Elastic Stack Contracts

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 429 527 503
Rank change year-on-year +98 -24 -18
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 172 190 401
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.32% 0.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.94% 1.38% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 134 279
10th Percentile £413 £454 £472
25th Percentile £486 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £645 £700 £688
90th Percentile £690 £900 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
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% +100.00%
75th Percentile - £76.75 £85.00
90th Percentile - £82.80 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £78.00 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 8,883 13,734 24,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.58% 23.25% 27.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,169 10,016 17,623
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 152 239
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.18 £22.40
25th Percentile £40.08 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.94% +30.65% +10.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.61 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £63.25 £49.25
% change year-on-year -24.90% +28.43% +9.44%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Elastic Stack in the UK

Elastic Stack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Elastic Stack in the UK

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elastic Stack over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Elastic Stack in the UK

Elastic Stack
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Elastic Stack in the UK

Elastic Stack
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 5 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
England +103 145 £550 -8.33% 52
London +93 87 £510 -17.74% 27
UK excluding London +83 70 £550 - 29
Work from Home +73 42 £513 -8.89% 24
Midlands +43 19 £550 - 3
North of England +36 17 £622 +18.48% 7
West Midlands +34 14 £550 -21.43%
South East +25 14 £525 -16.00% 9
Yorkshire +28 10 £622 +15.99% 6
Scotland - 9 £400 - 4
East Midlands +22 5 £356 -30.87% 3
South West +17 5 £750 +26.32% 5
Wales +17 5 £645 +3.12%
North East +18 4 - -
North West +22 3 £600 +20.00% 1
East of England +16 1 - - 1

