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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 306 380
Rank change year-on-year +10 +74 +31
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 57 85 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.45% 0.48% 0.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.74% 1.90% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 63 76
10th Percentile £400 £430 £463
25th Percentile £463 £464 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £510 £620
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% -17.74% +2.48%
75th Percentile £653 £622 £900
90th Percentile £700 £765 -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £67.65
25th Percentile - - £72.38
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £84.35 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - -6.25%

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 3,271 4,464 7,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.07% 25.04% 27.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,298 3,349 5,511
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £700 £730
90th Percentile £838 £825 £813
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 26 40
10th Percentile £33.25 £16.25 £30.68
25th Percentile £36.06 £23.90 £37.84
Median hourly rate £52.50 £37.17 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.24% -43.68% +35.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £68.50 £76.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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 May 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 May 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 -5 6 £588 +3.98% 6
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 6 (10.53%) Apache
2 5 (8.77%) OpenStack
3 4 (7.02%) nginx
4 2 (3.51%) Apache Spark
4 2 (3.51%) Confluence
5 1 (1.75%) IIS
5 1 (1.75%) JBoss
5 1 (1.75%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 40 (70.18%) AWS
2 21 (36.84%) Azure
3 20 (35.09%) GCP
4 12 (21.05%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (17.54%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (17.54%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (12.28%) OpenShift
7 6 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (10.53%) GitHub
8 5 (8.77%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (8.77%) Serverless
9 4 (7.02%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (5.26%) Amazon S3
10 3 (5.26%) Datadog
10 3 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (3.51%) Amazon Cognito
11 2 (3.51%) Amazon ELB
11 2 (3.51%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 2 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (3.51%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 14 (24.56%) DNS
2 13 (22.81%) HTTP
2 13 (22.81%) TCP/IP
3 7 (12.28%) Internet
4 6 (10.53%) DHCP
5 4 (7.02%) DOCSIS
5 4 (7.02%) Network Security
5 4 (7.02%) VPN
5 4 (7.02%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (3.51%) Firewall
6 2 (3.51%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (3.51%) SNMP
6 2 (3.51%) SSH
6 2 (3.51%) Telnet
6 2 (3.51%) VLAN
6 2 (3.51%) Wireless
6 2 (3.51%) Wireshark
7 1 (1.75%) 802.11
7 1 (1.75%) DSL
7 1 (1.75%) DSLAM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.54%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (17.54%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (12.28%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (8.77%) MongoDB
3 5 (8.77%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (7.02%) MySQL
4 4 (7.02%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.26%) InfluxDB
5 3 (5.26%) Looker
5 3 (5.26%) Redis
6 2 (3.51%) DynamoDB
6 2 (3.51%) Oracle Database
6 2 (3.51%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.75%) Big Data
7 1 (1.75%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (1.75%) Couchbase
7 1 (1.75%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (1.75%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 28 (49.12%) Jenkins
2 11 (19.30%) Git
2 11 (19.30%) GitLab
3 4 (7.02%) Maven
4 3 (5.26%) Eclipse
4 3 (5.26%) Gradle
4 3 (5.26%) IntelliJ
4 3 (5.26%) JIRA
4 3 (5.26%) JUnit
4 3 (5.26%) Mockito
4 3 (5.26%) TestNG
5 2 (3.51%) Terragrunt
6 1 (1.75%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.75%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.75%) Gerrit
6 1 (1.75%) Jaeger
6 1 (1.75%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.75%) Travis CI
General
1 12 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.28%) Finance
3 3 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.26%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.51%) Banking
4 2 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.51%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.75%) Military
5 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (40.35%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (26.32%) Senior
3 11 (19.30%) Senior DevOps
