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

6 months to
23 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 328 373
Rank change year-on-year +18 +45 +96
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 61 67 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.45% 0.40% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.72% 1.48% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 45 65
10th Percentile £423 £449 £463
25th Percentile £500 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £620
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -15.32% +2.48%
75th Percentile £653 £645 £738
90th Percentile £674 £765 £875
England median daily rate £525 £600 £615
% change year-on-year -12.50% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.00 - -
Median hourly rate £56.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile £59.00 - £80.78
90th Percentile - - £84.25
England median hourly rate £79.35 - £78.00

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 3,556 4,540 6,537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.14% 27.00% 26.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,483 3,294 4,892
10th Percentile £375 £375 £406
25th Percentile £429 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £700 £725 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £810
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 26 40
10th Percentile £31.25 £16.25 £30.68
25th Percentile £33.25 £23.80 £43.94
Median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -39.39% +32.00%
75th Percentile £60.75 £58.76 £75.00
90th Percentile £68.50 £71.00 £83.36
England median hourly rate £57.50 £58.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -0.86% -7.20% +13.64%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 0 10 £645 -0.77% 4
East London +15 1 £540 - 1
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 4 (6.56%) Apache
2 3 (4.92%) JBoss
3 2 (3.28%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.64%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.64%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 41 (67.21%) AWS
2 20 (32.79%) Azure
3 17 (27.87%) GCP
4 15 (24.59%) Amazon EKS
5 14 (22.95%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (21.31%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (14.75%) OpenShift
8 7 (11.48%) GitHub
9 5 (8.20%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (8.20%) Serverless
10 4 (6.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (4.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (4.92%) Amazon S3
11 3 (4.92%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (3.28%) Amazon Cognito
12 2 (3.28%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 2 (3.28%) AWS Control Tower
12 2 (3.28%) AWS KMS
12 2 (3.28%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 15 (24.59%) DNS
2 13 (21.31%) TCP/IP
3 11 (18.03%) HTTP
4 9 (14.75%) Internet
5 5 (8.20%) Firewall
6 4 (6.56%) VPN
7 2 (3.28%) DHCP
7 2 (3.28%) Network Security
7 2 (3.28%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (3.28%) SNMP
7 2 (3.28%) SSH
7 2 (3.28%) Telnet
7 2 (3.28%) Wireshark
8 1 (1.64%) DSLAM
8 1 (1.64%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (1.64%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (21.31%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (19.67%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (14.75%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (8.20%) MongoDB
4 5 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (6.56%) MySQL
6 3 (4.92%) Redis
7 2 (3.28%) DynamoDB
7 2 (3.28%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.64%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (1.64%) Big Data
8 1 (1.64%) Cloudera CDH
8 1 (1.64%) DocumentDB
8 1 (1.64%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.64%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.64%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (1.64%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 32 (52.46%) Jenkins
2 14 (22.95%) Git
3 11 (18.03%) GitLab
4 6 (9.84%) Maven
5 4 (6.56%) Eclipse
5 4 (6.56%) Gradle
5 4 (6.56%) IntelliJ
6 3 (4.92%) Artifactory
6 3 (4.92%) JIRA
6 3 (4.92%) JUnit
6 3 (4.92%) Mockito
6 3 (4.92%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (4.92%) TestNG
7 2 (3.28%) Ant
7 2 (3.28%) Terragrunt
8 1 (1.64%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.64%) Postman
8 1 (1.64%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.64%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.64%) Travis CI
General
1 19 (31.15%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.03%) Finance
3 8 (13.11%) Banking
4 5 (8.20%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.28%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.28%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Military
7 1 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (34.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (29.51%) Senior
3 12 (19.67%) Senior DevOps
