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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 309 328
Rank change year-on-year -85 +19 +23
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 42 55 67
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.21% 0.41% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.80% 1.41% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 43 47
10th Percentile £413 £456 £449
25th Percentile £459 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £615 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% +17.14% -15.32%
75th Percentile £666 £662 £663
90th Percentile £754 £700 £775
England median daily rate £550 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -3.23%
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 £79.35 -
% change year-on-year -26.91% - -

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 5,256 3,891 4,909
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.20% 29.09% 30.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,517 2,710 3,493
10th Percentile £400 £368 £383
25th Percentile £455 £431 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £713
90th Percentile £763 £825 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 31 18
10th Percentile £26.78 £31.61 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.00 £33.87 £24.48
Median hourly rate £43.50 £51.44 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.44% +21.04% -36.80%
75th Percentile £61.50 £61.88 £50.56
90th Percentile £81.25 £72.00 £68.02
England median hourly rate £67.00 £54.79 £61.80
% change year-on-year +22.29% -11.35% -4.92%

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 25 August 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 August 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 -26 2 £425 -34.11% 1
South London - 2 £744 -
West London - 2 - - 1
East London +4 1 £432 -20.00%
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 2 (4.76%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.38%) Apache
2 1 (2.38%) CloudStack
2 1 (2.38%) nginx
2 1 (2.38%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 34 (80.95%) AWS
2 26 (61.90%) Azure
3 24 (57.14%) GCP
4 15 (35.71%) GitHub
5 14 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (30.95%) OpenShift
7 9 (21.43%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (19.05%) Datadog
9 6 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (9.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 4 (9.52%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (7.14%) Amazon S3
13 2 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
13 2 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 1 (2.38%) Boomi
14 1 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.52%) DNS
2 3 (7.14%) Firewall
2 3 (7.14%) HTTP
3 2 (4.76%) IPv4
3 2 (4.76%) IPv6
3 2 (4.76%) SAN
3 2 (4.76%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.38%) 4G
4 1 (2.38%) 5G
4 1 (2.38%) DSL
4 1 (2.38%) Internet
4 1 (2.38%) Kerberos
4 1 (2.38%) NAS
4 1 (2.38%) OpenVPN
4 1 (2.38%) RTP
4 1 (2.38%) SMTP
4 1 (2.38%) SSH
4 1 (2.38%) SSL
4 1 (2.38%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (2.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) NoSQL
2 3 (7.14%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (7.14%) Big Data
2 3 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.76%) Tableau
4 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.38%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.38%) Flink
4 1 (2.38%) Metadata
4 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.38%) MySQL
4 1 (2.38%) Redis
4 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (59.52%) Jenkins
2 9 (21.43%) GitLab
3 5 (11.90%) Git
4 3 (7.14%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.76%) CircleCI
5 2 (4.76%) Gatling
5 2 (4.76%) JMeter
5 2 (4.76%) LoadRunner
5 2 (4.76%) Snyk
6 1 (2.38%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.38%) eggPlant
6 1 (2.38%) Selenium
General
1 13 (30.95%) Finance
2 7 (16.67%) Banking
2 7 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.90%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.14%) Legal
4 3 (7.14%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.76%) Law
6 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (38.10%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (23.81%) Senior
3 7 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
3 7 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Site Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Senior Manager
5 3 (7.14%) Site Manager
5 3 (7.14%) Site Reliability Manager
6 2 (4.76%) Architect
6 2 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Developer
6 2 (4.76%) DevOps Manager
6 2 (4.76%) Environment Manager
6 2 (4.76%) Performance Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Performance Test Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Security Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (64.29%) Terraform
2 12 (28.57%) Kafka
3 7 (16.67%) Middleware
4 3 (7.14%) REST
5 1 (2.38%) CSS
5 1 (2.38%) EJB
5 1 (2.38%) Flask
5 1 (2.38%) HTML
5 1 (2.38%) JavaBeans
5 1 (2.38%) JDBC
5 1 (2.38%) Jinja
5 1 (2.38%) JMX
5 1 (2.38%) Mustache
5 1 (2.38%) Node.js
5 1 (2.38%) Pandas
5 1 (2.38%) pytest
5 1 (2.38%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.38%) React
5 1 (2.38%) RESTful
5 1 (2.38%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.52%) Data Centre
1 4 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.76%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.38%) Clustering
3 1 (2.38%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.38%) Fedwire
3 1 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.38%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.38%) Replication
3 1 (2.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 31 (73.81%) Linux
2 8 (19.05%) Windows
3 7 (16.67%) Ubuntu
3 7 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 5 (11.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.38%) Debian
5 1 (2.38%) Solaris
5 1 (2.38%) Unix
5 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 30 (71.43%) DevOps
3 24 (57.14%) Observability
4 23 (54.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (30.95%) Agile
5 13 (30.95%) High Availability
5 13 (30.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 12 (28.57%) Incident Management
7 11 (26.19%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (26.19%) Roadmaps
8 10 (23.81%) Mentoring
9 8 (19.05%) Configuration Management
9 8 (19.05%) Containerisation
9 8 (19.05%) Incident Response
9 8 (19.05%) Technology Roadmap
10 7 (16.67%) Computer Science
11 6 (14.29%) Change Management
11 6 (14.29%) Software Engineering
11 6 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
12 5 (11.90%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 16 (38.10%) Python
2 14 (33.33%) Bash
3 7 (16.67%) SQL
4 6 (14.29%) Java
4 6 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 5 (11.90%) Go
6 4 (9.52%) Shell Script
7 3 (7.14%) JavaScript
8 2 (4.76%) Korn
8 2 (4.76%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (54.76%) SC Cleared
1 23 (54.76%) Security Cleared
2 7 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (16.67%) Degree
3 4 (9.52%) AWS Certification
3 4 (9.52%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.38%) CCNP
4 1 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.38%) CISSP
4 1 (2.38%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.38%) ECSA
4 1 (2.38%) OSCP
4 1 (2.38%) SANS
4 1 (2.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.52%) GDPR
1 4 (9.52%) QA
2 3 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.76%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (4.76%) NIST
3 2 (4.76%) PCI DSS
3 2 (4.76%) SLA
4 1 (2.38%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.38%) ISO 20022
4 1 (2.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.38%) SEPA
System Software
1 18 (42.86%) Docker
2 6 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (2.38%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (85.71%) Grafana
2 34 (80.95%) Kubernetes
3 33 (78.57%) Prometheus
4 10 (23.81%) Ansible
5 2 (4.76%) Argo
5 2 (4.76%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (4.76%) Kibana
5 2 (4.76%) logstash
6 1 (2.38%) Check_MK
6 1 (2.38%) Control-M
6 1 (2.38%) Nagios
6 1 (2.38%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.38%) Puppet
6 1 (2.38%) Sysdig
6 1 (2.38%) systemd
Vendors
1 17 (40.48%) Splunk
2 7 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 6 (14.29%) Google
3 6 (14.29%) Oracle
3 6 (14.29%) VMware
4 5 (11.90%) New Relic
5 3 (7.14%) Dynatrace
5 3 (7.14%) IBM
6 2 (4.76%) Databricks
6 2 (4.76%) Sybase
7 1 (2.38%) AppDynamics
7 1 (2.38%) Cisco
7 1 (2.38%) Commvault
7 1 (2.38%) Confluent
7 1 (2.38%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.38%) SaltStack
7 1 (2.38%) Veeam