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 12 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 259 289 362
Rank change year-on-year +30 +73 +58
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 53 45 73
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.52% 0.35% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.97% 1.35% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 32 50
10th Percentile £404 £360 £360
25th Percentile £418 £443 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £608 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.64% +10.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £632 £690 £713
90th Percentile £653 £748 £875
UK median daily rate £537 £600 £601
% change year-on-year -10.50% -0.08% +4.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.00 - -
Median hourly rate £56.00 - -
75th Percentile £59.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £79.35 - £80.41

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 2,696 3,332 5,386
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.66% 25.56% 24.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,889 2,331 3,999
10th Percentile £350 £325 £365
25th Percentile £413 £427 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £660
90th Percentile £825 £850 £750
UK median daily rate £501 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.00% - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 80 60
10th Percentile £31.15 £34.13 £25.75
25th Percentile £41.25 - £45.94
Median hourly rate £62.50 £43.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +45.35% -29.80% +2.08%
75th Percentile £67.00 £53.94 £73.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £72.70 £76.83
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -1.82% -8.33% +2.95%

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 12 August 2025.

Elastic Stack daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Elastic Stack hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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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 4 (7.55%) JBoss
2 3 (5.66%) SAS
3 2 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.77%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.77%) CICS
3 2 (3.77%) Confluence
4 1 (1.89%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (1.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.89%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (1.89%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 37 (69.81%) AWS
2 19 (35.85%) Amazon EKS
3 18 (33.96%) AWS CloudFormation
4 17 (32.08%) GitHub
5 16 (30.19%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (24.53%) OpenShift
7 11 (20.75%) GCP
8 9 (16.98%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (16.98%) Serverless
9 7 (13.21%) Azure
10 5 (9.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (9.43%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (7.55%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (7.55%) Amazon S3
12 3 (5.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 2 (3.77%) Amazon SageMaker
13 2 (3.77%) Amazon SQS
13 2 (3.77%) Cloud Computing
13 2 (3.77%) Route 53
13 2 (3.77%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 19 (35.85%) DNS
1 19 (35.85%) TCP/IP
2 14 (26.42%) HTTP
3 11 (20.75%) Internet
4 5 (9.43%) Firewall
5 3 (5.66%) SSL
6 2 (3.77%) MQTT
6 2 (3.77%) SSH
6 2 (3.77%) VPN
7 1 (1.89%) DHCP
7 1 (1.89%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (1.89%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (33.96%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (24.53%) Amazon Aurora
3 9 (16.98%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (15.09%) Redis
5 7 (13.21%) NoSQL
6 6 (11.32%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (7.55%) RDBMS
7 4 (7.55%) Relational Database
8 2 (3.77%) Big Data
8 2 (3.77%) DB2
8 2 (3.77%) Delta Lake
8 2 (3.77%) DynamoDB
8 2 (3.77%) Hadoop
8 2 (3.77%) Oracle Database
8 2 (3.77%) Parquet
8 2 (3.77%) Pinecone
8 2 (3.77%) Weaviate
9 1 (1.89%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 29 (54.72%) Jenkins
2 10 (18.87%) Git
2 10 (18.87%) GitLab
3 6 (11.32%) JIRA
3 6 (11.32%) SonarQube
4 5 (9.43%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (7.55%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (7.55%) CA Release Automation
5 4 (7.55%) Liquibase
5 4 (7.55%) TeamCity
6 2 (3.77%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.77%) GCC
6 2 (3.77%) MLflow
6 2 (3.77%) Poetry
6 2 (3.77%) PyCharm
6 2 (3.77%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (1.89%) CircleCI
General
1 14 (26.42%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.32%) Finance
3 5 (9.43%) Banking
4 3 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.77%) Financial Institution
5 2 (3.77%) Games
6 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.89%) Legal
