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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 396 485 481
Rank change year-on-year +89 -4 -12
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 142 171 320
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.34% 0.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.91% 1.46% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 120 235
10th Percentile £427 £463 £463
25th Percentile £500 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +11.52%
75th Percentile £645 £784 £700
90th Percentile £725 £900 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 2
10th Percentile - £67.50 -
25th Percentile - £71.63 £75.00
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% -
75th Percentile - £75.38 £85.00
90th Percentile - £76.75 -
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 7,453 11,673 19,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.16% 23.13% 27.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,303 8,631 14,413
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 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 138 213
10th Percentile £21.73 £28.73 £22.10
25th Percentile £41.28 £48.88 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.08 £75.00
UK 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 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 28 April 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 28 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
London +79 85 £510 -17.74% 17
Midlands +41 19 £550 - 2
North of England +35 17 £622 +18.48% 6
West Midlands +42 14 £550 -21.43%
South East +17 13 £525 -16.67% 6
Yorkshire +30 10 £622 +18.48% 5
East Midlands +22 5 £356 -30.87% 2
South West +11 5 £750 +26.32% 4
North East +22 4 - -
North West +18 3 £600 +20.00% 1
East of England +8 1 - - 3
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 (26.06%) OpenStack
2 12 (8.45%) Confluence
3 11 (7.75%) nginx
4 6 (4.23%) Apache
4 6 (4.23%) JBoss
5 5 (3.52%) Apache Spark
6 3 (2.11%) Tomcat
7 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (1.41%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 72 (50.70%) AWS
2 38 (26.76%) Azure
3 19 (13.38%) GCP
4 17 (11.97%) GitHub
4 17 (11.97%) Slack
5 16 (11.27%) Serverless
6 14 (9.86%) Amazon EKS
7 13 (9.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 13 (9.15%) Amazon S3
7 13 (9.15%) OpenShift
8 9 (6.34%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (5.63%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (4.93%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (4.93%) PaaS
11 6 (4.23%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (4.23%) Apigee
11 6 (4.23%) Azure Sentinel
11 6 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (4.23%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.27%) TCP/IP
2 15 (10.56%) Firewall
3 13 (9.15%) HTTP
4 10 (7.04%) DNS
5 8 (5.63%) VPN
6 4 (2.82%) 5G
6 4 (2.82%) DHCP
6 4 (2.82%) Diameter Protocol
6 4 (2.82%) FTP
6 4 (2.82%) ICMP
6 4 (2.82%) LTE
6 4 (2.82%) POP3
6 4 (2.82%) SMTP
6 4 (2.82%) SSH
7 1 (0.70%) Skype
7 1 (0.70%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.70%) VLAN
7 1 (0.70%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (55.63%) Elasticsearch
2 22 (15.49%) Relational Database
3 17 (11.97%) MySQL
3 17 (11.97%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (8.45%) SQL Server
5 10 (7.04%) RDBMS
6 9 (6.34%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (5.63%) NoSQL
8 5 (3.52%) Big Data
8 5 (3.52%) Couchbase
9 4 (2.82%) Hadoop
9 4 (2.82%) MongoDB
10 3 (2.11%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (2.11%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.41%) Power BI
12 1 (0.70%) Apache Hive
12 1 (0.70%) HBase
12 1 (0.70%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 75 (52.82%) Jenkins
2 40 (28.17%) Git
3 20 (14.08%) JIRA
4 19 (13.38%) GitLab
5 14 (9.86%) SonarQube
6 10 (7.04%) Maven
7 9 (6.34%) Bitbucket
8 8 (5.63%) JUnit
9 7 (4.93%) CircleCI
9 7 (4.93%) Travis CI
10 6 (4.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (3.52%) AppScan
11 5 (3.52%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (3.52%) Burp Suite
11 5 (3.52%) CA Release Automation
11 5 (3.52%) Selenium
11 5 (3.52%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (3.52%) TeamCity
12 4 (2.82%) Postman
12 4 (2.82%) Subversion
General
1 16 (11.27%) Finance
2 13 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (9.15%) Social Skills
3 11 (7.75%) Banking
4 8 (5.63%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.63%) Telecoms
5 3 (2.11%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.41%) Marketing
6 2 (1.41%) Military
6 2 (1.41%) Public Speaking
6 2 (1.41%) Retail
7 1 (0.70%) Electronics
7 1 (0.70%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.70%) Police
Job Titles
1 22 (15.49%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (13.38%) Developer
3 18 (12.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 16 (11.27%) SIEM Engineer
