Elastic Stack Contracts in Scotland

Elastic Stack (formerly ELK Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 - 169
Rank change year-on-year - - -19
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 9 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.41% - 0.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.95% - 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 4
10th Percentile £360 - £554
25th Percentile £395 - £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.00%
75th Percentile £428 - £609
90th Percentile £527 - £649
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland 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 461 674 741
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 21.22% 23.94% 21.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 512 511
10th Percentile £325 £400 £363
25th Percentile £410 £438 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -0.51% +14.71%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £678 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 10
10th Percentile £33.58 £49.99 £37.73
25th Percentile £44.94 £53.38 £41.89
Median hourly rate £53.75 £59.03 £47.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.94% +24.93% +15.24%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.52 £49.34
90th Percentile - £67.81 £56.75
UK median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year -27.94% +31.31% +10.00%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Elastic Stack in Scotland

Elastic Stack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Elastic Stack in Scotland

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elastic Stack in Scotland over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Elastic Stack in Scotland

Elastic Stack
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
Glasgow - 7 £400 - 4
Fife - 1 £310 -
West Lothian - 1 £560 -
Elastic Stack
UK

Elastic Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 6 (66.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (11.11%) FileNet
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) AWS
2 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) SNMP
1 1 (11.11%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Hive
2 1 (11.11%) Big Data
2 1 (11.11%) DB2
2 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
2 1 (11.11%) HBase
2 1 (11.11%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
1 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
1 6 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Backend Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Big Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Site Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) Kafka
2 6 (66.67%) OpenTracing
2 6 (66.67%) RESTful
2 6 (66.67%) Spring
2 6 (66.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Data Structures
1 6 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Microservices
1 7 (77.78%) Test Automation
2 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 6 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
2 6 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 6 (66.67%) SDLC
3 5 (55.56%) Agile
3 5 (55.56%) Dependency Injection
4 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Change Management
6 1 (11.11%) Analytics
6 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (11.11%) ITIL
6 1 (11.11%) Performance Management
6 1 (11.11%) Release Management
6 1 (11.11%) Scrum
6 1 (11.11%) SIEM
6 1 (11.11%) Time Management
6 1 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Java
2 6 (66.67%) Kotlin
2 6 (66.67%) Scala
3 1 (11.11%) Groovy
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) PHP
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (11.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Kubernetes
2 6 (66.67%) Prometheus
2 6 (66.67%) Zipkin
3 1 (11.11%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) Hadoop YARN
3 1 (11.11%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (11.11%) Kibana
3 1 (11.11%) logstash
3 1 (11.11%) Nagios
3 1 (11.11%) OpenView
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) AlienVault
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
2 1 (11.11%) Genesys
2 1 (11.11%) KANA
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk