logstash Contracts

logstash
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 513 690
Rank change year-on-year +32 +177 +60
Contract jobs citing logstash 27 65 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.092% 0.15% 0.044%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.59% 1.26% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 53 15
10th Percentile £455 £458 £481
25th Percentile £511 £505 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -22.66%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £573
90th Percentile - £870 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £560 £569
% change year-on-year +7.14% -1.54% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £78.70 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £78.70 - -

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 4,594 5,152 9,468
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.68% 11.87% 16.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,146 3,681 6,830
10th Percentile £313 £259 £356
25th Percentile £413 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -8.44% -0.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 122 211
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.54
25th Percentile £20.21 £17.73 £24.13
Median hourly rate £26.50 £27.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% -52.61% +155.56%
75th Percentile £53.75 £50.00 £70.88
90th Percentile £71.25 £70.00 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.50 £34.25 £44.88
% change year-on-year -22.63% -23.68% +124.38%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for logstash in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for logstash in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing logstash over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for logstash in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for logstash in the UK

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Top 10 Contract 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 7 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 +32 23 £550 +1.85% 20
UK excluding London +43 12 £600 +7.14% 9
London +30 10 £525 +2.94% 15
Work from Home +35 8 £525 -1.78% 15
Midlands +13 5 £550 - 2
West Midlands +9 5 £550 - 2
South West - 5 £600 - 1
North of England +12 1 £650 +0.78% 1
East of England - 1 - -
North East - 1 £650 -

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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 4 (14.81%) Apache
2 3 (11.11%) OpenStack
3 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.70%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 15 (55.56%) AWS
2 9 (33.33%) Azure
3 7 (25.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (25.93%) GCP
4 4 (14.81%) Amazon S3
4 4 (14.81%) GitHub
4 4 (14.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (11.11%) OpenShift
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECR
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.70%) AWS CodeCommit
7 1 (3.70%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 1 (3.70%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (3.70%) Datadog
7 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) Cisco ISE
2 2 (7.41%) Firewall
2 2 (7.41%) Network Security
3 1 (3.70%) DNS
3 1 (3.70%) DSL
3 1 (3.70%) DSLAM
3 1 (3.70%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (3.70%) SNMP
3 1 (3.70%) SSH
3 1 (3.70%) SSL
3 1 (3.70%) Telnet
3 1 (3.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (81.48%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (11.11%) MySQL
2 3 (11.11%) SAP HANA
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.70%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) GitLab
2 7 (25.93%) Jenkins
3 4 (14.81%) Artifactory
4 3 (11.11%) Git
4 3 (11.11%) JIRA
5 1 (3.70%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.70%) Spinnaker
General
1 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (25.93%) Senior
3 4 (14.81%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Consultant
3 4 (14.81%) Data Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Audio Visual Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) SIEM Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) SIEM Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) SIEM Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (70.37%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (25.93%) Kafka
3 4 (14.81%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (3.70%) JSON
4 1 (3.70%) Lucene
4 1 (3.70%) REST
4 1 (3.70%) SOAP
4 1 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Replication
2 4 (14.81%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.70%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.70%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 6 (22.22%) Linux
2 4 (14.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (14.81%) Windows
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (62.96%) CI/CD
2 11 (40.74%) DevOps
3 9 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (25.93%) Data Ingestion
5 6 (22.22%) Analytics
5 6 (22.22%) Containerisation
5 6 (22.22%) Dashboard Development
5 6 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (22.22%) Visualisation
6 5 (18.52%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (18.52%) High Availability
7 4 (14.81%) Computer Science
7 4 (14.81%) Data Architecture
7 4 (14.81%) Data Governance
7 4 (14.81%) Data Modelling
7 4 (14.81%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 4 (14.81%) Decision-Making
7 4 (14.81%) DevSecOps
7 4 (14.81%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) Python
2 5 (18.52%) Bash
3 4 (14.81%) PowerShell
4 3 (11.11%) Java
5 1 (3.70%) Go
5 1 (3.70%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (40.74%) Security Cleared
2 7 (25.93%) DV Cleared
3 4 (14.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (14.81%) Degree
4 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (33.33%) Docker
2 3 (11.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (3.70%) FreeRADIUS
3 1 (3.70%) iptables
Systems Management
1 18 (66.67%) Kibana
2 14 (51.85%) Kubernetes
3 8 (29.63%) Prometheus
3 8 (29.63%) Terraform
4 7 (25.93%) Ansible
5 4 (14.81%) Argo
5 4 (14.81%) Grafana
5 4 (14.81%) QRadar
6 3 (11.11%) Consul
6 3 (11.11%) FortiGate
6 3 (11.11%) Progress Chef
6 3 (11.11%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 1 (3.70%) Cacti
7 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (3.70%) Nagios
7 1 (3.70%) Netcool
7 1 (3.70%) Proxmox
7 1 (3.70%) Puppet
7 1 (3.70%) SCCM
7 1 (3.70%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Splunk
2 4 (14.81%) Cisco
2 4 (14.81%) Google
3 3 (11.11%) Dynatrace
3 3 (11.11%) SAP
4 1 (3.70%) Huawei
4 1 (3.70%) IBM
4 1 (3.70%) Juniper
4 1 (3.70%) LogRhythm
4 1 (3.70%) McAfee
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.70%) Nokia
4 1 (3.70%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.70%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.70%) VMware