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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 407 485 478
Rank change year-on-year +78 -7 +4
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 139 158 306
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.33% 0.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.86% 1.42% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 108 224
10th Percentile £451 £459 £463
25th Percentile £500 £500 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £596 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.76% -0.63% +14.29%
75th Percentile £645 £763 £700
90th Percentile £736 £900 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £572 £588
% change year-on-year -3.85% -2.64% +7.80%
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 7,471 11,102 18,884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.55% 22.99% 26.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,300 8,242 14,179
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £565
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -0.88% +13.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £788 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 133 215
10th Percentile £22.35 £26.60 £23.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +28.71% +10.99%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

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 15 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 15 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 +73 78 £518 -16.53% 19
North of England +29 21 £624 +18.76% 5
Midlands +46 19 £550 - 4
West Midlands +30 14 £550 -21.43% 1
Yorkshire +31 13 £622 +15.99% 3
South East +21 11 £525 -13.76% 9
East Midlands +18 5 £356 -30.87% 3
South West +12 5 £750 +26.32% 7
North West +15 4 £650 +30.00% 2
North East +13 4 - -
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 29 (20.86%) OpenStack
2 16 (11.51%) Confluence
3 9 (6.47%) nginx
4 7 (5.04%) Apache
4 7 (5.04%) JBoss
5 4 (2.88%) Apache Spark
6 3 (2.16%) Tomcat
7 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (1.44%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.72%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 71 (51.08%) AWS
2 41 (29.50%) Azure
3 20 (14.39%) GCP
3 20 (14.39%) GitHub
4 15 (10.79%) OpenShift
5 13 (9.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 13 (9.35%) Slack
6 12 (8.63%) Amazon S3
6 12 (8.63%) Serverless
7 11 (7.91%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (6.47%) Kong
9 8 (5.76%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (5.76%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (5.04%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (5.04%) PaaS
11 6 (4.32%) Apigee
11 6 (4.32%) Azure Sentinel
11 6 (4.32%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (3.60%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (2.88%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (13.67%) TCP/IP
2 18 (12.95%) Firewall
3 16 (11.51%) HTTP
4 13 (9.35%) DNS
5 11 (7.91%) VPN
6 4 (2.88%) 5G
6 4 (2.88%) DHCP
6 4 (2.88%) Diameter Protocol
6 4 (2.88%) FTP
6 4 (2.88%) ICMP
6 4 (2.88%) LTE
6 4 (2.88%) POP3
6 4 (2.88%) SMTP
6 4 (2.88%) SSH
7 3 (2.16%) BIG-IP
7 3 (2.16%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (2.16%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (2.16%) SSL
8 1 (0.72%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.72%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (56.83%) Elasticsearch
2 19 (13.67%) Relational Database
3 17 (12.23%) MySQL
4 13 (9.35%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (8.63%) SQL Server
6 10 (7.19%) RDBMS
7 9 (6.47%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (5.76%) NoSQL
9 5 (3.60%) Couchbase
10 4 (2.88%) Big Data
10 4 (2.88%) Hadoop
10 4 (2.88%) MongoDB
11 3 (2.16%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (2.16%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (1.44%) DataStax
12 2 (1.44%) Power BI
13 1 (0.72%) CouchDB
13 1 (0.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 71 (51.08%) Jenkins
2 41 (29.50%) Git
3 24 (17.27%) JIRA
4 23 (16.55%) GitLab
5 14 (10.07%) SonarQube
6 11 (7.91%) Maven
7 10 (7.19%) CircleCI
7 10 (7.19%) Travis CI
8 9 (6.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 9 (6.47%) Bitbucket
9 6 (4.32%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (3.60%) AppScan
10 5 (3.60%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (3.60%) Burp Suite
10 5 (3.60%) CA Release Automation
10 5 (3.60%) JUnit
10 5 (3.60%) Selenium
10 5 (3.60%) TeamCity
11 4 (2.88%) Postman
11 4 (2.88%) Subversion
General
1 17 (12.23%) Finance
2 16 (11.51%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (10.79%) Social Skills
4 14 (10.07%) Banking
5 8 (5.76%) Telecoms
6 6 (4.32%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.16%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.44%) Marketing
8 2 (1.44%) Military
8 2 (1.44%) Public Speaking
8 2 (1.44%) Retail
9 1 (0.72%) Electronics
9 1 (0.72%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Police
Job Titles
