Elastic Stack Contracts in the South West

Elastic Stack (formerly ELK Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 97 152 158
Rank change year-on-year +55 +6 +7
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 14 5 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.83% 0.16% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.79% 1.17% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 6
10th Percentile £469 £685 £525
25th Percentile £513 £700 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £750 £594
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.32% -7.01%
75th Percentile £631 £813 £670
90th Percentile £661 £835 £694
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £71.25
25th Percentile - - £72.38
Median hourly rate £78.70 - £75.50
75th Percentile - - £77.38
90th Percentile - - £77.75
England median hourly rate £84.35 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - -6.25%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 292 429 561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 17.40% 13.41% 15.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 286 445
10th Percentile £355 £313 £387
25th Percentile £445 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.38% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £625
90th Percentile £725 £703 £700
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 50 18
10th Percentile £61.25 £43.75 £49.25
25th Percentile £64.38 £45.00 £50.66
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.72% -4.78% -9.52%
75th Percentile £68.00 £73.33 £68.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £85.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Elastic Stack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Elastic Stack in the South West

Elastic Stack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Elastic Stack in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Elastic Stack in the South West

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elastic Stack in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Elastic Stack in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Elastic Stack in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Elastic Stack in the South West

Elastic Stack
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Wiltshire +35 5 £600 -22.58% 1
Bristol +21 3 £588 - 6
Gloucestershire +18 3 £613 -18.33% 10
Devon - 1 £525 - 1
Dorset - 1 £392 -
Elastic Stack
England

Elastic Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (35.71%) Apache
1 5 (35.71%) Apache Spark
2 3 (21.43%) nginx
3 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) Azure
3 3 (21.43%) OpenShift
4 2 (14.29%) GCP
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) GitHub
5 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) DNS
1 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 2 (14.29%) VPN
2 1 (7.14%) DHCP
2 1 (7.14%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) HTTP
2 1 (7.14%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (28.57%) Hadoop
3 3 (21.43%) Big Data
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Jenkins
2 3 (21.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
3 1 (7.14%) Git
3 1 (7.14%) GitLab
3 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Electronics
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.14%) Marketing
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Senior
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Administrator
3 1 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Lead
3 1 (7.14%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (7.14%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) YAML
2 2 (14.29%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (14.29%) Kafka
3 1 (7.14%) CSS
3 1 (7.14%) CSS3
3 1 (7.14%) HTML
3 1 (7.14%) HTML5
3 1 (7.14%) Jest
3 1 (7.14%) Middleware
3 1 (7.14%) Node.js
3 1 (7.14%) OpenTracing
3 1 (7.14%) React
3 1 (7.14%) Redux
3 1 (7.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Replication
2 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Windows
3 1 (7.14%) Unix
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
2 8 (57.14%) Containerisation
3 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (42.86%) DevOps
5 4 (28.57%) ETL
6 3 (21.43%) Configuration Management
6 3 (21.43%) Data Engineering
6 3 (21.43%) DevSecOps
6 3 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (21.43%) High Availability
6 3 (21.43%) Observability
6 3 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (21.43%) Requirements Engineering
6 3 (21.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (21.43%) Thought Leadership
7 2 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
7 2 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
7 2 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) Bash
3 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.14%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) Perl
4 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
4 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (78.57%) Security Cleared
2 9 (64.29%) DV Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) CISSP
4 1 (7.14%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (7.14%) Degree
4 1 (7.14%) Linux+ Certification
4 1 (7.14%) MCSA
4 1 (7.14%) MCSE
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (7.14%) OCA
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (7.14%) RHCE
4 1 (7.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.14%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) Docker
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.14%) NFS
3 1 (7.14%) Samba
Systems Management
1 11 (78.57%) Kubernetes
2 8 (57.14%) Terraform
3 7 (50.00%) Ansible
4 6 (42.86%) Prometheus
5 5 (35.71%) Grafana
5 5 (35.71%) Kibana
5 5 (35.71%) logstash
6 3 (21.43%) HAProxy
7 1 (7.14%) Nagios
7 1 (7.14%) PowerCLI
7 1 (7.14%) Puppet
7 1 (7.14%) SELinux
7 1 (7.14%) vCenter Server
7 1 (7.14%) ZABBIX
7 1 (7.14%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Splunk
1 2 (14.29%) VMware
2 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
2 1 (7.14%) Citrix
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.14%) SAP
2 1 (7.14%) SolarWinds
2 1 (7.14%) Veeam