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

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 312 316 379
Rank change year-on-year +4 +63 +83
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 60 69 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.44% 0.42% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.68% 1.54% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 46 61
10th Percentile £428 £449 £463
25th Percentile £500 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year +15.71% -16.00% +3.95%
75th Percentile £653 £669 £750
90th Percentile £688 £775 £875
England median daily rate £528 £600 £620
% change year-on-year -12.08% -3.23% +3.33%
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 3,573 4,483 6,382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.13% 27.15% 26.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,504 3,248 4,796
10th Percentile £375 £375 £405
25th Percentile £428 £463 £485
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 25 41
10th Percentile £31.25 £16.25 £30.75
25th Percentile £33.25 £23.80 £46.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £37.50 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -44.03% +32.35%
75th Percentile £60.75 £50.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £68.50 £71.80 £83.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £56.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year -2.22% -10.00% +12.61%

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 27 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 27 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 9 £645 -0.77% 3
East London +13 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 (5.00%) Apache
1 3 (5.00%) JBoss
2 2 (3.33%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.67%) Confluence
3 1 (1.67%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 39 (65.00%) AWS
2 19 (31.67%) Azure
3 16 (26.67%) Amazon EKS
3 16 (26.67%) GCP
4 15 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 13 (21.67%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (15.00%) OpenShift
7 6 (10.00%) GitHub
8 5 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (8.33%) Serverless
9 4 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (5.00%) AWS KMS
10 3 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (3.33%) Amazon Cognito
11 2 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (3.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 2 (3.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 2 (3.33%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 15 (25.00%) DNS
2 13 (21.67%) TCP/IP
3 11 (18.33%) HTTP
4 9 (15.00%) Internet
5 5 (8.33%) Firewall
6 4 (6.67%) VPN
7 2 (3.33%) DHCP
7 2 (3.33%) Network Security
7 2 (3.33%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (3.33%) SNMP
7 2 (3.33%) SSH
7 2 (3.33%) Telnet
7 2 (3.33%) Wireshark
8 1 (1.67%) DSLAM
8 1 (1.67%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (1.67%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (21.67%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (15.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (6.67%) MongoDB
6 3 (5.00%) MySQL
7 2 (3.33%) DynamoDB
7 2 (3.33%) Oracle Database
7 2 (3.33%) Redis
7 2 (3.33%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.67%) Big Data
8 1 (1.67%) Cloudera CDH
8 1 (1.67%) DB2
8 1 (1.67%) DocumentDB
8 1 (1.67%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.67%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (1.67%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 32 (53.33%) Jenkins
2 14 (23.33%) Git
3 10 (16.67%) GitLab
4 5 (8.33%) Maven
5 4 (6.67%) JIRA
6 3 (5.00%) Artifactory
6 3 (5.00%) Eclipse
6 3 (5.00%) Gradle
6 3 (5.00%) IntelliJ
6 3 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (3.33%) Ant
7 2 (3.33%) Bitbucket
7 2 (3.33%) JUnit
7 2 (3.33%) Mockito
7 2 (3.33%) Selenium
7 2 (3.33%) TestNG
8 1 (1.67%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.67%) JMeter
8 1 (1.67%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.67%) TeamCity
General
1 18 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (20.00%) Finance
3 9 (15.00%) Banking
4 5 (8.33%) Investment Banking
5 3 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.33%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Military
7 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (30.00%) Senior
3 12 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