1 27 (19.42%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (12.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 16 (11.51%) SIEM Engineer
4 15 (10.79%) Developer
4 15 (10.79%) Lead
4 15 (10.79%) Site Engineer
5 14 (10.07%) Senior
6 11 (7.91%) Architect
7 10 (7.19%) AWS DevOps
7 10 (7.19%) AWS Engineer
8 9 (6.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 7 (5.04%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (5.04%) Support Engineer
9 7 (5.04%) VMware Architect
10 6 (4.32%) Analyst
10 6 (4.32%) Automation Engineer
10 6 (4.32%) Consultant
10 6 (4.32%) Java Developer
10 6 (4.32%) Lead DevOps
10 6 (4.32%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (12.95%) JSON
2 16 (11.51%) Spring Boot
2 16 (11.51%) XML
3 14 (10.07%) Kafka
4 13 (9.35%) REST
5 12 (8.63%) Spring
6 10 (7.19%) Node.js
7 9 (6.47%) YAML
8 8 (5.76%) React
9 7 (5.04%) Web Services
10 5 (3.60%) AngularJS
10 5 (3.60%) CSS
10 5 (3.60%) HTML
10 5 (3.60%) LAPP Stack
10 5 (3.60%) Mustache
10 5 (3.60%) Swagger
11 4 (2.88%) .NET
11 4 (2.88%) Lucene
11 4 (2.88%) Sass
12 3 (2.16%) JAX-RS
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.51%) Onboarding
2 14 (10.07%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (10.07%) Public Cloud
3 11 (7.91%) Linux Command Line
4 10 (7.19%) Cloud Native
5 9 (6.47%) Data Structures
6 7 (5.04%) Management Information System
7 6 (4.32%) Cyber Defence
7 6 (4.32%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 6 (4.32%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (4.32%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (3.60%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (2.16%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.44%) CBDC
10 2 (1.44%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.44%) Fat Client
10 2 (1.44%) PKI
10 2 (1.44%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.44%) Thin Client
11 1 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 76 (54.68%) Linux
2 25 (17.99%) Windows
3 23 (16.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (15.11%) CentOS
5 16 (11.51%) Ubuntu
6 8 (5.76%) Unix
7 5 (3.60%) VMS
8 4 (2.88%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (2.88%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.72%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (61.87%) CI/CD
2 70 (50.36%) DevOps
3 58 (41.73%) Agile
4 52 (37.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 34 (24.46%) Containerisation
6 32 (23.02%) Continuous Integration
6 32 (23.02%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (19.42%) Observability
7 27 (19.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 24 (17.27%) SIEM
9 22 (15.83%) Configuration Management
10 21 (15.11%) Microservices
11 20 (14.39%) Scrum
12 19 (13.67%) Project Management
13 16 (11.51%) Test Automation
14 14 (10.07%) Computer Science
14 14 (10.07%) Infrastructure Monitoring
15 13 (9.35%) DevSecOps
16 12 (8.63%) Software Delivery
17 11 (7.91%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 71 (51.08%) Python
2 37 (26.62%) Bash
3 32 (23.02%) Java
4 21 (15.11%) Shell Script
5 20 (14.39%) Go
6 19 (13.67%) JavaScript
6 19 (13.67%) PowerShell
7 13 (9.35%) SQL
8 8 (5.76%) Perl
8 8 (5.76%) R
9 6 (4.32%) TypeScript
10 5 (3.60%) C#
10 5 (3.60%) Groovy
11 4 (2.88%) Ruby
12 3 (2.16%) ActionScript
13 2 (1.44%) C
13 2 (1.44%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.72%) Bicep
14 1 (0.72%) C++
14 1 (0.72%) Rust
Qualifications
1 46 (33.09%) Security Cleared
2 27 (19.42%) SC Cleared
3 22 (15.83%) DV Cleared
4 15 (10.79%) Degree
5 11 (7.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.32%) CEH
6 6 (4.32%) CISSP
7 3 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.44%) SANS
9 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.72%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.72%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.72%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (15.11%) QA
2 1 (0.72%) ISO 20022
2 1 (0.72%) NIST
2 1 (0.72%) SLA
System Software
1 55 (39.57%) Docker
2 19 (13.67%) Active Directory
3 14 (10.07%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (6.47%) iptables
5 3 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.44%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.72%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 73 (52.52%) Ansible
2 69 (49.64%) Kubernetes
3 68 (48.92%) Terraform
4 60 (43.17%) Kibana
4 60 (43.17%) Prometheus
5 56 (40.29%) Grafana
6 54 (38.85%) logstash
7 26 (18.71%) Progress Chef
8 25 (17.99%) Puppet
9 9 (6.47%) Docker Swarm
9 9 (6.47%) Graylog
10 6 (4.32%) Nessus
10 6 (4.32%) Opsgenie
11 5 (3.60%) HP Fortify
11 5 (3.60%) Nagios
11 5 (3.60%) WebInspect
11 5 (3.60%) ZABBIX
12 4 (2.88%) QRadar
12 4 (2.88%) yum
13 3 (2.16%) Packer
Vendors
1 38 (27.34%) Splunk
2 24 (17.27%) Red Hat
3 21 (15.11%) Microsoft
4 13 (9.35%) Amdocs
4 13 (9.35%) VMware
5 10 (7.19%) Oracle
6 9 (6.47%) Dynatrace
7 8 (5.76%) SAP
8 7 (5.04%) Salesforce
9 6 (4.32%) AppDynamics
9 6 (4.32%) New Relic
9 6 (4.32%) PagerDuty
10 5 (3.60%) Adobe
10 5 (3.60%) Checkmarx
10 5 (3.60%) Veracode
11 4 (2.88%) ArcSight
12 3 (2.16%) F5
12 3 (2.16%) MKS
12 3 (2.16%) ServiceNow
13 2 (1.44%) Google