Elastic Stack Contracts in England

Elastic Stack (formerly ELK Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Elastic Stack skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Elastic Stack over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 393 500 478
Rank change year-on-year +107 -22 -16
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 145 163 320
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.39% 0.33% 0.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.93% 1.41% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 113 229
10th Percentile £430 £463 £463
25th Percentile £500 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +11.94%
75th Percentile £645 £795 £700
90th Percentile £725 £900 £751
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 2
10th Percentile - £68.10 -
25th Percentile - £72.75 £75.00
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% -
75th Percentile - £76.75 £85.00
90th Percentile - £82.80 -
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +100.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Elastic Stack is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,501 11,549 19,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.24% 23.05% 27.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,335 8,549 14,401
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £430 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £794 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 138 211
10th Percentile £22.50 £28.73 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -27.94% +32.65% +8.89%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Elastic Stack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Elastic Stack in England

Elastic Stack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Elastic Stack in England.

Daily rate trend for Elastic Stack in England

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elastic Stack in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Elastic Stack in England

Elastic Stack
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Elastic Stack in England.

Hourly rate trend for Elastic Stack in England

Elastic Stack
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Elastic Stack within the England region over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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
London +70 87 £510 -17.74% 19
Midlands +43 19 £550 - 3
North of England +33 17 £622 +18.48% 7
West Midlands +36 14 £550 -21.43%
South East +19 14 £525 -16.00% 7
Yorkshire +29 10 £622 +15.99% 6
East Midlands +24 5 £356 -30.87% 3
South West +14 5 £750 +22.45% 5
North East +19 4 - -
North West +12 3 £600 +20.00% 1
East of England +15 1 - - 1
Elastic Stack
UK