4 10 (17.54%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 9 (15.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 8 (14.04%) Site Engineer
7 6 (10.53%) AWS DevOps
7 6 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (10.53%) Lead
8 5 (8.77%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (8.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (8.77%) Developer
9 4 (7.02%) Unix Engineer
10 3 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (5.26%) Digital Developer
10 3 (5.26%) Java Developer
10 3 (5.26%) Linux/Unix DevOps
11 2 (3.51%) DevOps Automation Engineer
11 2 (3.51%) Full-Stack Developer
11 2 (3.51%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.53%) Kafka
1 6 (10.53%) RESTful
2 5 (8.77%) Spring
2 5 (8.77%) Spring Boot
3 4 (7.02%) Node.js
4 3 (5.26%) Hibernate
4 3 (5.26%) JSON
4 3 (5.26%) JWT
4 3 (5.26%) OAuth
4 3 (5.26%) OpenAPI
4 3 (5.26%) React
4 3 (5.26%) REST
4 3 (5.26%) Swagger
5 2 (3.51%) .NET
5 2 (3.51%) XML
6 1 (1.75%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.75%) Classic ASP
6 1 (1.75%) POSIX
6 1 (1.75%) SOAP
6 1 (1.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (7.02%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.02%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (7.02%) Video\Live Streaming
3 3 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.51%) IoT
4 2 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.51%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.51%) Replication
5 1 (1.75%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.75%) Digital TV
5 1 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.75%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.75%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.75%) STB
Operating Systems
1 32 (56.14%) Linux
2 6 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (10.53%) Unix
3 2 (3.51%) Windows
3 2 (3.51%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.75%) CentOS
4 1 (1.75%) Debian
4 1 (1.75%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (1.75%) SUSE
4 1 (1.75%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (70.18%) DevOps
2 30 (52.63%) CI/CD
2 30 (52.63%) Containerisation
3 21 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (33.33%) Configuration Management
5 14 (24.56%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (22.81%) High Availability
7 12 (21.05%) Agile
7 12 (21.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 10 (17.54%) Deployment Automation
9 9 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (15.79%) Observability
9 9 (15.79%) Test Automation
10 8 (14.04%) Cost Management
10 8 (14.04%) Microservices
10 8 (14.04%) Task Automation
11 6 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
11 6 (10.53%) SDLC
11 6 (10.53%) Software Engineering
11 6 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 36 (63.16%) Python
2 13 (22.81%) Bash
2 13 (22.81%) Shell Script
3 12 (21.05%) Java
4 9 (15.79%) SQL
5 7 (12.28%) Groovy
6 6 (10.53%) Ruby
7 5 (8.77%) C
7 5 (8.77%) Go
8 4 (7.02%) C++
8 4 (7.02%) JavaScript
8 4 (7.02%) PowerShell
9 2 (3.51%) C#
9 2 (3.51%) Perl
9 2 (3.51%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.75%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.75%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 17 (29.82%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.77%) AWS Certification
4 3 (5.26%) Degree
5 2 (3.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.51%) CISSP
6 1 (1.75%) CEH
6 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.75%) RHCE
6 1 (1.75%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.04%) QA
2 5 (8.77%) GDPR
3 3 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.51%) NIST
4 2 (3.51%) SLA
5 1 (1.75%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.75%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 34 (59.65%) Docker
2 2 (3.51%) FreeRADIUS
2 2 (3.51%) iptables
3 1 (1.75%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (64.91%) Kubernetes
2 31 (54.39%) Grafana
3 28 (49.12%) Terraform
4 27 (47.37%) Ansible
4 27 (47.37%) Prometheus
5 18 (31.58%) Puppet
6 11 (19.30%) Progress Chef
7 7 (12.28%) logstash
8 6 (10.53%) Kibana
9 4 (7.02%) ZABBIX
10 3 (5.26%) Nagios
11 2 (3.51%) Cacti
11 2 (3.51%) Netcool
11 2 (3.51%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (3.51%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (3.51%) Proxmox
12 1 (1.75%) Apache Ranger
12 1 (1.75%) Packer
12 1 (1.75%) Podman
12 1 (1.75%) Rancher
Vendors
1 15 (26.32%) Splunk
2 10 (17.54%) Red Hat
3 6 (10.53%) Google
4 5 (8.77%) AppDynamics
5 4 (7.02%) Dynatrace
5 4 (7.02%) Oracle
6 3 (5.26%) VMware
7 2 (3.51%) Microsoft
7 2 (3.51%) Nokia
8 1 (1.75%) Black Duck
8 1 (1.75%) Cisco
8 1 (1.75%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.75%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.75%) Darktrace
8 1 (1.75%) F5
8 1 (1.75%) Huawei
8 1 (1.75%) Juniper
8 1 (1.75%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.75%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.75%) TOWER Software