Elastic Stack Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Elastic Stack (formerly ELK Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Elastic Stack skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 78 -
Rank change year-on-year +13 - -
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.69% 0.11% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.73% 0.57% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £442 - -
25th Percentile £455 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
75th Percentile £547 £638 -
90th Percentile £564 - -
South West median daily rate £550 £650 £695
% change year-on-year -15.38% -6.47% +6.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
South West median hourly rate £80.00 - £78.00

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 134 174 210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 18.48% 19.02% 19.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 93 158
10th Percentile £320 £328 £313
25th Percentile £389 £413 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £456
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +9.59% -13.10%
75th Percentile £543 £575 £611
90th Percentile £627 £688 £688
South West median daily rate £511 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -4.88% +2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 45 17
10th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £74.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 -
South West median hourly rate £66.25 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -5.36% +7.69% -

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Elastic Stack in Bristol

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Elastic Stack.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Elastic Stack

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elastic Stack in Bristol over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Elastic Stack in Bristol

Elastic Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 3 (60.00%) Apache
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (20.00%) Big Data
2 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (20.00%) Electronics
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (20.00%) Marketing
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) React
3 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Data Ingestion
2 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (60.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (40.00%) Data Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (40.00%) High Availability
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (20.00%) Programme Management
4 1 (20.00%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (60.00%) Grafana
2 3 (60.00%) Kibana
2 3 (60.00%) logstash
2 3 (60.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Rancher
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) SAP
1 1 (20.00%) VMware