Elastic Stack Contracts in the West Midlands

Elastic Stack (formerly ELK Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Elastic Stack skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Elastic Stack over the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 121 155
Rank change year-on-year +28 +34 -26
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 17 2 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.83% 0.091% 0.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.76% 0.57% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 7
10th Percentile £423 £507 £477
25th Percentile £527 £539 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £595 £585
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% +1.71% +8.33%
75th Percentile £571 £649 £652
90th Percentile £644 £680 £661
England median daily rate £600 £605 £605
% change year-on-year -0.83% - +15.24%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

Elastic Stack falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 295 349 620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.43% 15.81% 17.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 243 429
10th Percentile £313 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% +23.64%
75th Percentile £639 £688 £586
90th Percentile £750 £700 £638
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 2
10th Percentile £14.23 - £56.51
25th Percentile £39.92 - £56.54
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £58.14
Median % change year-on-year - - +191.57%
75th Percentile £56.25 - £59.82
90th Percentile £60.00 - £59.88
England median hourly rate £58.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -10.77% +23.81% +16.67%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Elastic Stack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Elastic Stack in the West Midlands

Elastic Stack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Elastic Stack in the West Midlands

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elastic Stack in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Elastic Stack in the West Midlands

Elastic Stack
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 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
Herefordshire - 13 £550 - 1
Birmingham - 2 £425 - 2
Elastic Stack
England

Elastic Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (11.76%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
1 1 (5.88%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (88.24%) Elasticsearch
General
1 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Fire and Rescue
3 1 (5.88%) Military
3 1 (5.88%) Police
Job Titles
1 12 (70.59%) SIEM Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Elasticsearch Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Lead DevOps
3 2 (11.76%) SOC Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 11 (64.71%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (17.65%) Management Information System
3 2 (11.76%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (11.76%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 2 (11.76%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (5.88%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (64.71%) Linux
2 10 (58.82%) Ubuntu
2 10 (58.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) SIEM
2 11 (64.71%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 9 (52.94%) RBAC
3 9 (52.94%) Visualisation
4 8 (47.06%) Data Pipeline
4 8 (47.06%) DataOps
5 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
5 3 (17.65%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (17.65%) Dashboard Development
5 3 (17.65%) Incident Response
5 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (17.65%) Security Operations
5 3 (17.65%) Threat Detection
5 3 (17.65%) Threat Intelligence
6 2 (11.76%) Case Management
6 2 (11.76%) DevOps
6 2 (11.76%) Protective Monitoring
6 2 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) R
2 1 (5.88%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) Security Cleared
2 7 (41.18%) SC Cleared
3 6 (35.29%) DV Cleared
4 3 (17.65%) CISSP
4 3 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (17.65%) Degree
5 2 (11.76%) CEH
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
6 1 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (5.88%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 9 (52.94%) Active Directory
1 9 (52.94%) iptables
Systems Management
1 17 (100.00%) logstash
2 15 (88.24%) Kibana
3 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft