Elastic Stack Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Elastic Stack skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 122 129
Rank change year-on-year +3 +7 +39
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 6 9 16
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.35% 0.42% 0.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.42% 1.75% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 11
10th Percentile £524 £496 -
25th Percentile £623 £509 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £648 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -3.70% +15.38%
75th Percentile £684 £709 £756
90th Percentile £688 £858 £800
Central London median daily rate £648 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -0.38% -3.70% +15.38%

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 424 515 701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.54% 24.32% 24.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 313 470
10th Percentile £400 £401 £406
25th Percentile £463 £500 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £711 £725
90th Percentile £773 £838 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £620
% change year-on-year -8.33% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £63.75 - £46.93
25th Percentile £67.50 £36.75 £47.94
Median hourly rate £75.00 £38.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +94.81% -23.38% -15.90%
75th Percentile £82.50 £40.25 £51.94
90th Percentile £86.25 - £52.58
Central London median hourly rate £62.50 £38.50 £50.25
% change year-on-year +62.34% -23.38% -15.90%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Elastic Stack relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Elastic Stack job vacancy trend in the City of London

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Elastic Stack.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Elastic Stack

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elastic Stack in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Elastic Stack in the City of London

Elastic Stack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
2 5 (83.33%) Banking
2 5 (83.33%) Investment Banking
2 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware
2 1 (16.67%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (83.33%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (83.33%) Fixed Income
2 5 (83.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
1 6 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 6 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 6 (100.00%) Observability
2 5 (83.33%) Algorithmic Trading
2 5 (83.33%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (83.33%) Data Science
2 5 (83.33%) Event-Driven
2 5 (83.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 5 (83.33%) High-Frequency Trading
2 5 (83.33%) Project Management
2 5 (83.33%) RBAC
2 5 (83.33%) Time Management
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) ITRS Geneos
1 6 (100.00%) Kibana
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (100.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Solace
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) TIBCO