Elastic Stack Contract Job Trends in Manchester

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Elastic Stack skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 83 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 4 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.40% 0.25% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.00% 1.32% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 £575 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% - -
75th Percentile £538 £725 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £358 £356 -
% change year-on-year +0.56% - -

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 200 227 389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 19.84% 19.17% 23.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 144 321
10th Percentile £321 £326 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £488 £513
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% -4.88% -6.82%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £624 £688 £675
North West median daily rate £447 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -0.67% -14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 8
10th Percentile - £63.20 £60.50
25th Percentile - £64.25 £64.06
Median hourly rate £70.00 £69.50 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +0.72% +1.09% -5.50%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £77.81
90th Percentile - £74.20 £79.88
North West median hourly rate £51.00 £56.59 £46.18
% change year-on-year -9.88% +22.54% -38.43%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Elastic Stack relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Elastic Stack job vacancy trend in Manchester

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Elastic Stack
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 12 October 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
Oldham - 3 - - 2
Elastic Stack
North West

Elastic Stack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Datadog
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) GitHub
2 3 (75.00%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (75.00%) Pulumi
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) GitLab
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
1 3 (75.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Observability
2 3 (75.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Monorepo
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Bash
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Go
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Grafana
2 3 (75.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (25.00%) Puppet