Elastic Stack Contracts in London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Elastic Stack skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Elastic Stack over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 338 380
Rank change year-on-year +38 +42 +73
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 54 62 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.42% 0.35% 0.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.59% 1.32% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 44 73
10th Percentile £408 £448 £463
25th Percentile £494 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £518 £620
Median % change year-on-year +8.21% -16.53% -1.98%
75th Percentile £653 £660 £775
90th Percentile £661 £775 £900
England median daily rate £528 £600 £609
% change year-on-year -12.08% -1.44% +0.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £68.70
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £81.94
England median hourly rate £80.00 - £76.50

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 3,392 4,689 6,729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.30% 26.83% 26.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,366 3,451 5,061
10th Percentile £376 £375 £413
25th Percentile £429 £461 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £713 £711 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £813
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 28 42
10th Percentile - £16.25 £31.18
25th Percentile £33.25 £23.80 £47.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £42.50 £67.25
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -36.80% +41.58%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.70 £75.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £75.00 £86.20
England median hourly rate £60.00 £58.15 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.18% -10.54% +23.81%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Elastic Stack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Elastic Stack in London

Elastic Stack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Elastic Stack in London.

Daily rate trend for Elastic Stack in London

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elastic Stack in London over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Elastic Stack in London

Elastic Stack
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Elastic Stack in London.

Hourly rate trend for Elastic Stack in London

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 July 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 +2 8 £625 -13.19% 25
Elastic Stack
England

