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 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 364 392
Rank change year-on-year +25 +28 +135
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 43 70 81
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.36% 0.40% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.48% 1.49% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 33 30 58
10th Percentile £55,000 £67,375 £49,800
25th Percentile £62,500 £85,625 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £100,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +33.33% -11.76%
75th Percentile £108,750 £103,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £97,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £90,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -22.22% +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 2,900 4,707 5,976
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.25% 27.07% 30.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,958 3,013 5,157
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £64,000 £63,750 £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 £111,250 £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

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 28 October 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 28 October 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 +33 5 £77,500 +12.73% 11
South London +25 2 - -
East London - 1 - -
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 6 (13.95%) Apache
2 5 (11.63%) Apache Spark
3 3 (6.98%) JBoss
3 3 (6.98%) WebSphere
4 2 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (4.65%) Confluence
4 2 (4.65%) Luigi
4 2 (4.65%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (4.65%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.33%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 33 (76.74%) AWS
2 20 (46.51%) Azure
3 11 (25.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 11 (25.58%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (18.60%) Amazon S3
4 8 (18.60%) GCP
5 7 (16.28%) Serverless
6 5 (11.63%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (11.63%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (11.63%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (11.63%) Datadog
7 4 (9.30%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (9.30%) GitHub
7 4 (9.30%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (9.30%) OpenShift
7 4 (9.30%) PaaS
7 4 (9.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (6.98%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (6.98%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 3 (6.98%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.98%) Firewall
2 2 (4.65%) SSL
2 2 (4.65%) VPN
3 1 (2.33%) Broadband
3 1 (2.33%) DNS
3 1 (2.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (23.26%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (18.60%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (13.95%) NoSQL
3 6 (13.95%) SQL Server
4 5 (11.63%) Relational Database
5 4 (9.30%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (9.30%) DB2
5 4 (9.30%) Redis
6 2 (4.65%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (4.65%) Hadoop
7 1 (2.33%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.33%) MySQL
7 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (39.53%) Jenkins
2 10 (23.26%) Git
3 9 (20.93%) JIRA
4 7 (16.28%) Artifactory
4 7 (16.28%) TeamCity
5 5 (11.63%) Bitbucket
5 5 (11.63%) GitLab
5 5 (11.63%) Maven
5 5 (11.63%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (9.30%) Cucumber
6 4 (9.30%) Selenium
7 3 (6.98%) Ant
7 3 (6.98%) Jaeger
8 2 (4.65%) Gradle
8 2 (4.65%) JUnit
9 1 (2.33%) Eclipse
9 1 (2.33%) JMeter
9 1 (2.33%) Robot Framework
9 1 (2.33%) SonarQube
General
1 14 (32.56%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.26%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (20.93%) Finance
4 5 (11.63%) Banking
5 4 (9.30%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.98%) Telecoms
7 2 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.33%) Advertising
8 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 14 (32.56%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (23.26%) AWS Engineer
3 7 (16.28%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (13.95%) AWS DevOps
4 6 (13.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 6 (13.95%) Developer
4 6 (13.95%) Java Developer
5 5 (11.63%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) Linux Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) Senior
5 5 (11.63%) Senior DevOps
5 5 (11.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Support Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Junior
7 3 (6.98%) Linux DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Linux Scripter
7 3 (6.98%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 3 (6.98%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.93%) Kafka
2 8 (18.60%) Node.js
3 7 (16.28%) OpenTelemetry
3 7 (16.28%) React
4 4 (9.30%) CSS
4 4 (9.30%) HTML
4 4 (9.30%) RESTful
5 3 (6.98%) Middleware
5 3 (6.98%) REST
5 3 (6.98%) YAML
6 2 (4.65%) Express.js
6 2 (4.65%) Gherkin
6 2 (4.65%) Mustache
6 2 (4.65%) pytest
6 2 (4.65%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (4.65%) Spring
6 2 (4.65%) Spring Boot
6 2 (4.65%) Web Services
7 1 (2.33%) AWS CDK
7 1 (2.33%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (11.63%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (9.30%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (6.98%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.98%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (4.65%) Algorithms
5 2 (4.65%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (4.65%) Data Structures
5 2 (4.65%) Security Posture
5 2 (4.65%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.33%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.33%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 31 (72.09%) Linux
2 17 (39.53%) Windows
3 7 (16.28%) Unix
4 6 (13.95%) Windows Server
5 3 (6.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (72.09%) CI/CD
2 27 (62.79%) DevOps
3 21 (48.84%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (48.84%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (39.53%) Agile
5 12 (27.91%) Configuration Management
6 11 (25.58%) Observability
7 10 (23.26%) Containerisation
7 10 (23.26%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (23.26%) Root Cause Analysis
8 9 (20.93%) Computer Science
9 8 (18.60%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (18.60%) Software Engineering
10 7 (16.28%) High Availability
11 6 (13.95%) Design Patterns
11 6 (13.95%) Fintech
11 6 (13.95%) Microservices
12 5 (11.63%) Incident Response
12 5 (11.63%) Platform Engineering
12 5 (11.63%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 30 (69.77%) Python
2 20 (46.51%) Bash
3 14 (32.56%) SQL
4 10 (23.26%) JavaScript
5 9 (20.93%) Java
6 7 (16.28%) Go
6 7 (16.28%) PowerShell
7 5 (11.63%) Groovy
8 4 (9.30%) Shell Script
9 2 (4.65%) Scala
10 1 (2.33%) Bicep
10 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (25.58%) Security Cleared
2 10 (23.26%) Degree
3 9 (20.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (18.60%) DV Cleared
5 4 (9.30%) SC Cleared
6 2 (4.65%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) QA
1 1 (2.33%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (69.77%) Docker
2 4 (9.30%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (9.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (76.74%) Kubernetes
2 24 (55.81%) Ansible
3 23 (53.49%) Terraform
4 22 (51.16%) Prometheus
5 18 (41.86%) Grafana
6 7 (16.28%) Kibana
6 7 (16.28%) logstash
7 5 (11.63%) Puppet
8 3 (6.98%) Argo
8 3 (6.98%) Podman
9 2 (4.65%) Progress Chef
10 1 (2.33%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (2.33%) Kustomize
10 1 (2.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (16.28%) Splunk
1 7 (16.28%) VMware
2 4 (9.30%) Dynatrace
2 4 (9.30%) Foundry
2 4 (9.30%) Palantir
3 3 (6.98%) Atlassian
4 2 (4.65%) AppDynamics
4 2 (4.65%) Google
4 2 (4.65%) Oracle
5 1 (2.33%) BMC
5 1 (2.33%) Databricks
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.33%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.33%) SolarWinds