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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 388 394 478
Rank change year-on-year +6 +84 +23
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 98 142 160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.40% 0.39% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.79% 1.86% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 101 108
10th Percentile £395 £450 £459
25th Percentile £463 £505 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £594 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.88% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £756
90th Percentile £653 £750 £900
UK median daily rate £540 £597 £575
% change year-on-year -9.55% +3.83% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 9
10th Percentile £78.96 - £69.30
25th Percentile £79.35 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile £86.25 - £78.00
90th Percentile £90.00 - £90.00
UK median hourly rate £80.00 - £75.00

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 5,462 7,649 10,787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.54% 20.81% 22.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,782 5,408 8,016
10th Percentile £363 £350 £400
25th Percentile £419 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £557
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.26% -3.13%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £688
90th Percentile £788 £800 £789
UK median daily rate £521 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -2.62% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 239 129
10th Percentile £31.28 £22.50 £29.15
25th Percentile £43.70 £43.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +23.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £66.88 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £75.00 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £47.97 £65.00
% change year-on-year +30.30% -26.21% +23.81%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 +31 50 £555 +4.23% 47
South East +42 12 £508 -19.48% 10
South West +42 12 £600 -13.04% 15
North of England +9 12 £393 -36.97% 20
North West +16 10 £393 -39.54% 14
Midlands +3 10 £544 -0.05% 8
West Midlands +6 8 £550 - 6
East Midlands +6 2 £506 +42.13% 2
Yorkshire +3 2 £500 -19.61% 3
East of England - 1 £438 - 3
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 (13.27%) JBoss
2 11 (11.22%) Apache
3 3 (3.06%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.06%) Confluence
4 2 (2.04%) nginx
4 2 (2.04%) OpenStack
4 2 (2.04%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.02%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 68 (69.39%) AWS
2 28 (28.57%) Azure
3 23 (23.47%) GCP
3 23 (23.47%) OpenShift
4 19 (19.39%) Amazon EKS
5 16 (16.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (13.27%) GitHub
8 11 (11.22%) Serverless
9 10 (10.20%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (8.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (6.12%) Amazon S3
13 5 (5.10%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (4.08%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
15 3 (3.06%) Amazon Cognito
15 3 (3.06%) Amazon ELB
15 3 (3.06%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 16 (16.33%) DNS
2 14 (14.29%) Firewall
2 14 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 12 (12.24%) HTTP
4 8 (8.16%) Internet
4 8 (8.16%) Intrusion Detection
4 8 (8.16%) VPN
5 5 (5.10%) Network Security
6 3 (3.06%) DHCP
7 2 (2.04%) Kerberos
7 2 (2.04%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (2.04%) SNMP
7 2 (2.04%) SSH
7 2 (2.04%) SSL
7 2 (2.04%) Telnet
7 2 (2.04%) Wireshark
8 1 (1.02%) DSL
8 1 (1.02%) DSLAM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (30.61%) Elasticsearch
2 16 (16.33%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (11.22%) Relational Database
4 9 (9.18%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (9.18%) RDBMS
5 8 (8.16%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (6.12%) DynamoDB
6 6 (6.12%) MongoDB
7 5 (5.10%) MySQL
8 4 (4.08%) NoSQL
8 4 (4.08%) Redis
9 3 (3.06%) Hadoop
10 2 (2.04%) Big Data
10 2 (2.04%) Oracle Database
11 1 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (1.02%) Apache Iceberg
11 1 (1.02%) Cloudera CDH
11 1 (1.02%) DocumentDB
11 1 (1.02%) Oracle Database 12c
11 1 (1.02%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 45 (45.92%) Jenkins
2 26 (26.53%) Git
3 18 (18.37%) GitLab
4 17 (17.35%) JIRA
5 13 (13.27%) Sonatype Nexus
6 11 (11.22%) SonarQube
7 10 (10.20%) Bitbucket Server
7 10 (10.20%) CA Release Automation
7 10 (10.20%) TeamCity
8 6 (6.12%) Maven
9 3 (3.06%) Artifactory
9 3 (3.06%) Bitbucket
9 3 (3.06%) Eclipse
9 3 (3.06%) Gradle
9 3 (3.06%) IntelliJ
9 3 (3.06%) JUnit
9 3 (3.06%) Mockito
9 3 (3.06%) TestNG
10 2 (2.04%) Ant
10 2 (2.04%) Terragrunt
General
1 21 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.20%) Finance
3 6 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (6.12%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.08%) Banking
5 3 (3.06%) Military
5 3 (3.06%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.02%) Electronics
7 1 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.02%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.02%) Legal
7 1 (1.02%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.02%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 35 (35.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (29.59%) Senior
3 14 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
