Elastic Stack Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Elastic Stack (formerly ELK Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Elastic Stack skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 81 112
Rank change year-on-year -29 +31 +11
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.14% 0.11% 0.053%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.29% 0.65% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £560 - -
25th Percentile £575 £431 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £438 -
Median % change year-on-year +48.57% - -
75th Percentile £725 £444 -
90th Percentile £740 - -
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -10.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 233 155 231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 11.18% 16.33% 12.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 109 151
10th Percentile £413 £321 £313
25th Percentile £463 £415 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £490 £498
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -1.51% -6.13%
75th Percentile £650 £613 £575
90th Percentile £738 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 10 22
10th Percentile £30.92 £64.63 £22.88
25th Percentile £55.00 £65.63 £40.98
Median hourly rate £65.00 £75.34 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.72% +75.20% -33.85%
75th Percentile £75.00 £81.27 £66.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.29 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Elastic Stack job vacancy trend in the East of England

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Elastic Stack.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Elastic Stack

Elastic Stack
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Elastic Stack within the East of England region over the 6 months to 8 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire - 2 £650 - 3
Suffolk -2 1 - -
Elastic Stack
England

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

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) SOC Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
1 2 (66.67%) Security Posture
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Security Monitoring
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
1 2 (66.67%) Tech Ops
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Full Text Search
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kibana
1 1 (33.33%) logstash
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk