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 remote or hybrid contract work 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 296 367 433
Rank change year-on-year +71 +66 -49
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 45 90 194
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.30% 0.38% 0.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.21% 1.51% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 61 134
10th Percentile £378 £475 £463
25th Percentile £459 £495 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £569
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -3.30% +8.33%
75th Percentile £690 £875 £650
90th Percentile £738 £900 £704
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £67.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £76.50 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,723 5,975 13,044
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.23% 25.03% 29.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,616 4,481 9,688
10th Percentile £350 £388 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £825 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 79 111
10th Percentile £23.88 £25.10 £22.50
25th Percentile - £48.13 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £64.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.81% +21.90% +16.67%
75th Percentile £61.50 £73.75 £67.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.05 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%

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 12 June 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 8 (17.78%) Confluence
2 3 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.67%) JBoss
3 2 (4.44%) Apache
3 2 (4.44%) nginx
3 2 (4.44%) OpenStack
4 1 (2.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (55.56%) AWS
2 15 (33.33%) Azure
3 9 (20.00%) GCP
3 9 (20.00%) OpenShift
4 8 (17.78%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (13.33%) GitHub
6 5 (11.11%) Serverless
7 4 (8.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (6.67%) IaaS
8 3 (6.67%) Kong
8 3 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (4.44%) Amazon S3
9 2 (4.44%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (4.44%) Apigee
9 2 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (2.22%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 1 (2.22%) AWS CloudTrail
10 1 (2.22%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.56%) Firewall
1 7 (15.56%) TCP/IP
2 4 (8.89%) DNS
3 3 (6.67%) HTTP
3 3 (6.67%) VPN
4 2 (4.44%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (4.44%) SNMP
4 2 (4.44%) SSL
4 2 (4.44%) Wireshark
5 1 (2.22%) BIG-IP
5 1 (2.22%) DHCP
5 1 (2.22%) DSL
5 1 (2.22%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (2.22%) Network Security
5 1 (2.22%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (2.22%) tcpdump
5 1 (2.22%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (22.22%) Relational Database
3 4 (8.89%) Apache Cassandra
3 4 (8.89%) MySQL
3 4 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (8.89%) RDBMS
4 3 (6.67%) DataStax
5 2 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (4.44%) NonStop SQL
5 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.22%) CouchDB
6 1 (2.22%) Flink
6 1 (2.22%) MariaDB
6 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.22%) Power BI
6 1 (2.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 11 (24.44%) Git
2 11 (24.44%) JIRA
3 6 (13.33%) SonarQube
4 5 (11.11%) GitLab
5 4 (8.89%) Bitbucket
5 4 (8.89%) CircleCI
5 4 (8.89%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (8.89%) Travis CI
6 3 (6.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (6.67%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (6.67%) CA Release Automation
6 3 (6.67%) TeamCity
7 2 (4.44%) Burp Suite
7 2 (4.44%) Selenium
8 1 (2.22%) AppScan
8 1 (2.22%) JMeter
8 1 (2.22%) JUnit
8 1 (2.22%) Maven
8 1 (2.22%) TestNG
General
1 17 (37.78%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.56%) Finance
3 6 (13.33%) Banking
4 5 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.67%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.44%) Marketing
