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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 31 -
Rank change year-on-year -11 - -
Contract jobs citing Elastic Stack 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.35% 0.49% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.59% 2.78% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
North East median daily rate £600 - -

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 63 36 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 22.26% 17.56% 31.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 24 37
10th Percentile £385 £336 £340
25th Percentile £411 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £445 £570
Median % change year-on-year +9.55% -21.93% +3.64%
75th Percentile £575 £577 £625
90th Percentile £600 £624 £720
North East median daily rate £488 £440 £550
% change year-on-year +10.80% -20.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £45.55 - -
25th Percentile £47.13 - -
Median hourly rate £51.50 - -
75th Percentile £54.13 - -
90th Percentile £54.65 - -
North East median hourly rate £51.50 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +11.52% - -

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 6 November 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -13 1 £600 - 2
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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat