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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 410 416 513
Rank change year-on-year +6 +97 -28
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 116 170 194
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.39% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.74% 1.90% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 121 139
10th Percentile £391 £413 £460
25th Percentile £456 £483 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £631 £645 £694
90th Percentile £656 £690 £900
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% -2.17%
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 6,668 8,930 13,810
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.76% 20.57% 23.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,572 6,198 10,066
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 £787 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 235 153
10th Percentile £27.18 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £40.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +31.31%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.79 £74.78 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +36.84% -24.00% +27.55%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 3 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
England +27 103 £550 - 140
London +16 57 £550 +7.84% 58
Work from Home +50 48 £548 +6.83% 112
UK excluding London +35 45 £550 - 97
South West +39 14 £600 -20.00% 17
South East +33 11 £508 -3.33% 20
North of England +4 10 £393 -36.82% 45
North West +16 9 £393 -34.50% 39
Midlands +8 9 £575 +4.55% 10
West Midlands +6 7 £600 +9.09% 6
East Midlands +11 2 £506 +42.13% 3
East of England +38 1 £438 - 3
Wales +3 1 £586 -9.08%
North East -7 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 (12.07%) Apache
2 11 (9.48%) JBoss
3 8 (6.90%) Apache Spark
3 8 (6.90%) nginx
4 5 (4.31%) Confluence
4 5 (4.31%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.86%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.86%) IIS
5 1 (0.86%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 78 (67.24%) AWS
2 37 (31.90%) Azure
3 31 (26.72%) GCP
4 22 (18.97%) OpenShift
5 21 (18.10%) Amazon EKS
6 19 (16.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (14.66%) GitHub
8 16 (13.79%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (10.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (8.62%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (8.62%) Serverless
11 9 (7.76%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (6.90%) Amazon S3
13 7 (6.03%) Datadog
13 7 (6.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 5 (4.31%) Amazon Cognito
14 5 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
15 4 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
16 3 (2.59%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 23 (19.83%) DNS
2 20 (17.24%) TCP/IP
3 19 (16.38%) HTTP
4 12 (10.34%) Firewall
5 9 (7.76%) VPN
6 8 (6.90%) DHCP
7 7 (6.03%) Internet
7 7 (6.03%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (4.31%) Network Security
9 4 (3.45%) DOCSIS
9 4 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (2.59%) SSL
11 2 (1.72%) DSL
11 2 (1.72%) Kerberos
11 2 (1.72%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (1.72%) SSH
11 2 (1.72%) Telnet
11 2 (1.72%) VLAN
11 2 (1.72%) Wireless
11 2 (1.72%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (26.72%) Elasticsearch
2 18 (15.52%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (8.62%) Relational Database
4 9 (7.76%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (7.76%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (7.76%) RDBMS
5 7 (6.03%) NoSQL
6 6 (5.17%) Hadoop
6 6 (5.17%) MongoDB
7 5 (4.31%) Big Data
7 5 (4.31%) DynamoDB
7 5 (4.31%) MySQL
7 5 (4.31%) Redis
8 4 (3.45%) InfluxDB
9 3 (2.59%) Looker
10 2 (1.72%) DocumentDB
10 2 (1.72%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.72%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 55 (47.41%) Jenkins
2 25 (21.55%) Git
3 22 (18.97%) GitLab
4 16 (13.79%) JIRA
5 13 (11.21%) SonarQube
6 11 (9.48%) Sonatype Nexus
7 10 (8.62%) Bitbucket Server
7 10 (8.62%) CA Release Automation
7 10 (8.62%) TeamCity
8 5 (4.31%) Maven
9 4 (3.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (2.59%) Artifactory
10 3 (2.59%) Bitbucket
10 3 (2.59%) Eclipse
10 3 (2.59%) Gradle
10 3 (2.59%) IntelliJ
10 3 (2.59%) JUnit
10 3 (2.59%) Mockito
10 3 (2.59%) TestNG
11 2 (1.72%) Terragrunt
General
1 20 (17.24%) Social Skills
2 10 (8.62%) Finance
3 7 (6.03%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.45%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.59%) Banking
6 3 (2.59%) Military
7 2 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.86%) Electronics
8 1 (0.86%) Games
8 1 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.86%) Legal
8 1 (0.86%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.86%) Marketing
8 1 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (36.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (25.00%) Senior
3 17 (14.66%) AWS Engineer
4 16 (13.79%) AWS DevOps
5 15 (12.93%) Senior DevOps
6 14 (12.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 14 (12.07%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 12 (10.34%) Site Engineer
8 11 (9.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 11 (9.48%) Lead
9 8 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (6.90%) Developer
