Elastic Stack Contracts with Work from Home Options

Elastic Stack (formerly ELK Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 304 371 434
Rank change year-on-year +67 +63 -58
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 43 97 194
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.29% 0.39% 0.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.18% 1.56% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 65 134
10th Percentile £365 £475 £463
25th Percentile £450 £495 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.68%
75th Percentile £622 £900 £643
90th Percentile £710 - £700
UK median daily rate £550 £572 £588
% change year-on-year -3.85% -2.64% +8.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £67.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +100.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and 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 3,629 6,225 12,985
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.52% 25.26% 29.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,545 4,638 9,580
10th Percentile £339 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +12.24%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £645
90th Percentile £800 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 77 124
10th Percentile £24.45 £22.50 £21.30
25th Percentile - £45.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £65.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

Elastic Stack
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Elastic Stack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Elastic Stack trend for jobs with a WFH option

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Elastic Stack.

Elastic Stack daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Elastic Stack over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Elastic Stack daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Elastic Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (13.95%) Confluence
1 6 (13.95%) OpenStack
2 5 (11.63%) nginx
3 4 (9.30%) Apache
3 4 (9.30%) Apache Spark
4 3 (6.98%) JBoss
5 2 (4.65%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (67.44%) AWS
2 16 (37.21%) Azure
3 10 (23.26%) GCP
4 8 (18.60%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (18.60%) OpenShift
5 6 (13.95%) GitHub
5 6 (13.95%) Serverless
6 5 (11.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (9.30%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (6.98%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (6.98%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (6.98%) IaaS
8 3 (6.98%) Kong
8 3 (6.98%) PaaS
8 3 (6.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (4.65%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 2 (4.65%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (4.65%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (4.65%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (4.65%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 7 (16.28%) Firewall
1 7 (16.28%) TCP/IP
2 4 (9.30%) DNS
3 3 (6.98%) HTTP
3 3 (6.98%) VPN
4 2 (4.65%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (4.65%) SNMP
4 2 (4.65%) SSL
4 2 (4.65%) Wireshark
5 1 (2.33%) BIG-IP
5 1 (2.33%) DHCP
5 1 (2.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (2.33%) Network Security
5 1 (2.33%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (2.33%) tcpdump
5 1 (2.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (44.19%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (23.26%) Relational Database
3 7 (16.28%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (9.30%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (9.30%) MySQL
4 4 (9.30%) RDBMS
5 3 (6.98%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.65%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (4.65%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (4.65%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (4.65%) Couchbase
6 2 (4.65%) NonStop SQL
6 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.33%) CouchDB
7 1 (2.33%) DataStax
7 1 (2.33%) Flink
7 1 (2.33%) Hadoop
7 1 (2.33%) MariaDB
7 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (44.19%) Jenkins
2 13 (30.23%) Git
3 9 (20.93%) JIRA
4 7 (16.28%) SonarQube
5 5 (11.63%) GitLab
6 4 (9.30%) CircleCI
6 4 (9.30%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (9.30%) Travis CI
7 3 (6.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (6.98%) Bitbucket
7 3 (6.98%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (6.98%) CA Release Automation
7 3 (6.98%) Selenium
7 3 (6.98%) TeamCity
