logstash Contracts in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring logstash skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited logstash over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 319 371 432
Rank change year-on-year +52 +61 +63
Contract jobs citing logstash 11 24 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.086% 0.12% 0.017%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.57% 1.04% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 17 3
10th Percentile £525 £524 £490
25th Percentile £538 £550 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £622 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.54% +18.48% -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £591
90th Percentile - - £608
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £495
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -22.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £78.83 - -
25th Percentile £79.03 - -
Median hourly rate £79.35 - -
75th Percentile £79.68 - -
90th Percentile £79.87 - -
UK median hourly rate £79.35 - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

logstash falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,922 2,297 3,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.03% 11.34% 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,349 1,707 2,498
10th Percentile £230 £213 £292
25th Percentile £375 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £489 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.02% -6.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £619
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £520 £513 £560
% change year-on-year +1.46% -8.48% -0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 68 125
10th Percentile £17.99 £14.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £21.39 £17.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.25 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.49% -15.43% +102.50%
75th Percentile £66.88 £48.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.58 £72.21 £75.30
UK median hourly rate £27.75 £27.00 £52.93
% change year-on-year +2.78% -48.98% +141.78%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for logstash in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for logstash in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for logstash in the UK excluding London

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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 logstash within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 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 - 6 £600 - 15
Midlands +4 5 £550 - 18
West Midlands +3 5 £550 - 11
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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 5 (45.45%) Apache
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (9.09%) DSL
1 1 (9.09%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (90.91%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
2 1 (9.09%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Data Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Senior
1 5 (45.45%) Senior Data Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Security Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Security Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) SIEM Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) SIEM Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) SIEM Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (90.91%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (45.45%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (27.27%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Replication
2 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
2 1 (9.09%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Analytics
1 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
1 6 (54.55%) Data Ingestion
2 5 (45.45%) Dashboard Development
2 5 (45.45%) Data Architecture
2 5 (45.45%) Data Governance
2 5 (45.45%) Data Modelling
2 5 (45.45%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (45.45%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 5 (45.45%) Decision-Making
2 5 (45.45%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (45.45%) High Availability
2 5 (45.45%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (45.45%) Visualisation
3 4 (36.36%) DevSecOps
4 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
4 2 (18.18%) Quality Management
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (9.09%) Security Analytics
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Bash
1 2 (18.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) Security Cleared
2 8 (72.73%) DV Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (90.91%) Kibana
2 6 (54.55%) Kubernetes
3 3 (27.27%) Prometheus
4 2 (18.18%) Ansible
4 2 (18.18%) Grafana
4 2 (18.18%) QRadar
4 2 (18.18%) Terraform
5 1 (9.09%) FortiGate
5 1 (9.09%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco
1 1 (9.09%) IBM
1 1 (9.09%) Splunk