logstash Contract Job Trends

logstash
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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 527 516 577
Rank change year-on-year -11 +61 +187
Contract jobs citing logstash 54 48 35
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.14% 0.079%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.92% 0.95% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 24 20
10th Percentile £360 £444 £399
25th Percentile £427 £512 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £625 £568
Median % change year-on-year -13.80% +10.13% -5.42%
75th Percentile £644 £641 £747
90th Percentile £699 £704 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £635 £625
% change year-on-year -15.35% +1.60% +1.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £55.60 - -
25th Percentile £59.50 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £74.00 - -
90th Percentile £77.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.00 - -

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 5,896 5,072 6,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.18% 14.67% 13.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,009 3,229 4,324
10th Percentile £312 £313 £303
25th Percentile £413 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% -6.09%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £690 £734 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.53% -2.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 69 171
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.81 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.13 £22.50 £22.38
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +48.15% -41.53% +62.04%
75th Percentile £64.88 £50.00 £72.20
90th Percentile £80.80 £74.09 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +76.47% -44.78% +77.62%

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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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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing logstash over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for logstash in the UK

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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 14 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for logstash in the UK

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Top 14 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 14 December 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 -42 41 £525 -16.00% 7
UK excluding London -43 35 £538 -15.35% 7
London +4 17 £509 -5.30%
West Midlands -31 16 £565 -11.02% 4
Midlands -33 16 £565 -11.02% 4
Scotland - 12 £570 -
Work from Home +21 9 £548 +1.86% 5
South West -17 4 £600 -4.00%
North of England -36 2 £500 -23.08% 3
South East - 2 £450 -
Wales - 2 £600 -
East of England -29 1 - -
North West - 1 £500 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1

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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 3 (5.56%) Apache
2 2 (3.70%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.70%) FileNet
3 1 (1.85%) Confluence
3 1 (1.85%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 11 (20.37%) Azure
2 10 (18.52%) AWS
3 8 (14.81%) GCP
4 5 (9.26%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (9.26%) GitHub
5 2 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (3.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (3.70%) IaaS
5 2 (3.70%) PaaS
5 2 (3.70%) SaaS
6 1 (1.85%) Apigee
6 1 (1.85%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.41%) Firewall
2 1 (1.85%) DNS
2 1 (1.85%) DSL
2 1 (1.85%) HTTP
2 1 (1.85%) MQTT
2 1 (1.85%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (96.30%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (11.11%) Big Data
3 2 (3.70%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.85%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (20.37%) Jenkins
2 5 (9.26%) Git
3 1 (1.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.85%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.85%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.85%) GitLab
3 1 (1.85%) Gradle
3 1 (1.85%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.85%) JIRA
3 1 (1.85%) JMeter
3 1 (1.85%) Maven
3 1 (1.85%) NeoLoad
3 1 (1.85%) Postman
3 1 (1.85%) Selenium
3 1 (1.85%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.85%) Travis CI
General
1 16 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 10 (18.52%) Finance
3 6 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 5 (9.26%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (7.41%) Banking
5 4 (7.41%) Investment Banking
6 3 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.85%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 8 (14.81%) Applications Engineer
2 7 (12.96%) Cloud Engineer
2 7 (12.96%) Security Engineer
2 7 (12.96%) SIEM Engineer
3 6 (11.11%) Senior
4 5 (9.26%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Data Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Cloud Specialist
5 4 (7.41%) Elasticsearch Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Kubernetes Specialist
6 3 (5.56%) Migration Specialist
6 3 (5.56%) Search Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Splunk Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Splunk Specialist
7 2 (3.70%) Architect
7 2 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (92.59%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (18.52%) JSON
2 10 (18.52%) Kafka
3 9 (16.67%) FIX Protocol
3 9 (16.67%) REST
3 9 (16.67%) XML
4 6 (11.11%) Ultra Messaging
5 3 (5.56%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (3.70%) gRPC
6 2 (3.70%) Jinja
6 2 (3.70%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (3.70%) Regular Expression
7 1 (1.85%) Hibernate
7 1 (1.85%) JMS
7 1 (1.85%) JPA
7 1 (1.85%) Middleware
7 1 (1.85%) Sass
7 1 (1.85%) Spring Batch
7 1 (1.85%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 10 (18.52%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (11.11%) Fixed Income
3 6 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (11.11%) Replication
4 5 (9.26%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.70%) YARA
6 1 (1.85%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.85%) MISP
6 1 (1.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (31.48%) Linux
2 1 (1.85%) Debian
2 1 (1.85%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (40.74%) Data Ingestion
2 20 (37.04%) Observability
3 19 (35.19%) Visualisation
4 16 (29.63%) DevOps
5 15 (27.78%) Performance Tuning
6 14 (25.93%) CI/CD
6 14 (25.93%) Data Pipeline
7 12 (22.22%) High Availability
8 11 (20.37%) Containerisation
8 11 (20.37%) Machine Learning
8 11 (20.37%) RBAC
9 10 (18.52%) Low Latency
9 10 (18.52%) SIEM
10 9 (16.67%) Analytics
10 9 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
10 9 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (16.67%) Project Management
11 8 (14.81%) Data Science
11 8 (14.81%) Decision-Making
11 8 (14.81%) High-Frequency Trading
Programming Languages
1 25 (46.30%) Python
2 12 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 11 (20.37%) Bash
4 10 (18.52%) SQL
5 3 (5.56%) Bicep
5 3 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.56%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.70%) PHP
7 1 (1.85%) Go
7 1 (1.85%) Java
7 1 (1.85%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.85%) Ruby
7 1 (1.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.11%) DV Cleared
2 6 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.85%) CEH
3 1 (1.85%) CISSP
3 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.85%) Degree
3 1 (1.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) Data Quality
1 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.70%) NIST
2 1 (1.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.85%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.85%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 18 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 50 (92.59%) Kibana
2 24 (44.44%) Kubernetes
3 10 (18.52%) Ansible
3 10 (18.52%) ITRS Geneos
3 10 (18.52%) Terraform
4 9 (16.67%) Grafana
5 6 (11.11%) Prometheus
6 3 (5.56%) Fluentd
7 2 (3.70%) QRadar
7 2 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.85%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (1.85%) Graphite
8 1 (1.85%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.85%) Puppet
8 1 (1.85%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 10 (18.52%) Solace
1 10 (18.52%) Splunk
2 6 (11.11%) TIBCO
3 4 (7.41%) Google
3 4 (7.41%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.56%) Oracle
5 2 (3.70%) Genesys
5 2 (3.70%) KANA