Elastic Stack Contracts in Scotland

Elastic Stack (formerly ELK Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 109 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Elastic Stack 7 8 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.43% 0.43% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.79% 2.21% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 0
10th Percentile £69 £394 -
25th Percentile £108 £400 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £323 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.12% - -
75th Percentile £480 £494 -
90th Percentile £505 £520 -
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £601
% change year-on-year -12.50% -0.08% +2.87%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 392 362 604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 23.98% 19.40% 23.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 247 438
10th Percentile £353 £359 £388
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £479
Median % change year-on-year - -0.84% -3.72%
75th Percentile £538 £572 £538
90th Percentile £600 £700 £613
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - - £20.33
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £32.56
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £53.38
Median % change year-on-year - +3.03% +45.93%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.50 £59.03
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -12.34% +2.67% -

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Elastic Stack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Elastic Stack in Scotland

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elastic Stack in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Elastic Stack in Scotland

Elastic Stack
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +10 4 £420 -11.58% 3
West Lothian - 2 £69 - 2
Glasgow -21 1 £500 +25.00%
Elastic Stack
UK

Elastic Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (28.57%) FileNet
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) GCP
2 3 (42.86%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
3 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Liquibase
2 2 (28.57%) GitLab
2 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) GCP Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Genesys Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Python Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) RESTful
2 2 (28.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (28.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Change Management
3 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (28.57%) Cryptography
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Observability
4 1 (14.29%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Go
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Certification
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) Master's Degree
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Grafana
2 3 (42.86%) Kibana
2 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 3 (42.86%) logstash
2 3 (42.86%) Prometheus
2 3 (42.86%) Terraform
3 2 (28.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Genesys
1 3 (42.86%) Google
1 3 (42.86%) Splunk
2 2 (28.57%) KANA
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) AppDynamics