6 2 (4.44%) Public Speaking
6 2 (4.44%) Retail
7 1 (2.22%) Electronics
7 1 (2.22%) French Language
7 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.22%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (31.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (15.56%) Lead
3 6 (13.33%) AWS DevOps
3 6 (13.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 6 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) Consultant
4 5 (11.11%) Developer
4 5 (11.11%) Lead DevOps
5 4 (8.89%) Java Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) DevOps Automation Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Kubernetes Consultant
6 3 (6.67%) Security Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Senior
6 3 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Support Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.00%) Kafka
2 8 (17.78%) Spring Boot
3 6 (13.33%) Spring
4 4 (8.89%) JSON
4 4 (8.89%) REST
4 4 (8.89%) XML
4 4 (8.89%) YAML
5 3 (6.67%) OpenTracing
5 3 (6.67%) React
5 3 (6.67%) RESTful
6 2 (4.44%) AWS SAM
6 2 (4.44%) CSS
6 2 (4.44%) HTML
6 2 (4.44%) Lucene
6 2 (4.44%) Mustache
6 2 (4.44%) Web Services
7 1 (2.22%) .NET
7 1 (2.22%) .NET Framework
7 1 (2.22%) LAMP
7 1 (2.22%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 6 (13.33%) Cyber Threat
1 6 (13.33%) Data Structures
1 6 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (11.11%) Cyber Defence
2 5 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 4 (8.89%) Virtual Team
4 3 (6.67%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (4.44%) CBDC
5 2 (4.44%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.22%) Digital Currency
6 1 (2.22%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 20 (44.44%) Linux
2 11 (24.44%) Windows
3 4 (8.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (6.67%) Windows Server
5 2 (4.44%) Unix
6 1 (2.22%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (64.44%) CI/CD
2 28 (62.22%) DevOps
3 18 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (37.78%) Agile
4 17 (37.78%) Continuous Integration
5 12 (26.67%) Containerisation
6 9 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 8 (17.78%) SIEM
7 8 (17.78%) Software Engineering
7 8 (17.78%) Use Case
8 7 (15.56%) Continuous Deployment
8 7 (15.56%) Incident Management
8 7 (15.56%) Mentoring
8 7 (15.56%) Microservices
8 7 (15.56%) Scrum
9 6 (13.33%) Build Automation
9 6 (13.33%) Protective Monitoring
9 6 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 22 (48.89%) Python
2 19 (42.22%) Bash
3 13 (28.89%) Java
4 7 (15.56%) Perl
5 6 (13.33%) Go
5 6 (13.33%) PowerShell
6 5 (11.11%) JavaScript
7 4 (8.89%) Groovy
7 4 (8.89%) Ruby
8 3 (6.67%) Kotlin
8 3 (6.67%) Scala
9 2 (4.44%) C
9 2 (4.44%) C#
9 2 (4.44%) Shell Script
10 1 (2.22%) ActionScript
10 1 (2.22%) Bicep
10 1 (2.22%) C++
10 1 (2.22%) PHP
10 1 (2.22%) Rust
10 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 6 (13.33%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 3 (6.67%) Degree
5 2 (4.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.44%) SANS
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.33%) NIST
2 5 (11.11%) NIST 800
2 5 (11.11%) QA
3 1 (2.22%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 26 (57.78%) Docker
2 5 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.22%) Postfix
3 1 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 22 (48.89%) Ansible
3 19 (42.22%) Prometheus
3 19 (42.22%) Terraform
4 18 (40.00%) Kibana
5 15 (33.33%) logstash
6 14 (31.11%) Grafana
6 14 (31.11%) Puppet
7 12 (26.67%) Progress Chef
8 3 (6.67%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (6.67%) Nagios
8 3 (6.67%) Zipkin
9 2 (4.44%) Graylog
9 2 (4.44%) Karpenter
9 2 (4.44%) OpenView
10 1 (2.22%) Argo
10 1 (2.22%) Nessus
10 1 (2.22%) SCOM
10 1 (2.22%) WebInspect
10 1 (2.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (22.22%) Splunk
3 7 (15.56%) Red Hat
4 6 (13.33%) Tanium
5 3 (6.67%) AppDynamics
5 3 (6.67%) Confluent
6 2 (4.44%) AlienVault
6 2 (4.44%) Checkmarx
6 2 (4.44%) Cisco
6 2 (4.44%) Fortinet
6 2 (4.44%) Google
6 2 (4.44%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.22%) F5
7 1 (2.22%) Oracle
7 1 (2.22%) SAP
7 1 (2.22%) Veracode