Elastic Stack Contracts in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 132 154
Rank change year-on-year +17 +22 +13
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 9 4 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.46% 0.15% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.08% 0.83% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 7
10th Percentile £379 £555 £329
25th Percentile £392 £563 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -39.54% +30.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile - £688 £550
90th Percentile £509 £710 £588
England median daily rate £550 £561 £593
% change year-on-year -2.00% -5.27% -1.25%

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 432 484 572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 22.27% 18.29% 18.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 348 451
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £400 £425 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £545 £598 £575
90th Percentile £638 £750 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.70% -1.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 20 2
10th Percentile - £37.63 £37.75
25th Percentile £65.25 £45.88 £37.76
Median hourly rate £67.75 £48.43 £40.55
Median % change year-on-year +39.89% +19.45% -39.93%
75th Percentile £74.69 £72.03 £43.35
90th Percentile £83.13 £75.15 £43.37
England median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Elastic Stack in the North West

Elastic Stack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Elastic Stack in the North West

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 22 May 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 22 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
Cheshire - 6 £393 - 2
Manchester +12 2 £625 +4.17% 11
Elastic Stack
England

Elastic Stack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (55.56%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (66.67%) OpenShift
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (22.22%) Serverless
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure
4 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DHCP
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) HTTP
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 5 (55.56%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (55.56%) RDBMS
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
3 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Git
1 6 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 5 (55.56%) Bitbucket Server
2 5 (55.56%) CA Release Automation
2 5 (55.56%) JIRA
2 5 (55.56%) SonarQube
2 5 (55.56%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (55.56%) TeamCity
3 1 (11.11%) GitLab
3 1 (11.11%) Maven
General
1 1 (11.11%) Banking
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Legal
1 1 (11.11%) Military
1 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
1 3 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Applications Support
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Architect
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Solution Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Site Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Spring Boot
2 2 (22.22%) Node.js
3 1 (11.11%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Blockchain
1 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
1 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Linux
2 5 (55.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (55.56%) Windows
3 2 (22.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
1 8 (88.89%) DevOps
2 7 (77.78%) Microservices
3 6 (66.67%) Migration
4 5 (55.56%) Build Automation
4 5 (55.56%) Code Quality
4 5 (55.56%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (55.56%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (44.44%) Analytics
5 4 (44.44%) Observability
6 3 (33.33%) Change Management
6 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (33.33%) Runbook
6 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
8 1 (11.11%) Architectural Design
8 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
8 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
8 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
8 1 (11.11%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
2 6 (66.67%) Java
2 6 (66.67%) Perl
3 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 1 (11.11%) Bash
4 1 (11.11%) Go
4 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) Docker
2 5 (55.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (55.56%) Kibana
2 5 (55.56%) Progress Chef
3 4 (44.44%) Terraform
4 3 (33.33%) Grafana
4 3 (33.33%) Prometheus
5 2 (22.22%) Ansible
6 1 (11.11%) Graylog
6 1 (11.11%) Packer
6 1 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 5 (55.56%) AppDynamics
2 5 (55.56%) Splunk
3 3 (33.33%) Cloudera
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle
4 1 (11.11%) VMware