Elastic Stack Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Elastic Stack (formerly ELK Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 256 304 377
Rank change year-on-year +48 +73 +58
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 48 41 100
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.48% 0.27% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.87% 1.12% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 32 69
10th Percentile £431 £360 £475
25th Percentile £464 £443 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £513 £575
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% -10.87% -
75th Percentile £653 £600 £900
90th Percentile £775 £650 -
UK median daily rate £543 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.36% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £64.50
Median hourly rate - - £67.00
75th Percentile - - £69.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £84.35 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - -6.25%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Elastic Stack
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Elastic Stack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Elastic Stack trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Elastic Stack.

Elastic Stack daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Elastic Stack over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Elastic Stack daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Elastic Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (10.42%) Apache
1 5 (10.42%) nginx
2 4 (8.33%) OpenStack
3 3 (6.25%) Confluence
3 3 (6.25%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 41 (85.42%) AWS
2 19 (39.58%) Azure
3 17 (35.42%) AWS CloudFormation
4 16 (33.33%) GCP
5 15 (31.25%) Amazon EKS
6 13 (27.08%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (18.75%) GitHub
8 7 (14.58%) OpenShift
9 6 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (12.50%) Amazon S3
9 6 (12.50%) Datadog
10 5 (10.42%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (6.25%) Serverless
13 2 (4.17%) Amazon Cognito
13 2 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (4.17%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 17 (35.42%) HTTP
2 16 (33.33%) DNS
3 14 (29.17%) TCP/IP
4 7 (14.58%) Internet
5 4 (8.33%) Firewall
6 3 (6.25%) DHCP
6 3 (6.25%) SSL
6 3 (6.25%) VPN
7 2 (4.17%) DOCSIS
7 2 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (2.08%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (2.08%) Kerberos
8 1 (2.08%) MQTT
8 1 (2.08%) Network Security
8 1 (2.08%) VLAN
8 1 (2.08%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (27.08%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (18.75%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (10.42%) MySQL
4 5 (10.42%) Redis
5 4 (8.33%) MongoDB
6 3 (6.25%) RDBMS
6 3 (6.25%) Relational Database
7 2 (4.17%) InfluxDB
7 2 (4.17%) Looker
8 1 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (2.08%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (2.08%) DocumentDB
8 1 (2.08%) DynamoDB
8 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
8 1 (2.08%) Oracle Database
8 1 (2.08%) Pinecone
8 1 (2.08%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 31 (64.58%) Jenkins
2 12 (25.00%) GitLab
3 7 (14.58%) Git
4 6 (12.50%) JIRA
4 6 (12.50%) SonarQube
5 3 (6.25%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (6.25%) CA Release Automation
5 3 (6.25%) Eclipse
5 3 (6.25%) Gradle
5 3 (6.25%) IntelliJ
5 3 (6.25%) JUnit
5 3 (6.25%) Maven
5 3 (6.25%) Mockito
5 3 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (6.25%) TeamCity
5 3 (6.25%) TestNG
6 1 (2.08%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.08%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.08%) CircleCI
6 1 (2.08%) Spinnaker
General
1 9 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (6.25%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.17%) Finance
4 1 (2.08%) Banking
4 1 (2.08%) Games
4 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.08%) Legal
Job Titles
1 24 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (29.17%) Senior
3 12 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 12 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
4 11 (22.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 10 (20.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 9 (18.75%) AWS DevOps
7 8 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 8 (16.67%) Site Engineer
8 5 (10.42%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (10.42%) Developer
9 4 (8.33%) Unix Engineer
10 3 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (6.25%) Digital Developer
10 3 (6.25%) Java Developer
10 3 (6.25%) Lead
10 3 (6.25%) Python Engineer
10 3 (6.25%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
11 2 (4.17%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 2 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.67%) Kafka
2 6 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 4 (8.33%) RESTful
3 4 (8.33%) Spring
3 4 (8.33%) Swagger
4 3 (6.25%) Hibernate
4 3 (6.25%) JWT
4 3 (6.25%) OAuth
4 3 (6.25%) OpenAPI
4 3 (6.25%) REST
4 3 (6.25%) YAML
5 2 (4.17%) boto
5 2 (4.17%) Flask
5 2 (4.17%) Node.js
5 2 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.08%) PlayReady
6 1 (2.08%) SOAP
6 1 (2.08%) TensorFlow
6 1 (2.08%) VCL
6 1 (2.08%) Widevine
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.58%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.42%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.25%) Video\Live Streaming
4 2 (4.17%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (4.17%) IoT
5 1 (2.08%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.08%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.08%) Autonomous Agent
5 1 (2.08%) Blockchain
5 1 (2.08%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.08%) FMCG
5 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.08%) MPEG
5 1 (2.08%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 29 (60.42%) Linux
2 7 (14.58%) Unix
3 5 (10.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (10.42%) Windows
4 2 (4.17%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (2.08%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (79.17%) DevOps
2 30 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 29 (60.42%) Containerisation
4 25 (52.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
6 15 (31.25%) Configuration Management
7 13 (27.08%) Deployment Automation
7 13 (27.08%) Microservices
8 11 (22.92%) High Availability
8 11 (22.92%) Mentoring
9 10 (20.83%) Agile
9 10 (20.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 9 (18.75%) Observability
11 8 (16.67%) Migration
11 8 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (14.58%) Cost Management
12 7 (14.58%) Task Automation
13 5 (10.42%) Infrastructure Automation
13 5 (10.42%) Software Engineering
13 5 (10.42%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 29 (60.42%) Python
2 12 (25.00%) Bash
3 8 (16.67%) Java
3 8 (16.67%) Shell Script
4 6 (12.50%) Go
5 5 (10.42%) PowerShell
6 4 (8.33%) Groovy
6 4 (8.33%) Perl
6 4 (8.33%) Ruby
7 2 (4.17%) C
7 2 (4.17%) C++
7 2 (4.17%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (39.58%) Security Cleared
2 18 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.42%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.08%) CISSP
5 1 (2.08%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.08%) Degree
5 1 (2.08%) Linux+ Certification
5 1 (2.08%) MCSA
5 1 (2.08%) MCSE
5 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.08%) OCA
5 1 (2.08%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (2.08%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) QA
2 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.08%) NCSC
System Software
1 35 (72.92%) Docker
2 3 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.08%) NFS
3 1 (2.08%) Samba
Systems Management
1 39 (81.25%) Kubernetes
2 34 (70.83%) Terraform
3 30 (62.50%) Grafana
4 29 (60.42%) Ansible
4 29 (60.42%) Prometheus
5 16 (33.33%) Progress Chef
6 14 (29.17%) Puppet
7 7 (14.58%) Kibana
8 4 (8.33%) logstash
9 2 (4.17%) Packer
10 1 (2.08%) Argo
10 1 (2.08%) Nagios
10 1 (2.08%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (2.08%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (2.08%) PowerCLI
10 1 (2.08%) Rancher
10 1 (2.08%) SELinux
10 1 (2.08%) vCenter Server
10 1 (2.08%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (31.25%) Red Hat
2 10 (20.83%) Splunk
3 7 (14.58%) AppDynamics
4 5 (10.42%) Google
5 4 (8.33%) Dynatrace
5 4 (8.33%) VMware
6 2 (4.17%) Oracle
7 1 (2.08%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.08%) Black Duck
7 1 (2.08%) Checkmarx
7 1 (2.08%) Darktrace
7 1 (2.08%) Microsoft
7 1 (2.08%) OpenAI
7 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.08%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.08%) Tenable
7 1 (2.08%) TOWER Software
7 1 (2.08%) Veeam