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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 324 342
Rank change year-on-year -73 +18 -10
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 55 43 51
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.27% 0.32% 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.03% 1.08% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 32 33
10th Percentile £435 £428 -
25th Percentile £481 £491 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £635 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.39% +15.45% -10.24%
75th Percentile £598 £688 £750
90th Percentile £638 £735 £870
England median daily rate £550 £525 £628
% change year-on-year +4.76% -16.33% +2.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.75 £53.00 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £56.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.46% - -
75th Percentile £60.25 £59.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £58.00 £68.00 -
% change year-on-year -14.71% - -

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 5,350 3,999 4,871
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.30% 29.69% 30.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,607 2,736 3,325
10th Percentile £400 £367 £385
25th Percentile £450 £431 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £710
90th Percentile £763 £800 £850
England median daily rate £535 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -0.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 32 22
10th Percentile £26.55 £31.77 £23.84
25th Percentile £36.25 £34.17 £36.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.41% +22.28% -32.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.56 £62.23
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £74.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.33%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -34 4 £488 -24.71% 7
West London - 2 - - 2
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 3 (5.45%) OpenStack
2 2 (3.64%) Apache
2 2 (3.64%) nginx
3 1 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.82%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.82%) CloudStack
3 1 (1.82%) Confluence
3 1 (1.82%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 45 (81.82%) AWS
2 30 (54.55%) Azure
3 27 (49.09%) GCP
4 18 (32.73%) GitHub
5 17 (30.91%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (27.27%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (20.00%) OpenShift
8 7 (12.73%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (10.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (10.91%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (10.91%) Datadog
9 6 (10.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (9.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 4 (7.27%) Amazon S3
11 4 (7.27%) Serverless
12 3 (5.45%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 3 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (5.45%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (5.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 2 (3.64%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.55%) DNS
2 4 (7.27%) 4G
2 4 (7.27%) 5G
2 4 (7.27%) Firewall
2 4 (7.27%) HTTP
2 4 (7.27%) TCP/IP
3 3 (5.45%) SAN
3 3 (5.45%) SSL
4 2 (3.64%) Kerberos
4 2 (3.64%) SSH
4 2 (3.64%) VPN
5 1 (1.82%) DSL
5 1 (1.82%) Internet
5 1 (1.82%) NAS
5 1 (1.82%) RTP
5 1 (1.82%) SMTP
5 1 (1.82%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.55%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (12.73%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (10.91%) Redis
4 5 (9.09%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.45%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (5.45%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (5.45%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (5.45%) Flink
5 3 (5.45%) MySQL
5 3 (5.45%) SQL Server
5 3 (5.45%) Tableau
6 2 (3.64%) BigQuery
6 2 (3.64%) Metadata
6 2 (3.64%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.82%) Big Data
7 1 (1.82%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.82%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.82%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.82%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 14 (25.45%) GitLab
3 11 (20.00%) Git
4 3 (5.45%) Gatling
4 3 (5.45%) JMeter
4 3 (5.45%) LoadRunner
5 2 (3.64%) Artifactory
5 2 (3.64%) CircleCI
5 2 (3.64%) Selenium
5 2 (3.64%) Snyk
5 2 (3.64%) SonarQube
5 2 (3.64%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.82%) eggPlant
6 1 (1.82%) JIRA
General
1 11 (20.00%) Finance
2 8 (14.55%) Public Sector
3 6 (10.91%) Banking
3 6 (10.91%) Social Skills
4 5 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (7.27%) Telecoms
6 3 (5.45%) Law
7 2 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.82%) Legal
8 1 (1.82%) Marketing
8 1 (1.82%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 22 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (18.18%) Senior
3 7 (12.73%) Senior DevOps