Elastic Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 38 (22.09%) OpenStack
2 13 (7.56%) Confluence
3 11 (6.40%) Apache Spark
4 10 (5.81%) nginx
5 8 (4.65%) Apache
6 7 (4.07%) JBoss
7 3 (1.74%) Tomcat
8 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (1.16%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.58%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.58%) FileNet
9 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.58%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 91 (52.91%) AWS
2 53 (30.81%) Azure
3 25 (14.53%) GCP
4 19 (11.05%) Amazon EKS
5 18 (10.47%) GitHub
6 17 (9.88%) Amazon S3
6 17 (9.88%) OpenShift
6 17 (9.88%) Serverless
6 17 (9.88%) Slack
7 16 (9.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (7.56%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (6.98%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (5.23%) Azure Sentinel
11 8 (4.65%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (4.07%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (4.07%) PaaS
13 6 (3.49%) Apigee
13 6 (3.49%) Kong
13 6 (3.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (12.79%) TCP/IP
2 21 (12.21%) Firewall
3 13 (7.56%) HTTP
4 11 (6.40%) VPN
5 10 (5.81%) DNS
6 4 (2.33%) 5G
6 4 (2.33%) DHCP
6 4 (2.33%) Diameter Protocol
6 4 (2.33%) FTP
6 4 (2.33%) ICMP
6 4 (2.33%) LTE
6 4 (2.33%) POP3
6 4 (2.33%) SMTP
6 4 (2.33%) SSH
7 3 (1.74%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (1.74%) SNMP
7 3 (1.74%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.58%) DSL
8 1 (0.58%) SSL
8 1 (0.58%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (49.42%) Elasticsearch
2 31 (18.02%) Relational Database
3 23 (13.37%) MySQL
4 19 (11.05%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (8.72%) SQL Server
6 12 (6.98%) RDBMS
7 9 (5.23%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (4.65%) NoSQL
9 6 (3.49%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (3.49%) Big Data
10 5 (2.91%) Couchbase
10 5 (2.91%) Hadoop
11 4 (2.33%) MongoDB
12 3 (1.74%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (1.74%) NonStop SQL
13 2 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (1.16%) Apache Hive
13 2 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (1.16%) HBase
13 2 (1.16%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 81 (47.09%) Jenkins
2 46 (26.74%) Git
3 24 (13.95%) JIRA
4 22 (12.79%) GitLab
5 16 (9.30%) SonarQube
6 12 (6.98%) Maven
7 10 (5.81%) Bitbucket
8 8 (4.65%) JUnit
9 7 (4.07%) Burp Suite
9 7 (4.07%) CircleCI
9 7 (4.07%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (4.07%) Travis CI
10 6 (3.49%) AppScan
10 6 (3.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (2.91%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (2.91%) CA Release Automation
11 5 (2.91%) Selenium
11 5 (2.91%) Subversion
11 5 (2.91%) TeamCity
12 4 (2.33%) Postman
General
1 19 (11.05%) Finance
1 19 (11.05%) Social Skills
2 17 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (8.14%) Banking
4 12 (6.98%) Telecoms
5 8 (4.65%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.74%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.16%) Marketing
7 2 (1.16%) Military
7 2 (1.16%) Public Speaking
7 2 (1.16%) Retail
8 1 (0.58%) Electronics
8 1 (0.58%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (0.58%) French Language
8 1 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.58%) Police
Job Titles
1 26 (15.12%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (14.53%) Developer
3 21 (12.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 18 (10.47%) Lead
4 18 (10.47%) Site Engineer
5 16 (9.30%) Java Developer
5 16 (9.30%) Senior
5 16 (9.30%) SIEM Engineer
6 14 (8.14%) Architect
7 13 (7.56%) AWS Engineer
8 12 (6.98%) AWS DevOps
9 11 (6.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 9 (5.23%) Analyst
10 9 (5.23%) Consultant
10 9 (5.23%) SOC Analyst
10 9 (5.23%) Technical Leader
11 8 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
12 7 (4.07%) Lead DevOps
12 7 (4.07%) Support Engineer
12 7 (4.07%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (15.70%) Spring Boot
2 25 (14.53%) Kafka
3 23 (13.37%) Spring
4 17 (9.88%) REST
5 16 (9.30%) JSON
6 14 (8.14%) Node.js
7 13 (7.56%) XML
8 12 (6.98%) RESTful
9 11 (6.40%) Web Services
10 9 (5.23%) React
11 8 (4.65%) AngularJS
12 7 (4.07%) YAML
13 6 (3.49%) LAPP Stack
13 6 (3.49%) Mustache
13 6 (3.49%) OpenTracing
14 5 (2.91%) CSS
14 5 (2.91%) HTML
14 5 (2.91%) Swagger
15 4 (2.33%) .NET
15 4 (2.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.53%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (11.05%) Onboarding
2 19 (11.05%) Public Cloud
3 12 (6.98%) Data Structures
4 11 (6.40%) Cloud Native
4 11 (6.40%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (5.81%) Management Information System
6 9 (5.23%) Cyber Defence
6 9 (5.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 9 (5.23%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (3.49%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (2.91%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (2.91%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.74%) Distributed Applications
10 2 (1.16%) CBDC
10 2 (1.16%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.16%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.16%) Fat Client
10 2 (1.16%) PKI
10 2 (1.16%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 95 (55.23%) Linux
2 37 (21.51%) Windows
3 28 (16.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 26 (15.12%) CentOS
5 16 (9.30%) Ubuntu
6 8 (4.65%) Unix
7 7 (4.07%) Windows Server
8 5 (2.91%) VMS
9 4 (2.33%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.58%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (58.72%) CI/CD
2 82 (47.67%) DevOps
3 71 (41.28%) Agile
4 61 (35.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 40 (23.26%) Continuous Integration
6 38 (22.09%) Containerisation
7 35 (20.35%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (19.19%) Microservices
8 33 (19.19%) Observability
9 31 (18.02%) SIEM
10 30 (17.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 24 (13.95%) Configuration Management
12 23 (13.37%) Scrum
12 23 (13.37%) Test Automation
13 20 (11.63%) Project Management
14 18 (10.47%) Computer Science
15 16 (9.30%) Cybersecurity
16 15 (8.72%) Software Engineering
17 14 (8.14%) Analytics
17 14 (8.14%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 78 (45.35%) Python
2 43 (25.00%) Java
3 39 (22.67%) Bash
4 28 (16.28%) Shell Script
5 24 (13.95%) JavaScript
6 19 (11.05%) Go
7 18 (10.47%) PowerShell
8 16 (9.30%) SQL
9 12 (6.98%) Perl
10 8 (4.65%) R
11 6 (3.49%) Kotlin
11 6 (3.49%) Scala
11 6 (3.49%) TypeScript
12 5 (2.91%) C#
12 5 (2.91%) Groovy
12 5 (2.91%) Ruby
13 2 (1.16%) PHP
13 2 (1.16%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.58%) C
14 1 (0.58%) C++
Qualifications
1 53 (30.81%) Security Cleared
2 34 (19.77%) SC Cleared
3 24 (13.95%) DV Cleared
4 20 (11.63%) Degree
5 14 (8.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (5.23%) CEH
6 9 (5.23%) CISSP
7 4 (2.33%) SANS
8 3 (1.74%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.58%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.58%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (12.79%) QA
2 1 (0.58%) ISO 20022
2 1 (0.58%) NIST
2 1 (0.58%) SLA
System Software
1 69 (40.12%) Docker
2 20 (11.63%) Active Directory
3 19 (11.05%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (5.23%) iptables
5 3 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (1.16%) HDFS
6 2 (1.16%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.58%) Postfix
7 1 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.58%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 87 (50.58%) Ansible
2 85 (49.42%) Kubernetes
3 77 (44.77%) Prometheus
4 74 (43.02%) Terraform
5 67 (38.95%) Kibana
6 66 (38.37%) Grafana
7 61 (35.47%) logstash
8 25 (14.53%) Progress Chef
9 23 (13.37%) Puppet
10 14 (8.14%) Graylog
11 13 (7.56%) Nagios
12 7 (4.07%) Nessus
13 6 (3.49%) Docker Swarm
13 6 (3.49%) HP Fortify
13 6 (3.49%) Opsgenie
13 6 (3.49%) WebInspect
13 6 (3.49%) Zipkin
14 5 (2.91%) QRadar
14 5 (2.91%) ZABBIX
15 4 (2.33%) yum
Vendors
1 42 (24.42%) Splunk
2 31 (18.02%) Microsoft
2 31 (18.02%) Red Hat
3 16 (9.30%) Amdocs
4 13 (7.56%) VMware
5 12 (6.98%) Oracle
6 9 (5.23%) Dynatrace
6 9 (5.23%) SAP
7 7 (4.07%) Checkmarx
7 7 (4.07%) Salesforce
8 6 (3.49%) AppDynamics
8 6 (3.49%) New Relic
8 6 (3.49%) PagerDuty
8 6 (3.49%) Veracode
9 5 (2.91%) Adobe
9 5 (2.91%) ArcSight
10 3 (1.74%) Cisco
10 3 (1.74%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.74%) Google
10 3 (1.74%) SolarWinds