logstash
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring logstash skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 778 653 733
Rank change year-on-year -125 +80 +8
Permanent jobs citing logstash 26 13 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.022% 0.026% 0.017%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.47% 0.27% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 6 9 5
10th Percentile £68,360 £42,250 £45,500
25th Percentile £68,813 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £80,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.75% +33.33% -15.79%
75th Percentile £78,790 £120,000 £70,000
90th Percentile - - £73,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,991 £47,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +51.56% -20.83% -11.11%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

logstash falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,498 4,857 6,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.63% 9.87% 8.59%
Number of salaries quoted 3,742 2,830 3,594
10th Percentile £33,000 £31,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,774 £39,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,800 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £49,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.35%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing logstash relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

logstash job vacancy trend in the UK

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Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing logstash.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing logstash

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Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing logstash within the UK over the 6 months to 14 October 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
England -122 21 £71,991 -10.01% 20
UK excluding London -119 19 £71,991 +51.56% 8
South West - 17 - - 1
Work from Home -44 3 £71,991 +8.67% 5
London -67 2 - - 13
North of England -62 1 £71,991 +51.56% 1
North East -73 1 £71,991 +51.56%
East of England - 1 - -

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (38.46%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 23 (88.46%) AWS
2 7 (26.92%) Azure
2 7 (26.92%) GitHub
2 7 (26.92%) GitHub Actions
2 7 (26.92%) OpenShift
3 6 (23.08%) Amazon ECR
3 6 (23.08%) Amazon ECS
3 6 (23.08%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 6 (23.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 6 (23.08%) AWS CodeBuild
3 6 (23.08%) Datadog
4 4 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (15.38%) GCP
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (7.69%) dbt
5 2 (7.69%) Serverless
6 1 (3.85%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (69.23%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (30.77%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (26.92%) Redis
4 6 (23.08%) InfluxDB
4 6 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (7.69%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 17 (65.38%) GitLab
1 17 (65.38%) Jenkins
2 11 (42.31%) Cucumber
3 10 (38.46%) SonarQube
4 8 (30.77%) Git
5 7 (26.92%) Cypress.io
5 7 (26.92%) Selenium
6 6 (23.08%) Robot Framework
6 6 (23.08%) TestRail
7 1 (3.85%) Gradle
7 1 (3.85%) JMeter
7 1 (3.85%) Maven
General
1 7 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.69%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Software Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Test Automation Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Test Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Lead
4 3 (11.54%) Python Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Senior
5 2 (7.69%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Python Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Site Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Automation Tester
6 1 (3.85%) Backend Developer
6 1 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Functional Tester
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Backend Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (88.46%) Terraform
2 18 (69.23%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (38.46%) Apache NiFi
4 9 (34.62%) pytest
5 8 (30.77%) Django
5 8 (30.77%) Vue
6 6 (23.08%) Playwright
7 3 (11.54%) FastAPI
7 3 (11.54%) Flask
7 3 (11.54%) RESTful
8 1 (3.85%) JSON
8 1 (3.85%) Kafka
8 1 (3.85%) LDAP
8 1 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (3.85%) REST
8 1 (3.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Distributed Systems
1 6 (23.08%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.85%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (42.31%) Linux
2 7 (26.92%) Windows
3 6 (23.08%) CentOS
4 4 (15.38%) Unix
5 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (96.15%) CI/CD
2 16 (61.54%) Agile
2 16 (61.54%) Collaborative Culture
2 16 (61.54%) DevOps
3 15 (57.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (42.31%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (38.46%) Test Automation
6 9 (34.62%) Containerisation
7 8 (30.77%) Observability
7 8 (30.77%) Software Engineering
8 7 (26.92%) Service Delivery
8 7 (26.92%) Software Testing
9 6 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (23.08%) Dashboard Development
9 6 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (23.08%) Mentoring
9 6 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 6 (23.08%) Test Management
10 5 (19.23%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 24 (92.31%) Python
2 17 (65.38%) Bash
3 14 (53.85%) JavaScript
4 10 (38.46%) Java
5 8 (30.77%) C++
5 8 (30.77%) PowerShell
5 8 (30.77%) Rust
5 8 (30.77%) TypeScript
6 7 (26.92%) Go
7 2 (7.69%) SQL
8 1 (3.85%) Bicep
8 1 (3.85%) C#
8 1 (3.85%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 17 (65.38%) Security Cleared
2 6 (23.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 5 (19.23%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 13 (50.00%) Docker
2 7 (26.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (23.08%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (73.08%) Kibana
2 17 (65.38%) Grafana
3 16 (61.54%) Ansible
4 8 (30.77%) Kubernetes
5 6 (23.08%) vCenter Server
6 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) VMware
2 6 (23.08%) Atlassian
2 6 (23.08%) Red Hat
2 6 (23.08%) Splunk
3 4 (15.38%) Google
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle