Elastic Stack Contracts in England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 399 493 489
Rank change year-on-year +94 -4 -11
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 138 158 304
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.33% 0.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.84% 1.43% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 108 223
10th Percentile £450 £459 £463
25th Percentile £500 £500 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £596 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.76% -0.63% +14.29%
75th Percentile £645 £756 £700
90th Percentile £738 £900 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £572 £588
% change year-on-year -3.85% -2.64% +8.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 2
10th Percentile - £68.10 -
25th Percentile - £72.75 £75.00
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% -
75th Percentile - £76.75 £85.00
90th Percentile - £82.80 -
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +100.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 England 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 7,485 11,072 18,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.57% 22.98% 26.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,308 8,225 14,183
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £568
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -1.32% +13.50%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £788 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 132 215
10th Percentile £22.50 £26.18 £23.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Elastic Stack in England

Elastic Stack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Elastic Stack in England

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elastic Stack in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Elastic Stack in England

Elastic Stack
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Elastic Stack in England

Elastic Stack
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 16 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
London +74 78 £518 -16.53% 20
North of England +34 21 £624 +18.76% 5
Midlands +41 19 £550 - 5
West Midlands +37 14 £550 -21.43% 1
Yorkshire +25 13 £622 +15.99% 3
South East +13 10 £525 -13.76% 9
East Midlands +16 5 £356 -30.87% 4
South West +4 5 £750 +26.32% 6
North West +15 4 £650 +30.00% 2
North East +12 4 - -
Elastic Stack
UK

