Elastic Stack Contracts with Work from Home Options

Elastic Stack (formerly ELK Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 307 369 431
Rank change year-on-year +62 +62 -68
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 43 99 196
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.29% 0.40% 0.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.19% 1.57% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 67 136
10th Percentile £365 £475 £463
25th Percentile £450 £498 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -3.08% +5.48%
75th Percentile £600 £900 £650
90th Percentile £649 - £700
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £594
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.16% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £67.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +100.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 WFH option and 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 3,628 6,313 13,029
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.11% 25.22% 29.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,541 4,697 9,602
10th Percentile £335 £400 £400
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +12.82%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £642
90th Percentile £788 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 81 124
10th Percentile £24.45 £22.50 £21.30
25th Percentile - £43.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £65.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

Elastic Stack
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Elastic Stack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Elastic Stack trend for jobs with a WFH option

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Elastic Stack over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Elastic Stack daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Elastic Stack
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 7 (16.28%) OpenStack
2 5 (11.63%) Confluence
2 5 (11.63%) nginx
3 4 (9.30%) Apache Spark
4 3 (6.98%) Apache
4 3 (6.98%) JBoss
5 2 (4.65%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (69.77%) AWS
2 17 (39.53%) Azure
3 10 (23.26%) GCP
4 8 (18.60%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (16.28%) OpenShift
6 6 (13.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (13.95%) GitHub
6 6 (13.95%) Serverless
7 4 (9.30%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (9.30%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (6.98%) Amazon S3
8 3 (6.98%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (6.98%) IaaS
8 3 (6.98%) Kong
8 3 (6.98%) PaaS
8 3 (6.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (4.65%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (4.65%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (4.65%) AWS Control Tower
9 2 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (18.60%) Firewall
1 8 (18.60%) TCP/IP
2 4 (9.30%) DNS
2 4 (9.30%) VPN
3 3 (6.98%) HTTP
4 2 (4.65%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (4.65%) SNMP
4 2 (4.65%) SSL
4 2 (4.65%) Wireshark
5 1 (2.33%) BIG-IP
5 1 (2.33%) DHCP
5 1 (2.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (2.33%) Network Security
5 1 (2.33%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (2.33%) tcpdump
5 1 (2.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (44.19%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (25.58%) Relational Database
3 7 (16.28%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (11.63%) MySQL
4 5 (11.63%) RDBMS
5 4 (9.30%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (6.98%) NoSQL
6 3 (6.98%) SQL Server
7 2 (4.65%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (4.65%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (4.65%) Couchbase
7 2 (4.65%) NonStop SQL
8 1 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (2.33%) CouchDB
8 1 (2.33%) Hadoop
8 1 (2.33%) MariaDB
8 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
8 1 (2.33%) Power BI
8 1 (2.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (44.19%) Jenkins
2 12 (27.91%) Git
3 8 (18.60%) JIRA
4 7 (16.28%) SonarQube
5 5 (11.63%) GitLab
6 4 (9.30%) CircleCI
6 4 (9.30%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (9.30%) Travis CI
7 3 (6.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (6.98%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (6.98%) CA Release Automation
7 3 (6.98%) Selenium
7 3 (6.98%) TeamCity
8 2 (4.65%) Bitbucket
8 2 (4.65%) Cucumber
8 2 (4.65%) EasyMock
8 2 (4.65%) JUnit
8 2 (4.65%) Mockito
