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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 319 286
Rank change year-on-year -21 -33 +92
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 38 39 113
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.26% 0.28% 0.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.00% 1.07% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 26 85
10th Percentile £417 £396 £411
25th Percentile £456 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £653 £753 £678
90th Percentile £728 £794 £775
England median daily rate £525 £581 £563
% change year-on-year -9.56% +3.20% -13.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
England median hourly rate £79.00 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +9.86%

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 3,804 3,630 4,615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.08% 26.09% 24.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,576 2,366 3,514
10th Percentile £363 £380 £388
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £688
90th Percentile £769 £825 £800
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 20 29
10th Percentile £35.00 £34.83 £29.48
25th Percentile £41.88 £38.44 £35.63
Median hourly rate £55.00 £54.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +13.68% -26.92%
75th Percentile £66.25 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £81.38 £78.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%

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 January 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 January 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 -6 4 £500 -16.67% 5
South London - 1 £500 -
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 (10.53%) Confluence
2 2 (5.26%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.63%) Mattermost
Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (5.26%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 22 (57.89%) AWS
2 15 (39.47%) Amazon EKS
3 11 (28.95%) Azure
4 10 (26.32%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (23.68%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (23.68%) GitHub
5 9 (23.68%) Serverless
6 8 (21.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (21.05%) Amazon S3
6 8 (21.05%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (15.79%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (15.79%) Datadog
7 6 (15.79%) GCP
7 6 (15.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (10.53%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 3 (7.89%) Amazon ELB
9 3 (7.89%) AWS CodePipeline
9 3 (7.89%) OpenShift
10 2 (5.26%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) DNS
1 4 (10.53%) Firewall
2 3 (7.89%) Network Security
3 1 (2.63%) 4G
3 1 (2.63%) 5G
3 1 (2.63%) BGP
3 1 (2.63%) DMZ
3 1 (2.63%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (2.63%) LTE
3 1 (2.63%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (2.63%) STUN
3 1 (2.63%) VPN
3 1 (2.63%) VSAN
3 1 (2.63%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (28.95%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (18.42%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (15.79%) Redis
5 4 (10.53%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (7.89%) MongoDB
6 3 (7.89%) SQL Server
7 2 (5.26%) Big Data
7 2 (5.26%) DB2
7 2 (5.26%) Hadoop
8 1 (2.63%) DocumentDB
8 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 23 (60.53%) Jenkins
2 11 (28.95%) GitLab
3 4 (10.53%) Git
3 4 (10.53%) JIRA
3 4 (10.53%) Terragrunt
4 2 (5.26%) Bitbucket
4 2 (5.26%) Cucumber
4 2 (5.26%) Cypress.io
4 2 (5.26%) Selenium
4 2 (5.26%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.63%) JUnit
5 1 (2.63%) Mockito
General
1 9 (23.68%) Finance
1 9 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.89%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.26%) Banking
3 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (18.42%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (13.16%) Architect
2 5 (13.16%) AWS DevOps
3 4 (10.53%) AWS Architect
3 4 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (10.53%) Cloud Architect
3 4 (10.53%) Developer
4 3 (7.89%) Java Developer
5 2 (5.26%) Agile Developer
5 2 (5.26%) Agile Java Developer
5 2 (5.26%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Consultant
5 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes Architect
5 2 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Senior
5 2 (5.26%) Technical Consultant
6 1 (2.63%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.05%) Kafka
2 7 (18.42%) JSON
2 7 (18.42%) REST
3 6 (15.79%) Ultra Messaging
4 5 (13.16%) FIX Protocol
4 5 (13.16%) Node.js
4 5 (13.16%) XML
5 4 (10.53%) AWS CDK
5 4 (10.53%) Keycloak
6 3 (7.89%) .NET
6 3 (7.89%) React
6 3 (7.89%) RESTful
7 2 (5.26%) .NET Core
7 2 (5.26%) CSS
7 2 (5.26%) Gherkin
7 2 (5.26%) HTML
8 1 (2.63%) Loki
8 1 (2.63%) Next.js
8 1 (2.63%) Spring Cloud
8 1 (2.63%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.68%) Cloud Native
1 9 (23.68%) Replication
2 7 (18.42%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (10.53%) Algorithms
4 3 (7.89%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (5.26%) Fixed Income
5 2 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (5.26%) Onboarding
5 2 (5.26%) PKI
6 1 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.63%) Blockchain
6 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.63%) Fat Client
6 1 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.63%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.63%) Thin Client
6 1 (2.63%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 18 (47.37%) Linux
2 5 (13.16%) Windows
3 1 (2.63%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (78.95%) CI/CD
2 22 (57.89%) Infrastructure as Code
2 22 (57.89%) Observability
3 20 (52.63%) DevOps
4 12 (31.58%) Containerisation
5 10 (26.32%) Agile
5 10 (26.32%) Test Automation
6 8 (21.05%) Decision-Making
6 8 (21.05%) High Availability
6 8 (21.05%) Low Latency
6 8 (21.05%) Performance Tuning
7 7 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (18.42%) Microservices
8 6 (15.79%) Build Automation
8 6 (15.79%) Configuration Management
8 6 (15.79%) Event-Driven
8 6 (15.79%) GitOps
8 6 (15.79%) ITIL
8 6 (15.79%) Machine Learning
8 6 (15.79%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 19 (50.00%) Python
2 12 (31.58%) Bash
3 10 (26.32%) SQL
4 9 (23.68%) Java
4 9 (23.68%) PowerShell
5 6 (15.79%) JavaScript
6 4 (10.53%) Groovy
7 3 (7.89%) Perl
8 2 (5.26%) C#
9 1 (2.63%) Bicep
9 1 (2.63%) C
9 1 (2.63%) C++
9 1 (2.63%) Rust
9 1 (2.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (39.47%) Security Cleared
2 12 (31.58%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.89%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.26%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.63%) CCNP
5 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.63%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) QA
2 1 (2.63%) NCSC
2 1 (2.63%) NIST
2 1 (2.63%) NIST 800
System Software
1 31 (81.58%) Docker
2 3 (7.89%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.63%) KVM
4 1 (2.63%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (73.68%) Kubernetes
2 17 (44.74%) Terraform
3 14 (36.84%) Grafana
3 14 (36.84%) Prometheus
4 13 (34.21%) Kibana
5 8 (21.05%) Ansible
5 8 (21.05%) logstash
6 6 (15.79%) ITRS Geneos
7 4 (10.53%) Rancher
8 3 (7.89%) Karpenter
9 2 (5.26%) Progress Chef
9 2 (5.26%) Puppet
10 1 (2.63%) Argo
10 1 (2.63%) FortiGate
10 1 (2.63%) Icinga
10 1 (2.63%) Opsgenie
10 1 (2.63%) VxRail
Vendors
1 7 (18.42%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.79%) Dynatrace
2 6 (15.79%) Solace
2 6 (15.79%) TIBCO
3 4 (10.53%) New Relic
3 4 (10.53%) ServiceNow
3 4 (10.53%) Splunk
4 3 (7.89%) Atlassian
5 2 (5.26%) Oracle
5 2 (5.26%) VMware
6 1 (2.63%) Cloudera
6 1 (2.63%) Dell
6 1 (2.63%) NVIDIA
6 1 (2.63%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.63%) Veeam