Elastic Stack Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 325 403 406
Rank change year-on-year +78 +3 -22
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 69 46 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.20% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.12% 1.09% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 33 74
10th Percentile £371 £415 £450
25th Percentile £466 £513 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £645 £645 £675
90th Percentile £689 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £572 £588
% change year-on-year -3.85% -2.64% +8.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £78.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +100.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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 3,256 4,203 6,055
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.05% 18.27% 19.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,129 3,144 4,310
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.64%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £586
90th Percentile £691 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 87 146
10th Percentile £21.96 £22.20 £20.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +29.35% +11.67%
75th Percentile £65.94 £74.13 £65.51
90th Percentile £74.85 £79.19 £76.64
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Elastic Stack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Elastic Stack in the UK excluding London

Elastic Stack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Elastic Stack in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Elastic Stack in the UK excluding London

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Elastic Stack in the UK excluding London

Elastic Stack
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Elastic Stack in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Elastic Stack in the UK excluding London

Elastic Stack
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
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
Scotland - 9 £400 - 2
Wales +18 5 £645 -0.85%
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 the UK excluding London 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 12 (17.39%) Confluence
2 8 (11.59%) Apache Spark
3 7 (10.14%) OpenStack
4 6 (8.70%) JBoss
5 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (1.45%) Apache
6 1 (1.45%) nginx
6 1 (1.45%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (1.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 40 (57.97%) AWS
2 33 (47.83%) Azure
3 20 (28.99%) GCP
4 15 (21.74%) GitHub
5 9 (13.04%) Kong
6 8 (11.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (10.14%) OpenShift
8 6 (8.70%) Amazon S3
8 6 (8.70%) Apigee
8 6 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (7.25%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (5.80%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (5.80%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (5.80%) Serverless
11 3 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (2.90%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (2.90%) Azure Sentinel
13 1 (1.45%) Azure Stack
13 1 (1.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (21.74%) Firewall
2 13 (18.84%) TCP/IP
2 13 (18.84%) VPN
3 9 (13.04%) DNS
3 9 (13.04%) HTTP
4 4 (5.80%) 5G
4 4 (5.80%) Diameter Protocol
4 4 (5.80%) LTE
5 3 (4.35%) BIG-IP
5 3 (4.35%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 3 (4.35%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (4.35%) SSL
6 1 (1.45%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (1.45%) Skype
6 1 (1.45%) SNMP
6 1 (1.45%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (1.45%) VSAN
6 1 (1.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (50.72%) Elasticsearch
2 22 (31.88%) Relational Database
3 16 (23.19%) MySQL
4 8 (11.59%) RDBMS
4 8 (11.59%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.45%) Big Data
6 1 (1.45%) Flink
6 1 (1.45%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.45%) NonStop SQL
6 1 (1.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 24 (34.78%) Jenkins
2 20 (28.99%) Git
2 20 (28.99%) GitLab
2 20 (28.99%) JIRA
3 11 (15.94%) SonarQube
4 9 (13.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 9 (13.04%) CircleCI
4 9 (13.04%) Travis CI
5 6 (8.70%) Burp Suite
6 5 (7.25%) AppScan
6 5 (7.25%) Bitbucket Server
6 5 (7.25%) CA Release Automation
6 5 (7.25%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (7.25%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.90%) JUnit
8 1 (1.45%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.45%) Gradle
8 1 (1.45%) Mockito
8 1 (1.45%) Spinnaker
8 1 (1.45%) Subversion
General
1 11 (15.94%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (14.49%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.70%) Finance
4 4 (5.80%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.35%) Banking
6 2 (2.90%) Public Speaking
6 2 (2.90%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.45%) Electronics
7 1 (1.45%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.45%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.45%) Marketing
7 1 (1.45%) Military
