Elastic Stack Contract Job Trends in London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Elastic Stack skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 348 316
Rank change year-on-year +22 -32 +127
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 45 45 118
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.34% 0.28% 0.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.29% 1.04% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 28 83
10th Percentile £422 £500 £413
25th Percentile £484 £509 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £595 £601
Median % change year-on-year +5.04% -0.92% -7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £756 £719
90th Percentile £730 £875 £775
England median daily rate £525 £630 £601
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.91% -3.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £80.15
25th Percentile £53.00 - £81.80
Median hourly rate £56.00 - £86.41
75th Percentile £59.00 - £89.14
90th Percentile - - £89.66
England median hourly rate £68.00 - £82.81

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,498 4,343 5,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.13% 27.06% 26.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,370 2,890 4,085
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £713 £713
90th Percentile £800 £850 £810
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 23 41
10th Percentile £31.94 £23.88 £35.00
25th Percentile £34.48 £36.50 £41.25
Median hourly rate £51.44 £42.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.04% -29.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £61.25 £61.97 £73.65
90th Percentile £84.40 £74.20 £90.00
England median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -16.92% +13.04% -11.54%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Elastic Stack job vacancy trend in London

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elastic Stack in London over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Elastic Stack in London

Elastic Stack
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Elastic Stack.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Elastic Stack

Elastic Stack
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 16 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
Central London +5 7 £648 -0.38% 7
East London - 1 £540 -
Elastic Stack
England

