Elasticsearch Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Elasticsearch skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Elasticsearch over the 3 months to 26 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Elasticsearch UK
Location	3 months to 26 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	242	407	524
Rank change year-on-year	+165	+117
Contract jobs citing Elasticsearch	461	260	117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.98%	0.49%	0.21%
As % of the Application Platforms category	5.91%	2.71%	1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted	315	221	94
Median daily rate	£475	£450	£450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.55%	-
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£372	£350	£350
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£591	£550	£600
UK excluding London median daily rate	£450	£425	£400
% change year-on-year	+5.88%	+6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted	2	1	0
Median hourly rate	£43.50	£47.25	-
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-7.93%	-
UK excluding London median hourly rate	-	-	-

Elasticsearch is in the application platform skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract Application Platform Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills	7805	9592	9971
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	16.60%	18.07%	17.83%
Number of daily rates quoted	4978	6396	6230
Median daily rate	£425	£420	£375
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+1.19%	+12.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£260	£265	£225
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£575	£560	£525
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£390	£350
% change year-on-year	+2.56%	+11.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted	201	235	339
Median hourly rate	£25.00	£20.50	£21.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+21.95%	-2.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.50	£12.49	£12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£43.00	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£26.25	£25.00	£21.00
% change year-on-year	+5.00%	+19.04%

Elasticsearch
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing Elasticsearch as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Application Platforms category.

Job vacancy trend for Elasticsearch in the UK

Elasticsearch
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Elasticsearch.

Contractor daily rate trend for Elasticsearch in the UK

Elasticsearch
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Elasticsearch over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Elasticsearch in the UK

Elasticsearch
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Elasticsearch.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Elasticsearch in the UK

Elasticsearch
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Elasticsearch within the UK over the 3 months to 26 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	+146	441	£475	+5.55%	183
London	+95	321	£475	-	101
City of London	+15	40	£475	+5.55%	25
West Midlands	+47	32	£460	+4.54%	7
South West	+27	31	£400	+12.28%	6
Croydon	+10	18	£488	+21.87%
South East	+14	17	£419	-4.77%	27
East Midlands	+5	15	£438	+9.37%	5
Shropshire	+21	11	£498	+13.19%	1
East of England	-3	11	£375	-6.25%	20
Telford	+19	9	£498	+13.19%	1
Devon	-	9	£413	-	2
Bristol	-1	8	£500	+42.85%	1
South Wales	-	8	£400	-
Cardiff	-	8	£400	-
Wales	-	8	£400	-
Nottinghamshire	-	8	£400	-	1
Nottingham	-	8	£400	-	1
Scotland	-	7	£356	-
Yorkshire	+9	6	£450	+12.50%	5
Hertfordshire	-1	6	£363	+13.28%	10
Surrey	-6	6	£351	-17.52%	6
North West	+20	5	£450	-	11
Sheffield	+12	5	£513	+22.38%
Gloucestershire	+10	5	-	-
Wiltshire	+9	5	£400	+14.28%
South Yorkshire	+8	5	£513	+22.38%
Leamington Spa	-	5	£200	-
Northampton	-	5	£475	-
Northamptonshire	-	5	£475	-

Elasticsearch
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 26 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Elasticsearch also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for Elasticsearch.

1	414 (52.47%)	Agile Software Development
2	334 (42.33%)	Java
3	313 (39.67%)	Amazon AWS
4	298 (37.77%)	DevOps
5	293 (37.14%)	Python
6	259 (32.83%)	Docker
7	254 (32.19%)	Linux
8	241 (30.54%)	TDD
9	239 (30.29%)	JavaScript
10	221 (28.01%)	Git (software)
11	183 (23.19%)	Microservices
11	183 (23.19%)	Elastic Stack
12	180 (22.81%)	Jenkins
13	177 (22.43%)	Ansible
14	175 (22.18%)	Kibana

15	174 (22.05%)	Scrum
16	169 (21.42%)	Ruby
16	169 (21.42%)	Puppet
17	167 (21.17%)	Kafka
18	166 (21.04%)	logstash
19	157 (19.90%)	Microsoft Azure
20	155 (19.65%)	NoSQL
21	152 (19.26%)	MongoDB
21	152 (19.26%)	AngularJS
22	145 (18.38%)	Hadoop
23	135 (17.11%)	SQL
23	135 (17.11%)	Bash Shell
24	128 (16.22%)	.NET
25	124 (15.72%)	C#
25	124 (15.72%)	Terraform

