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

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 316 289
Rank change year-on-year -18 -27 +113
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 43 51 117
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.30% 0.34% 0.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.13% 1.34% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 36 85
10th Percentile £438 £440 £408
25th Percentile £472 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £688 £775 £700
90th Percentile £738 £831 £765
England median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.00 - -
Median hourly rate £56.00 - £90.00
75th Percentile £59.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 - £78.00

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 3,805 3,816 4,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.34% 25.70% 25.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,568 2,498 3,584
10th Percentile £362 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.54% -1.67%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 19 31
10th Percentile £33.07 £34.65 £29.72
25th Percentile £43.75 £38.38 £35.94
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -19.68%
75th Percentile £63.75 £63.75 £71.00
90th Percentile £71.20 £72.80 £77.50
England median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £51.89
% change year-on-year -4.00% +20.45% -20.17%

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 27 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 27 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 6 £635 +8.09% 4
South London -1 1 £500 - 3
East London - 1 £540 - 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 4 (9.30%) Confluence
2 2 (4.65%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.33%) Mattermost
Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (6.98%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 22 (51.16%) AWS
2 15 (34.88%) Azure
3 13 (30.23%) Amazon EKS
4 9 (20.93%) AWS CloudFormation
4 9 (20.93%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (20.93%) GCP
4 9 (20.93%) Serverless
5 8 (18.60%) GitHub
6 7 (16.28%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (16.28%) Amazon S3
6 7 (16.28%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (13.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (11.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (9.30%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 3 (6.98%) Amazon ELB
11 2 (4.65%) AWS Control Tower
11 2 (4.65%) Datadog
11 2 (4.65%) Entra ID
11 2 (4.65%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (16.28%) DNS
2 6 (13.95%) Firewall
3 3 (6.98%) Network Security
3 3 (6.98%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.33%) BGP
4 1 (2.33%) DMZ
4 1 (2.33%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (2.33%) HTTP
4 1 (2.33%) Internet
4 1 (2.33%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (2.33%) STUN
4 1 (2.33%) VPN
4 1 (2.33%) VSAN
4 1 (2.33%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (34.88%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (18.60%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (16.28%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (13.95%) Redis
5 5 (11.63%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (11.63%) SQL Server
6 3 (6.98%) DB2
7 2 (4.65%) Big Data
7 2 (4.65%) Hadoop
7 2 (4.65%) MongoDB
8 1 (2.33%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 27 (62.79%) Jenkins
2 10 (23.26%) GitLab
3 8 (18.60%) Git
4 4 (9.30%) JIRA
4 4 (9.30%) Selenium
4 4 (9.30%) Terragrunt
5 3 (6.98%) Bitbucket
5 3 (6.98%) Cucumber
5 3 (6.98%) TeamCity
6 2 (4.65%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.33%) Eclipse
7 1 (2.33%) Gradle
7 1 (2.33%) IntelliJ
7 1 (2.33%) JMeter
7 1 (2.33%) Maven
7 1 (2.33%) NeoLoad
7 1 (2.33%) Postman
7 1 (2.33%) SoapUI
General
1 12 (27.91%) Social Skills
2 11 (25.58%) Finance
3 5 (11.63%) Banking
4 2 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.65%) Investment Banking
4 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (11.63%) Architect
1 5 (11.63%) Developer
1 5 (11.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (9.30%) AWS Architect
2 4 (9.30%) AWS DevOps