Elastic Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 29 (21.01%) OpenStack
2 16 (11.59%) Confluence
3 9 (6.52%) nginx
4 7 (5.07%) Apache
4 7 (5.07%) JBoss
5 4 (2.90%) Apache Spark
6 3 (2.17%) Tomcat
7 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (1.45%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.72%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 70 (50.72%) AWS
2 40 (28.99%) Azure
3 20 (14.49%) GCP
3 20 (14.49%) GitHub
4 15 (10.87%) OpenShift
5 13 (9.42%) Slack
6 12 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 12 (8.70%) Serverless
7 11 (7.97%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (7.97%) Amazon S3
8 9 (6.52%) Kong
9 7 (5.07%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (5.07%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (5.07%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (5.07%) PaaS
10 6 (4.35%) Apigee
10 6 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
10 6 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (3.62%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (2.90%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (13.04%) TCP/IP
2 17 (12.32%) Firewall
3 16 (11.59%) HTTP
4 13 (9.42%) DNS
5 10 (7.25%) VPN
6 4 (2.90%) 5G
6 4 (2.90%) DHCP
6 4 (2.90%) Diameter Protocol
6 4 (2.90%) FTP
6 4 (2.90%) ICMP
6 4 (2.90%) LTE
6 4 (2.90%) POP3
6 4 (2.90%) SMTP
6 4 (2.90%) SSH
7 3 (2.17%) BIG-IP
7 3 (2.17%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (2.17%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (2.17%) SSL
8 1 (0.72%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.72%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (57.25%) Elasticsearch
2 18 (13.04%) Relational Database
3 16 (11.59%) MySQL
4 13 (9.42%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (7.97%) SQL Server
6 9 (6.52%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (6.52%) RDBMS
7 8 (5.80%) NoSQL
8 5 (3.62%) Couchbase
9 4 (2.90%) Big Data
9 4 (2.90%) Hadoop
9 4 (2.90%) MongoDB
10 3 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (1.45%) DataStax
11 2 (1.45%) Power BI
12 1 (0.72%) CouchDB
12 1 (0.72%) Flink
12 1 (0.72%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 71 (51.45%) Jenkins
2 41 (29.71%) Git
3 24 (17.39%) JIRA
4 23 (16.67%) GitLab
5 14 (10.14%) SonarQube
6 11 (7.97%) Maven
7 10 (7.25%) CircleCI
7 10 (7.25%) Travis CI
8 9 (6.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 9 (6.52%) Bitbucket
9 6 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (3.62%) AppScan
10 5 (3.62%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (3.62%) Burp Suite
10 5 (3.62%) CA Release Automation
10 5 (3.62%) JUnit
10 5 (3.62%) Selenium
10 5 (3.62%) TeamCity
11 4 (2.90%) Postman
11 4 (2.90%) Subversion
General
1 17 (12.32%) Finance
2 16 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (10.87%) Social Skills
4 14 (10.14%) Banking
5 8 (5.80%) Telecoms
6 6 (4.35%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.17%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.45%) Marketing
8 2 (1.45%) Military
8 2 (1.45%) Public Speaking
8 2 (1.45%) Retail
9 1 (0.72%) Electronics
9 1 (0.72%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Police
Job Titles
1 27 (19.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (12.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 16 (11.59%) SIEM Engineer
4 15 (10.87%) Developer
4 15 (10.87%) Lead
4 15 (10.87%) Site Engineer
5 14 (10.14%) Senior
6 11 (7.97%) Architect
7 10 (7.25%) AWS DevOps
7 10 (7.25%) AWS Engineer
8 9 (6.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 7 (5.07%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (5.07%) Support Engineer
9 7 (5.07%) VMware Architect
10 6 (4.35%) Analyst
10 6 (4.35%) Automation Engineer
10 6 (4.35%) Java Developer
10 6 (4.35%) Lead DevOps
10 6 (4.35%) SOC Analyst
10 6 (4.35%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (13.04%) JSON
2 16 (11.59%) Spring Boot
2 16 (11.59%) XML
3 14 (10.14%) Kafka
4 13 (9.42%) REST
5 12 (8.70%) Spring
6 10 (7.25%) Node.js
7 9 (6.52%) YAML
8 8 (5.80%) React
9 7 (5.07%) Web Services
10 5 (3.62%) AngularJS
10 5 (3.62%) CSS
10 5 (3.62%) HTML
10 5 (3.62%) LAPP Stack
10 5 (3.62%) Mustache
10 5 (3.62%) Swagger
11 4 (2.90%) .NET
11 4 (2.90%) Lucene
11 4 (2.90%) Sass
12 3 (2.17%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.59%) Onboarding
2 14 (10.14%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (9.42%) Public Cloud
4 11 (7.97%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (7.25%) Cloud Native
6 9 (6.52%) Data Structures
7 7 (5.07%) Management Information System
8 6 (4.35%) Cyber Defence
8 6 (4.35%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 6 (4.35%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (4.35%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (2.17%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.45%) CBDC
11 2 (1.45%) Client/Server
11 2 (1.45%) Fat Client
11 2 (1.45%) PKI
11 2 (1.45%) Private Cloud
11 2 (1.45%) Thin Client
12 1 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 75 (54.35%) Linux
2 24 (17.39%) Windows
3 23 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (15.22%) CentOS
5 16 (11.59%) Ubuntu
6 8 (5.80%) Unix
7 5 (3.62%) VMS
8 4 (2.90%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (2.90%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.72%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (62.32%) CI/CD
2 70 (50.72%) DevOps
3 58 (42.03%) Agile
4 52 (37.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 34 (24.64%) Containerisation
6 32 (23.19%) Continuous Integration
6 32 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (19.57%) Observability
7 27 (19.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 24 (17.39%) SIEM
9 22 (15.94%) Configuration Management
10 21 (15.22%) Microservices
11 20 (14.49%) Scrum
12 18 (13.04%) Project Management
13 16 (11.59%) Test Automation
14 14 (10.14%) Computer Science
14 14 (10.14%) Infrastructure Monitoring
15 13 (9.42%) DevSecOps
16 12 (8.70%) Software Delivery
17 11 (7.97%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 71 (51.45%) Python
2 37 (26.81%) Bash
3 32 (23.19%) Java
4 21 (15.22%) Shell Script
5 20 (14.49%) Go
6 19 (13.77%) JavaScript
6 19 (13.77%) PowerShell
7 12 (8.70%) SQL
8 8 (5.80%) Perl
8 8 (5.80%) R
9 6 (4.35%) TypeScript
10 5 (3.62%) C#
10 5 (3.62%) Groovy
11 4 (2.90%) Ruby
12 3 (2.17%) ActionScript
13 2 (1.45%) C
13 2 (1.45%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.72%) Bicep
14 1 (0.72%) C++
14 1 (0.72%) Rust
Qualifications
1 46 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 27 (19.57%) SC Cleared
3 22 (15.94%) DV Cleared
4 15 (10.87%) Degree
5 11 (7.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.35%) CEH
6 6 (4.35%) CISSP
7 3 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.45%) SANS
9 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.72%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.72%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.72%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (14.49%) QA
2 1 (0.72%) ISO 20022
2 1 (0.72%) NIST
2 1 (0.72%) SLA
System Software
1 55 (39.86%) Docker
2 19 (13.77%) Active Directory
3 14 (10.14%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (6.52%) iptables
5 3 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.45%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.72%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 72 (52.17%) Ansible
2 69 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 67 (48.55%) Terraform
4 60 (43.48%) Kibana
5 59 (42.75%) Prometheus
6 55 (39.86%) Grafana
7 54 (39.13%) logstash
8 26 (18.84%) Progress Chef
9 25 (18.12%) Puppet
10 9 (6.52%) Docker Swarm
11 8 (5.80%) Graylog
12 6 (4.35%) Nessus
12 6 (4.35%) Opsgenie
13 5 (3.62%) HP Fortify
13 5 (3.62%) WebInspect
13 5 (3.62%) ZABBIX
14 4 (2.90%) Nagios
14 4 (2.90%) QRadar
14 4 (2.90%) yum
15 3 (2.17%) Packer
Vendors
1 37 (26.81%) Splunk
2 24 (17.39%) Red Hat
3 20 (14.49%) Microsoft
4 13 (9.42%) Amdocs
4 13 (9.42%) VMware
5 10 (7.25%) Oracle
6 9 (6.52%) Dynatrace
7 8 (5.80%) SAP
8 7 (5.07%) Salesforce
9 6 (4.35%) AppDynamics
9 6 (4.35%) New Relic
9 6 (4.35%) PagerDuty
10 5 (3.62%) Adobe
10 5 (3.62%) Checkmarx
10 5 (3.62%) Veracode
11 4 (2.90%) ArcSight
12 3 (2.17%) F5
12 3 (2.17%) MKS
12 3 (2.17%) ServiceNow
13 2 (1.45%) IBM