Elastic Stack Contract Job Trends in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Elastic Stack skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 118 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 11 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.45% 0.22% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.13% 1.36% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £286 - -
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £356 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.56% - -
75th Percentile £466 - -
90th Percentile £530 - -
England median daily rate £525 £613 £563
% change year-on-year -14.29% +8.89% -13.46%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 517 369 571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 21.08% 16.42% 21.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 238 455
10th Percentile £316 £350 £368
25th Percentile £363 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £550 £550 £619
90th Percentile £661 £629 £675
England median daily rate £508 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.73% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 31
10th Percentile £29.20 £41.09 £45.88
25th Percentile £59.75 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £74.26 £55.84 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +32.99% +20.92% +3.36%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £64.38
90th Percentile £84.65 £76.63 £73.75
England median hourly rate £56.90 £65.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -12.46% +21.50% -17.69%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Elastic Stack job vacancy trend in the North West

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Elastic Stack in the North West over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Elastic Stack in the North West

Elastic Stack
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Manchester -4 6 £513 - 3
Cheshire -19 5 £334 -6.32% 2
Elastic Stack
England

Elastic Stack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
2 7 (63.64%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (54.55%) Azure
3 6 (54.55%) Datadog
3 6 (54.55%) GCP
4 4 (36.36%) GitHub
4 4 (36.36%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (36.36%) Pulumi
5 3 (27.27%) OpenShift
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
6 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (27.27%) RDBMS
1 3 (27.27%) Relational Database
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
2 1 (9.09%) MySQL
2 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (90.91%) Jenkins
2 7 (63.64%) GitLab
3 4 (36.36%) Git
4 3 (27.27%) SonarQube
4 3 (27.27%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (27.27%) TeamCity
5 2 (18.18%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (18.18%) CA Release Automation
5 2 (18.18%) CircleCI
5 2 (18.18%) JIRA
6 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
General
1 4 (36.36%) Banking
1 4 (36.36%) Games
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) DevOps Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Platform Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Linux
2 3 (27.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (27.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
1 10 (90.91%) DevOps
2 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (63.64%) Observability
3 6 (54.55%) Task Automation
4 5 (45.45%) Containerisation
4 5 (45.45%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (36.36%) Change Management
5 4 (36.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (27.27%) Agile
6 3 (27.27%) Analytics
6 3 (27.27%) Change Control
6 3 (27.27%) Code Quality
6 3 (27.27%) Incident Response
6 3 (27.27%) Microservices
6 3 (27.27%) Migration
6 3 (27.27%) Runbook
6 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (18.18%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Python
2 7 (63.64%) Bash
3 4 (36.36%) Go
4 3 (27.27%) Perl
5 2 (18.18%) Java
5 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) Docker
2 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Kubernetes
2 7 (63.64%) Terraform
3 6 (54.55%) Grafana
3 6 (54.55%) Prometheus
4 4 (36.36%) Kibana
4 4 (36.36%) Progress Chef
5 3 (27.27%) Ansible
6 1 (9.09%) logstash
6 1 (9.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) AppDynamics
1 3 (27.27%) Cloudera
1 3 (27.27%) Red Hat
1 3 (27.27%) Splunk
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft