logstash Job Trends

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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 630 701 744
Rank change year-on-year +71 +43 +187
Permanent jobs citing logstash 19 11 26
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.030% 0.021% 0.038%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.45% 0.19% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 7 8 25
10th Percentile - £42,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,125 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% -15.15%
75th Percentile £120,000 £71,250 £80,000
90th Percentile - £79,125 £83,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -

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 4,260 5,842 8,298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.73% 11.14% 12.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2,964 3,556 6,742
10th Percentile £32,000 £38,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,625 £102,200
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,283 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.20% +9.09% -2.62%

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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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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing logstash over the 6 months to 29 January 2026.

Salary histogram for logstash in the UK

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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 29 January 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 +62 14 £65,000 - 6
London +51 9 £87,500 +25.00% 1
UK excluding London +32 9 £65,000 +8.33% 5
Work from Home +58 4 £55,000 -21.43% 5
South West +8 4 - - 1
Scotland - 4 - -
Midlands - 1 £65,000 - 2
West Midlands - 1 £65,000 - 2

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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 6 (31.58%) Apache
2 3 (15.79%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) AWS
2 4 (21.05%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) Azure AKS
2 4 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (21.05%) Azure Pipelines
2 4 (21.05%) GitHub
2 4 (21.05%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (73.68%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (10.53%) Big Data
2 2 (10.53%) Redis
3 1 (5.26%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) GitLab
1 4 (21.05%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.79%) Cucumber
2 3 (15.79%) SonarQube
3 2 (10.53%) JConsole
3 2 (10.53%) VisualVM
4 1 (5.26%) Cypress.io
4 1 (5.26%) Git
4 1 (5.26%) Robot Framework
4 1 (5.26%) Selenium
4 1 (5.26%) TestRail
General
1 3 (15.79%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Banking
2 2 (10.53%) Front Office
2 2 (10.53%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Software Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Software Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) SIEM Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (68.42%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (15.79%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (15.79%) Kafka
2 3 (15.79%) Vue
3 2 (10.53%) gRPC
3 2 (10.53%) Lambda Expressions
3 2 (10.53%) OpenTracing
4 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (5.26%) Playwright
4 1 (5.26%) pytest
4 1 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (5.26%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (15.79%) Product Ownership
3 2 (10.53%) Algorithms
3 2 (10.53%) Credit Risk
3 2 (10.53%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 8 (42.11%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) CentOS
2 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) CI/CD
2 9 (47.37%) DevOps
3 8 (42.11%) Observability
4 7 (36.84%) Agile
5 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (31.58%) Software Engineering
6 5 (26.32%) Collaborative Culture
6 5 (26.32%) Computer Science
6 5 (26.32%) Incident Response
6 5 (26.32%) Test Automation
7 4 (21.05%) API Management
7 4 (21.05%) Capacity Planning
7 4 (21.05%) Cloud Security
7 4 (21.05%) Deployment Automation
7 4 (21.05%) Identity Management
7 4 (21.05%) Network Virtualisation
7 4 (21.05%) Performance Monitoring
7 4 (21.05%) Secrets Management
7 4 (21.05%) Software Delivery
7 4 (21.05%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) Python
2 8 (42.11%) Bash
3 5 (26.32%) Java
3 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
3 5 (26.32%) PowerShell
4 4 (21.05%) Bicep
5 3 (15.79%) SQL
5 3 (15.79%) TypeScript
6 1 (5.26%) C++
6 1 (5.26%) Go
6 1 (5.26%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 4 (21.05%) Azure Certification
3 3 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (15.79%) Degree
4 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (68.42%) Kibana
2 8 (42.11%) Grafana
2 8 (42.11%) Terraform
3 6 (31.58%) Kubernetes
3 6 (31.58%) Prometheus
4 4 (21.05%) Ansible
5 1 (5.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) Atlassian
1 1 (5.26%) Red Hat
1 1 (5.26%) Splunk
1 1 (5.26%) VMware