Elastic Stack Contracts in the Midlands

Elastic Stack (formerly ELK Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 115 152
Rank change year-on-year +3 +37 +21
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 10 19 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.50% 0.69% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.72% 4.62% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 3
10th Percentile £488 £356 £489
25th Percentile £516 £356 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 - £638
90th Percentile £600 £626 £675
England median daily rate £545 £573 £596
% change year-on-year -4.80% -3.98% -0.63%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 368 411 567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 18.24% 14.85% 17.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 283 442
10th Percentile £307 £288 £313
25th Percentile £373 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -
75th Percentile £550 £620 £594
90th Percentile £640 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £557
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.26% -2.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 18 0
10th Percentile £31.46 £10.90 -
25th Percentile - £14.16 -
Median hourly rate £33.91 £26.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +29.18% - -
75th Percentile £50.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile - £57.38 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +23.81%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Elastic Stack in the Midlands

Elastic Stack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Elastic Stack in the Midlands

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elastic Stack in the Midlands over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Elastic Stack in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 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
West Midlands +9 8 £550 - 52
East Midlands +4 2 £506 +42.13% 36
Elastic Stack
England

Elastic Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (20.00%) Apache
1 2 (20.00%) JBoss
2 1 (10.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 3 (30.00%) GCP
3 3 (30.00%) OpenShift
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) DSL
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (30.00%) Git
2 3 (30.00%) JIRA
3 2 (20.00%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (20.00%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (20.00%) GitLab
3 2 (20.00%) SonarQube
3 2 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (20.00%) TeamCity
4 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) SIEM Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) SIEM Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) SIEM Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (20.00%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (20.00%) Kafka
2 2 (20.00%) Spring
3 1 (10.00%) Mustache
3 1 (10.00%) Node.js
3 1 (10.00%) React
3 1 (10.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Replication
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Windows
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) High Availability
3 3 (30.00%) Analytics
3 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (30.00%) Data Ingestion
3 3 (30.00%) Microservices
4 2 (20.00%) Build Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (20.00%) Code Quality
4 2 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
4 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (20.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) Bash
3 2 (20.00%) Perl
3 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (10.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (60.00%) Kibana
3 4 (40.00%) logstash
4 3 (30.00%) Ansible
4 3 (30.00%) Grafana
4 3 (30.00%) Prometheus
4 3 (30.00%) Terraform
5 2 (20.00%) Progress Chef
6 1 (10.00%) Puppet
6 1 (10.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (30.00%) Splunk
2 2 (20.00%) AppDynamics
3 1 (10.00%) Commvault
3 1 (10.00%) IBM
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) Veeam