Elastic Stack Contracts in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 382 398 483
Rank change year-on-year +16 +85 0
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 103 144 171
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.42% 0.39% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.89% 1.92% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 102 120
10th Percentile £393 £427 £463
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £638 £645 £784
90th Percentile £666 £725 £900
UK median daily rate £543 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.36% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £79.58 - £67.50
25th Percentile £80.90 - £71.63
Median hourly rate £84.35 - £75.00
75th Percentile £89.05 - £75.38
90th Percentile £91.12 - £76.75
UK median hourly rate £84.35 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - -6.25%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Elastic Stack in England

Elastic Stack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Elastic Stack in England.

Daily rate trend for Elastic Stack in England

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elastic Stack in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Elastic Stack in England

Elastic Stack
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Elastic Stack in England.

Hourly rate trend for Elastic Stack in England

Elastic Stack
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Elastic Stack in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Elastic Stack in England

Elastic Stack
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +10 57 £550 +7.84% 54
South West +55 14 £600 -20.00% 17
South East +42 11 £508 -3.33% 19
North of England +12 10 £393 -36.82% 22
North West +23 9 £393 -34.50% 17
Midlands +12 9 £575 +4.55% 10
West Midlands +7 7 £600 +9.09% 6
East Midlands +7 2 £506 +42.13% 3
East of England +30 1 £438 - 2
North East -3 1 £650 - 1
Elastic Stack
UK