7 1 (1.45%) Police
Job Titles
1 12 (17.39%) DevOps Engineer
1 12 (17.39%) SIEM Engineer
2 11 (15.94%) Developer
2 11 (15.94%) Java Developer
3 7 (10.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 6 (8.70%) Automation Engineer
4 6 (8.70%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 6 (8.70%) Site Engineer
4 6 (8.70%) Support Engineer
5 5 (7.25%) Administrator
5 5 (7.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (7.25%) Senior
6 4 (5.80%) DBA
7 3 (4.35%) Azure Administrator
7 3 (4.35%) Consultant
7 3 (4.35%) Elasticsearch Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Security Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) Senior DevOps
8 2 (2.90%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (24.64%) Spring Boot
2 13 (18.84%) JSON
3 12 (17.39%) Spring
4 11 (15.94%) Kafka
5 9 (13.04%) RESTful
5 9 (13.04%) XML
5 9 (13.04%) YAML
6 8 (11.59%) OpenTracing
7 5 (7.25%) REST
8 3 (4.35%) Lucene
8 3 (4.35%) Node.js
8 3 (4.35%) React
8 3 (4.35%) Web Services
9 2 (2.90%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (2.90%) Mustache
10 1 (1.45%) AngularJS
10 1 (1.45%) Apache Camel
10 1 (1.45%) jOOQ
10 1 (1.45%) Keycloak
10 1 (1.45%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (24.64%) Data Structures
2 13 (18.84%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (15.94%) Linux Command Line
4 10 (14.49%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.35%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.90%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (2.90%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (2.90%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.90%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.90%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.45%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.45%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.45%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.45%) Clustering
7 1 (1.45%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.45%) Fat Client
7 1 (1.45%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.45%) PKI
7 1 (1.45%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 44 (63.77%) Linux
2 26 (37.68%) Windows
3 11 (15.94%) Ubuntu
4 5 (7.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (5.80%) Oracle Linux
6 3 (4.35%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.45%) Unix
7 1 (1.45%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.45%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (47.83%) CI/CD
1 33 (47.83%) DevOps
2 29 (42.03%) Continuous Integration
3 27 (39.13%) Agile
4 19 (27.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (27.54%) Project Management
5 17 (24.64%) Containerisation
5 17 (24.64%) Microservices
6 15 (21.74%) SIEM
7 14 (20.29%) Scrum
8 12 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (17.39%) Test Automation
9 11 (15.94%) Infrastructure Monitoring
10 10 (14.49%) Continuous Delivery
10 10 (14.49%) DevSecOps
10 10 (14.49%) Software Engineering
11 9 (13.04%) Configuration Management
11 9 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (13.04%) Use Case
11 9 (13.04%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 21 (30.43%) Python
2 16 (23.19%) Bash
2 16 (23.19%) Java
2 16 (23.19%) PowerShell
3 8 (11.59%) Kotlin
3 8 (11.59%) R
3 8 (11.59%) Scala
4 5 (7.25%) Perl
5 4 (5.80%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.80%) Shell Script
6 3 (4.35%) ActionScript
6 3 (4.35%) Go
7 2 (2.90%) SQL
8 1 (1.45%) Bicep
8 1 (1.45%) C
8 1 (1.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (31.88%) Security Cleared
2 13 (18.84%) DV Cleared
3 12 (17.39%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.80%) Degree
5 2 (2.90%) CEH
5 2 (2.90%) CISSP
5 2 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.90%) SANS
6 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.45%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.45%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.45%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (26.09%) QA
2 1 (1.45%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (57.97%) Docker
2 16 (23.19%) Active Directory
3 9 (13.04%) iptables
4 3 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.45%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 44 (63.77%) Kubernetes
2 35 (50.72%) Prometheus
3 33 (47.83%) Ansible
4 31 (44.93%) Terraform
5 28 (40.58%) Kibana
6 27 (39.13%) Grafana
7 23 (33.33%) logstash
8 19 (27.54%) Progress Chef
9 15 (21.74%) Puppet
10 10 (14.49%) Graylog
11 9 (13.04%) Docker Swarm
12 8 (11.59%) Zipkin
13 7 (10.14%) Nagios
14 6 (8.70%) Nessus
15 5 (7.25%) HP Fortify
15 5 (7.25%) WebInspect
16 4 (5.80%) yum
17 3 (4.35%) Rancher
18 1 (1.45%) Failover Clustering
18 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 25 (36.23%) Splunk
2 16 (23.19%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.70%) Checkmarx
4 5 (7.25%) AppDynamics
4 5 (7.25%) Red Hat
4 5 (7.25%) Veracode
4 5 (7.25%) VMware
5 4 (5.80%) Oracle
6 3 (4.35%) F5
6 3 (4.35%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.45%) AlienVault
7 1 (1.45%) Cisco
7 1 (1.45%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.45%) SAP
7 1 (1.45%) SolarWinds