Elastic Stack Contracts

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

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

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 431 519 494
Rank change year-on-year +88 -25 -36
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 167 201 404
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.34% 0.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.88% 1.44% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 143 287
10th Percentile £413 £463 £471
25th Percentile £492 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £645 £726 £688
90th Percentile £694 £900 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £584 £575
% change year-on-year -5.78% +1.52% +15.00%
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% +100.00%
75th Percentile - £75.38 £85.00
90th Percentile - £76.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.50 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Elastic Stack in the UK

Elastic Stack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Elastic Stack in the UK

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elastic Stack over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Elastic Stack in the UK

Elastic Stack
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Elastic Stack in the UK

Elastic Stack
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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
England +99 142 £550 -8.33% 37
London +73 85 £510 -17.74% 18
UK excluding London +84 68 £550 -5.78% 21
Work from Home +71 40 £525 -10.06% 23
Midlands +36 19 £550 -4.35% 2
North of England +36 17 £622 +18.48% 6
West Midlands +40 14 £550 -15.38%
South East +22 13 £525 -16.67% 5
Yorkshire +27 10 £622 +18.48% 5
Scotland - 8 £400 - 2
East Midlands +21 5 £356 -30.87% 2
South West +19 5 £750 +30.43% 4
Wales +18 5 £645 +3.12%
North East +21 4 - -
North West +11 3 £600 +20.00% 1
East of England +17 1 - - 2