Elastic Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (7.41%) Apache
2 3 (5.56%) JBoss
3 2 (3.70%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.85%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.85%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 40 (74.07%) AWS
2 20 (37.04%) Azure
3 18 (33.33%) GCP
4 13 (24.07%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
5 12 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (16.67%) OpenShift
7 6 (11.11%) GitHub
8 5 (9.26%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (9.26%) Serverless
9 4 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (5.56%) Amazon S3
11 2 (3.70%) Amazon Cognito
11 2 (3.70%) Amazon ELB
11 2 (3.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 2 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (3.70%) Route 53
12 1 (1.85%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 12 (22.22%) DNS
2 10 (18.52%) HTTP
2 10 (18.52%) TCP/IP
3 8 (14.81%) Internet
4 4 (7.41%) VPN
5 3 (5.56%) Firewall
6 2 (3.70%) DHCP
6 2 (3.70%) Network Security
6 2 (3.70%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (3.70%) SNMP
6 2 (3.70%) SSH
6 2 (3.70%) Telnet
6 2 (3.70%) Wireshark
7 1 (1.85%) DSLAM
7 1 (1.85%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (1.85%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (20.37%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (18.52%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (14.81%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (9.26%) MongoDB
4 5 (9.26%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (7.41%) MySQL
6 3 (5.56%) Redis
7 2 (3.70%) DynamoDB
7 2 (3.70%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.85%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (1.85%) Big Data
8 1 (1.85%) Cloudera CDH
8 1 (1.85%) DocumentDB
8 1 (1.85%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.85%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (1.85%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 28 (51.85%) Jenkins
2 12 (22.22%) Git
3 11 (20.37%) GitLab
4 5 (9.26%) Maven
5 3 (5.56%) Artifactory
5 3 (5.56%) Eclipse
5 3 (5.56%) Gradle
5 3 (5.56%) IntelliJ
5 3 (5.56%) JIRA
5 3 (5.56%) JUnit
5 3 (5.56%) Mockito
5 3 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (5.56%) TestNG
6 2 (3.70%) Ant
6 2 (3.70%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.85%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.85%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.85%) Travis CI
General
1 16 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.67%) Finance
3 6 (11.11%) Banking
4 3 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.56%) Investment Banking
5 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.70%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Military
6 1 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (38.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (29.63%) Senior
3 11 (20.37%) Senior DevOps
4 10 (18.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 8 (14.81%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (12.96%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 6 (11.11%) Lead
7 6 (11.11%) Site Engineer
7 6 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) Developer
9 3 (5.56%) Applications Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) Digital Developer
9 3 (5.56%) Java Developer
9 3 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) Linux/Unix DevOps
10 2 (3.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 2 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
10 2 (3.70%) Linux Scripter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.96%) Kafka
2 4 (7.41%) RESTful
2 4 (7.41%) Spring
2 4 (7.41%) Spring Boot
3 3 (5.56%) FIX Protocol
3 3 (5.56%) Hibernate
3 3 (5.56%) JSON
3 3 (5.56%) JWT
3 3 (5.56%) Middleware
3 3 (5.56%) Node.js
3 3 (5.56%) OAuth
3 3 (5.56%) OpenAPI
3 3 (5.56%) Swagger
4 2 (3.70%) REST
4 2 (3.70%) XML
5 1 (1.85%) .NET
5 1 (1.85%) JBoss Seam
5 1 (1.85%) React
5 1 (1.85%) SOAP
5 1 (1.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.26%) Management Information System
2 4 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (7.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.56%) Fixed Income
4 2 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.70%) Replication
5 1 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.85%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.85%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.85%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.85%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 30 (55.56%) Linux
2 6 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (7.41%) Unix
4 2 (3.70%) Windows
5 1 (1.85%) CentOS
5 1 (1.85%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.85%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (77.78%) DevOps
2 31 (57.41%) Containerisation
3 25 (46.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (44.44%) Configuration Management
5 23 (42.59%) CI/CD
6 15 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (20.37%) Deployment Automation
8 10 (18.52%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (18.52%) High Availability
8 10 (18.52%) Observability
9 9 (16.67%) Cost Management
10 8 (14.81%) Agile
10 8 (14.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 7 (12.96%) Event-Driven
11 7 (12.96%) Load Balancing
11 7 (12.96%) Microservices
12 6 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 6 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
12 6 (11.11%) Software Engineering
12 6 (11.11%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 34 (62.96%) Python
2 15 (27.78%) Bash
3 8 (14.81%) PowerShell
4 7 (12.96%) Java
4 7 (12.96%) SQL
5 6 (11.11%) Ruby
5 6 (11.11%) Shell Script
6 4 (7.41%) Groovy
7 3 (5.56%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.70%) Perl
9 1 (1.85%) Assembly Language
9 1 (1.85%) C
9 1 (1.85%) C#
9 1 (1.85%) C++
9 1 (1.85%) PL/1
9 1 (1.85%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.85%) REXX
9 1 (1.85%) Scala
9 1 (1.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (35.19%) Security Cleared
2 17 (31.48%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.70%) CISSP
4 2 (3.70%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.85%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.85%) CEH
5 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.85%) RHCE
5 1 (1.85%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.41%) GDPR
1 4 (7.41%) QA
2 3 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.70%) NIST
3 2 (3.70%) SLA
4 1 (1.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 35 (64.81%) Docker
2 2 (3.70%) FreeRADIUS
2 2 (3.70%) iptables
3 1 (1.85%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 40 (74.07%) Kubernetes
2 29 (53.70%) Prometheus
3 28 (51.85%) Grafana
4 27 (50.00%) Terraform
5 25 (46.30%) Ansible
6 21 (38.89%) Puppet
7 14 (25.93%) Progress Chef
8 9 (16.67%) logstash
9 8 (14.81%) Kibana
10 3 (5.56%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (5.56%) Nagios
10 3 (5.56%) Podman
10 3 (5.56%) ZABBIX
11 2 (3.70%) Cacti
11 2 (3.70%) Netcool
11 2 (3.70%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (3.70%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (3.70%) Proxmox
12 1 (1.85%) Data Guard
12 1 (1.85%) Graylog
Vendors
1 10 (18.52%) Red Hat
2 8 (14.81%) Splunk
3 6 (11.11%) Google
4 5 (9.26%) Oracle
5 3 (5.56%) Solace
5 3 (5.56%) VMware
6 2 (3.70%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.70%) Nokia
7 1 (1.85%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.85%) Black Duck
7 1 (1.85%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.85%) Cisco
7 1 (1.85%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.85%) Darktrace
7 1 (1.85%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.85%) Huawei
7 1 (1.85%) Juniper
7 1 (1.85%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.85%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.85%) TOWER Software