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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 303 332
Rank change year-on-year -89 +29 +53
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 39 60 70
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.20% 0.44% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.87% 1.70% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 42 49
10th Percentile £408 £418 £450
25th Percentile £475 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £569 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% +8.33% -15.32%
75th Percentile £644 £653 £645
90th Percentile £752 £668 £775
England median daily rate £550 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.75 £53.00 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £56.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.46% - -
75th Percentile £60.25 £59.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £58.00 £79.35 -
% change year-on-year -26.91% - -

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 4,486 3,529 4,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.70% 26.02% 26.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,970 2,449 3,419
10th Percentile £392 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £430 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £719
90th Percentile £782 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 24 26
10th Percentile £24.30 £31.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.25 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £48.22 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.86% +20.55% -40.74%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.81 £58.76
90th Percentile £92.50 £81.88 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £57.13
% change year-on-year +4.00% +9.41% -10.04%

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 July 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 16 July 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
Central London -26 2 £425 -34.11% 3
South London - 2 £744 -
East London +2 1 £432 -20.00%
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 2 (5.13%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) Apache
2 1 (2.56%) CloudStack
2 1 (2.56%) nginx
2 1 (2.56%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 30 (76.92%) AWS
2 20 (51.28%) Azure
3 15 (38.46%) GCP
4 12 (30.77%) GitHub
5 10 (25.64%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (25.64%) OpenShift
6 9 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (17.95%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (17.95%) Datadog
8 5 (12.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (7.69%) Amazon S3
10 3 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (5.13%) Amazon MSK
11 2 (5.13%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (5.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) Firewall
1 2 (5.13%) HTTP
1 2 (5.13%) IPv4
1 2 (5.13%) IPv6
2 1 (2.56%) 4G
2 1 (2.56%) 5G
2 1 (2.56%) DNS
2 1 (2.56%) DSL
2 1 (2.56%) Internet
2 1 (2.56%) LTE
2 1 (2.56%) NAS
2 1 (2.56%) OpenVPN
2 1 (2.56%) SAN
2 1 (2.56%) SMTP
2 1 (2.56%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (2.56%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.13%) Big Data
4 1 (2.56%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.56%) Db2
4 1 (2.56%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.56%) Power BI
4 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (46.15%) Jenkins
2 8 (20.51%) GitLab
3 3 (7.69%) SonarQube
4 2 (5.13%) CircleCI
4 2 (5.13%) Git
4 2 (5.13%) JIRA
4 2 (5.13%) Snyk
5 1 (2.56%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.56%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.56%) Postman
5 1 (2.56%) Selenium
5 1 (2.56%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (35.90%) Finance
2 9 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.38%) Banking
4 5 (12.82%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.69%) Legal
5 3 (7.69%) Telecoms
6 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (5.13%) Law
7 1 (2.56%) Front Office
7 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (41.03%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (23.08%) Senior
3 7 (17.95%) Senior DevOps
3 7 (17.95%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Developer
4 3 (7.69%) Java Developer
4 3 (7.69%) Site Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Architect
5 2 (5.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) DevOps Manager
5 2 (5.13%) Environment Manager
5 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.82%) Kafka
2 3 (7.69%) Middleware
2 3 (7.69%) Node.js
2 3 (7.69%) React
3 2 (5.13%) JSON
3 2 (5.13%) Spring
3 2 (5.13%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.56%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.56%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.56%) CSS
4 1 (2.56%) EJB
4 1 (2.56%) Gherkin
4 1 (2.56%) HTML
4 1 (2.56%) JavaBeans
4 1 (2.56%) JSP
4 1 (2.56%) Mustache
4 1 (2.56%) REST
4 1 (2.56%) RESTful
4 1 (2.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.13%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (2.56%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (71.79%) Linux
2 10 (25.64%) Windows
3 7 (17.95%) Windows Server
4 5 (12.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (10.26%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.56%) Debian
6 1 (2.56%) Solaris
6 1 (2.56%) Unix
6 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (74.36%) CI/CD
2 27 (69.23%) DevOps
3 21 (53.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (48.72%) Observability
5 12 (30.77%) Agile
6 11 (28.21%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (25.64%) Containerisation
7 10 (25.64%) High Availability
8 9 (23.08%) Incident Management
8 9 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 8 (20.51%) Roadmaps
10 7 (17.95%) Mentoring
10 7 (17.95%) Microservices
11 6 (15.38%) Incident Response
11 6 (15.38%) Software Engineering
11 6 (15.38%) Technology Roadmap
12 5 (12.82%) Computer Science
12 5 (12.82%) GitOps
12 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 4 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.90%) Bash
2 11 (28.21%) Python
3 6 (15.38%) PowerShell
4 5 (12.82%) Java
5 4 (10.26%) SQL
6 3 (7.69%) Go
6 3 (7.69%) JavaScript
6 3 (7.69%) Shell Script
7 2 (5.13%) Korn
7 2 (5.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (53.85%) SC Cleared
1 21 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 7 (17.95%) Degree
3 5 (12.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (10.26%) AWS Certification
4 4 (10.26%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.56%) CCNP
5 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.56%) CISSP
5 1 (2.56%) ECSA
5 1 (2.56%) OSCP
5 1 (2.56%) SANS
5 1 (2.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) QA
2 3 (7.69%) GDPR
2 3 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (5.13%) NIST
3 2 (5.13%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.56%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (46.15%) Docker
2 3 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.56%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (74.36%) Grafana
1 29 (74.36%) Kubernetes
2 27 (69.23%) Prometheus
3 23 (58.97%) Terraform
4 7 (17.95%) Ansible
5 3 (7.69%) Argo
5 3 (7.69%) Kibana
6 2 (5.13%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (5.13%) logstash
7 1 (2.56%) Check_MK
7 1 (2.56%) Nagios
7 1 (2.56%) Opsgenie
7 1 (2.56%) Packer
7 1 (2.56%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.56%) Puppet
7 1 (2.56%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 12 (30.77%) Splunk
2 5 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.82%) Oracle
2 5 (12.82%) Red Hat
3 4 (10.26%) Google
4 3 (7.69%) VMware
5 2 (5.13%) Atlassian
5 2 (5.13%) Dynatrace
5 2 (5.13%) New Relic
5 2 (5.13%) Sybase
6 1 (2.56%) Ariba
6 1 (2.56%) Bloomberg
6 1 (2.56%) Cisco
6 1 (2.56%) Commvault
6 1 (2.56%) IBM
6 1 (2.56%) Refinitiv
6 1 (2.56%) Reuters
6 1 (2.56%) SaltStack
6 1 (2.56%) SAP
6 1 (2.56%) Veeam