10 6 (5.17%) Automation Engineer
11 4 (3.45%) Consultant
11 4 (3.45%) Data Engineer
11 4 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (3.45%) Java Developer
11 4 (3.45%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (3.45%) Senior Data Engineer
11 4 (3.45%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.93%) Kafka
1 15 (12.93%) Spring Boot
2 8 (6.90%) Node.js
3 7 (6.03%) RESTful
3 7 (6.03%) YAML
4 6 (5.17%) JBoss Seam
4 6 (5.17%) REST
4 6 (5.17%) Spring
5 5 (4.31%) Apache NiFi
6 4 (3.45%) React
6 4 (3.45%) Swagger
7 3 (2.59%) Hibernate
7 3 (2.59%) JSON
7 3 (2.59%) JWT
7 3 (2.59%) OAuth
7 3 (2.59%) OpenAPI
7 3 (2.59%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.72%) Middleware
8 2 (1.72%) SOAP
8 2 (1.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.62%) Management Information System
2 9 (7.76%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.03%) Cloud Native
4 6 (5.17%) Replication
5 5 (4.31%) Video\Live Streaming
6 4 (3.45%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (3.45%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.59%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.72%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.72%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.72%) IoT
8 2 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.72%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.86%) Autonomous Agent
9 1 (0.86%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.86%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.86%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.86%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 61 (52.59%) Linux
2 17 (14.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (12.07%) Windows
4 11 (9.48%) Unix
5 4 (3.45%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.86%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.86%) CentOS
6 1 (0.86%) Debian
6 1 (0.86%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.86%) SUSE
6 1 (0.86%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (70.69%) DevOps
2 72 (62.07%) CI/CD
3 53 (45.69%) Containerisation
4 44 (37.93%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (22.41%) Configuration Management
5 26 (22.41%) Microservices
6 24 (20.69%) Continuous Integration
6 24 (20.69%) Observability
7 22 (18.97%) High Availability
8 21 (18.10%) Deployment Automation
9 20 (17.24%) Agile
9 20 (17.24%) Migration
9 20 (17.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 19 (16.38%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (11.21%) Performance Tuning
12 12 (10.34%) Analytics
12 12 (10.34%) Mentoring
12 12 (10.34%) Task Automation
12 12 (10.34%) Test Automation
13 11 (9.48%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 66 (56.90%) Python
2 25 (21.55%) Bash
3 21 (18.10%) Java
4 16 (13.79%) Shell Script
5 14 (12.07%) Perl
6 12 (10.34%) PowerShell
7 11 (9.48%) SQL
8 9 (7.76%) Go
9 8 (6.90%) Ruby
10 7 (6.03%) Groovy
10 7 (6.03%) JavaScript
11 5 (4.31%) C
12 4 (3.45%) C++
13 2 (1.72%) C#
13 2 (1.72%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.86%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.86%) Scala
Qualifications
1 44 (37.93%) Security Cleared
2 27 (23.28%) SC Cleared
3 17 (14.66%) DV Cleared
4 10 (8.62%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.31%) Degree
6 3 (2.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.59%) CISSP
7 2 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.72%) RHCE
7 2 (1.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.86%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.86%) CEH
8 1 (0.86%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.86%) CSSLP
8 1 (0.86%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.86%) OCA
8 1 (0.86%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.86%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.76%) QA
2 7 (6.03%) GDPR
3 5 (4.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.45%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.59%) NIST
6 2 (1.72%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.72%) NCSC
6 2 (1.72%) SLA
7 1 (0.86%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 70 (60.34%) Docker
2 10 (8.62%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.72%) FreeRADIUS
4 2 (1.72%) iptables
5 1 (0.86%) NFS
5 1 (0.86%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.86%) Samba
5 1 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 80 (68.97%) Kubernetes
2 56 (48.28%) Terraform
3 52 (44.83%) Grafana
4 50 (43.10%) Prometheus
5 49 (42.24%) Ansible
6 28 (24.14%) Kibana
7 25 (21.55%) Progress Chef
8 24 (20.69%) Puppet
9 19 (16.38%) logstash
10 5 (4.31%) Nagios
10 5 (4.31%) ZABBIX
11 3 (2.59%) HAProxy
11 3 (2.59%) Packer
12 2 (1.72%) Cacti
12 2 (1.72%) Graylog
12 2 (1.72%) Netcool
12 2 (1.72%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (1.72%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (1.72%) Rancher
12 2 (1.72%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 30 (25.86%) Splunk
2 25 (21.55%) Red Hat
3 15 (12.93%) AppDynamics
4 8 (6.90%) VMware
5 7 (6.03%) Darktrace
5 7 (6.03%) Google
6 6 (5.17%) Oracle
7 4 (3.45%) Cloudera
7 4 (3.45%) Dynatrace
7 4 (3.45%) Microsoft
7 4 (3.45%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.72%) ArcSight
8 2 (1.72%) Nokia
9 1 (0.86%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.86%) Citrix
9 1 (0.86%) F5
9 1 (0.86%) Huawei
9 1 (0.86%) Juniper
9 1 (0.86%) TOWER Software
9 1 (0.86%) Veeam