3 7 (12.73%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 6 (10.91%) Site Engineer
4 6 (10.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (7.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Consultant
7 3 (5.45%) Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Lead
7 3 (5.45%) Senior Manager
7 3 (5.45%) Site Manager
7 3 (5.45%) Site Reliability Manager
8 2 (3.64%) Administrator
8 2 (3.64%) Performance Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Quality Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Security Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (63.64%) Terraform
2 22 (40.00%) Kafka
3 6 (10.91%) Keycloak
3 6 (10.91%) Middleware
4 5 (9.09%) REST
5 3 (5.45%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (3.64%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (3.64%) FastAPI
6 2 (3.64%) Flask
6 2 (3.64%) Jinja
6 2 (3.64%) JMX
6 2 (3.64%) OAuth
6 2 (3.64%) OpenID
6 2 (3.64%) Pandas
6 2 (3.64%) Playwright
6 2 (3.64%) pytest
6 2 (3.64%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (3.64%) RESTful
6 2 (3.64%) Spring
6 2 (3.64%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.09%) Replication
2 4 (7.27%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.27%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.45%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.64%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.64%) PKI
4 2 (3.64%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.82%) Clustering
5 1 (1.82%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.82%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.82%) Fedwire
5 1 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.82%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.82%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 38 (69.09%) Linux
2 9 (16.36%) Windows
3 6 (10.91%) Ubuntu
3 6 (10.91%) Windows Server
4 4 (7.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.82%) Debian
5 1 (1.82%) Solaris
5 1 (1.82%) Unix
5 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (76.36%) CI/CD
2 37 (67.27%) DevOps
3 33 (60.00%) Observability
4 30 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (34.55%) Agile
6 17 (30.91%) Containerisation
6 17 (30.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 15 (27.27%) High Availability
8 13 (23.64%) Roadmaps
9 10 (18.18%) Incident Management
10 9 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (16.36%) Mentoring
11 8 (14.55%) Change Management
11 8 (14.55%) Configuration Management
11 8 (14.55%) Software Engineering
11 8 (14.55%) Test Automation
12 7 (12.73%) Cloud Security
12 7 (12.73%) GitOps
12 7 (12.73%) Infrastructure Automation
12 7 (12.73%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 28 (50.91%) Python
2 23 (41.82%) Bash
3 10 (18.18%) Java
3 10 (18.18%) SQL
4 6 (10.91%) Go
4 6 (10.91%) JavaScript
5 5 (9.09%) PowerShell
6 4 (7.27%) Shell Script
7 3 (5.45%) Groovy
8 2 (3.64%) C#
8 2 (3.64%) C++
8 2 (3.64%) Korn
8 2 (3.64%) Ruby
9 1 (1.82%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.82%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 31 (56.36%) Security Cleared
2 29 (52.73%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (9.09%) Degree
4 3 (5.45%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.64%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.64%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.82%) CCNP
6 1 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.82%) CISSP
6 1 (1.82%) ECSA
6 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.82%) OSCP
6 1 (1.82%) SANS
6 1 (1.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.27%) GDPR
1 4 (7.27%) QA
2 3 (5.45%) SLA
3 2 (3.64%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (3.64%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.64%) HIPAA
3 2 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.64%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.82%) FedRAMP
4 1 (1.82%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.82%) NCSC
4 1 (1.82%) SEPA
System Software
1 25 (45.45%) Docker
2 5 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.64%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (1.82%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 44 (80.00%) Grafana
2 42 (76.36%) Kubernetes
3 40 (72.73%) Prometheus
4 14 (25.45%) Ansible
5 5 (9.09%) Argo
6 4 (7.27%) logstash
7 3 (5.45%) Kibana
7 3 (5.45%) Rancher
8 2 (3.64%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (3.64%) Progress Chef
8 2 (3.64%) Puppet
8 2 (3.64%) systemd
9 1 (1.82%) Check_MK
9 1 (1.82%) Consul
9 1 (1.82%) Control-M
9 1 (1.82%) HAProxy
9 1 (1.82%) Nagios
9 1 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (36.36%) Splunk
2 9 (16.36%) Dynatrace
2 9 (16.36%) Microsoft
3 8 (14.55%) New Relic
4 7 (12.73%) Red Hat
5 5 (9.09%) Google
5 5 (9.09%) Oracle
5 5 (9.09%) VMware
6 4 (7.27%) Databricks
6 4 (7.27%) IBM
7 3 (5.45%) Confluent
7 3 (5.45%) ServiceNow
8 2 (3.64%) Sybase
9 1 (1.82%) AppDynamics
9 1 (1.82%) Cisco
9 1 (1.82%) Commvault
9 1 (1.82%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.82%) Veeam