6 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 32 (60.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (33.96%) Senior
3 14 (26.42%) Senior DevOps
3 14 (26.42%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 10 (18.87%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (11.32%) AWS DevOps
5 6 (11.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Python Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Developer
7 3 (5.66%) Lead
7 3 (5.66%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Data Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Lead DevOps
8 2 (3.77%) Operations Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Programmer
8 2 (3.77%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (20.75%) Kafka
2 6 (11.32%) Keycloak
2 6 (11.32%) YAML
3 5 (9.43%) REST
3 5 (9.43%) RESTful
4 4 (7.55%) Spring Boot
5 3 (5.66%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (3.77%) Apache Avro
6 2 (3.77%) CrewAI
6 2 (3.77%) Faiss
6 2 (3.77%) Flask
6 2 (3.77%) Google JAX
6 2 (3.77%) Hugging Face
6 2 (3.77%) JAX
6 2 (3.77%) LangChain
6 2 (3.77%) Node.js
6 2 (3.77%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (3.77%) Pandas
6 2 (3.77%) PyTorch
6 2 (3.77%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.09%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (9.43%) Public Cloud
3 4 (7.55%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.66%) Mainframe
4 3 (5.66%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.77%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.77%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.77%) Autonomous Agent
5 2 (3.77%) Replication
6 1 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.89%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.89%) MPEG
6 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.89%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.89%) Video on Demand
6 1 (1.89%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (64.15%) Linux
2 4 (7.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (7.55%) Windows
3 3 (5.66%) zOS
4 2 (3.77%) OS/2
5 1 (1.89%) Debian
5 1 (1.89%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (84.91%) DevOps
2 36 (67.92%) Containerisation
3 35 (66.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (56.60%) CI/CD
5 24 (45.28%) Continuous Integration
6 18 (33.96%) Configuration Management
7 17 (32.08%) Deployment Automation
7 17 (32.08%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (30.19%) Agile
9 13 (24.53%) Observability
10 12 (22.64%) Microservices
11 11 (20.75%) Cost Management
12 10 (18.87%) Platform Engineering
13 8 (15.09%) Cost Optimisation
13 8 (15.09%) High Availability
13 8 (15.09%) Infrastructure Automation
13 8 (15.09%) Software Engineering
14 6 (11.32%) Migration
14 6 (11.32%) Scrum
14 6 (11.32%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 28 (52.83%) Python
2 17 (32.08%) Bash
3 10 (18.87%) Java
4 9 (16.98%) Go
5 5 (9.43%) Perl
6 4 (7.55%) Ruby
6 4 (7.55%) Shell Script
6 4 (7.55%) SQL
7 3 (5.66%) Assembly Language
7 3 (5.66%) PL/1
7 3 (5.66%) PowerShell
7 3 (5.66%) REXX
8 2 (3.77%) CLIST
8 2 (3.77%) COBOL
8 2 (3.77%) Groovy
8 2 (3.77%) JCL
9 1 (1.89%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.89%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.89%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (33.96%) SC Cleared
1 18 (33.96%) Security Cleared
2 8 (15.09%) AWS Certification
2 8 (15.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.66%) Degree
3 3 (5.66%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.66%) QA
2 2 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.77%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.89%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.89%) GDPR
3 1 (1.89%) NCSC
3 1 (1.89%) NIST
3 1 (1.89%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (58.49%) Docker
2 4 (7.55%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.77%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 2 (3.77%) RACF
3 2 (3.77%) Time Sharing Option
4 1 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 41 (77.36%) Kubernetes
2 38 (71.70%) Prometheus
3 37 (69.81%) Terraform
4 36 (67.92%) Grafana
5 32 (60.38%) Ansible
6 19 (35.85%) Progress Chef
7 16 (30.19%) Puppet
8 7 (13.21%) Packer
9 6 (11.32%) Kibana
10 3 (5.66%) Argo
10 3 (5.66%) Consul
11 2 (3.77%) Istio
11 2 (3.77%) logstash
11 2 (3.77%) OMEGAMON
11 2 (3.77%) Tivoli NetView
12 1 (1.89%) Graphite
12 1 (1.89%) Kustomize
12 1 (1.89%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (1.89%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (1.89%) Rancher
Vendors
1 26 (49.06%) Red Hat
2 15 (28.30%) Splunk
3 6 (11.32%) Google
4 4 (7.55%) AppDynamics
5 2 (3.77%) Cloudera
5 2 (3.77%) IBM
5 2 (3.77%) OpenAI
5 2 (3.77%) Oracle
5 2 (3.77%) VMware
6 1 (1.89%) Darktrace
6 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow