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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 336 298
Rank change year-on-year +7 -38 +119
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 44 50 128
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.31% 0.32% 0.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.20% 1.23% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 36 91
10th Percentile £423 £440 £406
25th Percentile £464 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% -2.22% -13.46%
75th Percentile £688 £775 £701
90th Percentile £738 £831 £775
England median daily rate £525 £613 £563
% change year-on-year -14.29% +8.89% -13.46%
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 £56.00 - £80.41

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 3,676 4,049 5,122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.19% 25.83% 26.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,496 2,651 3,866
10th Percentile £356 £378 £400
25th Percentile £424 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £656 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 21 32
10th Percentile £34.16 £35.00 £32.30
25th Percentile £43.44 £38.25 £36.69
Median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -18.55% -11.24%
75th Percentile £63.19 £62.50 £72.41
90th Percentile £77.03 £71.00 £85.65
England median hourly rate £59.75 £65.00 £52.75
% change year-on-year -8.08% +23.22% -18.85%

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 1 December 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 1 December 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 +3 7 £645 +7.50% 1
South London -3 1 £500 - 2
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 4 (9.09%) Confluence
2 2 (4.55%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.27%) Mattermost
3 1 (2.27%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (6.82%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 18 (40.91%) AWS
2 11 (25.00%) Azure
3 9 (20.45%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (13.64%) GCP
5 5 (11.36%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (11.36%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (11.36%) Serverless
6 4 (9.09%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 4 (9.09%) GitHub
7 3 (6.82%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (6.82%) Amazon S3
7 3 (6.82%) Datadog
7 3 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (4.55%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (4.55%) AWS Control Tower
8 2 (4.55%) AWS KMS
8 2 (4.55%) OpenShift
8 2 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.91%) Firewall
2 4 (9.09%) DNS
3 3 (6.82%) Network Security
3 3 (6.82%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.27%) BGP
4 1 (2.27%) DMZ
4 1 (2.27%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (2.27%) HTTP
4 1 (2.27%) Internet
4 1 (2.27%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (2.27%) STUN
4 1 (2.27%) VPN
4 1 (2.27%) VSAN
4 1 (2.27%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (40.91%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (15.91%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (13.64%) Redis
5 5 (11.36%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (11.36%) SQL Server
6 3 (6.82%) DB2
7 2 (4.55%) Big Data
7 2 (4.55%) Hadoop
7 2 (4.55%) MongoDB
8 1 (2.27%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 26 (59.09%) Jenkins
2 8 (18.18%) Git
3 6 (13.64%) GitLab
4 4 (9.09%) Bitbucket
4 4 (9.09%) JIRA
4 4 (9.09%) Selenium
5 3 (6.82%) Cucumber
5 3 (6.82%) TeamCity
6 2 (4.55%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.27%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.27%) Eclipse
7 1 (2.27%) Gradle
7 1 (2.27%) IntelliJ
7 1 (2.27%) JMeter
7 1 (2.27%) Maven
7 1 (2.27%) NeoLoad
7 1 (2.27%) Postman
7 1 (2.27%) SoapUI
General
1 14 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 13 (29.55%) Finance
3 8 (18.18%) Banking
4 4 (9.09%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (11.36%) Applications Engineer
1 5 (11.36%) Developer
1 5 (11.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
