Elastic Stack Contracts in the South East

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 188 199 222
Rank change year-on-year +11 +23 -27
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 15 17 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.27% 0.29% 0.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.00% 1.62% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 28
10th Percentile £438 £525 £471
25th Percentile £495 £592 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £630 £663
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -4.91% +70.97%
75th Percentile £538 £784 £738
90th Percentile £575 - £743
England median daily rate £550 £609 £600
% change year-on-year -9.65% +1.46% +11.11%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 the South East 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 749 1,050 1,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.45% 17.98% 20.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 746 1,039
10th Percentile £313 £363 £350
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £600
90th Percentile £667 £725 £669
England median daily rate £550 £565 £563
% change year-on-year -2.65% +0.44% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 35 42
10th Percentile £35.00 £39.00 £21.65
25th Percentile £55.75 £53.75 £32.19
Median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +51.35% +11.45%
75th Percentile £67.50 £75.00 £64.66
90th Percentile £76.50 £79.83 £67.80
England median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Elastic Stack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Elastic Stack in the South East

Elastic Stack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Elastic Stack in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Elastic Stack in the South East

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elastic Stack in the South East over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Elastic Stack in the South East

Elastic Stack
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
Thames Valley +16 14 £525 -32.17% 4
Berkshire -5 13 £510 -34.11% 2
Oxfordshire +7 1 £600 +20.00% 1
Hampshire +4 1 - - 1
Elastic Stack
England

Elastic Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (46.67%) OpenStack
2 2 (13.33%) Confluence
2 2 (13.33%) JBoss
2 2 (13.33%) nginx
2 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (80.00%) AWS
2 8 (53.33%) Amazon EKS
3 7 (46.67%) Amazon ECS
3 7 (46.67%) Serverless
4 4 (26.67%) Amazon S3
4 4 (26.67%) Azure
5 3 (20.00%) GCP
6 2 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
7 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (6.67%) Azure Stack
7 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (6.67%) GitHub
7 1 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) Firewall
2 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (13.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (60.00%) Relational Database
2 7 (46.67%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (13.33%) MySQL
4 2 (13.33%) RDBMS
5 1 (6.67%) Big Data
5 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 9 (60.00%) Git
2 8 (53.33%) Jenkins
3 5 (33.33%) JUnit
4 4 (26.67%) GitLab
5 2 (13.33%) JIRA
6 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
6 1 (6.67%) Spinnaker
General
1 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Developer
1 7 (46.67%) Java Developer
2 5 (33.33%) Full Stack Developer
2 5 (33.33%) Full Stack Java Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) DBA
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) Node.js
1 7 (46.67%) REST
1 7 (46.67%) Spring
1 7 (46.67%) Spring Boot
1 7 (46.67%) Web Services
2 5 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 5 (33.33%) RESTful
2 5 (33.33%) SOAP
3 4 (26.67%) J2EE
4 3 (20.00%) Kafka
5 2 (13.33%) Apache Camel
5 2 (13.33%) Mustache
5 2 (13.33%) React
6 1 (6.67%) JSON
6 1 (6.67%) Keycloak
6 1 (6.67%) Regular Expression
6 1 (6.67%) XML
6 1 (6.67%) XMPP
6 1 (6.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (13.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Clustering
3 1 (6.67%) PKI
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Linux
2 4 (26.67%) Windows
3 1 (6.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Agile
2 8 (53.33%) DevOps
3 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
3 7 (46.67%) Microservices
3 7 (46.67%) Scrum
3 7 (46.67%) TDD
4 5 (33.33%) BDD
4 5 (33.33%) Full Stack Development
4 5 (33.33%) Kanban
5 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (13.33%) Analytics
7 2 (13.33%) Change Control
7 2 (13.33%) Continuous Delivery
7 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
7 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
7 2 (13.33%) Release Management
7 2 (13.33%) Software Delivery
7 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Java
1 7 (46.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (13.33%) Go
2 2 (13.33%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) Bash
3 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (53.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (53.33%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (80.00%) Ansible
1 12 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (46.67%) Terraform
3 4 (26.67%) Prometheus
4 3 (20.00%) Grafana
4 3 (20.00%) Kibana
5 2 (13.33%) Graylog
5 2 (13.33%) Nagios
5 2 (13.33%) Rancher
6 1 (6.67%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (6.67%) logstash
6 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (6.67%) Nessus
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
2 2 (13.33%) Splunk
2 2 (13.33%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) Google