Elastic Stack Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Elastic Stack skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 6 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 1.07% - 1.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.22% - 9.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £406 - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £503 - -
90th Percentile £531 - -
North East median daily rate £425 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 115 50 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 20.57% 20.08% 19.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 39 16
10th Percentile £385 £343 £330
25th Percentile £413 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £441
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% +4.43% -23.39%
75th Percentile £541 £490 £507
90th Percentile £589 £573 £600
North East median daily rate £475 £460 £431
% change year-on-year +3.26% +6.73% -25.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 0 0
10th Percentile £60.00 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median hourly rate £70.00 - £20.77
% change year-on-year - - -57.61%

Elastic Stack
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Elastic Stack job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Elastic Stack
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Elastic Stack.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Elastic Stack

Elastic Stack
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 6 £425 - 3
Elastic Stack
North East

Elastic Stack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 3 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 3 (50.00%) Serverless
4 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
4 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (50.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (50.00%) Git
3 2 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 3 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 2 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Kafka
1 3 (50.00%) Keycloak
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (83.33%) Observability
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Change Management
3 3 (50.00%) High Availability
3 3 (50.00%) Identity Management
3 3 (50.00%) ITIL
3 3 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
3 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (50.00%) Secrets Management
3 3 (50.00%) Technical Debt
3 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 2 (33.33%) Coaching
4 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
5 1 (16.67%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Bash
2 4 (66.67%) Python
3 3 (50.00%) Groovy
4 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (50.00%) Grafana
3 3 (50.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (50.00%) Rancher
4 2 (33.33%) Ansible
4 2 (33.33%) Packer
5 1 (16.67%) Icinga
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Dynatrace
2 3 (50.00%) ServiceNow