Elastic Stack Contract Job Trends in the South East

Elastic Stack (formerly ELK Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Elastic Stack skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 159 200
Rank change year-on-year +14 +41 +47
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 19 18 14
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.53% 0.42% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.23% 2.62% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 9 2
10th Percentile - £493 £398
25th Percentile £418 £538 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £469
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +28.00% -20.21%
75th Percentile £525 £690 £511
90th Percentile £538 - £534
England median daily rate £525 £630 £601
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.91% -3.92%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 588 688 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.55% 16.12% 15.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 445 559
10th Percentile £279 £313 £313
25th Percentile £370 £413 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.71% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £563 £625 £625
90th Percentile £625 £665 £680
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 26 44
10th Percentile £18.97 £41.19 £50.00
25th Percentile £47.19 £61.60 £54.55
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £53.75 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £55.00 - £77.85
England median hourly rate £54.35 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -16.38% +13.04% -11.54%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Elastic Stack job vacancy trend in the South East

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Elastic Stack.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Elastic Stack

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elastic Stack in the South East over the 6 months to 13 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Elastic Stack in the South East

Elastic Stack
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
Hampshire +9 14 £450 -33.36% 1
Thames Valley +8 5 - - 3
Berkshire +8 5 - -
Elastic Stack
England

Elastic Stack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) JBoss
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (57.89%) GitHub
2 8 (42.11%) OpenShift
3 3 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECR
4 2 (10.53%) AWS
4 2 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.26%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) Firewall
1 5 (26.32%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (5.26%) DNS
2 1 (5.26%) SSH
2 1 (5.26%) SSL
2 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (26.32%) Redis
3 4 (21.05%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.26%) Big Data
4 1 (5.26%) Delta Lake
4 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
4 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.26%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) GitLab
2 4 (21.05%) Jenkins
3 3 (15.79%) Maven
4 2 (10.53%) Artifactory
5 1 (5.26%) Git
5 1 (5.26%) MLflow
5 1 (5.26%) Poetry
5 1 (5.26%) PyCharm
5 1 (5.26%) SonarQube
5 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Aerospace
3 2 (10.53%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) DevOps Engineer
1 6 (31.58%) Lead
2 5 (26.32%) Senior
3 3 (15.79%) Technical Specialist
4 2 (10.53%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (10.53%) Linux Specialist
4 2 (10.53%) Project Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Project Leader
5 1 (5.26%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Database Specialist
5 1 (5.26%) Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Kafka Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Security Advisor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (42.11%) Kafka
2 5 (26.32%) JBoss Seam
2 5 (26.32%) Keycloak
2 5 (26.32%) YAML
3 3 (15.79%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.26%) Apache Avro
4 1 (5.26%) Flask
4 1 (5.26%) NumPy
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (5.26%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.26%) CESG
Operating Systems
1 10 (52.63%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) DevOps
2 9 (47.37%) Containerisation
3 8 (42.11%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
4 7 (36.84%) Immutable Infrastructure
5 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (26.32%) Agile
6 5 (26.32%) Decision-Making
6 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (26.32%) Observability
6 5 (26.32%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (26.32%) Risk Assessment
6 5 (26.32%) Risk Management
6 5 (26.32%) Scrum
6 5 (26.32%) Security Architecture
6 5 (26.32%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 3 (15.79%) Analytics
7 3 (15.79%) Change Management
7 3 (15.79%) Data Analytics
7 3 (15.79%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) Bash
2 5 (26.32%) Java
3 3 (15.79%) Python
3 3 (15.79%) Shell Script
4 2 (10.53%) SQL
5 1 (5.26%) Groovy
5 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.26%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) Security Cleared
2 5 (26.32%) DV Cleared
2 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) Def Stans
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (57.89%) Kubernetes
2 10 (52.63%) Grafana
2 10 (52.63%) Prometheus
3 8 (42.11%) Ansible
4 7 (36.84%) Terraform
5 5 (26.32%) Packer
6 2 (10.53%) Sysdig
7 1 (5.26%) Argo
7 1 (5.26%) Istio
7 1 (5.26%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Red Hat
2 5 (26.32%) Darktrace
2 5 (26.32%) Splunk
3 3 (15.79%) CyberArk
3 3 (15.79%) VMware
4 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.26%) Cloudera
5 1 (5.26%) Oracle