Elastic Stack Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Elastic Stack (formerly ELK Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Elastic Stack skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 76 99
Rank change year-on-year +9 +23 +26
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 14 10 1
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 1.38% 0.83% 0.075%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.93% 8.20% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 1
10th Percentile - £500 -
25th Percentile £418 £567 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -33.36% +22.77% -25.42%
75th Percentile £525 £690 -
90th Percentile £538 - -
South East median daily rate £450 £600 £469
% change year-on-year -25.00% +28.00% -20.21%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 141 122 178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 13.89% 10.16% 13.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 71 90
10th Percentile £375 £400 £444
25th Percentile £415 £462 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £638
90th Percentile £650 £690 £707
South East median daily rate £474 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.71% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 14 26
10th Percentile £49.63 £62.50 £51.88
25th Percentile - - £55.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £53.75 - £70.00
90th Percentile £55.00 - £75.00
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% -7.69%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Elastic Stack job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elastic Stack in Hampshire over the 6 months to 13 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Elastic Stack in Hampshire

Elastic Stack
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
Portsmouth +3 6 £435 -36.96%
Fleet - 3 £525 -
Andover - 3 £450 -
Elastic Stack
South East

Elastic Stack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 2 (14.29%) JBoss
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) GitHub
2 8 (57.14%) OpenShift
3 3 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon ECR
4 2 (14.29%) AWS
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DNS
1 1 (7.14%) SSH
1 1 (7.14%) SSL
1 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (35.71%) Redis
3 4 (28.57%) MongoDB
4 1 (7.14%) Big Data
4 1 (7.14%) Delta Lake
4 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
4 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
4 1 (7.14%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) GitLab
2 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 3 (21.43%) Maven
4 2 (14.29%) Artifactory
5 1 (7.14%) Git
5 1 (7.14%) MLflow
5 1 (7.14%) Poetry
5 1 (7.14%) PyCharm
5 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
5 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Aerospace
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Technical Specialist
3 2 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Linux Specialist
3 2 (14.29%) Project Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Project Leader
4 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Database Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Kafka Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (57.14%) Kafka
2 5 (35.71%) Keycloak
2 5 (35.71%) YAML
3 3 (21.43%) Spring Boot
4 1 (7.14%) Apache Avro
4 1 (7.14%) Flask
4 1 (7.14%) NumPy
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (7.14%) Pandas
Operating Systems
1 10 (71.43%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Containerisation
1 9 (64.29%) DevOps
2 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (50.00%) Immutable Infrastructure
3 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (35.71%) Agile
4 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (35.71%) Observability
4 5 (35.71%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (35.71%) Scrum
5 3 (21.43%) Analytics
5 3 (21.43%) API Integration
5 3 (21.43%) Change Management
5 3 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (21.43%) Data Analytics
5 3 (21.43%) Service Management
5 3 (21.43%) Systems Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
6 2 (14.29%) Secrets Management
6 2 (14.29%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Bash
2 5 (35.71%) Java
3 3 (21.43%) Python
3 3 (21.43%) Shell Script
4 2 (14.29%) SQL
5 1 (7.14%) Groovy
5 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.14%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) Def Stans
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (78.57%) Kubernetes
2 10 (71.43%) Grafana
2 10 (71.43%) Prometheus
3 8 (57.14%) Ansible
4 7 (50.00%) Terraform
5 5 (35.71%) Packer
6 2 (14.29%) Sysdig
7 1 (7.14%) Argo
7 1 (7.14%) Istio
7 1 (7.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Red Hat
2 5 (35.71%) Splunk
3 3 (21.43%) CyberArk
3 3 (21.43%) VMware
4 2 (14.29%) ServiceNow
5 1 (7.14%) Cloudera
5 1 (7.14%) Oracle