Elastic Stack Contracts in Edinburgh

Elastic Stack (formerly ELK Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 24 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 73 -
Rank change year-on-year +7 - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Elastic Stack 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.63% 0.12% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.60% 0.57% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £264 - -
25th Percentile £323 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% - -
75th Percentile £465 £488 -
90th Percentile £492 - -
Scotland median daily rate £323 £425 -
% change year-on-year -24.12% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 154 176 345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 24.06% 21.70% 31.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 110 250
10th Percentile £408 £380 £388
25th Percentile £450 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £478 £479
Median % change year-on-year +4.08% -0.31% -4.20%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £538
90th Percentile £595 £703 £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £480
% change year-on-year - -0.99% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £53.38
% change year-on-year - +3.03% +45.93%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Elastic Stack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Elastic Stack in Edinburgh

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

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

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elastic Stack in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 24 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Elastic Stack in Edinburgh

Elastic Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
1 3 (75.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Liquibase
2 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) GCP Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Change Management
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (50.00%) Cryptography
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Data Security
3 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Statistical Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Go
3 2 (50.00%) Java
4 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Grafana
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (50.00%) Ansible
3 2 (50.00%) Terraform
4 1 (25.00%) Kibana
4 1 (25.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google
1 3 (75.00%) Splunk