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

6 months to
24 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 323 379
Rank change year-on-year +20 +56 +85
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 59 70 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.43% 0.42% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.66% 1.55% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 47 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 £663 £738
90th Percentile £674 £775 £875
England median daily rate £525 £600 £618
% change year-on-year -12.50% -2.83% +2.92%
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 3,549 4,524 6,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.11% 27.04% 26.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,487 3,281 4,847
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 £55.50 £56.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year -1.33% -10.00% +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 24 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 24 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 -1 9 £645 -0.77% 3
East London +14 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 3 (5.08%) Apache
1 3 (5.08%) JBoss
2 2 (3.39%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.69%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.69%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 39 (66.10%) AWS
2 19 (32.20%) Azure
3 16 (27.12%) GCP
4 15 (25.42%) Amazon EKS
5 14 (23.73%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (22.03%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (15.25%) OpenShift
8 6 (10.17%) GitHub
9 5 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (8.47%) Serverless
10 4 (6.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (5.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (3.39%) Amazon Cognito
12 2 (3.39%) Amazon ELB
12 2 (3.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 2 (3.39%) Amazon S3
12 2 (3.39%) AWS KMS
12 2 (3.39%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 15 (25.42%) DNS
2 13 (22.03%) TCP/IP
3 11 (18.64%) HTTP
4 9 (15.25%) Internet
5 5 (8.47%) Firewall
6 4 (6.78%) VPN
7 2 (3.39%) DHCP
7 2 (3.39%) Network Security
7 2 (3.39%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (3.39%) SNMP
7 2 (3.39%) SSH
7 2 (3.39%) Telnet
7 2 (3.39%) Wireshark
8 1 (1.69%) DSLAM
8 1 (1.69%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (1.69%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (22.03%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (20.34%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (15.25%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (6.78%) MongoDB
4 4 (6.78%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (5.08%) MySQL
6 2 (3.39%) DynamoDB
6 2 (3.39%) Oracle Database
6 2 (3.39%) Redis
7 1 (1.69%) Big Data
7 1 (1.69%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (1.69%) DocumentDB
7 1 (1.69%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.69%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.69%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (1.69%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 31 (52.54%) Jenkins
2 14 (23.73%) Git
3 10 (16.95%) GitLab
4 5 (8.47%) Maven
5 3 (5.08%) Artifactory
5 3 (5.08%) Eclipse
5 3 (5.08%) Gradle
5 3 (5.08%) IntelliJ
5 3 (5.08%) JIRA
5 3 (5.08%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (3.39%) Ant
6 2 (3.39%) JUnit
6 2 (3.39%) Mockito
6 2 (3.39%) Terragrunt
6 2 (3.39%) TestNG
7 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.69%) JMeter
7 1 (1.69%) Selenium
7 1 (1.69%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.69%) SonarQube
General
1 17 (28.81%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.64%) Finance
3 8 (13.56%) Banking
4 5 (8.47%) Investment Banking
5 3 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.39%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.39%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Military
7 1 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (35.59%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (30.51%) Senior
3 12 (20.34%) Senior DevOps
4 11 (18.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 8 (13.56%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (11.86%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (10.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 6 (10.17%) Lead
7 6 (10.17%) Site Engineer
7 6 (10.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (6.78%) Applications Engineer
8 4 (6.78%) Developer
8 4 (6.78%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Java Developer
9 3 (5.08%) Lead DevOps
9 3 (5.08%) Linux Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Linux/Unix DevOps
10 2 (3.39%) Architect
10 2 (3.39%) Cloud Engineer
10 2 (3.39%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.86%) Kafka
2 5 (8.47%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (6.78%) JSON
3 4 (6.78%) Spring
3 4 (6.78%) Spring Boot
4 3 (5.08%) Hibernate
4 3 (5.08%) Middleware
4 3 (5.08%) Node.js
4 3 (5.08%) REST
4 3 (5.08%) RESTful
4 3 (5.08%) XML
5 2 (3.39%) JWT
5 2 (3.39%) OAuth
5 2 (3.39%) OpenAPI
5 2 (3.39%) Swagger
6 1 (1.69%) Akka
6 1 (1.69%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.69%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.69%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (1.69%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.25%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (10.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (8.47%) Cloud Native
3 5 (8.47%) Fixed Income
3 5 (8.47%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.39%) Replication
5 1 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.69%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.69%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.69%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 34 (57.63%) Linux
2 6 (10.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (8.47%) Unix
4 1 (1.69%) CentOS
4 1 (1.69%) Debian
4 1 (1.69%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.69%) Windows
4 1 (1.69%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (76.27%) DevOps
2 31 (52.54%) Containerisation
3 29 (49.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (44.07%) CI/CD
5 24 (40.68%) Configuration Management
6 17 (28.81%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (23.73%) Continuous Integration
8 13 (22.03%) Observability
9 10 (16.95%) Cost Management
9 10 (16.95%) Deployment Automation
10 9 (15.25%) Agile
10 9 (15.25%) High Availability
10 9 (15.25%) Load Balancing
11 8 (13.56%) Event-Driven
11 8 (13.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 8 (13.56%) Task Automation
12 7 (11.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 7 (11.86%) Machine Learning
12 7 (11.86%) Microservices
13 6 (10.17%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 38 (64.41%) Python
2 17 (28.81%) Bash
3 9 (15.25%) PowerShell
4 7 (11.86%) Java
4 7 (11.86%) Shell Script
4 7 (11.86%) SQL
5 6 (10.17%) Ruby
6 4 (6.78%) Groovy
6 4 (6.78%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.39%) Perl
7 2 (3.39%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.39%) Scala
8 1 (1.69%) Assembly Language
8 1 (1.69%) C#
8 1 (1.69%) C++
8 1 (1.69%) Go
8 1 (1.69%) PL/1
8 1 (1.69%) REXX
8 1 (1.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (33.90%) Security Cleared
2 17 (28.81%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.08%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.39%) CISSP
4 2 (3.39%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.69%) CEH
5 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.69%) RHCE
5 1 (1.69%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.78%) GDPR
1 4 (6.78%) QA
2 3 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.39%) NIST
3 2 (3.39%) SLA
4 1 (1.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (61.02%) Docker
2 2 (3.39%) FreeRADIUS
2 2 (3.39%) iptables
3 1 (1.69%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 42 (71.19%) Kubernetes
2 32 (54.24%) Prometheus
3 31 (52.54%) Grafana
3 31 (52.54%) Terraform
4 26 (44.07%) Ansible
5 22 (37.29%) Puppet
6 15 (25.42%) Progress Chef
7 12 (20.34%) logstash
8 11 (18.64%) Kibana
9 5 (8.47%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (5.08%) Nagios
10 3 (5.08%) Podman
11 2 (3.39%) Cacti
11 2 (3.39%) Consul
11 2 (3.39%) Netcool
11 2 (3.39%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (3.39%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (3.39%) Proxmox
11 2 (3.39%) ZABBIX
12 1 (1.69%) Argo
Vendors
1 11 (18.64%) Red Hat
2 7 (11.86%) Splunk
3 6 (10.17%) Oracle
4 5 (8.47%) Google
4 5 (8.47%) Solace
5 3 (5.08%) VMware
6 2 (3.39%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.39%) Nokia
7 1 (1.69%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.69%) Black Duck
7 1 (1.69%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.69%) Cisco
7 1 (1.69%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.69%) Darktrace
7 1 (1.69%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.69%) Huawei
7 1 (1.69%) Juniper
7 1 (1.69%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.69%) Tenable