Elasticsearch
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	93 (11.79%)	Apache Spark
2	90 (11.41%)	Confluence
3	83 (10.52%)	Apache
4	76 (9.63%)	Apache Solr
5	52 (6.59%)	Tomcat
6	40 (5.07%)	nginx
7	24 (3.04%)	WebSphere
8	18 (2.28%)	JBoss
8	18 (2.28%)	OpenStack
9	16 (2.03%)	Apache Pig
10	13 (1.65%)	CMS
11	8 (1.01%)	Drupal
12	7 (0.89%)	Adobe Experience Manager
12	7 (0.89%)	SAS
13	6 (0.76%)	Mule
13	6 (0.76%)	Sitecore CMS
13	6 (0.76%)	WebLogic
14	5 (0.63%)	Cloud Foundry
15	4 (0.51%)	Jetty
15	4 (0.51%)	WordPress

Applications
1	3 (0.38%)	SPSS
2	2 (0.25%)	HipChat
3	1 (0.13%)	Photoshop

Business Applications
1	9 (1.14%)	IBM Operational Decision Manager
2	3 (0.38%)	NetSuite
3	1 (0.13%)	Sage CRM
3	1 (0.13%)	SAP Business One
3	1 (0.13%)	SAP Oil and Gas

Cloud Services
1	313 (39.67%)	Amazon AWS
2	157 (19.90%)	Microsoft Azure
3	89 (11.28%)	Amazon EC2
4	70 (8.87%)	GitHub
5	53 (6.72%)	AWS CloudFormation
6	38 (4.82%)	Amazon S3
7	27 (3.42%)	Amazon CloudWatch
8	25 (3.17%)	Amazon SQS
8	25 (3.17%)	Twilio
9	20 (2.53%)	Heroku
9	20 (2.53%)	Virtual Private Cloud
10	18 (2.28%)	Amazon ELB
11	16 (2.03%)	AWS Lambda
11	16 (2.03%)	Cloud Computing
12	12 (1.52%)	Amazon ElastiCache
13	11 (1.39%)	Quay.io
14	9 (1.14%)	Google Cloud Platform
14	9 (1.14%)	SaaS
15	8 (1.01%)	Route 53
16	7 (0.89%)	Akamai

Communications & Networking
1	45 (5.70%)	HTTP
2	37 (4.69%)	DNS
3	18 (2.28%)	Internet
4	17 (2.15%)	TCP/IP
5	15 (1.90%)	SSH
6	13 (1.65%)	OpenLDAP
7	12 (1.52%)	SSL
8	11 (1.39%)	OpenVPN
9	10 (1.27%)	Firewall
9	10 (1.27%)	LDAP
9	10 (1.27%)	Network Security
9	10 (1.27%)	SNMP
10	8 (1.01%)	Multicast
10	8 (1.01%)	VPN
11	7 (0.89%)	Kerberos
12	6 (0.76%)	Wireshark
13	5 (0.63%)	LAN
13	5 (0.63%)	WAN
14	4 (0.51%)	DSL
14	4 (0.51%)	tcpdump

Database & Business Intelligence
1	155 (19.65%)	NoSQL
2	152 (19.26%)	MongoDB
3	145 (18.38%)	Hadoop
4	114 (14.45%)	PostgreSQL
5	101 (12.80%)	Apache Cassandra
6	96 (12.17%)	SQL Server
7	93 (11.79%)	Big Data
8	70 (8.87%)	MySQL
9	62 (7.86%)	Amazon DynamoDB
10	58 (7.35%)	HBase
11	50 (6.34%)	Apache Hive
12	31 (3.93%)	Redis
13	25 (3.17%)	Amazon RDS
14	23 (2.92%)	Neo4j
15	18 (2.28%)	Relational Database
16	16 (2.03%)	RethinkDB
17	11 (1.39%)	Data Warehouse
17	11 (1.39%)	InfluxDB
18	10 (1.27%)	Impala
18	10 (1.27%)	Sqoop

Development Applications
1	221 (28.01%)	Git (software)
2	180 (22.81%)	Jenkins
3	107 (13.56%)	JIRA
4	106 (13.43%)	Maven
5	45 (5.70%)	TeamCity
6	41 (5.20%)	JUnit
7	40 (5.07%)	Octopus Deploy
8	38 (4.82%)	Bitbucket
9	35 (4.44%)	Selenium
10	33 (4.18%)	Vagrant
11	29 (3.68%)	Mockito
12	28 (3.55%)	Ant
13	27 (3.42%)	Subversion
14	24 (3.04%)	Gradle
15	23 (2.92%)	Cucumber
16	21 (2.66%)	WebDriver
17	20 (2.53%)	Atlassian Bamboo
18	19 (2.41%)	RSpec
19	18 (2.28%)	Artifactory
20	17 (2.15%)	Grunt

