Elastic Stack Contracts in Cardiff

Elastic Stack (formerly ELK Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana)
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 30 43
Rank change year-on-year +1 +13 -
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 1 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 0.63% 2.36% 0.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.57% 7.81% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - - £583
25th Percentile - £622 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £645 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.08% +3.12% -
75th Percentile - £689 £644
90th Percentile - £690 £648
South Wales median daily rate £586 £645 £625
% change year-on-year -9.08% +3.12% +6.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 28 64 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 17.50% 30.19% 36.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 56 93
10th Percentile £196 £369 £300
25th Percentile £312 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% -6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £539 £586
90th Percentile £588 £623 £650
South Wales median daily rate £405 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -14.29% -

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Elastic Stack in Cardiff

Elastic Stack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Elastic Stack in Cardiff.

Daily rate trend for Elastic Stack in Cardiff

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Migration Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CSSLP
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft