Elastic Stack Contracts in Cheshire

Elastic Stack (formerly ELK Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 52 - 62
Rank change year-on-year - - -7
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.34% - 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.14% - 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £377 - -
25th Percentile £391 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 - £500
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £393 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -34.50% +20.00% -9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 84 51 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 18.71% 10.12% 20.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 40 90
10th Percentile £322 £288 £325
25th Percentile £358 £318 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £450 £540
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% -16.67% +32.52%
75th Percentile £537 £509 £575
90th Percentile £615 £575 £620
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 £11.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +508.70% - -
North West median hourly rate £67.75 £47.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year +43.22% +5.12% +10.80%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Elastic Stack in Cheshire

Elastic Stack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Elastic Stack in Cheshire

Elastic Stack
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Knutsford - 6 £393 - 1
Elastic Stack
North West

Elastic Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 5 (83.33%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (83.33%) RDBMS
1 5 (83.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Bitbucket Server
1 5 (83.33%) CA Release Automation
1 5 (83.33%) Git
1 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
1 5 (83.33%) JIRA
1 5 (83.33%) SonarQube
1 5 (83.33%) Sonatype Nexus
1 5 (83.33%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Applications Support
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Architect
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Solution Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Blockchain
1 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
1 5 (83.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Microservices
1 6 (100.00%) Migration
2 5 (83.33%) Build Automation
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Code Quality
2 5 (83.33%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (83.33%) Deployment Automation
3 4 (66.67%) Analytics
3 4 (66.67%) Observability
4 3 (50.00%) Change Management
4 3 (50.00%) Runbook
4 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (16.67%) Customer Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
5 1 (16.67%) Fraud Detection
5 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
5 1 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Perl
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
2 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (83.33%) Kibana
2 5 (83.33%) Progress Chef
3 1 (16.67%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) Grafana
3 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 5 (83.33%) AppDynamics
2 5 (83.33%) Splunk
3 3 (50.00%) Cloudera
4 1 (16.67%) VMware