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

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 398 487 481
Rank change year-on-year +89 -6 -35
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 145 172 324
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.39% 0.34% 0.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.94% 1.45% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 121 240
10th Percentile £413 £463 £463
25th Percentile £486 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £605 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +0.83% +11.94%
75th Percentile £645 £795 £700
90th Percentile £775 £900 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -6.38% -2.08% +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 7,484 11,877 19,515
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.11% 23.18% 27.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,328 8,795 14,670
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £430 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £553
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +3.17% +10.50%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £750
UK median daily rate £528 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 134 225
10th Percentile £20.81 £25.75 £21.40
25th Percentile £39.35 £45.31 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.94% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £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 19 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 19 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 +81 89 £525 -15.32% 19
Midlands +48 19 £550 -4.35% 1
South East +15 18 £525 -16.67% 2
West Midlands +37 14 £550 -15.38%
North of England +33 9 £565 +7.62% 9
East Midlands +17 5 £356 -30.87% 1
South West +21 4 £750 +30.43% 5
North East +23 3 - -
Yorkshire +21 3 £565 +7.62% 7
North West +18 3 £600 +20.00% 2
East of England +16 1 - -
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 35 (24.14%) OpenStack
2 11 (7.59%) nginx
3 6 (4.14%) Apache
3 6 (4.14%) Apache Spark
3 6 (4.14%) Confluence
3 6 (4.14%) JBoss
4 3 (2.07%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.38%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.69%) Camunda
6 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 69 (47.59%) AWS
2 36 (24.83%) Azure
3 17 (11.72%) Amazon S3
3 17 (11.72%) GCP
3 17 (11.72%) Slack
4 14 (9.66%) Amazon EKS
4 14 (9.66%) Serverless
5 13 (8.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 13 (8.97%) AWS CloudFormation
5 13 (8.97%) OpenShift
6 12 (8.28%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (8.28%) GitHub
7 8 (5.52%) Azure Sentinel
8 7 (4.83%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (4.83%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (4.83%) PaaS
9 6 (4.14%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (2.07%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 3 (2.07%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.66%) Firewall
2 12 (8.28%) TCP/IP
3 7 (4.83%) HTTP
4 6 (4.14%) VPN
5 5 (3.45%) FTP
5 5 (3.45%) ICMP
5 5 (3.45%) POP3
5 5 (3.45%) SMTP
5 5 (3.45%) SSH
6 3 (2.07%) 5G
6 3 (2.07%) DHCP
6 3 (2.07%) Diameter Protocol
6 3 (2.07%) DNS
6 3 (2.07%) LTE
6 3 (2.07%) VLAN
7 2 (1.38%) BGP
8 1 (0.69%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.69%) Skype
8 1 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.69%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (52.41%) Elasticsearch
2 24 (16.55%) Relational Database
3 19 (13.10%) MySQL
4 16 (11.03%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (9.66%) RDBMS
5 14 (9.66%) SQL Server
6 8 (5.52%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (4.83%) NoSQL
8 6 (4.14%) Big Data
9 5 (3.45%) Couchbase
9 5 (3.45%) Hadoop
10 4 (2.76%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (2.76%) MongoDB
11 3 (2.07%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (2.07%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (1.38%) Power BI
13 1 (0.69%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.69%) DataStax
13 1 (0.69%) Presto
Development Applications
1 71 (48.97%) Jenkins
2 38 (26.21%) Git
3 16 (11.03%) SonarQube
4 15 (10.34%) JIRA
5 14 (9.66%) GitLab
6 11 (7.59%) Maven
7 10 (6.90%) Bitbucket
8 9 (6.21%) JUnit
9 6 (4.14%) AppScan
9 6 (4.14%) Burp Suite
9 6 (4.14%) Subversion
10 5 (3.45%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (3.45%) CA Release Automation
10 5 (3.45%) Selenium
10 5 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (3.45%) TeamCity
11 4 (2.76%) Cucumber
11 4 (2.76%) Mockito
11 4 (2.76%) Postman
12 3 (2.07%) EasyMock
General
1 18 (12.41%) Finance
2 14 (9.66%) Banking
3 11 (7.59%) Telecoms
4 8 (5.52%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.83%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.83%) Social Skills
6 4 (2.76%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.38%) Billing
7 2 (1.38%) Marketing
7 2 (1.38%) Military
7 2 (1.38%) Public Speaking
7 2 (1.38%) Retail
8 1 (0.69%) Electronics
8 1 (0.69%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.69%) Police
Job Titles
1 18 (12.41%) Developer
1 18 (12.41%) DevOps Engineer
