Elastic Stack Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 27 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 316 390 404
Rank change year-on-year +74 +14 -15
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 77 49 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.21% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.34% 1.17% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 33 78
10th Percentile £385 £415 £454
25th Percentile £495 £513 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year +4.09% -2.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £646 £638 £674
90th Percentile £690 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £574 £550 £588
% change year-on-year +4.32% -6.38% +7.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £84.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London 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 3,296 4,189 6,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.04% 18.20% 19.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,161 3,114 4,348
10th Percentile £325 £354 £360
25th Percentile £406 £425 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.73%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £588
90th Percentile £690 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 88 138
10th Percentile £22.60 £22.21 £20.03
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £54.63
Median % change year-on-year -25.49% +18.99% +21.39%
75th Percentile £66.25 £73.94 £67.84
90th Percentile £74.48 £79.19 £77.10
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Elastic Stack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Elastic Stack in the UK excluding London

Elastic Stack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Elastic Stack in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Elastic Stack in the UK excluding London

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elastic Stack in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Elastic Stack in the UK excluding London

Elastic Stack
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Elastic Stack in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Elastic Stack in the UK excluding London

Elastic Stack
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 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
North of England +44 21 £624 +18.76% 13
Midlands +42 19 £550 - 2
West Midlands +31 14 £550 -21.43% 2
Yorkshire +28 13 £622 +15.99% 4
South East +16 13 £600 +1.27% 22
South West +8 11 £690 +20.00% 11
Scotland - 10 £400 - 3
East Midlands +21 5 £356 -30.87%
Wales +14 5 £645 -0.85%
North West +29 4 £650 +30.00% 7
North East +14 4 - - 2
Elastic Stack
UK

