Elastic Stack Contracts in Manchester

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 77 94 112
Rank change year-on-year +17 +18 +23
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 2 2 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.22% 0.13% 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.84% 0.55% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £325
25th Percentile - - £337
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £377
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +45.89% -34.43%
75th Percentile - - £563
90th Percentile - - £601
North West median daily rate £393 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -34.50% +20.00% -9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 239 361 389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 25.81% 23.80% 20.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 283 310
10th Percentile £400 £375 £336
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £613 £581
90th Percentile £638 £825 £639
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 2
10th Percentile - £67.00 -
25th Percentile £76.25 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £82.50 £71.87 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.79% +59.71% +143.24%
75th Percentile £88.75 £76.75 -
90th Percentile - £81.60 -
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 Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Elastic Stack in Manchester

Elastic Stack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Elastic Stack in Manchester

Elastic Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Cognito
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (50.00%) Military
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Protective Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Graylog
2 1 (50.00%) Packer
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle