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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 400 498 501
Rank change year-on-year +98 +3 +11
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 178 186 385
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.33% 0.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.97% 1.45% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 129 262
10th Percentile £418 £450 £475
25th Percentile £500 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +11.11%
75th Percentile £667 £688 £700
90th Percentile £728 £900 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £622 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +13.09% -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
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 9,058 12,870 23,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.04% 22.96% 26.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,281 9,398 17,328
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 147 222
10th Percentile £21.89 £30.45 £25.05
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.55 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.25
% change year-on-year -25.49% +17.65% +22.78%

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 1 June 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 16 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 1 June 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 +74 145 £600 - 49
UK excluding London +76 87 £622 +13.09% 31
London +58 68 £533 -14.11% 21
Work from Home +66 44 £600 +11.63% 27
North of England +33 21 £624 +16.27% 8
Midlands +38 20 £544 -1.14% 2
South West +11 17 £690 +20.00% 8
West Midlands +26 15 £550 -21.43% 1
South East +12 15 £630 +6.37% 6
Yorkshire +29 13 £622 +15.99% 1
Scotland - 10 £400 - 2
Wales +18 5 £645 -0.85%
East Midlands +15 5 £356 -30.87% 1
North West +19 4 £650 +72.41% 6
North East +13 4 - - 1
East of England +3 1 £700 +75.00% 1

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 24 (13.48%) OpenStack
2 23 (12.92%) Confluence
3 13 (7.30%) Apache Spark
4 7 (3.93%) JBoss
5 3 (1.69%) Apache
5 3 (1.69%) nginx
6 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.12%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.56%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 81 (45.51%) AWS
2 59 (33.15%) Azure
3 35 (19.66%) GCP
4 24 (13.48%) OpenShift
5 21 (11.80%) GitHub
6 16 (8.99%) Amazon EKS
7 15 (8.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (7.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (7.30%) Serverless
8 13 (7.30%) Slack
9 12 (6.74%) Amazon S3
10 9 (5.06%) Azure Sentinel
10 9 (5.06%) Kong
11 7 (3.93%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (3.93%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (3.37%) Apigee
12 6 (3.37%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (3.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (2.81%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (2.25%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (13.48%) Firewall
1 24 (13.48%) TCP/IP
2 15 (8.43%) HTTP
3 14 (7.87%) DNS
4 13 (7.30%) VPN
5 4 (2.25%) 5G
5 4 (2.25%) DHCP
5 4 (2.25%) Diameter Protocol
5 4 (2.25%) LTE
5 4 (2.25%) SSL
6 3 (1.69%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (1.69%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 3 (1.69%) FTP
6 3 (1.69%) ICMP
6 3 (1.69%) POP3
6 3 (1.69%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (1.69%) SMTP
6 3 (1.69%) SNMP
6 3 (1.69%) SSH
6 3 (1.69%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (48.88%) Elasticsearch
2 28 (15.73%) Relational Database
3 22 (12.36%) MySQL
4 13 (7.30%) SQL Server
5 11 (6.18%) RDBMS
6 8 (4.49%) Big Data
6 8 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (3.93%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.81%) Apache Cassandra
8 5 (2.81%) Hadoop
9 4 (2.25%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (2.25%) DataStax
9 4 (2.25%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.69%) NonStop SQL
10 3 (1.69%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (1.12%) Power BI
12 1 (0.56%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 69 (38.76%) Jenkins
2 42 (23.60%) Git
3 33 (18.54%) JIRA
4 28 (15.73%) GitLab
5 14 (7.87%) SonarQube
6 12 (6.74%) CircleCI
7 10 (5.62%) Travis CI
8 9 (5.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 9 (5.06%) Bitbucket
9 7 (3.93%) Burp Suite
9 7 (3.93%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (3.37%) AppScan
10 6 (3.37%) Maven
11 5 (2.81%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (2.81%) CA Release Automation
11 5 (2.81%) Subversion
11 5 (2.81%) TeamCity
12 4 (2.25%) Cypress.io
13 3 (1.69%) JUnit
13 3 (1.69%) Selenium
General
1 33 (18.54%) Social Skills
2 22 (12.36%) Finance
3 19 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.11%) Banking
5 11 (6.18%) Telecoms
6 9 (5.06%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.69%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.12%) Marketing
8 2 (1.12%) Military
8 2 (1.12%) Public Speaking
8 2 (1.12%) Retail
9 1 (0.56%) Electronics
9 1 (0.56%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (0.56%) French Language
9 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 30 (16.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (11.24%) Developer
3 19 (10.67%) Lead
4 16 (8.99%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 15 (8.43%) SIEM Engineer
5 15 (8.43%) Site Engineer
6 14 (7.87%) Senior
7 13 (7.30%) Java Developer
8 11 (6.18%) Analyst
8 11 (6.18%) Architect
9 10 (5.62%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (5.62%) Lead DevOps
10 9 (5.06%) AWS DevOps
10 9 (5.06%) SOC Analyst
11 8 (4.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.49%) Consultant
12 7 (3.93%) Administrator
12 7 (3.93%) Solutions Architect
12 7 (3.93%) Support Engineer
12 7 (3.93%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (14.61%) Kafka
2 23 (12.92%) Spring Boot
3 19 (10.67%) Spring
4 18 (10.11%) JSON
5 16 (8.99%) XML
6 14 (7.87%) Node.js
7 13 (7.30%) React
8 12 (6.74%) REST
9 11 (6.18%) RESTful
10 10 (5.62%) YAML
11 8 (4.49%) OpenTracing
11 8 (4.49%) Web Services
12 6 (3.37%) CSS
13 5 (2.81%) .NET
13 5 (2.81%) AngularJS
13 5 (2.81%) HTML
14 4 (2.25%) .NET Core
14 4 (2.25%) Lucene
14 4 (2.25%) Mustache
14 4 (2.25%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.92%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (10.67%) Management Information System
3 18 (10.11%) Cyber Defence
3 18 (10.11%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 18 (10.11%) Cyber Threat
4 17 (9.55%) Data Structures
5 16 (8.99%) Onboarding
6 13 (7.30%) Public Cloud
7 12 (6.74%) Cloud Native
8 11 (6.18%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (3.37%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (2.81%) Virtual Team
11 4 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.69%) Data Centre
12 3 (1.69%) Distributed Applications
13 2 (1.12%) CBDC
13 2 (1.12%) Fat Client
13 2 (1.12%) Mobile App
13 2 (1.12%) PKI
13 2 (1.12%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 87 (48.88%) Linux
2 37 (20.79%) Windows
3 21 (11.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (7.87%) CentOS
5 11 (6.18%) Ubuntu
6 8 (4.49%) Windows Server
7 7 (3.93%) Unix
8 4 (2.25%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.56%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (51.12%) CI/CD
2 85 (47.75%) DevOps
3 75 (42.13%) Agile
4 54 (30.34%) Infrastructure as Code
5 44 (24.72%) Continuous Integration
6 43 (24.16%) Containerisation
7 40 (22.47%) SIEM
8 38 (21.35%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (17.42%) Microservices
10 27 (15.17%) Observability
10 27 (15.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 27 (15.17%) Test Automation
11 26 (14.61%) Cybersecurity
12 22 (12.36%) Project Management
13 21 (11.80%) Configuration Management
13 21 (11.80%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 21 (11.80%) Information Security
13 21 (11.80%) Scrum
13 21 (11.80%) Threat Intelligence
14 20 (11.24%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 76 (42.70%) Python
2 46 (25.84%) Bash
3 42 (23.60%) Java
4 25 (14.04%) JavaScript
5 21 (11.80%) PowerShell
6 20 (11.24%) Shell Script
7 18 (10.11%) Go
8 13 (7.30%) Perl
9 9 (5.06%) Ruby
9 9 (5.06%) TypeScript
10 8 (4.49%) Kotlin
10 8 (4.49%) R
10 8 (4.49%) Scala
11 7 (3.93%) Groovy
11 7 (3.93%) SQL
12 6 (3.37%) C#
13 3 (1.69%) ActionScript
14 2 (1.12%) C
14 2 (1.12%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.56%) C++
Qualifications
1 63 (35.39%) Security Cleared
2 39 (21.91%) DV Cleared
3 29 (16.29%) SC Cleared
4 20 (11.24%) Degree
5 14 (7.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (5.06%) CEH
6 9 (5.06%) CISSP
7 4 (2.25%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.25%) SANS
8 3 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.12%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.56%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (13.48%) QA
2 10 (5.62%) NIST
3 9 (5.06%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.56%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 74 (41.57%) Docker
2 21 (11.80%) Active Directory
3 9 (5.06%) iptables
4 7 (3.93%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.81%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.12%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.56%) Postfix
7 1 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 91 (51.12%) Kubernetes
2 79 (44.38%) Ansible
2 79 (44.38%) Kibana
3 70 (39.33%) logstash
4 68 (38.20%) Prometheus
4 68 (38.20%) Terraform
5 57 (32.02%) Grafana
6 31 (17.42%) Puppet
7 29 (16.29%) Progress Chef
8 13 (7.30%) Graylog
9 12 (6.74%) Nagios
10 9 (5.06%) Docker Swarm
11 8 (4.49%) Zipkin
12 7 (3.93%) Nessus
12 7 (3.93%) Rancher
13 6 (3.37%) HP Fortify
13 6 (3.37%) Opsgenie
13 6 (3.37%) WebInspect
14 4 (2.25%) QRadar
14 4 (2.25%) yum
Vendors
1 42 (23.60%) Splunk
2 40 (22.47%) Microsoft
3 25 (14.04%) Red Hat
4 15 (8.43%) VMware
5 13 (7.30%) Amdocs
6 10 (5.62%) Oracle
7 9 (5.06%) Dynatrace
7 9 (5.06%) Tanium
8 8 (4.49%) SAP
9 7 (3.93%) Checkmarx
9 7 (3.93%) Salesforce
10 6 (3.37%) AppDynamics
10 6 (3.37%) New Relic
10 6 (3.37%) PagerDuty
10 6 (3.37%) Veracode
11 5 (2.81%) Adobe
12 4 (2.25%) ArcSight
12 4 (2.25%) Confluent
12 4 (2.25%) ServiceNow
13 3 (1.69%) AlienVault