Elastic Stack Contracts

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 404 431 513
Rank change year-on-year +27 +82 -20
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 115 171 200
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.39% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.73% 1.91% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 121 143
10th Percentile £391 £413 £463
25th Percentile £463 £483 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £631 £645 £726
90th Percentile £656 £690 £900
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £584
% change year-on-year - -5.78% +1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £79.58 - £67.50
25th Percentile £80.90 - £71.63
Median hourly rate £84.35 - £75.00
75th Percentile £89.05 - £75.38
90th Percentile £91.12 - £76.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £84.35 - £75.50

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,629 8,962 13,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.67% 20.56% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,551 6,219 10,140
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £769 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 231 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £75.00 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Elastic Stack in the UK

Elastic Stack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Elastic Stack.

Daily rate trend for Elastic Stack in the UK

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elastic Stack over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Elastic Stack in the UK

Elastic Stack
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Elastic Stack.

Hourly rate trend for Elastic Stack in the UK

Elastic Stack
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Elastic Stack over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Elastic Stack in the UK

Elastic Stack
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +20 102 £550 - 91
London +7 57 £550 +7.84% 40
Work from Home +57 48 £548 +6.83% 65
UK excluding London +27 45 £550 - 50
South West +54 14 £600 -20.00% 16
South East +38 11 £508 -3.33% 4
North of England +21 10 £393 -36.82% 19
North West +17 9 £393 -34.50% 13
Midlands +14 9 £575 +4.55% 9
West Midlands +9 7 £600 +9.09% 6
East Midlands +7 2 £506 +42.13% 3
East of England +33 1 £438 - 1
Wales +1 1 £586 -9.08%
North East -3 1 £650 - 2

Elastic Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 14 (12.17%) Apache
2 11 (9.57%) JBoss
3 8 (6.96%) Apache Spark
3 8 (6.96%) nginx
4 5 (4.35%) Confluence
4 5 (4.35%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.87%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.87%) IIS
5 1 (0.87%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 78 (67.83%) AWS
2 37 (32.17%) Azure
3 31 (26.96%) GCP
4 22 (19.13%) OpenShift
5 21 (18.26%) Amazon EKS
6 19 (16.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (14.78%) GitHub
8 16 (13.91%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (10.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (8.70%) Serverless
11 9 (7.83%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (6.96%) Amazon S3
13 7 (6.09%) Datadog
13 7 (6.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 5 (4.35%) Amazon Cognito
14 5 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (3.48%) Amazon ECS
15 4 (3.48%) Cloud Computing
16 3 (2.61%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 23 (20.00%) DNS
2 20 (17.39%) TCP/IP
3 19 (16.52%) HTTP
4 12 (10.43%) Firewall
5 9 (7.83%) VPN
6 8 (6.96%) DHCP
7 7 (6.09%) Internet
7 7 (6.09%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (4.35%) Network Security
9 4 (3.48%) DOCSIS
9 4 (3.48%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (2.61%) SSL
11 2 (1.74%) DSL
11 2 (1.74%) Kerberos
11 2 (1.74%) SNMP
11 2 (1.74%) SSH
11 2 (1.74%) Telnet
11 2 (1.74%) VLAN
11 2 (1.74%) Wireless
11 2 (1.74%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (26.09%) Elasticsearch
2 18 (15.65%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (8.70%) Relational Database
4 9 (7.83%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (7.83%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (7.83%) RDBMS
5 7 (6.09%) NoSQL
6 6 (5.22%) Hadoop
6 6 (5.22%) MongoDB
7 5 (4.35%) Big Data
7 5 (4.35%) DynamoDB
7 5 (4.35%) MySQL
7 5 (4.35%) Redis
8 4 (3.48%) InfluxDB
9 3 (2.61%) Looker
10 2 (1.74%) DocumentDB
10 2 (1.74%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.74%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.87%) Apache Iceberg
11 1 (0.87%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 55 (47.83%) Jenkins
2 25 (21.74%) Git
3 22 (19.13%) GitLab
4 16 (13.91%) JIRA
5 13 (11.30%) SonarQube
6 11 (9.57%) Sonatype Nexus
7 10 (8.70%) Bitbucket Server
7 10 (8.70%) CA Release Automation
7 10 (8.70%) TeamCity
8 5 (4.35%) Maven
9 4 (3.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (2.61%) Artifactory
10 3 (2.61%) Bitbucket
10 3 (2.61%) Eclipse
10 3 (2.61%) Gradle
10 3 (2.61%) IntelliJ
10 3 (2.61%) JUnit
10 3 (2.61%) Mockito
10 3 (2.61%) TestNG
11 2 (1.74%) Terragrunt
General
1 20 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 10 (8.70%) Finance
3 7 (6.09%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.22%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.48%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.61%) Banking
6 3 (2.61%) Military
7 2 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.87%) Electronics
8 1 (0.87%) Games
8 1 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.87%) Legal
8 1 (0.87%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.87%) Marketing
8 1 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (36.52%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (25.22%) Senior
3 17 (14.78%) AWS Engineer
4 16 (13.91%) AWS DevOps
5 15 (13.04%) Senior DevOps
6 14 (12.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 14 (12.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 12 (10.43%) Site Engineer
8 11 (9.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 11 (9.57%) Lead
9 8 (6.96%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (6.96%) Developer
10 6 (5.22%) Automation Engineer
11 4 (3.48%) Data Engineer
11 4 (3.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (3.48%) Java Developer
11 4 (3.48%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (3.48%) Senior Data Engineer
11 4 (3.48%) Unix Engineer
12 3 (2.61%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.04%) Kafka
1 15 (13.04%) Spring Boot
2 8 (6.96%) Node.js
3 7 (6.09%) RESTful
3 7 (6.09%) YAML
4 6 (5.22%) JBoss Seam
4 6 (5.22%) REST
4 6 (5.22%) Spring
5 5 (4.35%) Apache NiFi
6 4 (3.48%) React
6 4 (3.48%) Swagger
7 3 (2.61%) Hibernate
7 3 (2.61%) JSON
7 3 (2.61%) JWT
7 3 (2.61%) OAuth
7 3 (2.61%) OpenAPI
7 3 (2.61%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.74%) Middleware
8 2 (1.74%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (1.74%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.70%) Management Information System
2 8 (6.96%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.09%) Cloud Native
4 6 (5.22%) Replication
5 5 (4.35%) Video\Live Streaming
6 4 (3.48%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (3.48%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.61%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.74%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.74%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.74%) IoT
8 2 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.74%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.87%) Autonomous Agent
9 1 (0.87%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.87%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.87%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.87%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 60 (52.17%) Linux
2 17 (14.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (12.17%) Windows
4 11 (9.57%) Unix
5 4 (3.48%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.87%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.87%) CentOS
6 1 (0.87%) Debian
6 1 (0.87%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.87%) SUSE
6 1 (0.87%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (70.43%) DevOps
2 72 (62.61%) CI/CD
3 53 (46.09%) Containerisation
4 44 (38.26%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (22.61%) Configuration Management
5 26 (22.61%) Microservices
6 24 (20.87%) Continuous Integration
7 23 (20.00%) Observability
8 22 (19.13%) High Availability
9 21 (18.26%) Deployment Automation
10 20 (17.39%) Agile
10 20 (17.39%) Migration
10 20 (17.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 19 (16.52%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (11.30%) Performance Tuning
13 12 (10.43%) Analytics
13 12 (10.43%) Mentoring
13 12 (10.43%) Task Automation
13 12 (10.43%) Test Automation
14 10 (8.70%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 66 (57.39%) Python
2 25 (21.74%) Bash
3 20 (17.39%) Java
4 16 (13.91%) Shell Script
5 14 (12.17%) Perl
6 12 (10.43%) PowerShell
7 11 (9.57%) SQL
8 9 (7.83%) Go
9 8 (6.96%) Ruby
10 7 (6.09%) Groovy
10 7 (6.09%) JavaScript
11 5 (4.35%) C
12 4 (3.48%) C++
13 2 (1.74%) C#
13 2 (1.74%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.87%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.87%) Scala
Qualifications
1 44 (38.26%) Security Cleared
2 27 (23.48%) SC Cleared
3 17 (14.78%) DV Cleared
4 10 (8.70%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.35%) Degree
6 3 (2.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.61%) CISSP
7 2 (1.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.74%) RHCE
7 2 (1.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.87%) CEH
8 1 (0.87%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.87%) CSSLP
8 1 (0.87%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.87%) MCSA
8 1 (0.87%) MCSE
8 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.87%) OCA
8 1 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.87%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.83%) QA
2 7 (6.09%) GDPR
3 5 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.48%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.61%) NIST
6 2 (1.74%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.74%) NCSC
6 2 (1.74%) SLA
7 1 (0.87%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 70 (60.87%) Docker
2 10 (8.70%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.74%) FreeRADIUS
4 2 (1.74%) iptables
5 1 (0.87%) NFS
5 1 (0.87%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.87%) Samba
5 1 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 80 (69.57%) Kubernetes
2 56 (48.70%) Terraform
3 52 (45.22%) Grafana
4 50 (43.48%) Prometheus
5 49 (42.61%) Ansible
6 27 (23.48%) Kibana
7 25 (21.74%) Progress Chef
8 24 (20.87%) Puppet
9 18 (15.65%) logstash
10 5 (4.35%) Nagios
10 5 (4.35%) ZABBIX
11 3 (2.61%) HAProxy
11 3 (2.61%) Packer
12 2 (1.74%) Argo
12 2 (1.74%) Graylog
12 2 (1.74%) Netcool
12 2 (1.74%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (1.74%) Proxmox
12 2 (1.74%) Rancher
12 2 (1.74%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 30 (26.09%) Splunk
2 25 (21.74%) Red Hat
3 15 (13.04%) AppDynamics
4 8 (6.96%) VMware
5 7 (6.09%) Darktrace
5 7 (6.09%) Google
6 6 (5.22%) Oracle
7 4 (3.48%) Cloudera
7 4 (3.48%) Dynatrace
7 4 (3.48%) Microsoft
7 4 (3.48%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.74%) ArcSight
8 2 (1.74%) Nokia
9 1 (0.87%) Cisco
9 1 (0.87%) Citrix
9 1 (0.87%) F5
9 1 (0.87%) IBM
9 1 (0.87%) Juniper
9 1 (0.87%) SAP
9 1 (0.87%) TOWER Software