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

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 349 377
Rank change year-on-year +17 +28 +138
Permanent jobs citing Elastic Stack 51 80 78
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.37% 0.50% 0.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.91% 1.86% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 40 34 49
10th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £54,500
25th Percentile £64,688 £68,125 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £97,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +21.88% -5.88%
75th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £108,500 £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 2,671 4,297 5,021
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.38% 27.07% 27.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,932 2,688 4,364
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,875 £51,250
25th Percentile £64,000 £62,000 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £110,000 £107,729 £102,500
90th Percentile £135,000 £128,750 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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 27 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 27 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 +31 4 £106,250 +51.79% 11
South London +25 4 £62,600 +4.33% 2
West London - 1 - - 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 11 (21.57%) Confluence
2 5 (9.80%) Apache Spark
3 4 (7.84%) Apache
4 2 (3.92%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (3.92%) Luigi
4 2 (3.92%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.96%) JBoss
5 1 (1.96%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (17.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (17.65%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 31 (60.78%) AWS
2 18 (35.29%) Azure
3 13 (25.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 12 (23.53%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (15.69%) GCP
5 8 (15.69%) Serverless
6 7 (13.73%) GitHub
7 6 (11.76%) Amazon S3
7 6 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (9.80%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (9.80%) Datadog
8 5 (9.80%) Pulumi
9 4 (7.84%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (7.84%) OpenShift
9 4 (7.84%) PaaS
9 4 (7.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (3.92%) Logz.io
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.80%) Broadband
2 2 (3.92%) Firewall
2 2 (3.92%) SSL
2 2 (3.92%) VPN
3 1 (1.96%) DNS
3 1 (1.96%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (35.29%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (29.41%) SQL Server
3 13 (25.49%) DB2
3 13 (25.49%) NoSQL
4 8 (15.69%) Relational Database
5 5 (9.80%) RDBMS
6 4 (7.84%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (7.84%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (3.92%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (3.92%) Hadoop
7 2 (3.92%) MongoDB
7 2 (3.92%) MySQL
7 2 (3.92%) Redis
8 1 (1.96%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 25 (49.02%) Jenkins
2 15 (29.41%) TeamCity
3 14 (27.45%) Cucumber
3 14 (27.45%) Selenium
4 13 (25.49%) Bitbucket
4 13 (25.49%) JIRA
5 8 (15.69%) Git
6 7 (13.73%) Jaeger
7 6 (11.76%) GitLab
8 5 (9.80%) Artifactory
9 3 (5.88%) JUnit
9 3 (5.88%) Maven
9 3 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (3.92%) Eclipse
10 2 (3.92%) Gradle
10 2 (3.92%) JMeter
10 2 (3.92%) Robot Framework
10 2 (3.92%) SonarQube
10 2 (3.92%) webpack
11 1 (1.96%) Ant
General
1 23 (45.10%) Social Skills
2 14 (27.45%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (25.49%) Banking
3 13 (25.49%) Finance
4 5 (9.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (9.80%) Telecoms
5 4 (7.84%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.92%) Retail
7 1 (1.96%) Law
7 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (31.37%) Developer
2 14 (27.45%) Java Developer
3 11 (21.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (17.65%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (15.69%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (13.73%) Agile Developer
6 7 (13.73%) Agile Java Developer
6 7 (13.73%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 6 (11.76%) Lead
8 5 (9.80%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (9.80%) Senior
9 4 (7.84%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (7.84%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (7.84%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (7.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 3 (5.88%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 3 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 3 (5.88%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 3 (5.88%) Software Engineer
10 3 (5.88%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (31.37%) React
2 14 (27.45%) Node.js
3 13 (25.49%) CSS
3 13 (25.49%) HTML
3 13 (25.49%) RESTful
4 11 (21.57%) Gherkin
4 11 (21.57%) OpenTelemetry
5 6 (11.76%) Kafka
6 3 (5.88%) Express.js
6 3 (5.88%) pytest
6 3 (5.88%) Spring
6 3 (5.88%) Spring Boot
6 3 (5.88%) YAML
7 2 (3.92%) AWS SAM
7 2 (3.92%) CSS3
7 2 (3.92%) HTML5
7 2 (3.92%) Mustache
7 2 (3.92%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (3.92%) REST
7 2 (3.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (25.49%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (13.73%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (13.73%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (7.84%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.92%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.92%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (3.92%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.92%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.96%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (56.86%) Linux
2 17 (33.33%) Windows
3 12 (23.53%) Unix
4 5 (9.80%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (76.47%) CI/CD
2 30 (58.82%) Agile
3 29 (56.86%) DevOps
4 26 (50.98%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (47.06%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (41.18%) Continuous Integration
7 16 (31.37%) Containerisation
7 16 (31.37%) Microservices
7 16 (31.37%) Software Engineering
8 15 (29.41%) Design Patterns
8 15 (29.41%) Test Automation
9 14 (27.45%) Scrum
10 13 (25.49%) BDD
10 13 (25.49%) Dynamic Code Analysis
10 13 (25.49%) Front End Development
10 13 (25.49%) Static Code Analysis
11 11 (21.57%) Computer Science
11 11 (21.57%) Epics
11 11 (21.57%) Root Cause Analysis
11 11 (21.57%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 30 (58.82%) Python
2 24 (47.06%) SQL
3 23 (45.10%) Bash
3 23 (45.10%) Java
4 22 (43.14%) JavaScript
5 10 (19.61%) Go
5 10 (19.61%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.88%) Groovy
6 3 (5.88%) RPG
6 3 (5.88%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.92%) Scala
7 2 (3.92%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.96%) Bicep
8 1 (1.96%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 12 (23.53%) Degree
2 11 (21.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 11 (21.57%) Security Cleared
3 9 (17.65%) DV Cleared
4 6 (11.76%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.96%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.96%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 40 (78.43%) Docker
2 4 (7.84%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (7.84%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 42 (82.35%) Kubernetes
2 28 (54.90%) Ansible
3 26 (50.98%) Terraform
4 24 (47.06%) Prometheus
5 17 (33.33%) Grafana
6 7 (13.73%) Argo
7 5 (9.80%) Kustomize
8 3 (5.88%) Kibana
8 3 (5.88%) logstash
8 3 (5.88%) Puppet
9 2 (3.92%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.96%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (1.96%) Podman
10 1 (1.96%) SCOM
Vendors
1 11 (21.57%) Atlassian
2 8 (15.69%) Splunk
3 7 (13.73%) VMware
4 6 (11.76%) Google
5 4 (7.84%) Foundry
5 4 (7.84%) Oracle
5 4 (7.84%) Palantir
6 3 (5.88%) IBM
7 2 (3.92%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.96%) BMC
8 1 (1.96%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.96%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.96%) SolarWinds