2 4 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (9.09%) Java Developer
2 4 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (9.09%) Senior
3 3 (6.82%) Agile Developer
3 3 (6.82%) Agile Java Developer
4 2 (4.55%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 2 (4.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (4.55%) Consultant
4 2 (4.55%) Lead
4 2 (4.55%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (4.55%) Site Engineer
4 2 (4.55%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (22.73%) Kafka
2 9 (20.45%) FIX Protocol
3 8 (18.18%) JSON
3 8 (18.18%) REST
4 6 (13.64%) Node.js
4 6 (13.64%) Ultra Messaging
4 6 (13.64%) XML
5 4 (9.09%) CSS
5 4 (9.09%) HTML
5 4 (9.09%) Keycloak
5 4 (9.09%) React
6 3 (6.82%) .NET
6 3 (6.82%) Gherkin
6 3 (6.82%) RESTful
7 2 (4.55%) .NET Core
7 2 (4.55%) AWS CDK
8 1 (2.27%) Loki
8 1 (2.27%) Next.js
8 1 (2.27%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (2.27%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 11 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (20.45%) Replication
4 6 (13.64%) Fixed Income
4 6 (13.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (9.09%) Algorithms
6 3 (6.82%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (4.55%) Onboarding
8 1 (2.27%) Blockchain
8 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
8 1 (2.27%) Fat Client
8 1 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (2.27%) Mainframe
8 1 (2.27%) PKI
8 1 (2.27%) Private Cloud
8 1 (2.27%) Thin Client
8 1 (2.27%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 21 (47.73%) Linux
2 3 (6.82%) Unix
3 2 (4.55%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.27%) Debian
4 1 (2.27%) Windows
4 1 (2.27%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (70.45%) CI/CD
2 27 (61.36%) DevOps
3 25 (56.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (50.00%) Observability
5 12 (27.27%) Containerisation
5 12 (27.27%) Low Latency
6 11 (25.00%) Agile
6 11 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 10 (22.73%) Data Pipeline
7 10 (22.73%) Machine Learning
8 9 (20.45%) Configuration Management
8 9 (20.45%) Event-Driven
8 9 (20.45%) High Availability
8 9 (20.45%) RBAC
9 8 (18.18%) Algorithmic Trading
9 8 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (18.18%) Data Science
9 8 (18.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 8 (18.18%) High-Frequency Trading
9 8 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 32 (72.73%) Python
2 15 (34.09%) Bash
3 13 (29.55%) PowerShell
4 11 (25.00%) SQL
5 8 (18.18%) JavaScript
6 7 (15.91%) Java
7 4 (9.09%) Groovy
8 3 (6.82%) Perl
8 3 (6.82%) Shell Script
9 2 (4.55%) C#
10 1 (2.27%) Assembly Language
10 1 (2.27%) C
10 1 (2.27%) C++
10 1 (2.27%) Go
10 1 (2.27%) PL/1
10 1 (2.27%) PL/SQL
10 1 (2.27%) REXX
10 1 (2.27%) Ruby
10 1 (2.27%) Rust
10 1 (2.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 8 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.82%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.27%) CCNP
4 1 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.27%) CISSP
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.27%) NCSC
1 1 (2.27%) NIST
1 1 (2.27%) NIST 800
1 1 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 32 (72.73%) Docker
2 2 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.27%) KVM
3 1 (2.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 31 (70.45%) Kubernetes
2 19 (43.18%) Terraform
3 17 (38.64%) Grafana
3 17 (38.64%) Prometheus
4 16 (36.36%) Kibana
5 15 (34.09%) logstash
6 10 (22.73%) ITRS Geneos
7 7 (15.91%) Ansible
8 4 (9.09%) Progress Chef
8 4 (9.09%) Puppet
8 4 (9.09%) Rancher
9 2 (4.55%) Argo
9 2 (4.55%) Consul
10 1 (2.27%) FortiGate
10 1 (2.27%) Graphite
10 1 (2.27%) Icinga
10 1 (2.27%) VxRail
Vendors
1 10 (22.73%) Solace
2 6 (13.64%) Dynatrace
2 6 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.64%) TIBCO
3 4 (9.09%) ServiceNow
4 3 (6.82%) Atlassian
4 3 (6.82%) Splunk
5 2 (4.55%) VMware
6 1 (2.27%) Cloudera
6 1 (2.27%) Dell
6 1 (2.27%) NVIDIA
6 1 (2.27%) Oracle
6 1 (2.27%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.27%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.27%) Veeam