Elastic Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 38 (22.75%) OpenStack
2 12 (7.19%) Confluence
2 12 (7.19%) nginx
3 10 (5.99%) Apache Spark
4 7 (4.19%) Apache
5 6 (3.59%) JBoss
6 3 (1.80%) Tomcat
7 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (1.20%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.60%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.60%) FileNet
8 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 88 (52.69%) AWS
2 51 (30.54%) Azure
3 25 (14.97%) GCP
4 19 (11.38%) Amazon EKS
5 18 (10.78%) GitHub
6 17 (10.18%) Amazon S3
6 17 (10.18%) Serverless
6 17 (10.18%) Slack
7 16 (9.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 16 (9.58%) OpenShift
8 13 (7.78%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (7.19%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (5.39%) Azure Sentinel
11 8 (4.79%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (4.79%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (4.19%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (4.19%) PaaS
13 6 (3.59%) Apigee
13 6 (3.59%) Kong
13 6 (3.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (13.17%) TCP/IP
2 20 (11.98%) Firewall
3 13 (7.78%) HTTP
4 11 (6.59%) VPN
5 10 (5.99%) DNS
6 4 (2.40%) 5G
6 4 (2.40%) DHCP
6 4 (2.40%) Diameter Protocol
6 4 (2.40%) FTP
6 4 (2.40%) ICMP
6 4 (2.40%) LTE
6 4 (2.40%) POP3
6 4 (2.40%) SMTP
6 4 (2.40%) SSH
7 2 (1.20%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (1.20%) SNMP
7 2 (1.20%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.60%) DSL
8 1 (0.60%) SSL
8 1 (0.60%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (50.30%) Elasticsearch
2 30 (17.96%) Relational Database
3 23 (13.77%) MySQL
4 19 (11.38%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (8.98%) SQL Server
6 12 (7.19%) RDBMS
7 9 (5.39%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (4.79%) NoSQL
9 6 (3.59%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (3.59%) Big Data
10 5 (2.99%) Couchbase
10 5 (2.99%) Hadoop
11 4 (2.40%) MongoDB
12 3 (1.80%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (1.20%) Apache Hive
13 2 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (1.20%) HBase
13 2 (1.20%) NonStop SQL
13 2 (1.20%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 79 (47.31%) Jenkins
2 44 (26.35%) Git
3 22 (13.17%) JIRA
4 21 (12.57%) GitLab
5 16 (9.58%) SonarQube
6 10 (5.99%) Bitbucket
6 10 (5.99%) Maven
7 8 (4.79%) JUnit
8 7 (4.19%) Burp Suite
8 7 (4.19%) CircleCI
8 7 (4.19%) Travis CI
9 6 (3.59%) AppScan
9 6 (3.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (3.59%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (2.99%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (2.99%) CA Release Automation
10 5 (2.99%) Selenium
10 5 (2.99%) Subversion
10 5 (2.99%) TeamCity
11 4 (2.40%) Postman
General
1 19 (11.38%) Social Skills
2 18 (10.78%) Finance
3 17 (10.18%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (7.19%) Banking
5 11 (6.59%) Telecoms
6 8 (4.79%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.80%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.20%) Marketing
8 2 (1.20%) Military
8 2 (1.20%) Public Speaking
8 2 (1.20%) Retail
9 1 (0.60%) Electronics
9 1 (0.60%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (0.60%) French Language
9 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Police
Job Titles
1 24 (14.37%) Developer
1 24 (14.37%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (12.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 18 (10.78%) Site Engineer
4 16 (9.58%) Lead
4 16 (9.58%) SIEM Engineer
5 15 (8.98%) Java Developer
5 15 (8.98%) Senior
6 14 (8.38%) Architect
7 12 (7.19%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (6.59%) AWS DevOps
9 10 (5.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 9 (5.39%) Analyst
10 9 (5.39%) Consultant
10 9 (5.39%) SOC Analyst
10 9 (5.39%) Technical Leader
11 8 (4.79%) Solutions Architect
12 7 (4.19%) Support Engineer
12 7 (4.19%) VMware Architect
13 6 (3.59%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (15.57%) Spring Boot
2 25 (14.97%) Kafka
3 22 (13.17%) Spring
4 17 (10.18%) REST
5 15 (8.98%) JSON
6 13 (7.78%) Node.js
7 12 (7.19%) XML
8 10 (5.99%) RESTful
8 10 (5.99%) Web Services
9 9 (5.39%) React
10 7 (4.19%) AngularJS
10 7 (4.19%) YAML
11 6 (3.59%) LAPP Stack
11 6 (3.59%) Mustache
12 5 (2.99%) OpenTracing
12 5 (2.99%) Swagger
13 4 (2.40%) .NET
13 4 (2.40%) CSS
13 4 (2.40%) HTML
13 4 (2.40%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.77%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (11.38%) Onboarding
2 19 (11.38%) Public Cloud
3 11 (6.59%) Data Structures
3 11 (6.59%) Linux Command Line
4 10 (5.99%) Cloud Native
5 9 (5.39%) Cyber Defence
5 9 (5.39%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 9 (5.39%) Cyber Threat
5 9 (5.39%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.99%) Distributed Computing
6 5 (2.99%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.80%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.20%) CBDC
8 2 (1.20%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.20%) Fat Client
8 2 (1.20%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.20%) PKI
8 2 (1.20%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 93 (55.69%) Linux
2 36 (21.56%) Windows
3 27 (16.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 26 (15.57%) CentOS
5 16 (9.58%) Ubuntu
6 8 (4.79%) Unix
7 7 (4.19%) Windows Server
8 5 (2.99%) VMS
9 4 (2.40%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.60%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (59.28%) CI/CD
2 80 (47.90%) DevOps
3 67 (40.12%) Agile
4 62 (37.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 39 (23.35%) Containerisation
6 38 (22.75%) Continuous Integration
7 34 (20.36%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (19.16%) Observability
9 31 (18.56%) Microservices
10 30 (17.96%) SIEM
10 30 (17.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 23 (13.77%) Scrum
12 22 (13.17%) Configuration Management
13 21 (12.57%) Test Automation
14 20 (11.98%) Project Management
15 18 (10.78%) Computer Science
16 16 (9.58%) Cybersecurity
17 14 (8.38%) Analytics
17 14 (8.38%) Infrastructure Monitoring
17 14 (8.38%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 77 (46.11%) Python
2 41 (24.55%) Java
3 38 (22.75%) Bash
4 28 (16.77%) Shell Script
5 23 (13.77%) JavaScript
6 18 (10.78%) PowerShell
7 17 (10.18%) Go
8 15 (8.98%) SQL
9 12 (7.19%) Perl
10 8 (4.79%) R
11 5 (2.99%) C#
11 5 (2.99%) Kotlin
11 5 (2.99%) Ruby
11 5 (2.99%) Scala
11 5 (2.99%) TypeScript
12 4 (2.40%) Groovy
13 2 (1.20%) PHP
14 1 (0.60%) C
14 1 (0.60%) C++
14 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (30.54%) Security Cleared
2 33 (19.76%) SC Cleared
3 24 (14.37%) DV Cleared
4 20 (11.98%) Degree
5 14 (8.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (5.39%) CEH
6 9 (5.39%) CISSP
7 4 (2.40%) SANS
8 3 (1.80%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.60%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.60%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (13.17%) QA
2 1 (0.60%) ISO 20022
2 1 (0.60%) NIST
2 1 (0.60%) SLA
System Software
1 69 (41.32%) Docker
2 20 (11.98%) Active Directory
3 19 (11.38%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (5.39%) iptables
5 2 (1.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (1.20%) HDFS
5 2 (1.20%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.60%) Postfix
6 1 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.60%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 85 (50.90%) Ansible
2 83 (49.70%) Kubernetes
3 77 (46.11%) Prometheus
4 72 (43.11%) Terraform
5 68 (40.72%) Kibana
6 67 (40.12%) Grafana
7 60 (35.93%) logstash
8 25 (14.97%) Progress Chef
9 22 (13.17%) Puppet
10 14 (8.38%) Graylog
11 12 (7.19%) Nagios
12 7 (4.19%) Nessus
13 6 (3.59%) Docker Swarm
13 6 (3.59%) HP Fortify
13 6 (3.59%) WebInspect
14 5 (2.99%) Opsgenie
14 5 (2.99%) QRadar
14 5 (2.99%) ZABBIX
14 5 (2.99%) Zipkin
15 4 (2.40%) yum
Vendors
1 41 (24.55%) Splunk
2 31 (18.56%) Microsoft
2 31 (18.56%) Red Hat
3 16 (9.58%) Amdocs
4 12 (7.19%) VMware
5 11 (6.59%) Oracle
6 8 (4.79%) Dynatrace
6 8 (4.79%) SAP
7 7 (4.19%) Checkmarx
8 6 (3.59%) AppDynamics
8 6 (3.59%) Salesforce
8 6 (3.59%) Veracode
9 5 (2.99%) ArcSight
9 5 (2.99%) New Relic
9 5 (2.99%) PagerDuty
10 4 (2.40%) Adobe
10 4 (2.40%) Google
11 3 (1.80%) IBM
11 3 (1.80%) MKS
12 2 (1.20%) Cisco