Elastic Stack Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 328 413
Rank change year-on-year +37 +85 -6
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 45 71 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.34% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.89% 2.15% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 44 36
10th Percentile £393 £364 £438
25th Percentile £447 £481 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £584
Median % change year-on-year - -5.78% +1.52%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £691
90th Percentile £650 £682 £784
UK median daily rate £543 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.36% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £79.58 - £71.25
25th Percentile £80.90 - £72.38
Median hourly rate £84.35 - £75.50
75th Percentile £89.05 - £77.38
90th Percentile £91.12 - £77.75
UK median hourly rate £84.35 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - -6.25%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,378 3,296 4,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.63% 15.87% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 2,154 3,299
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 198 91
10th Percentile £30.98 £21.59 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.95 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Elastic Stack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Elastic Stack in the UK excluding London

Elastic Stack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Elastic Stack in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Elastic Stack in the UK excluding London

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elastic Stack in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Elastic Stack in the UK excluding London

Elastic Stack
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Elastic Stack in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Elastic Stack in the UK excluding London

Elastic Stack
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Elastic Stack in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Elastic Stack in the UK excluding London

Elastic Stack
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South West +55 14 £600 -20.00% 17
South East +42 11 £508 -3.33% 19
North of England +12 10 £393 -36.82% 23
North West +23 9 £393 -34.50% 18
Midlands +12 9 £575 +4.55% 10
West Midlands +7 7 £600 +9.09% 6
East Midlands +7 2 £506 +42.13% 3
East of England +30 1 £438 - 2
Wales -3 1 £586 -9.08%
North East -3 1 £650 - 1
Elastic Stack
UK

Elastic Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 9 (20.00%) JBoss
2 7 (15.56%) Apache
3 5 (11.11%) Apache Spark
4 4 (8.89%) nginx
5 2 (4.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 25 (55.56%) AWS
2 14 (31.11%) OpenShift
3 10 (22.22%) Azure
4 6 (13.33%) GCP
5 5 (11.11%) GitHub
6 3 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (6.67%) Serverless
7 2 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (4.44%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.22%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (2.22%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.22%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
8 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.78%) Firewall
2 6 (13.33%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (4.44%) DNS
3 2 (4.44%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.44%) VPN
4 1 (2.22%) DHCP
4 1 (2.22%) DSL
4 1 (2.22%) HTTP
4 1 (2.22%) Kerberos
4 1 (2.22%) Network Security
4 1 (2.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (42.22%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 8 (17.78%) RDBMS
4 4 (8.89%) Hadoop
5 3 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (6.67%) Big Data
6 2 (4.44%) DynamoDB
6 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (42.22%) Jenkins
2 11 (24.44%) Git
2 11 (24.44%) JIRA
3 9 (20.00%) Bitbucket Server
3 9 (20.00%) CA Release Automation
3 9 (20.00%) SonarQube
3 9 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 9 (20.00%) TeamCity
4 6 (13.33%) GitLab
5 4 (8.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (4.44%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.22%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.22%) Maven
General
1 7 (15.56%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Finance
4 2 (4.44%) Military
5 1 (2.22%) Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Electronics
5 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.22%) Legal
5 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.22%) Marketing
5 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (26.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 12 (26.67%) Senior
2 6 (13.33%) AWS DevOps
2 6 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (8.89%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (8.89%) Data Engineer
3 4 (8.89%) Lead
3 4 (8.89%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) Security Advisor
4 3 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Consultant
5 2 (4.44%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Python Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (4.44%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Site Engineer
6 1 (2.22%) AWS Solution Architect
6 1 (2.22%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 1 (2.22%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (11.11%) JBoss Seam
2 5 (11.11%) Kafka
3 4 (8.89%) Apache NiFi
3 4 (8.89%) YAML
4 2 (4.44%) Node.js
4 2 (4.44%) REST
5 1 (2.22%) AWS CDK
5 1 (2.22%) CSS
5 1 (2.22%) CSS3
5 1 (2.22%) HTML
5 1 (2.22%) HTML5
5 1 (2.22%) Jest
5 1 (2.22%) Keycloak
5 1 (2.22%) Middleware
5 1 (2.22%) React
5 1 (2.22%) Redux
5 1 (2.22%) Serverless Framework
5 1 (2.22%) SOAP
5 1 (2.22%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) Management Information System
2 4 (8.89%) Replication
3 2 (4.44%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (4.44%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (4.44%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 2 (4.44%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.22%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.22%) CESG
4 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.22%) FMCG
4 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 21 (46.67%) Linux
2 10 (22.22%) Windows
3 9 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.44%) Unix
5 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (68.89%) CI/CD
2 29 (64.44%) DevOps
3 14 (31.11%) Containerisation
3 14 (31.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (31.11%) Microservices
4 13 (28.89%) Migration
5 12 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
6 11 (24.44%) Analytics
7 10 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
8 9 (20.00%) Build Automation
8 9 (20.00%) Code Quality
8 9 (20.00%) Decision-Making
8 9 (20.00%) Observability
9 7 (15.56%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (13.33%) Agile
10 6 (13.33%) High Availability
10 6 (13.33%) Risk Assessment
10 6 (13.33%) Risk Management
10 6 (13.33%) Security Architecture
10 6 (13.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 20 (44.44%) Python
2 10 (22.22%) Perl
3 9 (20.00%) Bash
4 7 (15.56%) Java
5 5 (11.11%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.44%) Go
6 2 (4.44%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.44%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.22%) Ruby
7 1 (2.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (48.89%) Security Cleared
2 16 (35.56%) DV Cleared
3 6 (13.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.44%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.44%) Degree
4 2 (4.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.22%) CISSP
5 1 (2.22%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.22%) CSSLP
5 1 (2.22%) Linux+ Certification
5 1 (2.22%) MCSA
5 1 (2.22%) MCSE
5 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.22%) OCA
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (2.22%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.89%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.44%) NCSC
3 1 (2.22%) GDPR
3 1 (2.22%) NIST
3 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 25 (55.56%) Docker
2 9 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (8.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.22%) NFS
4 1 (2.22%) Samba
Systems Management
1 31 (68.89%) Kubernetes
2 19 (42.22%) Kibana
2 19 (42.22%) Terraform
3 15 (33.33%) Ansible
4 13 (28.89%) Prometheus
5 12 (26.67%) Grafana
6 10 (22.22%) logstash
7 9 (20.00%) Progress Chef
8 3 (6.67%) HAProxy
9 2 (4.44%) Nagios
9 2 (4.44%) Packer
9 2 (4.44%) Puppet
10 1 (2.22%) Graylog
10 1 (2.22%) PowerCLI
10 1 (2.22%) QRadar
10 1 (2.22%) Rancher
10 1 (2.22%) SELinux
10 1 (2.22%) vCenter Server
10 1 (2.22%) ZABBIX
10 1 (2.22%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 13 (28.89%) Splunk
2 12 (26.67%) Red Hat
3 9 (20.00%) AppDynamics
4 6 (13.33%) Darktrace
5 5 (11.11%) VMware
6 3 (6.67%) Cloudera
6 3 (6.67%) SolarWinds
7 2 (4.44%) ArcSight
7 2 (4.44%) Microsoft
7 2 (4.44%) Oracle
8 1 (2.22%) Atlassian
8 1 (2.22%) Citrix
8 1 (2.22%) IBM
8 1 (2.22%) New Relic
8 1 (2.22%) SAP
8 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow
8 1 (2.22%) Veeam