Elastic Stack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 3 (6.67%) Confluence
2 2 (4.44%) Apache
2 2 (4.44%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.44%) JBoss
3 1 (2.22%) Mattermost
3 1 (2.22%) SAS
3 1 (2.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (6.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (37.78%) AWS
2 11 (24.44%) Azure
3 8 (17.78%) GCP
4 7 (15.56%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (11.11%) OpenShift
6 4 (8.89%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (6.67%) Datadog
7 3 (6.67%) GitHub
7 3 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (4.44%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 2 (4.44%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (4.44%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.44%) AWS Control Tower
8 2 (4.44%) AWS KMS
8 2 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (4.44%) Serverless
8 2 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.56%) Firewall
2 5 (11.11%) DNS
3 4 (8.89%) TCP/IP
4 2 (4.44%) HTTP
4 2 (4.44%) Internet
4 2 (4.44%) Network Security
5 1 (2.22%) BGP
5 1 (2.22%) DMZ
5 1 (2.22%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (2.22%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (2.22%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (2.22%) STUN
5 1 (2.22%) VSAN
5 1 (2.22%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (15.56%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 4 (8.89%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (8.89%) Redis
5 3 (6.67%) DB2
5 3 (6.67%) MongoDB
6 2 (4.44%) Big Data
6 2 (4.44%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 25 (55.56%) Jenkins
2 8 (17.78%) Git
3 5 (11.11%) GitLab
3 5 (11.11%) JIRA
4 4 (8.89%) Bitbucket
4 4 (8.89%) Selenium
5 3 (6.67%) Cucumber
5 3 (6.67%) TeamCity
6 2 (4.44%) Artifactory
6 2 (4.44%) Cypress.io
6 2 (4.44%) Maven
6 2 (4.44%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (2.22%) Ant
7 1 (2.22%) Eclipse
7 1 (2.22%) Gradle
7 1 (2.22%) IntelliJ
7 1 (2.22%) JMeter
7 1 (2.22%) NeoLoad
7 1 (2.22%) Postman
7 1 (2.22%) SoapUI
General
1 18 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (33.33%) Finance
3 10 (22.22%) Banking
4 5 (11.11%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (13.33%) Applications Engineer
1 6 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 6 (13.33%) Senior
2 5 (11.11%) Developer
3 4 (8.89%) AWS DevOps
3 4 (8.89%) Java Developer
3 4 (8.89%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) Agile Developer
4 3 (6.67%) Agile Java Developer
4 3 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) Site Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Lead
5 2 (4.44%) Lead DevOps
5 2 (4.44%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (22.22%) FIX Protocol
2 9 (20.00%) Kafka
3 7 (15.56%) JSON
3 7 (15.56%) REST
4 6 (13.33%) Ultra Messaging
4 6 (13.33%) XML
5 5 (11.11%) Node.js
6 4 (8.89%) CSS
6 4 (8.89%) HTML
6 4 (8.89%) React
7 3 (6.67%) .NET
7 3 (6.67%) Gherkin
7 3 (6.67%) Middleware
7 3 (6.67%) RESTful
8 2 (4.44%) .NET Core
8 2 (4.44%) AWS CDK
8 2 (4.44%) Keycloak
9 1 (2.22%) Next.js
9 1 (2.22%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (2.22%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (28.89%) Cloud Native
1 13 (28.89%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (15.56%) Fixed Income
2 7 (15.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (15.56%) Replication
3 4 (8.89%) Algorithms
3 4 (8.89%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (4.44%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (4.44%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.22%) Blockchain
6 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.22%) Fat Client
6 1 (2.22%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.22%) PKI
6 1 (2.22%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.22%) Thin Client
6 1 (2.22%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 26 (57.78%) Linux
2 3 (6.67%) Unix
3 2 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.44%) Ubuntu
3 2 (4.44%) Windows
4 1 (2.22%) Debian
4 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (64.44%) CI/CD
1 29 (64.44%) DevOps
2 23 (51.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (46.67%) Observability
4 13 (28.89%) Low Latency
5 12 (26.67%) Configuration Management
5 12 (26.67%) Containerisation
6 11 (24.44%) Agile
6 11 (24.44%) Data Pipeline
6 11 (24.44%) Machine Learning
7 10 (22.22%) Event-Driven
7 10 (22.22%) RBAC
8 9 (20.00%) Algorithmic Trading
8 9 (20.00%) Data Science
8 9 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 9 (20.00%) High-Frequency Trading
9 8 (17.78%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (17.78%) Electronic Trading
9 8 (17.78%) High Availability
9 8 (17.78%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 32 (71.11%) Python
2 16 (35.56%) Bash
2 16 (35.56%) PowerShell
3 12 (26.67%) SQL
4 7 (15.56%) Java
4 7 (15.56%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.89%) Groovy
6 3 (6.67%) C#
6 3 (6.67%) Perl
6 3 (6.67%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.44%) C++
8 1 (2.22%) Assembly Language
8 1 (2.22%) C
8 1 (2.22%) Go
8 1 (2.22%) PL/1
8 1 (2.22%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.22%) REXX
8 1 (2.22%) Ruby
8 1 (2.22%) Scala
8 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (24.44%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.89%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.44%) CISSP
5 1 (2.22%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.22%) CCNP
5 1 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) NIST
2 2 (4.44%) GDPR
2 2 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.22%) NCSC
3 1 (2.22%) NIST 800
System Software
1 29 (64.44%) Docker
2 2 (4.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.22%) KVM
3 1 (2.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 33 (73.33%) Kubernetes
2 17 (37.78%) Grafana
3 16 (35.56%) Kibana
3 16 (35.56%) Prometheus
3 16 (35.56%) Terraform
4 15 (33.33%) logstash
5 11 (24.44%) ITRS Geneos
6 10 (22.22%) Ansible
7 6 (13.33%) Puppet
8 5 (11.11%) Progress Chef
9 2 (4.44%) Argo
9 2 (4.44%) Consul
9 2 (4.44%) Podman
9 2 (4.44%) Rancher
10 1 (2.22%) FortiGate
10 1 (2.22%) Graphite
10 1 (2.22%) VxRail
Vendors
1 11 (24.44%) Solace
2 6 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.33%) Splunk
2 6 (13.33%) TIBCO
3 4 (8.89%) Atlassian
4 3 (6.67%) Dynatrace
4 3 (6.67%) Oracle
5 2 (4.44%) Red Hat
5 2 (4.44%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.44%) VMware
6 1 (2.22%) Darktrace
6 1 (2.22%) Dell
6 1 (2.22%) NVIDIA
6 1 (2.22%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.22%) Veeam