Elastic Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (15.58%) Confluence
2 10 (12.99%) Apache Spark
3 7 (9.09%) OpenStack
4 6 (7.79%) JBoss
5 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (1.30%) Apache
6 1 (1.30%) nginx
6 1 (1.30%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 40 (51.95%) AWS
2 33 (42.86%) Azure
3 20 (25.97%) GCP
4 15 (19.48%) GitHub
5 9 (11.69%) Kong
5 9 (11.69%) OpenShift
6 8 (10.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (7.79%) Amazon S3
7 6 (7.79%) Apigee
7 6 (7.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (6.49%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (5.19%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (5.19%) Serverless
10 3 (3.90%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (2.60%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (2.60%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (1.30%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (20.78%) Firewall
2 13 (16.88%) TCP/IP
2 13 (16.88%) VPN
3 9 (11.69%) DNS
3 9 (11.69%) HTTP
4 4 (5.19%) 5G
4 4 (5.19%) Diameter Protocol
4 4 (5.19%) LTE
5 3 (3.90%) BIG-IP
5 3 (3.90%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 3 (3.90%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (3.90%) SSL
6 1 (1.30%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (1.30%) DSL
6 1 (1.30%) Skype
6 1 (1.30%) SNMP
6 1 (1.30%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (1.30%) VSAN
6 1 (1.30%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (49.35%) Elasticsearch
2 22 (28.57%) Relational Database
3 16 (20.78%) MySQL
4 8 (10.39%) RDBMS
4 8 (10.39%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.90%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (3.90%) Big Data
5 3 (3.90%) Hadoop
5 3 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.30%) Flink
6 1 (1.30%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.30%) NonStop SQL
6 1 (1.30%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 24 (31.17%) Jenkins
2 20 (25.97%) Git
2 20 (25.97%) GitLab
2 20 (25.97%) JIRA
3 11 (14.29%) SonarQube
4 9 (11.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 9 (11.69%) CircleCI
4 9 (11.69%) Travis CI
5 6 (7.79%) Burp Suite
6 5 (6.49%) AppScan
6 5 (6.49%) Bitbucket Server
6 5 (6.49%) CA Release Automation
6 5 (6.49%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (6.49%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.60%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.60%) JUnit
8 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.30%) Gradle
8 1 (1.30%) Mockito
8 1 (1.30%) Subversion
General
1 17 (22.08%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (7.79%) Finance
4 5 (6.49%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.90%) Banking
6 2 (2.60%) Public Speaking
6 2 (2.60%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.30%) Electronics
7 1 (1.30%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.30%) Marketing
7 1 (1.30%) Military
7 1 (1.30%) Police
Job Titles
1 12 (15.58%) DevOps Engineer
1 12 (15.58%) SIEM Engineer
2 11 (14.29%) Developer
2 11 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 7 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 6 (7.79%) Administrator
4 6 (7.79%) Automation Engineer
4 6 (7.79%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 6 (7.79%) Site Engineer
4 6 (7.79%) Support Engineer
5 5 (6.49%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (6.49%) Senior
6 4 (5.19%) DBA
6 4 (5.19%) Security Engineer
6 4 (5.19%) Software Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) Azure Administrator
7 3 (3.90%) Consultant
7 3 (3.90%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) Elasticsearch Engineer
8 2 (2.60%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (22.08%) Spring Boot
2 13 (16.88%) JSON
2 13 (16.88%) Kafka
3 12 (15.58%) Spring
4 9 (11.69%) RESTful
4 9 (11.69%) XML
4 9 (11.69%) YAML
5 8 (10.39%) OpenTracing
6 5 (6.49%) REST
7 3 (3.90%) Lucene
7 3 (3.90%) Node.js
7 3 (3.90%) React
7 3 (3.90%) Web Services
8 2 (2.60%) .NET
8 2 (2.60%) .NET Core
8 2 (2.60%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (2.60%) Mustache
9 1 (1.30%) AngularJS
9 1 (1.30%) jOOQ
9 1 (1.30%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 17 (22.08%) Data Structures
2 13 (16.88%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
4 10 (12.99%) Public Cloud
5 7 (9.09%) Cyber Defence
5 7 (9.09%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 7 (9.09%) Management Information System
6 6 (7.79%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (3.90%) Cloud Native
7 3 (3.90%) Virtual Team
8 2 (2.60%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.30%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.30%) Client/Server
9 1 (1.30%) Clustering
9 1 (1.30%) Credit Risk
9 1 (1.30%) Fat Client
9 1 (1.30%) Mobile App
9 1 (1.30%) PKI
9 1 (1.30%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.30%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 47 (61.04%) Linux
2 27 (35.06%) Windows
3 11 (14.29%) Ubuntu
4 5 (6.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (5.19%) Oracle Linux
5 4 (5.19%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.30%) Unix
6 1 (1.30%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.30%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 33 (42.86%) DevOps
3 29 (37.66%) Agile
3 29 (37.66%) Continuous Integration
4 20 (25.97%) SIEM
5 19 (24.68%) Containerisation
5 19 (24.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (24.68%) Microservices
5 19 (24.68%) Project Management
6 14 (18.18%) Scrum
6 14 (18.18%) Test Automation
6 14 (18.18%) Use Case
7 12 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (15.58%) Software Engineering
8 11 (14.29%) Infrastructure Monitoring
8 11 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (12.99%) Continuous Delivery
9 10 (12.99%) DevSecOps
10 9 (11.69%) Collaborative Working
10 9 (11.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (31.17%) Python
2 18 (23.38%) Bash
2 18 (23.38%) Java
3 16 (20.78%) PowerShell
4 8 (10.39%) Kotlin
4 8 (10.39%) R
4 8 (10.39%) Scala
5 7 (9.09%) Perl
6 6 (7.79%) JavaScript
7 5 (6.49%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.90%) ActionScript
8 3 (3.90%) Go
9 2 (2.60%) C#
9 2 (2.60%) SQL
10 1 (1.30%) Bicep
10 1 (1.30%) C
10 1 (1.30%) PHP
Qualifications
1 29 (37.66%) Security Cleared
2 20 (25.97%) DV Cleared
3 12 (15.58%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.19%) Degree
5 2 (2.60%) CEH
5 2 (2.60%) CISSP
5 2 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.60%) SANS
6 1 (1.30%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.30%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.30%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (23.38%) QA
2 5 (6.49%) NIST
2 5 (6.49%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.30%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (54.55%) Docker
2 17 (22.08%) Active Directory
3 9 (11.69%) iptables
4 3 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.30%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 46 (59.74%) Kubernetes
2 35 (45.45%) Prometheus
3 34 (44.16%) Kibana
4 33 (42.86%) Ansible
5 31 (40.26%) Terraform
6 29 (37.66%) logstash
7 27 (35.06%) Grafana
8 19 (24.68%) Progress Chef
9 16 (20.78%) Puppet
10 10 (12.99%) Graylog
11 9 (11.69%) Docker Swarm
12 8 (10.39%) Zipkin
13 7 (9.09%) Nagios
14 6 (7.79%) Nessus
15 5 (6.49%) HP Fortify
15 5 (6.49%) WebInspect
16 4 (5.19%) yum
17 3 (3.90%) Rancher
18 1 (1.30%) Failover Clustering
18 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 25 (32.47%) Splunk
2 21 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.79%) Checkmarx
4 5 (6.49%) AppDynamics
4 5 (6.49%) Red Hat
4 5 (6.49%) Tanium
4 5 (6.49%) Veracode
4 5 (6.49%) VMware
5 4 (5.19%) Oracle
6 3 (3.90%) F5
6 3 (3.90%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.30%) AlienVault
7 1 (1.30%) Cisco
7 1 (1.30%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.30%) SAP
7 1 (1.30%) SolarWinds