degree
4 3 (6.25%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.75%) GDPR
1 9 (18.75%) PCI DSS
1 9 (18.75%) SOC 2
2 4 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 45 (93.75%) Docker
2 1 (2.08%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 45 (93.75%) Kubernetes
2 36 (75.00%) Ansible
3 34 (70.83%) Terraform
4 31 (64.58%) Prometheus
5 18 (37.50%) Grafana
6 16 (33.33%) Argo
6 16 (33.33%) Kustomize
7 1 (2.08%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (2.08%) Kibana
7 1 (2.08%) logstash
7 1 (2.08%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (33.33%) Google
2 8 (16.67%) Atlassian
3 4 (8.33%) Splunk
4 3 (6.25%) Oracle
5 2 (4.17%) IBM
6 1 (2.08%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.08%) VMware