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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 302 324
Rank change year-on-year -92 +22 +58
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 32 49 73
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.18% 0.40% 0.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.77% 1.54% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 34 55
10th Percentile £403 £428 £449
25th Percentile £477 £500 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £561 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.45% +6.90% -15.32%
75th Percentile £653 £653 £650
90th Percentile £735 £677 £775
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.67% -2.22% -5.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.75 - -
Median hourly rate £58.50 - -
75th Percentile £60.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £58.50 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -26.88% - -

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 4,179 3,177 4,502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.02% 26.03% 25.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,773 2,225 3,365
10th Percentile £375 £385 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £838
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 16 26
10th Percentile £23.65 £31.16 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £33.25 £23.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £38.91 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -8.45% -38.18%
75th Percentile £59.72 £57.19 £64.40
90th Percentile £91.00 £81.25 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

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 25 May 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 25 May 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 - 2 £744 -
Central London -18 1 £635 +1.60% 3
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 2 (6.25%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) nginx
2 1 (3.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (3.13%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 25 (78.13%) AWS
2 16 (50.00%) Azure
3 14 (43.75%) GitHub
4 13 (40.63%) GCP
5 12 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (34.38%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (31.25%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (21.88%) Datadog
10 6 (18.75%) Amazon S3
11 5 (15.63%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (15.63%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (15.63%) OpenShift
11 5 (15.63%) Serverless
11 5 (15.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (9.38%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (9.38%) Amazon ELB
12 3 (9.38%) AWS CodePipeline
12 3 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (6.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) DNS
2 2 (6.25%) IPv4
2 2 (6.25%) IPv6
3 1 (3.13%) 4G
3 1 (3.13%) 5G
3 1 (3.13%) DSL
3 1 (3.13%) Firewall
3 1 (3.13%) HTTP
3 1 (3.13%) LTE
3 1 (3.13%) OpenVPN
3 1 (3.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (9.38%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.25%) Big Data
2 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.13%) BigQuery
3 1 (3.13%) DB2
3 1 (3.13%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.13%) Power BI
3 1 (3.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (53.13%) Jenkins
2 12 (37.50%) GitLab
3 4 (12.50%) Terragrunt
4 2 (6.25%) JIRA
4 2 (6.25%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.13%) Artifactory
5 1 (3.13%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.13%) CircleCI
5 1 (3.13%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.13%) Git
5 1 (3.13%) JUnit
5 1 (3.13%) Mockito
5 1 (3.13%) Postman
5 1 (3.13%) Selenium
5 1 (3.13%) Snyk
5 1 (3.13%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.00%) Finance
3 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Banking
3 3 (9.38%) Legal
3 3 (9.38%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.38%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.13%) Front Office
4 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.13%) Law
4 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Architect
3 5 (15.63%) Senior
4 4 (12.50%) AWS Architect
4 4 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (9.38%) Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Java Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (9.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Site Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.13%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Data Business Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Elasticsearch Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) Kafka
2 3 (9.38%) AWS CDK
3 2 (6.25%) JSON
3 2 (6.25%) Middleware
3 2 (6.25%) Node.js
3 2 (6.25%) React
3 2 (6.25%) RESTful
3 2 (6.25%) Spring
3 2 (6.25%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.13%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.13%) CSS
4 1 (3.13%) EJB
4 1 (3.13%) Gherkin
4 1 (3.13%) HTML
4 1 (3.13%) JavaBeans
4 1 (3.13%) JSP
4 1 (3.13%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (9.38%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.13%) PKI
4 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (56.25%) Linux
2 7 (21.88%) Windows
3 3 (9.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (9.38%) Windows Server
4 2 (6.25%) Ubuntu
5 1 (3.13%) Debian
5 1 (3.13%) Solaris
5 1 (3.13%) Unix
5 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (78.13%) CI/CD
2 19 (59.38%) DevOps
2 19 (59.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (43.75%) Observability
4 10 (31.25%) Containerisation
4 10 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (21.88%) GitOps
6 6 (18.75%) Agile
6 6 (18.75%) Microservices
7 5 (15.63%) Computer Science
7 5 (15.63%) Configuration Management
7 5 (15.63%) Incident Management
7 5 (15.63%) Mentoring
7 5 (15.63%) Software Engineering
7 5 (15.63%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 4 (12.50%) Analytics
8 4 (12.50%) Data Protection
8 4 (12.50%) High Availability
8 4 (12.50%) Load Balancing
8 4 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (31.25%) Bash
2 7 (21.88%) Java
2 7 (21.88%) Python
3 4 (12.50%) SQL
4 3 (9.38%) PowerShell
4 3 (9.38%) Shell Script
5 2 (6.25%) Go
5 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.25%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 16 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (21.88%) Degree
3 5 (15.63%) AWS Certification
3 5 (15.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (9.38%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) QA
2 2 (6.25%) GDPR
2 2 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.25%) NIST
3 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
System Software
1 20 (62.50%) Docker
2 2 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 20 (62.50%) Terraform
3 18 (56.25%) Prometheus
4 17 (53.13%) Grafana
5 12 (37.50%) Ansible
6 7 (21.88%) Kibana
7 3 (9.38%) Karpenter
7 3 (9.38%) Progress Chef
7 3 (9.38%) Puppet
8 2 (6.25%) logstash
9 1 (3.13%) Argo
9 1 (3.13%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (3.13%) Opsgenie
9 1 (3.13%) Packer
9 1 (3.13%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Oracle
1 6 (18.75%) Splunk
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.50%) New Relic
2 4 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 3 (9.38%) Google
4 2 (6.25%) Atlassian
4 2 (6.25%) Dynatrace
4 2 (6.25%) VMware
5 1 (3.13%) Ariba
5 1 (3.13%) Bloomberg
5 1 (3.13%) IBM
5 1 (3.13%) Refinitiv
5 1 (3.13%) Reuters
5 1 (3.13%) SaltStack
5 1 (3.13%) SAP
5 1 (3.13%) Sybase