Elastic Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 37 (25.52%) OpenStack
2 13 (8.97%) Confluence
3 9 (6.21%) nginx
4 7 (4.83%) Apache
4 7 (4.83%) JBoss
5 5 (3.45%) Apache Spark
6 3 (2.07%) Tomcat
7 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (1.38%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.69%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 74 (51.03%) AWS
2 39 (26.90%) Azure
3 18 (12.41%) GCP
4 17 (11.72%) GitHub
4 17 (11.72%) Slack
5 16 (11.03%) Serverless
6 14 (9.66%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (9.66%) OpenShift
7 13 (8.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 13 (8.97%) Amazon S3
8 9 (6.21%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (5.52%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (5.52%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (4.83%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (4.83%) PaaS
11 6 (4.14%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (4.14%) Apigee
11 6 (4.14%) Azure Sentinel
11 6 (4.14%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (4.14%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.03%) TCP/IP
2 15 (10.34%) Firewall
3 13 (8.97%) HTTP
4 10 (6.90%) DNS
5 8 (5.52%) VPN
6 4 (2.76%) 5G
6 4 (2.76%) DHCP
6 4 (2.76%) Diameter Protocol
6 4 (2.76%) FTP
6 4 (2.76%) ICMP
6 4 (2.76%) LTE
6 4 (2.76%) POP3
6 4 (2.76%) SMTP
6 4 (2.76%) SSH
7 1 (0.69%) Skype
7 1 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.69%) VLAN
7 1 (0.69%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (55.17%) Elasticsearch
2 22 (15.17%) Relational Database
3 17 (11.72%) MySQL
3 17 (11.72%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (8.28%) SQL Server
5 10 (6.90%) RDBMS
6 9 (6.21%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (5.52%) NoSQL
8 5 (3.45%) Big Data
8 5 (3.45%) Couchbase
9 4 (2.76%) Hadoop
9 4 (2.76%) MongoDB
10 3 (2.07%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (2.07%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.38%) Power BI
12 1 (0.69%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.69%) HBase
12 1 (0.69%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 77 (53.10%) Jenkins
2 42 (28.97%) Git
3 22 (15.17%) JIRA
4 20 (13.79%) GitLab
5 14 (9.66%) SonarQube
6 12 (8.28%) Maven
7 9 (6.21%) Bitbucket
8 8 (5.52%) JUnit
9 7 (4.83%) CircleCI
9 7 (4.83%) Travis CI
10 6 (4.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (4.14%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (3.45%) AppScan
11 5 (3.45%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (3.45%) Burp Suite
11 5 (3.45%) CA Release Automation
11 5 (3.45%) Selenium
11 5 (3.45%) TeamCity
12 4 (2.76%) Postman
12 4 (2.76%) Subversion
General
1 17 (11.72%) Finance
2 13 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (8.97%) Banking
2 13 (8.97%) Social Skills
3 8 (5.52%) Public Sector
3 8 (5.52%) Telecoms
4 3 (2.07%) Investment Banking
5 2 (1.38%) Marketing
5 2 (1.38%) Military
5 2 (1.38%) Public Speaking
5 2 (1.38%) Retail
6 1 (0.69%) Electronics
6 1 (0.69%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.69%) Police
Job Titles
1 24 (16.55%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (13.10%) Developer
3 18 (12.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 17 (11.72%) Lead
5 16 (11.03%) SIEM Engineer
5 16 (11.03%) Site Engineer
6 14 (9.66%) Senior
7 13 (8.97%) Architect
8 10 (6.90%) AWS DevOps
8 10 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (6.90%) Java Developer
9 9 (6.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 9 (6.21%) Technical Leader
10 8 (5.52%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (4.83%) Support Engineer
11 7 (4.83%) VMware Architect
12 6 (4.14%) Analyst
12 6 (4.14%) Consultant
12 6 (4.14%) Lead DevOps
12 6 (4.14%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (13.79%) Spring Boot
2 16 (11.03%) JSON
2 16 (11.03%) Kafka
2 16 (11.03%) REST
2 16 (11.03%) Spring
3 13 (8.97%) Node.js
3 13 (8.97%) XML
4 10 (6.90%) Web Services
5 8 (5.52%) AngularJS
5 8 (5.52%) React
6 6 (4.14%) RESTful
6 6 (4.14%) YAML
7 5 (3.45%) CSS
7 5 (3.45%) HTML
7 5 (3.45%) LAPP Stack
7 5 (3.45%) Mustache
7 5 (3.45%) Swagger
8 4 (2.76%) .NET
8 4 (2.76%) Sass
8 4 (2.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.10%) Onboarding
2 17 (11.72%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (9.66%) Public Cloud
4 11 (7.59%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (6.90%) Cloud Native
6 7 (4.83%) Management Information System
7 6 (4.14%) Cyber Defence
7 6 (4.14%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 6 (4.14%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (4.14%) Data Structures
7 6 (4.14%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (2.07%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.38%) CBDC
10 2 (1.38%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.38%) Fat Client
10 2 (1.38%) PKI
10 2 (1.38%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.38%) Thin Client
11 1 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 81 (55.86%) Linux
2 28 (19.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 26 (17.93%) CentOS
4 25 (17.24%) Windows
5 16 (11.03%) Ubuntu
6 8 (5.52%) Unix
7 5 (3.45%) VMS
8 4 (2.76%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (2.76%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.69%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (62.07%) CI/CD
2 71 (48.97%) DevOps
3 62 (42.76%) Agile
4 55 (37.93%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (22.07%) Containerisation
5 32 (22.07%) Observability
6 29 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
6 29 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (18.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 25 (17.24%) Microservices
9 24 (16.55%) SIEM
10 22 (15.17%) Configuration Management
10 22 (15.17%) Scrum
11 16 (11.03%) Project Management
12 15 (10.34%) Test Automation
13 14 (9.66%) Computer Science
13 14 (9.66%) Infrastructure Monitoring
14 12 (8.28%) Software Delivery
14 12 (8.28%) TDD
15 11 (7.59%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 74 (51.03%) Python
2 35 (24.14%) Java
3 33 (22.76%) Bash
4 27 (18.62%) Shell Script
5 22 (15.17%) JavaScript
6 19 (13.10%) Go
7 16 (11.03%) PowerShell
8 15 (10.34%) SQL
9 8 (5.52%) Perl
9 8 (5.52%) R
10 6 (4.14%) TypeScript
11 5 (3.45%) C#
12 4 (2.76%) Groovy
12 4 (2.76%) Ruby
13 2 (1.38%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.69%) Bicep
14 1 (0.69%) C
14 1 (0.69%) C++
14 1 (0.69%) Rust
Qualifications
1 49 (33.79%) Security Cleared
2 30 (20.69%) SC Cleared
3 21 (14.48%) DV Cleared
4 15 (10.34%) Degree
5 11 (7.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.14%) CEH
6 6 (4.14%) CISSP
7 3 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.38%) SANS
9 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.69%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.69%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.41%) QA
2 1 (0.69%) ISO 20022
2 1 (0.69%) NIST
2 1 (0.69%) SLA
System Software
1 55 (37.93%) Docker
2 19 (13.10%) Active Directory
2 19 (13.10%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (6.21%) iptables
4 3 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.38%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.69%) HDFS
6 1 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 76 (52.41%) Ansible
2 69 (47.59%) Kubernetes
3 65 (44.83%) Terraform
4 63 (43.45%) Prometheus
5 62 (42.76%) Kibana
6 60 (41.38%) Grafana
7 56 (38.62%) logstash
8 23 (15.86%) Progress Chef
9 21 (14.48%) Puppet
10 9 (6.21%) Graylog
11 6 (4.14%) Docker Swarm
11 6 (4.14%) Nessus
11 6 (4.14%) Opsgenie
12 5 (3.45%) HP Fortify
12 5 (3.45%) Nagios
12 5 (3.45%) WebInspect
12 5 (3.45%) ZABBIX
13 4 (2.76%) QRadar
13 4 (2.76%) yum
14 3 (2.07%) Rancher
Vendors
1 35 (24.14%) Splunk
2 28 (19.31%) Red Hat
3 21 (14.48%) Microsoft
4 16 (11.03%) Amdocs
5 13 (8.97%) VMware
6 10 (6.90%) Oracle
7 9 (6.21%) Dynatrace
7 9 (6.21%) SAP
8 7 (4.83%) Salesforce
9 6 (4.14%) AppDynamics
9 6 (4.14%) New Relic
9 6 (4.14%) PagerDuty
10 5 (3.45%) Adobe
10 5 (3.45%) Checkmarx
10 5 (3.45%) Veracode
11 4 (2.76%) ArcSight
12 3 (2.07%) Google
12 3 (2.07%) MKS
12 3 (2.07%) ServiceNow
13 2 (1.38%) IBM