Elastic Stack Contract Job Trends in Reading

Elastic Stack (formerly ELK Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Elastic Stack skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 79 86
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 0
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 2 2 10
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.26% 0.24% 0.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.40% 1.04% 6.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £505 -
25th Percentile £393 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% - -32.17%
75th Percentile £418 £538 £569
90th Percentile - £545 £588
Berkshire median daily rate £405 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -22.86% - -32.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 143 193 157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 18.60% 23.23% 14.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 129 91
10th Percentile £387 £382 £325
25th Percentile £461 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.33% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £655 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £491 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -14.61% +15.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 6
10th Percentile - £72.18 £56.58
25th Percentile - £73.01 £56.65
Median hourly rate £81.00 £75.22 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +29.02% -24.75%
75th Percentile £81.25 £76.61 £59.95
90th Percentile £81.70 £76.96 £60.78
Berkshire median hourly rate £81.00 £75.22 £61.60
% change year-on-year +7.69% +22.11% -22.03%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Elastic Stack relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Elastic Stack job vacancy trend in Reading

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Elastic Stack.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Elastic Stack

Elastic Stack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

General
1 1 (50.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Tanium