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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 314 324 355
Rank change year-on-year +10 +31 +109
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 47 56 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.35% 0.35% 0.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.36% 1.26% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 37 75
10th Percentile £456 £453 £411
25th Percentile £500 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +15.45% -12.00% -
75th Percentile £681 £675 £731
90th Percentile £728 £775 £778
England median daily rate £525 £625 £620
% change year-on-year -16.00% +0.81% +3.33%
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 £68.00 - £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 3,445 4,458 5,777
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.02% 27.72% 25.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,362 3,068 4,312
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £688 £725 £713
90th Percentile £825 £850 £810
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 21 42
10th Percentile £31.77 £23.80 £35.00
25th Percentile £34.17 £36.25 £37.72
Median hourly rate £51.97 £42.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.28% -33.59% +10.34%
75th Percentile £62.81 £61.43 £75.00
90th Percentile £85.95 £75.00 £86.20
England median hourly rate £54.35 £62.93 £61.25
% change year-on-year -13.63% +2.74% -2.00%

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
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 15 September 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 15 September 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 7 £648 -0.38% 14
East London - 1 £540 -
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 3 (6.38%) Confluence
2 2 (4.26%) Apache
2 2 (4.26%) JBoss
3 1 (2.13%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.13%) Mattermost
3 1 (2.13%) SAS
3 1 (2.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (6.38%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 23 (48.94%) AWS
2 14 (29.79%) Azure
3 11 (23.40%) GCP
4 10 (21.28%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (21.28%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (14.89%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (10.64%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (8.51%) OpenShift
8 2 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (4.26%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (4.26%) AWS Control Tower
8 2 (4.26%) AWS KMS
8 2 (4.26%) Datadog
8 2 (4.26%) GitHub
8 2 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.13%) Azure AKS
9 1 (2.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (2.13%) Serverless
9 1 (2.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (19.15%) DNS
2 8 (17.02%) TCP/IP
3 6 (12.77%) Firewall
3 6 (12.77%) HTTP
3 6 (12.77%) Internet
4 1 (2.13%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.13%) Network Security
4 1 (2.13%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (29.79%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (14.89%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (14.89%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (12.77%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (8.51%) SQL Server
5 3 (6.38%) DB2
6 2 (4.26%) Big Data
6 2 (4.26%) MongoDB
6 2 (4.26%) Redis
7 1 (2.13%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 26 (55.32%) Jenkins
2 7 (14.89%) Git
3 5 (10.64%) JIRA
4 4 (8.51%) Bitbucket
4 4 (8.51%) Selenium
5 3 (6.38%) Cucumber
5 3 (6.38%) GitLab
5 3 (6.38%) TeamCity
6 2 (4.26%) Artifactory
6 2 (4.26%) Maven
6 2 (4.26%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (2.13%) Ant
7 1 (2.13%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.13%) Eclipse
7 1 (2.13%) Gradle
7 1 (2.13%) IntelliJ
7 1 (2.13%) JMeter
7 1 (2.13%) NeoLoad
7 1 (2.13%) Postman
7 1 (2.13%) SoapUI
General
1 17 (36.17%) Social Skills
2 14 (29.79%) Finance
3 10 (21.28%) Banking
4 5 (10.64%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (25.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (21.28%) Senior
3 6 (12.77%) Senior DevOps
3 6 (12.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 6 (12.77%) Site Engineer
3 6 (12.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) Applications Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) AWS DevOps
4 5 (10.64%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) Developer
5 4 (8.51%) Java Developer
5 4 (8.51%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Agile Developer
6 3 (6.38%) Agile Java Developer
6 3 (6.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Architect
7 2 (4.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Lead
7 2 (4.26%) Lead DevOps
7 2 (4.26%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.02%) FIX Protocol
2 6 (12.77%) Kafka
3 5 (10.64%) JSON
3 5 (10.64%) Node.js
3 5 (10.64%) REST
4 4 (8.51%) CSS
4 4 (8.51%) HTML
4 4 (8.51%) React
4 4 (8.51%) XML
5 3 (6.38%) .NET
5 3 (6.38%) Gherkin
5 3 (6.38%) RESTful
5 3 (6.38%) Ultra Messaging
6 2 (4.26%) AWS CDK
6 2 (4.26%) Middleware
7 1 (2.13%) JMS
7 1 (2.13%) Keycloak
7 1 (2.13%) Next.js
7 1 (2.13%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (2.13%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (25.53%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (19.15%) Cloud Native
3 5 (10.64%) Fixed Income
3 5 (10.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (8.51%) Management Information System
4 4 (8.51%) Replication
5 3 (6.38%) Algorithms
5 3 (6.38%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (4.26%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (2.13%) Blockchain
7 1 (2.13%) Mainframe
7 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.13%) Private Cloud
7 1 (2.13%) Public Cloud
7 1 (2.13%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 26 (55.32%) Linux
2 3 (6.38%) Unix
3 2 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.13%) Debian
4 1 (2.13%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.13%) Windows
4 1 (2.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (70.21%) DevOps
2 24 (51.06%) CI/CD
3 23 (48.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (40.43%) Configuration Management
5 16 (34.04%) Containerisation
6 15 (31.91%) Observability
7 13 (27.66%) Continuous Integration
8 12 (25.53%) Agile
9 10 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (21.28%) Software Engineering
10 9 (19.15%) Data Pipeline
10 9 (19.15%) High Availability
10 9 (19.15%) Low Latency
10 9 (19.15%) Machine Learning
11 8 (17.02%) Algorithmic Trading
11 8 (17.02%) Data Science
11 8 (17.02%) Event-Driven
11 8 (17.02%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 8 (17.02%) High-Frequency Trading
11 8 (17.02%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 30 (63.83%) Python
2 17 (36.17%) Bash
3 13 (27.66%) PowerShell
4 8 (17.02%) SQL
5 6 (12.77%) Java
5 6 (12.77%) JavaScript
6 4 (8.51%) Ruby
6 4 (8.51%) Shell Script
7 3 (6.38%) Groovy
8 2 (4.26%) C#
8 2 (4.26%) C++
8 2 (4.26%) Perl
9 1 (2.13%) Assembly Language
9 1 (2.13%) C
9 1 (2.13%) Go
9 1 (2.13%) PL/1
9 1 (2.13%) PL/SQL
9 1 (2.13%) REXX
9 1 (2.13%) Scala
9 1 (2.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (31.91%) Security Cleared
2 11 (23.40%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.38%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.13%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.13%) CISSP
4 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) QA
2 2 (4.26%) GDPR
2 2 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.26%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (65.96%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.13%) KVM
2 1 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (76.60%) Kubernetes
2 22 (46.81%) Grafana
3 21 (44.68%) Prometheus
3 21 (44.68%) Terraform
4 17 (36.17%) Ansible
5 13 (27.66%) Kibana
5 13 (27.66%) Puppet
6 12 (25.53%) logstash
6 12 (25.53%) Progress Chef
7 8 (17.02%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (4.26%) Argo
8 2 (4.26%) Consul
8 2 (4.26%) Podman
9 1 (2.13%) Graphite
9 1 (2.13%) Rancher
Vendors
1 8 (17.02%) Solace
2 6 (12.77%) Red Hat
3 5 (10.64%) Microsoft
3 5 (10.64%) Splunk
4 4 (8.51%) Atlassian
5 3 (6.38%) Oracle
5 3 (6.38%) TIBCO
6 2 (4.26%) Dynatrace
6 2 (4.26%) Google
6 2 (4.26%) VMware
7 1 (2.13%) Darktrace
7 1 (2.13%) ServiceNow