Elastic Stack Contracts

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 404 512 506
Rank change year-on-year +108 -6 -16
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 170 189 386
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.33% 0.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.91% 1.43% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 133 270
10th Percentile £414 £453 £463
25th Percentile £500 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £572 £588
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -2.64% +7.80%
75th Percentile £645 £700 £688
90th Percentile £725 £900 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% +12.50%
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% +100.00%
75th Percentile - £76.75 £85.00
90th Percentile - £82.80 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £78.00 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 8,901 13,257 23,600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.92% 23.22% 26.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,172 9,669 17,311
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 150 242
10th Percentile £21.25 £29.58 £22.75
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 £65.00 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £74.80 £81.13 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £64.50 £50.25
% change year-on-year -26.36% +28.36% +11.67%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Elastic Stack in the UK

Elastic Stack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Elastic Stack in the UK

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elastic Stack over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Elastic Stack in the UK

Elastic Stack
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Elastic Stack in the UK

Elastic Stack
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 15 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
England +78 139 £550 -7.76% 44
London +73 78 £518 -16.53% 19
UK excluding London +75 71 £550 - 28
Work from Home +72 44 £538 -2.27% 41
North of England +29 21 £624 +18.76% 5
Midlands +46 19 £550 - 4
West Midlands +30 14 £550 -21.43% 1
Yorkshire +31 13 £622 +15.99% 3
South East +21 11 £525 -13.76% 9
Scotland - 10 £400 - 2
Wales +23 5 £645 -0.85%
East Midlands +18 5 £356 -30.87% 3
South West +12 5 £750 +26.32% 7
North West +15 4 £650 +30.00% 2
North East +13 4 - -

Elastic Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 30 (17.65%) OpenStack
2 16 (9.41%) Confluence
3 12 (7.06%) Apache Spark
4 10 (5.88%) nginx
5 8 (4.71%) Apache
6 7 (4.12%) JBoss
7 3 (1.76%) Tomcat
8 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (1.18%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.59%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.59%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.59%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 90 (52.94%) AWS
2 58 (34.12%) Azure
3 31 (18.24%) GCP
4 21 (12.35%) GitHub
5 18 (10.59%) OpenShift
6 16 (9.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 16 (9.41%) Amazon EKS
6 16 (9.41%) Amazon S3
7 13 (7.65%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (7.65%) Serverless
7 13 (7.65%) Slack
8 11 (6.47%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (5.29%) Azure Sentinel
9 9 (5.29%) Kong
10 7 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (4.12%) PaaS
11 6 (3.53%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (3.53%) Apigee
11 6 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (3.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (14.71%) TCP/IP
2 24 (14.12%) Firewall
3 16 (9.41%) HTTP
4 14 (8.24%) VPN
5 13 (7.65%) DNS
6 4 (2.35%) 5G
6 4 (2.35%) DHCP
6 4 (2.35%) Diameter Protocol
6 4 (2.35%) FTP
6 4 (2.35%) ICMP
6 4 (2.35%) LTE
6 4 (2.35%) POP3
6 4 (2.35%) SMTP
6 4 (2.35%) SSH
6 4 (2.35%) SSL
7 3 (1.76%) BIG-IP
7 3 (1.76%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (1.76%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (1.76%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (1.76%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (50.59%) Elasticsearch
2 30 (17.65%) Relational Database
3 23 (13.53%) MySQL
4 15 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (8.82%) SQL Server
5 12 (7.06%) RDBMS
6 9 (5.29%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (4.71%) NoSQL
8 6 (3.53%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (2.94%) Big Data
9 5 (2.94%) Couchbase
9 5 (2.94%) Hadoop
10 4 (2.35%) MongoDB
11 3 (1.76%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.76%) NonStop SQL
12 2 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (1.18%) DataStax
12 2 (1.18%) Power BI
13 1 (0.59%) Flink
Development Applications
1 75 (44.12%) Jenkins
2 45 (26.47%) Git
3 26 (15.29%) JIRA
4 25 (14.71%) GitLab
5 16 (9.41%) SonarQube
6 11 (6.47%) Maven
7 10 (5.88%) Bitbucket
7 10 (5.88%) CircleCI
7 10 (5.88%) Travis CI
8 9 (5.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (4.12%) Burp Suite
9 7 (4.12%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (3.53%) AppScan
11 5 (2.94%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (2.94%) CA Release Automation
11 5 (2.94%) JUnit
11 5 (2.94%) Selenium
11 5 (2.94%) Subversion
11 5 (2.94%) TeamCity
12 4 (2.35%) Postman
General
1 21 (12.35%) Social Skills
2 20 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (11.76%) Finance
3 17 (10.00%) Banking
4 13 (7.65%) Telecoms
5 6 (3.53%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.76%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.18%) Marketing
7 2 (1.18%) Military
7 2 (1.18%) Public Speaking
7 2 (1.18%) Retail
8 1 (0.59%) Electronics
8 1 (0.59%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (0.59%) French Language
8 1 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.59%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.59%) Police
Job Titles
1 29 (17.06%) DevOps Engineer
2 23 (13.53%) Developer
3 20 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 17 (10.00%) Site Engineer
5 16 (9.41%) Lead
5 16 (9.41%) SIEM Engineer
6 15 (8.82%) Senior
7 14 (8.24%) Java Developer
8 13 (7.65%) Architect
8 13 (7.65%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (7.06%) AWS DevOps
10 11 (6.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 9 (5.29%) Analyst
11 9 (5.29%) Consultant
11 9 (5.29%) SOC Analyst
12 7 (4.12%) Lead DevOps
12 7 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
12 7 (4.12%) Support Engineer
12 7 (4.12%) VMware Architect
13 6 (3.53%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (14.71%) Kafka
1 25 (14.71%) Spring Boot
2 21 (12.35%) Spring
3 18 (10.59%) JSON
4 16 (9.41%) XML
5 14 (8.24%) REST
6 11 (6.47%) Node.js
6 11 (6.47%) RESTful
7 10 (5.88%) React
7 10 (5.88%) YAML
8 8 (4.71%) OpenTracing
8 8 (4.71%) Web Services
9 6 (3.53%) CSS
9 6 (3.53%) LAPP Stack
9 6 (3.53%) Mustache
10 5 (2.94%) AngularJS
10 5 (2.94%) HTML
10 5 (2.94%) Swagger
11 4 (2.35%) .NET
11 4 (2.35%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.12%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (11.18%) Public Cloud
3 17 (10.00%) Data Structures
4 16 (9.41%) Onboarding
5 11 (6.47%) Cloud Native
5 11 (6.47%) Linux Command Line
6 10 (5.88%) Management Information System
7 9 (5.29%) Cyber Defence
7 9 (5.29%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 9 (5.29%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (3.53%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (2.94%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.76%) Distributed Applications
11 2 (1.18%) CBDC
11 2 (1.18%) Client/Server
11 2 (1.18%) Data Centre
11 2 (1.18%) Fat Client
11 2 (1.18%) PKI
11 2 (1.18%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 90 (52.94%) Linux
2 37 (21.76%) Windows
3 23 (13.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (12.35%) CentOS
5 16 (9.41%) Ubuntu
6 8 (4.71%) Unix
7 7 (4.12%) Windows Server
8 5 (2.94%) VMS
9 4 (2.35%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.59%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (57.65%) CI/CD
2 83 (48.82%) DevOps
3 68 (40.00%) Agile
4 58 (34.12%) Infrastructure as Code
5 44 (25.88%) Continuous Integration
6 40 (23.53%) Containerisation
7 38 (22.35%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (18.24%) Microservices
8 31 (18.24%) SIEM
9 30 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 29 (17.06%) Observability
11 26 (15.29%) Test Automation
12 24 (14.12%) Configuration Management
13 23 (13.53%) Project Management
14 21 (12.35%) Scrum
15 18 (10.59%) Computer Science
16 16 (9.41%) Cybersecurity
17 15 (8.82%) Software Engineering
18 14 (8.24%) Analytics
18 14 (8.24%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 75 (44.12%) Python
2 43 (25.29%) Bash
3 42 (24.71%) Java
4 22 (12.94%) Shell Script
5 21 (12.35%) JavaScript
5 21 (12.35%) PowerShell
6 20 (11.76%) Go
7 13 (7.65%) SQL
8 12 (7.06%) Perl
9 8 (4.71%) Kotlin
9 8 (4.71%) R
9 8 (4.71%) Scala
10 6 (3.53%) Groovy
10 6 (3.53%) TypeScript
11 5 (2.94%) C#
11 5 (2.94%) Ruby
12 3 (1.76%) ActionScript
13 2 (1.18%) C
13 2 (1.18%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.59%) C++
Qualifications
1 50 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 31 (18.24%) SC Cleared
3 25 (14.71%) DV Cleared
4 20 (11.76%) Degree
5 14 (8.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (5.29%) CEH
6 9 (5.29%) CISSP
7 4 (2.35%) SANS
8 3 (1.76%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.59%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.59%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.59%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (14.71%) QA
2 1 (0.59%) ISO 20022
2 1 (0.59%) NIST
2 1 (0.59%) SLA
System Software
1 71 (41.76%) Docker
2 20 (11.76%) Active Directory
3 14 (8.24%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (5.29%) iptables
5 3 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.18%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.59%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.59%) HDFS
7 1 (0.59%) Postfix
7 1 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.59%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 87 (51.18%) Kubernetes
2 84 (49.41%) Ansible
3 77 (45.29%) Terraform
4 76 (44.71%) Prometheus
5 67 (39.41%) Kibana
6 63 (37.06%) Grafana
7 59 (34.71%) logstash
8 28 (16.47%) Progress Chef
9 27 (15.88%) Puppet
10 14 (8.24%) Graylog
11 13 (7.65%) Nagios
12 9 (5.29%) Docker Swarm
13 8 (4.71%) Zipkin
14 7 (4.12%) Nessus
15 6 (3.53%) HP Fortify
15 6 (3.53%) Opsgenie
15 6 (3.53%) WebInspect
16 5 (2.94%) QRadar
16 5 (2.94%) ZABBIX
17 4 (2.35%) yum
Vendors
1 45 (26.47%) Splunk
2 32 (18.82%) Microsoft
3 27 (15.88%) Red Hat
4 13 (7.65%) Amdocs
4 13 (7.65%) VMware
5 11 (6.47%) Oracle
6 9 (5.29%) Dynatrace
7 8 (4.71%) SAP
8 7 (4.12%) Checkmarx
8 7 (4.12%) Salesforce
9 6 (3.53%) AppDynamics
9 6 (3.53%) New Relic
9 6 (3.53%) PagerDuty
9 6 (3.53%) Veracode
10 5 (2.94%) Adobe
10 5 (2.94%) ArcSight
11 3 (1.76%) Cisco
11 3 (1.76%) F5
11 3 (1.76%) Fortinet
11 3 (1.76%) SolarWinds