Elastic Stack Contracts in Reading

Elastic Stack (formerly ELK Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Elastic Stack skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Elastic Stack over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 83 77
Rank change year-on-year +25 -6 +15
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 2 8 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.34% 0.67% 0.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.47% 4.00% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - £497 £668
25th Percentile - £499 £764
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £510 £774
Median % change year-on-year - -34.11% +6.76%
75th Percentile - £527 £784
90th Percentile - £533 £790
Berkshire median daily rate - £525 £774
% change year-on-year - -32.17% +6.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Reading

Elastic Stack falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 136 200 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 22.78% 16.78% 21.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 131 173
10th Percentile £350 £325 £407
25th Percentile £409 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £680
90th Percentile £663 £675 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.71% -4.55% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 4
10th Percentile - £56.50 £72.76
25th Percentile - £56.65 £76.89
Median hourly rate £77.19 £58.30 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year +32.40% -26.38% +143.66%
75th Percentile - £61.60 -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £77.19 £61.60 £78.75
% change year-on-year +25.31% -21.78% +20.23%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Elastic Stack in Reading

Elastic Stack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Elastic Stack in Reading

Elastic Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) SonarCloud
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Advisor
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (50.00%) Information Assurance
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) SOAR
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Darktrace
1 1 (50.00%) New Relic