4 16 (11.27%) Site Engineer
5 15 (10.56%) Lead
6 13 (9.15%) Architect
6 13 (9.15%) Senior
7 10 (7.04%) Java Developer
8 9 (6.34%) AWS DevOps
8 9 (6.34%) AWS Engineer
8 9 (6.34%) Technical Leader
9 8 (5.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 8 (5.63%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (4.93%) Support Engineer
10 7 (4.93%) VMware Architect
11 6 (4.23%) Analyst
11 6 (4.23%) Consultant
11 6 (4.23%) SOC Analyst
12 5 (3.52%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (14.08%) Spring Boot
2 17 (11.97%) Kafka
3 16 (11.27%) REST
3 16 (11.27%) Spring
4 15 (10.56%) JSON
5 12 (8.45%) Node.js
5 12 (8.45%) XML
6 9 (6.34%) Web Services
7 8 (5.63%) React
8 7 (4.93%) AngularJS
9 6 (4.23%) YAML
10 5 (3.52%) LAPP Stack
10 5 (3.52%) Mustache
10 5 (3.52%) RESTful
10 5 (3.52%) Swagger
11 4 (2.82%) .NET
11 4 (2.82%) CSS
11 4 (2.82%) HTML
11 4 (2.82%) Lucene
11 4 (2.82%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.38%) Onboarding
2 16 (11.27%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (9.86%) Public Cloud
4 11 (7.75%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (6.34%) Cloud Native
6 6 (4.23%) Cyber Defence
6 6 (4.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 6 (4.23%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (4.23%) Data Structures
6 6 (4.23%) Management Information System
7 5 (3.52%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (3.52%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (2.11%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.41%) CBDC
9 2 (1.41%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.41%) Fat Client
9 2 (1.41%) PKI
9 2 (1.41%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.41%) Thin Client
10 1 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 80 (56.34%) Linux
2 27 (19.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 26 (18.31%) CentOS
4 25 (17.61%) Windows
5 16 (11.27%) Ubuntu
6 8 (5.63%) Unix
7 5 (3.52%) VMS
8 4 (2.82%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (2.82%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.70%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (62.68%) CI/CD
2 69 (48.59%) DevOps
3 59 (41.55%) Agile
4 56 (39.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (23.24%) Containerisation
6 31 (21.83%) Observability
7 28 (19.72%) Continuous Integration
7 28 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (19.01%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 24 (16.90%) Microservices
9 24 (16.90%) SIEM
10 22 (15.49%) Scrum
11 20 (14.08%) Configuration Management
12 16 (11.27%) Project Management
13 14 (9.86%) Computer Science
13 14 (9.86%) Infrastructure Monitoring
13 14 (9.86%) Test Automation
14 12 (8.45%) TDD
15 11 (7.75%) Disaster Recovery
15 11 (7.75%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 73 (51.41%) Python
2 34 (23.94%) Java
3 32 (22.54%) Bash
4 27 (19.01%) Shell Script
5 21 (14.79%) JavaScript
6 17 (11.97%) Go
7 16 (11.27%) PowerShell
8 14 (9.86%) SQL
9 8 (5.63%) Perl
9 8 (5.63%) R
10 5 (3.52%) C#
10 5 (3.52%) TypeScript
11 4 (2.82%) Ruby
12 3 (2.11%) Groovy
13 1 (0.70%) Bicep
13 1 (0.70%) C
13 1 (0.70%) C++
13 1 (0.70%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 47 (33.10%) Security Cleared
2 29 (20.42%) SC Cleared
3 21 (14.79%) DV Cleared
4 15 (10.56%) Degree
5 11 (7.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.23%) CEH
6 6 (4.23%) CISSP
7 3 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.41%) SANS
9 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.70%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.70%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.68%) QA
2 1 (0.70%) ISO 20022
2 1 (0.70%) NIST
2 1 (0.70%) SLA
System Software
1 56 (39.44%) Docker
2 19 (13.38%) Active Directory
2 19 (13.38%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (6.34%) iptables
4 2 (1.41%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.70%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.70%) HDFS
5 1 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 74 (52.11%) Ansible
2 68 (47.89%) Kubernetes
3 64 (45.07%) Prometheus
4 63 (44.37%) Kibana
4 63 (44.37%) Terraform
5 61 (42.96%) Grafana
6 55 (38.73%) logstash
7 23 (16.20%) Progress Chef
8 20 (14.08%) Puppet
9 9 (6.34%) Graylog
10 6 (4.23%) Docker Swarm
10 6 (4.23%) Nessus
11 5 (3.52%) HP Fortify
11 5 (3.52%) Nagios
11 5 (3.52%) Opsgenie
11 5 (3.52%) WebInspect
11 5 (3.52%) ZABBIX
12 4 (2.82%) QRadar
12 4 (2.82%) yum
13 3 (2.11%) Packer
Vendors
1 34 (23.94%) Splunk
2 28 (19.72%) Red Hat
3 21 (14.79%) Microsoft
4 16 (11.27%) Amdocs
5 12 (8.45%) VMware
6 9 (6.34%) Oracle
7 8 (5.63%) Dynatrace
7 8 (5.63%) SAP
8 6 (4.23%) AppDynamics
8 6 (4.23%) Salesforce
9 5 (3.52%) Checkmarx
9 5 (3.52%) New Relic
9 5 (3.52%) PagerDuty
9 5 (3.52%) Veracode
10 4 (2.82%) Adobe
10 4 (2.82%) ArcSight
10 4 (2.82%) Google
11 3 (2.11%) MKS
12 2 (1.41%) IBM
12 2 (1.41%) ServiceNow