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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 360 365
Rank change year-on-year +30 +5 +179
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 48 79 71
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.36% 0.49% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.81% 1.81% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 39 35 48
10th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £54,250
25th Percentile £64,375 £68,750 £69,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £100,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +25.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £110,000 - £90,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £108,000 £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 2,658 4,361 5,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.69% 27.04% 28.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,933 2,761 4,434
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,825
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £111,250 £108,750 £101,250
90th Percentile £136,250 £130,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £67,250
% change year-on-year - -3.35% -0.37%

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 19 December 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 19 December 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 +40 4 £106,250 +51.79% 3
South London +27 4 £62,600 +4.33% 4
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 10 (20.83%) Confluence
2 5 (10.42%) Apache
2 5 (10.42%) Apache Spark
3 3 (6.25%) OpenStack
4 2 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (4.17%) JBoss
4 2 (4.17%) Luigi
4 2 (4.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 8 (16.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 29 (60.42%) AWS
2 19 (39.58%) Azure
3 13 (27.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 12 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (18.75%) Serverless
6 8 (16.67%) GCP
7 7 (14.58%) Amazon S3
7 7 (14.58%) GitHub
8 6 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (10.42%) Datadog
9 5 (10.42%) OpenShift
10 4 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (8.33%) PaaS
10 4 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (4.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 2 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) Firewall
1 2 (4.17%) SSL
1 2 (4.17%) VPN
2 1 (2.08%) Broadband
2 1 (2.08%) DNS
2 1 (2.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (29.17%) SQL Server
3 12 (25.00%) DB2
4 9 (18.75%) NoSQL
5 5 (10.42%) Relational Database
6 4 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (4.17%) Hadoop
7 2 (4.17%) MongoDB
7 2 (4.17%) MySQL
7 2 (4.17%) Redis
8 1 (2.08%) DynamoDB
8 1 (2.08%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (54.17%) Jenkins
2 14 (29.17%) TeamCity
3 13 (27.08%) Cucumber
3 13 (27.08%) JIRA
3 13 (27.08%) Selenium
4 12 (25.00%) Bitbucket
5 10 (20.83%) Git
6 6 (12.50%) Artifactory
6 6 (12.50%) GitLab
7 4 (8.33%) Maven
7 4 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (6.25%) Jaeger
8 3 (6.25%) JUnit
9 2 (4.17%) Ant
9 2 (4.17%) Eclipse
9 2 (4.17%) Gradle
9 2 (4.17%) JMeter
9 2 (4.17%) Robot Framework
9 2 (4.17%) SonarQube
9 2 (4.17%) webpack
General
1 23 (47.92%) Social Skills
2 14 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (27.08%) Finance
4 12 (25.00%) Banking
5 5 (10.42%) Telecoms
6 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (4.17%) Retail
8 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.08%) Law
Job Titles
1 16 (33.33%) Developer
2 14 (29.17%) Java Developer
3 12 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (18.75%) Platform Engineer
5 7 (14.58%) Agile Developer
5 7 (14.58%) Agile Java Developer
5 7 (14.58%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (12.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 5 (10.42%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (10.42%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (10.42%) Senior
8 4 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 3 (6.25%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 3 (6.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 3 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
9 3 (6.25%) Software Engineer
9 3 (6.25%) Support Engineer
10 2 (4.17%) Lead
10 2 (4.17%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (33.33%) React
2 14 (29.17%) Node.js
3 12 (25.00%) CSS
3 12 (25.00%) HTML
3 12 (25.00%) RESTful
4 10 (20.83%) Gherkin
5 8 (16.67%) Kafka
6 7 (14.58%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (8.33%) Spring
7 4 (8.33%) Spring Boot
8 3 (6.25%) Express.js
8 3 (6.25%) Mustache
8 3 (6.25%) pytest
8 3 (6.25%) REST
8 3 (6.25%) Web Services
8 3 (6.25%) YAML
9 2 (4.17%) CSS3
9 2 (4.17%) HTML5
9 2 (4.17%) Middleware
9 2 (4.17%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 12 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (14.58%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.17%) Algorithms
5 2 (4.17%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (4.17%) Data Structures
5 2 (4.17%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.17%) Security Posture
5 2 (4.17%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 26 (54.17%) Linux
2 18 (37.50%) Windows
3 8 (16.67%) Unix
4 5 (10.42%) Windows Server
5 2 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 26 (54.17%) Agile
2 26 (54.17%) DevOps
3 25 (52.08%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (45.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 16 (33.33%) Microservices
6 15 (31.25%) Software Engineering
7 14 (29.17%) Design Patterns
7 14 (29.17%) Scrum
7 14 (29.17%) Test Automation
8 12 (25.00%) BDD
8 12 (25.00%) Containerisation
8 12 (25.00%) Dynamic Code Analysis
8 12 (25.00%) Front End Development
8 12 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 12 (25.00%) Static Code Analysis
9 11 (22.92%) Computer Science
10 10 (20.83%) Integration Testing
10 10 (20.83%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (56.25%) Python
2 23 (47.92%) SQL
3 20 (41.67%) Bash
4 19 (39.58%) Java
5 18 (37.50%) JavaScript
6 10 (20.83%) PowerShell
7 6 (12.50%) Go
8 4 (8.33%) Groovy
9 3 (6.25%) RPG
9 3 (6.25%) TypeScript
10 2 (4.17%) Scala
10 2 (4.17%) Shell Script
11 1 (2.08%) Bicep
11 1 (2.08%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 12 (25.00%) Degree
2 11 (22.92%) Computer Science Degree
2 11 (22.92%) Security Cleared
3 9 (18.75%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.17%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 36 (75.00%) Docker
2 4 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 39 (81.25%) Kubernetes
2 25 (52.08%) Ansible
3 22 (45.83%) Terraform
4 20 (41.67%) Prometheus
5 17 (35.42%) Grafana
6 4 (8.33%) Puppet
7 3 (6.25%) Argo
7 3 (6.25%) Kibana
7 3 (6.25%) logstash
8 2 (4.17%) Podman
8 2 (4.17%) Progress Chef
9 1 (2.08%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (2.08%) Kustomize
9 1 (2.08%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (20.83%) Atlassian
2 8 (16.67%) Splunk
3 7 (14.58%) VMware
4 4 (8.33%) Foundry
4 4 (8.33%) Oracle
4 4 (8.33%) Palantir
5 3 (6.25%) IBM
6 2 (4.17%) Dynatrace
6 2 (4.17%) Google
7 1 (2.08%) BMC
7 1 (2.08%) Microsoft
7 1 (2.08%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.08%) SolarWinds