4 11 (18.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 8 (13.11%) AWS DevOps
5 8 (13.11%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (11.48%) Lead
6 7 (11.48%) Site Engineer
6 7 (11.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 6 (9.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (8.20%) Developer
9 4 (6.56%) Applications Engineer
9 4 (6.56%) Java Developer
9 4 (6.56%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (4.92%) Digital Developer
10 3 (4.92%) Lead DevOps
10 3 (4.92%) Linux Engineer
10 3 (4.92%) Linux/Unix DevOps
11 2 (3.28%) Network Engineer
11 2 (3.28%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.11%) Kafka
2 5 (8.20%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (8.20%) Spring
2 5 (8.20%) Spring Boot
3 4 (6.56%) Hibernate
3 4 (6.56%) JSON
3 4 (6.56%) RESTful
4 3 (4.92%) JWT
4 3 (4.92%) Middleware
4 3 (4.92%) Node.js
4 3 (4.92%) OAuth
4 3 (4.92%) OpenAPI
4 3 (4.92%) REST
4 3 (4.92%) Swagger
4 3 (4.92%) XML
5 1 (1.64%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.64%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.64%) HTML
5 1 (1.64%) JMS
5 1 (1.64%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.75%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (9.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (8.20%) Cloud Native
3 5 (8.20%) Fixed Income
3 5 (8.20%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.28%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.28%) Replication
5 1 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.64%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.64%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 34 (55.74%) Linux
2 6 (9.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (8.20%) Unix
4 1 (1.64%) CentOS
4 1 (1.64%) Debian
4 1 (1.64%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.64%) Windows
4 1 (1.64%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (75.41%) DevOps
2 33 (54.10%) Containerisation
3 30 (49.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (44.26%) CI/CD
5 25 (40.98%) Configuration Management
6 18 (29.51%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (22.95%) Continuous Integration
7 14 (22.95%) Observability
8 11 (18.03%) Deployment Automation
9 10 (16.39%) Cost Management
10 9 (14.75%) Agile
10 9 (14.75%) Event-Driven
10 9 (14.75%) High Availability
10 9 (14.75%) Load Balancing
10 9 (14.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 8 (13.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 8 (13.11%) Microservices
11 8 (13.11%) Task Automation
12 7 (11.48%) Machine Learning
13 6 (9.84%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 39 (63.93%) Python
2 18 (29.51%) Bash
3 9 (14.75%) PowerShell
4 8 (13.11%) Java
4 8 (13.11%) SQL
5 7 (11.48%) Ruby
5 7 (11.48%) Shell Script
6 4 (6.56%) Groovy
6 4 (6.56%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.28%) Perl
7 2 (3.28%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.28%) Scala
8 1 (1.64%) Assembly Language
8 1 (1.64%) C#
8 1 (1.64%) C++
8 1 (1.64%) Go
8 1 (1.64%) PL/1
8 1 (1.64%) REXX
8 1 (1.64%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (34.43%) Security Cleared
2 18 (29.51%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.92%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.28%) CISSP
4 2 (3.28%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.64%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.64%) CEH
5 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.64%) RHCE
5 1 (1.64%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.56%) GDPR
1 4 (6.56%) QA
2 3 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.28%) NIST
3 2 (3.28%) SLA
4 1 (1.64%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (62.30%) Docker
2 2 (3.28%) FreeRADIUS
2 2 (3.28%) iptables
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 44 (72.13%) Kubernetes
2 34 (55.74%) Prometheus
3 33 (54.10%) Grafana
4 32 (52.46%) Terraform
5 27 (44.26%) Ansible
6 23 (37.70%) Puppet
7 16 (26.23%) Progress Chef
8 12 (19.67%) logstash
9 11 (18.03%) Kibana
10 5 (8.20%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (4.92%) Nagios
11 3 (4.92%) Podman
12 2 (3.28%) Cacti
12 2 (3.28%) Consul
12 2 (3.28%) Netcool
12 2 (3.28%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (3.28%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (3.28%) Proxmox
12 2 (3.28%) ZABBIX
13 1 (1.64%) Graylog
Vendors
1 11 (18.03%) Red Hat
2 7 (11.48%) Splunk
3 6 (9.84%) Google
3 6 (9.84%) Oracle
4 5 (8.20%) Solace
5 3 (4.92%) VMware
6 2 (3.28%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.28%) Nokia
7 1 (1.64%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.64%) Black Duck
7 1 (1.64%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.64%) Cisco
7 1 (1.64%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.64%) Darktrace
7 1 (1.64%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.64%) Huawei
7 1 (1.64%) Juniper
7 1 (1.64%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.64%) Tenable
7 1 (1.64%) TOWER Software