8 2 (4.65%) Postman
8 2 (4.65%) TestNG
General
1 12 (27.91%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.30%) Finance
2 4 (9.30%) Telecoms
3 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.98%) Banking
4 2 (4.65%) Marketing
4 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.65%) Public Speaking
4 2 (4.65%) Retail
5 1 (2.33%) Electronics
5 1 (2.33%) French Language
5 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (32.56%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (18.60%) AWS DevOps
3 7 (16.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 7 (16.28%) AWS Engineer
3 7 (16.28%) Developer
4 6 (13.95%) Consultant
5 5 (11.63%) Lead
5 5 (11.63%) Senior
6 4 (9.30%) Java Developer
6 4 (9.30%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (6.98%) Architect
7 3 (6.98%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) DevOps Architect
7 3 (6.98%) DevOps Automation Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Kubernetes Consultant
7 3 (6.98%) Lead DevOps
7 3 (6.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.93%) Spring Boot
2 8 (18.60%) Kafka
3 7 (16.28%) Spring
4 4 (9.30%) JSON
4 4 (9.30%) REST
4 4 (9.30%) XML
4 4 (9.30%) YAML
5 3 (6.98%) AWS SAM
5 3 (6.98%) LAPP Stack
5 3 (6.98%) Mustache
5 3 (6.98%) OpenTracing
5 3 (6.98%) React
5 3 (6.98%) RESTful
6 2 (4.65%) Gherkin
6 2 (4.65%) Guice
6 2 (4.65%) JAX-RS
6 2 (4.65%) Lucene
6 2 (4.65%) OpenAPI
6 2 (4.65%) Swagger
6 2 (4.65%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Data Structures
1 6 (13.95%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (11.63%) Public Cloud
3 4 (9.30%) Virtual Team
4 3 (6.98%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (4.65%) CBDC
5 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.33%) Digital Currency
6 1 (2.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 26 (60.47%) Linux
2 11 (25.58%) Windows
3 7 (16.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (13.95%) CentOS
5 3 (6.98%) Unix
6 2 (4.65%) Ubuntu
6 2 (4.65%) VMS
6 2 (4.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (79.07%) CI/CD
2 29 (67.44%) DevOps
3 22 (51.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (39.53%) Continuous Integration
5 14 (32.56%) Agile
6 13 (30.23%) Containerisation
7 10 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (20.93%) Configuration Management
9 8 (18.60%) Analytics
9 8 (18.60%) Microservices
9 8 (18.60%) Test Automation
10 7 (16.28%) Continuous Deployment
10 7 (16.28%) Observability
10 7 (16.28%) Scrum
10 7 (16.28%) Software Engineering
11 6 (13.95%) Build Automation
11 6 (13.95%) Deployment Automation
11 6 (13.95%) Disaster Recovery
12 5 (11.63%) Dependency Injection
12 5 (11.63%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 25 (58.14%) Python
2 20 (46.51%) Bash
3 11 (25.58%) Java
4 8 (18.60%) Perl
5 7 (16.28%) JavaScript
6 6 (13.95%) Go
6 6 (13.95%) PowerShell
7 4 (9.30%) Ruby
7 4 (9.30%) Shell Script
8 3 (6.98%) C#
8 3 (6.98%) Kotlin
8 3 (6.98%) Scala
8 3 (6.98%) SQL
9 1 (2.33%) ActionScript
9 1 (2.33%) Bicep
9 1 (2.33%) C
9 1 (2.33%) C++
9 1 (2.33%) Groovy
9 1 (2.33%) Rust
9 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (25.58%) Security Cleared
2 8 (18.60%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.30%) Degree
4 3 (6.98%) AWS Certification
4 3 (6.98%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.65%) SANS
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) QA
2 1 (2.33%) ISO 20022
2 1 (2.33%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (58.14%) Docker
2 6 (13.95%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (9.30%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.33%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 26 (60.47%) Ansible
1 26 (60.47%) Kubernetes
2 25 (58.14%) Prometheus
3 23 (53.49%) Terraform
4 21 (48.84%) Grafana
5 14 (32.56%) Kibana
6 12 (27.91%) Progress Chef
7 11 (25.58%) logstash
8 10 (23.26%) Puppet
9 4 (9.30%) Nagios
10 3 (6.98%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (6.98%) Graylog
10 3 (6.98%) Zipkin
11 2 (4.65%) Kustomize
11 2 (4.65%) OpenView
11 2 (4.65%) Packer
11 2 (4.65%) ZABBIX
12 1 (2.33%) HP Fortify
12 1 (2.33%) Nessus
12 1 (2.33%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 11 (25.58%) Splunk
2 8 (18.60%) Red Hat
3 7 (16.28%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.98%) AppDynamics
5 2 (4.65%) AlienVault
5 2 (4.65%) Checkmarx
5 2 (4.65%) Cisco
5 2 (4.65%) Fortinet
5 2 (4.65%) Google
5 2 (4.65%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.33%) F5
6 1 (2.33%) Oracle
6 1 (2.33%) SAP
6 1 (2.33%) Veracode