Elastic Stack Contracts in the West Midlands

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 131 141
Rank change year-on-year +33 +10 -19
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 14 3 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.73% 0.13% 0.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.47% 0.85% 3.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 13
10th Percentile £528 - £408
25th Percentile - - £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £585
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +19.66% +8.33%
75th Percentile - - £586
90th Percentile £645 - £652
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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 256 353 605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.36% 15.25% 17.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 241 446
10th Percentile £313 £363 £363
25th Percentile £375 £413 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% +23.75%
75th Percentile £641 £663 £563
90th Percentile £750 £700 £638
England median daily rate £550 £560 £565
% change year-on-year -1.79% -0.88% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £14.21 - -
25th Percentile £33.50 - -
Median hourly rate £39.96 - -
75th Percentile £55.31 - -
90th Percentile £56.25 - -
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +10.56%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Elastic Stack in the West Midlands

Elastic Stack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Elastic Stack in the West Midlands

Elastic Stack
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 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
Herefordshire - 12 £550 -
Elastic Stack
England

Elastic Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Fire and Rescue
2 1 (7.14%) Military
2 1 (7.14%) Police
Job Titles
1 12 (85.71%) SIEM Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Elasticsearch Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) SOC Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (78.57%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (14.29%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (14.29%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 2 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (78.57%) Linux
2 10 (71.43%) Ubuntu
2 10 (71.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) SIEM
2 11 (78.57%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 9 (64.29%) RBAC
3 9 (64.29%) Visualisation
4 8 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
4 8 (57.14%) DataOps
5 3 (21.43%) Dashboard Development
5 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Case Management
6 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 2 (14.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (14.29%) Incident Response
6 2 (14.29%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (14.29%) Protective Monitoring
6 2 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (14.29%) Security Operations
6 2 (14.29%) Threat Detection
6 2 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 6 (42.86%) DV Cleared
2 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) CEH
3 2 (14.29%) CISSP
3 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (14.29%) Degree
4 1 (7.14%) CTC Cleared
System Software
1 9 (64.29%) Active Directory
1 9 (64.29%) iptables
Systems Management
1 14 (100.00%) Kibana
1 14 (100.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft