Elastic Stack Contracts in the Thames Valley

Elastic Stack (formerly ELK Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Elastic Stack skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Elastic Stack over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 122 178
Rank change year-on-year -3 +56 -9
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 5 20 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.23% 0.75% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.23% 4.69% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 5
10th Percentile £505 £387 £525
25th Percentile £513 £394 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £463 £774
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% -40.25% +54.80%
75th Percentile £538 £584 £784
90th Percentile £545 £700 -
South East median daily rate £600 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +37.14%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

Elastic Stack falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 405 426 661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.93% 16.03% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 275 500
10th Percentile £383 £308 £350
25th Percentile £425 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £659 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +11.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 4
10th Percentile £42.20 £46.68 £27.15
25th Percentile £57.89 £50.00 £48.75
Median hourly rate £61.60 £52.28 £64.43
Median % change year-on-year +17.83% -18.86% -0.11%
75th Percentile - £81.70 £69.46
90th Percentile £68.23 £90.25 £73.23
South East median hourly rate £62.50 £59.30 £65.00
% change year-on-year +5.41% -8.78% +4.59%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Elastic Stack in the Thames Valley

Elastic Stack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Elastic Stack in the Thames Valley

Elastic Stack
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Berkshire -5 5 £525 +13.51%
Elastic Stack
South East

Elastic Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (40.00%) Confluence
2 1 (20.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) IPv4
1 1 (20.00%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) Mustache
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
1 1 (20.00%) React
1 1 (20.00%) Regular Expression
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) Spring
1 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) CSOC
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Release Management
3 2 (40.00%) SIEM
3 2 (40.00%) Software Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Blue Team
4 1 (20.00%) Content Development
4 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Purple Team
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Go
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Rancher
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) ArcSight
2 1 (20.00%) FireEye
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) LogRhythm
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Tanium