8 2 (4.65%) Cucumber
8 2 (4.65%) EasyMock
8 2 (4.65%) JUnit
8 2 (4.65%) Maven
8 2 (4.65%) Mockito
8 2 (4.65%) TestNG
General
1 12 (27.91%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.63%) Finance
3 4 (9.30%) Banking
3 4 (9.30%) Telecoms
4 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.65%) Marketing
5 2 (4.65%) Public Speaking
5 2 (4.65%) Retail
6 1 (2.33%) Electronics
6 1 (2.33%) French Language
6 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 15 (34.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (18.60%) AWS DevOps
3 7 (16.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 7 (16.28%) AWS Engineer
3 7 (16.28%) Developer
4 6 (13.95%) Lead
5 5 (11.63%) Consultant
5 5 (11.63%) Senior
6 4 (9.30%) Java Developer
6 4 (9.30%) Lead DevOps
6 4 (9.30%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (6.98%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) DevOps Automation Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Kubernetes Consultant
7 3 (6.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Support Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.93%) Kafka
1 9 (20.93%) Spring Boot
2 7 (16.28%) Spring
3 5 (11.63%) REST
4 4 (9.30%) JSON
4 4 (9.30%) XML
4 4 (9.30%) YAML
5 3 (6.98%) AWS SAM
5 3 (6.98%) LAPP Stack
5 3 (6.98%) Mustache
5 3 (6.98%) OpenTracing
5 3 (6.98%) React
5 3 (6.98%) RESTful
6 2 (4.65%) Gherkin
6 2 (4.65%) Guice
6 2 (4.65%) JAX-RS
6 2 (4.65%) Lucene
6 2 (4.65%) OpenAPI
6 2 (4.65%) Swagger
6 2 (4.65%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Data Structures
1 6 (13.95%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (9.30%) Public Cloud
2 4 (9.30%) Virtual Team
3 3 (6.98%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (4.65%) CBDC
4 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.33%) Digital Currency
5 1 (2.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 25 (58.14%) Linux
2 10 (23.26%) Windows
3 6 (13.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (11.63%) CentOS
5 3 (6.98%) Unix
6 2 (4.65%) Ubuntu
6 2 (4.65%) VMS
6 2 (4.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (79.07%) CI/CD
2 30 (69.77%) DevOps
3 21 (48.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (39.53%) Continuous Integration
5 16 (37.21%) Agile
6 13 (30.23%) Containerisation
7 10 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (20.93%) Configuration Management
8 9 (20.93%) Test Automation
9 8 (18.60%) Microservices
9 8 (18.60%) Software Engineering
10 7 (16.28%) Analytics
10 7 (16.28%) Continuous Deployment
10 7 (16.28%) Scrum
11 6 (13.95%) Build Automation
11 6 (13.95%) Deployment Automation
11 6 (13.95%) Disaster Recovery
11 6 (13.95%) Observability
11 6 (13.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 25 (58.14%) Python
2 21 (48.84%) Bash
3 13 (30.23%) Java
4 8 (18.60%) Perl
5 7 (16.28%) Go
5 7 (16.28%) JavaScript
6 6 (13.95%) PowerShell
7 4 (9.30%) Ruby
8 3 (6.98%) C#
8 3 (6.98%) Kotlin
8 3 (6.98%) Scala
8 3 (6.98%) Shell Script
9 2 (4.65%) C
9 2 (4.65%) Groovy
9 2 (4.65%) SQL
10 1 (2.33%) ActionScript
10 1 (2.33%) Bicep
10 1 (2.33%) C++
10 1 (2.33%) Rust
10 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (27.91%) Security Cleared
2 8 (18.60%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.30%) Degree
3 4 (9.30%) DV Cleared
4 3 (6.98%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.65%) SANS
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) QA
2 1 (2.33%) ISO 20022
2 1 (2.33%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (62.79%) Docker
2 5 (11.63%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (9.30%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.33%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 28 (65.12%) Kubernetes
2 26 (60.47%) Ansible
3 23 (53.49%) Prometheus
3 23 (53.49%) Terraform
4 19 (44.19%) Grafana
5 13 (30.23%) Kibana
6 12 (27.91%) Progress Chef
7 11 (25.58%) Puppet
8 10 (23.26%) logstash
9 3 (6.98%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (6.98%) Nagios
9 3 (6.98%) Zipkin
10 2 (4.65%) Graylog
10 2 (4.65%) Kustomize
10 2 (4.65%) OpenView
10 2 (4.65%) Packer
10 2 (4.65%) ZABBIX
11 1 (2.33%) HP Fortify
11 1 (2.33%) Nessus
11 1 (2.33%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 10 (23.26%) Splunk
2 8 (18.60%) Red Hat
3 6 (13.95%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.98%) AppDynamics
5 2 (4.65%) AlienVault
5 2 (4.65%) Checkmarx
5 2 (4.65%) Cisco
5 2 (4.65%) Fortinet
5 2 (4.65%) Google
5 2 (4.65%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.33%) Confluent
6 1 (2.33%) F5
6 1 (2.33%) Oracle
6 1 (2.33%) SAP
6 1 (2.33%) Veracode