Elastic Stack Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Elastic Stack (formerly ELK Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana)
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Elastic Stack skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 34 -
Rank change year-on-year -14 - -
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 5 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.21% 0.85% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.32% 3.28% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £430 - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile £590 - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £525 £650 -
% change year-on-year -19.23% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 94 61 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 22.82% 25.96% 20.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 44 18
10th Percentile £350 £341 £363
25th Percentile £406 £375 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £433 £524
Median % change year-on-year +10.12% -17.38% -8.96%
75th Percentile £575 £576 £643
90th Percentile £600 £650 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £475 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -21.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £50.58 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £65.63 - -
90th Percentile £69.50 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £60.00 - -

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Elastic Stack job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Elastic Stack.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Elastic Stack

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elastic Stack in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 22 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Elastic Stack in Newcastle upon Tyne

Elastic Stack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (20.00%) CloudFront
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (20.00%) Pulumi
4 1 (20.00%) Route 53
4 1 (20.00%) Serverless
4 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) GitLab
2 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (60.00%) Observability
4 2 (40.00%) Coaching
4 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (20.00%) Network Segmentation
5 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (20.00%) OWASP
5 1 (20.00%) Security Hardening
5 1 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
5 1 (20.00%) SIEM
5 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Bash
2 3 (60.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (20.00%) Groovy
4 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (60.00%) Ansible
4 2 (40.00%) Grafana
4 2 (40.00%) Packer
4 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (20.00%) Argo
5 1 (20.00%) Icinga
5 1 (20.00%) Istio
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat