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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 402 481 504
Rank change year-on-year +79 +23 -17
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 145 155 297
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.39% 0.33% 0.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.86% 1.45% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 106 213
10th Percentile £452 £463 £463
25th Percentile £505 £513 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £611 £600 £608
Median % change year-on-year +1.83% -1.23% +15.71%
75th Percentile £668 £732 £725
90th Percentile £750 £900 £785
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 -

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 7,794 10,690 18,928
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.88% 22.63% 26.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,480 7,957 14,248
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £800 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £536 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.59% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 133 200
10th Percentile £22.65 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £52.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.49% +23.22% +13.44%
75th Percentile £69.38 £75.00 £67.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £48.97 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -24.67% +23.81% +16.67%

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 7 June 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 7 June 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 +47 66 £525 -15.32% 14
North of England +29 21 £624 +16.27% 8
Midlands +37 20 £544 -1.14% 3
South West +21 19 £690 +20.00% 9
South East +14 16 £661 +11.48% 5
West Midlands +28 15 £550 -21.43% 2
Yorkshire +26 13 £622 +15.99% 1
East Midlands +12 5 £356 -30.87% 1
North West +17 4 £650 +72.41% 6
North East +10 4 - - 1
East of England +8 1 £700 -
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 24 (16.55%) Confluence
2 23 (15.86%) OpenStack
3 7 (4.83%) JBoss
4 4 (2.76%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.38%) Apache
5 2 (1.38%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.69%) nginx
6 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.69%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.69%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 62 (42.76%) AWS
2 41 (28.28%) Azure
3 21 (14.48%) GCP
3 21 (14.48%) OpenShift
4 20 (13.79%) GitHub
5 13 (8.97%) Slack
6 11 (7.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 11 (7.59%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (7.59%) Serverless
7 9 (6.21%) Kong
8 8 (5.52%) Amazon S3
8 8 (5.52%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (4.14%) Apigee
9 6 (4.14%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (4.14%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (4.14%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.76%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.76%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (2.07%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 18 (12.41%) TCP/IP
2 16 (11.03%) Firewall
3 15 (10.34%) HTTP
4 14 (9.66%) DNS
5 10 (6.90%) VPN
6 4 (2.76%) 5G
6 4 (2.76%) DHCP
6 4 (2.76%) Diameter Protocol
6 4 (2.76%) LTE
7 3 (2.07%) BIG-IP
7 3 (2.07%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (2.07%) FTP
7 3 (2.07%) ICMP
7 3 (2.07%) POP3
7 3 (2.07%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (2.07%) SMTP
7 3 (2.07%) SSH
7 3 (2.07%) SSL
8 1 (0.69%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (53.10%) Elasticsearch
2 18 (12.41%) Relational Database
3 16 (11.03%) MySQL
4 11 (7.59%) SQL Server
5 9 (6.21%) RDBMS
6 8 (5.52%) Big Data
7 6 (4.14%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (3.45%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (2.76%) DataStax
9 4 (2.76%) Hadoop
9 4 (2.76%) MongoDB
10 3 (2.07%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.38%) Power BI
12 1 (0.69%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.69%) Flink
12 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 65 (44.83%) Jenkins
2 40 (27.59%) Git
3 32 (22.07%) JIRA
4 26 (17.93%) GitLab
5 12 (8.28%) CircleCI
5 12 (8.28%) SonarQube
6 10 (6.90%) Bitbucket
6 10 (6.90%) Travis CI
7 9 (6.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (4.14%) Maven
8 6 (4.14%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (3.45%) AppScan
9 5 (3.45%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (3.45%) Burp Suite
9 5 (3.45%) CA Release Automation
9 5 (3.45%) TeamCity
10 4 (2.76%) Subversion
10 4 (2.76%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (2.07%) Cypress.io
11 3 (2.07%) JUnit
General
1 28 (19.31%) Social Skills
2 19 (13.10%) Finance
3 16 (11.03%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (10.34%) Banking
5 9 (6.21%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.76%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.07%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.38%) Marketing
8 2 (1.38%) Military
8 2 (1.38%) Public Speaking
8 2 (1.38%) Retail