4 13 (13.27%) Lead
4 13 (13.27%) Senior DevOps
5 12 (12.24%) AWS Engineer
5 12 (12.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 9 (9.18%) Cloud Engineer
7 8 (8.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 8 (8.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 7 (7.14%) Site Engineer
9 6 (6.12%) Developer
10 5 (5.10%) Data Engineer
10 5 (5.10%) Senior Data Engineer
11 4 (4.08%) Consultant
11 4 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (4.08%) Java Developer
12 3 (3.06%) Administrator
12 3 (3.06%) Architect
12 3 (3.06%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.31%) Spring Boot
2 11 (11.22%) Kafka
3 8 (8.16%) Node.js
4 7 (7.14%) JBoss Seam
5 6 (6.12%) RESTful
5 6 (6.12%) Spring
6 5 (5.10%) Apache NiFi
6 5 (5.10%) REST
7 3 (3.06%) Hibernate
7 3 (3.06%) JSON
7 3 (3.06%) JWT
7 3 (3.06%) Middleware
7 3 (3.06%) OAuth
7 3 (3.06%) OpenAPI
7 3 (3.06%) React
7 3 (3.06%) Swagger
7 3 (3.06%) YAML
8 2 (2.04%) .NET
8 2 (2.04%) Web Services
8 2 (2.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.27%) Management Information System
2 7 (7.14%) Replication
3 6 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.06%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.04%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.04%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.04%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.02%) CESG
6 1 (1.02%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.02%) FMCG
6 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.02%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.02%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.02%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.02%) Video on Demand
6 1 (1.02%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 49 (50.00%) Linux
2 16 (16.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (15.31%) Windows
4 5 (5.10%) Unix
5 4 (4.08%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.02%) CentOS
6 1 (1.02%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (73.47%) DevOps
2 54 (55.10%) CI/CD
3 47 (47.96%) Containerisation
4 35 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 27 (27.55%) Configuration Management
6 22 (22.45%) Deployment Automation
6 22 (22.45%) Microservices
7 21 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
8 20 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (18.37%) High Availability
9 18 (18.37%) Migration
10 17 (17.35%) Agile
11 16 (16.33%) Observability
12 13 (13.27%) Analytics
13 12 (12.24%) Performance Tuning
14 11 (11.22%) Decision-Making
14 11 (11.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 10 (10.20%) Build Automation
15 10 (10.20%) Code Quality
15 10 (10.20%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 55 (56.12%) Python
2 25 (25.51%) Bash
3 16 (16.33%) Java
4 13 (13.27%) Perl
5 12 (12.24%) PowerShell
6 10 (10.20%) Shell Script
7 8 (8.16%) SQL
8 7 (7.14%) JavaScript
8 7 (7.14%) Ruby
9 5 (5.10%) Groovy
10 3 (3.06%) C#
10 3 (3.06%) Go
11 1 (1.02%) C
11 1 (1.02%) C++
11 1 (1.02%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.02%) Scala
11 1 (1.02%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 45 (45.92%) Security Cleared
2 27 (27.55%) SC Cleared
3 20 (20.41%) DV Cleared
4 6 (6.12%) AWS Certification
5 5 (5.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (3.06%) CISSP
7 2 (2.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (2.04%) Degree
7 2 (2.04%) RHCE
7 2 (2.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (1.02%) CEH
8 1 (1.02%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.02%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (1.02%) MCSA
8 1 (1.02%) MCSE
8 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.02%) OCA
8 1 (1.02%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.02%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.14%) GDPR
1 7 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (5.10%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.10%) NIST
3 4 (4.08%) QA
4 2 (2.04%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (2.04%) NCSC
4 2 (2.04%) SLA
4 2 (2.04%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.02%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 60 (61.22%) Docker
2 10 (10.20%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.04%) FreeRADIUS
4 2 (2.04%) iptables
5 1 (1.02%) NFS
5 1 (1.02%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (1.02%) Samba
Systems Management
1 70 (71.43%) Kubernetes
2 44 (44.90%) Terraform
3 41 (41.84%) Ansible
3 41 (41.84%) Grafana
4 40 (40.82%) Prometheus
5 27 (27.55%) Kibana
6 25 (25.51%) Puppet
7 22 (22.45%) Progress Chef
8 18 (18.37%) logstash
9 4 (4.08%) Nagios
9 4 (4.08%) ZABBIX
10 3 (3.06%) Packer
10 3 (3.06%) Podman
11 2 (2.04%) Graylog
11 2 (2.04%) Kustomize
11 2 (2.04%) Netcool
11 2 (2.04%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (2.04%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (2.04%) Proxmox
11 2 (2.04%) Rancher
Vendors
1 24 (24.49%) Red Hat
2 23 (23.47%) Splunk
3 11 (11.22%) AppDynamics
4 8 (8.16%) Darktrace
4 8 (8.16%) VMware
5 7 (7.14%) Oracle
6 6 (6.12%) Google
7 5 (5.10%) Cloudera
8 2 (2.04%) Atlassian
8 2 (2.04%) Microsoft
8 2 (2.04%) Nokia
8 2 (2.04%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.04%) SolarWinds
8 2 (2.04%) Veeam
9 1 (1.02%) Black Duck
9 1 (1.02%) Checkmarx
9 1 (1.02%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.02%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.02%) Solace
9 1 (1.02%) Tenable