2 4 (9.30%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (9.30%) Cloud Architect
2 4 (9.30%) Java Developer
2 4 (9.30%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (6.98%) Agile Developer
3 3 (6.98%) Agile Java Developer
3 3 (6.98%) Applications Engineer
3 3 (6.98%) Senior
4 2 (4.65%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 2 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (4.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (4.65%) Kubernetes Architect
4 2 (4.65%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (4.65%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (4.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.60%) JSON
1 8 (18.60%) Kafka
1 8 (18.60%) REST
2 7 (16.28%) FIX Protocol
3 6 (13.95%) Node.js
3 6 (13.95%) Ultra Messaging
3 6 (13.95%) XML
4 4 (9.30%) CSS
4 4 (9.30%) HTML
4 4 (9.30%) Keycloak
4 4 (9.30%) React
5 3 (6.98%) .NET
5 3 (6.98%) Gherkin
5 3 (6.98%) RESTful
6 2 (4.65%) .NET Core
6 2 (4.65%) AWS CDK
7 1 (2.33%) Loki
7 1 (2.33%) Next.js
7 1 (2.33%) Spring Boot
7 1 (2.33%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.58%) Cloud Native
1 11 (25.58%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (20.93%) Replication
3 4 (9.30%) Algorithms
3 4 (9.30%) Fixed Income
3 4 (9.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (6.98%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (4.65%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.65%) PKI
6 1 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.33%) Blockchain
6 1 (2.33%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.33%) Fat Client
6 1 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.33%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.33%) Thin Client
6 1 (2.33%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 19 (44.19%) Linux
2 3 (6.98%) Unix
3 2 (4.65%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.33%) Debian
4 1 (2.33%) Windows
4 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (76.74%) CI/CD
2 27 (62.79%) Infrastructure as Code
3 25 (58.14%) DevOps
4 22 (51.16%) Observability
5 11 (25.58%) Agile
5 11 (25.58%) Containerisation
5 11 (25.58%) Test Automation
6 10 (23.26%) Low Latency
7 8 (18.60%) Configuration Management
7 8 (18.60%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (18.60%) Data Pipeline
7 8 (18.60%) Decision-Making
7 8 (18.60%) High Availability
7 8 (18.60%) Machine Learning
7 8 (18.60%) RBAC
8 7 (16.28%) Event-Driven
8 7 (16.28%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (16.28%) Secrets Management
9 6 (13.95%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 27 (62.79%) Python
2 13 (30.23%) Bash
3 11 (25.58%) SQL
4 10 (23.26%) PowerShell
5 8 (18.60%) JavaScript
6 7 (16.28%) Java
7 4 (9.30%) Groovy
8 3 (6.98%) Perl
8 3 (6.98%) Shell Script
9 2 (4.65%) C#
10 1 (2.33%) Bicep
10 1 (2.33%) C
10 1 (2.33%) C++
10 1 (2.33%) Go
10 1 (2.33%) PL/SQL
10 1 (2.33%) Ruby
10 1 (2.33%) Rust
10 1 (2.33%) Scala
10 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (30.23%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.93%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.98%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.33%) CCNP
4 1 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) NCSC
1 1 (2.33%) NIST
1 1 (2.33%) NIST 800
1 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 33 (76.74%) Docker
2 3 (6.98%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.33%) KVM
4 1 (2.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 31 (72.09%) Kubernetes
2 22 (51.16%) Terraform
3 17 (39.53%) Kibana
4 16 (37.21%) Grafana
4 16 (37.21%) Prometheus
5 12 (27.91%) logstash
6 10 (23.26%) Ansible
7 8 (18.60%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (9.30%) Progress Chef
8 4 (9.30%) Puppet
8 4 (9.30%) Rancher
9 3 (6.98%) Karpenter
10 2 (4.65%) Consul
11 1 (2.33%) Argo
11 1 (2.33%) FortiGate
11 1 (2.33%) Graphite
11 1 (2.33%) Icinga
11 1 (2.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 8 (18.60%) Solace
2 7 (16.28%) Microsoft
3 6 (13.95%) TIBCO
4 5 (11.63%) Dynatrace
5 4 (9.30%) ServiceNow
6 3 (6.98%) Atlassian
7 2 (4.65%) Splunk
7 2 (4.65%) VMware
8 1 (2.33%) Cloudera
8 1 (2.33%) Dell
8 1 (2.33%) NVIDIA
8 1 (2.33%) Oracle
8 1 (2.33%) Palo Alto
8 1 (2.33%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.33%) Veeam