logstash Contract Job Trends

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UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring logstash skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 650 520 473
Rank change year-on-year -130 -47 +161
Contract jobs citing logstash 10 31 90
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.019% 0.094% 0.23%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.14% 0.60% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 21 64
10th Percentile £414 £306 £458
25th Percentile £421 £450 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £540 £622
Median % change year-on-year -14.35% -13.18% -0.48%
75th Percentile £500 £625 £658
90th Percentile £523 £675 £701
UK excluding London median daily rate £467 £550 £635
% change year-on-year -15.09% -13.39% +1.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £35.75 £58.14 -
25th Percentile £43.63 £65.85 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £78.70 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.67% - -
75th Percentile £67.00 £79.35 -
90th Percentile £71.05 £79.74 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.50 £79.35 -
% change year-on-year -8.63% - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 7,079 5,164 5,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.23% 15.60% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,796 3,397 3,646
10th Percentile £325 £300 £309
25th Percentile £425 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £496 £500
% change year-on-year +0.81% -0.80% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 81 76
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £20.25
25th Percentile £25.75 £20.25 £24.09
Median hourly rate £63.14 £36.00 £35.08
Median % change year-on-year +75.38% +2.62% -37.63%
75th Percentile £70.59 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £78.70 £74.22
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +14.79% +37.50% -13.38%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing logstash relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

logstash job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing logstash.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing logstash

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Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing logstash.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing logstash

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing logstash over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for logstash in the UK

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Top 7 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 17 August 2026. 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 -128 9 £475 -13.64% 7
London -83 4 £475 -15.56% 1
UK excluding London -109 4 £467 -15.09% 10
Midlands -47 3 £409 -28.87% 1
West Midlands -53 3 £409 -28.87% 1
Work from Home -69 1 - - 9
South East - 1 £525 -

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 1 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (10.00%) nginx
1 1 (10.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DSL
1 1 (10.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (20.00%) Retail
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Consultant
1 2 (20.00%) Consultant
1 2 (20.00%) Elasticsearch Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Database Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Search Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (70.00%) Kafka
3 1 (10.00%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (10.00%) EJB
3 1 (10.00%) JavaBeans
3 1 (10.00%) JSON
3 1 (10.00%) JSP
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Debian
2 2 (20.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Solaris
3 1 (10.00%) VMS
3 1 (10.00%) Windows
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
1 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (30.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (30.00%) Observability
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (20.00%) High Availability
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (10.00%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (10.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (10.00%) Master Data Management
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Go
1 2 (20.00%) Python
1 2 (20.00%) Ruby
1 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Scala
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Kibana
2 5 (50.00%) Terraform
3 4 (40.00%) Ansible
4 3 (30.00%) Grafana
4 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (30.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (10.00%) Consul
5 1 (10.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (10.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (10.00%) VMware