Elastic Stack Contracts in the City of London

Elastic Stack (formerly ELK Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Elastic Stack skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Elastic Stack over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 113 157
Rank change year-on-year 0 +44 +13
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 6 14 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.34% 0.64% 0.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.25% 2.92% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 10
10th Percentile £506 £463 £519
25th Percentile £514 £472 £622
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £573 £788
Median % change year-on-year +2.58% -27.27% +31.25%
75th Percentile £638 £925 £1,181
90th Percentile - - £1,225
Central London median daily rate £588 £565 £650
% change year-on-year +3.98% -13.08% +8.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of 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 contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 479 480 1,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.28% 21.85% 28.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 343 676
10th Percentile £413 £401 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -10.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £551 £625
% change year-on-year +4.45% -11.92% +4.17%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Elastic Stack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Elastic Stack in the City of London

Elastic Stack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Elastic Stack in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Elastic Stack in the City of London

Elastic Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (50.00%) GitHub
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon Cognito
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (33.33%) Serverless
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Control Tower
4 1 (16.67%) Azure
4 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
4 1 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DHCP
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (33.33%) DynamoDB
1 2 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Iceberg
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Travis CI
General
1 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Site Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
2 1 (16.67%) Bootstrap
2 1 (16.67%) React
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Unix
3 1 (16.67%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Containerisation
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Protective Monitoring
4 2 (33.33%) SDLC
4 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Coaching
5 1 (16.67%) IT Strategy
5 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 1 (16.67%) Observability
5 1 (16.67%) Performance Metrics
5 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Shell Script
3 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (33.33%) Bash
4 2 (33.33%) Perl
4 2 (33.33%) SQL
5 1 (16.67%) C#
5 1 (16.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
1 5 (83.33%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) Ansible
3 2 (33.33%) Grafana
3 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (16.67%) Kibana
4 1 (16.67%) logstash
4 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
4 1 (16.67%) Puppet
4 1 (16.67%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) TOWER Software