Elastic Stack Contracts in Wales

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 60 76
Rank change year-on-year +20 +16 -20
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 5 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 1.24% 0.47% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.62% 1.73% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile - £583 £566
25th Percentile £622 £594 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £625 £588
Median % change year-on-year +3.12% +6.38% -2.08%
75th Percentile £689 £644 £597
90th Percentile £690 £648 £599
UK median daily rate £550 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -6.38% -2.08% +9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Wales

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 Wales 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 89 173 197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 22.08% 27.16% 19.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 136 141
10th Percentile £293 £313 £400
25th Percentile £381 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +23.53%
75th Percentile £531 £588 £638
90th Percentile £589 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £15.38 - -
25th Percentile £15.66 - -
Median hourly rate £18.14 - £20.75
Median % change year-on-year - - -24.55%
75th Percentile £21.29 - -
90th Percentile £22.77 - -
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Elastic Stack in Wales

Elastic Stack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Elastic Stack in Wales

Elastic Stack
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 25 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
South Wales +16 5 £645 +3.12%
Elastic Stack
UK

Elastic Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (60.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) MySQL
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (40.00%) RDBMS
3 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Burp Suite
1 2 (40.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (20.00%) AppScan
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Administrator
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Administrator
1 3 (60.00%) DBA
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) MySQL DBA
2 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Change Control
2 4 (80.00%) Project Management
3 3 (60.00%) Migration
4 2 (40.00%) Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) Application Security
4 2 (40.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
4 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (40.00%) Data Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (40.00%) OWASP
4 2 (40.00%) Security Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 1 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (20.00%) Information Security
5 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) PHP
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SANS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
1 5 (100.00%) Grafana
1 5 (100.00%) Graylog
1 5 (100.00%) Nagios
1 5 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (20.00%) HP Fortify
3 1 (20.00%) Nessus
3 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (20.00%) Puppet
3 1 (20.00%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) Splunk
2 2 (40.00%) Checkmarx
3 1 (20.00%) Veracode