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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 292 285
Rank change year-on-year -75 -7 +99
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 36 57 97
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.21% 0.45% 0.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.85% 1.73% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 42 74
10th Percentile £412 £371 £425
25th Percentile £475 £463 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year - +7.84% -17.74%
75th Percentile £653 £653 £649
90th Percentile £751 £768 £854
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -11.29%
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 £84.35 -
% change year-on-year -30.65% - -

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 4,218 3,301 4,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.59% 26.03% 24.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,862 2,307 3,340
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.39% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £662 £713 £699
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 17 23
10th Percentile £24.95 £34.30 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £39.25 £25.00
Median hourly rate £44.50 £55.50 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -19.82% +45.46% -41.30%
75th Percentile £59.99 £65.00 £60.63
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.75 £69.40
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -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 5 April 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 5 April 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 - 3 £637 -
Central London -16 2 £568 -3.40% 5
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 3 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.78%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 30 (83.33%) AWS
2 18 (50.00%) Azure
3 15 (41.67%) Amazon EKS
4 13 (36.11%) GitHub
5 11 (30.56%) GCP
6 10 (27.78%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (27.78%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (25.00%) Serverless
8 8 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (19.44%) Amazon S3
10 6 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (16.67%) Datadog
10 6 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (13.89%) OpenShift
12 4 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (8.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 3 (8.33%) Amazon ELB
13 3 (8.33%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.11%) DNS
2 2 (5.56%) Firewall
2 2 (5.56%) IPv4
2 2 (5.56%) IPv6
2 2 (5.56%) VPN
3 1 (2.78%) 4G
3 1 (2.78%) 5G
3 1 (2.78%) LTE
3 1 (2.78%) Network Security
3 1 (2.78%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (8.33%) Redis
4 2 (5.56%) Big Data
5 1 (2.78%) DB2
5 1 (2.78%) DocumentDB
5 1 (2.78%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.78%) Power BI
5 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (58.33%) Jenkins
2 12 (33.33%) GitLab
3 4 (11.11%) Git
3 4 (11.11%) Terragrunt
4 3 (8.33%) JIRA
5 1 (2.78%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.78%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.78%) JUnit
5 1 (2.78%) Mockito
5 1 (2.78%) Postman
5 1 (2.78%) Selenium
5 1 (2.78%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.78%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 7 (19.44%) Finance
3 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.33%) Legal
4 3 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.56%) Banking
6 1 (2.78%) Front Office
6 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (27.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (16.67%) Architect
3 5 (13.89%) AWS DevOps
3 5 (13.89%) Senior
4 4 (11.11%) AWS Architect
4 4 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Java Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Security Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Site Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.78%) Agile Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.22%) Kafka
2 3 (8.33%) AWS CDK
2 3 (8.33%) Keycloak
2 3 (8.33%) Node.js
3 2 (5.56%) JSON
3 2 (5.56%) Middleware
3 2 (5.56%) React
3 2 (5.56%) RESTful
3 2 (5.56%) Spring
3 2 (5.56%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.78%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.78%) CSS
4 1 (2.78%) Gherkin
4 1 (2.78%) HTML
4 1 (2.78%) REST
4 1 (2.78%) SOAP
4 1 (2.78%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.33%) Replication
3 2 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.78%) PKI
4 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (41.67%) Linux
2 5 (13.89%) Windows
3 2 (5.56%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.78%) Debian
4 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.78%) Unix
4 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (80.56%) CI/CD
2 22 (61.11%) DevOps
3 21 (58.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (44.44%) Observability
5 12 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (27.78%) Containerisation
7 9 (25.00%) Agile
8 7 (19.44%) GitOps
9 6 (16.67%) Microservices
9 6 (16.67%) Roadmaps
9 6 (16.67%) Test Automation
10 5 (13.89%) Build Automation
10 5 (13.89%) Computer Science
10 5 (13.89%) Configuration Management
10 5 (13.89%) High Availability
10 5 (13.89%) Incident Management
10 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Automation
10 5 (13.89%) ITIL
10 5 (13.89%) Mentoring
10 5 (13.89%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 13 (36.11%) Bash
2 11 (30.56%) Python
3 6 (16.67%) Java
4 3 (8.33%) Groovy
4 3 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 3 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 3 (8.33%) SQL
5 2 (5.56%) Go
5 2 (5.56%) Ruby
5 2 (5.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (52.78%) Security Cleared
2 18 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (19.44%) Degree
4 5 (13.89%) AWS Certification
4 5 (13.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (8.33%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) QA
2 2 (5.56%) GDPR
2 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.56%) NIST
3 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
System Software
1 24 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.78%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (69.44%) Kubernetes
2 23 (63.89%) Terraform
3 19 (52.78%) Grafana
3 19 (52.78%) Prometheus
4 11 (30.56%) Ansible
5 7 (19.44%) Kibana
6 3 (8.33%) Karpenter
6 3 (8.33%) Progress Chef
6 3 (8.33%) Puppet
6 3 (8.33%) Rancher
7 2 (5.56%) logstash
8 1 (2.78%) Argo
8 1 (2.78%) Icinga
8 1 (2.78%) Opsgenie
8 1 (2.78%) Packer
8 1 (2.78%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) Dynatrace
1 6 (16.67%) Splunk
2 5 (13.89%) Oracle
3 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 4 (11.11%) New Relic
4 3 (8.33%) ServiceNow
5 2 (5.56%) Atlassian
5 2 (5.56%) Google
5 2 (5.56%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.78%) Ariba
6 1 (2.78%) Bloomberg
6 1 (2.78%) Cloudera
6 1 (2.78%) Refinitiv
6 1 (2.78%) Reuters
6 1 (2.78%) SaltStack
6 1 (2.78%) SAP
6 1 (2.78%) VMware