Elastic Stack Contract Job Trends in the North East

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East 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 56 39 -
Rank change year-on-year -17 - -
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 5 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 1.01% 0.58% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.81% 2.50% -
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 - -
England median daily rate £525 £550 £556
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.12% -14.42%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 104 80 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 20.93% 23.39% 18.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 50 24
10th Percentile £358 £337 £284
25th Percentile £413 £375 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £445 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.74% -1.11% -21.74%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £605
90th Percentile £598 £650 £720
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 5
10th Percentile £50.58 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £26.50 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +126.42% +27.59% -57.61%
75th Percentile £65.63 - £46.18
90th Percentile £69.50 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Elastic Stack job vacancy trend in the North East

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Elastic Stack.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Elastic Stack

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elastic Stack in the North East over the 6 months to 22 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Elastic Stack in the North East

Elastic Stack
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 22 February 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear -17 5 £525 -19.23% 8
Elastic Stack
England

Elastic Stack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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