Elastic Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 13 (12.62%) Apache
2 10 (9.71%) JBoss
3 8 (7.77%) nginx
4 7 (6.80%) Apache Spark
5 5 (4.85%) OpenStack
6 4 (3.88%) Confluence
7 1 (0.97%) IIS
7 1 (0.97%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 65 (63.11%) AWS
2 30 (29.13%) Azure
3 26 (25.24%) GCP
4 21 (20.39%) OpenShift
5 15 (14.56%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (11.65%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (11.65%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (10.68%) GitHub
8 9 (8.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (7.77%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (7.77%) Serverless
10 5 (4.85%) Amazon S3
10 5 (4.85%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (3.88%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (3.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (2.91%) Amazon Cognito
12 3 (2.91%) Amazon ELB
12 3 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (2.91%) Datadog
13 2 (1.94%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (15.53%) DNS
2 15 (14.56%) TCP/IP
3 14 (13.59%) HTTP
4 10 (9.71%) Firewall
5 7 (6.80%) DHCP
5 7 (6.80%) Internet
5 7 (6.80%) Intrusion Detection
6 6 (5.83%) VPN
7 5 (4.85%) Network Security
8 4 (3.88%) DOCSIS
8 4 (3.88%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (1.94%) DSL
9 2 (1.94%) Kerberos
9 2 (1.94%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (1.94%) SNMP
9 2 (1.94%) SSH
9 2 (1.94%) Telnet
9 2 (1.94%) VLAN
9 2 (1.94%) Wireless
9 2 (1.94%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (29.13%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (12.62%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (8.74%) Relational Database
4 8 (7.77%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (7.77%) RDBMS
5 7 (6.80%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (5.83%) MongoDB
6 6 (5.83%) NoSQL
7 5 (4.85%) Hadoop
7 5 (4.85%) MySQL
8 4 (3.88%) Big Data
8 4 (3.88%) DynamoDB
8 4 (3.88%) Redis
9 3 (2.91%) InfluxDB
9 3 (2.91%) Looker
10 2 (1.94%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.94%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.97%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.97%) Oracle Database 12c
11 1 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 47 (45.63%) Jenkins
2 22 (21.36%) Git
3 17 (16.50%) GitLab
4 14 (13.59%) JIRA
5 10 (9.71%) SonarQube
5 10 (9.71%) Sonatype Nexus
6 9 (8.74%) Bitbucket Server
6 9 (8.74%) CA Release Automation
6 9 (8.74%) TeamCity
7 5 (4.85%) Maven
8 4 (3.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (2.91%) Bitbucket
9 3 (2.91%) Eclipse
9 3 (2.91%) Gradle
9 3 (2.91%) IntelliJ
9 3 (2.91%) JUnit
9 3 (2.91%) Mockito
9 3 (2.91%) TestNG
10 2 (1.94%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.94%) Terragrunt
General
1 19 (18.45%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.74%) Finance
3 6 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (5.83%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.88%) Telecoms
5 3 (2.91%) Banking
5 3 (2.91%) Military
6 2 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.97%) Electronics
7 1 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.97%) Legal
7 1 (0.97%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.97%) Marketing
7 1 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (33.98%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (26.21%) Senior
3 13 (12.62%) Senior DevOps
4 12 (11.65%) AWS DevOps
4 12 (11.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 11 (10.68%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (10.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 10 (9.71%) Lead
7 9 (8.74%) Site Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) Developer
9 6 (5.83%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (3.88%) Consultant
10 4 (3.88%) Data Engineer
10 4 (3.88%) Java Developer
10 4 (3.88%) Senior Data Engineer
10 4 (3.88%) Unix Engineer
11 3 (2.91%) Administrator
11 3 (2.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.59%) Spring Boot
2 12 (11.65%) Kafka
3 7 (6.80%) Node.js
3 7 (6.80%) RESTful
4 6 (5.83%) JBoss Seam
4 6 (5.83%) Spring
5 5 (4.85%) REST
5 5 (4.85%) YAML
6 4 (3.88%) Apache NiFi
6 4 (3.88%) React
7 3 (2.91%) Hibernate
7 3 (2.91%) JSON
7 3 (2.91%) JWT
7 3 (2.91%) OAuth
7 3 (2.91%) OpenAPI
7 3 (2.91%) Swagger
8 2 (1.94%) .NET
8 2 (1.94%) Middleware
8 2 (1.94%) SOAP
8 2 (1.94%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.71%) Management Information System
2 8 (7.77%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.83%) Replication
4 5 (4.85%) Video\Live Streaming
5 4 (3.88%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.88%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (2.91%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.94%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.94%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.94%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.94%) IoT
7 2 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.94%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.97%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.97%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.97%) Digital TV
8 1 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.97%) MPEG
Operating Systems
1 53 (51.46%) Linux
2 15 (14.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (11.65%) Windows
4 8 (7.77%) Unix
5 3 (2.91%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.97%) CentOS
6 1 (0.97%) Debian
6 1 (0.97%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.97%) SUSE
6 1 (0.97%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (67.96%) DevOps
2 61 (59.22%) CI/CD
3 45 (43.69%) Containerisation
4 34 (33.01%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (22.33%) Microservices
6 22 (21.36%) Configuration Management
7 21 (20.39%) Continuous Integration
8 20 (19.42%) Deployment Automation
9 19 (18.45%) Agile
9 19 (18.45%) High Availability
10 18 (17.48%) Migration
10 18 (17.48%) Observability
10 18 (17.48%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (16.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 12 (11.65%) Test Automation
13 11 (10.68%) Analytics
13 11 (10.68%) Performance Tuning
14 9 (8.74%) Build Automation
14 9 (8.74%) Decision-Making
14 9 (8.74%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 57 (55.34%) Python
2 22 (21.36%) Bash
3 20 (19.42%) Java
4 15 (14.56%) Shell Script
5 12 (11.65%) Perl
6 10 (9.71%) SQL
7 9 (8.74%) PowerShell
8 8 (7.77%) Go
9 7 (6.80%) Groovy
9 7 (6.80%) Ruby
10 6 (5.83%) JavaScript
11 5 (4.85%) C
12 4 (3.88%) C++
13 2 (1.94%) C#
13 2 (1.94%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.97%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.97%) Scala
Qualifications
1 40 (38.83%) Security Cleared
2 23 (22.33%) SC Cleared
3 17 (16.50%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.83%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.88%) Degree
6 3 (2.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.91%) CISSP
7 2 (1.94%) RHCE
7 2 (1.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.97%) CEH
8 1 (0.97%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.97%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.97%) MCSA
8 1 (0.97%) MCSE
8 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.97%) OCA
8 1 (0.97%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.97%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.77%) QA
2 6 (5.83%) GDPR
3 5 (4.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.88%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.91%) NIST
6 2 (1.94%) NCSC
6 2 (1.94%) SLA
7 1 (0.97%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.97%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 59 (57.28%) Docker
2 9 (8.74%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.94%) FreeRADIUS
4 2 (1.94%) iptables
5 1 (0.97%) NFS
5 1 (0.97%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.97%) Samba
5 1 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 68 (66.02%) Kubernetes
2 46 (44.66%) Terraform
3 43 (41.75%) Grafana
4 42 (40.78%) Ansible
5 40 (38.83%) Prometheus
6 26 (25.24%) Kibana
7 20 (19.42%) Progress Chef
7 20 (19.42%) Puppet
8 18 (17.48%) logstash
9 5 (4.85%) ZABBIX
10 4 (3.88%) Nagios
11 3 (2.91%) HAProxy
11 3 (2.91%) Packer
12 2 (1.94%) Cacti
12 2 (1.94%) Graylog
12 2 (1.94%) Netcool
12 2 (1.94%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (1.94%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (1.94%) Proxmox
12 2 (1.94%) Rancher
Vendors
1 28 (27.18%) Splunk
2 22 (21.36%) Red Hat
3 14 (13.59%) AppDynamics
4 8 (7.77%) VMware
5 7 (6.80%) Darktrace
6 6 (5.83%) Google
6 6 (5.83%) Oracle
7 4 (3.88%) Cloudera
7 4 (3.88%) Dynatrace
7 4 (3.88%) SolarWinds
8 3 (2.91%) Microsoft
9 2 (1.94%) ArcSight
9 2 (1.94%) Nokia
10 1 (0.97%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.97%) Cisco
10 1 (0.97%) Citrix
10 1 (0.97%) F5
10 1 (0.97%) Huawei
10 1 (0.97%) TOWER Software
10 1 (0.97%) Veeam