9 1 (0.69%) Electronics
9 1 (0.69%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.69%) Police
Job Titles
1 29 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (11.72%) Lead
3 15 (10.34%) SIEM Engineer
4 14 (9.66%) Site Engineer
4 14 (9.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 11 (7.59%) Developer
5 11 (7.59%) Senior
6 9 (6.21%) Architect
7 8 (5.52%) Analyst
7 8 (5.52%) Lead DevOps
8 7 (4.83%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (4.83%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (4.83%) Support Engineer
8 7 (4.83%) VMware Architect
9 6 (4.14%) Automation Engineer
9 6 (4.14%) AWS DevOps
9 6 (4.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 6 (4.14%) DevOps Automation Engineer
9 6 (4.14%) SOC Analyst
9 6 (4.14%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (12.41%) JSON
2 16 (11.03%) XML
3 15 (10.34%) Kafka
4 14 (9.66%) Node.js
4 14 (9.66%) Spring Boot
5 12 (8.28%) React
6 11 (7.59%) REST
7 10 (6.90%) Spring
8 9 (6.21%) YAML
9 7 (4.83%) Web Services
10 5 (3.45%) AngularJS
10 5 (3.45%) CSS
10 5 (3.45%) HTML
11 4 (2.76%) .NET
11 4 (2.76%) Lucene
11 4 (2.76%) Sass
12 3 (2.07%) .NET Core
12 3 (2.07%) Mustache
12 3 (2.07%) RESTful
12 3 (2.07%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.72%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 17 (11.72%) Cyber Threat
1 17 (11.72%) Management Information System
2 16 (11.03%) Cyber Defence
2 16 (11.03%) Onboarding
3 14 (9.66%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (7.59%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (6.90%) Cloud Native
6 9 (6.21%) Data Structures
7 8 (5.52%) Public Cloud
8 6 (4.14%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (2.07%) Video Conferencing
10 3 (2.07%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.38%) CBDC
11 2 (1.38%) Client/Server
11 2 (1.38%) Fat Client
11 2 (1.38%) PKI
11 2 (1.38%) Thin Client
12 1 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 71 (48.97%) Linux
2 23 (15.86%) Windows
3 21 (14.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (9.66%) CentOS
5 11 (7.59%) Ubuntu
6 6 (4.14%) Unix
7 4 (2.76%) Oracle Linux
8 3 (2.07%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (53.79%) CI/CD
2 71 (48.97%) DevOps
3 65 (44.83%) Agile
4 47 (32.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 36 (24.83%) Containerisation
6 33 (22.76%) Continuous Integration
6 33 (22.76%) SIEM
7 32 (22.07%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (17.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 24 (16.55%) Observability
10 22 (15.17%) Cybersecurity
11 21 (14.48%) Microservices
12 20 (13.79%) Scrum
13 19 (13.10%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 19 (13.10%) Threat Intelligence
13 19 (13.10%) Use Case
14 18 (12.41%) Configuration Management
14 18 (12.41%) Incident Response
14 18 (12.41%) Project Management
15 17 (11.72%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 71 (48.97%) Python
2 39 (26.90%) Bash
3 32 (22.07%) Java
4 22 (15.17%) JavaScript
5 20 (13.79%) PowerShell
6 19 (13.10%) Shell Script
7 17 (11.72%) Go
8 10 (6.90%) TypeScript
9 9 (6.21%) Ruby
10 8 (5.52%) Perl
10 8 (5.52%) R
11 7 (4.83%) Groovy
12 6 (4.14%) SQL
13 5 (3.45%) C#
14 3 (2.07%) ActionScript
15 2 (1.38%) C
15 2 (1.38%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.69%) Bicep
16 1 (0.69%) C++
16 1 (0.69%) Rust
Qualifications
1 59 (40.69%) Security Cleared
2 37 (25.52%) DV Cleared
3 23 (15.86%) SC Cleared
4 14 (9.66%) Degree
5 10 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.14%) CEH
6 6 (4.14%) CISSP
7 3 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.38%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.38%) SANS
9 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.69%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.69%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.69%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (13.79%) QA
2 11 (7.59%) NIST
3 10 (6.90%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.69%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.69%) SLA
System Software
1 57 (39.31%) Docker
2 18 (12.41%) Active Directory
3 9 (6.21%) iptables
4 7 (4.83%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.38%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 73 (50.34%) Kubernetes
2 72 (49.66%) Kibana
3 67 (46.21%) Ansible
3 67 (46.21%) logstash
4 58 (40.00%) Terraform
5 52 (35.86%) Prometheus
6 49 (33.79%) Grafana
7 28 (19.31%) Puppet
8 27 (18.62%) Progress Chef
9 9 (6.21%) Docker Swarm
10 8 (5.52%) Graylog
10 8 (5.52%) Rancher
11 6 (4.14%) Nessus
11 6 (4.14%) Opsgenie
12 5 (3.45%) HP Fortify
12 5 (3.45%) WebInspect
13 4 (2.76%) Nagios
13 4 (2.76%) yum
14 3 (2.07%) QRadar
15 1 (0.69%) Packer
Vendors
1 35 (24.14%) Splunk
2 30 (20.69%) Microsoft
3 22 (15.17%) Red Hat
4 14 (9.66%) VMware
5 13 (8.97%) Amdocs
6 11 (7.59%) Tanium
7 10 (6.90%) Oracle
8 9 (6.21%) Dynatrace
9 8 (5.52%) SAP
10 7 (4.83%) Salesforce
11 6 (4.14%) AppDynamics
11 6 (4.14%) New Relic
11 6 (4.14%) PagerDuty
12 5 (3.45%) Adobe
12 5 (3.45%) Checkmarx
12 5 (3.45%) Veracode
13 4 (2.76%) Atlassian
13 4 (2.76%) Confluent
13 4 (2.76%) ServiceNow
14 3 (2.07%) ArcSight