Elastic Stack Contracts in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 156 192
Rank change year-on-year +3 +36 +37
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 11 21 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.33% 0.45% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.65% 2.35% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 12
10th Percentile £381 £551 £341
25th Percentile £392 £565 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £624 £525
Median % change year-on-year -36.97% +18.76% -
75th Percentile £447 £645 £588
90th Percentile £550 £650 £815
England median daily rate £550 £563 £593
% change year-on-year -2.22% -5.06% -1.25%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 665 893 1,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 20.16% 19.29% 19.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 480 602 850
10th Percentile £358 £351 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 32 9
10th Percentile £71.25 £14.56 £37.79
25th Percentile £73.13 £21.25 £48.50
Median hourly rate £82.50 £46.18 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.65% -26.11% +2.04%
75th Percentile £93.65 £69.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £96.59 £72.50 £72.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +28.71%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Elastic Stack in the North of England

Elastic Stack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Elastic Stack in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Elastic Stack in the North of England

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elastic Stack in the North of England over the 6 months to 24 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Elastic Stack in the North of England

Elastic Stack
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 24 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
North West +15 9 £393 -39.54% 59
Yorkshire -1 2 £500 -19.61% 45
Elastic Stack
England

Elastic Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (45.45%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (54.55%) OpenShift
3 4 (36.36%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (36.36%) Serverless
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (27.27%) GitHub
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon Macie
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (18.18%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (18.18%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (18.18%) AWS KMS
5 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) DNS
1 3 (27.27%) Firewall
1 3 (27.27%) TCP/IP
1 3 (27.27%) VPN
2 2 (18.18%) Network Security
2 2 (18.18%) SSL
3 1 (9.09%) DHCP
3 1 (9.09%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) Relational Database
2 5 (45.45%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (45.45%) RDBMS
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (27.27%) DynamoDB
4 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
4 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
4 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) Git
1 8 (72.73%) Jenkins
2 5 (45.45%) Bitbucket Server
2 5 (45.45%) CA Release Automation
2 5 (45.45%) JIRA
2 5 (45.45%) SonarQube
2 5 (45.45%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (45.45%) TeamCity
3 3 (27.27%) GitLab
4 1 (9.09%) Maven
General
1 1 (9.09%) Banking
1 1 (9.09%) Finance
1 1 (9.09%) Legal
1 1 (9.09%) Military
1 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Lead
4 2 (18.18%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Applications Support
5 1 (9.09%) Architect
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Architect
5 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Site Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) Spring Boot
2 2 (18.18%) Node.js
3 1 (9.09%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (9.09%) Blockchain
2 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Linux
2 5 (45.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (45.45%) Windows
3 2 (18.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
1 10 (90.91%) DevOps
2 7 (63.64%) Microservices
3 6 (54.55%) Migration
3 6 (54.55%) Observability
4 5 (45.45%) Build Automation
4 5 (45.45%) Code Quality
4 5 (45.45%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (45.45%) Deployment Automation
4 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (36.36%) Analytics
5 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
6 3 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (27.27%) Change Management
6 3 (27.27%) Cloud Security
6 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (27.27%) Runbook
6 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
7 2 (18.18%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Python
2 6 (54.55%) Java
2 6 (54.55%) Perl
3 3 (27.27%) Shell Script
4 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 1 (9.09%) Bash
5 1 (9.09%) Go
5 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) AWS Certification
1 3 (27.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (18.18%) GDPR
1 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (18.18%) NIST
1 2 (18.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (100.00%) Docker
2 5 (45.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (54.55%) Terraform
3 5 (45.45%) Grafana
3 5 (45.45%) Kibana
3 5 (45.45%) Progress Chef
3 5 (45.45%) Prometheus
4 4 (36.36%) Ansible
5 3 (27.27%) Puppet
6 2 (18.18%) Kustomize
7 1 (9.09%) Graylog
7 1 (9.09%) Packer
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Splunk
2 6 (54.55%) Red Hat
3 5 (45.45%) AppDynamics
4 3 (27.27%) Cloudera
5 1 (9.09%) Oracle
5 1 (9.09%) VMware