Elastic Stack Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Elastic Stack (formerly ELK Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana)
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Elastic Stack skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 - 27
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 3 0 8
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 1.75% - 5.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.26% - 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £504 - -
25th Percentile £509 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £637 - -
75th Percentile £803 - -
90th Percentile £831 - -
South London median daily rate £637 - £650
% change year-on-year - - +30.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 57 33 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 33.33% 31.43% 27.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 26 26
10th Percentile £492 £403 £381
25th Percentile £500 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £498 £532
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% -6.40% -3.36%
75th Percentile £553 £647 £599
90th Percentile £608 £681 £650
South London median daily rate £521 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +4.10% -7.06% -2.18%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Elastic Stack job vacancy trend in Croydon

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Elastic Stack.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Elastic Stack

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elastic Stack in Croydon over the 6 months to 12 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Elastic Stack in Croydon

Elastic Stack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Datadog
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) IPv4
1 2 (66.67%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Legal
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) OAT Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) CRM
1 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
1 2 (66.67%) GitOps
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (66.67%) Workflow
2 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Operational Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace