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

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 415 505 499
Rank change year-on-year +90 -6 0
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 178 183 381
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.33% 0.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.94% 1.43% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 129 258
10th Percentile £418 £463 £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 £700 £700
90th Percentile £728 £900 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £622 £563 £575
% change year-on-year +10.58% -2.17% +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 9,170 12,773 23,708
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.10% 22.91% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,339 9,318 17,450
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £670
90th Percentile £775 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 150 223
10th Percentile £22.05 £30.68 £23.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £48.97 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.67% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £67.75 £75.00 £67.43
90th Percentile £74.49 £80.33 £76.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%

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 7 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 7 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 +79 145 £611 +1.83% 41
UK excluding London +97 89 £622 +10.58% 30
London +47 66 £525 -15.32% 14
Work from Home +79 45 £600 +9.09% 20
North of England +29 21 £624 +16.27% 8
Midlands +37 20 £544 -1.14% 3
South West +21 19 £690 +20.00% 9
South East +14 16 £661 +11.48% 5
West Midlands +28 15 £550 -21.43% 2
Yorkshire +26 13 £622 +15.99% 1
Scotland - 10 £400 - 1
Wales +18 5 £645 -0.85%
East Midlands +12 5 £356 -30.87% 1
North West +17 4 £650 +72.41% 6
North East +10 4 - - 1
East of England +8 1 £700 -

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%) Confluence
1 24 (13.48%) OpenStack
2 12 (6.74%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.93%) JBoss
4 3 (1.69%) Apache
5 2 (1.12%) MQSeries
5 2 (1.12%) nginx
6 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.56%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 80 (44.94%) AWS
2 58 (32.58%) Azure
3 34 (19.10%) GCP
4 24 (13.48%) OpenShift
5 21 (11.80%) GitHub
6 16 (8.99%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (7.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (7.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (7.30%) Slack
9 12 (6.74%) Amazon S3
9 12 (6.74%) Serverless
10 9 (5.06%) Azure Sentinel
10 9 (5.06%) Kong
11 7 (3.93%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (3.37%) Apigee
12 6 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
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%) TCP/IP
2 23 (12.92%) Firewall
3 15 (8.43%) HTTP
4 14 (7.87%) DNS
5 13 (7.30%) VPN
6 4 (2.25%) 5G
6 4 (2.25%) DHCP
6 4 (2.25%) Diameter Protocol
6 4 (2.25%) LTE
6 4 (2.25%) SSL
7 3 (1.69%) BIG-IP
7 3 (1.69%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (1.69%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (1.69%) FTP
7 3 (1.69%) ICMP
7 3 (1.69%) POP3
7 3 (1.69%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (1.69%) SMTP
7 3 (1.69%) SNMP
7 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 6 (3.37%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.81%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (2.25%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (2.25%) DataStax
9 4 (2.25%) Hadoop
9 4 (2.25%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.69%) NonStop SQL
10 3 (1.69%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.12%) Power BI
12 1 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.56%) Flink
12 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 68 (38.20%) Jenkins
2 43 (24.16%) Git
3 34 (19.10%) JIRA
4 28 (15.73%) GitLab
5 14 (7.87%) SonarQube
6 12 (6.74%) CircleCI
7 10 (5.62%) Bitbucket
7 10 (5.62%) Travis CI
8 9 (5.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
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%) Visual Studio Code
13 3 (1.69%) Cypress.io
13 3 (1.69%) Gradle
General
1 34 (19.10%) Social Skills
2 22 (12.36%) Finance
3 19 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.11%) Banking
5 11 (6.18%) Telecoms
6 10 (5.62%) 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 31 (17.42%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (10.67%) Developer
3 18 (10.11%) Lead
4 16 (8.99%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 15 (8.43%) SIEM Engineer
5 15 (8.43%) Site Engineer
6 13 (7.30%) Java Developer
7 12 (6.74%) Senior
8 11 (6.18%) Analyst
8 11 (6.18%) Architect
9 10 (5.62%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (5.06%) Lead DevOps
10 9 (5.06%) SOC Analyst
11 8 (4.49%) AWS DevOps
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 25 (14.04%) Kafka
2 23 (12.92%) Spring Boot
3 19 (10.67%) Spring
4 18 (10.11%) JSON
5 16 (8.99%) XML
6 15 (8.43%) Node.js
7 14 (7.87%) 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%) AngularJS
13 5 (2.81%) HTML
14 4 (2.25%) .NET
14 4 (2.25%) Lucene
14 4 (2.25%) Mustache
14 4 (2.25%) Sass
15 3 (1.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.92%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (11.24%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 20 (11.24%) Cyber Threat
2 20 (11.24%) Management Information System
3 19 (10.67%) Cyber Defence
4 17 (9.55%) Data Structures
5 16 (8.99%) Onboarding
6 13 (7.30%) Public Cloud
7 11 (6.18%) Cloud Native
7 11 (6.18%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (3.37%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (2.81%) Virtual Team
10 4 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.69%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (1.69%) Video Conferencing
12 2 (1.12%) CBDC
12 2 (1.12%) Client/Server
12 2 (1.12%) Fat Client
12 2 (1.12%) PKI
12 2 (1.12%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 85 (47.75%) Linux
2 36 (20.22%) Windows
3 21 (11.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (7.87%) CentOS
5 11 (6.18%) Ubuntu
6 7 (3.93%) Windows Server
7 6 (3.37%) Unix
8 4 (2.25%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 85 (47.75%) DevOps
3 74 (41.57%) Agile
4 53 (29.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 44 (24.72%) Continuous Integration
6 42 (23.60%) Containerisation
7 40 (22.47%) SIEM
8 37 (20.79%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (16.85%) Microservices
10 28 (15.73%) Cybersecurity
11 27 (15.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 26 (14.61%) Observability
12 26 (14.61%) Test Automation
13 22 (12.36%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 22 (12.36%) Information Security
13 22 (12.36%) Project Management
13 22 (12.36%) Threat Intelligence
14 21 (11.80%) Incident Response
14 21 (11.80%) MITRE ATT&CK
14 21 (11.80%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 75 (42.13%) Python
2 45 (25.28%) Bash
3 41 (23.03%) Java
4 24 (13.48%) JavaScript
5 21 (11.80%) PowerShell
6 20 (11.24%) Shell Script
7 17 (9.55%) Go
8 12 (6.74%) Perl
9 10 (5.62%) Ruby
9 10 (5.62%) TypeScript
10 8 (4.49%) Kotlin
10 8 (4.49%) R
10 8 (4.49%) Scala
11 7 (3.93%) Groovy
12 6 (3.37%) SQL
13 5 (2.81%) C#
14 3 (1.69%) ActionScript
15 2 (1.12%) C
15 2 (1.12%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.56%) C++
Qualifications
1 63 (35.39%) Security Cleared
2 40 (22.47%) DV Cleared
3 27 (15.17%) SC Cleared
4 19 (10.67%) Degree
5 13 (7.30%) 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 11 (6.18%) NIST
3 10 (5.62%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.56%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 73 (41.01%) Docker
2 20 (11.24%) Active Directory
3 9 (5.06%) iptables
4 7 (3.93%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.12%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.56%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 90 (50.56%) Kubernetes
2 82 (46.07%) Kibana
3 78 (43.82%) Ansible
4 73 (41.01%) logstash
5 68 (38.20%) Prometheus
6 67 (37.64%) Terraform
7 56 (31.46%) Grafana
8 31 (17.42%) Puppet
9 29 (16.29%) Progress Chef
10 13 (7.30%) Graylog
11 12 (6.74%) Nagios
12 9 (5.06%) Docker Swarm
13 8 (4.49%) Rancher
13 8 (4.49%) Zipkin
14 7 (3.93%) Nessus
15 6 (3.37%) HP Fortify
15 6 (3.37%) Opsgenie
15 6 (3.37%) WebInspect
16 4 (2.25%) QRadar
16 4 (2.25%) yum
Vendors
1 41 (23.03%) Microsoft
1 41 (23.03%) Splunk
2 25 (14.04%) Red Hat
3 14 (7.87%) VMware
4 13 (7.30%) Amdocs
5 11 (6.18%) Tanium
6 10 (5.62%) Oracle
7 9 (5.06%) Dynatrace
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%) Atlassian
12 4 (2.25%) Confluent
12 4 (2.25%) ServiceNow