4 11 (18.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 7 (11.67%) AWS DevOps
5 7 (11.67%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (10.00%) Lead
6 6 (10.00%) Site Engineer
6 6 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) Developer
7 5 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) Java Developer
9 3 (5.00%) Lead DevOps
9 3 (5.00%) Linux Engineer
9 3 (5.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
10 2 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
10 2 (3.33%) Digital Developer
10 2 (3.33%) Linux Scripter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.67%) Kafka
2 5 (8.33%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (6.67%) JSON
3 4 (6.67%) Node.js
3 4 (6.67%) RESTful
3 4 (6.67%) Spring
3 4 (6.67%) Spring Boot
4 3 (5.00%) Hibernate
4 3 (5.00%) Middleware
4 3 (5.00%) REST
4 3 (5.00%) XML
5 2 (3.33%) AWS CDK
5 2 (3.33%) CSS
5 2 (3.33%) HTML
5 2 (3.33%) JWT
5 2 (3.33%) OAuth
5 2 (3.33%) OpenAPI
5 2 (3.33%) React
5 2 (3.33%) Swagger
6 1 (1.67%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.00%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 5 (8.33%) Fixed Income
3 5 (8.33%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.33%) Replication
5 1 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.67%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.67%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 33 (55.00%) Linux
2 6 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (8.33%) Unix
4 1 (1.67%) CentOS
4 1 (1.67%) Debian
4 1 (1.67%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.67%) Windows
4 1 (1.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (73.33%) DevOps
2 31 (51.67%) Containerisation
3 30 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (46.67%) CI/CD
5 24 (40.00%) Configuration Management
6 18 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
8 14 (23.33%) Observability
9 10 (16.67%) Agile
9 10 (16.67%) Cost Management
9 10 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
10 9 (15.00%) High Availability
10 9 (15.00%) Load Balancing
11 8 (13.33%) Event-Driven
11 8 (13.33%) Microservices
11 8 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 8 (13.33%) Task Automation
12 7 (11.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 7 (11.67%) Machine Learning
12 7 (11.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 37 (61.67%) Python
2 17 (28.33%) Bash
3 9 (15.00%) PowerShell
4 8 (13.33%) Java
4 8 (13.33%) SQL
5 7 (11.67%) Shell Script
6 6 (10.00%) Ruby
7 5 (8.33%) JavaScript
8 4 (6.67%) Groovy
9 2 (3.33%) Perl
9 2 (3.33%) PL/SQL
9 2 (3.33%) Scala
10 1 (1.67%) Assembly Language
10 1 (1.67%) C#
10 1 (1.67%) C++
10 1 (1.67%) Go
10 1 (1.67%) PL/1
10 1 (1.67%) REXX
10 1 (1.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 16 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.33%) CISSP
4 2 (3.33%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.67%) CEH
5 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.67%) RHCE
5 1 (1.67%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.67%) GDPR
1 4 (6.67%) QA
2 3 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.33%) NIST
3 2 (3.33%) SLA
4 1 (1.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (60.00%) Docker
2 2 (3.33%) FreeRADIUS
2 2 (3.33%) iptables
3 1 (1.67%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 43 (71.67%) Kubernetes
2 31 (51.67%) Grafana
2 31 (51.67%) Prometheus
2 31 (51.67%) Terraform
3 26 (43.33%) Ansible
4 22 (36.67%) Puppet
5 15 (25.00%) Progress Chef
6 12 (20.00%) logstash
7 11 (18.33%) Kibana
8 5 (8.33%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (5.00%) Nagios
9 3 (5.00%) Podman
10 2 (3.33%) Cacti
10 2 (3.33%) Consul
10 2 (3.33%) Netcool
10 2 (3.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (3.33%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (3.33%) Proxmox
10 2 (3.33%) ZABBIX
11 1 (1.67%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 11 (18.33%) Red Hat
2 7 (11.67%) Splunk
3 6 (10.00%) Oracle
4 5 (8.33%) Google
4 5 (8.33%) Solace
5 3 (5.00%) VMware
6 2 (3.33%) Atlassian
6 2 (3.33%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.33%) Nokia
7 1 (1.67%) Black Duck
7 1 (1.67%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.67%) Cisco
7 1 (1.67%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.67%) Darktrace
7 1 (1.67%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.67%) Huawei
7 1 (1.67%) Juniper
7 1 (1.67%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.67%) Tenable