General
1	55 (6.97%)	Finance
2	48 (6.08%)	Banking
3	13 (1.65%)	Front Office
3	13 (1.65%)	Investment Banking
3	13 (1.65%)	Telecoms
4	12 (1.52%)	Retail
5	9 (1.14%)	Marketing
6	8 (1.01%)	Games
7	7 (0.89%)	Legal
8	3 (0.38%)	Advertising
8	3 (0.38%)	Multimedia
9	2 (0.25%)	Billing
9	2 (0.25%)	Digital Economy
10	1 (0.13%)	Electronics
10	1 (0.13%)	German Language
10	1 (0.13%)	Hungarian Language
10	1 (0.13%)	Manufacturing
10	1 (0.13%)	Publishing
10	1 (0.13%)	Retail Banking

Job Titles
1	395 (50.06%)	Developer
2	150 (19.01%)	Java Developer
3	134 (16.98%)	DevOps Engineer
4	66 (8.37%)	.NET Developer
5	65 (8.24%)	Senior Developer
6	59 (7.48%)	C# Developer
7	54 (6.84%)	Architect
8	42 (5.32%)	AWS Engineer
9	39 (4.94%)	Python Developer
10	36 (4.56%)	AWS Developer
10	36 (4.56%)	C# .NET Developer
11	33 (4.18%)	Data Engineer
11	33 (4.18%)	Linux Engineer
12	31 (3.93%)	AWS DevOps
12	31 (3.93%)	AWS DevOps Engineer
13	29 (3.68%)	Agile Developer
14	28 (3.55%)	Full Stack Developer
15	27 (3.42%)	Azure Developer
15	27 (3.42%)	Consultant
15	27 (3.42%)	Software Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	183 (23.19%)	Elastic Stack
2	167 (21.17%)	Kafka
3	152 (19.26%)	AngularJS
4	128 (16.22%)	.NET
5	118 (14.96%)	Node.js
6	111 (14.07%)	REST
7	110 (13.94%)	HTML
8	109 (13.81%)	Spring
9	100 (12.67%)	CSS
10	86 (10.90%)	ASP.NET
10	86 (10.90%)	Web Services
11	82 (10.39%)	RabbitMQ
12	69 (8.75%)	ASP.NET MVC
13	61 (7.73%)	ASP.NET Web API
13	61 (7.73%)	HTML5
13	61 (7.73%)	React
14	60 (7.60%)	RESTful
15	57 (7.22%)	Spring Boot
16	44 (5.58%)	Django
16	44 (5.58%)	jQuery

Miscellaneous
1	59 (7.48%)	Public Cloud
2	57 (7.22%)	User Experience
3	44 (5.58%)	Greenfield Project
4	39 (4.94%)	Analytical Skills
5	28 (3.55%)	Linux Command Line
6	26 (3.30%)	Computer Science
7	22 (2.79%)	Blog
8	17 (2.15%)	Data Structures
9	12 (1.52%)	Algorithms
10	11 (1.39%)	Data Centre
11	10 (1.27%)	Cloud Native
11	10 (1.27%)	Fintech
11	10 (1.27%)	Wiki
12	8 (1.01%)	Replication
13	7 (0.89%)	Clustering
13	7 (0.89%)	Distributed Denial-of-Service
13	7 (0.89%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
13	7 (0.89%)	Virtual Team
14	6 (0.76%)	EPoS
15	5 (0.63%)	Derivative

Operating Systems
1	254 (32.19%)	Linux
2	110 (13.94%)	Windows
3	70 (8.87%)	CentOS
4	50 (6.34%)	Unix
5	30 (3.80%)	Ubuntu
6	19 (2.41%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7	14 (1.77%)	Windows Server
8	13 (1.65%)	CoreOS
9	8 (1.01%)	FreeBSD
10	6 (0.76%)	Amazon Linux
11	5 (0.63%)	Fedora
12	4 (0.51%)	Windows Server 2012
13	3 (0.38%)	Debian
13	3 (0.38%)	Mac OS X
14	2 (0.25%)	Apple iOS
14	2 (0.25%)	SUSE
15	1 (0.13%)	Windows Server 2008

Processes & Methodologies
1	414 (52.47%)	Agile Software Development
2	298 (37.77%)	DevOps
3	241 (30.54%)	TDD
4	183 (23.19%)	Microservices
5	174 (22.05%)	Scrum
6	119 (15.08%)	BDD
7	103 (13.05%)	Continuous Integration
8	100 (12.67%)	MVC
9	95 (12.04%)	Configuration Management
10	77 (9.76%)	E-Commerce
11	76 (9.63%)	Kanban
12	75 (9.51%)	Software Engineering
13	70 (8.87%)	Test Automation
14	59 (7.48%)	Open Source
15	58 (7.35%)	Pair Programming
16	55 (6.97%)	Web Development
17	49 (6.21%)	Continuous Deployment
17	49 (6.21%)	OO
18	45 (5.70%)	Front End Development
19	42 (5.32%)	Continuous Improvement