1 18 (12.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 17 (11.72%) SIEM Engineer
3 16 (11.03%) Lead
3 16 (11.03%) Senior
3 16 (11.03%) Site Engineer
4 13 (8.97%) Architect
5 10 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
5 10 (6.90%) Java Developer
6 9 (6.21%) AWS DevOps
6 9 (6.21%) Technical Leader
7 8 (5.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 8 (5.52%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (4.83%) Support Engineer
8 7 (4.83%) VMware Architect
9 6 (4.14%) Analyst
9 6 (4.14%) Consultant
9 6 (4.14%) Full Stack Developer
9 6 (4.14%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (13.79%) Spring Boot
2 18 (12.41%) Kafka
3 16 (11.03%) REST
3 16 (11.03%) Spring
4 11 (7.59%) Node.js
5 10 (6.90%) JSON
6 9 (6.21%) React
6 9 (6.21%) Web Services
7 8 (5.52%) XML
8 6 (4.14%) AngularJS
9 5 (3.45%) HTML
9 5 (3.45%) LAPP Stack
9 5 (3.45%) Mustache
9 5 (3.45%) RESTful
9 5 (3.45%) Swagger
10 4 (2.76%) .NET
10 4 (2.76%) CSS
10 4 (2.76%) J2EE
10 4 (2.76%) Lucene
10 4 (2.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.10%) Onboarding
2 17 (11.72%) Public Cloud
3 15 (10.34%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (7.59%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (6.21%) Cloud Native
6 6 (4.14%) Cyber Defence
6 6 (4.14%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 6 (4.14%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (4.14%) Management Information System
7 5 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (3.45%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (2.76%) PKI
9 3 (2.07%) Mobile App
9 3 (2.07%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.38%) CBDC
10 2 (1.38%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.38%) Fat Client
10 2 (1.38%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.38%) Thin Client
11 1 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 86 (59.31%) Linux
2 33 (22.76%) Windows
3 27 (18.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 26 (17.93%) CentOS
5 16 (11.03%) Ubuntu
6 10 (6.90%) Unix
7 8 (5.52%) Windows Server
8 5 (3.45%) VMS
9 3 (2.07%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (1.38%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.69%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (59.31%) CI/CD
2 65 (44.83%) DevOps
3 55 (37.93%) Agile
4 52 (35.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 30 (20.69%) Observability
6 27 (18.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 26 (17.93%) Containerisation
7 26 (17.93%) SIEM
8 23 (15.86%) Microservices
9 22 (15.17%) Configuration Management
9 22 (15.17%) Continuous Integration
10 21 (14.48%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (11.03%) Test Automation
12 15 (10.34%) Computer Science
13 14 (9.66%) Scrum
13 14 (9.66%) Visualisation
14 13 (8.97%) Infrastructure Monitoring
14 13 (8.97%) Project Management
15 12 (8.28%) Change Control
16 11 (7.59%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 69 (47.59%) Python
2 33 (22.76%) Java
3 27 (18.62%) Bash
4 26 (17.93%) Shell Script
5 21 (14.48%) JavaScript
6 17 (11.72%) Go
7 15 (10.34%) SQL
8 11 (7.59%) PowerShell
9 8 (5.52%) Perl
9 8 (5.52%) R
10 5 (3.45%) C#
11 4 (2.76%) Ruby
11 4 (2.76%) TypeScript
12 3 (2.07%) Groovy
13 1 (0.69%) Bicep
13 1 (0.69%) C
13 1 (0.69%) C++
13 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.69%) Rust
Qualifications
1 46 (31.72%) Security Cleared
2 28 (19.31%) SC Cleared
3 21 (14.48%) DV Cleared
4 16 (11.03%) Degree
5 11 (7.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.14%) CEH
6 6 (4.14%) CISSP
7 4 (2.76%) SANS
8 3 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.38%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.69%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.69%) CSSLP
10 1 (0.69%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.69%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.69%) PhD
10 1 (0.69%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.34%) QA
2 1 (0.69%) ISO 20022
2 1 (0.69%) NIST
2 1 (0.69%) SLA
System Software
1 49 (33.79%) Docker
2 20 (13.79%) Active Directory
3 19 (13.10%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (6.21%) iptables
5 2 (1.38%) HDFS
5 2 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.69%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 70 (48.28%) Ansible
2 62 (42.76%) Kibana
3 61 (42.07%) Kubernetes
4 59 (40.69%) Prometheus
5 58 (40.00%) Terraform
6 56 (38.62%) Grafana
7 53 (36.55%) logstash
8 18 (12.41%) Progress Chef
9 16 (11.03%) Puppet
10 12 (8.28%) Graylog
11 9 (6.21%) Nagios
12 7 (4.83%) Nessus
13 6 (4.14%) HP Fortify
13 6 (4.14%) WebInspect
14 5 (3.45%) Opsgenie
14 5 (3.45%) QRadar
14 5 (3.45%) ZABBIX
15 4 (2.76%) Single Sign-On
16 3 (2.07%) Consul
16 3 (2.07%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 33 (22.76%) Splunk
2 28 (19.31%) Red Hat
3 26 (17.93%) Microsoft
4 16 (11.03%) Amdocs
5 12 (8.28%) VMware
6 8 (5.52%) Dynatrace
6 8 (5.52%) Oracle
6 8 (5.52%) SAP
7 6 (4.14%) AppDynamics
7 6 (4.14%) Checkmarx
7 6 (4.14%) Google
7 6 (4.14%) Salesforce
7 6 (4.14%) Veracode
8 5 (3.45%) ArcSight
8 5 (3.45%) New Relic
8 5 (3.45%) PagerDuty
9 4 (2.76%) Adobe
10 3 (2.07%) MKS
11 2 (1.38%) IBM
11 2 (1.38%) MuleSoft