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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 349 410
Rank change year-on-year -59 +61 -2
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 28 43 56
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.11% 0.36% 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.72% 1.27% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 23 30 29
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,375 £74,500
25th Percentile £59,563 £56,250 £87,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -30.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £89,688 -
90th Percentile £98,750 £121,750 £106,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £60,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -33.33% +33.33%

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 3,889 3,382 5,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.73% 28.23% 28.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,501 2,292 3,770
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £64,000 £63,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% -2.94% +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £113,750
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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
Central London +3 8 £90,000 +63.64% 3
South London 0 1 - - 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 2 (7.14%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.57%) Apache
2 1 (3.57%) Confluence
2 1 (3.57%) JBoss
2 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 21 (75.00%) AWS
2 9 (32.14%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (21.43%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 6 (21.43%) Serverless
4 4 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (14.29%) Azure
4 4 (14.29%) Datadog
5 3 (10.71%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (10.71%) GitHub
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
6 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (7.14%) Azure Pipelines
6 2 (7.14%) GCP
6 2 (7.14%) Route 53
6 2 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.57%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) TCP/IP
2 2 (7.14%) DNS
3 1 (3.57%) 4G
3 1 (3.57%) 5G
3 1 (3.57%) Firewall
3 1 (3.57%) HTTP
3 1 (3.57%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (32.14%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (28.57%) Redis
3 6 (21.43%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.57%) Db2
5 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.57%) MySQL
5 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (46.43%) Git
2 11 (39.29%) Jenkins
3 7 (25.00%) GitLab
4 2 (7.14%) Cucumber
4 2 (7.14%) Selenium
4 2 (7.14%) Snyk
5 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.57%) CircleCI
5 1 (3.57%) JIRA
5 1 (3.57%) JUnit
5 1 (3.57%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (25.00%) Finance
3 3 (10.71%) Banking
3 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.14%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (35.71%) AWS DevOps
2 10 (35.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 10 (35.71%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Senior
5 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) IT Security Specialist
5 2 (7.14%) Java Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Python Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Security Specialist
5 2 (7.14%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Principal Consultant
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (67.86%) Terraform
2 9 (32.14%) Kafka
3 6 (21.43%) Keycloak
4 3 (10.71%) RESTful
5 2 (7.14%) AWS CDK
5 2 (7.14%) CSS
5 2 (7.14%) FastAPI
5 2 (7.14%) Flask
5 2 (7.14%) HTML
5 2 (7.14%) Node.js
5 2 (7.14%) OpenTofu
5 2 (7.14%) pytest
5 2 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (7.14%) REST
5 2 (7.14%) YAML
6 1 (3.57%) Jinja
6 1 (3.57%) Pandas
6 1 (3.57%) React
6 1 (3.57%) Spring Boot
6 1 (3.57%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Onboarding
2 6 (21.43%) Replication
3 5 (17.86%) Cloud Native
4 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
4 2 (7.14%) Security Posture
5 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (53.57%) Linux
2 5 (17.86%) Windows
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (82.14%) DevOps
2 20 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (60.71%) CI/CD
4 14 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 14 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
5 11 (39.29%) Observability
5 11 (39.29%) Test Automation
6 10 (35.71%) Agile
6 10 (35.71%) Software Engineering
7 8 (28.57%) Computer Science
7 8 (28.57%) Identity Management
7 8 (28.57%) Process Improvement
8 7 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (21.43%) Build Automation
9 6 (21.43%) Decision-Making
9 6 (21.43%) Product Roadmap
9 6 (21.43%) Roadmaps
9 6 (21.43%) Secrets Management
9 6 (21.43%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 20 (71.43%) Python
2 17 (60.71%) Bash
3 10 (35.71%) Java
4 8 (28.57%) Rust
5 7 (25.00%) C#
5 7 (25.00%) VBA
6 6 (21.43%) Groovy
7 4 (14.29%) SQL
8 3 (10.71%) PowerShell
9 2 (7.14%) Bicep
9 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
10 1 (3.57%) C++
10 1 (3.57%) Go
10 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 9 (32.14%) SC Cleared
3 8 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (28.57%) Degree
4 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) QA
2 2 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (7.14%) Def Stans
2 2 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.57%) GDPR
3 1 (3.57%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (82.14%) Docker
2 6 (21.43%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (3.57%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (78.57%) Grafana
1 22 (78.57%) Kubernetes
2 20 (71.43%) Prometheus
3 11 (39.29%) Ansible
4 6 (21.43%) Rancher
5 3 (10.71%) Argo
6 2 (7.14%) Kibana
6 2 (7.14%) logstash
7 1 (3.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) Splunk
2 6 (21.43%) Dynatrace
2 6 (21.43%) ServiceNow
3 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.57%) Cloudera
4 1 (3.57%) Google
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle
4 1 (3.57%) VMware