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 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 301 296
Rank change year-on-year -63 -5 +90
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 38 56 97
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.23% 0.44% 0.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.92% 1.67% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 39 71
10th Percentile £412 £368 £425
25th Percentile £461 £463 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -19.23%
75th Percentile £653 £653 £650
90th Percentile £744 £775 £888
England median daily rate £525 £541 £550
% change year-on-year -3.00% -1.59% -11.29%

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 4,138 3,363 4,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.84% 26.20% 24.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,810 2,332 3,326
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £667 £706 £690
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £540
% change year-on-year -2.33% -0.46% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 27
10th Percentile £27.00 £34.48 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.69 £26.76
Median hourly rate £46.00 £54.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +27.06% -34.62%
75th Percentile £59.72 £65.00 £64.63
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.83 £76.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%

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 22 March 2026.

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 22 March 2026. 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
South London - 3 £637 -
Central London -10 2 £568 -2.37% 4
East London - 1 £432 - 1
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 (7.89%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.63%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 30 (78.95%) AWS
2 17 (44.74%) Azure
3 15 (39.47%) Amazon EKS
4 13 (34.21%) GitHub
5 11 (28.95%) GCP
5 11 (28.95%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (26.32%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (23.68%) Amazon S3
7 9 (23.68%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (23.68%) Serverless
8 8 (21.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (18.42%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (18.42%) Datadog
9 7 (18.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (13.16%) OpenShift
11 3 (7.89%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (7.89%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 3 (7.89%) Amazon ELB
11 3 (7.89%) AWS CodePipeline
11 3 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) DNS
2 3 (7.89%) Firewall
3 2 (5.26%) IPv4
3 2 (5.26%) IPv6
3 2 (5.26%) Network Security
3 2 (5.26%) VPN
4 1 (2.63%) 4G
4 1 (2.63%) 5G
4 1 (2.63%) BGP
4 1 (2.63%) DMZ
4 1 (2.63%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (2.63%) LTE
4 1 (2.63%) OpenVPN
4 1 (2.63%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (2.63%) VSAN
4 1 (2.63%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.05%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (10.53%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (10.53%) Redis
4 3 (7.89%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (5.26%) Big Data
5 2 (5.26%) MongoDB
5 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.63%) DB2
6 1 (2.63%) DocumentDB
6 1 (2.63%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.63%) Power BI
6 1 (2.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (60.53%) Jenkins
2 14 (36.84%) GitLab
3 4 (10.53%) Git
3 4 (10.53%) Terragrunt
4 3 (7.89%) JIRA
5 1 (2.63%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.63%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.63%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.63%) JUnit
5 1 (2.63%) Mockito
5 1 (2.63%) Postman
5 1 (2.63%) Selenium
5 1 (2.63%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.63%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (21.05%) Finance
2 7 (18.42%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.89%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (7.89%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.26%) Banking
5 2 (5.26%) Legal
6 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Front Office
6 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (28.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (18.42%) Architect
3 6 (15.79%) Senior
4 5 (13.16%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (10.53%) AWS Architect
5 4 (10.53%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (10.53%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (10.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Java Developer
7 2 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes Architect
7 2 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) Lead
8 1 (2.63%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.05%) Kafka
2 4 (10.53%) JSON
3 3 (7.89%) AWS CDK
3 3 (7.89%) Keycloak
3 3 (7.89%) Node.js
3 3 (7.89%) REST
4 2 (5.26%) Middleware
4 2 (5.26%) React
4 2 (5.26%) RESTful
4 2 (5.26%) Spring
4 2 (5.26%) Spring Boot
4 2 (5.26%) Ultra Messaging
4 2 (5.26%) XML
5 1 (2.63%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.63%) CSS
5 1 (2.63%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (2.63%) HTML
5 1 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.63%) SOAP
5 1 (2.63%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Cloud Native
1 5 (13.16%) Replication
2 4 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.89%) Data Centre
3 3 (7.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (5.26%) Fixed Income
4 2 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (5.26%) PKI
5 1 (2.63%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.63%) Fat Client
5 1 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.63%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.63%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 18 (47.37%) Linux
2 6 (15.79%) Windows
3 2 (5.26%) Ubuntu
3 2 (5.26%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (81.58%) CI/CD
2 23 (60.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 22 (57.89%) DevOps
4 19 (50.00%) Observability
5 13 (34.21%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (31.58%) Containerisation
7 9 (23.68%) Agile
8 8 (21.05%) GitOps
9 6 (15.79%) High Availability
9 6 (15.79%) Incident Management
9 6 (15.79%) Mentoring
9 6 (15.79%) Microservices
9 6 (15.79%) Roadmaps
9 6 (15.79%) Test Automation
10 5 (13.16%) Build Automation
10 5 (13.16%) Cloud Security
10 5 (13.16%) Configuration Management
10 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure Automation
10 5 (13.16%) ITIL
10 5 (13.16%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 12 (31.58%) Python
2 11 (28.95%) Bash
3 6 (15.79%) Java
3 6 (15.79%) SQL
4 5 (13.16%) PowerShell
5 3 (7.89%) Groovy
5 3 (7.89%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.26%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.63%) Go
7 1 (2.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (55.26%) Security Cleared
2 19 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (15.79%) Degree
4 5 (13.16%) AWS Certification
5 4 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (7.89%) Azure Certification
7 2 (5.26%) DV Cleared
8 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) CCNP
8 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (2.63%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) QA
2 3 (7.89%) NIST
3 2 (5.26%) GDPR
3 2 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.63%) NCSC
4 1 (2.63%) NIST 800
System Software
1 27 (71.05%) Docker
2 2 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.63%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (73.68%) Kubernetes
2 24 (63.16%) Terraform
3 20 (52.63%) Grafana
3 20 (52.63%) Prometheus
4 11 (28.95%) Ansible
5 8 (21.05%) Kibana
6 3 (7.89%) Karpenter
6 3 (7.89%) logstash
6 3 (7.89%) Progress Chef
6 3 (7.89%) Puppet
6 3 (7.89%) Rancher
7 2 (5.26%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (2.63%) Argo
8 1 (2.63%) FortiGate
8 1 (2.63%) Icinga
8 1 (2.63%) Opsgenie
8 1 (2.63%) Packer
8 1 (2.63%) Sysdig
8 1 (2.63%) VxRail
Vendors
1 7 (18.42%) Splunk
2 6 (15.79%) Dynatrace
3 5 (13.16%) Oracle
4 4 (10.53%) Microsoft
4 4 (10.53%) New Relic
5 3 (7.89%) ServiceNow
6 2 (5.26%) Atlassian
6 2 (5.26%) Google
6 2 (5.26%) Red Hat
6 2 (5.26%) Solace
6 2 (5.26%) TIBCO
6 2 (5.26%) VMware
7 1 (2.63%) Ariba
7 1 (2.63%) Bloomberg
7 1 (2.63%) Dell
7 1 (2.63%) NVIDIA
7 1 (2.63%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.63%) Reuters
7 1 (2.63%) SAP
7 1 (2.63%) Veeam