Programming Languages
1	334 (42.33%)	Java
2	293 (37.14%)	Python
3	239 (30.29%)	JavaScript
4	169 (21.42%)	Ruby
5	135 (17.11%)	Bash Shell
5	135 (17.11%)	SQL
6	124 (15.72%)	C#
7	96 (12.17%)	Scala
8	47 (5.96%)	Go
9	38 (4.82%)	Perl
10	37 (4.69%)	PHP
11	24 (3.04%)	Groovy
12	20 (2.53%)	C
12	20 (2.53%)	T-SQL
13	19 (2.41%)	PowerShell
14	18 (2.28%)	R
15	15 (1.90%)	Shell Script
16	13 (1.65%)	C++
16	13 (1.65%)	ES6
17	11 (1.39%)	TypeScript

Qualifications
1	120 (15.21%)	Security Cleared
2	97 (12.29%)	SC Cleared
3	31 (3.93%)	Degree
4	16 (2.03%)	DV Cleared
5	15 (1.90%)	Computer Science Degree
6	8 (1.01%)	CISSP
7	7 (0.89%)	CISA
7	7 (0.89%)	CISM
7	7 (0.89%)	Master's Degree
8	5 (0.63%)	BPSS Clearance
8	5 (0.63%)	MySQL Certification
9	2 (0.25%)	BC Cleared
10	1 (0.13%)	CCIE
10	1 (0.13%)	CFA
10	1 (0.13%)	Cisco Certification
10	1 (0.13%)	CTC Cleared
10	1 (0.13%)	LPIC
10	1 (0.13%)	PhD
10	1 (0.13%)	RHCSA
10	1 (0.13%)	SSCP

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	33 (4.18%)	QA
2	6 (0.76%)	FedRAMP
2	6 (0.76%)	PCI DSS
3	2 (0.25%)	Data Quality
3	2 (0.25%)	MiFID
4	1 (0.13%)	GCP

System Software
1	259 (32.83%)	Docker
2	32 (4.06%)	HDFS
3	29 (3.68%)	Apache Flume
4	23 (2.92%)	Active Directory
5	22 (2.79%)	Apache ZooKeeper
6	15 (1.90%)	VMware Infrastructure
7	13 (1.65%)	Squid
8	12 (1.52%)	vCloud
8	12 (1.52%)	Virtual Machines
9	11 (1.39%)	etcd
9	11 (1.39%)	flannel
9	11 (1.39%)	Postfix
10	9 (1.14%)	Samba
11	8 (1.01%)	Ceph
11	8 (1.01%)	LXC
11	8 (1.01%)	Snort
12	7 (0.89%)	GlusterFS
12	7 (0.89%)	SkyDNS
12	7 (0.89%)	vSphere
13	3 (0.38%)	Hyper-V

Systems Management
1	177 (22.43%)	Ansible
2	175 (22.18%)	Kibana
3	169 (21.42%)	Puppet
4	166 (21.04%)	logstash
5	124 (15.72%)	Terraform
6	91 (11.53%)	Opscode Chef
7	76 (9.63%)	Kubernetes
8	45 (5.70%)	Grafana
9	41 (5.20%)	Nagios
10	38 (4.82%)	Graphite
11	29 (3.68%)	Prometheus
12	25 (3.17%)	ZABBIX
13	21 (2.66%)	Hadoop YARN
13	21 (2.66%)	Mesos
14	19 (2.41%)	Sysdig
15	18 (2.28%)	Salt
16	16 (2.03%)	Docker Swarm
16	16 (2.03%)	rkt
17	15 (1.90%)	Rsyslog
18	13 (1.65%)	HAProxy

Vendors
1	51 (6.46%)	Oracle
2	49 (6.21%)	VMware
3	37 (4.69%)	Cloudera
4	31 (3.93%)	Splunk
5	29 (3.68%)	Microsoft
6	24 (3.04%)	Red Hat
7	20 (2.53%)	Atlassian
7	20 (2.53%)	IBM
8	18 (2.28%)	AppDynamics
9	13 (1.65%)	SAP
10	12 (1.52%)	Rackspace
11	11 (1.39%)	Google
11	11 (1.39%)	Sonatype
12	10 (1.27%)	Hortonworks
12	10 (1.27%)	Sybase
13	7 (0.89%)	Adobe
13	7 (0.89%)	Percona
13	7 (0.89%)	SaltStack
13	7 (0.89%)	Teradata
14	6 (0.76%)	Ab Initio